Survive

Chapter 27

"Yeah you do, and you can start with that blonde bitch." Letty said.

"Hey Dom, I'm just throwing it out there, but uh . . . we need to get up outta here cause there's all kinds of nuclearism happening under this ice." Roman said.

"Relax man." I chuckled.

"Without the trigger chips, those nukes are harmless." Tej told him.

"Ok, so we good then. Lemme go and get my young selfie levels up." Roman smiled.

"You realize that this is classified, right?" Little Nobody asked.

"Not today it isn't." I said, stiffly climbing onto the tracks to strike a pose with him.

"Unbelievable." he muttered.

"Penelope, what the hell happened?" my brother asked when he noticed me wincing.

"I probably have a fractured rib or something, I got into it with Rhodes. Banged my knee up when I fell out too."

"Get down from there." Dom scolded.

"And where is Rhodes?" Letty asked.

"Rhodes, is no more." I smiled, miming a broken neck.

"That's my wife." Luke said.

"I killed him for Elena, he killed Elena." I said.

"Elena?" Dom and Letty asked.

"What the hell happened?" Roman and Tej asked.

"How the hell are you on our side now?" that young guy asked.

"What happened to Elena?" Luke asked.

"You need a doctor?" my brother asked.

"What the hell happened on that plane?" Kay asked.

Suddenly all of them started shooting questions at me and I felt like my ears were going to start bleeding at any moment.

"SHUT UP! I did it for you, Dom!" I shouted, rubbing my temples.

"What?" he asked.

"I did it for my girls, for Mia, but mostly and more importantly I did it for you." I said.

"We . . .we need to talk, and go somewhere warm." Dom said when he realized I was shaking.

"Come on lo'u alofa." my husband said and I felt like I would cry.

"Alright, yes, that's something I can get with. Can we get up outta here, man? I'm freezing." Roman complained, interrupting us.

"Yeah, let's get somewhere warm so that we can check on you and get the whole story." Luke said.

"Kaylee, you're riding with me. Roman, you're with Little Nobody." Dom said.

"Why?" Roman asked.

"Because I said so." Dom replied.

"Let's go, people! My daughter is waiting for me." Tej smiled.

"I hear you Parker, let's go!" Luke said.

The drive back to the Russian base was long-ish and my adrenaline induced reprieve from the migraine is wearing off. Feels like my head is getting hit by ten jackhammers all at once, on top of the pain in my body.

"Migraine?" Luke asked me when we got in the RAM and I laid my head against the cold window.

"Yeah."

"You got medicine?"

"Nope, fresh out. I'll be fine."

"You scared the hell out of me." he said, grabbing my hand in his.

"Everything is going to be fine." I sighed, moving over to lean on him.

Once we arrived at the rendezvous point, transport was here quickly. Medics on the plane checked me out and diagnosed a mild concussion but no broken or fractured bones, just lots of painful bruises. Gave me painkillers for the migraine, had me sit with the oxygen mask for a bit, and told me to get some rest. They gave me the good painkillers too, but no one let me take them just yet.

"Okay, story time Toretto. What the hell was all of this?" Letty asked.

"Toretto-Hobbs." my husband clarified, pulling me onto his lap, making me sigh when I laid my head on his shoulder.

"It's kind of a long story."

"We got time." Dom said.

"It all started at Sam's last soccer game. Babe, remember when I went to get my smoothie?" I asked.

"Yeah."

"I thought I accidentally walked into this woman, she seemed nice until she called me by name. She said that she wanted me to work for her, naturally I rejected the notion. She insisted, saying that it was fate and I was going to work with her whether I liked it or not."

"She had something, didn't she?" Kaylee asked.

"Stop jumping the gun on my story!"

"Sorry not sorry."

"Oh boy." Luke and Tej chuckled.

"They're together again." Dom laughed.

"She had a video of Sam and Lani at our house, another of Mia and the kids at their house. She had people recording at our house, they were recording and watching my babies and I didn't realize it. Then she showed me a live feed of Elena and . . . her son." I muttered.

"Son?" Dom asked.

"Our house?" Luke growled.

"Yeah, Cipher had Elena and her baby kidnapped . . . your son, Dom." I said and the shocked silence was making my head ache.

"What?" Letty asked.

"Dom, you have a son." I told him.

"You did all of this . . . for my son?" he asked.

"Of course I did."

The look of shock on my brother's face spread quickly to the others when I told them about the baby and I cried over the cruelty of Elena's last moments. No woman . . . no mother or child deserves to go through that type of . . . no person alive deserves that. We'll give her a proper funeral, praying that the bitch didn't do something to her body already. Her baby will be so loved, he's so young that he won't remember any of this and for that I will always be grateful.

I gave them the rest of the story, up until I joined them on the ice and it feels so good to finally let it all out. So good to be here with my husband and family on our way home. Dom stood there in shocked silence again until he tackled me to the ground, his arms impeding oxygen from entering my body . . . again.

"Dom! She's turning blue." Letty complained, chuckling as she pulled him off of me.

"You sneaky woman." my husband said, kissing my shoulder when he pulled me off of the ground.

"Family."

"I know, speaking of family, are you ready to go home?" he asked, cupping my cheek.

"So ready, I want my girls."

"How are we doing this people?" Roman asked.

"We still have to debrief with Mr. Nobody in New York, so we can decide after that." Little Nobody said.

"Alright, take the pills." my husband told me.

"I don't . . ."

"I'll be right here. We'll be right here, I'm not letting you go anyway." he said, pulling me onto his lap again.

"Don't let go." I whispered, taking the pills from his hand.

"Never again." he promised.