For Karikocha

Safety First

"I'll kill him! I'll kill him!" Mia was ranting, though who he was and why he deserved to die no one knew. Dom had deposited his enraged sister with the instructions 'keep her here' and then promptly vanished.

"Right!" She snarled, having evidently found a weapon she liked and turned to the exit just as Vince grabbed her and Letty let out a strangled scream of protest.

"No!" Letty squeaked, and it really was an honest to God girly squeal. "Vince! You stop her! You stop her right now!"

Mia started to yell back even as she tried to get free of the hold Vince had on her, but Letty just screeched over the top of her, "That's my torque wrench!"

"Oh shit." Leon muttered as he watched the unfolding scene. It was one of those times when he didn't know if he should just step back and let his friends carry on or throw a bucket of cold water over them.

"This is not good." Jesse mumbled then hastily jumped backwards. Mia was flailing around like a mad things and had almost caught him a blow on the shoulder with her chosen blunt instrument. If it connected he highly doubted it would endear him to either girl.

"You tell her to put that torque wrench back!" Letty was still raging and seemed to be almost dancing on the spot in temper. "If she wants to hit someone tell her to use something that won't cost five hundred dollars to replace!"

"It wouldn't. Mia wouldn't break it." If Vince had been thinking clearly he'd of probably stopped, but he wasn't. He was dealing with two girls, one of whom was already homicidal and another who was quickly becoming so. "You'd just need to get it recalibrated is all."

"Stupid." Jesse muttered of Vince's words while Letty's screech was almost loud enough to burst ear drums.

"What!? We have a whole garage full of tools, pry bars, tire irons, I think we've even got a few hammer!" Leon wondered if Letty's head would explode if she got any redder in the face, she already looked like an over ripe tomato. "There are plenty of blunt instruments, but not my torque wrench!"

The whole exchange had taken less than thirty seconds but it had had the desired effect. Letty might be hissing like a cut snake and giving the whole world the evil eye, but Mia had started to calm down and no longer looked like she was about to go off an commit murder. Jesse had also managed to retrieve the wrench and had put it safely on a bench were it could come to no harm.

"Letty," Mia sobbed out as Vince let her go and she dived to hug her friend. "Letty I'm so sorry."

What she was sorry for Mia never made clear. It could have been that she was apologetic for wanting to commit murder, or sorry that she'd wanted to use her friend's torque wrench to do the deed. Or she might have just been sorry that her timing was off and that Letty was already turning as Mia tried to grab her in a hug. The end result was both girls in a tangle on the floor and Letty cursing so foully that Vince blanched, Leon winced and Jesse actually went pale.

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"The question is," Dom heard Jesse's voice saying as he reached the entrance to the garage."What's Dom gonna say when he finds out we broke her?"

"Broke… what?" Dom asked as he fully re-entered the garage and glared at his rag-tag family. Those were the sort of words that could dive an icy nail of fear into his heart, especially as his beloved Mazda RX-7 was currently undergoing a tune up.

He hated to think what the five of them might have done in his absence. Instinctively his eyes darted to his car, which looked fine, then back to the group only to realise that it was one person short. He raised an eyebrow in silent question and, each one of them looking slightly guilty, the quartet shuffled aside to reveal Letty. She was sitting on the sofa, one leg raised jeans rolled up to her knee and a cold compress on her right ankle.

"I can't leave you alone for ten minuets, can I?" Dom sighed, shaking his head in mock despair as he looked down at her. Letty just glowered mulishly and glared at his words while she muttered darkly about it not being her fault everyone else lacked self-control.

They never did find out who Mia had intended to kill or why.

(A/N) Sorry for the late update, but my computer's been in the shop for the past few days, but here is some fun Mia and Letty interaction to make up for the delay. Hope you like it.

Lamanth xx