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 20

Dom's POV

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I look back now on my first experience with a pregnancy induced hormone surge with mixed emotions. On the one hand Letty had been completely wacko. On the other… she'd gotten really… frisky. That was also the night that Lett and I started sharing a room again. Things between us became a lot more relaxed then. We were really starting to resemble our old selves again… with a few improvements. We were better to each other… nicer… more like before Lompoc and yet… I don't know how to explain it… things were just better.

It was such an amazing time then. Watching Letty's belly slowly swell as the baby grew. It made it all the more real, and an entirely mind blowing experience. I can't begin to explain what it's like to watch your girls stomach expand, knowing that it's because there is a life that you helped create growing inside her. It's amazing. And concealed safely down in Mexico, in our own little world, nothing could touch us. We were free to just enjoy each other.

Of course it couldn't last forever. We both knew that we had to go home eventually. Letty was really starting to miss Luce and Eddie too. She'd get this far away look in her eyes and I knew she was thinking about them. And truth be told, I was missing them too. Letty hadn't spoken to them since the day we left for race wars. Neither had I for that matter. But Lett had never gone more than a day without speaking to at least one of her parents. But it had been weeks. I knew she was dreading the conversation. And I knew that she wasn't ready to have it. I should have talked to her about it. But at the time I was struggling with a few issues of my own.

Lett would pump Mia for information on her parents every time she called. We knew that Luce and Eddie knew about the heists, knew about the trouble we'd gotten ourselves in. But they also knew that we were safe, and Mia assured Lett that they had been so relieved that she wasn't hurt, that was all they cared about. It gave her comfort. She feared that they hated her, or worse, they were ashamed. Mia told her that they weren't. I told her that they weren't. But Lett couldn't believe it until it came from them. It was the one thing she couldn't bare. Her greatest fear was disappointing her parents.

I wanted so bad to be able to turn to Lett and tell her that it was all going to be ok cause we'd go home and see Luce and Eddie and they could tell her themselves. But the truth of the matter was that I had no idea. I didn't know what was going on with the cops, or Brian. The conversations I'd had with my sister didn't give anything away. She didn't know anything and she hadn't heard from Brian. It had only been a few weeks, but the wait was agony.

If we weren't going to be able to go home, we just wanted to know so we could at least make arrangements to have the most important elements of home brought to us. If we had to make a life for ourselves on our little beach in Mexico we sure as shit were going to have our family with us.

I never gave anything away to Lett, but I had started to think that that was exactly what we were going to have to do. That we were going to have to settle down in Mexico and prepare to bring our child into the world there. I didn't want to give up the hope that we would be able to return home, but as each day passed, it got harder and harder to convince my self of the possibility.

How on earth were we going to tell Eddie and Luce? It was a question that ran through my head constantly. But I didn't want to burden Letty with it. It was bad enough… the things we'd done… the things I'd done… how on earth was I going to tell them that we could never come home? How was I going to tell them that their grandchild would be born in Mexico and never know the life they'd worked so hard to create in Los Angeles? How was I going to tell them that they were going to be grandparents?

It's not exactly something they should hear over the phone. Lett was still so young… we weren't married, hadn't even talked about marriage. And as accepting as Eddie and Luce are, they were always traditionalists. The fact that their grandchild would be born out of wedlock was going to be a big problem for them. Luce would want to hear it from Letty, in person, not over the phone. She'd want to be able to place her hand on Lett's stomach, to hug her and whisper all the things that mother's whisper to their daughter's when they find out they're going to be mother's too. Luce would need to be able to do all of those things or she'd feel cheated. Lett would need her to do all those things. She was frightened enough as it was, her mother was the only person now who could reassure her. As much as I wished it could be me, I've come to learn that there are times when a girl just needs her mother.

TBC…

Sorry for the long wait. I just had a lot of trouble getting my thoughts together this time around. Hope I have better luck with the next chapter. But we are getting to the end people, so please hang in there. And remember... I love reviews!!