An End and a Beginning
Life Unaccounted For Universe: Part 10
Summary: Part One of a series of one-shots in an AU setting inspired by a picture I found and put in the top corner.
Disclaimer: Hahaha, I wish! I own nothing.
A few weeks after the last chapter:
The work day had started off normally, and it had almost ended normally too, until a Jaguar pulled up to the shop that afternoon. Upon quick inspection, Tony had decided it needed a new set of brakes and a fan belt replaced.
That would have been the end of it, and they would have gotten the car back to its owner the following day, but then the guy hit on Letty. Let's just say Dom missed the days when Letty would rebuff a guy's advances by punching them in the face. It was one of the few times he regretted how much she had softened over the years.
He would catch hell for it later, but he slid up behind her as she chatted with the guy anyways. "Hey, hun, it's about time for you to go pick up our son from school."
The guy had been properly intimidated, but it had started the argument of the year. Letty stormed out of the garage. Dom called Mia and asked her to get Aiden from Letty and take him back to the Toretto house.
Dominic finished the car he was working on while waiting for the 'all clear' text from Mia, then headed to Letty's apartment.
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"Dammit, Let!" Dom complained as she threw one of her heels at him. "Do you always gotta be such a fucking hot-head?"
"Hot-headed?" she snarled incredulously. "Me? Well, isn't that just the pot calling the kettle black", Letty hissed sarcastically.
"I'm not the one throwing things", he said mildly.
She scowled. "That's because you know if you do, the next thing I'll be throwing out of here will be you!"
"I asked you a simple question and you flew off the handle."
"Don't patronize me", she spat. "And I don't answer to you. Besides, we had an agreement", Letty said tightly. "You do not just get to barge in here whenever you feel like it. I swear, if your sister didn't live here, you wouldn't even have a key. That was only contingent upon you not invading my privacy!"
He snorted. "We shared a bedroom, Letty. Don't tell me you've suddenly gotten uptight about your bras hanging in the shower."
"We broke up!"
"Yeah, and whose fault is that?"
"Get out", she ordered with a glare that could have frozen over an avalanche.
"Shit, Letty-"
"Don't say you didn't mean it", she said flatly. "Or I swear, the next thing I throw won't be aimed at your head. Dominic, get out."
He left, pulling the door closed with a bang. She lunged for it, turning the deadbolt before he got his second wind. What the hell were they arguing about?
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Later, when Letty finally cooled off and got her head back, she sent Dom a text.
You're such a dick. I grew up in a garage and drag racing. Do you really think I'd go for a trust fund baby with a Jag? Asshole.
Letty didn't think his text that only said 'Sorry' was a satisfactory response, but she let it go, deciding to go scrub down the bathrooms before Mia came back with Aiden. Summer was coming soon, and it would have its own set of problems
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So, yeah. Her first time had been in the backseat of Dom's car. Would anyone really find that shocking? Letty didn't think so – except for her mother, who might just keel over if she found out. But, she wasn't going to tell anyone, so… there was that. And the hickey he had left on her neck.
The real shocking part was that his car was parked behind a rundown strip mall in the Valley that had been relocated to bigger and better places. Later, Letty wouldn't be able to say if they were on their way to or from somewhere, but she knew they were late for dinner that night. That was mostly due to the fact that she had made them stop at her empty house to shower and for her to change clothes.
Currently, Letty was straddling Dom's lap in the back of his car. Her shirt had already been confiscated and tossed on the floor near the beginning of their steamy make-out session. Her hair had been yanked free from her ponytail, and he had one hand twisted in it up to her scalp. It was going to take longer than she'd like to spend with her hairbrush later to repair the damage.
Letty finally managed to separate their mouths long enough to take his shirt from him. Then she was crawling up on her knees while he licked his way across her chest and worked her shorts open. They were slipping halfway down her thighs, and she was about to move to get rid of them when he grabbed her hips, stilling her even as his lips attached to her neck.
"Let", he mumbled against her skin. "We should slow down."
"Yeah, good luck with that", she laughed huskily as she went to get his pants open.
"I'm serious."
She pulled back slightly. "What's wrong? Tell me you don't have a condom, and I'm going to-"
"No, I do", he sighed, dropping his forehead to her shoulder, relaxing slightly as her hand rubbed the back of his neck soothingly. He moved to look up at her. "Do you really want your first time to be in the back of my car?"
She shrugged. "Being in cars with you gets me hot. So what?"
He sighed exasperatedly. "Letty-"
She leaned down to shut him up with a kiss and then grinned at him playfully. "Dom, I know what I want… even if you don't. And I don't care where we are. Okay?"
"I'd be an idiot to argue with a half-naked girl who's sitting on top of me", he said wryly.
She dug her nails into his side. "No. You're an idiot if you're going to argue with a half-naked me on top of you. Any other bitches better get their asses tossed on the ground pronto. Get me?"
Dom smirked at her possessiveness, "Loud and clear, baby."
Later, when she looked back on the experience, she wouldn't remember the sharp, and then throbbing, pain of her first time. She remembered the way he looked down at her like she was the most important thing in his world… the way he held her tight enough underneath him that she felt safe enough to feel vulnerable. And she knew in that moment that no one would ever be able to love her as much as Dominic did, simply because he was one of the only people she could let see who she really was underneath her exterior.
No matter what happened between them, or the fact that she had lost her virginity in a car, Letty would never regret that her first time had been with him.
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On Aiden's last day of school, Dom and Letty both went to pick up Aiden from school. Technically, the day was over early, but by the time the parents had started arriving to pick up their children, the teachers had let most of the kids out to run loose on the playground and soccer field. A few parents attempted to collect their children, but it hadn't gone terribly well. The general consensus had been to let them run off their excess energy until they school day was actually over. The parents were left mostly on the sidelines to mingle.
Letty watched Aiden puff up proudly from his teacher's compliments when Mrs. Peterson went to talk to him. "So modest", she murmured wryly. "Just like his father."
"You weren't exactly born with a full helping of modesty yourself, cara", Dom smirked.
She just bit her lip and tried not to laugh, choosing to ignore the affectionate Italian word. He knew just enough to make her a little crazy, and he had taught her the words he knew when they were younger. Dom had gotten cocky with it when he realized that she got as riled up over him speaking Italian as he did when she spoke Spanish.
"So we're both to blame then?" she teased.
"I'd say so."
"We're in for it when puberty hits", Letty groaned.
Dominic made a distasteful face. "Well, damn", he muttered.
She laughed aloud. "You haven't thought that far ahead?" she asked curiously.
He shrugged. "Not for a while."
She nodded. "I get it. We'll have to decide in the next few months what to do for his birthday."
"He wants a puppy", Dom rolled his eyes.
Letty snorted. "Maybe in a few years… and you know if we get him a dog, it's staying with you."
"Thanks, Let", he said dryly.
"Unless it's a Chihuahua – or something I can smuggle into the apartment in my purse", she joked.
He laughed. "Quit it."
"What? You don't think I could pull off a purse dog?"
"I would pay money to see that", he said honestly, doing a poor job of containing his grin. "You could dress up like Paris Hilton for Halloween."
Her eyes rolled. "No thanks. I like the fact that my tits are real and not as big as my head", Letty muttered under her breath, mindful of their location.
"I never had any complaints", he growled.
She elbowed him. "Alright, knock it off – before the other parents start eavesdropping."
"Oh, crap", he whined under his breath.
Letty cocked an eyebrow. "What's your problem?"
"Felicia Simmons", he gestured discreetly.
"Single mom? Hits on you when you pick up Aiden?" she asked.
"Mia told you", he said flatly.
"Of course she did", Letty snickered.
"They should serve alcohol at these things."
"At Elementary School?" she asked with an incredulous laugh. "You want me to scare her off?"
"Can you see her hair? It looks like it lost a fire fight."
"You'll have to explain to me what that means later… Do I have to be nice?"
"Do you want to do more school interviews?" he asked pointedly.
She frowned. "No, that wasn't fun. I had to wear a business suit and dress like my mother."
He chuckled and nudged her with his shoulder. "Just don't leave me alone or she'll be on me like white on rice."
"That explains her buzzard-like circling." Letty sighed and shook her head. "I miss being young and stupid, and punching people."
His arm slid around her shoulder and she leaned against his side. "How much longer before we can get out of here?"
Letty held up her wrist to check her watch. "Twenty minutes", she grumbled. "And then I'm going to go drink, float, and tan in the pool."
They had gone shopping two weeks ago, and managed to get the inflatable, grown-up sized pool together with a lot of cursing, but it had been worth it. Letty was already getting tan lines. And she was sure Aiden spent his last day at school completely hyper after her announcement at breakfast that they were going to go play at Daddy's house after school was over.
"You put all that stuff in my trunk this morning, right?" he asked.
"I got it under control. You've got the Sno-cone machine, don't you?"
"Yeah…"
"I want a blue one."
He just grinned against the top of her head. They could do the parenting thing. But they sure as hell didn't do it like anyone else.
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A/N: Yay! Two updates in one weekend… How many of you love me right now? Lol. Look at me, kicking them into summer gear already. And with a nice long chapter, too! Oh, things are on track nicely for me. I want a Sno-cone – or an Italian Ice from the ice cream truck which I'll be chasing with my nieces all summer. Can't wait!