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Chapter 3
It was nearing seven in the evening when Letty and her uncle met Mia and Leon. Letty physically looked fine. She was wearing no cast, and most of her injuries were covered by her baggy clothing. But the agony and pain that masked all of their faces spoke words beyond any injury. She knew that they were in trouble, deep trouble.
"Where's Dom?" Letty asked hoarse.
"Yes, where is Dominic?" her uncle demanded.
"He's probably well in to Mexico by now," Mia answered.
Jose threw his hands up in frustration. Letty avoided eye contact and continued to ask, "Where's Jesse?"
Mia looked down slightly before responding, "He's dead. Tran came by the house, and he-he shot him."
"And Vince?"
"He's still in the ICU," Leon answered. "Apparently, big V lapsed into a coma."
Letty ran her hands through her hair, "So what can we do? How bad is the heat?"
"We need to separate," Leon explained. "I don't think the driver ever saw me, but I'm positive he saw you, Dom and Vince. We gotta spilt up if we're going to avoid getting caught. Things like this don't just go away on their own Let."
"And what about Vince? He's still in the ICU. We can't just abandon him," Letty argued.
"What can we do Letty?" Leon defended. "I want to stay and help Vince too, but with Jesse and Tran dead, we already got enough people ready to come after us, and then put the police on top of that! Let, we can't stay in L.A. anymore, it's too dangerous."
Letty shook her head in disagreement. "I'm not leaving Vince."
"Dom would kill me if I let you stay here, Letty," Leon argued.
"Well that's too bad," Letty snapped, "because I don't see dear old Dom right now. Oh that's right; he's too busy running off in Mexico!"
"It's not like he wanted to," Leon snapped. "The police were coming for him. If he had stayed, he would have been sent back to Lompoc. Letty we're all pissed with him, but are you that mad, that you would want Dom to go back?"
"And you that scared that you would want V to go?" Letty countered. "Vince isn't Dom. He's not going to come back the same, heck even Dominic didn't come out the same!"
"Jesus Letty you know I want to!" Leon yelled. "But tell me what are we going to do? Bust him out? He's sick! He needs a doctor!"
"I've heard enough," Jose interjected. "The boy is right, Leticia. We need to get you out of Los Angeles. I suggest you come with me to San Francisco."
"And then what?" Letty snapped. "Huberto is a cop, Jose! He'll find out that you're hiding me…me..."
"Do not get any ideas," Leon growled.
"What are we going to do Leon? We can't just leave Vince here as food for the dogs!"
"Break him out," Mia suggested softly.
"Mia that takes man power, man power we don't have," Leon told her.
"Do it before he goes in," Mia continued.
"What?"
"What's your profession?" Mia asked.
"Mechanics, street racing," Leon responded.
"Hi-jacking trucks," Letty answered following Mia's train of thought.
"Well isn't the transfer bus from L.A. County to Lompoc, simply one big truck?"
"The last job. I see where this is going," Leon grinned. "We'll need Dom."
"He'd come back for this," Letty answered. "He wouldn't dare stay in Mexico. Not with me and Vince after him."
"You don't know if Vince is after him," Leon said. Letty raised an eyebrow that quickly advised Leon to shut it quick.
"I'm coming with you this time," Mia added.
"No!" Letty and Leon chorused.
"Actually, I'm thinking a yes," Mia snapped. "Someone on this job needs to have a decent set of head of their shoulders."
"So you're going to hi-jack another truck," Jose growled frustrated. "Por el amor de Dios, qué es lo que hacen valer por sí mismas en?"
"We don't have another option," Letty explained. "Jose and I will run south to the border. You and Mia go home and wait for Dom to call. When he does, give him Jose's cell and tell him to call us. We'll meet him in Mexico. When Vince is being transferred, I'll come up with Dom the night before and we'll get him and run him south."
"Sounds good to me," Leon said. "We're going to need at least two more cars. You'll need to find a car in Mexico, Letty. But I'm sure the cops will be looking for our regulars."
"So we have to get rid of the old cars, and replace them with new ones?" Mia clarified.
Although Letty frowned at the idea of someone throwing out her car, she nodded, understanding why it needed to be done.
"Go to Hector. I'm sure he can hook you up with two more cars," Letty suggested. "He owes us anyway."
"I'll do that," Leon said. "We should get going."
"Wait, we have one more issue," Letty said.
"What?"
"Jesse."
At the sound of his name the three friends went quiet. Jesse was everyone's little brother. They all loved him to death and the idea that he was gone…
"He deserves a funeral," Mia said.
"We don't have time," Leon argued softly, although the words tasted sour in his mouth.
"Just something simple then," Letty suggested.
"We'll have to do it quick," Leon said. "We'll need to disappear soon, and we're running on tight schedule. We don't know when Vince is going to wake up."
"The courts won't try Vince instantly, so we have time to bury Jesse right," Mia added. "And if we do it right then maybe you and Dom—"
"No," Letty interjected. "I want to Mia, I do, but…the minute I hit Mexico, I'm can only coming back for Vince. If we were to come back twice, we'd increase the chances of getting caught."
"We'll do it right," Leon promised.
"We should leave Letty," Jose said from behind the trio. "We have to get you out of here."
Letty nodded in agreement and Mia threw her arms over and Letty. There was always a silent agreement between the two that they were each other's best friends, even though Letty's badass reputation would never allow the words to be spoken. But in all truth, Mia was the closest thing she had to a sister. She had been with Letty through all of the pains she had growing up as a child and for the two of them to be separated felt alien and just plain wrong. Letty, along with Dominic, had been the rock in Mia's life since her father died, and to watch them both leave her, killed apart of Mia's heart.
"Be safe," Mia pleaded softly. "And tell Dom that I love him."
Letty nodded and hugged Leon next.
"Take care. I'll call you when it's time," he promised.
As she headed back with her uncle to his car, Leon called her name one more time.
"And Letty? Make sure you give Dom a good punch in the gut for me, alright?"
Letty smiled and the family departed.
Thank you for reading and please don't forget to review! Translations Below.
Much Love,
Santiva Potter
Translations: Por el amor de Dios, qué es lo que hacen valer por sí mismas en?= For the love of God, what are they getting themselves into?
