I've been gone a long time and the response to my comeback was so overwhelming. If you're new here, thanks for reading my work. If you've read my work before, thank you so much for still being here, you have no idea how much this means to me. You're comments motivate me so much so here's another (quite small) chapter. I'm winging this story but let's just see where it goes! x


That all too familiar sound tone of a full voicemail rang through Dom's ears repeatedly, yet he continued to call the only number he had for Letty. It has been months and so much had happened and knowing exactly what she was like, he was certain his odds of that even being her number anymore were pretty obviously hopeless. But he was on his sixth try and he had already practically paced a hole in the floor of his bedroom. Elena's eyes following his every move wasn't lost on him, the burning feeling washed over his skin and settled in his stomach as a fiery pit of dread.

"I think if there was going to be an answer, there would be by now." The girls' words flew straight over Dom's head as he pressed the redial button.

"What else am I supposed to do? That was her. Elena," He paused, his eyes finding the blonde sitting on her legs in the middle of the bed, now wearing jeans and a loose vest. "I'm sorry –"

"Don't," she cut him off. "You don't need to apologise, Dom. It's Letty."

Her acceptance of the situation, his worry, his apology, the deep desire to see that one person who wasn't her, only registered with him for a brief moment. He wanted to smile and show his appreciation for her response, but he couldn't manage it.

"Now, are you sure it was her?"

"I know." He didn't need to explain further. It was Dom and Letty after all, of course he knew. "I have no other way to reach her." Once again, his thumb was on the redial button, and Elena was letting out a soft sigh. "You have to understand," he continued with the phone to his ear "we thought she was dead. That was the only reason, Brian and Mia, they all said, that was the only reason possible for her not finding her way back to –"

"To you," Elena finished his stream of thought and Dom couldn't help it, he thought of all those times Letty had done the same. This time was different, it was written all over his furrowed brow and facial expression how he felt, what words were on the tip of his tongue. But with Letty, she knew what he was thinking before he did, half the time. They knew every inch of each other like the back of their hands.

"Maybe you should call your sister."

"Not yet. Not until I know she'll be around, I don't want to get her hopes up. Loosing Letty was just as hard for her as it was – " He stopped himself. It was just as hard for Mia as it had been for him, that's where his words were taking him. Elena wasn't stupid; of course she could work that one out. But saying them out loud almost had him feeling guilty. It was unfair to her. It was unfair to him, this whole situation. She wasn't dead and she allowed him to believe that this whole time. Of course she knew that's what he'd think, what they would all think. How could she?


"Where are we going?"

Letty ignored Gisele as the wind picked up her words instead, carrying them out of the open windows of her car. The draft picking up as Letty's speed only grew more intense and quicker and the look on her features twisted from tense and lost to calm and at more of an ease. Though that flicker of what could have been and what she had hoped for was still evident in her eye. Either that, or Gisele was just that good. Once she realised she wasn't going to get a response, Gisele shifted slightly in her seat to give her friend and somewhat encouraging, comforting pat on her back.

"This was a mistake," Letty's words were utterly emotionless, her eyes still on the road and her face stoic.

"You don't know – "

"I know he was with someone else, Gisele." Letty's tone was harsh and final. "This whole time. Of course he was sleeping with other girls, just how he used to be. I should have known."

"Let –"

"He walked out on me, after all. He's Dominic Toretto, what girl would he ever go running after?"

"Letty Ortiz?" Gisele suggested and for the first time, Letty finally glanced at the brunette girl.

"Yeah? Well, he didn't, did he?"

We thought she was dead.

"Go back, Letty."


R&R x