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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Letty drove for a really long time, not really knowing where she was going, but making sure that she knew how to get back. The last thing she needed was to get lost in Acapulco.

She found herself in the parking lot of a beach after a while, and she decided to get out of the car and sit on the sand, she knew she could've done this at home, but she needed to be alone after all.

To think that the place that I now call home actually has a private beach. You can basically live your whole life in that house and not be bored. But it's so big and…intimidating. I really do think I'll get lost.

She laughed, then stopped, I wonder where V is right now…

V? I know you can hear me, because even though you died I can feel you around us, watching over us. I just wanted to tell you that I miss you so much. I miss my big brother. I can't believe you're gone V, I can't believe I'll never be able to share a beer with you, or fight with you about what kind of piston rings to get, or come to you when Dom does something stupid. God V…

Suddenly she burst into tears, she cried about Vince, about the trucks, about the cars, about her friends, about Dom, she cried about everything she hadn't cried about ever before. She cried about all the things she should've cried about, all the things she kept inside and never told anyone. For the first time since her dad died, Letty cried.

It seemed like she would never be able to stop crying, but after what seemed like forever, she calmed down. She sat there, on the sand, her shirt soaked, just thinking about everything. Then she decided it was time to go home, so she got up and got in the car. V, I promise you, I will NEVER ever forget you, I promise. Silent tears streamed down her face once again as she drove.

On her way back to the house, she noticed a little shop on the corner of a street, she decided to go in and see if she wanted to get anything. It was a tattoo parlor, and she decided it was a good place to get one because it was clean, and they had their license posted on the wall.

Half an hour later, she came out of the shop satisfied, and feeling a little better. She got into her car and drove to the house.

"Shit! How the fuck am I going to open the freakin' gate?"

She drove up to the gate nonetheless, and when she got to intercom thingy, it spoke (sort of).

"Name?"

"Letty!"

"Voice identification recognized."

With that the gates opened, "Shit man, this house is like a big spy gadget."

She drove the car into the garage and went back up to her room. The guys were still at the beach, she was glad they were having fun, it had been a really long time since they had been loose enough to have fun. This move wasn't as bad as they thought it would be…

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Everyone, except Letty and Casey, had gone down to their beautiful private beach. They had been there, swimming, playing, and tanning for about 3 hours. Mia decided to lay down on the beach to get some sun, and soon she was asleep. The guys just kept playing but they got tired so they layed down on the warm sand and fell asleep as well.

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Letty went up to her room to lie down, but decided against it and just started to watch a movie, Resident Evil, as she had told Dom she would.

Wow that girl really does look a little like me, but just a little, I look better. She smiled to herself, she would never say that to they guys, they would bother her forever.

She finished watching the movie and realized she was really tired, so she decided to wash her face and take a short nap before dinner. When she got to the bathroom she noticed that her vision was a little blurry, and she started to get dizzy.

I'm just tired that's all, lemme just wash my face and lie down.

Letty washed her face quickly, but her dizziness had not gone away. Aww fuck, what the hell is wrong with me now…

She could feel herself falling, but she didn't have enough strength to stop it, and then the world went black.

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Dom woke up about 30 minutes later, and decided to go check on Letty. It had been almost 4 hours since they had gone to the beach, and he wanted to make sure she was okay.

Of course she is, Letty is a big girl, she can take care of herself, she's tough……

These thoughts ran through his mind, but rather than calming him down, deep down inside he knew that something was really wrong with her, and that Letty was not as tough as she let on.

Dom ran into the house, getting more and more nervous with every step, and he walked into the room that him and Letty shared.

"Letty? Are you here baby?" He got no answer, "Letty? Baby? LETTY!?" Still he got no answer. Dominic was starting to panic now, Where the hell are you Letty?

He started searching for her in the room, Fuck, why did we have to pick the biggest room?

He still didn't catch sight of her, so he decided to look in the bathroom. He got to the bathroom door and he could hear the water from the sink running. He opened the door slowly. Then he saw her, she was on the floor, a small pool of blood by her head.

Oh my god, Letty.

He went to her knelt beside her unmoving body, and picked her head up gently, "Letty, baby, wake up, please! Please Letty wake up," he was really starting to freak out now.

The rest of the team had woken up and gone upstairs to shower and change. Mia could barely wait to use her new kitchen and cook their first dinner in Acapulco. Then they heard Dom yelling Letty's name, and telling her to please wake up. Alarmed, they walked into Dom and Letty's room, and then walked to the bathroom.

They found Dom with an unconscious, bleeding Letty in his arms, "OH MY GOD! Dom what happened?" screamed Mia.

"I…I don't know, I just walked into the room, looking for her, to make sure she's ok, then I walked into the bathroom and found her like this." By this time, Dominic's shirt was already bloody from Letty's head.

"Dom, we have to take her to a hospital, we have to know what happened," said Jesse.

He was right, so they cleaned her up, and Dom picked her up and sat in the back seat of the Escalade with her on his lap.

"I'll drive," Brian said, "Wait do any of you know where the hospital is?"

"Why don't you just use the button with the woman…" Jesse said, his ADD threatening to kick in.

"The Onstar button?" Brian asked.

"Yes, that shit."

Brian pushed the Onstar button the woman called and asked where they wanted to go, and he quickly answered, and they were off to "Los Alamos Hospital" which was just a few miles away.

"Fuck!" Leon suddenly cursed.

"What?" They all said at the same time.

"Letty was the only one of us who knew how to speak Spanish. How the fuck are we gonna communicate?"

No one spoke for a few minutes, then finally Dom said, "We'll manage, we all know at least one word in Spanish." And that was the end of it.

Dominic started to whisper into Letty's ear, "Come on baby, hang on, you're a strong girl, just hang on we're almost there."

They arrived at the hospital about 5 minutes later, Brian had driven at a pace that was sure to be illegal anywhere, but they got there without a hitch, and they carted Letty into the ER.

A soon as they walked into the ER two nurses started to ask what was wrong. "Que le pasa?" "Como se llama la pasiente?"

"Um…No…Ha-blah…Es-pa-ñol," said Leon. The nurse hurried off. "Where the hell is she going?"

The nurse came back with another male nurse behind her . "What's the problem? What happened?" he asked Dom, as they put Letty on a stretcher and wheeled her in.

"We went to the beach and she stayed behind because she said she wasn't up to it, so about four hours later, I found her unconscious on the bathroom floor."

"Did she lose a lot of blood?" he asked.

"No…yes…no, I don't think so."

"Ok, well we're going to call the doctor to see what's wrong, you'll have to wait in the waiting room."

"Is she going to be alright?" asked Jesse.

The nurse looked uncertain but said, "I'm sure she will be, now please, go sit down."

"Look, I want the absolute best doctor, okay? Money is not an issue," said Dom, he walked away before the nurse could protest.

They waited for fifteen minutes in silence before Dominic spoke up, "Where the hell is the doctor?!"

"Dom calm down, look here comes that nurse with a doctor now," said Brian.

Immediately they all stood up and ran to the doctor. "Doc is she ok?" screamed a panic stricken Dominic, "How's my Letty?!"

The doctor looked hesitant, but finally spoke, "Did anything traumatic happen to her in the past month or so?"

The team nodded silently. Then the doctor spoke again, "That's what I thought. Has she had any recent injuries?" They nodded again, "Yes," Dom said in a dry raspy voice.

"Ok, well I have some good news and I have some bad news. Which one do you want first?"

They thought for a second then said, "The bad."

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Haha!!! I'm not gonna tell you what's wrong with Letty, or what happened at the shop until the next chapter. I need about 4 more reviews before I put it up, so make sure to get some of your friends to read and review it. =) happy wondering!

-Zuleyka