For Karikocha

Broken Pieces

"Vince?" Is his opening question. It's been three days since the abortive heist. Three days that Leon has spent pacing the floor of every room in the safe house, desperate for news. He'd done what he was told, taken Letty and run, got them both to safety, and now at last Dom has come for them.

"He'll make it." But there is something in Dom's voice that tells Leon that something is wrong, really wrong. He can feel the chill crawling over his skin because he doesn't need anymore bad news right now, but he asks anyway because he needs to know.

"Jesse?" This time Dom doesn't answer, just drops his eyes and looks away, he doesn't need to say anything, Leon knows what he means. And now he has to deliver the bad news of his own. "She's up stairs man… uh, something's happened. Something's broken."

Dom can tell from the way that Leon says it that he doesn't mean a broken bone but he just shrugs helplessly when Dom shoots him a sharp look. He's done the best he can for Letty, cleaned the cuts and scrapes, tried to get her to eat or sleep or anything. But something's gone wrong he can tell. Tell by the way she flinches when he tries to touch her and the way she refuses to meet his eyes. So he left her be because he can't force her to have him around, not when his presence is so obviously making things worse.

Dom finds her in the back bedroom, her body swamped by a once fluffy white bathrobe seated on the floor next to the bed. Her back is pressed to the wall, and wet strands of hair are falling into a face that bares the scars of the accident. She dosen't raise her head to look at him when he enters the room, or when he calls her name. He tells her of Vince and Jesse and there is still no reaction.

Fear is clawing at him, because he can see what Leon meant, there is something very wrong here. Letty isn't Letty anymore something's changed and broken and when he drops to his knees in front of her she still won't look at him. Her legs are drawn up and she's wrapped her arms around them, her head is resting on her knees and her eyes are downcast.

Her skin when he reaches out first to her hand and then her cheek is cold and clammy to the touch. He takes her face in his hands, raising her head so she has to meet his gaze. Her eyes are red and slightly swollen as if she had spent hours crying, and that scares him because Letty dosen't cry, she so strong and brave and nothing every gets to her. But her gaze is empty, dead and there is nothing of the girl he loves in her face anymore.

"Letty," And his voice breaks because he's already lost so much and he can't lose her too. "Letty, come back to me."

He brushes his lips over hers, desperate to call her back from whatever dark place she's fallen into. He can taste the salt of tears in her mouth. "Letty, please."

"You know the funny thing?" At last she speaks, and he almost wishes she hadn't because like her eyes her voice is empty and dead, and if he didn't know something was broken before the tone of her voice tells him. "I didn't even know I was pregnant."

Her voice cracks on the last word, and Dom can feel something in his own chest twist then break as he understands her meaning. And there are fresh tears skating over her cheeks dampening his fingers, and it feels as if the whole world and all he has ever known is falling to pieces.

Tears soak her skin and the sobs shake her body. He pulls her into his lap and holds on as tightly as he can and finally understands that, as strong as she is, Letty can break the same way as everyone else.

(A/N) Not much to say about this one, other then the idea just seemed to fit the prompt so well. I'll try and give you something on a lighter note next time.

Lamanth xx