Hello my lovelies, I'm sorry if it felt like awhile since my last update but I am here now with chapter four! I loved writing this chapter and the flashback in this so I really hope you enjoy reading it as much as I did. I'd really love to hear your thoughts on it to see if you felt the same way I did so please review and let me know our thoughts!
Letty's intention, from the moment she set eyes on the youngest Toretto, was to embrace her in a hug before anything else. Before any explanations, before as much as a hello. But she lost her nerve the minute she had fallen through the kitchen door that she had left unlocked.
The room was empty, and Letty found herself breathing a sigh of relief. Now she had a moment to let her thoughts catch up with her body and revaluate her actions. She tried her hardest not to get snatched back into another unwanted memory sparked by now being inside the house she practically grew up in.
Faint voices curled their way round Letty's ears as her attention flew to the open doorway that lead out of the kitchen into the living room. She felt the corners of her lips begin to rise at the sound of Mia Toretto, that all too familiar voice that gave her the hitting feeling that she was really home.
Her lips stopped crawling across her face and fell at the sound of another voice, one she couldn't quite recognise, she could only determine the fact that it was male.
Letty inwardly cringed at the thought of walking in on Mia with a guy, that wasn't exactly how she wanted this reunion to go. So, she lingered by the kitchen table, her palms hovering over it ready to catch herself if it all felt like too much.
"Please just go…" Mia pleaded in a tired tone of voice. Letty's eyebrow rose as she strained to hear the other half of the conversation.
The girl hadn't really acknowledged the fact that she had gingerly drifted towards the living room, pausing in the doorway as she heard the front door closed. The realisation that she was now in plain sight, Mia standing across the room with her back to her, finally took its toll on Letty and she took another slow step into the room. The younger Toretto turned suddenly with a soft gasp, her gaze finding the Latina who stood almost awkwardly in front of her.
"Letty," she breathed, but before she could respond, Mia was flowing across the room and letting her arms find Letty's neck, pulling her into a tight hug.
Letty stopped dead in her tracks, taken aback by the girls' action.
Her own arms snaked around the girl's waist as they hugged tightly for what seemed like forever but they didn't care, it was long overdue. After minutes of the embrace, Letty breathed out a soft laugh. "Hey girl," she muttered as Mia pulled back reluctantly.
"You're here, I can't believe you're here," she sighed happily, a smile stretched to her eyes. "Where's Dom?" The girl glanced over Letty's shoulder.
Letty shuddered, noticeably by the look Mia gave her as her smile faded instantly. She felt as though her blood had begun to run cold in that moment as her gaze fell briefly to the floor.
"Let?"
She gave Mia a forced smile to settle the worry ringing in her voice. "When was the last time you heard from him?" She asked, trying to keep her voice steady to steer Mia away from her panic. The girl only gave her a cautiously suspicious expression before responding.
"Uh, last week…What's happened is he okay?"
Letty shook her head quickly, emphasizing her reassuring smile. "He's fine, Mi. I mean, as far as I know –" She sighed in frustration toward herself. "He walked out," she spoke carefully, watching Dom's sister's face drop in disappointment as well as curiosity. Letty watched as Mia searched her face for more background behind her words, before she let out a soft sigh knowing she had to relive what had happened again.
"Last night we – " Letty broke off momentarily as the thought of telling Mia she had married her brother after so long, gave her an uneasy feeling in the pit of her stomach. It wasn't right; he was supposed to be here for this. They were supposed to tell her together. The brunette shook her head quickly and continued on, taking a different direction with her words. "Last night, he told me that the cops were closing in. We pulled off a job that went, well, not great. And it drew a lot of attention."
"I don't want you round when they catch up to me," Dom spoke in a soft, yet firm voice. His eyes fell into hers and Letty found herself completely captivated by him, as usual. Even with a conversation topic such as this, she was completely and utterly award of how in love with him she was.
She let out a faint sigh. "Dom, how long have we been doing this? And now all of a sudden, out of nowhere, it's too dangerous? Come on." The girl shook her head slowly, trying to get a read off of his expression, waiting for the crease in his forehead to ease up as she watched him cave to her words and finally agree with her. When his expression didn't change, she let out another sigh full of frustration, her palms reaching for his face. "We'll figure it out. We always do."
Then she saw it, the crease on his forehead shifted and then faded, his eyes boring into her. Her lips found his in an innocent kiss that escalated quickly, deepening and becoming more and more passionate as their tongues fought for dominance. Before she knew it, Dom was hooking his hands under her thighs and shifting her into his lap without a single protest from her. Her palms stayed pressed to his cheeks, holding his face close to hers when their lips finally parted and their eyes met once again.
"Do you have any idea how much I love you?" His voice was low and raspy, just the way she liked it. Her lips turned upwards in a soft but genuine smile.
"I should think so too seeing as we are, you know, totally married now."
Dom smirked, "Totally married," he repeated in a slight mocking tone, but the Latina was still smiling, tracing her fingertips lightly over his warm skin.
"It's crazy," her words were barely audible.
Dom moved one of his arms from where that sat comfortably around her waist, to move a strand of her free hair that had curled towards her face, securing it behind her ear. It was something he had always done for her and something that had always made Letty smile at the caring gesture. "Not so much," he finally responded after moments of silence.
Her eyebrow quirked up. "No?"
"Nah," he gave a one shouldered shrug, letting his gaze travel from where he'd placed her hair back to meet her shining eyes. "I always knew you were going to be a Toretto." He spoke, running his tongue briefly over his bottom lip which didn't go unnoticed by Letty. "The guys all teased me about it, Mia pushed for it to happen and I'd always brush it off. But even as that nineteen year old watching the sixteen year old girl from down the street walk into the garage like she owned the place, fitting in with the guys like family, looking out for Mia, giving as good as she gets and always out-witting anyone who tried to give her a smart remark…" he let out a soft breath, her eyes completely entranced with him as she fell into his words; taking them all in. "I knew. You'd be the only girl by my side in the end. Other than my sister, of course. You were just different, Let. You were everything I needed or wanted."
Silence lingered between the two as she watched him carefully, considering the fact that he could carry on down memory lane but she didn't care if he didn't, not after what he had just told her. "And you couldn't have said that a couple hours ago in front of the priest?" She teased with a faint grin.
Dome chuckled, "What can I say? I froze a little, alright. I'd been planning that moment forever but it's different when it's actually happening." He breathed in deeply through his nose. "You looked so beautiful," he confessed in a whisper, "You are…so beautiful."
"You're so drunk, Mr Toretto," Letty spoke calmly, her arms snaking around his neck as she flashed a full on grin this time.
"I'm celebrating," he slurred slightly with a very childlike grin of his own," Mrs Toretto."
Letty fell so deep into her memory when explaining what had happened to Mia, but not deep enough to not be able to stop herself before too much detail was shared. Those words were meant for only her and Dom, after all. And her wedding wasn't entirely her news to tell, so she kept tight lipped about that entire evening.
But Mia had already caught on to the reason behind Dom's disappearing act. Even when Letty had held out the damaged piece of paper with Dom's, usually messy yet was carefully presented, handwriting on it, she had shook her head slowly and gently pushed Letty's hand away.
"I don't need to see that, Let. It's yours," she spoke. Letty was partially shocked but quickly realised that she shouldn't be. It was such a Mia thing to do and the girl was now very aware of just how much she truly had missed this girl. She was so caring, so amazing and they loved each other so much. She was so clearly Dom's sister, and where that fact should have probably saddened Letty at the memory of how Dom was with her, instead, for the first time, she felt a warmness inside her that only home could provide.
It was only then that reality actually hit both the girls and Letty watched Mia wipe her fingers under her eyes at the falling water, the both let out soft laughs at the situation and Letty reached to grasp the girls' hands. "I missed you," she spoke softly with a warm smile.
"Oh god, I missed you so much more, you have no idea!" Mia declared. "It's numbingly quiet here, I don't know how I've done it, if I'm honest. We went from everything to nothing."
"I know," Letty whispered.
"It's hard," Letty nodded, indicating that she really did know. They'd both been on completely different ends of the situation, but it had affected them both in the exact same way, she knew that much. "I have so many questions; it's been three years…" Mia's sentence trailed off slowly before she breathed in deeply, moving her hands from Letty's grasp and jumping to her feet. "Let me feed you first."
Letty laughed once again, feeling the weight in her chest lighten ever so slightly. Her gaze followed the younger Toretto as she walked into the kitchen, a place she was so used to seeing her. Growing up at 1327; Mia was always the one playing hostess and feeding everyone that crossed the threshold. Particularly Dom, Letty and the guys whenever they spent evenings here, which was pretty regularly. A lot of the time, they also crashed there. Jesse, Leon and Vince would fight over the spare room and the couch. At the beginning, Letty was in on the fight, but she always won the spare bedroom, she didn't even need to pitch her reasons before the boys were insisting she took it. Sometimes she spent the night with Mia, staying up and talking all hours of the night until they'd both pass out on her bed. So, when Letty began spending nights in Dom's room, Mia was the only one who noticed; the boys only assumed she was with her. The moment Mia had asked her first question about the situation, she got daggers shot at her from across the room by her brother and Letty and she was silent on the matter from then on. It didn't stop her asking questions to Letty behind everyone else's back though. Not that Letty would give much up, but Mia surely knew a whole lot more than anybody else.
When the guys finally got wind of the situation, they never shut up about it. It was smart-ass remarks and teasing comments left right and centre. But after they had all finally settled into a routine, they had a pretty solid one. Letty and Dom weren't serious; she was seventeen, he was twenty and they were always messing around when it came to hooking up. They'd hook up heatedly, and then they'd argue furiously. There was so much jealously and possession in the beginning, it was a whirlwind. Everyone seemed to know if the two hard fought, even if they hadn't witnessed it. They had this aura around them when they had. There'd be glares and rude, snide little comments back and forth making everyone around them uncomfortable. And when the night dragged on, and Letty had drank herself away from getting behind the wheel, there was that all important decision between who crashed where. Two of the boys would awkwardly announce they'd take the floor, indicating that the spare room was there for Letty, knowing for certain she wouldn't be in Dom's room when he'd stalk off to bed alone.
This house held so many memories.
"Hey Mi," Letty called out after a good few minutes of listening to the girl rummage around in the kitchen while thoughts of the old days flooded her mind. Reality came back into focus though and a question played on Letty's mind. "Who was here?"
"What do you mean?" Mia questioned, her voice slightly raised as she made herself heard from the other room.
"When I got here, I heard someone else…"
There was a pause of silence, intensifying Letty's curiosity even more.
"Oh! That's just the sad remanence of my dating life," Mia finally replied, a light-hearted laugh ringing out. "He couldn't take a hint when I showed him the door the first time." Letty's mind flashed to Brian before hearing Mia continue. "That's the down-side to agreeing to blind dates. And then agreeing to a follow-up date, thinking a second chance is only fair."
Not Brian.
"You know, there are some real weirdos in LA."
Letty chuckled, "Yeah," she muttered.
