Chapter 14 – Mixed Emotions

Letty and Dominic drive over to the awaiting flight and board the plane. Letty sits squeezing Dom's phone willing Han to call back. To tell her he hadn't really seen Nola's body. To tell her to hold the flight they were coming home with them.

Home with them to his babies.

Those babies.

"Dom. Nolen's face. Nolen's face when we walk in that door and she's not with us."

She looks down at the phone in her hand. Please let Han call back. Poor Nolen.

"He loves her so much. They are practically joined at the hip."

Dom kneels down in front of her and puts his hands on both sides of her face.

Letty's eyes focus on him, bringing her thoughts with them.

"I'm so happy you're alive. I can't believe you're sitting in front of me," she gives him a pained smile. "Thinking you were dead was the single most painful thing I've ever been through in my life. I love you too much for this shit Dom."

Dom searches her face for a few moments. He wanted to say the right words for her to understand him.

"I would do whatever I had to do to keep you safe. But you're too much like me. I shouldn't have played with fire like that. You could have gotten hurt."

"I didn't." The words leave a heaviness in the air.

Dom looks into her watery eyes.

"No, you didn't," he swallows the guilt in his throat.

Dom pulls her mouth to his and kisses her passionately. She claws at his arms trying to get her hands full of him.

"I'm sorry Letty. I shouldn't have left you hanging like that. I'm so sorry."

He rakes his fingers through her hair and presses his lips to hers again.

"I'm glad you're alive Dom. I need you, I can't lose you. I need you for this. I need you to get you through this."

The tears run down her face. She doesn't try to stop them or fight them or hold them in. She had the only thing in life that made her feel safe enough to let go. Him.

"I'm here. I shouldn't have let you think I wasn't. I love you. I'm sorry Letty."

Dom pulls her into his arms and kisses her. Forcing the apology into her with his actions.

Letty starts to tear at his shirt and pull it over his head out of her way. Dom lifts his mouth to her throat and sucks at the skin there. He places warm kisses over her neck and jaw line and back to her lips.

He pulls her shirt over her head and kisses down her body, sliding off her pants and underwear as he makes his way down her body.

Letty reaches and pulls his head back to her mouth.

Dom wraps an arm around her and shoves his tongue all the way into her mouth. He uses his free hand to slide his pants and boxers from his hips.

The anticipation at having Dom with her in a way she thought she'd never again have causes her to dig into the flesh on his sides.

Dom presses his hardened penis into her and rocks into her roughly, too anxious to slow his actions. Needing to be close to her again. Needing to wipe the Hell she's endured from her body. At least for this moment.

"God Dom! Thank God you're alive."

"I'm right here baby." He promises with his words and body. "I ain't leaving you again."

He rubs his face against hers as her nails digs into his sides. He thrusts into her harder and faster. She scratches his skin leaving red welts all over his tanned flesh. Drawing blood as she gets closer to her own climax.

"I love you Letty. I love you more than anything." He swears as he releases into her never slowing his motions.

She bites into his shoulder as her orgasm, her emotion and her grief strip her of control over her body.

"Tell me about Brazil. How did you get out?"

Letty is tucked tightly in Dom's protective arms in the reclined seating of the plane. They hadn't stopped touching each other for hours. They would be home soon and everything was going to be much more real.

"Hobbs' men took care of us." He strokes her face and arms and hair. "They were on site before the authorities and helped us get back to the safe house undetected and out of the country as soon as we could."

Letty just nods into his chest. She tried to imagine how dangerous things had been for him. The decisions he had to make quickly to keep them all safe.

"When we got onto the plane something was wrong with the landing gear and we went to check it out. Tej warned us in time but…"

Letty pulls back and sits up, looking up at him. "But what!"

"He didn't get out in time. Gisele was really burned and had to stay behind in Rio. There was no way she could travel. Brian's arm is pretty messed up too. "

"Damn it Dom! Leon? How is Brian? How's Leon?"

"Brian is fine. Leon just had a few bruises. He's fine."

Letty sits up in his lap with her knees on both sides of his hips. She stares into his eyes trying to make sense of more loss and more pain. This was the worst thing they'd ever been through.

"What happened to settling down and having peace? Half our fucking family and friends are dead!"

Letty runs her fingers through her hair and exhales and looks up at the ceiling.

"She was my best friend. She kept me alive and sane for the most difficult time of my life. She was pregnant. Talli was pregnant, Tej…Tego. Everyone. How did this fucking happen? We don't even know what happened to Rico."

Dom leans forward and kisses her chin and neck. He pulls her back down onto him. He rubs her back and kisses her cheeks.

"I can't take this Dom. It's too much. How do we explain all this to our kids? Ana and Luci…"

"I don't know, Letty. We just have to do it together."

In Italy, Mia and Brian are cuddled in each other's arms on the lounge chair next to the pool in the backyard. They had been here most of the night after getting all the children to bed.

"Brian, this is so terrifying. How can we be sure this is over? How do we even know if we can go back home? I need to take the kids back home."

"We'll make sure before we make another move."

Brian lets go of Mia and sits up, turning his back to his wife. He looks down at his bandaged arm and thinks about all the latest destruction.

"Mia, I should have listened to you. I shouldn't have gone. I'm glad Reyes is dead, but I shouldn't have left you. Those men coming after you and the kids in Spain. You thinking I was dead. Letty and Nola running off to the States."

Mia wraps her arms around him from behind. She rests her cheek against his back.

"Baby stop! I can't listen to you talk like that. It rips my heart out."

"No." Brian pulls her around onto his lap. "Listen."

"No, you listen! I was so mad at you when you left! I was so mad at you when I thought you died. I had to be to make it through the pain. After feeling that and getting you back, there is no room for anger and blame. I just want to love you."

Brian looks into his wife's eyes. He brushes her hair out of them and kisses her.

"I don't know what you must have been through or how you dealt with that." He kisses her softly. "Let's go to bed. I want to get back to my life."

Brian stands up and takes her hand and walks her upstairs to their bedroom. Inside the house Brian wants to talk about something other than death and loss and danger.

"You like the house?"

Mia smiles. "I love it!" She is relieved for the change of tone.

Brian walks up behind her and rubs her arms. He kisses her on the shoulder.

"Happy Birthday!"

"My birthday is not for a couple months!"

"I'll have to think of something else to give you when it comes." Brian kisses her neck. " But there is only one thing I want to give you right now."

Mia stiffens in Brian's arms and looks over at the bed.

She's overtaken with guilt at the thought of what she did there. Who she was lying there with 24 hours ago. How could be with Brian in this bed? If she said no, what would he think? She didn't want to say no. She wanted to be with her husband.

Brian moves her hair out of the way and kisses the side of her face.

"You okay?"

Mia nods and turns in his arms. She gives him a tight hug.

"Yeah, just thinking about how I don't ever want to think I lost you again. I can't cope without you."

Mia kisses Brian passionately and he lifts her into a hug with his uninjured arm.

"Take me to bed Brian. Make love to me. You went away so you could come back to this."

Letty and Dom interlock their fingers and walk into a silent house in the early hours of the morning. They walk through the house and head to their bedroom. In the morning they'd have major fallout to deal with.

They are surprised to find Mia, awake, making coffee in the kitchen. Mia jumps when she turns to see them behind her.

She runs over and hugs Letty tightly. This felt just as good as Letty coming back from the dead.

"Oh Letty! You're okay! I was so scared. I'm so glad you're okay!"

She turns and gives her brother a hug and kisses his cheek.

She looks over his shoulder and then over at Letty.

"Where are Han and Nola? They should really be here when the kids get up. Nolen cried half the night for her."

"Oh no." Tears form in Letty's eyes at the thought of Nolen. "Is he okay?"

"He'll be fine. He just misses his mother."

Letty looks at Dom and he squeezes her hand that he had never let go of.

"Anders killed her." Letty lets out before Mia can say anything else. Letty couldn't hold it in anymore. Everyone needed to know.

Mia stands with Dom's arm still wrapped around her waist and her mouth agape. She tries to think and process what she'd just heard. It couldn't be possible.

"Letty," Mia was prepared to argue the point.

"She's dead Mia."

Mia backs away from Dom and releases her hold on him. She looks back and forth between Dom and Letty's faces and tries to find a small piece of hope.

"Dom?"

The pleading in her eyes is killing him.

"Mia, she's gone," he confirms for his sister.

"Well, where the hell is Han? Is he dead too?"

The thought overwhelms her. She would lose her mind if Han had died there too. She couldn't handle this. She steps even further away from them, trying to shield herself from their next words.

"Han couldn't deal right now. He didn't come back with us."

Mia's eyes pop in surprise.

"Couldn't deal? What the hell do you mean he couldn't deal? He has two kids upstairs who just lost their biggest sense of security! Dealing isn't fucking optional! They need him."

"Well, all they have is us."

Mia turns her back on them both and rubs her temples as her head begins to throb.

"This isn't not happening."

Letty steps forward and rubs Mia's back and Mia turns around and hugs her again. She didn't have any tears left to cry. She was drained of all emotion.

"I'm going back to bed with my husband. I'm going to wake up and fix my son pancakes and no one is going to have shot up my house and cause us to flee the country and half my family is not going to be dead."

Mia shrugs out of Letty's embrace and walks out of the kitchen still rubbing her head.

Letty turns to Dom. He goes over to her rubs her arms and pulls her close.

"I want my perfect life back Dom," Letty confesses into his chest.

He kisses the top of her head. They both knew that they life they had a mere two weeks ago was gone forever.

A/N – For the record, Rico is dead. They won't ever find his body, but he's gone. I know this was asked in the past. I was honestly unsure.

Secondly, the next chapter is the last part of this story.