Title: Through Another's Eyes

Rating: T

Ship: Dom/Letty

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

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

Chapter 14

Dom's POV

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In one night our whole lives changed. Of course at the time we didn't realise it. But by opening up our home to Brian that night, I opened a whole new can of worms. I brought him into our house and our lives, and it could have ended very badly.

Letty had told me the next day, just before he dropped off that junk car at the garage that she had a weird feeling about him. That he wasn't who he appeared to be. We'd done a check on him, of course, we had a lot to protect and a lot to lose by trusting the wrong people, and he'd checked out. But we couldn't have known at the time. I wish I had listened to her then. I wish I had listened to her earlier too, but you can't wish things away, and it's pointless now. But she was right. He was hiding something alright.

We fought a lot while we knew him. The more time he spent with us the wearier of him Letty became. We had a fight one night about the heists and everything, the night he went out with Mia. I wasn't happy about their date, so I was pissed off to start with, but while we were planning the latest heist Letty stormed off and all it did was piss me off further. I knew she didn't like what we were doing, hell none of us did, but sometimes you just gotta do shit for your family, to protect them. So I took off after her into the house. I caught up with her in the living room and we got into it. She told me that we shouldn't be doing it now. That it felt wrong doing this while someone new was entering our lives.

"What if he catches us Dom. We don't know that boy for shit, just like Vince said. He could turn us in or god knows what. You're putting your family in danger trusting him." She was just saying what I already knew but I didn't want to hear it. I was so confused and had so much pressure on me that it just pissed me off. I didn't want to face the truth. I just wanted to trust that something good could come into our lives while something horrible was happening. Like it was karma or something. I wanted to believe that Brian could and would be the next Leon, or Jesse. We needed a win and I was riding all of it on him.

"Well, if you're so damn worried Leticia you can just stay home. Cook some dinner or something." Now that pissed her off. I've always known how to piss my girl off, what buttons to push with her, differing with whatever reaction I was aiming to achieve. Playing the 'woman belongs in the home' card was a sure fire way to get to her, and that's exactly what I wanted to do. She glared at me, and she looked so much like her mother in that moment that I had to stop myself from visibly flinching at the sight of the glare that could always make me quake when I was a kid.

"Well Dominic. If you want your woman in the kitchen why don't you just go get one of those racer sluts to service you? Because I sure as shit ain't going to be no slave to you." She didn't yell, but there was so much venom in her voice when she said it.

"Maybe, they'd be a lot less trouble and a lot more appreciative." That really was the wrong thing to say.

"You want one of those girls Dom? Then go ahead. I won't stand in your way. Hell it's not like you love me or anything." She'd had this thing, ever since I got back from Lompoc. She always accused me of not loving her. Of course I know now what that was all about, but at the time, I was clueless. It used to piss me off so much. More than anything else ever could. I've always loved her so much that her accusing me of not loving her seemed like the lowest, and stupidest, thing she could possibly say to me.

"What the FUCK is that supposed to mean?" I yelled at her. I'd lost it by that point. I found out later that Brian had showed up around that time and witnessed our fight. Thank god he hadn't showed up earlier, just like Letty had been trying to explain to me. "I can't believe you just said that!" I really couldn't believe that she thought that I didn't love her. It seemed insane to me. But Lett stood firm. She not only believed it, but she challenged me to deny it. "Of course I fucking love you." A real romantic I was. Yelling that you 'fucking love' someone. Not smooth.

"Say it every once in a while Dom. It really isn't that hard. Its three little words. I know you can get your head around them!" She yelled back at me. I've always loved that about her. She always challenged me. She was never scared to get up in my face, yelling at me, cursing me out, and calling me a moron. It's crazy, and probably a little nasty, but I find it hot. Most people are afraid to disagree with me, let alone call me stupid. I love that she's not. Even if in the heat of the moment, it annoys the shit out of me.

"Don't even try and pull that bullshit with me Leticia. I tell you! But what the hell do you expect me to do? Write it in the god damned sky? This isn't a fucking movie of the week little girl." And that was another button I knew very well. She always hated being viewed as the little tag along. The little girl. I never thought of her that way, but I know there was a time when she was 15 or something when other's thought of her that way. It was an easy button, but it was effective.

"Don't you dare start in with the shit again Dominic. I am not a little girl, and you sure as hell weren't calling me one last night." It always amazed me how she could turn an argument around like that. If I had been in a better mood that alone would have been enough to end the argument and have us moving up the stairs to the bedroom as quickly as we could while still joined together. But I was pissed. I was really pissed.

"You don't like that? There's an easy way to stop being called a little girl Leticia. Stop acting like one!" I was an ass. I'll admit it. I shouldn't have spoken to her like that. I have no excuse for it.

"So it's childish to expect my boyfriend to not eye every little slut that parades her shit in front of him? It's childish to care what happens to you? To want to know whether or not my boyfriend loves me? If you don't love me Dom, why the fuck am I here?" She stunned me silent. That was the first time that I found out just how much everything was hurting her. I wish I could say that I cut all the crap out from then on. But I didn't. I was still so angry. She turned away from me then and it brought me out of my stunned state. I grabbed her arm and stopped her from leaving by pushing her up against the wall. I had this vague sense that someone was in the room, watching us, but I was too wrapped up in Lett to care. The walls could have melted around us to reveal the entire population of California and I wouldn't have cared. All I cared about was Lett's lips, her hips as they rocked against mine and the warmth I could feel against my knee.

I found out later that it was Brian. That he'd seen us fighting from the front porch and when he saw me grab Lett and push her up against the wall he'd freaked, thinking I was going to hurt her. I never would. Ever. But he didn't know that, and he ran in and he got an eyeful for it. I remember telling her I loved her and carrying her up the stairs. I don't know how much Brian saw, and I don't really care.

Of course, the euphoria we experienced after our argument would be short lived. We pulled off another heist later that night. It didn't go as well as the others, but it was done. The last one we had to do to get Tran off our backs. We were supposed to be free. But when the morning came, it brought more trouble. Lett was pissed with me still over the not-so-smooth job and she would only get angrier and angrier with me, but worst of all, soon she would be disappointed in me. And that was something that I had a really hard time dealing with.

TBC…

If you want to read more of the argument Brian witnessed. My fic 'Heat' is the argument in its entirety, from Brian's perspective. An outsider's look. So go check out the companion piece Heat.

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