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Chapter XIV - A bandit, I am

Fast and the Furious

Euphoria, Furious Six

by Valenelle

Berlin, Germany

Letty looked anxiously at Leon, wondering what he hid inside the room by his serious behaviour.

He took another deep breath and looked just as seriously at her as his tone was. "I need to warn you-,"

"Leon!"

Konrad approached them with fast steps. Leon sighed and muttered under his breath. "You got to be kidding me?" he let out frustrated in a hiss to not let their boss hear what he just had uttered.

Letty shot him a suspicious glance before she turned her attention to the boss. Surely, whatever Leon had inside the office couldn't be more important than Konrad himself.

Leon on the other hand watched Konrad approached them while praying he would turn on his heels. The grumpy man hadn't done anything but taking naps in the couch for the entire day, and now of all sudden he had chosen to walk down this hallway? That particular hallway of all the hundreds in the edifice! What was the statics of that? Like one in a million!

"Hi Kon," Letty greeted him, knowing she had to give him her observance. He had been sleeping depressed in the couch all day, so he must have gone there for a reason.

The boss watched them with narrowed eyes filled with suspicion. "And what are the two of you doing?" he demanded.

"Just checking on the detainee," Leon quickly said as if it didn't mean anything. Letty snapped out of her trance and glanced at her friend. Why did he want to show her the inmate?

Konrad reached for the doorknob and closed the door which had been open with a few inches. "He is dangerous. He killed both Jerry and George Stevens. Alexander wouldn't approve you guys hanging around here this time. Go home instead,"

Letty scowled. "We just got here,"

"I said; go home," Konrad repeated calmly yet in an order. One more tryout to convince would cause them to being dragged out of the building by guards, so they gave up. But Leon had it harder. He knew what awaited Dom in the morning and he felt how it slowly ate him up from the inside. Unless he did something soon, Toretto wouldn't see light ever again.

"You can show me whatever it was tomorrow, yeah?" Letty more stated than asked. She had actually more important things to do than checking out the prisoners anyhow.

Leon though, looked bewildered but kept his mouth shut. He didn't know if he should tell her or not. Maybe it was better if Dom never came up to her mind, so she wouldn't know he had been killed by Sandro.

"Who is she?" Letty suddenly changed his thinking into astonishment.

"Who?"

"Come one man. You've got a corny smile plastered on your face for too long already,"

Leon considered the options for a while, hesitating on telling her the cop's name. "Her name is Monica Fuentes,"

"Latina," Letty stated with a smirk. "How come I haven't met her?"

"Trust me. You'd hate her," Leon chuckled.

Shrugging, she didn't really pick up what Leon truly was saying. She sucked at reading between the lines when she needed to. Mia on the other hand, was a champion.

Gisele watched the houses they passed in town. They had searched all morning for the correct one and eventually found it to belong to an old lady called Leticia Overbeck. The visited address had been erased from their lists of potential Lettys. Only two were left now.

"Isn't it weird Dom hasn't arrived or called us?" she finally asked the question that had bothered her. "I mean, he has arrived in Germany. No doubt,"

"You're right," Brian agreed as if the thought hadn't hit him.

Mia sat worriedly in the backseat next to Gisele. "You think something has happened to him?"

Gisele turned to Mia and shrugged.

"You think so, Han?" Mia kept on, now bugging Han instead.

"It's possible," he said the words that Mia feared. She wanted them to believe everything was going to be just fine. But in fact she slowly realized how everything instead went wrong. Letty probably didn't even want them there. She had kid and maybe a man for God's sake! According to the three names they'd found, the first hadn't been her. 50% chance she was the woman living with that Alexander. Secondly; it would break her brother. Thirdly; Dom was gone! He hadn't shown any sign of existence for days now, and it was tearing her apart. Not to mention; she had a newborn infant which she carried around. Maybe she should have stayed at the house back home and simply take care of Alessandra. Being unaware of the unhappiness that surrounded the world and just relax for once.

"Well, we will find them both," she said before thinking over the sentence. "We will find all of them," she corrected herself in an attempt of convincing herself.

The sun was visible from autobahn as the Honda drove towards the suburb Elaine's kindergarten was situated. Letty had chosen one outside of town to let her spend some time in a peaceful environment, which it was.

The green trees welcomed her as the car passed nice houses piled along each other behind fences and bushes with perfect gardens. One day, she would take Elaine and move out of the country to Spain. She would settle down at the coast and let her have a great childhood, something she never really had obtained herself.

And Alexander was of course in the picture. He was different from other men, accordance by Letty. He took greatly care of her and Elaine. He was a family protective man like Dom. The only thing she slightly hesitated about him was the kids he wanted. The conversation had been brought up many times that he wanted to have his own kids one day. Not that he didn't see Elaine as his own, but he wanted a big family. Something Letty could understand because she had discussed the same with Dom. He wanted it all, while she had been hesitant. But nowadays, she had Elaine - her everything.

She reached over her hand to the toddler to tickle her when she parked the car.

After rounding it, she opened the front seat door and unbuckled the giggling Elaine while making a baby voice herself. She carried the squirming child towards the front door while kissing her all over the face. Mama's girl.

There wasn't anything she despised as much as saying goodbye to Elaine. Well aware it was only for a couple of hours during the day, but it still hurt like hell.

It took quite a while for Letty until she was done with kissing Ellie's cheek, but eventually she handed her over to a lady from the kindergarten staff that smiled broadly before closing the door after Letty.

She stomped on the accelerator and drove towards the edifice. It was only 5 am in the morning. The rumour had reached her about the torturing Diego would do today. She couldn't help but to feel pity for the poor inmate. He was surely about to be vulnerable and cry when Diego did something. A more dangerous killer than Diego wasn't living on the earth. That's why Löwenberg had hired him. If major macho mafia bosses had been crying of pain, nobody else could possibly be able to resist it. Unfortunately, she had seen it with her own eyes too many times when Jerry had wanted his future daughter-in-law as company, just like he had seen her.

Nicholas, a new employee was sitting at the entry of the edifice. He was proud of being a guard and often wore a cocky face. He had tried to flirt with Letty several times, but ever since he saw the big boss Alexander have his arm around her waist; he knew to whom she belonged to. And it was certainly not to himself.

He stood up and approached the Latina who walked in the hallway. "Ms Overbeck!" he called out.

Letty looked at him. "Letty," she corrected, hoping he wouldn't try to ask her out again. "What, Nic?" she asked while keeping her pace.

"Mr Löwenberg wants you in room 251," he informed her.

"O-kay," she sing sang and took the elevator down to the basement without further questions. Nothing was as it was supposed to be around the compound for the moment. Everything had been upside down since the incident. It was quite common with accidents and losing staff, but now it had happened to the top boss.

She crossed the hallway she had been in yesterday evening. The difference today was that it was filled with curious people who wanted to see Diego experiment new tricks on the detainee which was exactly what he was about to do very soon.

Most of them moved aside when Letty walked straight to the office. Placing themselves out of her way, they were slight frightened she'd get rid of them if they bothered her.

Yawning of tiredness, she entered the office. "You asked for me,"

Dom's empty stomach had surely screamed during a very long time for food, but now he felt the feeling of starving. It had almost been two days now and he needed food, now! Pronto!

To save as much energy as possible, he kept his eyes closed and tried to sleep. It was way better than being awake, feeling the unsuitableness in the ropes, the hunger and the fear of never seeing Mia, Elena and Alessandra ever again. Plus, he longed for to strangle Leon a bit for this. He had just disappeared years ago and left them to believe he just had moved to Europe because of a common work – not as another criminal junk like themselves.

Dom awoke once again but decided to act as if he was asleep. It was a nice calm feeling that streamed inside him. He enjoyed every single moment of what must be his last.

He had heard men's voices coming from the other side of the glass wall somewhere in the background of his hearing. He had looked up a few times and seen them leaning over paperwork while not paying any attention to him. Once, one of them had opened the door between the rooms and told him what was about to happen unless he told them which organization he worked for. The answer had always been 'There is no organization,' and they had kicked him. But he was fine! It wasn't any deathly kicks and he hadn't even gotten a bruise from them.

But then. But then. Then. It all happened and fell like a bomb over him. Over his mind. Over his energy. Over his all. Over his everything.

Among all male-voices he had heard, a female voice fluttered in a familiar way. It was too familiar. Too familiar. It was a voice he'd hear from the moon. It was a voice he only could hear in old home movies he had taped back when he still had her around. He hadn't heard that voice in years in reality, but he knew. Oh, he'd recognize it everywhere, no matter how loud music would be around him. That voice would always cling in the back of his head.

His eyelids slowly flew up as his eyes opened. In curiousity and fear, his gaze raised from staring down to the floor, to the office opposite him where all the guards planning his death were.

Instead of caring or thinking about how the scares around his wrists cut deeper when he moved in his chair to see her better, he couldn't care less.

The woman had her back turned against him, but he still felt the vibe of whom she reminded him of. And it disturbed him. She sounded like her. She looked like her. At least from behind. He just wanted her to turn around, being Letty. But she was dead. And frankly, what would she do in Germany? In the same compound as him? Even Dom in his weak state knew it wasn't her, but that voice still played in his mind. "You asked for me," - The hell it sounded like her!

But after all. His mind was obviously doing tricks with him due the lack of energy. It was probably only a hallucinating. Maybe he'd meet her again in heaven? If that existed. At least he would find out pretty soon.

The only person Dom could identify was Alexander, the man who was leaning down and left a peck on the woman's lips.

"An insider informed us about FBI. They are around the area now. It's dangerous now," Alexander said.

"We'll be fine," the woman assured.

Dom squinted. It hell sounded like her. It did. It did sound like her! But he knew it wasn't her. That Alexander-man was a lucky bastard though. He had a woman who reminded him of Letty and she even had a kid. Damn, that was closer than Dom ever had gotten and ever would.

Taking a deep breath, Dom tilted his head at the side and watched the couple. How he missed her… his Letty. Of all sudden, the thought of dying was a bit tempting. It had been his fault and now he'd get the punishment. But it was in fact a reward. Finally, he'd meet her again.

"No, Letty. We need to leave quite soon," Alexander told the woman. Dom's gaze which had fallen to the floor again rose immediately at the woman. 'Letty?' Hell no! He was just crazy and his mind just played tricks with him. It was impossible. So impossible. When she'd turn around he'd get it confirmed that it just was a woman that had a similar voice.

He began struggling in the ropes in an attempt of getting out of them. He could see Alexander looking over the woman's head and frowning at him.

"What's up with the inmate?" he heard Alexander ask in the office.

In just that second, the woman whirled around and caused Dom's world to collapse. It was her. It was her.

Her widened eyes, the hair, the face, the eyes! – the reaction.

Leticia Ortiz.

A/N: I'm sorry to leave you right here, but I'm going to Australia on Thursday and I'll be gone for a couple of weeks. I must spend my time planning and packing during these days, so therefore you will probably not hear from me until I come home. I hope you still liked the chapter though :)