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 11

Letty's POV

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So Dom made a deal with Tran. That is pretty common knowledge now. And you know the common question? Why. That's what everyone is asking. Why. But you see, he had no choice. I know that. I didn't at the beginning. But I do now. And I don't blame him. He did what he had to. And so did I.

You see, that night Tran came to the house, I knew it only spelled trouble. But I didn't stop Dom and I probably should have at least tried. But I've learned you can't dwell on the 'should have's'. They'll bury you. Tran offered Dom a deal that night. One that, under normal circumstances Dom wouldn't have taken. But we weren't under normal circumstances.

You should probably know what the deal was. Tran offered to send business the garage's way. A whole lot of it. On top of that, he could get us a good deal on some custom parts. He swore up and down that it was legit. But nothing with Johnny Tran is. The deal doesn't seem so great when you look at it like that. But you need some background information. The reason Dom took the deal. We were in debt. A lot of it. And we were in trouble. Papi had done the best he could while Dom was away. But there had been so many bills after Tony's death. Ones that were still lingering from Maria's illness. There were mortgage payments for both houses. There was just too much. We all did everything we could but we weren't cutting it. Papi never told us and neither did Dom. We were sinking and Dom thought this was a way to get out.

He took the deal and everything was going great for a while there. We even got on top of the mortgage payments. The garage was so busy that the five of us were run off our feet. It was great and it was a lot of fun but none us knew what was happening. I don't think Dom even knew. If he had, we would have, when he tried to get us out of it.

It wasn't until the parts weren't delivered for a Honda we were working on that Dom found out something was up. He went into the office to make a call. Told us he was going to see what the delay was. It was the truth, he was calling Tran. That's when Dom found out. The parts were stolen. I know, of course they were. But that's just where it got better and better. The deal seemed way too good to be true, even with the stolen parts. Tran wasn't making anything out of it. That is until he dropped the bomb. He knew the one thing he could hold against Dom, and everything he'd done was to get to that point, where he could use his trump card. Dom wouldn't go back to prison. He'd die first.

Tran threatened to call the cops. Tell them that we were running stolen parts out of the garage. Dom would definitely go to jail. Everything was off the books. It looked beyond suspicious. Dom did the only thing he could. He asked Tran what he wanted. That's how we got into the heists. Tran wanted the trucks. He had the plan, but he needed the drivers. Where else would you go to get drivers, than Toretto's? Exactly. He'd sucked us in and we'd played right into his hands.

That's when I found out. Everyone thinks that Dom talked me in to it. They probably think it was really twisted and he'd done it in bed. It wasn't like that. He hadn't meant me to know. I'd come home from the garage one day. I don't know when I started thinking of Dom's as home, I still spent most nights at my house, but then, I did spend a lot there too. I came home and the guys were out back talking. They didn't spot me as I walked out. I heard them setting it up. I stood there stunned. I couldn't believe what I was hearing. Dom was only a year out of prison and he was doing something that would land him right back in there.

He didn't even know I was there until I was standing right behind him and the guys were looking at me, dread all over their faces. He turned and looked up at me slowly. He tried to smile at me.

"Hey baby" He knew he was sprung. I looked at him shaking my head. I think there was even tears in my eyes. I was terrified and I couldn't believe what I'd heard.

"Don't even." I said and stormed away from him into the house. I went upstairs and I knew he was following me. I went to slam the bedroom door, our bedroom door, but I whirled around when I didn't hear it. He was standing there and he looked so... remorseful.

"Let. You gotta hear me." It was the wrong thing for him to say to me at that moment. My fear had made me angry. As it tends to do. We got into a huge fight. He ended up screaming the reason he was doing this at me. Why he had no choice. The argument came to an abrupt holt and for the first and only time, it wasn't because we'd lunged at each other, kissing the life out of each other. I sat down on the bed staring straight ahead as he explained everything to me. I was in shock I guess. I'd had no idea things were so bad. He finished telling me every detail and we just sat there. In silence. Dom picked up my hand and laced his fingers through mine.

"I'm coming with you." I didn't even realise I'd said it out loud at first. It was just the first thing that came into my mind. If Dom was doing this, if he was going to go down, I was going with him.

"You can't Bella." He was shaking his head. It wasn't what I wanted to hear. I stood abruptly and looked at him.

"You can't stop me." I screamed. He stood, preparing himself for another fight.

"I will not allow you to go." His jaw was tight as he spoke. A vein in his neck pulsing with the effort to restrain himself.

"You can't stop me. You think you're going to go out there and risk your life, our lives together, and I'm just going to sit here and do nothing? You've got another thing coming Toretto. I will not be left behind again. I love you too damn much." I remember screaming at him, then something a lot more familiar. His lips on mine.

TBC…

I know, I know, this took a lifetime to get up, and I'm really really sorry. Forgiven? I promise this fic is not dead, so please stick with it. And please review! Thanks. xx