Behind Closed Doors
My second Dom and Letty fic
Based off Furious 7 guys and gals so if you haven't seen the movie, read at own risk….
Disclaimer: I don't own any of the characters though if I did I'd be locking Dom in a cage and keeping him as a pet ;)
Chapter 2: Demons
Letty was sat out the back of the O'Conner home, her own and Dom's just weeks away from being finished, catching the blazing LA sun. Dom was tinkering with a Charger he'd "acquired" with Brian and Mia had gone to pick Jack up from day care.
Letting her mind trip back she recalled holding Dom in the middle of a collapsed carpark. Her "Flood" as she'd named it had been just that, but just as Dom predicted regaining her memory hadn't been plain sailing. She'd told him she could handle it when in fact remembering had brought with it a whole new world of issues, nightmares and occasionally, sleep walking, which wouldn't have been so bad if Letty had known the O'Conner house like she did 1327. She could perfectly recall every room in the house down to the last detail. But, here was different and she'd taken a tumble down the stairs just nights ago, giving Mia a panic attack and causing Dom to place a baby gate on their bedroom door.
The nightmares bothered her, sure she'd had a rough childhood, losing her father at 13 and her mother days before her 19th birthday, but she'd kicked and punched her way through grief and occasionally, when they were alone, giving into racking sobs as Dom held her. But she'd gotten through it. She'd dealt with losing Jesse by allowing Leon to talk her down when they reached Mexico and again, losing herself in Dom when he finally showed up a few weeks later, as well as frequent communication with Mia. She couldn't remember what the nightmares were about, they were wall of bright colour and fast motion. She put it down to the crash caused by Fenix and the subsequent explosion, she barely remembered waking up in the hospital but she remembered everything else, from when Owen Shaw showed up, convincing her of a reality she couldn't comprehend til she was in the middle of it. They'd down cities in a matter of hours, never leaving without causing destruction. Letty felt guilty as she thought about the people, innocents, that had died or been injured in the crossfire of Shaw's unrelenting agenda. That's where her issues lay. Guilt. Guilt that Dom had tried convincing her want her fault, she knew no better than what Shaw had planted in her head. Brian had told her the whole thing was his fault but still, even now she couldn't let him take the blame, she'd gone to him and he had tried his damn best to talk her out of going in under cover, explaining that agents were dead and there had to be another way to bring Dom home. Letty almost laughed out loud when she realised she'd done just that. She had brought him hurtling back to LA, but she just wasn't around to see it, while friends and Mia had been "Burying" her, she'd actually been tearing down half of Prague with Shaw and his team. Yes, she definitely felt guilty even though Dom told her she had no reason too.
Letty was startled out of her reverie when she heard Jack running up the drive shouting on her. She was an aunt. She could barely take that in formation in either. She'd always known Mia was going to be a mother someday she just wasn't expecting it to be with O'Conner, though she'd known, on some deep level that Mia hadn't never really gotten over him in the first place, Her best friend had had her family ripped apart, abandoned in LA and lost Brian, who despite having caused most of it, she still cried for him. It had taken months, and though she'd dated a few people from college, somehow it had never gone anywhere.
"Aunt LETTTTTTYYYYYYY…. Look at my shoes!"
Letty sat up and smiled at the 2 year old, who was currently standing in front of her in dark shorts a royal blue Tshirt and stomping his little "Cars" encased feet making lights flash on the side. Dom and Brian came out of the garage to meet both Mia and Jack and Dom placed a kiss on Letty's lips which she openly welcomed, her love for him stronger than ever and one of very few things keeping her whole as she battled with her demons, something Dom was only too happy to be helping her with. He held her on the nights she had nightmares, constantly reassured her, and gave her space when he knew she needed it but stepped in when it looked like she was brooding.
"Wow!" Letty cried picking him up and sitting him on her lap "Do you think they'll fit me?"
"Don't be silly, there for boys and you're a girl!" the two year replied, as if it was obvious
"So you caved?" Brian laughed and kissed Mia
"Yes but it's not my fault he has big blue puppy dog eyes!"
Brian laughed and Dom grinned.
Jack slid off Letty's lap, grabbed his stuffed dragon from his mother's grasp and proceeded to stomp around the backyard all the while looking at his feet.
As the four adults watched him, Letty let herself simply be in the moment. Happy. Content.
As long as she was outside, she could be simply Letty, Her demons could wait behind closed doors.