From Staring Line to Family Line

Leticia Ortiz remembered nothing of her past. She only knows what she was told by a man named Owen Shaw, but she doesn't know if it's the truth, the only thing she knows is real is her son Alex. Spoilers for Fast and Furious 6

Ch 2

Dominic Toretto stood stoically. He needed to focus on getting the bullet out before he thought about how it got there. He grimaced only slightly as he pulled the piece of metal from his shoulder and dropped it in the tin. "She definitely saw it was you?" Brian asked as he made his way over.

"She looked right at me, Brian" he answered. He was barely getting over seeing her again when she just shot him and sped off.

"Maybe the Letty we once knew is gone, Dom" Brian said to him. "Even though she's alive, maybe…she's gone"

No, he thought to himself and looked at Brian. "You don't turn your back on family…even when they do"

"Dom, Brian, you might want to have a look at this" Tej said from the computer. Dom put his shirt on and followed Brian over to the screen that Tej had put up on the big monitor. "It's at some fair, or whatever they call those over here sometime last year." he told them. Dom sucked in his breath as he saw the picture in front of him. It was Shaw with his hand in the back pocket of Letty's jeans while she held a little boy with dark hair in her arms.

"She's got a kid with him?" Roman said out loud as he saw what they were all looking at.

Dom could not take his eyes off Letty holding her son and smiling at him. And he couldn't ignore Shaw in the picture staring at her too. It had been almost four years since he saw her, had she really just forgotten about him and moved on? He knew he left her behind, but it was to keep her safe. Then Brian told him she was helping the FBI so he could come back to the states. So would she really just get with some other guy? He had to know, he couldn't leave it like this. He'd find a way to talk to her.

The next day they were all sitting in the command center working on the next stage of the plan, when Owen's phone rang. Ivory answered it and handed it to Owen who put it on speaker, he was about to reply when they heard the voices on the other end.

Letty looked up from what she was doing to listen in, she heard Firuz ask why they were looking for Shaw. A woman with an accent replied "He took something of ours; we'd like to talk to him about it"

Letty wondered what he took, since she didn't remember seeing those people until yesterday. She didn't have long to think about because Owen motioned for the three of them to go to the auto shop and take care of it.

They pulled up to the shop and got out of the car. Letty looked at them as they cocked their weapons and started shooting into the window. They weren't even checking who they were shooting at. Then a shot came sailing past her, she ducked down and pulled out her gun.

Shit, she said to herself when her gun clicked empty. She should have listened to Owen and brought more ammo. But she didn't think they'd be shooting up the place. She couldn't do anything weaponless so she had to get out of there.

She was quietly sneaking off when she locked eyes with the female cop that was after them. Now she was really screwed, she knew the Tube was close by here so she ran down the tunnel and into the gate that she pushed open with the momentum of her body. She pushed her way through the crowd. There were too many people in to small of a space. She kept bumping into people and that slowed her down, then she felt someone shove her from behind and she fell into the wall. The cop then punched her in the gut and threw her into the wall again. Letty needed to get home; she had to fight back so she spun around and aimed a left hook that caught her in the face, then she easily ducked her right hook and swung her own right hook that connected hard with Letty's cheek forcing her to down. The cop grabbed her outstretched arm and started to handcuff her.

While she was distracted with that, Letty shot a punch in between her knee, grabbed her shoulders and head butted her, and then kicked out at her thigh. The woman punched down against her face and swiveled into a roundhouse kick pushing her into the wall. She felt her coming at her again so she moved over so the woman hit the wall.

Letty held her fists up in a fighting stance; she positioned the handcuff on top of her knuckles. The woman recovered and got into her own fighting stance. Letty went at her with her fists swinging; the woman easily deflected all of her attempts and she had left herself open for a hard hit that forced her body to turn to sideways where she also received a knee to the gut. She used the woman's momentum to swing her into the wall and aimed a punch down at her face and brought her knee into her stomach. She went to hit her again, but the woman grabbed her arm so she couldn't reach her and held the other one against her throat. Letty used her free hand and went for her throat. The cop let go and Letty immediately swung again, then the woman jumped on top of her with both legs swung the around lifting her in the air and Letty hit the ground hard. That was some ninja terminator shit right there, Letty thought as she was trapped by the woman's thigh. She was trying to cut off her oxygen so she'd go unconscious.

It couldn't end like this; she needed to get home to her son. So she did the only thing she could do, she bit down hard on the woman's thigh. The cop screamed out and rolled off of her but not without kicking her in the face first. Letty rolled into a somersault and stood up. She made her decision quickly as the woman stood up. She charged at her tackling her and taking them both down the stairs.

When they hit the ground, her adrenaline was still pumping with her need to get back to Alex. She forced herself up and saw the train coming; she ran for it and slid between the doors just as they were closing. She looked out once as the train pulled away.

She got off at the stop nearest to their Flat. She let herself inside. "Letty, what happened?" Mrs. S asked as she walked into Flat.

"It's nothing; I had to stop a fight. You know boys will be boys" She told her with a grin hoping she wouldn't ask any more questions. "He's in his room" Mrs. S replied as Letty asked with her eyes where Alex was. So she went into the bathroom to wash up before seeing her son.

"Mommy!" Alex squealed as he saw her and jumped into her arms. She had to stop herself from crying out as she squeezed her. She knew she'd be all bruised up after that fight. "Are you home?" he asked her hopefully. She hated disappointing him like this. "No, I just came to see you before I go back out" she told him and kissed the top of his head. She felt him nod into her chest. "Okay, bye bye" he told her and pulled out of her embrace. She smiled at him. He shouldn't be used to her leaving like this all the time. Alex went back to playing with his toys.

Letty stood up and looked at him and turned away. She felt her phone vibrate so she pulled it out of her pocket, it had miraculously survived the beating she took. She looked at it, it was Owen. I guess he does care. She thought as she answered it. "Yeah, I'm on my way. I had to take the Tube to get away from GI Jane"

She walked into the base and saw Owen standing by her car. He looked at her as she walked over, his hands went to inspect her face and he looked at her with concern, or at least she thought it might be concern she couldn't really tell, he didn't make many facial expressions. "Are you alright?" he asked.

"I'm fine" she replied.

"Good, I was worried" he told her rubbing her cheek softly with his hand.

"Well, I'm fine" she replied with a small smile.

"You do know that you are special to me, Letty" he said running his hand down her shoulder. "I may not show it all the time, but you are" he brought his hand back up to her face and slid his hand down her cheek. "I didn't really believe in miracles, until the day I found you in the hospital and I knew then that I needed you in my life." He leaned forward, closing the space between them and brought his lips near hers. "I would hate to lose you" he told her and pressed his lips to hers.

Letty pulled back "Ah" she said and brought her hand to her lip. "Sorry" she said to him. It didn't really hurt, but she didn't feel like kissing him now. She'd been sleeping in an empty bed for weeks. She was still mad that he barely acknowledged their son.

"Right, I apologize. I'm sure that hurts" he said gently running his fingers across the cut on her lips.

"Yeah, after all that, I need to blow off some steam" she said to him and gripped her car's door handle.

"Of course" he replied and backed away so she could get in her car. She smiled at him one last time, backed her car up and drove away.

She knew there was a race tonight and that's exactly what she needed to clear her head.

Tbc…