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"How do you think the others are doing?" Dom's voice interrupted my thoughts as we sat in a park, just hanging out together.

"What?" That was my clever answer; I guess Dom's right when he teases me about not paying attention. I looked back at him, waiting for him to reiterate.

"I said, how do you think the others are doing? Do you think they're okay?"

"Oh…I don't really know…Mia said that they were getting back to normal, but that was six months ago; I can't be too sure now," I answered only remembering just then that he hadn't known about the phone call. Damn.

"What do you mean, Mia says? How would you know what she's saying?" He had a look on his face that I hadn't seen in a while; he was upset. Damn again.

"Ah, well…I kind missed everyone a lot, and I figured that they might be worried about us so…I called them." It was the truth, wasn't it? He'd have to forgive me; he had nowhere else to go in Italy.

"You called them," he repeated. I could tell he was trying extremely hard to avoid doing something he'd regret.

"Yes."

"Alright then."

"Are you upset?" Of course he was; the only reason I was asking was because I didn't want him to keep anything bottled up. I'd seen what had happened all those other times where he'd gotten upset.

"What'd she say?"

"She told me that Jesse was hanging onto his life, and that Vince was let off the hook- Brian somehow made them believe that it really was the Tran's behind the whole thing. And you didn't answer my question."

"What about Letty and Leon?"

"She hasn't heard from them; now answer me! Are you angry at me?"

He inhaled and then let the breath out slowly, forming a sigh as he looked at me. He smiled and said, "No, I'm not." He kissed me on the cheek and continued, "I was just…I wanted to call them...but…"

"I know. I felt the same way before I picked up the phone," I told him, standing up and pulling at his hand. "Come on, let's go back home. We'll call them together."

"Okay, but Mel?"

"Yeah?"

"What if- what if Mia hates me for doing this to the team?"

"She's your sister, she loves you. Don't worry, Dom, they'll only be glad to have you back."

We walked home quietly the rest of the way, holding hands and preparing to make the call back home.

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"So what do you think of this new program, Mia?" I indicated towards the new car program I'd made. I was trying to make better contact with the rest of team- I didn't want to cause any more problems.

She looked at the rotating Supra on her screen- Brian's car, "Oh, it's great! Glad to see you boys are finally getting around to working on that thing."

I grinned at Mia, and started pointing things out, "Okay, well here's what we can do with colors- I finally put in this thing where we can change colors. Oh, and here's what we can do to rebuild the engine…see, we can take that out and order new parts from Japan. We'll be racing again in no time!" Just the thought made me almost drool- to think, we'd be back at the races, with the old lifestyle back, not to mention all of those beautiful cars around me…I could almost smell the NOS systems going around me! We hadn't raced since we'd gotten back from Race Wars all those years ago.

Mia calling to someone back in the garage made me jump back into the real world. More customers? I thought to myself. This is the busiest day we've had so far! We'd already gotten three orders for tune-ups, two orders for repairs, and then a bunch of other cars needed new shit for the race that was coming up next Friday. The only people working were Brian, Vince and I. How would we ever get this done on time?

Sighing to myself, I walked out to where Mia had gone and my jaw dropped. She was here.

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Natsuko took two steps closer to the place where all of her life had been buried. In her hand, she carried a single red rose. It had been a week since he'd gone into the ground, proof that he really was gone.

"Oh, my love…I miss you so much," she whispered, choking on big tears, flooding her face. Natsuko still had a black veil covering her face, and she lifted it up so that she could get a better view of Johnny Tran's tombstone. She choked again and placed her rose gently onto the freshly dug up earth.

"Johnny…it's Natsu…I know you cannot come back to me, but I promise upon your grave that I will avenge your death. I'll get the Toretto's back for doing this to you…for- for leaving me all alone on this planet! Johnny, I love you, I want you!" She threw her hands to her face, hiding her anguish, but only until her sobs could be heard. She curled up with her head on her knees, letting the heavens hear her cries and moans. The reasons that some died and others didn't were beyond her…all she could do now were bring death to those who deserved it more than her boyfriend had.

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Back at the Toretto garage, I heard the phone ring, leaving Jesse to take care of the customer. Maybe I shouldn't have, he was about two seconds from falling to his knees and worshipping her. I almost laughed as I picked up the phone.

"Hello, DT Garage, how may I help you?" I asked in the same fashion that Dom had taught me so many years ago. I wish he were here now…

"Mia?" A familiar voice!

"Um…yeah. Who's this?" I probed, trying to figure out the owner of the feminine voice on the other line.

"Hey girl, how ya livin'?!"

"Letty!" I screeched. "Oh my God, I haven't heard from you for so long! How are you? Where are you? Did you get married? What did your dress look like?"

"Mia…calm down, we're fine…all three of us." Letty interrupted me, and then paused as she let her last words sink in.

"All three of you? Oh…Letty, did you and Leon…?"

Laughter came from the other line, obviously Leon's. Inhaling the sound I hadn't heard in so long, I asked, "You have a kid now? What's his or her name?"

Letty giggled in reply, "Oh, Mia, thank the car gods that you're still as gullible as always! We don't have a kid, but we do have gold wedding rings on our fingers…Leon and I are going to have a reception when we get back to LA, so you guys can be a part of it!"

What? I knew they'd gotten married but I really needed Letty to stop talking in riddles. When was she coming back? "Let, what's going on? First of all, where are you guys, and second, when are you coming back?"

"Alright, here's the story. Le and I went to Mexico, where we got married" (I could almost hear the smile in Letty's voice) "and then we kind of just…I don't know, stayed for a while, and you know we couldn't call you because of…you know. Anyway, I woke up this morning, and Leon was sitting there, saying that we should call you. I –we- missed you guys so much. Like I said, we don't have kids and I'm not pregnant, I was just playing with you, hehehe. We should be coming home soon, we're actually in the car, and driving to LA- we sold our apartment and all of our shit. So, how are the others?"

Letting the information find a place to rest in my mind, I started to inform Let on what she'd missed. "Well, Brian managed to pin everything on the Tran's- who happen to be dead now, thankfully- and Jesse was pretty hurt, he was in a coma for a little while, but he's doing a lot better now. Ha, he's currently drooling over some chick that wants to get her oil changed or something. Vince's arm has healed completely, but it does hurt him sometimes. Brian's with us; he quit his… job. That's about it."

'Dom…what about Dom and Mel? ' A voice in my head demanded as I suddenly regretted not even mentioning my own brother.

"Oh, that's great. What about Dom and Mel-Mel?" I grinned at the use of Mel's infamous nickname.

"I don't really know."

"What does that mean?"

"Exactly what I said. Mel called me like six months ago, saying she was in Italy. All I know is that her and Dom are back together, and that they're living in some villa in Rome. I haven't gotten a call since."

"Oh no…can't Jesse do a search on them? Look them up like he did Spilner?"

"He's tried, believe me he has, but we can't find them. By the way, it's O'Connor."

"What?" Letty asked me, confused by the last sentence.

"It's O'Connor. Brian's last name is O'Connor. Spilner was his…undercover name."

"Oh…are you two okay?"

"We fixed things. He lives with us now."

"Oh, so when Le and I get back, we're going to see Snowman items all over the house?"

"Ha ha, that's hilarious…you'll just have to see when you get back, okay? I've got to go now, Jesse still hasn't said a word to that girl; I'll go rescue him. Or her. Whatever, I'll see when you get here, alright, girl?"

Letty laughed on the other end and replied, "Yeah, okay chica, we should be home later tonight. See you then!"

The team was coming back together, just like a puzzle; everyone was coming back into his or her places. Only Dominic and Melanie left…

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Okie, I know that this was a slow chapter, but I needed to sort some things out, and this is my way of getting the team back together without completely dumping everything on you, my lovely readers. So what do you think?

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