A/N: I'm British so I apologise for any inaccuracies regarding American prisons, states and landmarks.

I should probably say that I read this trip cross country in Top Gear magazine and so I have used their route as a base of mine with a few adaptations.

I don't own need for speed, the characters, cars (God I wish I owned the cars!) but I do own a copy of the DVD so... yay.

This starts right at the end of the movie when Tobey gets into the Mustang.

Sorry for babbling on, I hope you enjoy and please review!

P.S: I think this will be a three maybe four-parter, I'm not going into all the details of the entire trip or I'd never finish and I have coursework to do.

Day #1 Utah to Arizona.

Julia slides over, her painstakingly straightened hair tickling her back as she flips her head to the left, watching as the recently released Tobey Marshall opens the door of her new red mustang and sits himself comfortably into the seat that she had only just occupied.

She had known that he would have wanted to drive, it had been months since he'd found himself behind the wheel after all and his only real reference to her driving skills were while they were being ambushed and shot at, so she didn't blame him for being terrified at the thought of the blonde behind the wheel. So Julia had slid over, without complaint.

"Nice ride," Tobey says, his voice as horse and rough as she had remembered it, a small and signature smirk hitching at the corner of his mouth as his calloused fingers wrap around the wheel, his foot finding the gas and the Ford Mustang GT speeds off into the horizon.

"It's new," Julia's unique portrayal of a British accent speaks across the roar of the 5.0 litre V-8 engine, "Isn't she beautiful? Almost as nice as the last Mustang."

Tobey lets out a throaty laugh, "Speaking of, was your boss pissed?"

Julia thinks back to when she arrived at her boss' office with her arm in a cast, having to explain to him that his legendary Shelby was no more, and not only that but if he wanted Tobey Marshall to be the one to fix it alongside his team, he'd have quite a wait. But either way, after he ranted and raved and cursed the sky, he calmed down and bargained that with or without Tobey, Marshall motors would be fixing up the remains precisely as they were – for free of course – and he still wanted his $4millon worth of prize winning cars, also built back up by the team that at the time only consisted of Finn and Joe.

She hesitates before answering, "You could say that."

And they race towards Utah, mostly in silence with Finn's voice popping up every now and again with mile markers and unhelpful tips, not to mention the occasional inappropriate comment about Tobey and Julia refraining from pulling over and getting it on in the middle of the highway, which was greatly unappreciated by both parties, Finn totally oblivious to the fact that apart from that kiss in the hospital, and a collection of chaste moments when Julia visited Tobey in prison, the two hadn't exactly 'christened' their relationship.

"Beast on target, parked and waiting," Finn shouts over the communication line, only bringing more attention to the Mustang's lateness, "and you've got twenty minutes to get here beauty, so step on it."

As Tobey presses down on the gas and the red car becomes a blur in the landscape, Julia checks the time on her phone, "Twenty three minutes actually."

Joe scoffs, "Yeah, yeah, whatever. Just be here."

And thanks to Tobey's foot never easing and the roads being clear, they pull up outside the prison in what Julia names 'nineteen minutes.'

The Mustang pulls up behind where Finn and Joe have haphazardly parked on the road opposite the heavily guarded exit. The drivers of the Super Duty make their way out of the vehicle, pulling Tobey into a hug and Finn sends a wink towards Julia as she sits herself on the hood of the car, the heat of the shining metal burning her through the black material of her ripped skinny jeans.

Tobey, dressed in the same shade of purple jeans and white top he wore the day of De Leon, pulls away from the boys and jumps onto the hood next to Julia as Joe and Finn mimic the motion on their own black vehicle.

They make small talk for two minutes, Finn asking how it feels to be back on the outside along with questioning if they were running late due to pulling into a layby to 'reconnect' as he had so lightly put it, and Joe goes deeper, ensuring Tobey's head was in the right place. But this wasn't like the last time, sure that pain of Pete's death still stuck with him, and would always stay with him, but he had justice now, and Dino was behind bars, that was enough for him.

They had just brought up the conversation of the sparkling new red GT when they heard a familiar, and missed voice call to them. "Damn, look at that booty on that beauty."

Four heads whip towards the sound and see Benny standing behind silver wire in the shape of a fence as a door of the same material slides from in front of him and he is welcomed back into the world of free men.

"You checking me out?" Finn asks the pilot, jumping off the car to grab him into a hug.

Benny pulls away as the others move to stand, "No man, I was talking about little miss full fridge over there," he says, pointing to Julia, "You looking fine girl, did Tobey have to pull over on the way here?"

Julia laughs as Joe and Tobey walk towards Benny, Joe hugging the free man and Tobey smacking the back of his head, "Welcome back man."

"Likewise, I heard you got a nice sentence for breaking parole and street racing, that's gotta hurt," he replies, walking over to where Julia stands in front of the Mustang, "Your new ride?"

"Yes she is," the blonde replied, "You like?"

"Me like," he replies, "So where we heading? Please tell me everybody's got the week off so we can tear cross country in celebration of the epic win my boy here had at De Leon."

Finn laughs the loudest, "Well three of us already celebrated that the night it happened," he jokes.

"Two actually," Julia interjects, "I was still in the hospital."

"I don't care man," Benny whines, "Maverick says road trip, so we gon' have a road trip."

The boys all look to Julia, knowing she was the only one with work to contend with, Marshall Motors hadn't been taking on any work other than Ingram's destroyed motors in the wake of two out of four workers being imprisoned, so another week wouldn't hurt.

The blonde shrugs in response, "I've got the week off."

Benny's eyebrows wiggle as he speaks again, "So you and Tobey can spend the whole week rekindling the fire?" He questions crudely.

"You do realise that we haven't actually slept-" Julia cuts herself short, realising what she had said without thinking. She tries to cover her embarrassment at the confession with a half-hearted cough, and fails. Miserably.

Three mouths fall open, jaws dropping to the floor. "You two haven't-" Finn stumbles, "-And I keep-"

"When have we had time?" Julia says, in almost a screech as Tobey stands on the other side of the Mustang to her silently. "Tobey was arrested right after the De Leon."

"Before?" Benny questions, "I thought you two got together the night before the race?"

"Yeah we kissed," the blonde female replies, "And I'm sure we would have if not for the fact that I was in the hospital," and then, too low for the boys to hear she adds; "Stupid truck."

"Look that's not important," Tobey interjects, waving his hands for everyone else to shut up, "Where are we going?"

The four men share a knowing look, leaving Julia bewildered and looking between them for an answer. Joe takes the toothpick from his mouth and whispers "Is it possible."

Tobey nods, "Maybe, we're already in Utah so we could work backwards and that's seven or eight days off of the trip."

Finn shakes his head, "You're not actually considering it right, we couldn't do it in seven days."

"Maybe not, but we could do it in ten," Joe replies, "We'd miss the first six and go back to Mount Kisco when we get to New York so that's another day off the trip."

"I have a question," Julia interrupts their jargon, "what the fuck are you talking about?"

Benny, Tobey, Finn and Joe all look between each other, silently deciding who should explain until Joe jumps up and speaks, "I think I have his map still in the car, didn't have the heart to take it out." Then he disappears into the back of the black vehicle, returning with a large rolled up map and he straightens it out on the hood of the car, five people crowding around the map.

Julia notices that it's a map of the USA and a thick red marker has drawn a maze around the expanse of land printed there, little asterisks and side notes plastered all over, leaving the thing looking like the most organised mess she's ever seen.

Tobey speaks next, "Petey always wanted to drive through every single state in sixteen days at the most, it was all he could talk about for ages. The five of us were going to do it one year and make sure we were in Vegas for his birthday, but we didn't get the chance," his voice cracks at the end and Julia gives the driver a reassuring smile, "He was going to do the route again when he had settled down and had kids, take them to every state but take the time to see them that time. He made a route up and everything."

Julia looks at the map again, "Maine to Hawaii, 11,175.5 miles in sixteen days. It's ambitious."

Joes pipes in, talking logistics, "We'll cut out Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island at the start, so New York is the furthest we go. Then miss out Hawaii, California, Nevada, Oregon, Alaska, Washington, Montana and Idaho at the end since we've done most of them on the way to here. Then we'll go backwards to what Petey thought up, starting in Utah and ending in New York. In ten days or less."

They all nod, "Well I'm needed at work next Monday, so I have ten days exactly." Julia says, working out the days from the sunny Friday they were currently living.

"We better get going then," Tobey says, "What's the plan for today?"

Benny speaks up, "We need to go see the four corners thingy, Little Pete never shut up about that."

Finn nods, then looks back to the map, "Four corners thingy, then we get out of Utah and into Arizona where we shall stay the night before setting off into New Mexico in the morn."

They soon make it to the place where the southeast corner of Utah meets Arizona, New Mexico and Colorado, stopping to take at least a million pictures of the landmark.

At one point, the four boys all stand around the circle marking the difference, each one in a different state and Finn decides that he wants that photo printed off and stuck up in the garage, the others don't kick up a fuss.

It was a symbolic picture really, so much more than what you see. Benny in Utah, Tobey in Arizona, Finn in Colorado and Joe in New Mexico, all in different states, different places, yet all of them are still together, smiling in the same direction.

There are a few sombre moments when someone mentions how much Pete would've loved this trip, it had been his dream after all, but all in all the tone is light and fun, and soon they're back on the road again.

Tobey drives the increasingly dusty Mustang with Julia as his right seater and Benny, Joe and Finn ride in the Super Duty, Benny moaning about not having his 'baby' to fly overhead, and instead being stuck in the back on the truck.

They make quick headway, whizzing past a sign that read 'speed limit 45' at seventy miles an hour, dodging oncoming traffic like pros.

Julia and Tobey make small talk as the Mustang crosses the border into Arizona, speeding down winding roads as the sun goes down and Finn's voice comes through the speakers, "Motel twenty miles out, you guys gunna want one room or two?"

A warm flush of blood races to Julia's cheeks and the red spreads to her roots, a look of pure horrific embarrassment dispersing across her face. She stutters for a moment, words failing her as the blush on her cheeks never dies down.

"Just one thanks," Tobey says, as calm as ever and as Finn hangs up he turns to his right, "It's safer if you stay with me, right?"

The familiarity of the question registers deep within Julia and she can't help the massive smile that spreads across her face, "Was that your way of asking me to sleep with you?" She asks mockingly.

Tobey debates his answer, smirking as he takes a sharp left and Julia has to hold the dashboard to steady herself, and then he answers; "Yes it was."

"Then why didn't you just say that?"