One to Go /// Furious 7 /// Book Five

Payback

Anna Li and Jordan 'Jo' Williams were fighting, sparring in their expensive house in the training room with weapons surrounding them and a skylight to allow the sun to pour in. Even when the fighting looked serious and real, they never really hurt one another.

Anna spun, lightly kicking Jo's knee, making him kneel to the ground, punching him in the face, making him turn away. "Don't make it too easy for me, Jo."

Jo looked at Anna, raising his eyebrows.

 Anna smiled, gesturing for him to bring it on.

Jo punched toward Anna. Anna backed away, making him miss, trying to punch him repeatedly. Jo ducked and dodged each punch to make her miss. Anna tried to punch him twice. Jo raised his arms to block both moves, twisting her arms behind her back. Anna sank to the floor with her arms still in his grasp, rolling back far enough to kick Jo in the head, making him let go, and finishing the flip to land on her feet, standing, turning to face Jo just in time to receive a blow in either shoulder, ducking another punch, spinning to kick Jo. Jo caught her leg. Anna grabbed his shoulders, turning to wrap her other leg around him, climbing up onto his back and using her momentum to flip him to the floor, both of them landing facing each other. Neither of them made a move against each other, and neither of them made a move to stand, just looking at each other, breathing heavily.

Jo smirked. "Pretty amazing, considering where we started."

"That felt amazing, too," Anna told him. "Are you gonna get up anytime soon?"

"No," Jo answered. "Are you?"

Anna smiled. "I wasn't thinking about doing that..." Anna and Jo looked at each other for a moment, kissing. Anna slid up to straddle his lap. Jo sat up to meet her with a kiss. They continued to kiss heatedly, pulling their shirts over their heads and placing them aside. Until the doorbell rang, making them pull apart in annoyance. "Or, we could go get the door, and tell whoever's there to come back later."

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Anna had her shirt on, opening the door to reveal a mailman with a box with Japanese writing on it.

"I'm sorry, ma'am, but I'm here to deliver a package," the mailman told her. "From Tokyo."

"Tokyo?" Anna repeated.  The mailman put the box on the porch to hand Anna the clipboard. Anna signed off for it, handing it back to the mailman. "Thanks."

The mailman walked away, leaving.

Jo walked closer, looking at the Japanese writing on the box. "What's Han trying to do, convert us over to a Turbo Charger?"

Anna chuckled. Her phone rang. She walked down the porch steps into the yard to answer the phone. "Yeah?"

Deckard Shaw was on the other line, walking away from Han in his car in Tokyo, tossing down Dom and Letty's cross necklace. "Anna Li." Anna was suspicious, putting her phone on speaker for Jo to hear from the porch. "You haven't known me in a very long while. You're about to get to know me again."

Han's car exploded, flames engulfing everything inside and around.

Anna and Jo heard the explosion.

Anna looked at the caller ID again at her phone. "Private number. Tokyo, Japan."

Jo looked at the box on the porch behind him in realization, running down the steps toward Anna. "Get down!"

Jo grabbed Anna, the explosion from the box on the porch throwing them through the air to the ground further out in the lawn. They looked up at the flaming house that they had used to be able to call their home. They slowly stood, looking into the flames and the smoke rising into the sky, furious.