Part IV

Letty rushes through front door of her apartment and her stomach is in knots. What the fuck had she done? Slept with a cop! Idiot! Fucking idiot!

This is why she couldn't get close to anyone. Everyone was a risk she couldn't afford to take.

"Shy!"

Shiloh runs out of the back bedroom pulling her hair into a ponytail, rubbing the sleep out of her eyes. The panic in Letty's voice makes her nervous.

"What's wrong?" Shiloh asks.

"That guy works for the FBI. I need to find out everything there is to know about him."

Letty hands over the card to her friend and she's shaking inside.

"The FBI? You haven't been on a date in years and you date a fucking FBI agent!"

"I slept with him Shy. Like for the past," Letty looks at her watch, "seven hours."

"Seven hours! Damn Letty!"

The women head into the dining room and Letty sits at the desk and starts running a background check on Dom. As the information comes up Letty feels like she's going to vomit.

Dominic Toretto was a very highly decorated federal agent that had worked his way up the police force to the bureau at lightning speed. All due to his ability to hunt down serial killers.

Letty's head starts to pound as she reads. Serial killers.

He and his partner Brian O'Connor, Mia Toretto's husband, had solved eleven high profile serial cases.

"Oh my God!"

"Stay away from him!"

Letty stares at the computer. She looks at Dom's picture from an article in the 'Washington Post' from the year before.

"I only have two men left and I'm not letting him mess this up for me. This afternoon when I was with him, I was thinking about a normal life. He was probably playing me the whole time."

Shiloh jumps from the desk and goes into the drawer and hands Letty a file.

"A job came in, but I don't think you should take it," she advises. "He may have you under surveillance. Maybe you should put your trip on hold. Go after Polario another time."

Letty tosses the file into the fireplace without opening it.

"I'm not taking any jobs until I'm done with these two. Polario is headed to Vegas and I'm not letting him do what he did to Lily to anyone else. I take him out and then Barnes. No detours."

Dom is speechless at the events that have taken place. He had met the woman who was a walking talking embodiment of all his fantasies. She disappeared on him last night and ran out on him tonight.

What the hell was with her? He knew she was feeling them too. She couldn't get enough of him today. They went at it practically all day. So why had she bolted?

Dom goes over to his laptop and pulls up the information that Brian had sent him.

So the last victim had encrypted files on his computer and that was immediately suspicious. It had taken no time at all for the tech boys to crack them. He had a special meeting at the Tremont Plaza in Vegas.

He had actually had a lot of these encrypted meetings over the years.

Dom taps his chin and clicks to some other files in his computer. Something had caught his eye. This victim knew another victim. They had worked together over fifteen years ago.

Now he was getting somewhere.

Dom knocks on the door to Mia and Brian's place. All the lights are off but the light from the television in living room flickers in the window.

After a few seconds Brian opens the door and to his brother-in-law on his porch. He steps aside and lets him in.

"You packed for Vegas?" Dom asks.

A joke about how they have to travel again.

"You know it. What's up?"

"Actually, I needed to talk to my sister." Dom's tones becomes serious.

Mia comes out of the living room as if on cue. She's wearing paint splattered sweats.

"Hey big brother."

"Hey little sister. Can we talk?"

"Yeah," she says, studying the face of her brother. She doesn't like the worry she finds there.

"I'm going to check on the kids. Then I'll go get milk for the morning. We'll finish the movie when I get back."

Brian kisses Mia on the lips. Dom realizes uncomfortably that he may have interrupted something more than movie night.

"This won't take long," Dom apologizes.

"Don't worry about it. It's all good."

Once Brian is out the door, Mia and Dom go into the kitchen to talk.

"Jarvis told me you found her!" Mia says happily, grabbing him a drink from the refrigerator.

"I did. We went on a date to Jimmy's."

Mia wrinkles her nose at the thought. "She lives in a penthouse and just shelled out some serious cash on art. Maybe that wasn't the best choice."

"No, she was good with it. We went back to my place after and had the best date I've ever had for the next six hours."

Mia catches his meaning and gasps. "Six hours? Geez Dom! As much I love you, I wish you a colicky baby. Maybe it'll cramp your whoring around."

Dom laughs remembering how dead tired Brian was during those months.

"So if your date went so well, what's the problem?"

Dom leans against the counter across from her.

"She got up and flew out of there like she had wings!"

"What?"

Dom shrugs. "Don't know. Just wanted to tell someone. She's making me crazy. I mean, she seemed really interested and woke up and bolted. She wouldn't even let me make her dinner."

Mia thinks over his words. "Maybe she has a boyfriend or she's married."

"Mia!"

"Sorry!"

Mia gives her brother a hug.

"You really like her?"

Dom nods and then grins like a big kid. "I do."

"So call her or go see her. Find out why she left. Brian told me you're going to Vegas tomorrow. If she hasn't called or contacted you go see her again once you're back."

Dom squeezes her tightly and lifts her off the ground. Then he sets her back on her feet.

"I've never seen you like this. If she makes you this happy, do what it takes."

"Thanks Mia! Now I can go home and only mope a little bit."

A/N - Poor Dom! He's head over heels already.