This chapter was so much fun to write. This is one of my favourite songs by In This Moment and it's called Sex Metal Barbie. I needed to find some way to incorporate this song, because I needed it to be in here, but it wouldn't be a song that Letty would usually sing. My two other faves by them, which I can't find a way to get into this story but need to recommend to you anyway, are Whore and Bloody Creature Poster Girl. Give them a listen, they're amazing.
Oh, and if you'd like to know what Letty's costume looks like, just watch the video for this song, or search 'Maria Brink Sex Metal Barbie'.
There was only five or six weeks away until they left to go on tour.
Mia was starting to sound a little more upset when it was mentioned, even though she was only going to be apart from here for about a month and then she would be joined him for several weeks. Now that Dom knew Brian, knew who she was seeing and knew the nature of their relationship, he was a lot more comforting when she mentioned she was going to miss him.
He might not be in the same place in his relationship with Letty as she was with Dom, but he knew at least part of what Mia was feeling.
He was going to miss Letty as well.
They were...Dating? He guessed?
There had been no discussion between them about what they were as a couple, what they were doing, but Dom wasn't seeing anyone else. He was pretty sure Letty wasn't seeing anyone else, given they were pretty much always together when she wasn't with her band, rehearsing and recording for the upcoming tour. Their CD had dropped last week, and it was tearing up the charts. Dom didn't think he could be any prouder if he tried, and even though Letty was trying to play it cool, he was pretty sure he heard her let out a short squeal when Dirty Pretty hit number one on the iTunes download charts.
"Are you ready, Mi?!" Dom shouted, standing in the kitchen of his sisters apartment, his arms folded over his chest, his muscles flexing in the tight, blue shirt that he was wearing.
"Coming!" She shouted in response, still locked in her bedroom. Dom pursed his lips and looked up at the clock above her oven. A little past eleven. Finally, Mia appeared, looking hot and insanely inappropriate in a tight, tiny white and red nurses outfit with incredibly high heels. Her hair was curled around her pretty, heavily made up face and she had one of those square, nurses hat propped atop her head.
"If you were five years younger, I would send you back to your room," Dom muttered.
"If you had any say right now, you would send me back to my room," Mia smirked at him. "Brian is going as a doctor."
"I don't even want to know what kind of discoveries he's going to making in the name of science tonight," Dom snapped at her as he snagged his keys from the kitchen table and headed toward the front door. Mia followed him, locking her apartment door behind them as they walked towards the elevator. She looked him up and down and grinned as she crossed her arms over her chest.
"Mr Sexy Cop, are we?" She asked with a grin. "Dressing up for anyone in particular?"
"Don't know what you're talking about, Mia Aliana Toretto," Dom replied primly as they arrived at the lower ground level, where he had his car parked.
"Oh yeah," Mia grinned. "I'm sure." For Halloween, there was a massive rave happening in downtown LA. Rumour was it, there were going to be close to a thousand people there. Photos were being leaked all week long, and the big warehouse where it was taking place had been completely decked out for the celebration. Admission was pretty cheap, and there were going to be live bands playing the full night—one of them being Fixing With Ecstasy. Letty and Brian had managed to get the two of them in for free, adding them as plus ones, and they could spend the night with their other halves once they had finished preforming. Luckily, they were the first ones to go on.
The warehouse was amazing. There was a DJ who was currently amping up the crowds of people in fancy dress. Almost the whole floor was covered in gyrating, make up covered mess. The place hadn't been over-talked—it lived up to everyone's expectations.
"This everything you wanted?" Dom asked, tilting his head and looking over at her sister, who looked a little awe-struck.
"I'm getting fucking hammered tonight," she stated and Dom let out a snort. They wound their way through the crowds to walk over to the bar that had been set up on the left side of the building. Dom covered the tab, taking a long drag from his bottle of Corona and Mia taking a sip from her margarita. They had purposefully only arrived around the time that Fixing With Ecstasy was about to go on, and they weren't disappointed.
"Are you guys ready to shake things up a bit?!" The DJ screamed into his microphone as he toned down the bumping beat just a little. Screams went up from the audience, deafening screams, that bounced off the walls of warehouse. Dom winced at the sound, but Mia was practically vibrating with excitement. "Okay, well we have an amazing band to play for you tonight! They've only been around for a short time, but I know that you've heard of them! Fixing With Ecstasy!" The screams just got louder, people stamping their feet and clapping their hands. The lights throughout the warehouse starting flashing and changing colour and then the music stopped completely and people were pitched into darkness.
When they flooded on again, Fixing With Ecstasy was on the stage, Letty heading them up with that half smirk of hers and a tilt of her hip.
Dom was pretty sure he was the loudest on there—shouting out her name and clapping, spilling his Corona and not giving a shit.
Letty's face was partially covered by a bright pink and blue hat that she was wearing, tilted forward over the mess of curls that her hair had been teased into. The hat had the words 'SEX' announced across the brim and Dom's eyes widened in surprise as he took in her outfit. It was definitely very un-Letty, which Halloween was all about. She was wearing a crazy amount of make up, her lips pink and from what he could see under the brim of her hat, her eyes were dark. She was wearing a white and pink leotard that looked as though it was only been held together at the sides by a couple of flimsy straps. She was wearing some incredibly stacked heels, pink and silver, that she looked like she would be a little unsteady on, but managed to pull off.
There was a jingling coming through the speakers all of a sudden, and then a guitar joined in—Brian, it looked like. The electric blue guitar didn't really look as though it went with the lab coat he was wearing, the stethoscope hanging around his neck, but he still played like a fucking pro.
The backup music swiftly changed, Leon and Han joining in with the music, their instruments all crashing together.
Letty licked her lips purposefully and looked out over the lips, tapping her fingers against the microphone she was holding in her hands before lifting it in front of her mouth and starting.
Excuse me, can you tell me
What you've heard about my life?
Maybe a dirty little fairy tale
A girl of the night
Everyone knew the words, even Dom knew the words. He had heard it a couple of times as part of their CD, but he was pretty sure they had never performed it live. It definitely wasn't a song that seemed like them. But something that Dom had learnt from both Brian and Letty over the past few months that while Letty wrote a large portion of the music they preformed, it wasn't all her choice.
This song sounded like one of those ones that the Cherry Tree label had required she recorded.
But he wasn't gonna lie.
His girl looked good and her vocals were ripping it up.
Baby, go ahead
I'll be your hatred and your pain
This is killing us all
I don't care if I fall
We're the dying, we are the damned
Baby, go ahead
I'll the villain you can blame
I'll be the belle of the brawl
Be the lust in us all
I'm the diva of the damned
Letty froze and dropped her voice, the husky tone coming out almost robotic as the boys backed her up with their instruments.
I heard I don't belong in this scene
Sex Metal Barbie, Homicidal Queen
"Dude, she is so hot," stated a guy who was standing in front of the Toretto's, dressed up in a Captain America outfit. His friend next to him, wearing Batman get up, nodded his agreement as they stared up at the stage. Mia glanced sideways at her brother, but he was still just staring up at the band, his fingers tapping away the beat of the song on the glass of his beer bottle.
"I would fuck her so hard she wouldn't be able to work straight," Batman kid said with a grin.
"Fuck yeah," Captain America dude nodded furiously in agreement. "I bet she's super dirty in bed." Dom's attention was definitely on the two now and he opened his mouth, shoulders and arms bulking out to make himself appear more intimidating and Mia laid a hand on his back, shaking her head.
"Just let it go," she murmured to him. Dom's eyebrows were knitted as he crossed his arms over his muscular chest.
"What these ass-wipes doing together, anyway?" He grumbled under his breath. "Marvel and DC are rivals." Mia just rolled her eyes and grinned.
Baby go ahead
I'll be the villain you can blame
I'll be the belle of the brawl
Be the lust in us all
I'm the diva of the damned
The song was drawing to an end, Letty chanting into her microphone and then echoing 'sex metal barbie, homicidal queen'.
The rest of the performance was amazing, as to be expected. After their set, the band along with Gisele and Jesse came out to dance with them. Quite a few people recognized them and tried to say things, get photos, but security made sure they were hustled to the VIP area near the front of the warehouse which was separated from the rest of the public. Letty looked even better up close, with glitter sprinkled over her face and her breasts almost bursting out of the tiny leotard, but Dom had to admit; he preferred her in jeans and a singlet.
"Do you wanna go out for a smoke?!" Letty shouted to him, her lips close to his ear so that he could hear over the screams and singing. Dom nodded, letting Mia know where they were going as Letty lead the way past a couple of guards at a side door. They let her through with a short nod and Dom was surprised when they walked into a small courtyard where there was only one other person, who was talking away rapidly on their phone. "It's employee's or performers only," she told him as she pulled a lighter and pack of cigarette's out her clutch and propped one in her mouth.
"It's good to get some fresh air," Dom admitted, flexing his shoulders and tilting his head back slightly to draw in several deep breaths. Letty ruined the moment for him by tip-toeing and letting out her breath of smoke over his face. Dom rolled his eyes over to her and she grinned and poked out her tongue. "Fresh being the operative work," he muttered sarcastically, but with a smile, as he took another long drink from his beer. "Did you want any?" He asked, holding it out to her. Letty shook her head and puffed away on her cigarette. "Are you sure?" He queried.
"I don't drink," she told him abruptly, taking the cigarette out of her mouth and letting out a breath of hazy air, tapping the ash from the cigarette onto the ground.
"Oh," Dom mouthed, feeling slightly awkward. When he had first been looking up, their had been mentioned of her 'going straight' but he hadn't really read much more into that. In fact, after reading an article which went off on a tangent about how Leon and Brian were actually gay with each other and this 'romance' of Brian's had just been fabricated to throw everyone off, he had pretty much stopped reading anything published by paparazzi. Letty finished her cigarette in silence, before dropping it to the ground and stubbing it out with the heel of her boot.
"It's nothing big, I guess," she said with a shrug. "When I was younger, I ended up in this bad place with alcohol and drugs and shit. I cleaned myself up—Brian and Han and Leon and Gisele had a lot to do with that—and I don't want to end up back there. I don't think I'm an addict, but..." she shrugged again. "But then isn't that what all addicts say?" She let out a self-deprecating laugh. "I don't want to try it out, and find myself back in that place..." she drifted off again and Dom stepped forward.
"We don't have to talk about this right now," he murmured, reaching over to pick up her hand and give it a soft, comforting squeeze.
"There isn't really anything to talk about," Letty told him, shaking her head and giving him a smile. "But that's who Luke is. He's my sponsor." Dom blinked and then let out a short laugh. "What?" She asked.
"I don't know," Dom gave her a rueful smile. "I was pretty jealous of him a while ago." Letty grinned up at him, stepping toward him to close the distance.
"Oh really?" She asked with a coy smile.
"Really," Dom nodded, feeling kind of stupid about it now.
"That's pretty cute," she told him as she reached up to press her lips to his.
So we found out who Luke was! Anyway, thank you heaps for your support and reviews, I hope you all liked it. There's still heaps of you following there in the background; come out, come out and let me know what you think! I'm nice, I promise.
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