Title: Destiny Decides

Authors: AngeliqueMay

Email: AngeliqueMay@hotmail.com

Summary: Go back to when Leon and Emerald first met.

Rating: R

Disclaimer: Dude I don't own a damn thing. If I owned any of this crap, I would hardly be doing this right now, would I?

Author's note: I am not responsible for any damage caused to your keyboard from you drooling. I am not also not responsible for you getting pissed off by the speed at which I put the next chapter up. I am a full time student so it takes me a little longer to get stuff like this done.

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Chapter 1

The sound of everyone laughing and dancing around Toretto's is what drew me to the place. I had seen Mia and Letty on campus but they had never seemed like the kind of people I should hang out with. And besides, they're upper classmen, I as a junior had no right to hang out with them.

I sat on my porch across the street from their house, my government book in hand. I hated being the only ninth grader in AP Government but I did enjoy the challenge. I could hear my mother and father screaming their heads off for the fifth night in a row.

I lay out on the cool grass of my lawn, the muffled music playing. I figured it must have been a celebration for Dominic. He had been locked up for beating a man and had been sentence for five years. Must have gotten out for good behavior.

I lay there and began to doze off, my book falling off my lap. I remember the dream that began to form. How I was with a guy who use to work with Dominic. He was cute, but he hadn't been around much since Dominic got locked up.

I imagined us in a house with a daughter running around. I could see him chasing after her. She ran to me and I protected her with a water hose. The image was so real: the cold water running from the hose, the sun beating against my skin. It was more like a vision that a dream.

"You son of a bitch. Get the fuck out of my house and take your porno tapes with you, you sick fuck."

I opened my eyes in time to see the flames that began to grow around the windows and doors of the house. I ran around back to find the doorway blocked by the refrigerator.

I screamed for my mother before I ran to the only place I could thing of.

I worked my way through the guard. After a while I ran into Mia, literally. She knew who I was for the jump.

"Emerald? What's wrong?"

"My house. It's on fire. My parents had been fighting and I went to sleep on the lawn." I couldn't stop my tearful ramble. She took me by the hand and went straight up stairs and to a room with the door close. I could moans coming from the closed door.

"Dom." Mia yelled, banging on the door. "Dom."

When he wouldn't answer, she opened it and went right back, remembering to shield my eyes and turning her head as well.

"Dom."

The boom of someone falling to the floor echoed off the walls.

"What Mia?" Dominic asked.

"The house across the street is on fire."

I heard the blinds open and shut and the rustle of pants. He walked past me and out the door.

"Hey, Let, you coming?" Mia asked.

"Yeah, just let me put my pants on." Letty replied.

Letty took noticed. "What's wrong with her?"

"It's her house and her parents are inside."

Letty's face completely softened. "Oh god. Come on. The guys probably called for help all ready."

She pulled her shirt on and walked out the room, with Mia still guiding me by my arm. I stood outside and watched as my parents, though safe and alive, were swinging at one another. Dominic dragged my mother as Vincent lifted my mother and set her down in the neighbors yard.

I watched as the house I grew up in burned to the ground. Everything I owned and loved, gone up in smoke.