13. Reunion

Dom was sitting in his room staring out the window, he missed her, he definately didn't want to, but he couldn't help thinking of her. She had so many wonderful sides to her, like in the mornings she used to sing in the shower, she thought nobody could hear her, but they all did. She had a beautiful voice. The team never said anything about her singing, if they did, she would never sing again. She had a great laugh too, and a great ass! Dom started smiling, Letty had been part of his life for 14 years now and his lover for 6 years. But even if he missed her like hell, he couldn't get over the fact that she had hurt him in the worse possible way. He heard a car pull up in the drive way, the engine roared and the breaks were squeeking, Dom only knew one person who drowe like that – Letty.

Letty turned the engine off, her heart was pounding hard, she had never been this nervous before. She slowly got out of her car and closed the door, she was still sore after the fight in Mexico, so she moved slow as she headed for the door.

"Lettyyyyy!" Mia had heard Letty pull up and came running towards her.

"Mia." Letty smiled.

Mia threw herself into Lettys arms and sqeezed her as hard as she could.

"Outch, watch it Mia!" Letty laughed and hugged her back.

Mia was so happy that she couldn't hold back her tears anymore. While the girls hugged Leon came out on the porch. He had missed Letty a lot. He and Letty used to have long talks about cars, racing and life in general, they were like best friends. Dom had kind of appointed Leon Lettys caretaker. Whenever Letty was in trouble, which was quite often, and Dom couldn't be there for her, Leon was.

"Let, chica, I thought you were never coming home!" Leon laughed and gave her a hug and tapped her on the back.

"Leon brotha! How ya been? Missed me?" Letty playfully punched him in the arm and smiled.

"You know I missed you bitch, even though you can be a real big pain in the ass sometimes!"

"Right back at ya!" Letty said with a happy grin. "Oh, and I love you too by the way Leon!" It felt as if she had never even been gone, that is, until Vince appeared on the porch.

Vince had gone through hell and back trying to patch things up between him and Dom. Things were all right between them now, but seeing Letty again made all the bad feelings resurface. Vince had thought about what happened and realised he had been extremely unfair when he blamed it all on Letty. He was just as guilty as she was, he couldn't hold it against her anymore. He had to forgive her and welcome her back. The team wasn't the same without Letty. She was an excellent mechanic, a fierce racer and a really good friend underneath the tough surface.

"Vince...I've missed you...you look like you're doin' all right..." Letty said as she carefully approached Vince.

"I heard about the fight, that you were stabbed and admitted to a hospital...are you ok Let?" Vince looked genuinely concerned.

"I'm fine a little sore, but it takes a lot more to kill me." Letty finally smiled at him and gave him a quick hug.

"You just can't help getting into fights, can you?" He asked her with a grin on his face.

"The punk was in my face! I had to do something, how the fuck was I to know he had a knife?" Letty defended herself.

"You shouldn't go around beating people up like that!" Vince tried to give Letty a lecture on self control.

Letty didn't take him seriously "I couldn't resist" she stated with an evil smile. It was so good to see them again, after all the team was the closest thing to a family she'd ever had. Her parents had never been there for her and she hadn't made to many friends in school either because of her attitude and her severe disciplinary probem. The team had always accepted her the way she was, around them she felt loved.

"Let, Dom is inside...we'll leave you two alone for a while...just go talk to him... he needs you." Mia cut in and signaled to Leon and Vince to follow her. They got in their cars and drowe away, leaving Letty standing at the front door.