Title: What Lies Ahead

Author: Vins Girl

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A/N: This is a sequel to "The Fast and the Furious Continued: A New Beginning" by AngelOfTheNight. Please read it if you want to understand what's going on. The only change was that I decided not to use the alias's that she gave them.

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It was a long drive, but ten hours later they finally got to Baja, with new cell phones, clothes, cars, and new attitudes. God, all this new stuff, I feel like we're all just supposed to forget, about Vince, about our lives, about our friends, everything. This is like a big nightmare, and I think all of us are just waiting to wake up, Letty was snapped out of her thoughts when Dom announced their arrival.

"We're here," Dominic announced while he was getting out of the car. He turned back to see that Letty wasn't moving. "Letty, are you getting out of the car?" She still didn't answer, she didn't even look at him. Dom was getting freaked out, "LETTY!"

"Wha? Oh I'm sorry, what were you saying?" Letty was dazed, she was tired and kind of scared, but that she would never admit to anyone, not even herself.

"I said we're here, now get out of the car, the others are waiting for you," Dom tried to sound commanding, but he was concerned about Letty, she hadn't spoken the whole way after the lake, like she couldn't get out of the world she was in, and now she didn't even respond. He was really starting to worry about her.

Letty got out of the car without responding, but at the moment she didn't feel like doing anything. She felt as if everyone was acting like nothing had happened, she just wanted to punch something and cry. But Letty would never cry, never. She hadn't cried for a long time, and she wasn't going to start now. She had to keep her reputation in tact, and girls like her didn't just break down.

They met Dom's friend, his name was Casey, and he was one of Dom's old friends who moved to Baja after he was busted stealing money from the company he worked for. He got away with millions of dollars, and the company just dropped it because they were already getting really bad publicity.

"So you guys are the Team…you're so…colorful, well come on in, don't just stand there in the front of the house," he said. Casey had short black hair, medium build, he was about 5'9, he had tanned skin, and eyes so dark they looked black. The Team liked him immediately, he was courteous, friendly, and he didn't ask too many questions. PERFECT.

The house was beautiful it was like someone took a big jug of culture and poured it in the house, and left no spot untouched. The whole place smelled like flowers mixed with the faint smell of food that is starting to cook.

"Sit, make yourselves at home, after dinner I'll tell you guys about the house and then you can be off if you like, or you can spend the night and leave in the morning, which ever you would prefer," Casey said after everyone was in the house. Then he walked to someplace unknown.

Everyone sat down in the homey couches, Letty on Dom's lap and Mia on Brian's. Leon and Jesse were sitting in the big leather arm chairs. They discovered buttons on them and started playing around with them.

On the other side of the room, Dom and Letty were sitting on a big couch on their own. Dom spoke quietly, so that no one else would hear him, "Baby are you ok? You seem distant…disturbed."

Letty spoke in the same hushed tone, she could see the concern in Dom's eyes, but she didn't feel like talking at that moment. "Dom I'll tell you, but not now, I just want to sleep, I'm so tired, and all I wanna do is lay down and sleep."

"It's ok," he replied, there was concern written all over his face, I think I know what's wrong, but I won't push it, I know she'll tell me when she's ready. "I'll ask Casey where you can lay down when he gets back."

Letty nodded in response and layed her head down on Dom's shoulder. Soon she was sound asleep on Dom's lap.

Dom watched her sleep, he had always loved to watch her sleep. She always looked so peaceful, watching her calmed him down. Every time he watched her sleep he was reminded of why he loved her so much. She doesn't look so peaceful now, she looks like there's a stormy battle going on inside of her, like she's lost and can't find her way out of the Labyrinth. I promise baby, I'll make this up to you, I'll fix all the shit I put you through. I'll help you find your way again. I swear on my love for you.

Casey came back in the room to find Letty and Mia sleeping and the others just dozing off. He went up to Dom and whispered in his ear, "There's a few guestrooms down here if you want to spare yourself the climb, you guys can take one and Brian and Mia can take the other, I'll direct the guys upstairs to the other rooms. Your room is down the back hallway, the last door on the right, and the other room is down the opposite hallway the last door on the left." With that Casey went to the guys and told them to follow him and they walked out of the living room.

Dominic stood up, brought Letty to the room, then came back to tell Brian where to take Mia. After that was done he went back to Letty and laid down next to her, his unspoken promise never leaving his mind.

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Letty awoke later that night to find Dom asleep with his arm around her. She tried to slip out of bed without waking him. Instead she decided to just turn to watch him. He's so beautiful, I feel so lucky to have him. I know Dom can be a really big asshole sometimes but he just has a bad temper. I hope he knows how much I love him, without him I don't think I would have made it this far.

"So are you just gonna stare or are you gonna kiss me?"

"Oh, I thought you were sleeping. So how'd you sleep?"

"Fine, oooh, I smell food, we better get over there before there's none left for us."

Letty laughed, she knew what was really on Dominic's mind, but she knew he would wait until she was ready to talk to him, and that was just one more reason to love Dominic. She got up, she was still dressed so she just fixed up her hair while Dominic stretched and got out of bed, "You ready sleepy head?"

Dominic went up to her and kissed her passionately, but gently, "Yes I am, let's go get us some grub." They both laughed, it was almost like an alien noise, they hadn't laughed in a long time.

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By the time Dominic and Letty got to the dining room everyone was already there.

"About time, jeez we're starving," Jesse said as soon as they walked through the door.

"Well what are we waiting for? Let's eat some grub!" Letty said sitting down next to Jesse, Dom soon followed suit.

They ate in silence, complimenting the chef here and there. But as soon as the meal was finished, they got down to business.

Dom spoke first, "So Casey, tell me about the house, we're planning to set off tomorrow morning…"

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I hope you guys liked that, the next chapter will probably be longer, but I'm just starting to have some patience okay? But anyways, if I don't get any reviews I'll think no one likes it so I probably won't continue. Make sure you tell me what you think! I'm always open to suggestions!

-Zuleyka