A/N- Hey everyone! I'm sorry that I have been gone so long at least it felt like I was gone for a long time but I just had some stuff to handle. I read your reviews and I seem to get one question a lot 'Are Dom and Letty gonna have another baby?' hmm, I'm thinking about it so we will have to wait and see. Also people asked if she is just gonna stay a racer and work in the shop like her dad and that question will actually be answered in this chapter. A new character will be introduced into the story soon as well. And if you want to know what Nicole's theme is, it's Neela's Drift from Tokyo Drift because it is just so peaceful. You have to listen to it if you haven't heard it in a while. But here is the last chapter of her being 15, lets get into this!

Chapter 36

Nicole sat by the piano in Mario's bar. He was an old family friend that let her come there and work when she wasn't to busy and he ran a karaoke bar at night.

"Hey, did you try that hook again?" Mario questioned as he was cleaning glasses behind the bar with a couple of other employees.

"Tried but failed." Nicole shook her head. "I should be home helping but I knew you would be open in the morning so I came anyway."

"You think to much with it." Mario called out to her. "You got the lyrics and the beat you just gotta figure out how to place what where."

Nicole nodded. "Yeah, I think you're right."

"Want to replay that song?" He asked, she nodded turning back around to the piano. Mario pressed a button by the sound stage.

A song started playing, Nicole added the piano verse to it.

"I can't sleep tonight. Wide awake and so confused. Everything's in line, but I am bruised. I need a voice to echo, I need a light to take me home. I kinda need a hero, is it you? I never see the forest for the trees. I could really use your melody. Baby I'm a little blind, I think it's time for you to find me..." The beat switched up into a piano solo a bit. "Can you be my nightingale? Sing to me, I know you're there. You could be my sanity, bring me peace, sing me to sleep. Say you'll be my nightingale."

She made up the song from her nickname that she had got from dealing with Shaw, 'Nightingale'. It was actually a good nickname even though she didn't want it used, she thought it would be okay to use in a song. Her therapist had told her that if she couldn't get her emotions out to try a hobby or something that helped her. Mario had heard her singing at one point and thought she was good so he let her open karaoke night when she wasn't busy or anything. Nobody had heard her sing in the family since she was a little girl but now that she grew, so did her voice.

"Somebody speak to me, cause I'm feeling like hell. Need you to answer me, I'm overwhelmed. I need a voice to echo. I need a light to take me home. I need a star to follow, I don't know. I never see the forest for the trees. I could really use your melody. Baby I'm a little blind...I think it's time for you to find me."

"Can you be my nightingale? Sing to me, I know you're there. You could be my sanity. Bring me peace, sing me to sleep. Say you'll be my nightingale, I don't know what I'd do without you. Your words are like a whisper come through. As long as you are with me here tonight, I'm good. Can you be my nightingale? Still so close I know you're there. Oh, nightingale. You sing to me, I know you're there. Cause baby you're my sanity. You bring me peace, sing me to sleep. Say you'll be my nightingale..."

Nicole stopped playing as the song ended, a lot of the workers in there had clapped cheering for her. She smiled as Mario walked over and high fived her.

"See, that's what I'm talking about." Mario said excited. "Just went with the flow and that high note you did at the end for the third verse was awesome. You got a voice Nick, you gotta use it seriously. Are you gonna go to school for it?"

"Me and Gia were thinking of this Arts school in New York. You know that way I could do singing and dancing and figure out which one I really wanna do, I might wanna do both." Nicole shrugged.

"Can't say I don't think you can." Mario says. "Do your parents know you can sing like this?"

"Nah." Nicole shook her head. "I just started using this as an escape."

"Well it paid off big time, unlocked your own hidden talent." He patted her back. "But where did the word Nightingale come from?"

Nicole looked down, she shrugged. "Just thought it would be a cool name to use."

"It fits, so you gonna name the song Nightingale or something?" He asked, she nodded. "Nice name for it."

"I think so to, but I gotta get back." Nicole closed her brown notebook that was filled with nothing but songs, she put it in her bookbag. "I'll see you guys next week Mario." She got up and headed to the door, she waved goodbye at everyone before leaving.

Later 'At home'

Nicole was laying upside down on the couch watching TV, she could hear Mia and her mother moving around in the kitchen. They had been like that since yesterday afternoon since it was Thanksgiving today, they had been cooking for two days. She wasn't really all that happy but didn't wanna show it, she knew how they would react and didn't wanna ruin anybody's holiday. The only thing she was really happy about was seeing Tej, Roman, and Han again considering it has been a couple months since they all seen them.

The front door opened, Dom walked in talking with Brian. "Nicole, where's your mother?" He questioned, she simply pointed the remote towards the kitchen. "All the blood is gonna rush to your head like that kid." Dom says walking to the kitchen.

"Eh, I'll be cool." Nicole waved it off.

"What are you watching anyway?" Brian walked through with bags in hand.

"Some movie called 'The Chronicles of Riddick'. I watched the first one, now I kinda like it." Nicole shrugs. "Doesn't that guy Riddick look like my dad?"

Brian bent down. "Huh? He kinda does actually." He leaned up and headed in the kitchen. "Dom were you in a movie and we just didn't know about it."

Nicole laughed, she continued watching the movie for a little while longer. Letty walked out the kitchen, her hair was pinned up as she had on a pair of jeans and top that showed a bit of her stomach. She took the remote out of Nicole's hand and turned off the TV.

"Not cool." Nicole sat up but felt light headed from being upside down so long.

"I was back there calling your for a minute. That's not cool." Letty slightly tapped the top her head with the remote. Nicole playfully glared at her mom who was smiling. "Did you clean the bathroom for me?"

"Yes." Nicole groaned. "And yes I swept before you go there."

"I surely was going there." Letty said. "Now can you please go set up outside for me?"

"I guess so." Nicole got up with a sigh.

Letty watched her with a sad look. "You can at least smile like your happy." Nicole looked back flashing a smile, Letty followed after her. "I said happy Nicole, not crazy."

Nicole grabbed what she needed before heading to the door. "When I'm done can I go back and-"

"No." Letty cut her off.

"She didn't even know what I was gonna say." Nicole said.

"Fine." Letty turned around. "What were you going to say?"

"Can I go back and watch my movie after this?" Nicole asked.

Letty smiled. "No." Nicole groaned, she mumbled something backing out of the door. "What was that?"

"I said I love this house!" She called out.

Dom walked in from the back. "Who got the couch potato off her throne?"

Mia chuckled. "Her mother."

"I'm trying to just keep her occupied. We all know what she is thinking about when she is just sitting somewhere being quiet." Letty says, they all agreed. "I don't just want her sitting around and moping all day."

"Nicole is gonna mope regardless, she's your daughter." Dom says walking behind her, he chuckled when Letty had whacked him in the back with the dish towel. "I'm keeping an eye on her though so don't worry about it."

Nicole walked around outside in the back the backyard when she was done, she had went inside the garage where the Charger was parked. She looked around, it had been a while since she actually been back in and looked around the spot. Nicole let her fingers brush across the hood of the car, she sat down in front of it with a sigh as she leaned back and looked ahead.

She knew what her mother was doing and she appreciated it but she didn't really need to be doing anything. If it was up to her, she would go upstairs and just go back to sleep but she already knew that wasn't gonna happen. Nicole was happy that they had got more people in the family but she did miss the old family just as much. She looked to the side when something on the wall caught her eye, getting up, she walked over and pulled down an old picture.

It was one with her dad, Mia and their father in the backyard but with some other people that she didn't remember seeing before.

"You alright?" Dom's voice came from the doorway.

Nicole nodded, her confused looked remained on the picture. "Let me guess, you're out here to check on me?"

"Actually I was already in here before you." Dom walked inside with his beer in hand.

"Dad, who are these people?" Nicole asked.

Dom sat his beer down, he walked over and looked at the picture closely. "Some of the family that visited from Cuba, the rest is friends of your granddads."

"We have family in Cuba?" She looked at him with a raised brow. "I'm half Cuban to?"

"Nicky, you are half a lot of things. Your mother is mixed with a lot to, yah know?" He said, she chuckled looking back down at it. "They haven't been up here in a while though."

"Think we could ever go visit them one day?" Nicole asked.

Dom nodded. "There is a chance. They do know who you are, you may not remember them because you were only five months old."

"Then I definitely need to see them again." Nicole shakes her head, she put the picture back on the wall. "Your not gonna like me asking this but, where is my grave?"

His body stiffened. "What do you wanna know something like that for Nicky?"

"I was just curious." Nicole shrugged.

"At the local cemetery, same place your mother's grave is. Neither one of them should be there but I been too tied up to do anything about it." Dom says.

"I understand." Nicole nodded. "It was just a random question." Hearing the sound of car engines made them look out the garage door. Three cars had pulled up as each of them were different colors, Han had got out of one followed by Roman and Tej getting out of the other two. "Han!" Nicole ran out the garage and quickly jumped on him.

Han chuckled. "Wow you got big again."

"I'm gonna take that as a comment but don't say that when I hit 18 or anything." Nicole says, he let her down. "How is Tokyo?"

"Pretty cool, same old thing down there. I'm gonna be here for three days so I can teach you some more about drifting." Han said.

"Yes." Nicole jumped. "I been waiting for a drift lesson from you."

Roman and Tej walked over arguing with each other, making them look back. "Were they arguing like this the whole time?"

"From the airport, to their cars." Han nodded, he saw Dom and sent him a nod before giving him a bro hug. "Hey, Dom."

"And there she is." Tej said as Nicole walked over giving him a hug. "I told you she would hug me first."

"That's because she saved the best uncle for last, you know?" Roman laughed, Tej rolled his eyes as Nicole giggled before hugging Roman to. "Hair gotten longer and everything. Splitting image of Letty just shorter with lighter hair and smaller." Letty had walked over from coming down the steps. "And you know you're not as evil as your mother."

"Really?" Letty raised a brow.

Roman jumped making Tej and Nicole laugh at his reaction. "I knew you was coming behind me that is why I was talking about you like that, hey Letty." He gave her a hug.

Letty playfully rolled her eyes but hugged him back. "We missed you too Roman."

"Speak for yourself." Brian said walking over.

"Don't play like that Brian and then when I leave you start crying and everything." Roman said pulling away from Letty.

"The only person that cries is you." Brian pointed before pulling him in a bro hug, he went over and hugged Tej. "How was the flight here?"

"Great if I wasn't sitting next to three people." Tej said.

"I thought you were sitting with Roman, who's the third person?" Nicole raised a brow.

"I was, him and his forehead." Tej says making them laugh, Roman sucked his teeth. "That's a lot of people for one row you know."

Nicole shook her head at them, seeing a familiar car pull up made her smile. "Gia is here!" She ran off down the driveway.

"Who's Gia?" Roman questioned.

"Nicole's best friend." Brian answered. "Her and her cousin Tyler are like family so we let them join in this year."

"The more people means the less chances of me saying grace." Roman scoffed.

"I wouldn't say that Roman." Dom walked over. "Kind of liked it when you blessed the table last time. Might make it a normal thing."

"That's great." Roman chuckled, he looked away shaking his head. "Damn."

Brian and Dom shook their heads amused at him.

Later

Nicole and Gia had went upstairs since Mia had asked her to check on Jack. They were in her room as she was changing up her outfit for later.

"Your Uncles are pretty funny." Gia chuckled, she was holding Jack who was now wide awake as she sat on Nicole's bed.

Nicole shook her head. "Tej and Roman argue like that all the time, we got so use to it that we talk over their arguing. Tyler and Han seems to be getting along pretty good though considering they both love drifting." She shook her hair out it's pony tail. A picture had fell off her desk, her brows furrowed as she looked down at it since it fell face up.

"Well at least he is having fun, thanks for inviting us to." Gia looked over at her, she raised a brow when she saw Nicole looking like her mind was somewhere else. "Nicole? Nicky? Nicole!"

"Huh?" Nicole snapped out of it, she picked the picture up.

"You okay?" Gia looked at her concerned.

"Yeah..." Nicole kept looking at the old family photo. "I'm alright."

Gia gave her a unsure look. "You want me to call your dad or mom up here?"

"No." Nicole quickly said. "Actually you just take Jack downstairs to Mia. I'll be down in a minute."

"You sure?"

Nicole shot her a fake smile. "I'm sure, go ahead."

"Okay." Gia took Jack with her as she left out. "Yell if you need something."

"I will." Nicole nodded, she waited until her door closed to sit on the bed with a sigh. She put the picture on the stand before she finished getting dressed.

She wore a short, black, strapless, sundress with a pair of flats. Her hair was curled, she braided one strand and tucked it behind her ear with the rest of the hair on that side.

After she finished, she went downstairs and walked out the front door and made sure everybody was busy before she left out. She didn't have a car yet and since it wasn't that far she decided to walk to where she was going, she wouldn't really be peaceful until she did this.

Nicole walked a while until she came to the cemetery, she walked through the gates and headed up the curvy long paths. She continued back a little further to where the water was and a couple of more graves, she came to sit in front of the middle of two. The graves were her Uncle Jesse's and Vince, Nicole looked down at them and pulled her knees to her chest as she just stared at them.

"I really miss you guys." Her voice cracked a bit.

'Back, at the house'

Letty was in the room her and Dom shared as she had just finished showering, everything was almost done so Mia told her she could handle it from there. She was dressed and drying her hair with a towel.

Dom walked in the room. "Letty, you seen Nicole?" He got a raised brow from her in confusion. "Relax, she is probably outside or something."

She nodded, Letty looked down when something came to mind. "Dom."

He stopped before he could fully walk out the door. "Yeah?"

Letty opened her mouth to say something but what she wanted to say didn't want to come out, she shook her head. "Nevermind, it's nothing."

Dom walked back in. "That's the third time you did that today. What's going on with you?"

"Nothing." Letty shook her head.

"You're a real bad liar." Dom put a hand on her hip, her eyes flickered up. "Whenever you have to tell me something, just say it."

Letty thought about it. "I can't, not right now."

He put his hands on both side of her head, he leaned forward and kissed her forehead before pulling away. "Well whenever you do." Dom looked down at her and brushed his finger over her cheek. "You know were to come find me."

"I know." Letty nodded.

Dom gave her one last look before letting his hands drop, he turned around and walked out of the room. Letty leaned back against the wall with a sigh before sliding down, she rested her head in between her legs. She just didn't really know how much of hurting him or herself could she really take anymore.

He walked downstairs and saw Mia in the kitchen with Jack. "Mia, you seen Nicky?"

Mia looked up confused. "Gia told me she was in her room before she gave me Jack, she isn't up there?"

"No, where is Gia?" Dom questioned, Mia simply pointed out back. He walked outside where the family was talking and sitting around, he spotted Gia talking to Tej and Brian. "Gia."

Gia turned from her name being called. "Yeah?"

"You seen Nicole?" He asked.

"She isn't in the house?" Gia raised a brow.

Brian made a confused face. "You can't find her or something Dom?"

"Not since earlier, no." He shook his head. "I looked all through the house."

"Well she's not out here." Tej said.

Gia looked down. "Well she was acting a little weird when she had saw an old family photo of all of you that she keeps in her room. She just quiet and told me to come on down here and give Mia to Jack, that was the last I seen of her."

Dom thought about it before a second, he mentally slapped himself for not thinking of that place as soon as he couldn't find her. "Thanks Gia, tell Letty I'll be right back and not to worry for me Brian."

"Do you need some help?" Tej asked.

He shook his head. "I got it." Dom grabbed his keys, when he didn't drive the Charger he drove his other car that he usually kept around. He got inside and pulled off, he drove fast down the street with a sigh as he put his Toretto vest in the seat next to him. "I know where you are." Dom mumbled to himself. "I know."

Dom drove to the cemetery, he took the car up the path but parked it when he saw her. Turning the car off, he got out and went over to her but stopped a little ways when he heard her talking to Jesse and Vince graves.

"I really wish sometimes that one of you would walk through the door and it was all just a bad dream. Especially you Uncle Jesse, I got a new game system but nobody to really play it with now that you left. Brian and my mom try to play but they kinda suck at it." Nicole said, Dom bit back a chuckle as he smiled and watched. "I try to get on Brian's nerves as much as I can to kind of fill the void a bit, but nobody really replaces you guys. I sing at your old friend Mario's karaoke bar Uncle Vince, he lets me open up for him. Singing kind of became my release but all they are about is my past and who wants to know about that train wreck." She ran a hand through her hair. "I love the new family but after Gisele died...it shows they can leave like you guys." Her eyes watered as she looked down at the graves. "I don't wanna get attached and loose anybody else and it always happens."

"Happened to me to." Dom says.

Nicole jumped from hearing his voice, she turned around shocked to see him. "Daddy? What are you doing here?"

"I came looking for you." Dom walked over, he got down one knee to pay his respects. "I figured you would come out here to see them. I usually stop up here to see them every two weeks and just talk to them to."

She laid her head on his shoulder. "I really wish they didn't go."

"I know." Dom kept his gaze down on the graves. "I wish they didn't either. I showed Vince a picture of what you looked like before I thought you were gone. He thought I gave him an old picture of your mother from when we were younger." He smirked, Nicole chuckled slightly. "Vince named his kid after us to."

"He did?" Nicole looked up.

Dom nodded. "He named him Dominic but gave him the nickname Nico. Vince said he wanted his nickname to resemble yours a bit."

Nicole smiled. "I gotta meet Nico one day. Would be fun to get to know my little cousin."

"I think you two would get along great. As long as you don't get into as much trouble as me and Vince did at your age."

"Dad. You did crazier stuff at the age of thirteen that I wouldn't think of doing until I'm thirty or maybe never." Nicole said, Dom let out a throaty chuckle. "Trust me when I tell you that I got some common sense. I just pick and choose when to use that."

"That has been proven." Dom nods. "You need some more time out here?"

"No." Nicole shook her head, she let him help her up. "But I do need to make one more stop."

Dom was confused but followed her back to the car, he let her drive down but she stopped in a familiar area. Nicole got out of the car, he followed behind her slowly since he already knew where she was going. She passed her mother's grave and went behind to see hers, she froze in her tracks as she looked at it with a hurt expression.

All of memories of Owen came flooding back to her like a wave, Nicole shook it off before walking closer. She stared down at it as she crossed her arms over her chest. He finally walked over to stand next to her, it was the first time he had actually seen it himself and it sent a bad pain in his chest.

Nicole looked at it for a while, he glanced at her out the corner of her eye and saw her crying. Dom shook his head as he pulled out his phone, Nicole sniffled as she looked over and saw this. "What are you doing?"

"Texting Brian to tell him to get his friend to take this up by next week." Dom said.

"No, don't." Nicole put a hand over his to stop him. "Don't do that."

"Nicole your not dead. Why does this need to stay here and remind you of something that hurts you?" Dom questioned. "This shouldn't be here."

"You think I like looking at this?" Nicole pointed to the grave. "I kinda do, because it shows me that I really could have been in six feet under in that coffin." She had tears coming out her eyes and used the back of her hand to wipe them but they kept coming. "I will get rid of it but for now I need this to remind me. What if I wasn't that smart and didn't hear that bomb? I could have really died so many times when I was with Shaw and just like then I still don't feel safe. I should and you want me to but I can't and I can't tell you why right now either." Nicole hugged him with a sigh. "You done a lot for me since I been back but now I need to grow up and move on. And that's something only I can do for myself." She pulled away and looked up at him as Dom gave her a sad look, she smiled the best she could. "Maybe one day you can understand why I'm doing this...doesn't those words sound familiar?" Nicole pulled away fully to look back at her grave one more time. "I'm ready to go now."

Dom put his phone away, he put a hand on her head with a sigh. "You keep it as long as you need but eighteen, it's coming up and there is no extending it."

"I understand." Nicole nodded. "Thank you, daddy."

"Come on, time to go." Dom put his arm around her as he led her back to the car, as he passed he had glanced back at Letty's grave with a sad gaze. He looked back ahead and rubbed her shoulder. "You need start acting like you have a phone and text when you leave."

"Yes sir." Nicole chuckled, she whipped her tear stained face. "Happy Thanksgiving dad."

Dom smirked. "Happy Thanksgiving, Nicky." He ruffled her hair a bit.

That was the last chapter of Nicole being 15, I will be doing three of them as her as 17 and the fourth chapter will be her 18th birthday. Then the seventh movie will begin and just a random question but if Dom and Letty did have another kid and it will probably be a boy, what would you name him? More flashbacks of Deckard will be coming back and more since we are getting closer to the movie. The song used in this chapter was Demi Lovato 'Nightingale' you should listen if you want a clue at how Nicole's singing would sound. Anyway I hope you guys like this chapter, leave me a review and I will see you in the next update.

Chapter 37- Seventeen Year Old Nicole