I don't often do this but I'd like to dedicate this chapter of my two-shot to flyingorfalling! Her reviews are always so on point and I love hearing from her. You should also go and check out her stuff because she is very awesome and definitely caters to my Dotty needs!
So here is part two and the final part so please enjoy! Sorry for any mistakes and I do have a vague idea of a multi-chapter with a concept similar to this piece. I can't say for definite what I'll do with the idea but I can tell you I'm halfway trough chapter 1. Whether it gets scrapped or not is another story, but I'm just letting ya'll know that the idea is floating about my head haha. So for those who wanted me to make a multi-chapter after this then you may be in luck...Anyways enjoy! xx
You Don't Turn Your Back on Family
"You don't turn your back on family, even when they do."
It had been over a year since Leticia Ortiz died; that was what Dom had been told. It was what they all thought.
But it had been a few months since the knowledge that she was still alive had surfaced, and even worse, the knowledge that she hadn't come back to him. It had killed Dom that night he had shared a conversation with the Latina, the first conversation in all that time, the first one since the Dominican Republic, when she had explained where she had been. When she told him why she hadn't found him, or let him find her, guilt had consumed him.
"What the hell happened?" Brian's words should have shown concern when half of his team showed up again, Roman, Han, and Gisele all followed in behind Riley Hicks; an agent working with Hobbs and her face was a picture. Bloody cut opening against her eyebrow, a busted lip, something unplanned had gone down when the four of them had taken off to find information. And if the woman's injuries weren't enough to go by, Han and Roman's moody expressions and rumpled clothes helped. Brian's words should have showed concern, but the smile on his face did a marvellous job of discarding the care that may have been in his tone.
Dom watched them enter the room one by one from behind a car with a straight face, and only a hint of curiosity. And when Riley responded to Brian, and Dom heard his name, they had his full attention.
"We met Dom's girlfriend," She spoke, her voice dripping with sarcasm as she approached Hobbs. "She's lovely."
Dom had briefly taken in the markings on the woman's face. And at the mention of Letty, he was expectedly impressed. Of course it had been her, of course she'd left a mark, of course she'd put out as good as she got. And if Dom knew her at all, Riley got off worse; trained cop or not.
A smirk involuntarily appeared on the man's lips; he shook his head lightly and looked down in attempt to consume it.
"What's that?" Roman's natural centre-of-attention voice did, in fact, capture everyone's attention, including Dom's. And when the largely built man looked over to towards the owner of the voice, he realised Roman's eyes were already on him, as well as everybody else's. "Now that," He vaguely gestured towards Dom's face. "That's a look of pride; look at him." Dom let the faintest of smirks fall through, before making it vanish completely. And now everybody was grinning, everybody except Riley that is. Roman chuckled at the confirmation that he was right. "That's his girl, kicking ass."
"Shouldn't be a surprise."
Everything stopped and all eyes left the jokester to find the owner of the raspy voice. Dom stood up straight as Letty came to a stop halfway across the room towards them. They hadn't spoken since that night, he hadn't heard her voice, but he had seen her. They'd crossed paths a couple times, trying to take down Owen Shaw; the person who had somewhat taken her in. She'd been a part of their team, but it was obvious she hadn't found her place there. Dom knew her too well. Letty was independent, individual, but had always fit into the family as easy as running water. But with Owen, she was too independent, too individual. She didn't belong there.
Her gaze met them all boldly, every single one of them, except Dom. She skilfully avoided him while his eyes never left her.
"What are you doing here, Ortiz?" Luke Hobbs spoke up, catching her eye and attention. The two had never met, but they'd crossed paths during taking down Shaw as well. And Hobbs had memorised her file and heard enough from the people who did know her. Letty watched him carefully, breathing out before speaking up.
"They've got your files; they know everything," She explained.
Riley Hicks chocked out a laugh and as expected, Dom watched Letty glare at her. It wasn't hard to work out Riley's obvious distaste for the Latina; she had never known her and knew a lot less than Hobbs did. And the fact it had only been thirty or so minutes since the two females were throwing punches, it wasn't hard to see why.
"You mean they've seen through you," Riley accused, bitterly. "And now you're coming crawling back."
Letty's glare intensified immensely, if that was even possible at this point, and if looks could kill, the woman was sure to be six feet under in an instant. The familiar brunette pushed her hands into the pockets of the leather jacket she wore and shifted to lean her weight onto one of her feet, her hip very slightly out as she took a defensive stand. Dom watched her run her tongue over her bottom lip as she prepared to fight back. Something, admittedly, he looked forward to. It was always entertaining the way Letty handled herself, pride wasn't a word big enough to describe it in his eyes. But, before she got a single word out, Brian was speaking up for her, at her defence.
"No," he stated simply and all eyes were on him. "She's coming home."
Letty's eyes flashed a shade of gratitude but was shortly lived from what Dom could tell. Brian sent the familiar girl a warm smile, one that showed just how excited he was for her reappearance. They hadn't seen each other since she had gone to him for help and faked her death. Part of her felt bad for roping the ex-cop into it all, but with that one small gesture of the blonde speaking up for her, her gratitude and his smile, they were okay; they knew it just from those simple things.
Dom had chocked back words and opinions and emotions form the moment Letty had walked through the door and made her presence known, but he couldn't any longer. Not after watching the exchange between his best friend and his girl.
"Because she knows she can," He spoke up, adding onto Brian's defence. He stole a glance away from her finally; to briefly take in Riley's irritated demeanour. But as his eyes found Letty once again, disappointment hit him when he realised she still wouldn't look at him. However, he kept his face stoic. "She always can."
The girl breathed in deeply, "It's where I belong," she explained further. And for the first time, her eyes found Dom. He felt his breathing stop instantly and she felt her heart hesitate. "Whether I like it or not."
Hobbs' eyes flicked between the two old flames as everybody came to the girl's defence. That was enough for him to determine his understanding towards the relationships among them, he understood the woman a lot more simply by the way they all cared for her; she was clearly important. But he still cleared his throat, taking her in as he struggled for a read off of her personally.
"And you think that's okay?" He questioned, capturing her attention once again when she looked back at him.
Letty removed her hands from her pockets, something small enclosed in one of her hands as she tossed it onto the table nearest her, the table Han and Tej stood by and Gisele sat on. Han and Gisele familiar, she knew them as part of the family, but Tej was as new as Roman and her curiosity towards the two was high. Everyone's eyes followed the object that clattered to a halt on the table; a hard drive. And then they were watching the woman once again.
A hard drive? They all knew instantly what said hard drive was, what information it contained; everything she had on Shaw.
Her eyebrows both rose challengingly. "Yeah," she responded to Hobbs' question. "Yeah I do." She was confident; Hobbs liked her.
A smirk sprung to life over the man's face, Brian gave a grin, Han and Gisele looked as impressed as ever and Dom's look of pride had hit new levels.
"You see," Dom spoke in his baritone voice. "She's family."
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-Katie xx
