AN: I just want to thank anyone who has read and review this story since my last update. Forgive me for such a long wait...life doesn't wait and I apologize sincerely. In this chapter Letty's daughter in SWAT will be five years b/c it make more sense and her name is Eliza. As for Mia's son his name is Brian Anthony and he will also be five years old. Thank you all and please read and review. I'll try not to keep you all waiting for long.
-Rachel

In Mexico
Dom is sitting on the white sands of Acapulco watching the moonlight resting peacefully among the smooth quiet waves of the ocean. He imagined so many times sitting in there with Letty letting her know how much she meant to him. Now, alone, his thoughts consume him.

How could I be so consumed in what we were doing that I risked the lives of the people I love the most?

How could I leave my home and my family at the time they need me the most? But the answer is simple, I did it for them.

Being locked like an animal changes the person, I know. I didn't want that for them. I don't want them to go through the hell I went through in Lompoc.

I will return home one day, but first I have to become a better man. I have to become a man that will learn to respect his family, put them first above all, and respect the woman I love.

I've cheated. After so many promises I kept cheating. I don't know why I cheated when I had the love of my life, but I always ended up breaking my promise. Why dammit? I don't know.

I kept hurting her, making her fell useless and I hate myself for that. I haven't loved someone else like her, she's my counterpart. She's knows what ticks me off and what soothes me. She's knows me inside out and no other woman can come close to Letty. She stuck it out with me thinking I would change; I don't blame her if she moves on.

Man what are you saying! But who are you to keep her confined to someone who doesn't respect her? If you truly love her, you'll let her find someone better for her.

His thoughts where interrupted by a woman's voice.

"Dominic? Dominic Torreto?"

Dom stands and puts his guard up. "Yeah?"

"Is it really you? What is the King of the L.A streets doing so far away from his throne?"

"What can I say? The need to conquer drove me here. Do I know you?"

"You should asshole. I ran with you and your crew for a few months. But you know getting my ass kicked by your girlfriend wasn't pleasant."

Dom looks at her more carefully and remembers. He smirks, "Well do you blame her? After all you and I where sleeping together Erika."

She smirks too, "Did she kick your ass too?"

He grins, "Yeah she did and kicked me out for a week. But all that is history now. How you join be for drinks and tell me what you've been up to."

"I didn't think so Torreto." She says. "I'm not in the mood to hand her ass to her tonight. She does owe me one for that black eye though."

Dominic laughs, "You don't have to worry about her. We kinda broke up."

Erika is skeptical but doesn't push on the subject. "Well sorry to hear that. So what brings you to Mexico Torreto?"

"I should be asking the same question."

Erika raised one eyebrow so Dom answers first.

"Aight, I'm trying something new, maybe start over again. You? What brings you here?"

"My brother brought me here, to bail him out of trouble like always. Since you're here, why don't you come with me tonight and see how the streets run here."

"You race?"

"Surprised?"

"Indeed."

Erika smiles, "Then you coming?"

"I got nothing else to do."

Soon Dominic started to run with Erika. His emotions for Letty where the same but decided to move on, thinking that she had done the same. Erika made him forget his past, put it behind him and make him into a better man, into a family man.

Five years later

Letty POV
Could things go back to normal after five years of trying? I surely hope so. I find myself wondering if I have made the right choices to save my family from anymore pain and worries. Yeah...there were probably other ways out to our problems, but at that moment choosing to join the police academy was the best way out.

I had to save my family from the hell we all saw Dom go through. I was not going to lose my family, not to some demented twist of fate that would have left them cage like animals. I had to save my family from falling into freaking pieces after our so call leader decided to just disappear and left us to mend ourselves. I had to make choices, that or lose everything.

My life has changed dramatically. I'm no longer hiding in someone else's shadow. I'm no longer a trophy, I'm the one making or breaking the fools that dare to step up to me. I don't dominate the racing world, my team and I do, and together we've made a whole set of new rules. As an officer, I control my surroundings. No one can out run me, no one can overpower me. My trials and tribulations, my struggles and beatings from life have made me stronger and wiser in this game.

I've learned to keep on fighting trying to dodge shooting bullets, crazy drivers, everything that I confront, to come home to my family but most importantly my daughter.

Eliza is my pride and joy, the only thing I've done right in this fucked up world of mine. She's the reason behind my battle, my survival, to give her the world she deserves. Her father might have walked out of her life before he knew about her, but I'm her shield and her armor, and in return she's my inspiration.

Dom has become a memory, a bitter sweet memory. The man I loved, the man I defied the limits for, no longer exists. That man walked out of my life, my heart, the minute he chose his own back over standing with us fighting to protect our freedom. Five years to forget about him, five years to move on.

Life seems a bit more relaxed without the hassle Dom would create. Vince can show his potential on and off the black top, no longer competing for attention from fellow street racers. He also found Taylor to keep him grounded. Leon can make his own decisions without going through Dom first. His designs have become everyone's desires from the minute he started showing off his mad skills. Mia can live without her chip on her shoulder, her bodyguard. She can finally breathe and no longer look out for him either. She can focus on giving Brian Anthony a good home. But I think she misses him. As for Jesse, Jesse is free to do whatever he feels like doing, in cases, whomever, and feel no pressure to perform to Dom's level or his demand of perfection, just his own. Jesse has learned to live again, to live for himself, and no one else, and we've learned to love him even more.

Brian POV
Business is doing well. After helping Customs get Carter Varone in Miami, Rome and I decided to stick it out here.

I saw a new opportunity to start fresh, to start from scratch. I had earned my reputation on the streets, and I was not called "Bullet" for nothing. I learned to be not to be good, but great, and Rome and Tej became business partners with Tej.

The only thing that was missing was the life I had left behind. The woman I had left behind five years ago.

Any man would consider himself lucky if they were where I am right now but sincerely I still feel incomplete.

Sometimes I still feel like I left certain things unfinished but to finish them would mean to go back.

A certain fear comes over me when the thought of going back would mean or would bring.

Exactly what I'm afraid of I'm not sure but the fear is there.

Maybe the fear is that I sacrificed everything I knew, my life that I used to live and dreamt of for her only to see her now happy in someone's arms.

Subconsciously I think I believed that everything would go back to normal but things didn't start normal between us.

I knew I had to leave for her sake and her friends. I had to give everything that I knew for a family that I felt I was part of.

As corny as it sounds, I still feel part of that family even if many years have gone by without seeing them.

"You still thinking about her man? When are you going to make up your mind and call her? What do you have to lose?"

Rome was the only one who understood. He was the only one that knew that part of me stayed in L.A. even after so long.

"I can't."

"Why Brian? Because you don't have the balls to do so? Yeah…I know. But can't live like this forever man. Sooner or later you'll have to reach her man or you'll end up in the loony bin my friend for a broken heart."

"Real cool Rome, real cool. It's not that I don't have the guts to call her man. I tried, but…"

"But what Bri?"

"It's easier said than done Rome. I did a lot of damage to them. I don't know if Vince or Jesse made it out alive out of the whole ordeal. I don't know if the team still lives in LA. I don't know that they would want to listen to me."

"I don't think their opinion matter only that of Mia bro. You're not happy with Monica even after five years of on and off. You're not completely happy even there's women everywhere here man, Mia has you crazy. Call her."