Chapter Twelve

"Where the hell is V?" Dom asked everyone in the garage.

The team had managed to buy the car from the Celica owner. Dom sent Vince over to get Jocelyn so that they could give her the car. That was over thirty minutes ago. The office phone ringing jarred Dom from his thoughts. He quickly jogged over to the phone and snatched in up. The office door was left open.

"Hello? Yeah, where the hell have you been? What? Why are you there? What?! Is she hurt badly? Uh huh...yeah...we'll be there as soon as we can."

Dom slammed the phone down and ran out of the office. He quickly grabbed his keys.

"Letty! We need to get to the hospital!" Dom screamed.

Vince sat in a chair out in the waiting room. The chair was extremely uncomfortable.

"Lila, when did that GSW come in?" one of the nurses called out.

"About twenty minutes ago," Lila replied.

"Do you know where the immediate family is?" the nurse asked.

Vince was about to reply when he saw the team coming through the front doors. He stood up and waited for them to come up to him. Letty looked like walking death, and everyone else didn't look much better.

"Where is she?" Letty asked. She was near tears.

"She's in surgery...The doctors are having trouble getting the bullet out."

"Oh God," Letty said. She covered her mouth with her hand, but it didn't hide the sob that she let out. Dom wrapped his arms around her waist and pulled her towards him.

"How-how many times was she shot?" Dom asked.

The sight of seeing Letty cry had disoriented him.

"Twice. One bullet grazed her left shoulder and the other hit her in her lower abdomen."

Letty began to sob harder.

"Who would do this?" Leon asked.

Letty wiped her tears away, the best she could.

"The same people who killed Carter," she replied.

Vince looked around at everyone. They all seemed to be thinking the same. 'They're after her again.'

"That mean the cops will be around," Jesse pointed out.

"Shit, it does," Vince replied.

"Don't worry," Dom said. "We haven't done anything wrong...this time."

The team just kind of stood there until a doctor walked up to them.

"I need to see a relative of Jocelyn Rodriguez-Garcia."

"That would be me," Letty said as she stepped out of Dom's embrace.

"And you would be?"

"I'm her step-sister, Leticia Rodriguez."

"Ms. Rodriguez, I'm Dr. Jones. I operated on your sister earlier."

"How's she doing?" Letty asked. She could feel her hands shaking.

"She's doing remarkable well. The surgery was a success. The bullet missed all of her vital organs; however, she did lose a lot of blood. So for the next couple of weeks, she will need to rest. She shouldn't walk on her own or do any activities that require a lot of energy."

Letty nodded. "Exactly how long?"

"A week maybe two. It all depends on how well she's healing."

"When can I see her?" Letty asked.

"She's still asleep, but you can go in now, if you want. She's in C324"

Letty smiled. "Thank you so much, Dr. Jones."

"You're welcome. I'm just glad that I could be of service."

Letty said good-bye to the doctor and turned around to face the team.

"We'll wait for ya," Dom said.

Letty smiled and turned around. She slowly walked down the hall towards room C324. She had never been so scared in her life.