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CAUCASUS MOUNTAINS, AZERBAIJAN
Hailee Blake feels her best friend, Megan Ramsey, grab her hand out of fear as they hear an explosion outside before the men that took them start giving orders and moving around the bus that they are in. Hailee couldn't help but hope that the people attacking the bus are there for her and Ramsey. But mainly hopes that they are nicer than the people that took them. The bus shakes as the back of it is pulled off, causing Ramsey to let out a small shriek of fear.
Brian O'Conner jumps into the bus landing on a guard. Brian and the guard start fighting while Tej Parker backs up, causing the car that Brian had been driving to crash before Brian slings the guard out of the bus. Brian takes down two more guards before shooting two guards. Ramsey's grip on Hailee's hand tightens as she hears the gunshots. Brian makes his way to the cell before shooting the lock off, causing Ramsey to whimper in fear while Hailee prepares to put up a fight. Brian pulls the hood off of one of the people inside the cell to reveal a woman.
"Ramsey?" Brian asks confused since he and his team had assumed the hackers were men.
"Stay away from me! Stay back! Don't you touch me!" Ramsey yells at him before he pulls the hood off of the other person, causing Hailee to blink rapidly as her eyes adjust to the light.
"Who are you?" Hailee asks as she glares at Brian while slightly positioning herself in front of Ramsey protectively.
"My name's Brian. I'm gonna get you both out of here but I'm gonna need you to settle down, all right?" Brian explains to them as he pulls a knife out of his pocket. "I'm gonna cut those things off of you." Brian cuts their cuffs off while a car and truck catch up to the rest of Brian's team, causing them to have to dodge as they are shot at.
"Come on, closer!" Brian yells at Dominic Toretto as he, Hailee, and Ramsey reach the back of the bus. Dom speeds up as he gets right behind the bus. "You're gonna have to jump."
"No! No! No!" Ramsey argues with Brian as she shakes her head.
"We don't have time! Come on!" Brian tells her as he tries to grab her arms. "We gotta get out of here. Come on."
"I'm not jumping!" Ramsey yells at him as she moves away from him.
"Look at me! Look at me!" Hailee orders as she grabs Ramsey's arms, causing Ramsey to look at her. "You don't jump, we're gonna die. Okay?" Ramsey calms down and gives a small nod of understanding. "You're jumping!"
"Come on. One. Two!" Brian counts before he slings Ramsey onto the hood of Dom's car. "Tej!" Tej speeds up before getting behind the bus as Brian turns to Hailee. "Your..."
"I know," Hailee says before she quickly jumps onto the hood of Tej's vehicle while Brian looks at her with a look of shocked mixed with impressed.
"Take my hand!" Tej yells at Hailee as he reaches through the sunroof. Hailee grabs Tej's hand before he pulls her into the car. Ramsey tries to grab Dom's hand through his sunroof but an unidentified car rams into Dom, who looks over to find that it is Deckard Shaw. Deckard rams into Dom again which causes Ramsey to flop around on the hood of the car, causing Hailee to watch her friend worriedly. Dom revs his engine, causing the front of the car to bounce which slings Ramsey up before Dom is able to grab her and pull her into the car. Hailee lets out a sigh of relief when she sees her best friend safely in the car. Dom rams into Deckard, pushing them off of the road.
"Ramsey?" Tej asks since he was definitely not expecting two women, especially one as beautiful as the one next to him.
"No," Hailee answers him as she shakes her head and looks for the car that has Ramsey in it.
"Blake?" Tej asks, causing Hailee to glance at Tej.
"Yes," Hailee says not caring to tell him her first name. He would probably live longer if he didn't know it.
"I'm Tej," Tej introduces himself with a smile which causes Hailee to instantly smile despite the current situation. Tej meets up with two other cars before driving to the bottom of the mountain.
Dom climbs out of his wrecked car as the team shows up at the bottom of the mountain.
"Looks like our demon love child worked," Tej says as the team and Hailee walk over to Dom while Hailee looks around for Ramsey.
"That's one way down a mountain," Brian states with a smirk.
"Where's Ramsey?" Hailee asks concerned when she doesn't see her best friend.
"They don't look like hackers to me," Roman Pearce says as he looks at Tej, who's eyes are on Hailee.
"Oh yeah? And what do hackers look like?" Tej asks as he looks over at Roman slightly offended.
"They don't suppose to look like that," Roman answers him as he motions to Hailee and Ramsey. "I'm just saying, like, you know how they normally wear them little, weird glasses that's all crooked, and pimples all over their face from drinking soda? I mean, trust me, with a body like that, you ain't gonna park it behind a computer." Though Tej is offended by the hacker description, he can't help but nod his head in agreement about Hailee's body. Brian walks over to Ramsey and Hailee before squatting down to Ramsey's height.
"How are you feeling? Did you hit your head?" Brian questions Ramsey before she nods. "Feeling nauseous? Ears ringing?" Ramsey shakes her head no. "No?"
"Where's my shoe?" Ramsey asks him, seeing that she is missing a shoe.
"Oh, it flew off when you crashed," Hailee answers her with a slight smile.
"You start experiencing any of those things, let us know, okay?" Brian says with a kind smile as Hailee gives him a nod of thanks.
"I don't know whether to thank you for rescuing me or kick your ass for throwing me off a cliff," Ramsey says as Brian walks away from them.
"Thank us or kick our ass, huh?" Dom asks her as he turns to face them. "How about you tell us where that device is?"
"I mailed it to a friend," Ramsey simply answers him as she glances at Hailee, who nods for her to continue. "In Abu Dhabi."
"That was pretty easy," Brian says as he watches Ramsey to see if she is lying. "That other team would have tortured you for that information."
"We didn't trust them," Ramsey explains to him as she glances at Hailee. "She trusts you and I trust her."
"Now, why would you trust us? You barely know us," Letty asks her with an amused smirk.
"We know enough," Hailee answers her with her smirk of confidence before profiling the team, starting with Brian. "Ex-cop. Military, something like that. The way you took out them guys shows training, plus the way you watched to see if Ramsey was lying." Hailee looks over to Tej. "Tech guy, offended by the hacker remark, naturally." Hailee moves on to Dom. "Alpha." Then to Letty. "Mrs. Alpha." Then lastly to Roman. "Loud mouth and a joker."
"Wrong," Roman tells her as he stands up while defending himself. "Double alpha. Man candy. You know what I'm saying."
"Man, sit your candy ass down," Tej orders him with a chuckle.
"The disrespect is real around here," Roman says as he sits back down.
"Life is binary. Zeroes and ones. Only two things keep a group like this together," Ramsey explains as she looks around at the team. "Fear or loyalty. And I don't see a drop of fear among you guys."
"Very impressive," Tej tells them with a smile as he focuses on Hailee. "Just one thing." Tej points to Dom and Letty. "They're not married." Letty looks down as she thinks about the flash of a memory she had and the information she had found out during her time of searching for answers since she had been in an accident that had caused her to lose her memories.
"I'm never wrong," Hailee tells him with a smirk and a shrug of her shoulders.
"She's so off, it's crazy. You just gonna roll with it?" Roman asks as he looks at Tej while shaking his head. "You're telling me there can't be a double alpha in one group?"
"You work for the US government?" Ramsey asks as she looks at Dom, causing Letty to laugh as she also looks to Dom.
"We got similar interests," Dom answers her as he glances at Brian. "Tej, call it in. We're going to the Middle East!"
ABU DHABI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
"It's hotter than I thought it would be," Roman states as he and Tej look out at the water since they are currently at a beach, waiting on a friend of Ramsey's.
"Yeah, well, we are in the desert, so it would be hot," Tej retorts as he looks around the beach.
"Oh, no, I ain't talking about the weather," Roman says as he sits up in his chair to watch as Hailee and Ramsey walk out of the water, causing their skin to glisten in the sunlight. "My, my, my."
"Now, those are two women worth falling out a plane for," Tej says as he sits up as well while they watch Hailee and Ramsey each grab a towel.
"Get out of there, man, I got dibs on that," Roman says with a shake of his head, as he focuses on Ramsey. "You've seen me looking at that."
"Did you just say 'dibs'?" Tej asks as he looks over at Roman as if he was crazy. "What are you, in the fourth grade?"
"Man, can you just get out of there?" Roman asks him back with an eye roll.
"I mean, it's a free market," Tej tells him as he watches Hailee wrap her hair in a towel.
"What are you talking about? Get out of there," Roman argues with him.
"Rock, paper, scissors for her," Tej says as he holds up his fist.
"Are you guys for real right now?" Letty asks them as Roman holds his fist up as well before he wins. "Look at you. You both look whupped already. You got stalker eyes." Brian lets out a laugh while Dom stands up with a smile on his face.
"I tried to call dibs on Ramsey two years ago. Her hand, my face. Not the best idea. Then a year ago I tried to call dibs on Blake," A man says as he walks up to them while glancing out at Hailee and Ramsey. "Her knee, my balls. Trust me, you definitely don't wanna do that." Ramsey and Hailee start walking over to them. "Hey! Ramsey!"
"Hello, Safar," Ramsey says with a smile as they hug.
"I see you make some new friends," Safar says as he looks at everyone before hugging Hailee.
"Yeah, some short-tempered new friends," Ramsey says with a nod of agreement. "I need the speed drive I sent you. Where is it?"
"Oh, good. You will be pleased to know I sold it," Safar answers her with a proud smile.
"You sold it?" Hailee asks him in disbelief.
"You hear that?" Letty asks Dom, who turns to face them.
"I asked you to take care of it," Ramsey tells Safar as she shakes her head. "Why on Earth would you sell it?"
"We're gonna need it back," Dom says as he walks over to Ramsey and Safar.
"Impossible," Safar tells him with a frown.
"Safar, I stashed something inside it. It's important," Ramsey explains to him with a pleading look.
"Okay, okay," Safar tries to calm her down. "Uh, good news. It is safe."
"And the bad news?" Hailee asks with a sigh as she rolls her eyes.
"It is very safe," Safar answers her, before leading them to where they can see three tall buildings. "I sold it to a Jordanian prince living up there. Trust fund billionaire. Said he wanted to use it for his supercar."
"Now, see, this? This, I like," Roman says with an excited smile. "Billionaire, supercar..."
"What makes it so super?" Hailee asks annoyed with Safar for selling it in the first place.
"242 miles per hour, top speed," Safar answers her with a smirk. "And it's bulletproof."
"242..." Roman says as he looks at Safar excitedly. "Am I the only one aroused right now? It's, like, you know what I'm saying?" No one laughs or smiles with Roman. "Whatever."
"Where does he keep it?" Dom asks as he looks at Safar.
"In his penthouse. Tower number one," Safar answers as he points to the tower.
"Now, why in the hell would he keep his car in his penthouse?" Tej asks as he looks up at the tower while shaking his head.
"He's a billionaire, my friend," Safar answers him with a shrug. "He can do whatever he wants. Now, tomorrow happens to be the longest day of the year. The prince wants to celebrate it and host a party tomorrow afternoon."
"So you can get us up there, right?" Brian asks as he looks from the tower to Safar.
"Sure," Safar answers him with a nod. "But, uh, not dressed like that." Hailee frowns as she realizes what Safar means by not dressed like that.
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