I wrote this next chapter really quickly because I know how it feels to be waiting for a new chapter forever. It kills me haha
So with this chapter, I needed some more Dotty so yay for flashbacks! If you watched Los Bandoleros, then I think it'll help you picture the flashback a lot more. I definitely thought about them on the beach when I wrote it so that's where the idea came from. If you haven't watched it, you should! Youtube is you friend and its freaking amazing, okay? Great!
Disclaimer: I don't any of the Fast and Furious characters and any mistakes are mine and I apologise for them. Enjoy! x
The journey home for Letty was a rollercoaster, emotionally more than anything. She was determined to bring her car along with her, so driving the entire way wore on her a lot more than she expected. An hour into it, she felt her adrenalin from the situation disappear. The first time she had decided to pull over was because the emptiness she felt hit her full force and she couldn't look past the water in her eyes to see the road clearly. She felt herself drifting into a lane full of on-coming traffic and headlights blurring her vision even more before she finally gave in and the car came to a sudden stop at the side of the road, jolting her forward in her seat.
Her eyelids were practically forced shut as the back of her head hit the headrest, the tears washed her cheeks of any colour left in them.
This wasn't how this day was supposed to go; was all she could think.
You're not supposed to be alone the day after you got married; abandoned by the person you're hopelessly in love with, lost within yourself, and heading back to a place you fled from after being caught out by a cop who you thought was potentially just the newest family member, part of the team.
Her heart lurched again with another wave of ache.
After fifteen minutes silently crying, knuckles turning white from the tight grip she had on her steering wheel, Letty began driving once again.
She hated the silence. It seemed to wash her mind around inside her head, letting it wander off to places she wanted to forget in that moment. It was as though her thoughts got washed up onto the shore of a new memory every ten seconds, causing the pain in her chest to flare up with each flashback.
"Stop it!" Letty's giggle over her words sent shivers down Dom's spine as he watched his girl carefully, taking a step back from him as she flung her arms up from the ocean, sending a wave in his direction.
Letty watched with an innocent smirk as Dom wiped the droplets away from his eyes, studying his face and waiting for the inevitable mischievous grin to take form. When it didn't, she frowned like a five year old who wasn't getting their way. He took a step forward in the water, walking deeper from where it sat by his knees to where she was standing with the water hitting just below her ass. She matched his step but took hers away from him, a cautious look on her face. And then there it was, that evil grin of his. Before she could process it, he was lunging for her, his arms caging her from moving away from him any further as he lifted her by her waist with ease. A shriek escaped the Latina as Dom chuckled deeply.
"Dominic Toretto!" She snapped despite the fact he could feel her grin. Ignoring her warning tone, the Cuban moved her over his shoulder. "Dom, put me down, I swear to fucking God – "
"Down?" He questioned, silencing her. Letty's eyes widened at the realisation to his thoughts; she knew him all too well and just by his tone of voice through that one word used, she knew exactly what was coming. "Okay," he spoke with a one shouldered shrug as the brunette left his shoulder, his arms moving her around before letting her go.
"No, no – " Letty fell from his grip, catching air before the water consumed her entire body, her head dunking underneath the ocean. She was faintly aware of Dom's hearty laughter as the salty liquid filled her ears to drown the sound out slightly.
She resurfaced, her wet hair clumping together and hiding her eyes. She gasped slightly for her breath and instantly heard Dom's laughter cut off, she pushed the dark hair out of her face and fixed her boyfriend with a glare, trying her hardest to keep it convincing. Dom pulled a straight face himself, giving her a clueless expression. "You said you wanted to get down."
Letty's head moved, shaking it very slowly as she closed the distance between them. "You are so gonna get it," Letty's voice was low, seductive in a way. Dom's eyebrow rose as he watched her move closer to him. He snaked his arms around her waist, resting there as he held her body against his own, not caring for her subtle threats despite the fact he knew she'd follow through with any of them.
"Yeah?" He asked his voice just as quiet as hers. Letty felt his warm breath against her face as she peered up at him.
"Or should I say, you're not gonna get it," Letty's tone hinted at her teasing manner as she kinked her eyebrow suggestively.
"Is that a sexual innuendo, Leticia?"
If it had been anyone else calling her by her full name, Letty would have cringed and punched their arm with irritation. But there was something about the way it sounded coming from Dom's lips in his monotone voice that sent shivers down her spine, created goose bumps along her skin and gave her the urge to lock him the bedroom for a good few hours.
"You bet your ass it is," She commented in a whisper. Her fingertips trailed over his bare chest, the waves hitting against the bottom of her back. Dom's palms flattened over the skin there before he cheekily moved them down to rest peacefully on her bikini-clad ass. He considered the idea that she would most likely move away from his grasp and hit him over the head to proverher point, but she didn't. There was something in her eyes.
She kept her gaze planted firmly on his and let her hands pause over his shoulders. She let herself think about the pressure of his hands but fought the urge to move away. Usually, she would have, but in that moment she couldn't. Everything was way too perfect it made her stomach feel briefly uneasy. But that didn't matter whenever he smiled at her, which he seemed to have been doing every second since she had arrived in the Dominican and found him.
Dom dipped his head to hers, their lips a brush stroke apart, so close to a touch that their eyes had already fallen shut. "I don't believe you," their breaths mingled as one with the whisper that left his lips before his lips found hers completely.
The two only pulled away when a bigger wave crashed against their bodies sending a chill between the both of them. They had been out there for hours; so long it was hard to remember much else other than this moment they had been spending together. She had found him only a few days ago and they had barely spent a second apart. It was crazy how they had gone two years being separate and then with one look at each other, they were re-attached at the hip.
The feelings that were created when they were so close were indescribable; Letty hadn't thought such a feeling was possible. They were helplessly drawn to each other.
"You feel that? How can you be 3000 miles away from that?"
"I can't."
The sound of Dom's voice and those two words lingered on her mind, the memory as clear as day. Letty breathed in deeply, letting out the air shakily as it caught in her throat. She felt as though she wanted to squeeze her eyes tightly shut but forced herself to keep them on the road instead, using everything within her to stop her mind from wandering off into a different memory.
She had been so wrapped up in her head; Letty had almost missed the highway exit. She'd been so far into the memory of Dom that she also wasn't exactly sure where she was until she had pulled down the familiar road leading to 1327. At the realisation, her heart stopped before launching into her throat. She was sure that her hands were shaking but she didn't dare lift them from the steering wheel to investigate further into the idea. She fought the urge to press on the break and cut everything off but instead, she sped up. Feeling a need to pull her car into that same designated space in the driveway.
Letty shut off the engine and let her hands fall into her lap, clenching at each other to stop their unwanted movements. Her eyes moved from the front porch and quickly found the driveway in front of her leading to the back yard.
Her breath caught against her throat.
The headlights to Dom's car found Letty as she leant against her own. The driveway was full of cars; Leon's, Jesse's, Vince's and then Letty's right at the end. And now, Dom's joined theirs on the curb in front of the house. The tall man stepped out of the driver's side and his eyes found the brunette instantly.
"You waiting up for me?"
"No one else has actually gone to sleep," Letty noted, her head jerking towards the house that was full of light, music and people; the typical scenery at the Toretto house after a race. She folded her arms across her chest, pushing off from her car and took a slow step forward; partially towards Dom and partially towards headed into the house.
"You were worried about me," Dom insisted, a teasing grin pulling at the corners of his lips. Letty didn't seem amused, but that didn't stop him. "No need to worry, Let. It was only a few cop cars."
Dom's arm slung around Letty's shoulders but the girl shrugged it off, giving him a faint smirk. "I was getting some air, I wasn't worried. Why would I ever need to worry about Dominic Toretto?" He gave the eighteen year old a smirk of his own before she continued. "Besides, for all I knew, you could have found yourself a skank to give a getaway ride to."
And with that, Letty was walking towards the front door, hips swaying as she went, leaving Dom speechless. It wasn't the first time she had, not that he'd admit to that. There was something about Letty that had him wanting to fall to her feet on occasion. That small taste of her he had had that night they found themselves alone in the garage wasn't enough, but he knew that it wasn't easy to get more of her. They'd been running around each other for almost a year after that and each time it was a hard fight to win dominance on both parts, but it was definitely worth it by the end of the night.
He couldn't help let his gaze slip down the brunette's body from behind until she reached the steps to the porch and he snapped back to reality and followed her footsteps.
The flash of long brunette hair caught Letty's attention as a girl travelled from the garage back into the house from the back door. And before it registered with her, Letty was yanking off her seatbelt and climbing out of her car.
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