Dom was working on a red Cadillac when a little boy kicked his shoe. He pulled himself out. "What?"

"Vous avez un appel téléphonique." The little boy said.

Dom looked at him. He really had to work on his French. "Um Repeato...shit..." Frustrated he ran his hand over his head. "What now?"

The boy rolled his eyes. He put his fingers to his ear. "Vous avez un appel téléphonique." He motioned.

"I got a phone call?" He repeated the action.

The boy nodded. Dom gave him a dollar and the boy ran away screaming "J'ai obtenu un dollar!"

He waded through the sea of children who all wanted a dollar to the telephone in the bar. Marques the bartender was wiping down the counter.

"It's a woman. Sounds pretty. Is she your lady?" He spoke in a thick French accent.

Dom chuckled. "Mia, I told you not to call me here."

"I debated if I should tell you at all. But, he's your son and I know how much it hurts to be away from your family."

"What's going on."

"Zan got hurt. He was hit by a car."

There was a long silence.

"Is he ok?"

"He'll be fine psychically, but Dom he's hurting. So is Letty."

"Mia, I left to protect them."

"You know what Dom, don't. You always think that you had to be this big protector that had to take care of everyone. But we had everything already. We were a family, Dom. I've spent the last eight years blaming myself for everything. I thought because I brought Brian in I cause our family to break up. But the last months since Letty got back I realized something. This family was breaking apart long before Brian showed up. It was your selfishness that was slowly poisoning us. Brian was just a scapegoat, someone to blame."

"Mia." Was all Dom could say.

"You need to fix this."

His sister hung the phone on him. Dom sat on the bar stool with his head in his hands.

"Son you look like you need a beer." Marques poured. "So what's your next move? Sit here and drink beer or fix it with the pretty lady on the phone?"

Mia shook Letty awake. She didn't stir. "Leticia." Mia whispered. That woke her up.

"What?" She stretched out.

"Whose the teenager?" Mia pointed to Doogie standing in the door frame waiving.

She smiled. "What are you doing here?"

He hesitantly walked in the room. He looked liked he got his hand caught in the cookie jar. "I wanted to make sure your son was ok." He stuck his hands in his pocket. "I mean, you trusted me enough to watch him and I let him out the door."

"Not your responsibility to take care of my son, Austin. Don't put that burden on yourself. Ok?"

He nodded. "I brought him his PSP. I figured he would want something to do."

Letty told Mia that Doogie was a kid she knew from working at Harry's and she had taken him under her wing because he reminded her so much of Jesse.

Zan took to Doogie right away. To look at them it would seem that Doogie was Zan's older brother.

"Austin told me about his Dad." Mia said handing Letty a coffee. "I was thinking we could clear out the basement. He's a good kid, he should have a place to go to feel safe."

Letty blew on her coffee and smiled. This was the Mia Toretto she knew and loved ready to take care of the world one hug at a time. "Sounds good."

Mia had pulled some strings and got Letty a cot so she could stay with Zan. She tried to get comfortable but sleep wasn't easy. She felt a buzz in her pocket it was Brian. With everything with Zan she had forgot all about her meeting with Campos. She took her call outside.

"Hey."

"Where you been? Harry said he hasn't seen you all day?"

"I'm at the hospital."

"Are you alright?"

"I wasn't there for my son, Brian. He was hit by a car and I could have lost him. And I can't be alright with that."

"Jesus Letty why didn't you call me?"

"Everything happened so fast...I met up with Braga's team."

"Wait, what? Damn it Letty you went into Braga camp with out telling me? You should have been wired, what if something happened to you. I made a promise to Leon to keep you safe. I can't protect you if you don't fill me in on the details."

She could feel the frustration in his voice. She felt like she was messing up everything, with Zan, Mia, and now Brian. She let out a long sigh. "I didn't think. But I met Braga's team."

"Where are you?"

"I'm still at the hospital with my son, they're keeping him overnight."

"Which one. I'll meet you there."

"Don't think that's a good idea. This is Mia's hospital."

Brian was quiet. He wanted to see Mia to explain everything to her. But he knew it was a bad idea. "I'm an FBI agent, Letty I'm trained in stealth."

She laughed. "Well you suck at it cause Vince figured you out from jump."

"I need to see you."

There was an odd pleading in his voice that Letty couldn't quite make out. "Echo Park Hospital."

Brian knocked on Trihn desk. "Sophie wake up. Grab your coat you're coming with me."

She picked up her head from her desk. "I was having this great dream that I was on the sunny beach with two hot men in banana hammocks fanning me with palm leaves." She looked at him. "And you were far, far, away." She buried her head back in her arms.

"Letty met up with Braga's team."

She perked up. "Really?"

Brain flashed his pearly whites.

It didn't take Brain and Sophie long to reach the hospital. Brian called Letty from the parking lot. She told him to meet her in the stairwell on the children's ward.

Brian hugged Letty when he saw her. "How's your son?"

"Good to see you too, O'Conner." She said looking at him oddly. "He gonna be in a cast for a while. But, he's good. He's more upset about not being able to surf than anything else."

"Oh, Letty this is Agent Sophie Trihn."

Letty did a head nod.

"Hello."
"Well, what the deal?"

She leaned against the wall propping her leg up. "He's got this guy named Campos running things for him. Campos got two people working for him. A real dick head named Fenix and a super model named Gisele. They find the racers and bring them to Campos."

"So what does Braga want with the racers?" Sophie asked.

Letty shrugged. "Don't know. Hauling something heavy that pays a shitload. They just had us met up." Letty put her hands in her jacket pocket. That's when she felt the pill bottle. "I forgot I had this." She handed it to Brian. "Campos gave this to me. Maybe it's got prints or something."

Sophie got out a zip lock bag from her pocket. "I'll take that. We should get it analyzed just to see if there are any prints left." The she took out a thumb pad. "I'm going to need your prints to rule yours out."

Letty looked at Brian and arched her eyebrow. "It's ok, Letty."

Reluctantly she placed her thumbs on the pad. "I'll go call this in."

Brian waited until Sophie was out of earshot before he spoke. "So how are you?"

Letty leaned against the wall again and stared up the spiraling stairs. "I don't know if I can do this anymore."

"It's ok if you want to back out. I wouldn't hold you against you if you did. You have your son to think about."

"What about Dom?"

Brian sighed. "I don't know. Maybe if we can pull some prints from the pill bottle we can make a case with the information we already have."

Her eyes started to water. "I need him to come back." She dried her eyes with her hands.

"You know the thing with Dom was always a long shot. It's not worth you putting yourself through hell."

She laughed and got real quiet. "Why'd you let Dom go?"

He looked at her. That was a question he had asked himself a thousand times since. He leaned against the wall next to her. He looked down staring at his shoes. "Because at that moment, I respected him more than I did myself." He looked up at Letty. "One thing I learned from Dom is that nothing really matters unless you have a code."

"What your code, O'Conner?"

"When I find out you'll be the first to know."

She just looked at him with her big brown eyes. Brian understood now the power that Letty had over Dom how just one look could render him under her control.

Mia pulled up to Harry's. "You should really thank Letty for saving your ass today." She said shutting the car off.

"Letty, why?"

Mia tapped the steering wheel. "Dom can be a bit overprotective. It's smothering sometimes. He was going to let Vince kick your ass."

Brian chuckled. "Unlikely."

Mia shook her head. "You shouldn't count Vince out."

"I'll remember that. But why should I thank, Letty."

"Like I said, Dom was fine with Vince kicking your ass. Even after I asked him to do something."

Brian smiled. "You asked him help me?"

She rolled her eyes. "I had to get Letty to make him. She's got this hold over him. It's weird. My brother can be like a bull in a china shop. Destroying anything and everything in his path. I have to beg Dom at times to do things for me. All she does is look at him and he snaps at attention."

"So Dom's whipped?"

"I wouldn't say whipped more like mesmerized."

"What?" Letty asked.

"You know I never thanked you."

"For what?"

"Mia said I should have thanked you for getting Dom to get Vince off my back that day. I never did."

Letty laughed. "Hindsight twenty-twenty. Maybe I should of let Vince kick your ass."

They both got quiet at the mention of Vince's name. "Have you heard from him?"

She shook her head. "No. Mia got a letter a month or so after he broke out of the hospital. Said he was in Canada." Letty laughed. "He's probably a mountain man with a blue ox and ax."

"V chopping wood. I would love to see that. In fact I would buy tickets to see that." He looked at his shoes. There was a silence between them again. "I should go."

"Alright...Hey."

Brian turned around. "I need you to take the Roadrunner back to Harry's and bring me my jeep. I came her straight from Campos." Letty tossed him her keys. It wasn't until Brian was down a few steps did he realize what Letty said. She came straight from Campos. He ran back up the stairs to ask what she meant. But that's when he saw Mia. He stood frozen to the ground as he looked at Mia. She looked exactly the same as the day that everything fell apart. Right then he wanted to tell her that he was sorry, that his feelings for her were real. Most of all he wanted her forgiveness. Then reality kicked in and he knew that she shouldn't see him so he ran back into the stairwell.

Translations

(french) Vous avez un appel téléphonique- You have a telephone call

J'ai obtenu un dollar- I got a dollar

A/N

So wow 100 reviews thanks alot guys for taking the time to read and review. I know I probably sound like a broken record but it does mean alot. Especially those of you who have stuck with me from the start. And thanks for those you just enjoy reading this. Any-who hope you enjoy this chappy and if you have the time drop a line, let me know what you think.

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