For Dottylove1327
Precious Treasure
Letty had rolled into the garage like a thunder cloud, all dark and stormy and rather likely to direct a lightning strike at anyone who got too close. Luckily, from his point of view, Vince had just been on his way out as she had been coming in so he got to avoid the storm. Though he did pause long enough in his escape to remind Letty that, 'no matter what, I got your back'. But while Vince might have Letty's back he obviously didn't have Dom's as he'd left him to deal with the girl alone.
Normally that would have been a very bad move. But normally Dom was the reason for Letty's dark mood. This time he knew he hadn't done anything that would have bothered her so the source of her bad temper had to stem from someone else. That narrowed the field considerable as there were very few people who where able to get Letty wound up. Of course when she was upset…
"Are you going to tell me?" He asked after five minuets of mulish silence and only a swift kiss of greeting. Whatever had upset her was obviously big.
Letty glared and blew smoke and snarled but Dom just stood there while she huffed and puffed like the big bad wolf. It was a waiting game, it always was with her, but he knew if he gave it enough time she would eventually cave and tell him everything. She did. Her father's latest tore of duty was being extended and her mother wasn't taking the news particularly well, which was only to be expected. So her mother had sobbed and then Letty had snapped so her mother had said something callous and then Letty had said something harsh.
It was the same old same old, the Ortiz woman were always snipping at each other, it was how they communicated. If left to it they would have fought and then sulked and then made up and been all the stronger for it. Everything would have been fine, except that Letty's paternal grandmother had been there and had had to add her two cense worth. So what would have been a normal spat had turned into a dressing followed by a lecture on just how much of a failure Leticia Ortiz was.
Would it really have killed her to wear a nice dress every once in a while, did she always have to go around in filthy jeans like a dirty little child. Didn't she know that men like real ladies not nasty masculine girls who spent their time messing around with cars? Letty had wanted to snap back the Dom liked her just fine the way she was, but since her grandmother disapproved of 'that Toretto boy' it would only have made matters that much worse.
And her grades weren't good enough, if she carried on this way she'd never graduate. Why couldn't she be more like her cosines who were all wonderful and elegant and who could all sing and cook and play at least one instrument. One was already married and two more were engaged and Letty was going to become an old maid because no man would every want her with her uncouth ways and unfeminine appearance.
And the old woman had just gone on and on and had then started on Letty's mother saying that she should have raised the child better and what had her only son been thinking marrying such a woman.
That was the point at which Letty had snapped and screamed out a string of profanities that had the old bitch clutching at her chest as if she were having a heart attack. Though she'd need to find a heart first. She'd snarled a final commanded for the woman to leave her mother alone and then run out of the house. She hadn't stopped until she reached the garage.
"You know you should just ignore her. She's nothing but a vindictive old cow who knows nothing outside her own shallow world." And it was true, the few times he'd met the woman Dom had been amazed that someone that blinkered to real life could survive. "Beside you know she's wrong, you know you're special."
"I keep telling you, I'm not." Letty snapped back at him, irritated that she'd told him the whole sad sorry story and he couldn't even be bothered to take it seriously. It was alright for him, he didn't have the old dragon constantly looking down on him, telling him he wasn't good enough and constantly pointing out how everything he did was wrong.
"But you are special though. You're a one of a kind gem Letty." Dom said turning back to what he'd been doing and there for only caught sight of Letty shaking her head in frustration from the corner of his eyes.
But the small action was enough to cause him to stop and turn back to face her. He'd thought she was simply denying what he said the same way any girl would, fishing for a second complement. But as he stared at Letty in shocked wonder he realised just how wrong he was. "You really don't believe that do you?"
"It's true." Letty snipped and this time it was she who turned away because she didn't like the way Dom was looking at her as if he were trying to see into the very heart of her.
"Shit. That's you isn't it?" Dom said as he rubbed a hand over his face and then his head. "That's why. All this attitude, all this lip because you really think you're not worth it."
"Shut up." She hunched her shoulders and would have walked off if Dom hadn't suddenly grabbed her from behind. Before Letty could even think of pushing him off his arms were around her, holding her in a vice like grip and he crushed her tightly to him.
"All this time and I didn't get it and I'm so sorry Letty. I should have seen, I should have known." He was almost curled around her his face buried in her head and his breath hot against her scalp when he spoke. "There you are shouting at the world because no one's listening."
"Dom…" She made his name into a plea partly because she didn't believe what he was saying but also because she knew if he carried on her control would fail. Her eyes prickled with the burning itch that warned of tears.
"You are so precious to me, that if I could I'd lock you away from the rest of the world just so I'd have you to myself." Dom turned his head so that he could rest his cheek against her hair as he felt the first sob rock her body. "You're everything Letty, just everything."
(A/N) What can I say? This makes me happy so I hope it makes you all happy too.
Lamanth xx