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Chapter 16

"I thought it would be easier on you," Dom explained as Leon continued to hold me so I wouldn't crumble to the floor. "You were starting to live again for the first time since the accident, you finally stopped having night terrors and I didn't want to see the pain in your eyes when she didn't give you a second thought. She doesn't remember us, Maddie, she doesn't remember you."

"What gives you the right to make a call like that?" Letty questioned angrily getting up from her seat and quickly closing the distance between them.

"She's my sister," Dom defended with an outstretched hand in my direction.

"Yeah? And what am I?" Letty challenged, "Just because I wasn't there doesn't mean I don't deal with her death too."

"Look, I don't agree with the decision you made to keep this all a big secret but you should have at least told Sam. That's his little sister and Mads is right you would have been furious if it was her or Mia," Vince mentioned.

"How'd this happen?" Mia asked softly, "you went to see some new competition, she was there and what you said hi?"

"Why did you go alone?" Jesse spoke up for the first time since Dom had walked into the kitchen.

"What?" Dom questioned.

"Why did you go alone?" Jesse repeated, "Whenever you want to check out new competition we go as a team, so why this time did you go alone?"

"Because you knew. You knew before you walked into Harry's that day," Brian realized.

Leon sat down in an open chair and pulled me onto his lap as my legs started to give out from underneath me. I almost couldn't handle what I was hearing. The one person in the entire world that I had trusted and confided in had lied to my face, twice.

"How long?" Letty growled but when Dom didn't answer she slammed her hand against the counter, "How long have you known?"

"Since the accident," Dom answered and I couldn't help the strangled sob the escaped my lips.

Vince looked ready to kill someone as Leon tightened his hold, trying to comfort me but the events from that day played through my mind like an old movie that was on repeat. I had watched with my own eyes her car go up in flames and not even a minute later the Nos exploding. I remembered seeing Letty with tears in her eyes for the first time ever when she told me Carrie didn't make it. I thought about the day at the cemetery when we buried her. This had to be some horrible nightmare and I was going to wake up at any second and laugh at the absurdity of it all.

"Shit, Dominic, we deserve an explanation," Mia declared walking over to stand next to Brian who put his arm around her shoulders.

"Maybe we should do this later," Leon suggested rubbing his hand up and down my arm. I knew he could feel me trembling from all the information that was being thrown at us at the moment and was worried I wouldn't be able to take anymore.

"I want to know," I muttered through a shaky breath figuring it would be better to rip the Band-Aid off than to peel it away slowly.

"Le's right, we can finish this in a little while," Vince tried to reason with me placing his hand on my knee.

I shook my head in the negative and looked over to Dom, "Tell me."

Then- General Point of View

It was a Sunday so since the garage was closed for the day the team was relaxing at home.

"See you later," Mia waved as she walked to the door with a bag over her shoulder.

"Wait," Dom called out stopping her dead in her tracks, "Where are you going again?

"Ash invited me over," Mia rolled her eyes at having to tell him for the hundredth time. "Nate is away so we are having a girl's night."

"Can I come?" Vince questioned wiggling his eyebrows.

"No," Mia answered shortly as she walked out the door.

"What's the matter, Let, didn't want to go have a girl's night," Jesse teased lightly pushing her shoulder.

"Mads, Carrie and I have plans tonight," Letty replied pushing Jesse back a little harder.

"Should we start collecting bail money now?" Leon laughed snatching the game controller out of Vince's hand so he could play against Jesse.

"And what do these plans entail?" Dom asked uneasily.

"Wouldn't you like to know," Letty smirked and Dom started tickling her sides trying to get the information out of her but she wouldn't budge. That's when the phone started ringing.

"I'll get it out of you," Dom chuckled as he lifted the phone to his ear, "hello?"

"Hi, is this Dominic Toretto?"

"Depends who is asking."

"This is Rebecca from County Memorial Hospital," she started and the smile completely fell from his face letting everyone in the room know something was wrong. "Your sister Madison has been in a serious car accident."

"Dom?" Vince questioned as he dropped the phone.

"Maddie was in an accident, we need to go," Dom stated already half way out the door as images from his father's accident played though his mind.

The ride to the hospital felt like an eternity to them team though in reality it only took exactly eight minutes, pushing their cars as fast as they could go and not worrying about trivial things like stop signs and red lights.

"I'm sorry only family is allowed back," a nurse stopped the team before they could go through the double doors leading to where Madison was.

"They are family," Dom snarled, "Where is my sister?"

The nurse recoiled under his stern glare and gave a quick, "room 214," before opening the doors for them.

"Oh God," Letty breathed out as she saw her best friend lying in a hospital bed connected to a whole bunch of different monitors. There was a bandage above her left eye and one showing from underneath her gown as well as multiple cuts covering her face, neck and arms from the glass.

There was a knock at the door before a uniformed police officer took a step inside.

"What do you want?" Leon asked nastily.

"I was hoping to get a statement from Ms. Toretto on what happened today," he answered, "Are you the one responsible for her?"

"I'm her brother," Dom spoke up crossing his arms over his chest.

"Would I be able to speak with you for a minute?"

Dom seemed hesitant to leave the room but Vince reassured him that they weren't leaving Madison as he took a seat next to her and held onto her hand. Dom sighed and walked out into the hallway closing the door behind him.

"Do you know where your sister was heading today?" the cop asked pen in hand ready to take down any notes.

"No."

"There was another car involved registered to a Carina Green. Does your sister have any relation to her?"

Dom stiffened for a minute not even remembering the two were hanging out. "They are good friends. Is Carrie alright?"

"Sir, does your sister have any enemies?" the cop asked ignoring Dom's question.

"Excuse me?"

"We have reason to believe that there was foul play involved."

There were a few more questions asked before the cop left Dom standing in the hallway feeling angrier than he thought was possible. He tracked down the same nurse from earlier and demanded to see Carrie hoping she could give him some answers about what happened and who was going to pay for what was done. The nurse knew she shouldn't be giving patient information out but the size of Dom terrified her.

Dom nearly ran to Carrie's room and was relieved to see her awake though most of her body was in bandages from the burns she received.

"Hey, you alright?" Dom asked making his way over to the side of her bed. "What happened?"

"I…I don't know."

"Were you guys racing or were you doing a job?" Dom questioned trying to piece together how everything went so wrong.

"I don't know."

"Come on, Carina, you have to know something!" Dom hollered hitting the bedside table in frustration.

"Who's Carina?"

Dom froze and just stared. She had to be joking, right? "Very funny, Carrie. I'm serious I need to know what happened!"

"I think you have me confused with someone else," she squeaked out her hand moving towards the call button for the nurse.

"You don't know who you are, do you?" Dom questioned softly and watched as she shook her head. He made a decision that would affect the rest of her life in mere seconds. "I'm going to get you out of here and somewhere safe, ok?"

"But I don't know you."

"You can trust me," Dom assured her as he cradled her in his arms and left the hospital.

He called a friend to come take her and get her set up with a private nurse in a small apartment a few hours away, made a few phone calls to have evidence planted that she was in the car when it went up in flames and had all records at the hospital erased. It had cost nearly a fortune but he didn't think twice about it.

"What took so long?" Letty questioned as Dom walked back in the room and kissed Madison on the forehead.

He took Letty in his arms before answering, "Carrie died on impact."

"Mmm.." she mumbled alerting the people in the room she was starting to come to.

"That's it, kid, open your eyes," Vince encouraged her giving her hand a small squeeze. Madison blinked a few times before her eyes finally focused. "Welcome back."

"Carrie?" Was the first thing she asked and looked around the room waiting for someone to answer when her eyes landed on Letty.

"She didn't make it, Mads."

Now- Madison's Point of View

"Why?" I whispered when he had finished.

"I was trying to keep her safe. Sam wasn't in town, she had no one else and if I had the chance I would have done the same for you. I figured if she didn't remember she could get out of the life but her love for cars was too strong and she started racing again," Dom explained watching me sadly. "Last time I went to check on her, her landlord told me she had moved out and I couldn't find her. When the guy mentioned you could give Melanie a run for her money I knew it was her."

"That's where you would go on Friday's when you left early," Letty mused, "you said you were making connections for importing car parts."

I slipped off Leon's lap, walked past Dom and out the backdoor onto the beach ignoring the questioning worried glances I received from the team. Vince and Leon were right, I should have waited to hear the whole thing, but I never expected that. Not only did he lie to me for the past year and was the one who made the decision for her to disappear but he had just admitted he would have done the same thing to me.

"Mads," Leon called after me as he ran out the backdoor but I kept numbly walking towards the ocean.

"Shit, Dom, how could you do that?!" Mia shouted from the house.

"Hey, talk to me," Leon pleaded falling in step next to me and caught me as I collapsed onto the sand with heart wrenching sobs. "I'm here, baby girl, I'm here."