Chapter 11 – Another Change in the Exchange

Dom picked up his cell and dialed his little sister the night before the exchange. He wanted to talk to her and to be honest with her. However, he didn't want to scare her or worry her especially not while she was nine months pregnant and about to start this new phase in her life. She had spent too much time carrying around his mistakes.

Mia answers his call on the first ring.

"Dom!" The light in her voice causes him to smile through his own drama.

"Hey Mia. You still pregnant?"

Mia laughs at the unexpected question. "Very much so."

"I'm going to try to see Letty one more time tomorrow." Dom decides to get straight to what Mia is waiting to hear. "I've decided that I'm not going to interfere with her deal. If she succeeds at this we all have our records wiped. You'll never have to worry about cops on your ass again. I need that for you Mia."

"Dom…"

"You're a mother. You need that."

Mia accepts the truth of his words.

"I'm going to try to convince Letty to come home with me. But I have to be honest, it's not looking likely that she'll come anywhere with me. It's over for us Mia."

Admitting the words out loud for the first time Dom felt his heart turn to ice and the warm blood in his veins chill. He truly had nothing left to live for. Not even Mia was enough. She had Brian and the baby and wouldn't be alone again.

Mia composes herself for a few seconds before her reply.

"I'm so happy she's alive Dom. I really want her here. But if she won't come we'll just get through this together when you come back."

"Mia," he exhales. "I don't think I can come home without her."

"No! Absolutely not! She couldn't live without you so she killed herself. Now you're telling me that you can't live without her. You have to come home. Your niece or nephew is waiting for you. You said we'd stay together."

"Mia, I love you."

"Dom! This is not only about you."

Dom sighs heavily. "I know Mia. I'll call you tomorrow."


Letty sits on the floor outside Ana's room with her head buried in her hands. She was worried about how things would pan out tomorrow. This wasn't going to be a peaceful surrender. The compound would be a bloodbath and the exchange would be no better.

Marla was to take Ana and leave the compound 20 minutes after she did for the exchange. She was to take her to a secure place Letty had picked out and wait to hear from her. Even knowing that there was a plan firmly in place, Letty worried about her daughter's future.

The knock on her door jars her from her thoughts. She opens the door and finds Nola standing in her doorway.

Letty walks away and Nola comes in and shuts the door behind herself.

"What's up?"

"I wanted to ask you for something." Letty says sitting down on the sofa in her sitting room.

"It better not be anything morbid Letty. I swear."

Nola joins her and sinks into the cushions.

"I want you to take care of Ana if something happens to me to tomorrow."

"Letty!" Nola pops up from the seat she had just taken. "No, I'm not agreeing to that!"

"Why?"

"Firstly, it doesn't make sense. Dierk is going be gunning for me when this goes down. Keep your head down and stay out of the line of fire. Secondly, I would completely ruin that child. Thirdly, if I say yes, it gives you permission to give up and I won't grant that. "

"I'm not giving up. I'm making sure that Ana's looked after by someone who loves her and she can depend on. I just need to know. "

Nola inhales and nods.

"You know where to pick her up right?"

"Yes! Let's stop talking about this."

"Fine. I just want tomorrow to play out and to leave everything behind and start a real life with my daughter."

"We may have a little problem."

Letty looks at Nola and tries to predict her words.

"Jamie is bringing Dom. Han was talking on his cell to his girlfriend about it."

Letty's face crumples at the thought of him there. Bursting in, fucking up the gig. Trying to force her away with him. Speaking lies of love and change to her.

"We need a plan B. When the action goes down we're gone. We don't even let the dust settle. You can contract Jamie later to finish up the details."

"Alright, when it all goes down, let's get back to Dierk's plane. I'll make sure the pilot knows to be ready for just us. No matter what else is happening, you and I make a run for it when the bullets start."

Letty nods, "We get Ana and we get the fuck out of Germany and I don't resurface. This is the last glimpse Dom will ever get of me."


The next morning, really the middle of the night, Letty gets up and dresses to go. She puts a gun in the back of her leather pants a backup if needed. She eases into Ana's room and kisses her baby softly on the forehead.

Then she leaves the suite.

Down at the main entrance there is a lot of commotion. Trucks are being loading up with the weapons and drugs. Security guards are running around and arming themselves.

Down the winding stairway comes Nola arm and arm with Dierk.

"Hey empress."

Nola laughs loudly.

"You ready Letty?" Nola's question having a multitude of layers.

"I'm always ready."

They get into their cars and head out to the exchange.


The commotion at the Headquarters for Jamie's team is no less than that at the compound. After everyone has their orders Jamie finds Han and Dom. He gives them both weapons and extra ammunition.

"Do not get in my way. Do not fuck up this deal Toretto."

"I'm here for one last chance to see Letty before she gets away. I'm not going to ruin the shit she's been working on. But you probably shouldn't get in my way when I see her again."

Jamie nods his head in understanding.

They all head out and hop on the chopper that's taking them a few miles out from the meeting place.

"Is she going to be in immediate danger?" Dom asks, checking his weapon.

"Toretto."

"Is she?"

"Yes. We have it handled."

"I don't plan to interfere. But if you don't 'have it handled', I will."

Han smiles at the possibility of getting in on the action.


Jamie's team look down on the scene of the exchange from a nearby staging area. They have swarms of agents ready to take down everyone involved as soon as they are sure the deal goes through.

As much as the weapons, Jamie's boss Peter Anders, wanted the billions of dollars from this sale. Along with every cent that can be siphoning from Faerber's other accounts. No one moved in until the money was in hand.

Dom stands quietly and observes the scene. There were waves of security to be breached to get inside that hangar. He looks over as a line of cars approaches the gathering. With Letty driving in front. He'd know a car with her in the driver's seat anywhere.

Then a plane makes its descent on the far side of the hanger.


The plane lands at one end of a double entrance airplane hangar. Faerber steps off the plane with Nola a few steps behind. Christoff gets off the plane and sets up a table in the hangar. Faerber's men are already there with the drugs and the weapons.

Dierk approaches Letty and the other drivers with the weapons. He checks them all out. Then he goes over and looks at the drugs.

"Komarov will be here in 20 minutes, I want this done and done quickly."

Nola sets up her laptop on the table and pulls up the accounts she needs. While Dierk and Christoff are distracted she takes the opportunity to log into another server and send a message.


No matter what I do next, give me a chance to come back to you. I love you.

Han looks at his phone and appears to be getting a message from himself.


Komarov's plane lands at the other end of hangar. He is escorted by his men over to Faerber.

"Yulian! So nice to see you my friend!" Faerber greets Komarov warmly with a firm handshake.

"Dierk, of course, of course!"

They make small talk for a few minutes.

"This is my wife Nola. She'll be handling the transfer."

He walks guides Komarov over to the weapons and his men open the cases.

"Very very nice! Dierk, you are a man of your word."

Komarov examines all the weapons and has one of the men with him do the same. He glances at the drugs only briefly.

"Yulian, do we have a deal?"

"Yes, yes, of course! $4 billion let's set up the transfer."

Nola goes back over to her computer and starts to pull up the information. Christoff opens his computer and opens the accounts as well.

"I'm ready with you are Mr. Komarov."

"Oh please please, call me Yulian. We are all friends here."

Nola gives him another smile. Then she shares a look with Letty. Both of them knowing Hell is about to open up and both refusing to be swallowed into its depths.

Yulian nods to his man who makes a phone call. He asks Nola for the bank and account number. She gives it to him.

After a few seconds Nola makes a series of keystrokes.

"Alright Dierk. We have the money." Nola says.

"Haha! Nice doing business with you my friend." Faerber says.

As the two men pick up a new conversation as the sounds a lot of movement starts to take place. Not long after the gunshots begin.

Nola pulls the computer closer to her and starts to type in earnest. Her fingers moving rapidly over the keyboard.

"Dierk what is this?" Komarov demands. "Are you betraying our deal?"

The Russian pulls a gun on Faerber. Before he can pull the trigger one of Jamie's men breaches the gunfight and shoots him. Before he can train on Faerber, Faerber ducks behind a car and pulls his own weapon.

Letty runs over to Nola.

"Let's fucking go!"

"In a second. If I close these out the Agency will seize all of this money. Go get in the plane. I'm coming."

Letty nervously watches the scene at play with her own weapon drawn.

"Hurry the fuck up! You're doing this all for a few more million. We have $30 million dollars."

Nola scoffs at Letty. "Not enough."

Letty sees Dom's figure enter the hangar taking out Faerber's men with accurate aim.

Faerber is finally able to start making his way over to them.

Dom looks up and locks eyes with Letty, his gaze pleading with her. Begging for forgiveness, reason, just a chance.

"Done!" Nola announces and slams the top down.

Letty peels her eyes from his and the two women make a break for the other end of the hangar as the action starts to near them.

"Nola!" Faerber calls to his wife.

When she doesn't stop, Christoff screams. "She has emptied all the accounts."

The situation is immediately clear to Faerber. He has been set up and betrayed by his own spouse.

"You bitches! You did this."

Letty and Nola hop aboard the plane as it starts to move to turn around for takeoff.

Dom runs trying to catch up to Letty. Parallel to Dom, Faerber lines up to take a shot at them in the doorway of the plane.

Dom aims his gun at Faerber and splatters his brains over the people standing near him. Dom turns back to catch sight of Letty.

Christoff enraged by the sight of Dierk's lifeless form on the ground, raises his weapon and puts three bullets in Dom's back. Before instantaneously succumbing to a similar fate as his employer by Jamie's hand.

Letty watches in horror as Dom's bullet riddled form falls to the ground. The blood that sustains his life flowing rapidly from him, forming a crimson pool around him.

Letty leaps from the moving plane and flies across the hangar to him. She flings herself through the blood to get to him.

"Dom!" She roars above all the upheaval around her. "Dom! Dom! Dom!"

When she lifts his head into her arms and sees his eyes closed peacefully and the blood flowing steadily she knows that the he's dead.

She is overtaken by the screams erupting from her mouth. She's shaking him and calling him back from death. Sobs slashing through her body. An unimaginable hopelessness and anguish filling her to the brim.

Letty wraps her arms around his neck and wails into his unmoving form.


A/N – Well, there you have it. How mad would you be if I just said 'the end' right here?