'Come on Lett, if you don't move your ass, we won't get to see him!' V yelled up the stairs, as Mia came out of the kitchen, gulping her water. Letty was looking at herself in the mirror, from her blue peasant hat to her tight jean skirt. She wanted to look good for Dom. It had been two months since they'd sentenced him to Lompoc. She cried, no doubts bout that, even shut herself up in her room at Carla and Herb's. She was further angered by the fact that they 'understood' and gave her space. She wanted them to order her around, do anything that resembled that of what an actual parent would do.

Mia was as bad as she was. The double blow of losing brother and father had brought her down. She gained fifteen pounds after Dom's lock up. She wouldn't come downstairs, out of her room. The only people she would let see her were Letty and Vince and even then, she'd remain silent. But about a month and a half after she had resolved herself, told herself that Dom wasn't gone forever.

'Letty if you don't get your skinny latino booty down here, I'ma leave without you!' Vince shouted and finally Letty ran down the stairs and jumped down and began putting on her sneakers. Vince whistled as he watched her. 'Damn girl, you goin fishin behind Dom's back or somethin?' Letty glared at him as she stood up. She lightly punched his arm and grabbed Mia's hand, draggin her out the door.

'I'm here, so stop your holla and let's move!' she said, practically hauling Mia along. She just smiled and Vince followed as they got in his car and sped toward Lompoc.

As they past security, Letty felt a sudden change, like the room had turned into some place of death. It was cold and gray and Letty wondered how anyone could stay sane in here for two months let alone two years. And that was how long Dom was being locked up for. The only color was from the visitors and the inmates, who were wearing the most hideous neon orange jumpsuits. Mia and Vince had taken a seat in front of the glass, waiting for Dom to be directed to them. Letty stood by the wall, watching as he lumbered over to them, the glass separating him from his sister and his best friend.

Letty almost died on the spot. His eyes seemed so dead and cold, almost drawing off the atmosphere of the room. He had a frown plastered on his usually cocky face, and he was a lot paler than Letty remembered. He dropped into the chair opposite Mia and picked up the phone and began talking. Letty felt as though she could cry. This wasn't her Dom.

'What's a fine young thing like you doin in a joint like this?' Letty turned to see a rat faced attendant leering at her. She almost backed away in disgust. She bet this guy was made 52% of grease. Even his tone of voice was slick and slimy. He continued to look her up and down. Letty cringed. Did he think he was being sexy?

'I'm here tah see my boyfriend, thanks.' She replied coolly. A lot more comfortably than she actually felt around this creep. His smile faded a bit and he cocked an eyebrow.

'Boyfriend huh? Musta done some wrong to end up in the clink.' He said, his voice oily and almost unfazed. Letty shrugged. 'What's this guy's name anyway?'

'Dominic Torretto.' She replied, sure that Dom had made a name for himself by now and that this creep would high tail it outta there after she mentioned the name. But the guy simply let out a chuckle and leaned against the wall.

'And you still wanna know the bastard?' he said shaking his head a little. 'Girl, you must be half crazy...' Letty felt her cheeks burn.

'What did you say?' she asked, bawling her hands into fists, seething with rage at this little fuckers words. 'I love him... unconditionally.' He seem nonchalant.

'Yeah, it'd have to be unconditionally. After what he did to that guy.' He said as he pulled out a cigarette. 'Listen missy, I know Dominic Torretto. I patrol his sector everyday from nine till five. I've seen the pictures of what he did. That guy's a monster, and a sweet little thang like you ain't even in his league.' He said as he lit the fag and took a long drag, blowing the smoke out of his nose. Letty ground her teeth together.

'That's a load of bull.' She said as she turned to walk over and join Mia and Vince.

'You wanna see the pictures?' he asked, pulling out a brown folder. Letty froze. Why should she look? She trusted Dom, loved him and she didn't care how many bruises the other guy had, he had it coming to him. On the other hand, curiosity was eating away at her. What HAD Dom done to get lock up here?

She turned slowly, glaring at the little puke who was extending the brown folder to her, blowing smoke into the cold air. She grabbed it and wrenched it from him, flipping it open and looking down.

And she actually gasped.

The guy in the picture was sewn up from eye to nose. Bruises all over his face, and discoloration near his left ear. He looked like one of those plastic surgeries gone wrong. He looked like Frankenstein. Letty couldn't help gaping at the picture in front of her. Dom did this... DOM did this...

'And they say that's the best they could do for him... he'll never race again. Pretty sad if you ask me. Two fine racers, both taken off the track for good...'

'Shut up.' Letty ground out, though it was barely above a whisper. She supposed he didn't hear her because he continued.

'And that shit that you call a boyfriend... damn, you'd think he had two brain cells to rub together, not to attack a guy with a freakin torque wrench...'

'Shut up.' Letty said, this time a little louder, but it was choked. Still the rat continued.

'Well, I guess like father like son... even if he could race, Tony Torretto never was a very smart guy...' WHAM! Letty had slugged the guy with a right hook that floored him. She was shaking with rage as she dropped the folder and looked around. Every one was staring at her, from the visitors to the prisoners. Mia and Vince were looking at her wide eyed, and Dom looked as though he'd seen a ghost, paler even still. Letty just breathed out rugged breaths and dropped the folder, running as fast as she could out of the room.

She couldn't ever go back again.

Weeks past where Letty would stalk around her house (Carla's and Herb's) or at the Torretto's. And by far she was bitchier than ever. She knew she was being a bitch, but that didn't make her stop her snide remarks and her fists of fury. Within a week of finding out what **Dom** had done, she'd already beaten up three private school girls and threatened a teacher. At home, Mia would try and coax her to come back and see Dom, and at the sound of his name she would explode, yelling at Mia, calling her naïve. Eventually she stopped going to the Torretto house, only seeing Vince and Mia at the garage, where she worked after school. They had hired two knew guys, since Tony and Dom...

Letty let out a huge sigh as she leaned over the engine in front of her. For the first time in nearly half a year, she felt she truly hated Dom. The words ... he's a monster... rolled threw her mind every few minutes, making it almost impossible to get any work done.

This was how it went everyday for the entire year. Beating private chicks up, scraping by without getting in trouble, working at the garage. She somehow maintained her friendship with Mia and Vince, and especially Jesse and Leon. They didn't hold a painful past with her, so she found it easier to talk to them.

'Chica, you wanna work on something, or you just gonna stare at it all day?' Letty shot a glare across the garage to where Leon was sitting, picking out his tools. Then she sighed. He was right. It was hot and wearing these coveralls was not helping her cool off. And for the first time in weeks she was too tired to bitch at him. It had been exactly one year and five months since Dom had been thrown in prison and she was left hating his memory. In fact his memory was fading from her fast, she could barely remember him. So much for the theory 'Absence makes the heart grow fonder.' Letty sighed again.

'I'ma take a break.' She said leaning out from under the hood and dropping her wrench. Leon nodded and continued pulling out his stuff. She grabbed a Corona and basically fell into the lawn chair near a beat up old fan in the corner of the office.

Things had changed so much in the last little while. Mia had to take charge of the place, running the restaurant and balancing the checkbooks and what not. Letty, Vince, Leon and Jesse were the hands on people. Though it always felt like they were missing a real leader. Sure Mia was great, but she wasn't Dom.

Letty shook her head. Since when did she want Mia to be Dom? Okay, so she hadn't completely gotten over him. And the thought that in just one more month he was getting out for good behavior was making it even harder than usual to work. How would she talk to him? How could she? And how would he react to her? She was very different from the girl he knew.

She was no longer slim bordering skinny. She had filled out even more if that was possible, and was all leg. And as weird as it might seem, the most serious relationship she'd had since Dom was with a guy, with whom she'd dated a total of three times before promptly dumping his white ass.

She sighed. Yes sir, Dom sure did fuck up her life. And for the most part, she didn't really mind. In a month she'd see him and there was a part of her that she couldn't deny just wanted to jump his bones as soon as he got home. She smiled at that thought. Mmmm, jumping Dominic Torretto. A dream she had yet to make a reality.

'Lett, we're goin out tonight.' V said as he trudged into the garage, wiping his hands on a rag. 'Erin and me are going to this little Russian place downtown and Leon and Torynn might tag along. You wanna come?' he said. Letty shrugged. She didn't want to be a fifth wheel. It was way too tacky.

'Naw, you kids have fun. I'll just stay home.' Letty said taking another swig of her beer. Vince smiled and bent down in front of her.

'You sure, baby girl, cause we don't gotta if you-'

'Leon if you don't fucking go, I'll kick your scrawny ass.' Letty said in the calmest voice she had used since Dom left. She sipped her beer as Leon smirked at her, leaning against the wall. Vince chuckled.

'Dawg, I think we been dissed and dismissed.' Leon said rubbing his stomach as if he were hungry. 'Not that I'm complainin'. I got a sweet girl lined up and everything.' Leon said as he licked his lips. Vince shook his head.

'As long as you know what you're getting yourself into man. Tor's a bit of a spitfire underneath that innocent little girl act.' Vince said before throwing his rag on Letty, who mumbled 'ass'.

'Just the way I like em.' Leon said before disappearing outside. Letty took the rag off her face and threw her empty bottle at the recycling box. She sighed. Maybe she'd just stay at the garage and work late. Make up for her slacking off the past while.

She stood up and stretched, wandering into the restaurant. Mia was standing at the counter, hunched over a stack of papers, mumbling to herself. Letty grabbed a beer from the back and looked over Mia's shoulder.

'These numbers don't add up.' Mia said with a frustrated growl, slamming her pencil down on the counter, splitting it in half. Letty leaned back and smiled.

'And you say I should go to anger management? Girl, I think you need to relax.' Letty said hopping up and sitting on the counter, sipping her newly opened can. Mia grabbed a Snapple from behind the counter and sighed.

'I'm just glad Dom'll be back soon. I'd die if he wasn't. All this paperwork is killing me.' She said taking a long gulp of the strawberry juice. Letty nodded and proceeded to look out onto the street. Mia's eyebrow shot up. 'You're not nervous are you? You know, bout Dom coming home?' Letty smirked.

'Naw, girl, I'm breezy.'

'You are such a bad liar.'

'Shut up.'

'No seriously.' Mia said taking another huge gulp of Snapple. 'I don't know why you're nervous though.' Letty shook her head and let out a desperate laugh.

'For the last fuckin time woman, I am NOT nervous.' She said looking at Mia with mock coolness. Mia's eyebrows both rose, almost dangerously disappearing into her hair. Letty sighed. 'Okay, so maybe I am a little edgy... come on Mi! It's Dom! First I hate him! Then I fall madly in love with him! Then I refuse to visit him in prison! He probably will come home, scream his fuckin head off at me, then go for a whorin spree across town.' Letty ended her rant in a defeated stance, throwing her empty can at the trash. Mia just stared.

'Wow.' She said staring at Letty. 'You really are full of bullshit.' Letty looked up, frowning slightly. Mia cracked a smile and wolfed down the last of her juice. 'Dom asks about you every time we visit. Asks how you're doing, what you're doing, if you're doing anyone...' Mia giggled at this, which made Letty blush. 'He doesn't think of anything but you!'

'Stop your bitch ass lying girl.' Letty said lightly pushing Mia. Mia shook her head.

'Hunny, the thought of Vince wearing a wet school girl uniform doesn't keep my brother warm at night, that's for sure!' Letty let out a little noise and lightly punched Mia's arm. Then she began fidgeting with her hands, reminding Mia of Jesse. 'What?'

'If he gets out on parole, I'll still be in school.' Letty said, staring down at her hands. Mia blinked.

'And?'

'And I'll still be wearing that stupid school uniform.' Letty said, smiling slyly. Mia couldn't help laughing out loud. Once her giggles died away she replaced them with a smug smile.

'Well, I doubt Dom'll complain... But I do know he'll probably go out of his mind when he finds out about Johnny.' Letty's sly smile disappeared in a split second, replaced by one of guilt and sorrow.

'I know. But how can I tell him? I don't want anyone to get hurt. Cept maybe Johnny...' Letty said pushing back her sweat drenched hair. Mia shrugged, breathing out heavily.

'All I know is you have to break it to him lightly, otherwise there'll be carnage and my bro will end up back in the slammer.' Mia said hopping down from the counter. 'And the other thing I know is that you need to have a shower. He's coming home tomorrow and...' Letty's head shot up.

'What?!' Mia grinned at Lett's shock filled face.

'They decided to let him off a little bit earlier than planned.' She beamed as she watched Letty's face pale a bit. 'So he'll be coming home tomorrow morning.' There was a moment of silence. Then a scream.

'Who's being raped?!' Leon yelled as he, Vince and Torynn came running out of the back room, looking around wildly. Then they all smirked. Mia was lying, sprawled out on the floor, looking wide eyed at Letty, who was on top of her, hugging her to death.

'Letty, girl, didn't know you, yah know, swung that way...' Tori said crossing her arms over her chest. Leon grinned.

'I dunno, I think it's kinda hot.' He said dumbly, Letty glaring at him. Torynn smacked him over the side of the head. 'WHAT?!' He asked as Tori glared daggers, before she walked off, Leon in tow trying to apologize and Vince who was laughing his ass off.

Letty finally sat up, Mia gasping for air, and smiled. Dom was coming home. HER Dom was coming home.