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 25

Letty's POV

We had a girl that first time. Named her Maria. Maria Josephine. Then we had a boy. Anthony Edward. My Papi loved that one. His only complaint; that they sounded too Italian. He always ragged us about abandoning our Spanish roots when naming our children. We never did get married though. I suppose we will one day. After this one is born. And we swear that this one will have a Spanish name. Somewhere in there anyway.

I can't say this enough though. I never expected that this would be my life. I'm happy about it. Believe me. There aren't any words to describe just how happy I am. But it's unexpected. That's another thing I've learned though. Life is full of unexpected happiness. Most of the time, you end up far from where you started, somewhere you least expected. But along the way, there are things that link you back to the beginning. Like the garage. We both still work there. Me not so much at the moment. I don't think I would fit under a car right now. We still live in the Toretto house. Granted its a bit different now. We did a lot of work on it before Tony was born and since.

Dom, Vince, Leon and Jesse managed to get the entire upstairs remodelled before Tony was born and then moved on to Vince and Mia's house. They finished the remodelling on their second floor before Joey was born. That's what we call Jonathon. A little different from the traditional shortening of the name but Mia and Vince had insisted. Mama had cried and pulled Mia into her arms when she'd told us. It was a very sweet and beautiful gesture. Strangely enough Joey is just like his namesake, despite the fact that they have no blood relationship. I suppose it was just meant to be.

If you'd asked me where I'd be now, a couple of years ago or even 1 year ago, my answer wouldn't have even resembled the life I know now and I'm glad that I would have been wrong. Because I wouldn't change a thing. As crazy as that may sound it's true. I wouldn't even change all the bad things because they all led us right here, to where we are now. I love my daughter, I love my son. I love my man. Dom is a wonderful father. We will get married one day, I would love to call him my husband and be his wife. I never thought I would actually want to get married but then I had never really thought about kids either. Saying that, marriage is not something that either of us really need, but it is something we've talked about and decided that we want. We haven't told Mama yet or she'd be dragging me to venues and churches and talking about dresses and I would much rather spend my weekend right here. In the back yard of our house, that we can now say is finished. The remodelling of the downstairs having had the final touches put on it yesterday when the plumber had turned the water back on in the bathroom.

Sitting here watching my 3 year old daughter show my 1 year old son how to play with his toy. Their cousin giggling from his perch on his grandmother's lap, my mama. Dom and Mia dropped the first names finally after the kids were born. It's just Mama and Papi now. And it's the most amazing thing to see Mia laughing again. She hasn't laughed like this since before Maria died. Dom has never been this happy and I don't think my parents have either. But most surprisingly is that I've never been this happy. In this life that I couldn't have imagined in my wildest dreams, I found a peace I've never known before and a joy more astounding than I ever thought possible, that it's palpable.

I've never felt this grateful for Dom either. There's a respect, trust and love in our relationship now that hadn't been there before. Don't get me wrong, we've always loved, respected and trusted each other, just no where near the extent that we do now. And thank god the passion is still there, stronger than ever. People always say it fades, believe me, it hasn't gone anywhere. We don't fight like we used to, but that hasn't stopped us from 'making up'.

I can't begin to tell you the peace there is in having someone you love, love you and create a life with them. It's amazing. I understand my mama and Papi so much more now. There is no greater joy than holding your child in your arms. No greater pain than when they cry. No greater love than when they smile at you and call you mama. I didn't get it before. I get it now. It's not just about me, or me and Dom. The kids are above everything. They make us better, stronger, greater. Dom used to say that it was like we live two lives; life before you start to drive and life after. I used to agree with that. I still do to an extent. But the two lives you live are really the life before you find love and the life after. Even more so; life before children and life after.

He's a wonderful father you know. Absolutely fantastic. He can make Ria laugh when she's crying. He can pick up Tony, hold him so his head is resting over his heart and he calms immediately. He makes them feel so safe and loved. I can see it. When they look at him, they see a tower of strength, a fountain of love, their daddy. He's their hero. And I completely understand it. Cause as stupid as I feel admitting it out loud, he's my hero too. Not because he's still the fastest driver in California. Not because he's also the best mechanic. Not because he's so physically strong. But because he's the father of my children, the love of my life, and my strength when the world is too heavy to hold up on my own. I don't know what I would do without him and I hope to god I never find out.

He's standing at the grill right now, making lunch, laughing with the guys, teasing Mia. Every now and then he looks over his shoulder toward me and winks or smiles at me. I know the minute his eyes are on me and I make sure I turn toward him every time. It's just a normal Sunday at the Toretto house and I wouldn't want to be anywhere else in the world.

Oh wow. That was a big kick. The little one is active today. Oh no… that wasn't a kick. Someone is suddenly eager to meet everyone. I guess I'm going to have to be somewhere else today after all.

TBC…

Author's Note:
Ok people. One more chapter and an epilogue to go. I'm posting this chapter now because I won't be able to post anything until monday night at the earliest. So I hope you like this chapter and please review.

Also, I just went over to and have seen that they decided to finally give Letty a last name. Which of course is not that same name that I gave her. But what can you do.

Hope you like this chapter guys, and I'll be back monday or tuesday with the next chapter. xx