Well I'm back, as promised, with the sequel to Some Old Habits Die Hard. This story is set six months after Dom left L.A. I had to add Sean into this one. (ahhh...Lucas Black...so hot!!!!) I've also added an original character that would totally be played by Megan Fox if she actually existed in the movies. LOL! Anyway, I hope you enjoy! Please read and review!!!!
Dominic sat alone in his tiny Tokyo motel room, replaying the last time he saw Letty over and over again in his mind. He remembered that night, six months ago, in full detail. How betrayed she looked as she walked out of their bedroom, leaving him with tears in his eyes and a ring in his hand. God he missed her. He often woke up in the night reaching out to hold her, only to realize that he was alone in a crappy motel room, far away from where he belonged.
He had come to Japan to escape the drama that seemed to surround him and to visit with his old friend Han. His plan had failed. It had followed him here. Han was dead. There was nothing for him here and he wondered what still kept him in this place, but in the back of his mind he knew what it was. The fear of going back and having nothing there either.
He had called a few times to check in and see how things were going in his absence, but he never got to speak to Letty. He always got the same excuses, "She's not here. She's at the shop. She's asleep, blah blah blah." He knew that it was all bull shit, she just didn't want to talk to him. He really couldn't blame her. He was tired of being angry at himself for leaving it all behind. It was time to go home.
A knock at the door disrupted his thoughts. He got up and opened it, reveling Sean. Dom had met the kid with the thick southern drawl one night at a drift match a few months ago. They had raced and Sean, ( who had recently become the new Drift King), had beaten him, something Dom wasn't used to. Like Dom, Sean had been friends with Han. He had been the one that taught Sean to drift.
"What's happenin' D.K.," Dom joked, stepping outside to join his friend.
"Don't call me that, baldy, " Sean replied.
"Touche," Dom laughed. "So, you here to take my car from me?"
" I told you I only race for pinks. I let you keep it for this long, so if your still cryin' yourself to sleep about it," Sean teased. Dom enjoyed the kid's sense of humor. It reminded him of home.
"I never cry. In fact I was born without tear ducts. Besides it's all yours. You won it fair and square." He took the keys from his pocket and handed them to Sean, taking him by surprise.
"What're ya gonna drive around," Sean asked. "Ya know I was kiddin'."
"Won't need it anymore. I'm going back to the states. I've got plenty of rides to drive there," Dom explained.
Letty sat on the sofa in the living room of the Toretto house, watching the guests at the party that went on around her. Colby, who had just walked into the garage one day looking for a job and was now part of their makeshift family, danced and joked around with Jesse, while Vince chatted up a skinny blonde in the corner. Leon was across the room watching Letty as he mingled with some of the other party goers. She had been drinking heavily and was feeling comfortably numb, until her mind drifted to the subject of Dom. Suddenly the noise around her became overwhelming and she retreated upstairs to her bedroom. She shut the door behind her and flopped down onto the bed . The room was cool and dark which would have been comforting if he hadn't been on her mind. She replayed their last night together over and over again in her head as she laid there. It had been six months. Six months of sleeping in this bed without him. She started to pass out, but the gentle knock at the door disturbed her.
"Go away! The bathroom's the other way," she shouted, thinking that it was some random person who needed a place to pee.
The commotion downstairs got loud again and the room lit up briefly as the door slowly cracked open. She looked up, ready to snap at the intruder. It was only Leon. He closed the door and made his way over to her in the darkness.
"I was worried about you," he said softly. He sat down next to her and leaned against the head board. "You weren't lookin' to good."
"I'm fine." She didn't want to do this right now.
"You can't keep doing this to yourself." He sounded so concerned. It broke her heart.
"I can do whatever I want." She snapped at him not really meaning too. It was the alcohol and lack of sleep. He got up to leave so she reached out and grabbed his hand. He sat back down and there was a long silence.
"I'm sorry," she apologized. "I know that you're just trying to look out for me, but it 's the only thing that helps anymore."
He knew that she hadn't been sleeping much these days, but he had no idea how bad it had gotten. It had been like this once before, when they were together in Mexico , hoping that Dom would come for them. "It really is like they say," he thought. "History has a way of repeating it's self." He suddenly became furious with Dom, loosing respect for the man that he considered family. How could he have done this to her again? Didn't he know that even though she was tough she had one weakness...him. Leon was sure that Dom hadn't noticed, he was too busy looking out for himself to even be concerned about the effect he had on anyone else. He just came and went as he pleased, leaving Leon to clean up the messes he made.
She laid her head in his lap and he began to stroke her hair lightly. Before he knew it Letty sat up and pressed her lips to his. His hand slid slowly down her back and he kissed her with out even realizing what he was doing, before pushing her away.
"You don't wanna do this, Let," Leon murmured, still in shock by what had just happened between them.
She began to cry lightly as she spoke, "What the fuck is wrong with me? I'm so sorry!"
He put his arms around her and held her close to him. "It's ok. You're just drunk."
"I'm so sorry, Leon... I can't believe I just... I'm so... sorry...I'm just not me right now...but , I love you... you know that right?" She finally said, still in tears.
"I know you do, but not the way you love Dom." Leon said as he got up. "I'm gonna go get Colby so you're not alone ok?"
"Sure," she said, still embarrassed, right before passing out.