Title: Through Another's Eyes

Rating: T

Ship: Dom/Letty

Description: A background, foreground and future fic surrounding Dom and Letty and the circumstances invloved in the movie. Answering a lot of questions the movie left open.

Disclaimer: I wish. The things I could do with Dominic. ;)

Chapter 9

Letty's POV

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The first night Dom was home from prison was one of the happiest and hardest of my life. I couldn't believe he was there. I'd missed him so much. I actually screamed when I saw him and just ran to him. I jumped into his arms, wrapping my legs around him. I swear I did something completely embarrassing. I mauled him in front of my parents. But I'd missed him so much and I was so happy to see him. It was great, sitting with him, being able to touch him and talk to him. But it became difficult later that night. Mama and Papi didn't say a word when we both went up to his room to bed, but out of respect we both said we wouldn't do anything until we were alone. My parents knew that and let us be. This is where it became difficult. Dom had always been incredibly good looking, with a beautiful body. But when he came back he was... hot. I'd never been more attracted to him in my life, and believe me, I didn't think it was possible to be more attracted to Dom than I already was.

We kissed, we hugged, we even touched. But we never crossed the line. It was killing me, but we didn't. It had been two whole years since he'd touched me, and my body screamed for him. But we managed, with great effort, to keep our hands to ourselves... mostly. I can't imagine how difficult it must have been for Dom. But we were good. We got up in the morning and we went downstairs for breakfast. We made some lame excuse to get outta there, something about showing Dom how the garage had changed. The garage hadn't changed. We drove to a motel a few miles away. We actually paid to stay somewhere for the day and have sex. It sounds so ridiculous now. But back then, it was all we could do. We'd learned from experience that cars were good for quickies in the back seat, but we were going to need some room to move. Two years... It had been two whole years.

That day was incredible. To this day I can't stop smiling like a fool thinking about it. But that's ok, cause neither can Dom. When we emerged that afternoon and went home we got some interesting looks from my parents before they shook their heads at us and waved us away. We went into the living room and collapsed on the sofa to watch a movie with Mia. At some point during the movie I got up to get some drinks and heard my Mama and Papi talking in Spanish. They were in the kitchen and they had huge smiles on their faces. They were talking about how happy they were to have Dom home. It was stupid, I really should have known better than to open my mouth. I entered in on the conversation saying how happy I was that he was home too. Mama smiled at me, Papi didn't look pleased.

"We'd noticed chica." Mama had continued in Spanish. I blushed beet red just as Dom entered the room. He filled up the door way with his large frame now. He saw me blushing and looked at my parents. I blushed deeper as he looked between us.

"God he's huge." Papi had stated, still in his native tongue. I looked down to the floor. If I looked at Dom I was going to burst out laughing. He was completely expressionless as we continued talking around him.

"You going to be able to handle him now chica?" Mama drawled with a wink. Spanish in a drawl sounds interesting and Dom raised an eye brow at her. My blushing took on a whole new level.

"Oh for god's sake Mama. Dom can speak Spanish, remember? That's just wrong, Mama." I spoke in English. Mama didn't even flinch, she just smiled and nodded.

"I taught him, remember?" Mama asked sarcastically as Papi laughed. I couldn't believe it when I heard Dom chuckle. This was beyond embarrassing.

"I can't believe you said that Luce." Dom spoke, his Spanish perfect. Mama smiled at him and laughed. She stood up and walked past him out the room, swatting him on the backside as she left, Papi laughing as he followed her.

Dom walked over to me as I leaned against the counter. He came right up close to me and leaned against his hands, either side of me, on the counter. He was completey invading my space, his hips pressing against mine, and I was loving every minute of it. He leaned in and kissed me softly before chuckling.

"So... tell me bella. Are you?" He spoke in Spanish, and it sounded amazing coming from him. I knew what he was talking about immediately, I didn't need further explanation.

"I handled you just fine today, didn't I?" I drawled in English. We'd done this before. Had a conversation in two languages.

"Mmm... yes you did." He moaned. He actually moaned instead of speaking and I felt it all through my body. As we attacked each other's mouths Mia came in saying how disgusting we were and to cut it out. We laughed as we watched her go to the fridge and leave the room, but we never made any attempt to move from our position.

We were enjoying ourselves. Enjoying being with each other before life intruded once more. At least this time, it was without tragedy, this time it was just the everyday mundane. We had to go back to work. I gotta admit. I love working with Dom everyday. Being able to see him. To know his day and have him know mine. We started going to street races again too. Dom immediately took back his position. There was no discussion, or fighting, or big noting. Hector saw us drive up, saw Dom get out of the car, and immediately asked him how we were doing it that night. It was like Hector had just been filling in for him while Dom was gone. It was so cool watching him take charge of the crowd again. Seeing him in his element, and happy. The girls went straight for him as they always did, only now he was that much better looking and they were trying harder.

I walked up to them and with only a scowl and a raised eyebrow they backed away. Dom just smiled and pulled me to him, kissing me deeply in front of them all. It was his way of telling them to back off, that he was taken and he wasn't interested. And hell, I was just fine with his methods. I got a little more terratorial with him after Lompoc. Ok, a lot. But I'd lost him to that place for 2 years. I wasn't go to lose him again. Certainly not to some stupid skank bitch and a mistake I wouldn't be able to forgive him for. Now don't get me wrong. I've never actually feared that Dom would cheat on me. He loves me, I know that, and I'm finally secure in that. What I've never been secure in, is the fact that other girls knew that.

But they were never really our problem. We were the problem. Our own worst enemy. We had so much baggage in our lives. So much pain we'd both been through. We were naive to think that everything could go back to normal, back to the way things had been, when Dom got home. It wasn't going to happen. Of course, a part of me knew to expect changes in him. But I didn't think that I would see them so soon. I didn't think that it would happen right in front of me that first night at the races. The same night we met Jesse.

TBC...

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