"Hey Bri, can I talk to you?" Dominic Toretto asked his friend Brian O'Connor. They had just finished putting in a 12 hour day at the Toretto's Garage.

"Sure man, what up?" Brian sat on the hood of his blue and gray skyline.

"I wanted you to come with me to this bar tonight. But don't tell the team. They wouldn't understand if you know what I mean?" Dominic said quietly, while looking around to make sure none of his team heard him.

"No prob, let's go. I could use a nice cold one." Brian stood up and took his keys out of his pocket.

"I'll drive. Get in." Dominic ordered.

"So, man, spill it. Who's at this bar?" Brian asked, as Dominic go onto the interstate.

"This girl I met. She's different; she's not some skank or racer chaser that's always around the races. She's real, I thought you would understand." Dominic said, as he pulled into the bar "The Blue Light".

"I understand. I can't wait to see this girl who's got you tripping." Brian answered, as he opened the door and went in to the bar. He started to head to a table when Dominic grabbed his arm.

"Dom, what the hell?" Brian asked, confused.

"She only waits on these tables. Here she comes." Dominic mouthed out of the corner of his mouth.

"Hey, you did come back. I thought you were just being nice when you said you would stop by." Sapphire Valore' said, as she walked up the table. She was 5'3" with shoulder length blonde hair, big blue eyes the color of the ocean. She was wearing a black leather skirt with pink roses embroidered at the bottom of the hem and pink of the shoulder tank top.

"I always keep my promises. This is one of my team members, Brian O'Connor. Brian this is Sapphire Valore'." Dominic introduced.

"Nice to meet you." Brian held out his hand to shake Sapphire's.

"Sapphire, hurry up. Quit wasting time and take their damn order." A gruff looking guy from behind the bar ordered.

"Sorry, guys. I'll bring back two Corona's, I gotta go." Sapphire hurried away quickly to her next table that was waiting for her to take their order.

"He's an ass." Dominic commented.

"So what's the story Dom? What's up between you two?" Brian asked, while looking around at the dingy bar. He couldn't imagine Dominic ever coming in here, it wasn't Dom style at all.

"Bri, there's just something about her. And she's hiding something, I don't know what yet, but I thought your All American boy charm could help me out." Dominic answered, lost in thought.

"Here you two go. Sorry about him, my brother's a total ass. If it wasn't for the money I wouldn't even be here." Sapphire smiling shyly apologized as she walked up and sat the two ice cold Corona's on the table.

"If you need money, you can come work for me. I own my own garage." Dominic offered.

"I can't ask that of you, it's okay Dominic…"Sapphire was interrupted by Dominic.

"Call me Dom. Remember, we already discussed this. And you don't have to ask, I offered." Dominic stated simply.

"Dom, it's okay. I almost have enough money saved up so I can leave. I'm just making enough to go find my sister." Sapphire sighed.

"Where's your sister live?" Brian asked, while taking a drink.

"Miami, she works at some club as a dancer. My brother has a warrant out for her arrest if she comes back into California and he threatened my life if she did. That's the only reason she hasn't come back here. So I decided to go to her" Sapphire answered sadly.

"Hey girl, cheer up. My homeboys live in Miami. We can drive you there tonight, we were going to head down there in a week but we could go sooner. It wouldn't be a problem at all." Brian smiled with his boyish grin.

"You're kidding? I couldn't" Sapphire stammered.

"Not kidding and you can." Brian said. "Come on girl, put the apron down and let's blow this place so we can go find your sister." He added.

"You guys are just too much. If you're serious, I'm in." Sapphires eyes brightened up at the offer.

"Done. Let's go Phire." Dominic announced.

"Just a sec, I have to go tell my brother I quit." Sapphire walked away. "Hey, Michael, I quit." She threw her apron down on the counter and started to walk away.

"Not so fast. Where the hell do you think you're going? You don't have enough money saved up yet. I should know, I pay you." Michael Valore' asked as he grabbed her arm with a death grip.

"Far away to go be with my sister, she cares about me. She wouldn't stiff me on my money every week either if I worked for her. I know you don't pay me nearly enough but you also know I don't have any other choice." Sapphire tried to pull away.

"Your sister? You mean that worthless piece of shit who hasn't even tried to come and get you and take you off of my hands. If you leave to go find that bitch then you're never welcome home again." Michael whispered angrily, leaning very close to her face.

"You promise? I'll take you up on that. She would have come and got me if your ass didn't put a warrant out on her. See ya." Sapphire tried to pull away again.

"Here's your going away present bitch." He back handed her in the face, and then punched her three times in the stomach. "Couldn't give you anything less than I gave that slut sister of yours." Michael pushed her to the floor and stormed off.

"What is taking her so long? Here she comes." Dominic told Brian.

"What the hell happened to her?" Brian asked concerned, as Sapphire limped slowly to the car.

"Sorry guys, stupid brother." Sapphire gave them a small smile.

"You want us to take care of him?" Dominic asked, getting madder as he saw the bruises all over her, now that they were in the light by the street lamp he could tell that her brother beat on her a lot.

"Dom, its fine. I just want to find my sister." Sapphire said, as she climbed into the backseat of Dominic's Red RX-7. "Thank you both for driving me, I appreciate it more than you can imagine." She added. She closed her eyes and drifted into a deep sleep.

A/N: Hope you guys like this. It's my first story I have ever written. If it wasn't for Cheerthis95 I wouldn't have done it. She inspired me to write this and put my ideas on paper. She's good at that kind of thing. So, thanks Cheer for always being there for me. You are truly the bestest friend anyone could ask for. And to anyone else who likes this story, thanks and I appreciate it. And if you don't like it, your entitled to your own opinion. Free world and all. LOL. Later