This chapter is a whole lot of Mia and Letty because I love their friendship and I don't think it was explored nearly enough in the franchise, so this is my take on what I feel like they'd be like.

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The stray pieces of Letty's fringe had begun to stick to her forehead with the small droplets of sweat that had started to form over her skin. She had scraped the rest of her hair back into a messy ponytail shortly after she had started to work on the car parked in the corner of the garage attached to the Toretto's house.

Letty stretched out after minutes of being bent over the hood of the car, her back beginning to cramp up with how into the work she had fallen. She stretched her arms up above her head but her attention was grabbed by the flash of headlights. A faint smile crawled onto her lips at the realisation that Mia was finally home. She considered going out and grilling her date, or at least heading over to the girl to ask questions.

The hesitation that consumed Letty in that moment hadn't stopped her from stepping out of the garage to glance down the driveway, but it had cancelled her opportunity to talk to the guy who was reversing his car down to the road.

However, it also wasn't enough to stop Letty before she noted the unmistakable blue eyes from the driver's seat.

Brian O'Connor.

Mia's head snapped up as Letty tossed a tool she still had in her hand on the floor to her side. Mia jumped faintly and a guilty expression took her features.

"You fucking serious?" Letty questioned as Mia began to walk towards the Latina. Letty didn't seem entirely pissed off, at least not Letty-pissed off. But Mia knew her well enough to know that it wouldn't take long for it to boil within her.

"Letty – "

"He's a cop, Mia! You know all that shit you were complaining about? About it being hard, about your whole family being ripped apart, our family? That was all him!" Mia's eyes widened slightly at the sudden rise in the volume of Letty's voice, but she wasn't surprised. She had expected it the moment she knew Letty had seen him.

"No, it wasn't. He wasn't the one who made the decision to do those jobs, Letty." Mia regretted her words instantly when Letty's jaw locked, her lips tightened and she fixed the younger Toretto with a glare.

"He drove us out; he drove us all apart and now our family is split up around the world or dead! And you're dating the cop who drove us that way?" Letty finally spoke in disbelief towards the fact Mia sounded as though she was actually defending him over the people she had grown up with.

"It's not what you think," Mia insisted quickly, shaking her head. Letty raised an eyebrow at the girl, urging her to continue on. "It wasn't a date, Let. I wouldn't do that. I know what happened; I know what his part was in all of that…" She sighed softly and momentarily closed her eyes. "He's sorry," Letty snorted, cutting the words off as Mia glared at her once before continuing. "I told him where to go."

"You've been gone for hours, Mi," Letty mumbled, not satisfied with her explanations at all.

Mia folded her arms across her chest, breathing in through her nose deeply in preparation before she launched into a complete explanation. "For a week after you guys left, he was calling, texting, on the doorstep; apologising." Letty rolled her eyes. "I told him where to go and he backed off. I didn't hear from him at all until recently. The beginning of this month he started asking for a chance, a chance to just talk."

"And you actually gave him that chance?"

"I did," Mia confirmed with no regret in the confession.

Letty's features softened ever so slightly, "Of course you did, that's the kind of person you are," Letty muttered softly.

Mia took a small step forward towards the girl she had regularly called her sister. "I told him where to go, Let. Even now."

Letty gave her a wary and slightly surprised look. They were all very aware of the relationship status between Brian and Mia in the past, they were all very aware of how they felt about each other. But after they all found out who Brian was, not one of them was sure where his feelings actually did lie; not even Mia. But her feelings towards the blonde were true and even Letty knew that it would have been hard for her to get over them so quickly. Especially being as she had been by herself for her first heartbreak, as Letty was sure she would have called it. She was sure it was, anyway.

"You're right. He messed up our family, he drove them away from me, even my own brother." Letty sucked in a quick breath at the mention of Dom and the fact that his presence was no longer with either of them. "What he had to say meant fairly little to me." Mia flashed the Latina a soft smile and Letty nodded gently. Letty rubbed her palms against the material of her shorts, the grease from Dom's car making her hands feel sweaty and gross. "Couldn't sleep?" Mia asked, finally acknowledging that it was way past midnight.

Letty shrugged softly, turning on her heel slightly, prepared to walk back over to where she had been working.

Mia's eyes flashed as she realised what Letty was up to and shuffled on her feet awkwardly. "Don't worry about it," she mumbled and Letty's gaze snapped back to the girl.

"What do you mean?"

"The car," Mia shrugged. "Don't worry, I was just gonna junk it."

Letty's eyes widened at her words as she turned to face her fully now, a look of disbelief on her face. "No you're not," Letty stated as way or correcting the girl on what she believed was a pretty bad joke. She let a humourless laugh escape her lips but Mia just looked almost guilty. "Mia, you can't." Letty was now shaking her head furiously as Mia sighed softly.

"Letty, that things a goddamned curse," she declared but Letty didn't stop shaking her head until she spoke up to respond.

"So, what if it is?" She took a deep breath, glancing at the girl with sympathy for the next words she was about to speak. "It was your dad's, Mi." Mia shifted on her feet once again. "It's now Dom's, you can't –" She cut off like she wanted to say something else, "You can't." She concluded, feeling as though it was enough to convince the girl to change her mind. But when she didn't speak up again, Letty knew she wasn't quite there, but with just one more push… "Dom wouldn't let you, I'm not gonna let you."

"You're gonna fix it?" Mia questioned, raising an eyebrow.

Letty paused, her eyes fixated on her sister-in-law, it wasn't even as though she had to think about the question. She had already started to and she wanted to fix it up. Besides, she didn't want Dom to come back to it like that. She breathed in deeply and gave a determined nod. "I'm gonna fix it," she confirmed.

She turned her back to Mia once again, picking up the tool she'd discarded carelessly on the floor and hovered back over where she was working.

Mia's eyes stayed on the Latina, admiration towards her determination and a soft uneasiness at the clear belief Letty thought that her brother would be home. Mia had never considered it, but there was something in Letty's stories, her actions, her presence that gave Mia hope in that thought she didn't realise she could have.

"O'Connor, we've been on this case for months! We're getting tired."

"I'm getting there," Brian O'Connor insisted when his boss came down on him harshly that morning. He was right; of course, it had been a long-ass time since almost every cop in LA had begun their search for Braga.

It wasn't the first time Brian had been hounded for how long it had been taking him to get anything out of this case, or a few other cases for that matter. But walking out of that meeting felt like yet another weight, maybe even bigger than the last, had just been thrown onto his shoulders. That weight had been almost painful as of late, other things seeming to add to the pressure. His boss, for starters, losing colleagues who had been undercover in this case, and his conversation with Mia Toretto.

It was hopeless how he felt about her. All that time ago when he had first taken her out, gotten her alone. Like, really alone, he had told her that she pulled him in. And even now, he still felt that. Watching her eyes watch him pulled him towards her; like gravity.

And then there had been Letty, someone he knew but didn't, at the same time. She'd been there every moment he had spent with the Toretto's, but he had never spoken to her personally; one on one. But he knew her instantly when he caught sight of her in the garage attached to Mia's house when he dropped her off the night before. And he had become instantly nervous by the deadly look she shot him. Whatever was going to happen, he was glad he got out of there when he did, but that nervousness was still there at least a little. He wasn't sure if he'd see her again, if she was permanently back in town, if he should report it.

He let out an intense sigh as he rounded a couple desks at the office and headed towards his own. The sound of a male's voice caught the blonde's attention at the familiar sound of the security guy. Heads turned, including his as the man called out.

"Miss, you can't – "

A brunette shoved her palms against the chest of the security guy with enough force to push him out of her way long enough for her to walk around and pass him to continue in her direction. Which, unfortunately for Brian, seemed to be towards him.

His stomach turned when he instantly realised the female whose gaze was fixated on him with such an intense glare he felt as though it could kill him right there.

"Shit – " He managed to mutter out of his lips before Letty's fist collided with his jaw.