I'M BACKKKKKK!

I'm so very sorry for the long delay. I've been a bit busy and suffered from a severe case of writers block but I'm back and I hope to keep it that way. I hope you guys are still with me. This will be a two part chapter just because I didn't want to make it too long but I wanted to dip into Dotty's past and felt this was a great time to do it so here we go. Hope you like it. Btw, if you haven't watched Los Bandoleros( the 20 minute short film directed by Vin Diesel) I strongly suggest doing so. I believe it is on YouTube and if not . you can follow this link.

Dom's POV

I'm lying face down in bed not quite asleep but close enough. When I feel the weight of the bed shift, and feel a small arm wrap around me, pulling me near and kissing my bare shoulder softly.

"I'm glad you came to bed." I turn over to face Letty she lays her head down on my chest and begins to draw patterns with her finger along my abdomen.

"Mmhm…Dom what if I told you I don't want to do this anymore?" she shifts her head to look up at me.

"We don't know what Shaw has planned. Letty if you want, you can go with Mia and Brian to the safe house. But I promised you guys I would keep you safe and I intend to keep that promise."

I feel her shake her head against me. "No, not just this Dom. What if I said I wanted to walk away from it all? Just live a normal life. Just us, the garage, Sunday barbeques…kids… what would you say?"

My heart skips a beat. I start to second guess myself. Maybe she hadn't just said what I think she did. Maybe I've fallen asleep and I'm dreaming. I've always been the settling down type. Even when I was a teenager and sleeping around I knew I wanted a wife and a house full of kids someday and I knew I wanted that with Letty. But Letty has always been more of a free spirit so when we talked about it before I wasn't sure she actually had given it any thought.

"Kids?"

She nods her head I try to remain calm but I'm almost positive she can feel my heart racing.

"Is that what you want?" I hold her small face in my hands looking for any hints that she isn't certain.

She's reading my face and her eyes find mine. "Yea I think I do." a tear escapes her eyes but a smile spreads across her lips.

"Leticia you don't know how long I've been waiting to hear you say that." I brush her tears away with a thumb.

"Let's do what we have to, to get these guys and after that we're out. Deal?" her voice was surprisingly upbeat I thought she would be more upset by giving this all up.

"Deal." I flip us over and kiss her deeply my hand instinctively goes to her flatten belly kneading the smooth skin.

"Easy tiger. We have a job to do." she pushes me off and next to her snuggling into my side.

"No hurt in practicing." I take her hand and play with her fingers.

"Mmhmm" she pretends to be thinking. "I guess you're right" she says taking hold of me and capturing my lips once again rolling on top of me.

Letty's POV

Last night was pretty amazing. I don't think I've been this happy since… I think the day I married Dom. Given the current circumstances I should feel frustrated and scared but I finally told the man I've loved since I was a kid that I want to start a family with him. That I want a life, a future, with him. I never expected us to get to this point after all we've gone through. Things just went so far left after we got married. I never thought this is where that night would lead.

Flashback (in the DR)

Letty's POV

Dom and I are on a blue kayak I'm laying over him staring him deep in the eyes. This is our second night together the first time we've spent time together in months and actually have found time to talk.

We had been staying down in Mexico where Dom had met this guy named Han. He seems like an okay guy. He drives well. He's useful when we need a driver. Everything was going well until Dom heard about a job from a couple of old friends, Santos and Leo. He naturally wanted to go down there to help where he could. He didn't tell me where he was going he said it was too risky. But he promised me it would only be a couple of weeks. He forgot to mention he would be training them so those couple weeks quickly became a couple of months.

I wanted to go. Be a part of the action, help out. But every time I brought it up Dom shot me down.

"I don't want you getting mixed up in this Letty. Your records clean you can go home any time. I don't want to ruin that for you." He would say. I knew he was right. I had my freedom to go home and I held on tight to that. I was especially thankful for it during the first couple weeks when my entire body was screaming out to follow him, to be with him where ever he was. So I went home back to the states and stayed with Mia for a little while caught up with a few old friends and made my way back to Mexico before anyone could start asking questions. I stayed put after that until one day the phone rang and our phone never rang. If someone needed us they knew our burner numbers. So when I answered the phone I was sure it would be Dom on the other end. But I was wrong. It wasn't him and the disappointment I felt made me want to crawl into bed and cry for days but I couldn't do that. So that night I packed a bag and eventually tracked him down in the DR.

Once arriving I heard from a few locals about a party and sure enough found Dom surrounded by beautiful women. That night he brought me back to this small house he had been staying in off the coast and we made love for hours just glad to be in each other's arms again. So today was the day I was going to get some answers.

I can feel our hearts chest to chest and as I stare into his eyes I feel our bodies completely in sync with one another, with each beat of his heart mine follows. My body molds into his and fits right into place like that's exactly where it belongs.

"You feel that? How could you be three thousand miles away from that?" I ask. Not sure how he's managed to stay away for so long.

"I can't" he replies before kissing me softly. The kiss ends naturally and I open my eyes. I start to get off of him and make my way back to shore. I make it there before Dom and am already drying off when he reaches me.

"What's wrong Let?"

"Nothing"

Ha-ha "Letty I know you. What's wrong?"

"You say you can't? Dom you did. You were. You were three thousand miles away from me. I had no idea where you were."

"I know and I'm sorry but you're here now and I don't plan on letting you go anytime soon."

"You want me to forgive you?" he thought it was going to be that simple? Unfortunately, he was right. I knew I had forgiven him the moment I saw him. It kills me that he has that much control over me.

"That would be nice. Although I kind of thought you had."

"Tell me what you training the boys for." He didn't answer my question earlier when I asked him on the car ride over.

"Ah that's what this is about. You think I'm gonna let you join. The answers no, Letty."

"Why Dom? I've done jobs in the past. What's so different about this one?"

"It's too risky. You have your freedom remember."

"Yes. Dom, I remember. How could I possibly forget when you're throwing it in my face every time we have a conversation? What good is my freedom if I don't have you Dom? What difference does it make if I could go home if you're not there? You are my home, don't you get that? To hell with my freedom Dom. It's not worth it if I have to lose you."

Okay so I'm gonna cut it off there, and I'll try to upload the next half in about a day or two. Like always leave me a review or a pm letting me know what you thought. I'm always open to suggestions. Please let me know what you'd like to read more of. And what I could improve on. Thank you.

Much love- FF8