"Too bad, I'm busy." I told him before hanging up and picking the Glock back up and shooting multiple rounds off. My aim was all over the place today. I throw the gun to the wall and watch it break, "damn, little sis." Alessio said and I grabbed a .45 ACP pistol and some clips.

"I need to find my fucking money." I snarl and shoot the gun multiple times. Alessio agrees as he changes out the target for me. "How's Cat?" I ask him and close one eye and raise the gun. I empty the clip before he had time to answer. "She's better, she's resting." I hum as I take the empty clip out.

"I like this one." I say and put a new clip in it and then stash it in the back of my jeans. I turn the lights off and head out with Alessio behind me. "Scar!" I smile at Catarina as she gives me a tight hug. "What do you want sorellina?"

(little sister)

"I really wanna go to the street races again!" I yank Catarina back and she winces, "no." Catarina groans loudly and looks up at me with tears in her eyes. "God, you have to stay with me at all times, fatto?" I say and she nods. "Fatto!"

(got it? got it!)

I was not going to be racing tonight, my car was not ready for that yet. The car was literally embarrassing, no way was I about to race with it. The races were in full swing by the time we got there. Catarina hurries to get out and I tsk at her. She falls back and grabs onto my hand. I walk slowly to the crowd, Catarina was practically bouncing instead of walking.

Cars come in hot, smoke and burning rubber fill my nose. I cough a little and fan the smoke away from my face. Catarina squealed as she saw Bill's car, she waited for him to come out. Bill parked his car and got out, along with another girl. "I wanna go home." Catarina said as she tugged my hand, I looked over at Bill and watched him make out with a fake blonde girl, "okay."

"Scarlett Armani." I chuckle at the heavy Russian accent. "Vladimir!" I say to the Russian Mafia boss with a fake smile. "I see you healed well." I told him recalling our last run in together. He laughs and looks over at Catarina.

"I'm Vladimir, but you can call me Vlad." He said as he raked her body over. I tug Catarina back and shield her with my body. "Cat!" Bill said as he caught wind of our presence. Catarina's mouth quivered and she tugged on me again. We were at a standstill with two different Mafias. And no backup. I went with the smartest option and pushed Catarina towards Bill. "Scar!" Catarina whimpered calling out for my help.

"If you will excuse us, I have some business to attend to." I say with faux sorrow and back away to see Catarina ignoring Bill. "She saw you making out with a bimbo, Bill." I explain as she rushes to my side again. Bill groans and goes to speak, "thought you were busy?" Tom said as he practically appeared out of nowhere. I give him a sarcastic smile. "I was, but my sister wanted to go to the street races. And now she wants to leave." I explain and start to head to my car.

"Tell Gustav and Georg I said 'Hi'!" Catarina said, she was always too nice sometimes. "Cat," Bill says and grabs her wrist and pulls her back. "Bill." I say sternly and he pays me no attention. "Are you racing tonight?" Tom asked me and I didn't look at him while shaking my head.

"The engine is embarrassing." I explain and his eyebrows raise and goes to pop the hood. He snickers at the engine, "you were right, this is embarrassing." He closes the hood and comes to stand behind me. He definitely had some inches on me as I was 5'8" and he was well over six feet tall. "Nice Glock." He whispered in my ear and I turned my head to look at him, "it's even nicer when it's pointed at other people." I threatened and he smiled and bit his lip.

I watch as Bill and Catarina argue about who knows what, "leave me alone, Bill!" Catarina yells while shoving him back. My eyes go wide as Catarina slaps him and stomps over to me. "Well that was new." I say jokingly and Catarina glares at me with teary eyes. Gunshots went off making everyone flinch.

I grab Catarina and shield her with my body. I could feel her body shaking under me as more gunfire went off. I move swiftly with Catarina and shove her into the back of my car, "stay here, and get low." I tell her and she nods. I kiss her forehead and shut the car door.

"Who the fuck is shooting?" I ask pulling my gun out as well, "fuck if I know." Tom snaps as we both duck from on coming bullets. One of the bullets land near us and I pick it up to recognize Vladimir's signature gun. "It's Vladimir."

"Come on out, Scar. I'm looking for a little payback." He taunts as the gunfire stops. I share a look with Tom before coming out from behind the car, "Scarlett!" Tom yelled and I quickly glance back at him.

"Vlad, I don't have all day." I say and let out an exasperated sigh. He growls at me and points the gun at me. "Drop your gun, Armani!" He yells at me and I drop it. Vladimir walks towards me with his gun pointed at my head. He grabs the gun and throws it away from us. "Tell your granddad I said hi," I say before my foot makes contact with his face.

The gun goes off, grazing the side of my arm. He drops the gun and holds his face. I reach down to my ankle and pull the gun that was hoisted there and shoot him in the stomach a few times.

He falls to the ground with blood spewing out of his stomach and it was coming out fast. He gurgles up blood before his eyes go glossy and he falls silent. I smirk at him before turning on my heel and walking back to the car where Tom was. "My brothers will be here to clean it up, don't worry." I tell him while putting my gun away. He didn't have a chance to respond before I hopped into my car and drove off.

-

"Cena!" I yell out while taking the pan off the stove and turning the heat off. Footsteps sounded from all over the place as the rest of my family walks into the kitchen.

(dinner)

"Smells good, sis." Dante compliments as he kisses my cheek and grabs plates for everyone. Catarina walks in on the phone with Bill, no doubt. "Cat, no phones at the table." She nods and says goodbye to Bill.

Marcello comes in with red and white wine, "it's such a disgrace that you like white wine." I playfully insult to Giovanni as he pours himself a glass. He flips me off and curses in Italian. I laugh at him and set out all the food. It consisted of pasta al vodka, a signature Italian salad, and some bread.

Dinner went by smoothly, Damiano and Catarina were on dishwasher duty for the night. "Come see me when you done." I tell Catarina and she nods. I pick up my phone and click on a contact.

CALLING BULLET ♠️
bold - brian o'conner
italics - scarlett armani

Bullet, my man.

Wassup Scar?

You in Tokyo right now?

You know it.

You wanna set up a race for me?

Hell yeah.

I need a couple of days, my old Hellcat got flipped. My new car has a shit engine.

Ah shit, you better tell me what happened.

Always will, bye Bullet baby.

A knock sounded on my door as I hung up on Brian. Catarina comes in and makes herself at home as always. She lays down on the bed with her phone propped up to her ear. I give her a stern look and she rolls her eyes and hangs up. "You wanna learn how to drive?" I ask her and she nods excitedly.

"Well let's go."

-

I pull up to the shop and step out of the car, "Suki!" I yell out excitedly and the girl walks over to me. She gives me a hug and looks over at Catarina. "Catarina, meet Suki. Suki, meet Catarina." Suki gives Catarina a nod and heads into the shop. Jimmy was playing poker with Tej. "Jimmy, still losing to Tej. Nothing changes." I tease him as Tej ripped the money out of Jimmy's hand.

"Scar, always a pleasure." Tej says and gives me a hug. "The sister here wants to learn more about cars." I spoke while giving my sister a little tug. "Catarina?" Tej asks and I nod. "Cat, this is Jimmy. Our parts guy around here in Tokyo." Jimmy gives her a wink and she smiles awkwardly.

"You just missed Brian and Roman." Tej informs me and I give a shrug, "wait, Roman is here?" Tej gives me a nod and continues with another poker game. I hum as I walk over to the car that was hanging. I admire the engine from below. "Tej, you have a car but you don't use it." I joke and point out different parts to Catarina. It's good to know what's under the engine and under the hood.

"Is Brian sleeping on the boat?" I question seeing the light on. "Huh? Oh yeah." I roll my eyes at Tej's incompetence and head out the back. I walk onto the boat and it shakes a little as Catarina jumps on it. "Scar?"

"Wassup Bullet?"

~

Spending the night on some boat with Brian was not easy. "You're like a bag of bricks!" I groan as I try and shove Brian off the small bed. Brian groans in response as he tries to roll over and ends up falling on the floor with a loud thud. I burst out laughing while he gets up and flips me off. "Can I have a shirt?" I ask and he throws a shirt at me. I mumble a thanks and throw it on. "Call me when the race is ready." He nods at me and I step out getting blinded by the sunlight. Catarina was under Tej's car examining the many parts of it.

"Let's teach you how to drive, without totaling my car."

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wc: 1811

stop because why am i running out of ideas

n e ways im literally so tired rn