Chapter 8

Taking Care of Business

Editor's note: hey thanks for the reviews and trust me the gang aren't getting out of cars or racing. hell no. but thanks for the reviews i preciate them.

Dom and I left the girls in the hospital. Letty couldn't leave yet and in any case if Mia needed anything there was always Leon or Vince to go make a run. Jess was driving up from Florida so it would take him awhile to get here. Dom and I were going house hunting. Then he planned on setting up a food store for Mia again to run something and an auto shop. If something came our way to get into street racing again then yes we'd do it. Oh yeah and a very sicken Roman was left at the hospital. He hates them.

"So what do you think of Letty having Leon's baby?" I asked Dom.

"Actually I'm trying not to." Dom grunted.

"Why not you know it's is." I pointed out.

"That doesn't prevent me from loving her or the kid. He's so handsome looks more like his mommy." Dom said.

"Dom come on be real with me."

"Oh okay yeah it sucks. I mean I'd want her first child to be with me." Dom said.

"I'm sorry bro I mean something happened. So how you going to ask Letty out again?" I said.

"Kiss her or something I dunno I mean that's how I asked her out last time."

"I want to marry your sister." I told him.

Dom looked up at me.

"All right all right so an additional thing to help you find a ring for Mia. She'll like that Brian she will. You know I think they're evil and planned this from the beginning who'd have thought Dom Torretto would be a responsible law abiding citizen." Dom muttered.

I looked at Dom. "Are you crazy? First opportunity I get I'm not giving it up." I said.

Dom laughed. "Ah my sister hasn't brainwashed you all the way good. Let's go house hunting and ring hunting. Private underground business of Brian O Conner and Dom Torretto I like it."

"Eh maybe we'll include the rest of the team."

"Oh Letty will raise hell if she's not included she'll find some way to tag the kid along." Dom said looking amused.

"Zach will know too daddy will slowly turn him." I said with a sastisfied look on my face.

"Nice. My dad would have loved this our mom well she hated cars but our old man loved em so she gave up. She told my sister once never try to squash it baby he'll just find some way round it."

"Your mother sounds like she knows what she's talking about."

Dom bought out the newspaper. "You know it's a good thing I know California like the back of your hand."

"That worries me you can't even see the back of your hand." I teased him.

"Hey I washed and showered today so shut up B." Dom punched me on the arm.

"Ok 2122 Weston St." Dom said.

"Weston we passed that one genius."

"Yeah I guess we did. Come on. The ad says it's a project house." Dom said.

We pulled up to it.
"Yeah no shit we'd have to put a bunch of and I mean a bunch of additions." I said sighing disgustedly.

"You and I could do it. Leon and Vince aren't so good with handy work unless it's cars." Dom said.

"Well I guess they could supervise." I said slyly.

"I don't think this is the right place to fit everybody we'd have to build several rooms and I don't know about you but I'd rather spend my time working on cars."

Dom and I must have looked at about twenty different houses.

Finally we came across another one close to our old neighborhood. It had enough bedrooms and it was far away enough without arousing suspicion plus there was a property nearby that could be turned into a store/mechanic shop. Dom and I made the down payment and paperwork on it. By the time we did that it was nearing seven oh clock.

"Well I guess we can tell the rest of them the good news."

We thought it looked like a quiet place we could blend into. Little did we know we'd fit right in.

Dom and I bought food up to the hospital.

"Hey Mia." I said handing Zach a happy meal from McDonalds. "Hey baby." She kissed me.

"You guys find a place?" Mia asked me hopefully as I handed her the food.

"Yes we did and a possible store for you to run." I kissed her and held her for a moment. Strange Vince chose that moment to go look for coffee.

"Ok that is gross you guys people are already sick in this hospital as it is. They don't want to see you two sharing germs." Jesse said walking up to us.

"Jesse!" Mia hugged him he returned it.

"He treating you right?" Jesse said looking right at me.

Mia nodded happily.

I smiled. "It's good to see you man. What happened to you?" I asked him.

Jesse sat down and waved high to Zach.

"That is a long and dark tale sit down this may take awhile." Jesse said with a smile. We sat in the waiting room chairs which are never comfortable and listened to Jesse. Roman included.