There's No "I" in TEAM

Summary: How the team came to be-the past and all that shit, how I want it or think it was.

Rating: Will vary from chapter to chapter but mainly PG-13

Disclaimers: I own nothing except Letty's best friend, Adrian Cortez, her father, Mikhael Rodriguez, her mother, Lena Rodriguez and her adoptive parents, Jake and Ande McCune(that is my Best Friend's last name so don't you DARE say it's stupid or desperate measures will be taken!)

Chapter Three-Naptime
Everyone in the neighborhood the Torretto's lived in came to Leila's funeral. Tony held Mia in his arms as they lowered his wife into the ground and Mia cooed when they threw the first shovelful of dirt in the hole. Tony had to smile despite the occasion.

Dominic walked around listlessly for the next few weeks and Letty would come over to try and cheer him up, but to no avail.

FLASHBACK

"Come on, Dom. Is be fwun!" Letty said, trying to make Dom smile.

"Go away Letty." he spat and she did a double take, refusing to show him her hurt.

"Pwease, Dom. Bownce wid me." she said, jumping up and down on his bed. Dom got really angry and, sitting up, jerked Letty off his bed onto the floor.

"Go the hell away! You're nothing but an annoying little pest!" he yelled at her. Letty just sat on the floor, staring up at Dom, trying not to cry. Dom saw tears well up in her eyes and slapped his forehead. Now she was gonna cry and that was gonna wake Mia up and then she would cry. Dom closed his eyes and waited.

But Letty didn't cry out and he opened his eyes to see her stubbornly sitting on the floor with tears streaking down her face. He felt bad for treating her like he did when all she wanted to do was make him happy again.

"Letty-" he said, lowering himself to the floor and crawling over to her, "Letty...I'm sorry for hurting you. It's just-I'm not feeling very good right now and-I didn't mean to take it out on y-"

And he stopped dead as Letty smacked him on the face as hard as she could.

"I not wike you now." she said angrily and he laughed as she crossed her arms and tried to look disagreeable.

"Come'ere, baby girl." he said, motioning her over. She crawled into his lap and he picked her up. "Come on-let's take a nap, kay?" he asked and she nodded, yawning. He tucked her under the covers before crawling under himself and he drifted off to sleep as Letty latched her small arms onto him.

Ten years later....

Dom jolted awake as the alarm went off for the second time.

"Shut the fuck up!" he yelled at the clock, hitting the button and looking vaguely at it. It said that it was seven fifty-five in the morning. On a Thursday.

"Shit! Letty- get up! We're gonna be late for school!" he yelled, jumping from the bed and pulling clothes on.

"What?" Letty asked sleepily, looking out from under the huge pile of blankets.

"We're gonna be late!"

"Oh, who cares!" she said, pulling the covers back over her head. Dom approached the end of the bed and yanked all the blankets off. "Dom! I don't have any clothes to wear!" she hissed.

"Well, why not?" he asked.

"I forgot to bring them. I had to get aw-Never mind. Can I borrow a shirt or something?" she asked.

"Borrow whatever you want, just give it back." he said, running out of the room. She grabbed wife beater and, noticing a huge stain on her pants, a pair of his camo khakis and pulled them on. She couldn't find her shoes and was still looking when Dom came back upstairs.

"Letty!"

"I can't find my shoes!"

"They're by the front door!"

"Oh."

"Come on." he said, grabbing her wrist and pulling her downstairs, through the kitchen and out the door. She just barely grabbed her shoes before the door slammed shut behind them. They ran the three blocks to the school, Letty without shoes, and got in the doors just as the bell rang. Letty and Dom stood, gasping for breath, in the hallway.

"Great-we're late. For the fifth time this month!" he said angrily.

"Well. If you-would stop-hitting the snooze button-three friggin' times-"she said, jumping on one foot, trying to get her shoes on, "We wouldn't have this problem." she finished, putting her foot back on the ground. "Shit." she said, noticing a hole in her shoe. "Stupid, cheap ass shoes." she said, reaching down and playing with the rip.

"This is the fifth time this month, you two!" yelled Principal Fishlips(his real name was Mishtip which wasn't that great either, but he had huge lips that made him look like a fish) making Letty fall on the floor. "Up! Come on!" he said, yanking Letty up and dragging them both down the hall to his office.

A/N:Just so you know when it said 'ten years later...' was the transition to either Letty's POV, Dom's POV, Mia's POV or Third person POV. So it'll stop saying FLASHBACK now.