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Summary

DRABBLE COLLECTION – Which is the greater number, one or five? The five separate digits or the one hand you hold? Or maybe they're all strong in their own way. – For fivealive123

Four

One ring finger – a special place for the one special guy when the time is right.

He hadn't wanted it to be this way. He'd wanted to take time and plan and buy the perfect ring. A gold band peppered with diamonds for his Letty who would always be a diamond in the rough. Even if sparkle wasn't really her style he'd wanted to splash out on the expensive ring, a romantic setting and do the whole thing right. Hell, he'd even wanted to get down on one knee just for her.

But he couldn't now because his father was dead and he'd had a wrench in his hand and hadn't been able to control himself. He'd called for an ambulance and then run for Letty, because he knew it would only be a matter of time before the police came for him and he needed to see her first.

He didn't have a diamond ring or a perfect setting or their whole future mapped out in his head. He had a cheep silver ring he'd bought on a whim because he thought she'd like it and a few precious moments to promise her that no matter what happened or how far apart they were he would always be hers. What they had was forever.

She hadn't cried when he found her and said all he needed to, she just let him slip the silver band onto her finger and then kissed him and held him until they had come to take him away from her.

By day she kept it safe round her neck with her father's dog tags. Tokens of the two men she'd loved and lost safe and close to her heart, she wished she had something of Antonio 'Toni' Toretto's to put with them. A few days later she added the key to the Charger to her necklace. It was the best she could do and Mia didn't care she thought the car was cursed.

While Letty worked in the garage the ring hung from the chain, Dom might love her but she didn't think he'd be too happy with her if she lost a finger because she'd been too sentimental to take it off. He'd understand her reasoning and the fact that she kept it handing close to her heart would probably have pleased him.

Though picturing his reaction to being told about 'Letty, the nine fingered mechanic' brought a smile to her face. And she needed that, because there was so little left to smile about without him standing by her side.

When she wasn't working though the ring, simple silver was a Celtic design etched upon it, never left her finger. She slept with it, wore it in the bath and while she made sandwiches. Vince complained that one day it would slip off and no doubt he would be the one who would end up choking to death on it. Letty had just told him that if he carried on being such a dick he could forget about choking, as she'd quite happily strangle him.

Letty told Dom about the exchange in one of her letters in his response Dom said she'd better be careful or she'd end up banged up too. She'd decided that it would probably be best if she didn't tell him that would be a good thing as it would at least mean she'd get to see him. Of course she knew it wouldn't, and she knew why Dom didn't want her, or any of them, visiting him in Lompoc but that didn't mean she didn't long to see him. Instead she wrote back that she'd probably look really hot in an orange jump-suit and he could take it off of her with his teeth if he liked then naturally, she'd return the favour.

Dom promised that when he got out everything would be different and that he'd make it up to her. Make up for the time they were forced to spend apart and all things he hadn't been able to give to her. He'd make sure that they were never apart again, and he'd buy her any ring she wanted as long as she promised she'd always stay with him.

She'd told him that she all she needed was him and that she didn't want some stupidly expensive ring. The one he'd already given her was perfect, it was them and it was forever.

(A/N) I'm sorry for the long wait guys but I completely rewrote this chapter. My original idea for this was set just after the first film, but after going over the first three I decided that didn't work. So here it is and I hope you like it and I'll try not to make you wait as long for the next one.

Lamanth xx