So sorry for the late post. This semester has been insane for me. Anyway, this piece takes place roughly a year or so after Fast & Furious 6. This is a conversation between Letty and Brian that I decided to post for Paul today. It's been two years without that beautiful soul and I know I still find it hard to believe. He will live on in memory and this is just a small way to make sure of that. So I hope you guys enjoy this piece. Much love.

"This is on me. I'm the one that served her up to Braga. I'm the one that gets to make it right. Let me make it right."

-Brian O'Connor to Dominic Toretto in Fast & Furious 6

[Los Angeles, California-2014]

Dom and Mia argued over the ingredients of Tony's special barbecue sauce while Letty watched on in amusement. Turning her head, she noticed Brian sitting in the backyard, a Corona in hand as he watched Jack run around.

Letty picked up her own Corona and left the bickering siblings to retreat into the peacefulness of the backyard. She took a seat beside Brian, noticing the confused look on his face at her presence.

Ever since they returned from London, Dom and Letty were inseparable. One reason being that Dom refused to let her out of his sight. And on the other hand, while Letty had no memories to go off of, she had her feelings. And damn if those feelings didn't go into overload when she was around Dom. She couldn't make sense of them, so he began to tell her.

He told her about how she made him fight tooth and nail to get her to be his girl. He told her about all the trouble they had gotten in together. How she once beat a girl's face so bad for flirting with him that she ended up getting a nose job. How she kept their family together when he was in prison. How they'd started out hijacking eighteen wheelers. How they got separated after the events in LA. How she found him in the Dominican and they hijacked gas tankers. How he had left her in the Dominican. And how she had done everything in her power bring him home.

Letty turned to her head to look at Brian. "We were close for a while, huh?"

Brian turned to look at her and chuckled. "You were the first one to trust me again."

Letty nodded, recalling the events that Dom told her happened in LA. "What was I like?" She asked quietly. "Without him?" She had been told that the reason she ended up with Shaw was because she got separated from Dom and was attempting to get him back by infiltrating a drug cartel that Shaw had been associated with, and that this whole series of events occurred because of Dom's own stupid decision.

Brian inhaled deeply as he thought about the answer. In truth, he was the only one that saw that side of Letty, because she was too strong to break in front of Mia.

"Lost." He said simply. "I mean, you were still that same fiery Latina, pissed off at the world. But this time you had a bigger reason."

Letty fixed her gaze forward, bringing her bottle to her lips.

Brian did the same. "You know, when I first saw your relationship with Dom, I didn't know how you two did it. How you put up with his bullshit, how he handled your angry ass."

Letty chuckled, having been told the numerous stories of their infamous arguments.

"But then you came to my apartment that night. How the hell you figured out where I was living, I still don't know. But I remember it was raining that night and when I opened the door, you were soaked head to toe." He turned his head slightly, looking at her out of the corner of his eye. "And I never told you, but I knew you chose that particular moment so that maybe I wouldn't notice that you were crying."

Letty's eyes fell to rest on her lap.

"And when you came in we talked for I don't know how long. And you told me about the Dominican, how you and Dom were hijacking gas tankers. You didn't have to tell me that, but you did. Because you trusted me, Letty. We hadn't spoken in years and after everything I had done, you trusted me."

"Why?" She asked quietly, wondering why she had developed a bond with this man that she couldn't understand in her current situation. And maybe she never would.

Brian shrugged his shoulders lightly. "I don't know. You always stood up for me when it came to Mia. I think you understood my feelings for her while no one else could see them because of what I'd done."

"Did you let Dom go for Mia?" She wondered.

"That was part of it. But I also respected Dom more than any officer, even myself."

Letty nodded. "Go on." She encouraged him to continue his story.

"After that, you told me he left. And I couldn't wrap my head around it. I didn't understand you, Letty, or what you were doing there. Then you brought up the Braga case. Again, I have no idea how you knew. And you asked, no you told me that you were getting into that cartel, you were going to bring down Braga for the FBI, and they were going to clear Dom's record. And you told me this like I had no other choice but to make it happen, and that's when I finally understood."

Letty's head turned towards him at the words, watching his face as he relayed the exact moment that he understood the unique bond between herself and Dom. The one that she so badly wanted to remember.

"You knew the dangers of that job. You were willing to give up your own life for a man that left you in the middle of the night without a goodbye, and if you want to get technical about it, you did." His voice held a slight hint of anger. He had never sided with Dom on his decision to leave her, in fact he thought it was incredibly stupid to leave a woman like Letty. "Letty, you are the bravest woman I have ever met in my entire life. And what you share with Dom has made you that way. I understood in that moment that it didn't matter what you two went through, as long as you did it together. Ride or die, you two always used to say. And you were not going to break that promise to him, even though he did."

Letty turned her attention to Jack, watching as he rode around in a mini car.

He had plenty of them. Seeing as Brian and Dom were still competing on whether he would choose American Muscle or Import. Letty, like Dom told her, found herself leaning more towards the American Muscle despite the fact that she had owned a Nissan all those years ago, as Brian so often reminded her.

"I feel it, you know." She said suddenly, bringing her bottle to her lips.

Brian turned towards her, his eyebrows furrowed in confusion. "Feel what?"

"What you're talking about. Between me and Dom." She looked down at the bottle in her hands, absentmindedly picking at the label. "I can't really explain it. I mean, at the moment I don't really know him, you know? But then I feel like I've always known him. Everything he does is starting to feel familiar in a way."

"Well, that's good then, right?"

Letty nodded. "I hope so. It's a start."

Brian smiled, opening his mouth to respond, but a loud roar but him off.

"Letty!" Dom roared from the kitchen, his voice laced with worry.

Brian and Letty chuckled quietly.

"I swear he thinks I'm just going to disappear." She said before turning in her chair and screaming back, "I'm outside!" As she turned back around she noticed the small smile on Brian's face. "What?"

Brian shook his head. "Sometimes I still can't believe it myself."

"Well, you better start believing, O'Connor." As she turned to watch Dom emerge from the kitchen she missed Brian's growing smile at the fact that she called him by his last name. "From what you just told me, I belong with him."

Dom walked up, still seemingly in a frenzied state as he stood beside Letty's chair. "I didn't see you come out here."

"I know. You were too busy arguing with Mia about the right spices for the barbecue sauce." She said while looking up at him with a smile.

"I always helped with the barbecue sauce." He defended, before turning his attention to Brian. "What lies are you telling my girl, O'Connor?" He joked with a sideways smile.

"Nah, bro." Brian said, taking a sip of his beer. "All truth telling out here." He glanced at Letty out of the corner of his eye, catching the smile she threw at him.

Dom noticed the small exchange between them and he smiled. Brian had bene there for Letty when he wasn't and Dom knows that Brian so badly wants Letty to remember how close they were in those few months. That he didn't just put her out there to die, that he did his best to protect her.

"You better get back in there before Mia takes the barbecue sauce into her own hands." Letty told Dom.

Dom looked down at her, seemingly reluctant to leave without her by his side. He knew she was safe with Brian, but these days he was being a little selfish and keeping her as close as he could.

Letty smiled and grasped Dom's hand in hers. "Just one minute." She assured him, averting her eyes to Brian in a quick motion as a silent explanation to Dom.

Dom nodded in understanding and dipped his head to kiss the top of hers before retreating back into the house.

"Can I ask you one more thing?" Letty questioned, shifting in her chair so that she was fully facing him.

"Of course." He said, situating himself to face her.

She met his soft eyes, analyzing them as if she could find the answer to her question without asking. "Why did you go see Braga in prison?"

Brian swallowed. "I had to find out what happened to you, Letty. It was on me and I had to know."

Letty rolled her eyes. "Why do you keep saying that?"

Brian's eyebrows shot up. "Because I sent you in there, Letty."

"No, you didn't." She stated matter-of-factly. "I sent myself in there. You said it yourself, I didn't give you a choice."

Brian considered her words as he took a sip of his beer. "But I was supposed to protect you, Letty. I failed you."

"No," Letty vigorously shook her head. "It was my mistake, Brian. I couldn't get away from Fenix. I wasn't armed. What could you have done in that moment without exposing yourself? Nearly died with me?"

Brian exhaled loudly. "Dom really told you everything, didn't he?"

"Yeah," She said, reaching out to touch his hand. "I wanted him to so that I could tell you to stop blaming yourself. You've all grieved enough for me. Hell, you snuck back into a prison in Los Angeles and nearly got yourself killed in the process of finding out what happened to me. But look, Brian." She gestured to herself. "I'm here. Stop making excuses to feel guilty." She finished and turned back around in her chair, giving him time to take in her words.

Brian was silent as he adjusted himself in his chair and fixed his eyes on Jack.

They sat in silence as Letty finished off her beer before turning back to Brian. "Brian," She said, causing him to look at her. "Thanks. For everything." She kissed his cheek so quickly that he barely had time to register that she actually did it.

And by the time he realized what just happened, she was gone. And he found himself watching her retreating back with a smile on his face. Letty never was one for the sentimental stuff, so he took pride in the fact that he got that much out of her.

"Love you too, Let." He said to himself as he lifted his bottle to his lips. "Love you too."

For Paul.