Chapter 64
They had finally arrived at Race Wars. It was hot over 100 degrees out in the desert. Letty walked around looking at the competition. The beautiful bodywork of several cars caught her attention. She looked at the engine bays checking out what good parts they had. Race Wars was a place were no one had a status, people from neighboring states and cities came to race, to see who had the best car and who had to go back to the garage.
She walked up to Hector's camp looking for Marisol. Marisol looked over at her and smiled "Hey girl wuz up?" both girls hit fist. "Nothing much. How ya living girl?" Letty took the beer that Marisol handed her. "Tryin' to keep cool. So you race yet?" Letty sat down next to Marisol "Nah, we got here about an hour ago, but Dom's being bitchy." Marisol's eyebrow cocked at her friend. "Bitchy?" Letty chuckled lightly "You know the do this, don't do that, help out, sh-t. He wouldn't let us do anything 'till we finished setting up." Marisol groaned. "I see, did he at least help out?"
"Uh-uh, you raced yet?" Letty looked at her friend. "Nah, tomorrow. Tonight I wanna get shitfaced and I wanna fuk." Letty laughed "What yo man aint delivering?" Marisol shook her head "No, says his to busy with Race Wars and all. Told him I was gonna go get finger fuked by some girl. He said it was aight as long as he got to watch." Letty laughed huskily. "What a pendejo."
"I know right? Anyways you going to get shitfaced with me?" Letty chuckled "Not if Mia sees me." Marisol turned to look at her frowning. "Why? Since when do you listen to her? Specking of Mia I want to give her something, lets go and you can explain on the way." Both girls got up and began walking back to the Toretto camp.
"I've been feeling very tired for weeks now and nauseas. Mia says it might be the heat or maybe that I don't drink enough water. She says that I shouldn't be drinking beer cause it'll make it worst." Marisol cocked her eyebrow "You're not pregnant are you?" Letty frowned "No I shouldn't be. At least I don't think I am." Letty began to doubt herself. "Whatcha mean you don't think so?" "Dom and I are always very careful Marisol, he uses a condom and I'm on the pill." Marisol rolled her eyes. "You know it doesn't always work, there's that chance. Have you missed a period?" Letty shook her head "I can't tell like that cause I have irregular periods. I'll get a period one month then I'll miss like 3 months." Marisol sighed "We'll go buy you a pregnancy test when we get back to L.A." Letty rolled her eyes. "If it'll get you to shut up." Letty smirked "Yes it will." Marisol smiled.
Night time came and for the girls that meant fun. Letty went to one of the coolers and got out a Jose Cuervo bottle. She went over to were Mia, Maritza and Marisol were sitting at. "I thought I told you to not drink liquor?" Mia scowled. "Like that ever stopped me." Letty responded. They poured the tequila in shot glasses. By the time they finished all four girls were drunk.
Letty woke up early the next day she turned to find Dominic awake. They had to sleep in a twin bed and well Dominic pretty much took up the whole bed. Letty ended up sleeping on top of him which wasn't comfortable when there was only so much room. She felt her head pounding and her stomach felt queasy. She slowly sat up not remembering how she got in bed and how she ended up in boxers and a shirt. She looked at Dominic who stared back at her, he wasn't pleased to see her.
"What happened?" she asked slowly and groggily. "You got drunk, got lost for about an hour, and vomited all over the trailers floor." he stared at her as she placed her hand on her head. "Oh…did you change me?" her eyes moved over to his brown eyes. "Yeah. You ok?" he finally asked. "Um…" but before she could answer her stomach gave a throbbing jerk, she got out of bed and ran into the small bathroom. "Let, you ok?" Dominic got up going over to stand in the doorway. He knew that she usually didn't vomit after she got drunk. He held her hair back then helped her up. "See why you shouldn't be getting drunk." he walked her over to the bed. "Whatever Dom."
Later that afternoon Letty walked out in her leather black pants and tank top. Her hair was down and her glasses where perched on her nose. She felt so much better then that morning, but she knew Dom wasn't to happy about her getting drunk. She walked over to the tent and saw Dom flirting with some blond girl. She rolled her eyes and sat down. She watched the scene for awhile then decided she wanted to race. She got up and walked over to her Nissan getting in and driving to make line.
She waited annoyed at the heat wishing it would go away. She looked in the mirror then some punk got her attention. "Baby. Hey baby. You should be watching from the side. Wouldn't want to get any exhaust on that pretty face." Letty rolled her eyes, was he for real? "How 'bout you put your money where your mouth is?" Letty asked with a cocked eyebrows. "Well, how about I race you for that sweet little ass." "You want ass, why don't you hit Hollywood Boulevard? You want an adrenalin rush, it'll be two large. Right here, right now. What's it going to be?" she asked taking the wad of cash and holding it so that her middle finger was facing him. "You got it." Letty smiled knowing that she would win. She looked over at him and saw him making kissing signs with his lips. She put her sunglass up and looked ahead.
The guy in the middle threw his hands down, making her pull ahead. She shifted with ease a grin creeping at her lips. Her smile grew as her thumb covered the NOS button. "See ya!" she passed the finish line kissing the air. She turned the car around and stopped next to the punk. "You're a good racer." she smiled taking the money and driving off. She parked behind the Mazda and got out. She felt a tap at her shoulder as she closed her door. She turned the see the guy from the races the other week.
"Hey baby, thought you could get away from me that fast?" he cocked his eyebrow and smiled at her. "Guess you didn't learn the first time." she glared at him. "I don't see your bodyguards anywhere, so cut the sh-t." he chuckled. "Whatever." she began to walk away but the guy grabbed her. "No no no, where do you think you're going? I'm not done with you." he smiled. Letty rolled her eyes. Dominic walked over towards the trailer and saw Letty talking to some guy he'd never seen. He saw as the punk grabbed Letty's arm and tried pulling her. He walked over to them, she looked up at him. The punk smiled and looked at Dom. "Let me tell you this one is a feisty bitch. But I bet she's just as feisty in bed. I mean look at her, she a fine lil bitch." Letty looked at Dom grabbing his arm as his eyes became dark. "Don't it's not worth it." she spoke softly. "Get out of here before I rip your face apart." Dom said through clenched teeth and glared at the punk. The punk walked off fast.
"What was that about?" he turned to look at Letty. "Some punk you know how it is." she kissed his lips softly, he grinned. "You win mami?" She smiled "Of course." "That's my girl." he wrapped his arm around her shoulder and walked her over to the tent. She sat down watching the races. She saw Jesse and Brian heading towards the Jetta. She began doing something else and lost track of time, until she saw Leon heading over to them.
"Yo! Heads up, bro. We got problems." Leon pointed towards Jesse. "What?" she heard Dom ask as he, Vince and Leon walked over to see what was going on. She got up and followed closely behind. "Jesse" "Where is Jesse going?" Dom asked. "He just raced Tran for slips." She sighed this wasn't good especially if it had to do with Johnny. She watched as Johnny drove towards them "Oh, sh-t." she heard Dom say.
"Where's he going?" Johnny asked. She saw a crowd begin to circle them. "He went to the car wash." Dom calmly spoke. "Whatever. Go fetch my car." Dominic looked at him with a glare. "Go fetch your car? We're not on your block any more. You better watch who you talk to like that." Dominic began to walk away. "Toretto!" Johnny called after him. "Ok, watch it." she heard Leon tell Vince, Dominic looked at Johnny. "Toretto! SWAT came into my house, disrespected my whole family because somebody narc'd me out! And you know what? It was you!" She watched as Dominic launched at Johnny taking him down. Dom begun to punch Johnny leaving him bloody. She turned to see Lance walking straight for Dom, she wasn't about to let him gang up on Dom. She punched him in the face taking him by surprise he fell to the floor. The crowd ohed and ahed. "Dom, chill! Get off him!" she heard Vince yell at him. "Hey, yo!" Dom yelled looking a Johnny. "Dom, chill out man. Come on!" Vince tried to calm Dom down. "I never narc'd on nobody! I never narc'd on nobody!" Dominic shouted as Vince tried pulling him away. "Dom, let's go!" Dominic and Vince began to walk back to the trailer with Leon and Letty following close behind. "You and I both know who the narc is." Letty heard Vince tell Dom. "Shut up V." Dominic spoke calmly again, they walked into the trailer.
Later that night Dominic gathered the team to head out to the desert for the last heist. Mia looked at her brother as they all stood next to the Skyline and the Maxima. "And now I'm asking you not to go." Dominic looked back at her "Mia, I'm doing this for both of us." "No, don't give me that crap. You're doing this for you. Why are you insisting on doing this? Dom, please. Just don't." Dominic ignores his sister and gets into the Skyline with Leon.
Letty and Vince were both quiet on the way up. She wondered if they could actually pull this off without Jesse. They finally arrived at the place and got out. Dom was uncovering the Civics.
"All right, we're one man short. Letty, I need you on the left side." Dominic gave orders as he made his way to his Civic. "Your sister's right about this one. This don't feel good." Leon said as he gathered with the group. Letty handed the spear gun to Vince. "Don't do that." Dom looked at Leon. "Something's wrong." Letty said feeling a tight nervousness in the pit of her stomach. "Stop." Dom turned to look at her. "We shouldn't be doing this without Jesse." "Look, this is the mother lode. We've been on this for three months. After this it's a long vacation for everyone." Dominic look at everyone. "Lets go" "I hope so" Leon interjected walking off to his own Civic. Vince was busy setting up while Letty stood looking at nothing in particular. Dominic walked over to her. "Listen, the other night I had a dream, that you and I were on a beach in Mexico." He placed his hands on her shoulders. "Really?" Letty said unbelievingly. "Really." He kissed her lips softly then let go. They both walked towards there own Civics. "Come on. Let's make this happen. Leon, keep on those scanners." "Copy that." Leon said signaling to Vince that they would watch out for each other. "All right, Lets go."
They pulled up to the semi-truck "Okay! Go time!" Letty heard the voice of Dom over the two-way. She watched as Dom drove to the front, she got besides Leon and watched the back nervousness creeping at her. It was now daytime and they had never pulled a heist during the day. She heard Dominic say that the driver had a shotgun and she could see the semi swerving on the road. She decided to help out, she grabbed the phone "Dom! I'm pulling up to distract him!" she pulled her car up to the front "Come on boy! Shot doesn't get better then this." She heard the shatter of glass and flinched down on her seat. "Son of a bitch." she glared at the truck. Moments later she picked up the phone knowing that one of her best friends needed help. "Dom! Move out of the way. I'm coming to get him." she looked at the side of the trailer psyching herself up to go under it. Leon had done it many times before, she knew she could pull it off. Then with a swift movement she was under and out of the semi. The semi rammed into her car, she tried to take control, but the car flipped. She could see everything going upside down, then finally it stopped. She unbuckled the belt, holding on to the roof of the car so she wouldn't hit her head. "Letty! come on, baby. Letty! You okay? Oh, sh-t. Come on, girl, you all right? Come on, let me look at you. Come on. We got to go. Let's go." she heard Leon as she tried crawling out of the car, then felt herself being yanked up. She spit the blood out of her mouth as she felt Leon pull her away. They got to the Civic, Leon opened the door and led her into the back seat. Then he got into the car and drove up to where Dom was at.
With the adrenaline no longer there, she began to feel a stabbing pain on her ribcage. "Are you ok?" She saw Dom look at her. She didn't respond, her emotions where running high and she didn't know if she was mad at him or not. They pulled up next to the Supra, Dom quickly got out as did Leon, both looking towards the field. She saw Dom stick his head in through the window. His thumb ran over her lip "It's gonna be okay, Letty. I love you." she looked at him not knowing what to think. "Watch her." she heard Dom tell Leon. As they waited, she felt sick and the pain wasn't getting any better, not to mention the heat. She felt sleepy, her eyes where closing slowly. Then she heard a helicopter in the distance but she couldn't make out what was going on. Then the door opened she heard Dominic yelling then turned and told her to scud over. She did as told, then watched as Mia got in. She watched Mia look at her with wide eyes.
"Don't fall asleep Letty. You have to stay awake." she heard Mia but it was as if she was in the distance far away. "Letty!" Her eyes opened up again and she looked at Mia who was know yelling at her. "You guys she has to get to a hospital…" she only heard those words as she felt the throbbing pain in her stomach. "Leticia!" she looked towards the person animating the sound, it was Dom. They finally arrived at the house Dominic got out and let Mia out then he got back into the car. "Go get your things Leon." he ordered. As Mia walked away with him.
"You gotta stay awake baby." he cooed. He watched Leon come back with Mia giving him instructions. Dominic slowly pulled Letty out of the back and placed her in the front seat gently pulling the seatbelt over her. "I'll see ya later baby." he kissed her and walked away.
She felt the car move and Leon kept talking to her. She couldn't make sense of what he said. It felt like hours had passed until finally she gave up and darkness took over her eyes.