Author's Note* We all know by now that I only own Clara and her crew. This is a lighter chapter then others :) Huge thanks to my Beta, A Cullen Wannabe. Who makes my papers all nice and grammer right with her changes :)

Chapter 10: Girl's Day Out

Before Letty or Clara could say anything more, the front door opened and all of the guys filed into the penthouse.

"Well, nothing is up in flames, so I am guessing that everything is ok?" Tony asked looking back and forth between Letty and Clara.

Clara sent Letty a pleading look before answering. "Yes dad, everything is fine. Now if you will excuse me, I am going to go to bed. Letty you are more than welcome to stay the night, one of the guys can give up his bed for one night," Clara said nodding at Carmelo.

Carmelo bit back the words that were on the tip of his tongue. He had crossed the line with Clara and this was her little way of getting back at him.

Letty smiled, she caught the fact that Clara wasn't asking Carmelo, she was telling him. "Thanks chica, I am not going back without you."

Clara smiled. "Goodnight y'all," she said as she walked into one of the bedrooms, closing the door behind her.

"Looks like I'm going to need a place to sleep," Letty smirked.

"We got ya covered," Tony said, laughing at the face Carmelo pulled. Served the boy right for sticking his foot in his mouth. Clara was still the boss at the moment, and he should know better than to think that Clara would do anything to put the team at risk.

"I'm going to step out on the patio, I got a phone call to make," Letty said, going out onto the patio before anyone could say anything to her.

"Your ass better be coming home and with one in tow," Dom said without preamble.

"Chill out D. We are staying the night at a hotel. I should be able to get her home tomorrow," Letty said into her phone.

Dom sighed on the other end. Brian was going to have his ass when he finds out Clara never came back home.

"How bad is it Let?"

"Pretty bad. I can't say anything Dom, I promised her," Dom went to butt in and Letty shushed him. "It isn't anything that is going to bring the team down. Not in the way you are thinking anyway. There is a lot going on underneath our new sister, you are going to have to step carefully Dom."

"I thought that was what I was doing," Dom replied getting agitated.

"No Dom, you were pushing her away. Something totally different. You are going to have to learn to voice what is going on Big Guy. I thought you would have learned that by now," Letty said rolling her eyes up at the sky. Take one step forward and two steps back.

Dom let out a puff of air. "Not all of us can move on so easily."

Letty closed her eyes shut as she tried to put a lid on her rising anger. Make that fifty-three steps back.

Dom wasn't having an easy time with everyone growing up. To him that meant they no longer needed him, which was very far from the truth. Dom was still the center of the group; he just wasn't the dad anymore.

"We have been over this Dom and I am not going to do it again. It's time Dom, it has been time. We were given a second chance and we all agreed we weren't going to pass it up. Clara is her own person and is used to being her own person. Don't expect to have her come easily under your wing. Don't expect it at all for that matter. Now I am going to bed and I will see you tomorrow," Letty said hanging up the phone without waiting for Dom's response.

Letty woke up the next morning to the shrill sound of teapot going off. It took Letty a few seconds for her muggy mind to catch up. Barefoot, Letty padded into the living room. The only person there was Clara in the same chair she was in last night.

When Clara heard Letty, she turned around. Clara's eyes were bloodshot and had bags under them; giving away the long night Clara endured.

"Rough night?" Letty ask gruffly; her voice not used to talking yet.

Clara laughed. "You could say that. I spent most of it talking to Brian."

Letty fell down on the couch. That was the last thing she expected to come out of Clara's mouth.

"You can close your mouth Let, I can see your tongue," Clara said smiling.

Calling Brian had been the last thing she expected to do, but it felt like the right choice. He was her brother and he had a right to know what was going on, or rather, the edited version of what was going on. He knew how the team came together, and that Dean had died, and why she was here. She smartly left out the more intricate details.

"Yes, I called Brian and he knows the cliff notes."

Letty closed her mouth and nodded.

"So where is everyone?" Letty asked looking around.

Clara raised her mug to her mouth and took a sip. "They are gone," she replied calmly.

Letty's mouth dropped open again. "What!?"

Clara shrugged her shoulders. "Tony and I had a long talk this morning and I would really like to stop having those," Clara said absentmindly. "Anywho, we, as a team, agreed that it was time for them to go home."

Letty snapped her mouth shut again. Clara was full of little surprises. After a night like last night, Letty figured Clara would cling to her team; not send them away.

"The whole point of me coming out here was to start anew Letty. To leave my past in my past. Tony and the rest of the guys will always be my friends, but they are no longer my team. I passed that onto Tony. It's time for me to stand alone like I planned," Clara said taking another sip of her tea.

"Ok, then what now?" Letty asked as she got comfortable on the couch.

"Well, the penthouse is paid for another 3 days, then I guess I'll find a cheap motel to stay in while I look for a house," Clara replied raising her eyes upwards as she thought it out.

"A house?" Letty asked confused. She though Clara was going to move in with the DT crew, everyone else did.

Clara laughed. "Wake up Letty. Yes, a house. To buy and live in. I have to live somewhere."

"Oh I just figured you where going to-"

"To live in the same house as Dom?" Clara asked cutting Letty off mid sentence. "I don't think so. We both need to step back and moving in with him would be the opposite of stepping back.

"Ok, I can understand that I guess," Letty said shrugging her shoulders. Clara was definitely different then what she was used to. "But, instead of crashing at nasty motels, why don't you stay with Rome and I?"

"Oh, that's okay Letty, I don't want to impose." Clara said shaking her head no.

"I'm not telling you this again, you are family! End of discussion. My home is your home," Letty said crossing her arms and eying Clara down.

Clara started laughing at the picture Letty made. It had been a long time since anyone had told Clara how to do anything. "Ok, ok, you convinced me. I will crash at your pad until I find my own."

Letty nodded and got up off the couch, heading to the kitchen. "Do you have any food in this joint, I'm starving."

Clara walked into the kitchen with Letty and started opening cabinets. "You know, I have no idea," she said laughing as she and Letty searched the kitchen for food.

After a few minuets, the girls came up with nothing.

"Ok, this is a bust. I say we grab your stuff, go get breakfast, and head to the house. No point in you staying here when everyone else is over there," Letty said as she leaned up against the counter.

"Sounds good to me," Clara said leading the way to her bedroom.

Letty eyed the luggage in the Clara's bedroom. "How in the blue hell did you fit all of that in your car!?"

"I didn't. We took three cars and fit what we could in them," Clara said packing the stuff she had been using.

Letty sighed and picked up the nearest bag. "I guess all we can do is try."

Twenty minuets later both girls were laughing their asses off as they tried to get all of Clara's stuff to fit in Letty's car.

Letty clutched her stomach as Clara's bag fell on her foot again. "Ok, unless you are riding on the hood holding on to a bag or two, I don't think this is going to fit."

Clara was hoping around grabbing her abused foot.

"Ok, now what?" She asked sitting on the ground to massage her foot. 'That bag must be the one with bricks in it', she thought.

Letty dug into her pocket and got out her cell phone and hit send. "Mia, you have been selected for a special mission. You must come alone and bring your car to the Omni Hotel. Tell no one. Your country is counting on you," Letty hung up to Mia's laughter. "Mia's car is slightly bigger so let's pray that we can fit it all."

Letty and Clara sat in the car waiting for Mia to pull up and they didn't have to wait long.

"What did you do, run one hundred and twenty all the way over here?" Clara asked amazed.

"You have no idea how much I hate that cafe," Mia replied seriously.

"Ok, leaving that one alone," Clara said laughing.

"Let's get started, I'm hungry!" Letty whined from inside the car.

After a few hits and misses, the girls finally got all of Clara's luggage in the two cars and headed off to eat.

While they ate at the small dinner, the girls told random stories.

"One time Vince put super glue on the inside of Dom's hat right before his date with a girl Vince liked. It took Dad four hours to get it off his head; Dom has kept his head bald ever since," Mia said laughing as Letty threw a piece of bacon at Clara.

"To get back at Tony, I put baby powder in his air vents. When he turned his car on, it went everywhere. You couldn't see because the cloud of powder was so thick! It took him a week to get it all off of him and his car. He never messed with me again," Clara said throwing bacon back at Letty.

"When V was in third grade, he actually forgot to put his shoes on and walked to school. They had to go through the lost and found to find him some to wear. The only pair they could find was pink sneakers," Letty chimed in with her story.

"When Dom and Vince where thirteen, we were all riding our bikes through another neighborhood that had speed bumps. These two girls walked by and V and Dom weren't paying attention and both of them went head first over their bikes when they hit the speed bump!" Mia cackled, causing the other two girls to join in with their own pearls of laughter.

"One night Brian came home late and Jesse was sleeping in my bed because the boys had locked him out. The light was off and Brian came up to the bed and slapped Jesse on the ass thinking it was me," Mia said picking hash brown out of her hair.

"Rome got me out of bed late one night because he thought a big dog had come into our yard. He was too afraid to go down and see for himself. It turned out to be the neighbor's Chihuahua." Letty said laughing so hard the other patrons turned around and looked at the girls.

The other two girls started laughing hard as well and the owner asked them to leave because they were being too loud.

As they stumbled to their cars, Mia's phone went off. "Uh oh, it's Dom. You answer it!" Mia said tossing the phone to Letty.

"Wimp," Letty said catching the phone.

"Yup," Mia said unashamed

"Yo." Letty answered, still staring Mia down.

"Do you want to tell me why one of my mechanics and my only cafe worker are both gone during the lunch rush?" Dom asked over the phone. His voice betraying his aggravation at having to shift Brian over to the cafe, making them two short in the garage.

"Nope, but hold your britches Big Guy. We are on our way back." Letty said rolling her eyes as she motioned to Clara and Mia to get in the cars.

"Yeah, I heard that one last night. Just get here," Dom said as a loud crash sounded in the background.

"I didn't do it!" The three voices shouted all at once.

"I have to go play ref with the imbeciles. Get here soon Letty. I mean it." Dom said hanging up.

Letty handed Mia back her phone through her open window. "We have been summoned by the King. You are to go to the cafe and relieve your boyfriend while Clara and I head to the garage. We will pick up Clara's stuff later."

Mia sighed; it was back to the dark, danky dungeon to be by herself all day yet again.

The ride to the garage was a somber one, neither girl saying a word. As Letty parked in the parking lot, they both sat there not wanting to go in. When Dom came into view, both girls leaned back in their seats.

"Is it just me, or do you hear the theme song from Jaws right about now?" Clara asked watching Dom walk like a man on a mission to the newly parked car.

Dom stepped up to the car, leaning down to the open window. "You," He said pointing at Letty. "I need you to go keep dumber and dumbest in line and get to work. And you," Dom said pointing to Clara."I need you to take a ride with me."