A/N: Sorry this chapter was a little slow in coming, and quite short. I went away for the weekend and have had annoying things like degree work to sort out. Again, thank you for the reviews. Chapter 8 should be up tomorrow. Enjoy!


Chapter 7

Letty was confused at all the commotion in the kitchen. If it wasn't for Maddie needing a change she would have been in there sooner.

"I'll be back in a minute. Someone needs to be changed." Letty laughed as she went towards the bathroom. A few minutes later she exited with her baby girl smiling contentedly in her arms. There was an unusual tension in the house.

John was standing with his back towards the window, staring at someone or something in the kitchen. His face, though it was not unhappy, was certainly registering some sort of grievance. Aunt Lou was sitting in the chair next to where John was standing and Mia was near to the kitchen door. She noticed Letty entering the room and made a less than obvious cough. Leon and Vince were propped up against one of the walls. With their conversation having been suddenly silenced, they looked directly at Letty.

"Hey girl, how ya living? Sorry about that but Maddie needed to be changed. I hope you didn't mind me using the bathroom. So, what's this news?" By the time she had asked, she had rounded the corner and had a clear view of the kitchen. The colour drained from her face. Standing in front of her was the answer.

"Hey Letty." Dom said in his trademark growl. Letty could not believe what she was hearing, nor what she was seeing in front of her. There was the man she had loved, had given herself to, who had disappeared without a trace for three years, leaving everyone to pick up the pieces and all he had to say was, hey. She looked at him, before turning round and leaving the house.

She could make out some noise as she hurtled out of the door, but none of it mattered. Everything began to make sense. Despite Mia being happy for her and John, she could always sense that she wanted her with Dom, as if somehow she knew that he would return one day. The sudden phone call after a few months of nothing. The fact that they had come back to this place, the place where three years ago he had left in the middle of the night without a word. But why now? And why when she knew that she was happy with John and especially with Maddie?

She had reached the end of the street by the time she realised she couldn't go any further. Not that it wasn't physically possible for that was not the case. Emotionally though, she was tired of people running and she was determined not to be one of them. Letty walked a little further down the road and came across a small grass verge. She sat down with Maddie still in her arms.

It wasn't long before she spotted Mia walking towards her.

"I'm sorry. I should have thought." Letty looked at her, and tried to snarl. It was lost though. She could see the genuine remorse in Mia's eyes.

"To say you are so clever, you don't half lack some common sense. When did you know he was back?"

"About two weeks ago. Out of nowhere he called Aunt Lou and she gave him my number. He didn't think he could come back, but I convinced him everything would be fine." Letty wanted so much to hit Mia, mainly to knock some sense into the girl but she resisted. The two girls sat looking at the road in front of them, neither one of them wishing to speak.

Mia knew that her decision had not been the wisest she had ever made, but she had to do it. In the back of her mind, Dom was supposed to be with Letty. Even if that was just as friends, Dom and Letty needed each other in their lives. They had always had a strange relationship. Mia had always known they would end up together at some point, and when they did it was like Mount Vesuvius exploding. Fiery, temperamental but in its own unique way, a thing of wonder. They wouldn't so much have blistering rows, as spend days on end scowling at each other from across the garage forecourt. Unfortunately for the inhabitants of the Toretto household, when they eventually decided to be civil to one another, everyone was made all too aware of it.

"How much does John know?" Letty finally spoke, directing a gaze towards Mia. Mia shrugged. "I have hardly told him a thing. He knows that Dom is your brother, that we dated for a while, and that he went away. He doesn't know about the crap that happened, about the fact that I nearly died, that I have basically hidden this huge chunk of my life from him."

"Then, he doesn't know that. We haven't told him anything. But I think your reaction told him more than you could have ever said. Put it this way, I think he realises now that you and Dom didn't just date for a while, that there is something deeper between you two." Maddie put her hands on top of Letty's. She smiled at her with such warmth that Mia couldn't help but smile too.

"Do you ever think what would have happened if Maddie was Dom's?"

"Mia, that is physically impossible. Mad's only six months old. I haven't seen your brother in over 3 years." Mia shook her head.

"No, I meant if you had had a baby with Dom." Letty stared at her, frowning at the suggestion.

"I can't think like that because he took that all away when he left." Letty stood up and took her daughters hand in hers, "Lets go see daddy, eh?"


Dom walked over to Letty as she put away some tools. He loved how she had to stretch to reach the top shelf, her top rising slightly displaying that amazing body of hers. It was the only time she looked pitiful, and it made him laugh that she refused to ask for help. She had just pushed them on the shelf far enough for them to stay there when he grabbed her round the waist. It had been a long day, and the guys had left early.

She turned round and smirked.

"You know I will never ask for help." He kissed the top of her head before moving his hands down to the hem of her oil stained top. Gently lifting it up over her head, he felt the heat emanate between their bodies.

"I know you won't. You're too stubborn."

His lips slowly moved above hers. Parting them with his tongue, she felt herself melt. He was the only man who had ever had the ability to reduce her to some cliché. Not that she was going to admit it any time soon. His hands began to move down her body. Not letting him get away with taking full advantage of her, she undid his boiler suit, and pulled it down past his waist, guiding her hand into his boxers. Every time they were alone together in the garage, work was somehow put on hold.

He undid the zip on her trousers and pulled them down. Before long the two were on the sofa in the corner. Her hands caressed his head as he kissed her neck. His mouth moved down her toned body, that was ever so slightly covered in a sweet layer of sweat. He gently slid inside her, and knew instantly the motion was not lost. As she felt him penetrate her deeper, her body slowly let go.

Taking her face in his hands, he just stared at her. Every other girl he had been with in the past had never come close to comparing to Letty. He regretted wasting his time with the others, but in a way it made him appreciate her so much more. His tongue was slowly manipulating hers, increasing the intensity between them. Dom pulled her closer and he let his fingers intertwine through her hair. A delicate mix of her perfume, traces of engine oil, and the faint subtlety of the coconut moisturiser, that she applied to her hands every morning, traced its way up his nose. He would never let that unmistakable scent escape him.

He stroked the hair from her face as she looked at him,

"We have to go home soon. Mia said she was going to cook chilli tonight." Letty spoke softly. Dom smiled.

"I can't wait until we have kids." Letty stared at him bewildered. 'How did he go from Mia cooking to that?', she thought to herself, "Not yet, of course, but in a few years."

"Yeah, in a few years." Letty laughed, rolling her eyes. "So how many do you intend on having?"

"Two, maybe three. Definitely at least one girl." Letty stroked his face before kissing him, "In a few years though."