Raging Rebel - A Fast and Furious fan fiction - Book 1

15: Another Way

Hobbs POV

"Dad, what's going on?" Sam asked.

"Daddy's gotta go to work." I swallowed a mouthful of pain medication before breaking off my arm cast, splinters of plaster littered across the room. "Alright baby girl. Elena'll be here in a little bit. You know our drill. Give me three for the road."

Sam gave me her cheeky smile, a smile that I lived for, and gave me her fist, completing our hand shake.

Eve POV

"They've cut the signal, I can't complete the hack." Ramsey said.

"What do you mean?" Roman asked.

"Brian, they took out the tower!" Tej yelled.

I groaned and pressed on the gas pedal, making a sharp left and narrowly avoided hitting the edge of a building. I wanted to be closer in case I was needed, but it was so hard driving fast...

Dom POV

I got out of my car, face a mask of pure hatred for this pathetic excuse for a human being who stood across from me. He looked at me with my shot gun and hastily got out of his own vehicle, metal in hand.

"You thought this was gonna be a street fight?" I aimed high and a shot rang out, loud and clear. "You're god damned right it is."

I tossed the shot gun into my passengers seat, grasping two wrenches from between the seat and door. Shaw mirrored my actions and came at me with a vengeance that matched my own. The both of us were fighting to kill, raging on.

Eve POV

"There has to be another way..." Ramsey said, unwilling to admit defeat.

Tej began muttering to himself, thinking of anyway to regain signal. I made another sharp turn, this time to the right, and a row of towers loomed in the distance.

"Half a dozen cell towers toward you!" I told them. "If Brian can get to the top of one, we can re route the signal manually and Rams can finish!"

"Yes... Yes!" Tej exclaimed as he realized my plan would work. "Brian, Sixth and State!"

"On it!" He replied.

"Eve, I could kiss you right now!" Tej said, gratefully. It was dead quiet on all ends of our walkies as what he'd said sunk in. "Well I mean... I would, if it weren't a life or death kinda thing we got goin' on..."

He trailed off and I sputtered and stuttered a few times, not sure what to say to that. Did he mean that he wanted to kiss me? Because he liked me, or to thank me for my epiphany? Before I could piece together an actual reply, Roman put in his two cents.

"Nah man, you too scared to make a move like that!"

"Says the guy who got too scared to follow his own rescue mission that included flying cars?" Tej countered.

"Hey man, that's cold..." I heard squealing tires, both beside me and through my head set as both of their cars came up behind me. "They on us!" Roman yelled.

"They ain't ready for this..." Tej said and I heard more squealing tires, followed by his yell. "Shit!"

"First a tank? Then a plane! Now we got a space ship after us?" Roman said and I saw him shaking his head from his car to my right.

"Not a space ship, a drone." I informed him as it came into view behind us.

"Oh it's a drone? Now you gon' break it down and be all articulate and shit? Like your pretty 'lil ass already know what the hell is goin' on?" Roman said.

"Shut yo' bitch ass up and drive the car!" Tej yelled.

"Letty! We need help!" Roman requested.

"I'm coming!" She sped into view on my left.

"What am I even doing here?" I yelled. "I am right here! I'm right here! What the hell?"

"Just drive." Brian said, wheezing loudly between the two words. It seemed like they were taking dad's request to keep me safe as seriously as possible by letting me do the minimalist of tasks.

"Ramsey, get ready to go again," Tej said.

I heard her groan once before she hoisted her body up into the window. The missile was faster though and the explosion came a split second after she'd jumped. At first I thought she and Tej hadn't made it and my heart stopped. Letty and I sped up and squealed to a stop a the same time. I opened my door and willed my eyes to see through the smoke billowing from what was their car.

"Ramsey? Tej!?" I ran up to the wreckage and saw Ramsey being helped up by Roman.

"Let's go! Let's go!" Letty was yelling.

"Rams?" I yelled again. She gave me a thumbs up before being ushered into Letty's car and they sped off. I spun around as a hand grasped my shoulder. It was Tej. "Are you okay?"

"Fine." He had a cut on his forehead and one of his arms seemed to be bleeding. "Let's go."

I made to get back into the drivers seat, but Tej stopped me.

"Baby, no offense, but you a terrible driver. I'ma take this over."

"Fine by me." I made to walk around him and the car to get into the passengers seat when he tugged gently onto my arm. "Whaa..."

He kissed me once, gently on the lips before letting go of my arm and getting behind the wheel. I smiled to myself before I sat down in the passengers seat. Tej sped off after Letty's car, catching up much quicker and smoother than I could have dreamed of doing so.