Letty POV
I stood there full of emotions wihtout showing any, anyone who looked at me would think I was empty, and maybe I was. I just watched my husband, my lover, my best friend, my ride or die throw a grenade at the team, at me. Shots were fired all around me, shots fired by my husband. The one who always lived life on the edge without breaking his motto of loyalty, family first, and protection. Today all of those things meant nothing. He had switched teams, there was no loyalty, he abandoned his family, and he put me in the line of fire, although; I could protect myself he was always adament and vocal about his need to protect me, hell, he made Leon and I leave to Mexico so I could be safe, and he left me in the DR for my "protection". Today I watched everything we had built and fought for come crashing down right before my eyes. The second he looked in my eyes and allowed this blonde woman to kiss him thats when I felt my heart shatter. This was not my husband. I stayed on the floor even long after Dom and his new team left, I was trying to process everything that had just happened.
"..ty?" I heard a mumbled voice that brought me out of my trance.
"Letty?" I heard again and looked over at the touch of a soft hand on my shoulder, the hand that belonged to Ramsey, although I didn't have many girl friends, she proved to be a great one, one I needed. She was tough as hell, spoke her mind, and she was genuine. I looked at her with a lost look and she bent down so she was eye level with me.
"It's ok to cry you know" I forced a chuckle in an attempt to mask the tears I knew would come.
"I'm ok" I said, knowing she didn't believe me but she let it go.
"Let, you ok?" Hobbs said as he reached a hand out to help me up, I grabbed it allowing him to pull my smaller body up off the floor.
"Yeah man, I'm good." I said forcing a small smile.
"Alright we need to come up with a plan" Hobbs said as he sat down at what was left of the table in the room.
"You good, baby girl?" Roman asked me, I just nodded and smiled.
"You ok, Letty?" Tej asked me, and again, I just nodded. Everyone sat at the table and started to come up with a plan but before I could sit I had to just breathe. Alone.
"I'll be right back guys" I said as I quickly made my way out of the room and into the bathroom that was far enough away incase anybody heard me.
I walked into the bathroom as fast as I could and as soon as the door closed I don't know what came over me but the tears fell, and they wouldn't stop falling. I gripped the sink with shaky hands as I felt my body become heavier.
"Why" I whispered to no one. I was so angry, and hurt that I punched the mirror needing to get something out. I watched the shattered reflection of myself fall into the sink as I dropped to the floor crying into my knees.
I was crying so hard I didn't hear anybody come in but I felt the two arms wrap around me rubbing my back and allowing me to cry.
"Letty, we're going to figure something out" Ramseys soft voice said.
"I don't know what can be done anymore, all I have ever done is stood by him, defended him, fight with him, fight for him, love him, and for what? To be shot at, to have him kiss another woman, again! To give up on me, to give up on us. I don't know if I can do this anymore" I said almost with defeat.
"Letty, you know there has to be a reason he's doing this"
"I know that, but he lied to me again and now I think he might want that life more than us."
"You know that can't be true, Let, he loves you"
"I don't know if love is enough anymore, and you didn't see the look in his eye when he looked at me. It was cold"
Dom POV
"I told you do not fucking shoot at her!" Dom yelled
"Oops" Cypher said with no emotion.
"They're my family, Cypher! Now you turned the most important person in my universe against me!"
"You did just as much as I did, Toretto, and I don't think I need to remind you why you chose to be here." She said smugly as she threw me mine and Lettys cross. Shock hit me because this was on Lettys neck only days ago which means one of Cyphers guys had access to Letty and somehow took this from her I'm assuming without her knowledge, and that scared me.
"I got no choice!" I yelled back at the coldest bitch I have ever met. She just smirked and walked off.
I went to the room I had been sleeping in for the last couple of weeks, I sat on the bed in the dark and lonely room with my head in my hands.
The hurt I saw in Lettys eyes was the worst thing I had ever seen, I didn't see her look when I left her in the DR but I can almost assume it was close to this and my heart broke.
"I'm sorry, Letty" I whispered.
I grabbed a picture I had shoved in my small suitcase, it was a picture of her and I in the hospital after the parkade fell. I lay in the hospital bed, gown and all with Letty tucked in closely to my side I had a smile on my face and she had a smile on hers since Mia caught her mid-laugh. God, I missed my sister. I grabbed a few other things out of my bag, like a car magazine, which was useless , it was the folded up letter inside it from Letty from Cuba, she left to get us breakfast and left me a note so I knew.
'Morning Handsome,
Went to get coffee and food, you wore me out last night and I've worked up an appetite ;) I'll be back soon, I'll need dessert, so stay naked. I think we may also have to keep practicing that baby making for the remainder of our trip...
P.S. Let's fuck on the balcony.
Love forever, your wife and ride or die,
Letty Toretto'
I smiled and chuckled slightly, she always used to make her notes to me dirty, it started as a joke when she left a note meant for me in the beginning of our relationship that said something like, "...that thing you did with my leg and the pillow, we're doing that again I've never come so hard in my life..."
A note that was meant for just my eyes was found by Vince who tried to torture her for it. He told Leon, Jesse, Mia, fuck he even told Hector. But, my girl being the woman she was. She started leaving more notes like that around the house knowing eventually it would just gross Vince out since he looked at her like a sister and it did. But, she didn't stop there.. No she took it up a notch, normally she wasn't too loud in bed, the occasional curse word or loud groan but nothing over the top like a porno. But, for two weeks when we had sex she had made sure to be extra vocal and yell things like "spank me" and "pull my hair" and Jesus Christ it was a turn on when she said those things, she said them before but when she was getting loud it was turning me on knowing she wanted everyone to know how good I made her feel and of course my ego was not going to let the task fail. My room was right next to Vince' so she was sure to have the headboard hit the wall more than once. I laughed at the memory, the memory of two people that I had lost. I was losing Letty and it was killing me.
I grabbed a small stuffed elephant that belonged to Letty, I won it for her at a carnival when we were 15, she acted like it was no big deal till I found out she still had it, now she keeps it with her even if it's just in our closet.
I pulled out the Ipad and went to the surveillance app that was on here. I had installed a camera inside the bedroom to watch her and make sure she was never touched, it sent an alert to me for whoever was in her room, I couldn't be with her, but I had to make sure she was protected so I had snuck out when we just finished a job and placed it on top of a picture that was in the room, it was a tiny camera so she would never see it. I don't care how creepy this seemed, this was all I could do in the position I was in right now to make sure she was ok. I watched as her tear stained face sat on her bed looking exhausted and broken.
Letty POV
I sat on my bed and looked down at my bandaged hand and I cried again. I was trying to focus on tomorrow, but I couldn't. 'If we have to kill Dominic Toretto, we do it' The voice of Mr Nobodys, Ken Doll protégé said.
I can't do that. I may hate him right now, and be heart broken, but I can't kill him. I just can't, I could never pull that trigger on him as an attempt to kill. In London that was different, I didn't know him, yet he knew my name and I knew right then that voice meant something to me I just didn't know what, I just knew I couldn't kill him so I "missed" my shot. I cannot kill him.
I laid down on the bed with my legs curled as I just played with the small band on my finger, Dom gave it to me after he melted it down from my old Road Runner and turned it into a ring. I was so broken and angry I just didn't know how to feel anymore.
A light knock came at my door and I wiped my tears and said come in.
"I made you some soup" Ramsey said as she came in with food, I smiled appreciatively.
"You know I can make food, right? You don't have to baby me" I chuckled
"And you know you can say thank you and eat the damn soup, right?" She argued back and I laughed
"Thank you" I said genuinely.
"Why don't you just stay up here and watch a movie and just calm your mind for tonight, we have a big day tomorrow."
"I don't think laying her being sad and watching a movie is going to help me."
"No, but it'll get your mind off of it all for a minute"
"That was more Mia' thing, I just went for a drive or down to the beach"
"Well no beaches here, and your car is still getting work done so watch this movie I don't care what it is and just try and relax tonight" I smiled at Ramseys attempt but nothing was going to make this situation better.
I put some movie on eventually, not that I cared, I wasn't paying attention and eventually I fell asleep dreaming of a more peaceful time.
Dom POV
I couldn't take this, I'm making her cry, and turning her against me. I grabbed the elephant and quietly snuck out, Cyphers' warehouse was great for keeping people out, not so great for keeping them in. Once I was out I sped towards where Letty and the team were staying, I had deactivated the alarms like last time and quietly got into Lettys room checking again on the app that she was still asleep. Once I was in I kneeled by her in the bed and just watched her sleep. The dried tear stains and disheveled look were caused by me and I hated that I did this to her.
"I'm sorry baby, I love you." I said putting the elephant by her face and pulled the blanket over her so she would stay warm.
I snuck back into Cyphers warehouse and laid in bed staring at the ceiling till the Ipad dinged.
I opened it open and saw that it said motion activated, I opened the camera and saw Letty had woken up. She rubbed the sleep out of her eyes and felt the small stuffed elephant hit her cheek, she grabbed it with a confused look and started to tear up again with realization. She saw the small note I attached to it too. 'Ride or Die' I watched her sad face almost light up. She knew it was me, but she was still hurt.
Then she let her thoughts slip outloud.
"Just come home, baby" She sighed holding the elephant to her chest as she cried herself back into a deep slumber.
"Soon, my love, soon." I whispered to her on the camera. I can only hope she will take me back after all this.
Letty POV
I sat with the team downstairs after they were discussing the plan.
"-he's turned, too far gone" Hobbs said
"Don't turn your back on him yet, the real Dom is still in there" I said with confidence, the confidence that was given back to me in a form of a stuffed elephant.
