So here it is, the final chapter to this story and I really hope I don't let you guys down with it! Please let me know what you think and maybe let me know what your favourite part of the story is cause you know I love to hear from you guys!
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Every cop who stood in the room watched Letty with wary eyes as she stormed across the room, but the moment she hit a fellow officer, they were advancing on her like moths to a flame. Brian's hand flew up to his face, his palm cupping where she had landed her punch, but his other arm signalled for the rest of the men to back off.
In that moment, Letty had finally diverted her gaze from Brian to glance around as people glared her on. She set her jaw and pursed her lips. She moved her arms to fold across her chest, her head tilting slightly as her eyes found Brian once again and if looks could kill…
Brian shook his head once before taking a step towards the girl and landing his palm on her arm, gripping hold of her over her leather jacket as he guided her towards the private room he had not long ago walked out of; now it was empty.
To his surprise and many other people's, Letty didn't show any sign of protest. When he finally released her, she turned slowly on her heel to face him again as he closed the door behind them.
"Letty," he spoke quietly, almost like stating her name to show he remembered exactly who she was and exactly why she had just done what she had done.
"Leave Mia alone," she stated harshly, her hands balling into fists by her side. "You have no fucking right, man, none whatsoever to be hanging around there, alright? Back the fuck off," she warned as Brian slowly ran his hand over his jawline, the pain still very much present on his skin.
"That why you came here, huh?" he questioned, earning a raised eyebrow from the very clearly pissed off Latina. "To tell me that? You realise I could have you in cuffs right now and that there's a very slim chance you'll actually be walking out of here without em?"
Letty held her hands out in way of surrender before moving backwards, barley taking her eyes off of him, and falling back into one of the chairs that were sitting behind her. "I don't have much to lose," she muttered.
Brian's eyebrow quirked up at the girl's very unexpected words. His mind immediately went to Dom; even Brian knew that there was something between the girl and Dominic Toretto, just by simple observations. The night they had properly met, he did watch the two go upstairs together, after all. But he knew that wasn't all there was too it; not even close.
"Where's Dom?"
He instantly regretted his words when Letty fixed him with her sharpened glare once again. She shook her head slowly, briefly letting a soft laugh escape her lips but the lack of humour behind it was clear as day.
"I just mean; ain't you got whatever you guys have together left to lose?"
Those words cut off the girls' humourless laugh. She studied his face carefully but he did exactly the same in return as the silence between them went pretty much completely unnoticed by them both. Until the moment somebody else entered the room, the sound of the door opening catching Brian's attention instantly but not Letty's. She kept her gaze on the blonde only a few moments longer before her gaze slowly dragged towards the woman who was now breaking the silence they had.
The female's gaze flicked awkwardly between the two, hesitating on the words she had clearly interrupted them to say. "Um, Brian we've got something from the case," she mumbled quickly.
Letty leant forward in her seat, her gaze averting from the two as she lost interest and began strategizing how she could possibly walk out of here handcuff-free. She rested her elbows on her knees as she glanced briefly at the two and their exchange when Brian responded.
"Braga?" He reached for the paper-work in the woman's hand and Letty squinted at them quizzically, watching the girl nod in confirmation. Brian flicked through the pages quickly and nodded himself. The woman turned and left the room and Brian slowly turned to place his gaze back on Letty. Her own eyes found him as she just watched him carefully, expecting him to speak.
He shifted on his feet slightly, opening his mouth to move his jaw slightly, "You fucking hit me," he muttered in slight disbelief and a laugh escaped the Latina's lips. Brian fixed her with a quizzical glare as she shook her head slowly; he clearly didn't know her well enough at all. Anyone who did would have expected that from her if they had done what he had.
"You ruined everything; you're lucky it's all I did." Her words seemed to spark the memory in her as everything flooded into her mind, her family, losing them, losing Dom; she felt sick and the thoughts egged her on more and more. Which is why, when he opened his mouth to speak, she cut him off and continued. "Everything that went wrong all stems from you, Brian, do you realise that?" She knew for a fact her words were unreasonable because a lot of what had happened was because of the choices her team made, but she couldn't stop herself. She needed to blame someone and Dom wasn't there for her to aim her anger at this time and Brian felt like an easy target. It also helped that there were very slight aspects about the man that vaguely reminded her of her husband. "Vince got hurt and now is in the middle of nowhere, Leon's god knows where as well; I haven't heard from them in years. My brothers. Jesse…Jesse's gone, Mia's alone and here you are, trying to worm your way into her life, pretending nothing went wrong, pretending that everything's great and that my whole family isn't a complete fucking mess because of you." Her voice was raised but not quite shouting,
Brian looked at her blankly, almost as though he accepted every word she said. He knew he was partially to blame for a lot of what she had said, but he knew he couldn't blame himself for it all. He was also aware that she knew it too because there was no truth in her tone of voice, just pain that she did extremely well with hiding behind the anger that was forcing its way out. Brian couldn't help but take note of the fact she hadn't mentioned Dom, but he knew better than to ask about it.
"I was doing my job, Letty," he spoke carefully.
"Then why let him go?" She snapped in response but she didn't even really expect an answer. "Blowing up my family wasn't part of your fucking job!" Brian felt guilt every single time Letty had said the words 'my family' and it didn't seem to be showing any signs of easing up anytime soon.
By this point, Letty had moved back onto her feet but as her voice rose once again, she let out a long sigh before perching herself against the conference table in the middle of the room. She rubbed her hands over her face as she finally considered the idea that she wouldn't be able to walk out of here.
"I'm sorry."
Brian's voice and words pushed the Latina to her breaking point and she honestly felt as though she was about to explode with the fury inside her, but not one single drop of it was evident as she kept her mouth shut. The brunette sucked her bottom lip in and bit down on it, her gaze falling around on the floor by her feet.
And then it clicked; like a huge-ass light had turned itself on inside her mind.
Letty moved her head to look up and over at Brian very slowly, her lips pursed and a vaguely worrying expression on her face showing she had thought of something. Brian held her gaze warily.
"Who's Braga?"
"How long?"
Letty asked, completely engrossed in the information Brian had spilled to her. He was vague, but she knew why. She was noted as a criminal herself end even if she wasn't, he wasn't allowed to share the details anyway. But she was told enough and now she was biting at the opportunity.
"A few months, a lot longer than we should be taking on a case like this." Brian sighed as he leant back in the chair he had sat down in opposite her when their conversation took a turn. He rubbed his eyes lightly and tried desperately not to notice the expression on Letty's face, the one that showed her brain was clearly working at a hundred miles an hour with some kind of idea brewing at the surface.
"You said you lost people – "
"Agents," Brian nodded in confirmation. "This is serious stuff we've got going on here, we've had cops undercover shot down in front of us and we haven't gotten a step closer to Braga in a long-ass time. We have ideas but nobody can get close enough to do it."
"Even you?" Letty raised her eyebrow at the blonde, the bitterness clear in her voice as he fixed her with a steady look, sighing faintly.
"Not my place," he shook his head. "A lot of shit went down. I mean, I'm lucky to even be this close to a case this big – "
"So you need someone else," Letty cut his words off, not sparing a single care for them or any of his explanations. Not now that she had had an idea. He looked at her quizzically. "Someone to get close enough." She clarified and Brian's expression changed as he caught on.
He leant forward slightly in his chair, resting his forearms against the table between them. He cleared his throat, "You wanna go undercover?"
"Will it get me out of here right now handcuff-free?" He considered her words carefully.
"For now, it would, but in the long run – "
"That's my price," Letty protested sharply, her gaze firmly on him as she shook her head once. "Brian, you and I both know that if anyone's gonna get close enough to bring this asshole down, it's me…Or a Toretto but we're fresh out of those." She breathed in deeply, her eyes full of fire at her determination as it intensified. "You get me my pardon…" she hesitated, "You get Dom a pardon and I get you Braga."
His eyes were trained on her very closely as the determined her seriousness towards her idea. But after a moment of thought, he couldn't help the soft worry in the pit of his stomach. He didn't know her, not nearly as well as he should for worry to spark in her regard. But it was still there. "Letty, this guy is dangerous."
"I've been around enough dangerous guys in my life, Brian. Save me your concern," she spoke sharply even though her voice was quiet.
"Letty – "
"Do it."
Brian sucked in a sharp breath, "You'd really do anything for him, wouldn't you?" His voice was soft as he came to the subconscious conclusion that Dom was the main reason she was actually willing to do it. You didn't have to be a genius to work out how much he meant to her and even if you couldn't see the reciprocated feelings from Dom, you could tell that she was aware of them, even if the rest of the world wasn't. Whatever it was that those two had it was special, subtle to the naked eye but definitely there. Even Brian knew it.
Letty didn't even have to consider his question for a single second before confirming.
"Anything."
Sure enough, Letty's record was enough to convince anybody on Braga's case to let her try. She knew exactly what she was doing and they knew that. And of course, if she did get them Braga, it was worth letting her and Dom get off scot free.
This Braga was a bigger deal than she had thought but she was very grateful for it when she was walking out of the station freely and heading towards her car.
"Where've you been?" Mia asked as she wandered into the garage, handing over a bottle of water to Letty as she slid out from underneath Dom's charger where she was working. She took the bottle gratefully and stood up.
"Here," she responded casually as she took a sip of water, flashing a small smile.
"You went out this morning," she shook her head softly at the girls' attempt of dodging the question.
Letty shrugged softly, "Just trying to sort some things out, Mi. Trying to fix everything. Don't worry." She spoke convincingly, giving the younger Toretto a comforting smile. "I'm gonna fix things."
Before Mia could question what she meant, Letty had turned around to continue working on the car, and she tossed the bottle of water onto the front seat of the car through the window as she briefly leant against the door.
Driving in a convertible with the top down in a hot country was one of Letty's favourite things out there. Throw in the Dominican Republic, the love of her life in the driver's seat and a comfortable silence as the wind hit them gently and you've got her perfect scenario.
They had been driving a lot that day, their first day back together after Letty had found him again was a whole lot of them exploring and Dom showing her his favourite places so far. Which was where they were both headed in that moment; he had pulled her away from her food in the small diner they had found in a desperate hurry to show her some place he had found a few days back. She'd objected at first, complaining about only being halfway through finishing her fries, but with the lazy grin he had given her, she was putty in his hands and letting him drag her to his car.
"You gonna actually tell me where we're going?" Letty asked as she pushed her loose hair behind her ears, grinning over at Dom. He stayed completely silent, that lazy grin on his lips once again. She groaned in annoyance and moved her legs across his lap, he moved one of his hands from the steering wheel to rest it gently on her soft skin, his thumb rubbing circles on her ankle. "Not even a hint, huh?"
He chuckled lowly when she finally spoke again and shook his head. "It'll be worth it, trust me."
"It'll only be worth it if it's some part of the beach that we haven't actually been to yet," she muttered, glancing out of the front window of the car and catching Dom's grin widen out of the corner of her eye before she looked back over at him. "It's exactly that, isn't it?"
"You're too good," he shrugged softly. "It's completely empty, though. It's beautiful."
Letty smiled warmly over to him and he caught it out of the corner of his eye, causing him to turn his head and look at her for as long as he could before he absolutely had to look back to the road. "I'm glad you're here," Dom's baritone voice chilled Letty's warm skin, his words only helping that along as well.
"Me too," she spoke softly as she reached for the hand that was resting on her ankle. "You made it too easy to find you, though."
Dom chuckled once again at her teasing tone, "Oh yeah?"
"Yeah," she nodded sincerely. "Leon was convinced it was Mexico, but I always knew."
"Because you were the only one I told. You and Mia, that is," Dom smirked lightly, locking his fingers with hers and moving her hand to his mouth and pressing a kiss to the back of it.
"Being here now, I can finally see why you chose this place. Definitely better than Mexico, even though it was still pretty amazing," she looked over at him, a hopeless grin on her lips that she couldn't seem to shake. "The company's better, too."
"I wouldn't tell Leon that," Dom laughed, causing a giggle to erupt from the Latina too. "You know he gets jealous."
"Let him," she gave a one-shouldered shrug. "He chose not to come too," she hesitated, thinking about Leon and she felt a faint pain at the thoughts. "I miss him," she muttered, causing Dom to steal a glance at her. "But I've missed you," she took in a deep breath, showing him a wide smile before concluding. "I am glad I'm here."
Falling out of the memory should have probably pained Letty for the situation she now found herself in, but it didn't; not this time. This time, she felt more determination than she had the whole time she had been back.
She pressed the back of her hand to her forehead momentarily; her eyes scanning the garage attached to the Toretto house, her home, and grinned to herself. Her gaze finally found its way back to what she was doing but not without briefly pausing on the glint of Dom's silver chain and cross that now hung from the rear-view mirror.
