Dom's POV
It's our first night back in my old home, since the explosion that almost killed me and my family. Letty and I have been staying at Mia's since my release from the hospital. But with them moving across the city it's about time we came home. To celebrate Brian and Mia's new chapter in life we spent the day at the beach, just enjoying each other's company. Yes, I'm going to miss them being close, but I can rest easy knowing they are safe and out of harm's way.
We arrived back home around 11 p.m. and as we walk through the door and look around I feel myself let out a breath I hadn't known I was holding.
"You good, Dom?" I hear Letty ask as she squeezes my hand.
"Yea it just feels good to finally bring you home". With that I pull her into me, instantly finding her lips. She immediately deepens the kiss and I feel like my skin is on fire, a feeling that I only ever got from Letty. This is the first intimate moment we've had since she regained her memory. We haven't exactly had too much alone time in the past couple months. Being with Letty before her memories returned was great. But I could always tell she was hesitant. She was never quite sure of herself. But today she no longer had that doubt. I felt her nails begin to dig into the back of my neck. A small moan escaped her lips. God, that was the most beautiful sound I have ever hear, and I wanted to hear it again and again. I reached down and lifted her up. She wrapped her legs tightly around my waist and held tight to my shirt pulling our bodies closer together. While never parting our lips, I began to carry her upstairs and miraculously managed to find my way to our bedroom.
In this moment, while making love to the only woman I knew I would ever truly love, I realized that for the first time since I heard Letty had died my heart felt whole. My mind had finally found itself at peace knowing that this wasn't a dream, or a hallucination this was real. I had my girl back and I planned on keeping it that way.
Letty's POV
As Dom pulled me in and kissed me I felt my body react before I could even fully comprehend what was happening. But Dom had always had that effect on me. When we were younger it used to piss me off. Knowing how much my body craved his. How every time he touched me, I felt like I was going to explode. But I also couldn't deny how right everything felt while I was in his arms. Like nothing could touch me. How we fit so well together. I remember before regaining my memories, or "the Flood" as I like to call it, I was hesitant. Not because I didn't trust Dom, or because I didn't want him to touch me. I was hesitant because I was scared of how much I did trust him, and how I wanted him to hold me close and never let me go. Which was crazy because at the time I didn't have any recollection of him. So here I had this stranger with this insane control over me and I couldn't comprehend why. But now it all makes sense, and I no longer have a reason to be scared.
Around 3 a.m. I wake up to Dom's arm draped across my waist. I feel at home, safe. I take a moment to look up at the beautiful man's face who's still sound asleep. He really is gorgeous. I feel a small ping of guilt when I notice the scar on his shoulder, from when I shot him. I can't seem to help myself as my fingertips brush against the damaged skin, remembering the exact moment I pulled the trigger. I trace his lips kissing him softly, as a silent apology.
"It's not your fault." He says catching me off guard with his voice still full of sleep.
"Uh…I didn't know you were awake." I avoid making eye contact.
"Mmmhhh" he moans and starts to fall back asleep. All of a sudden my chest feel tight and I can't breath or think straight. I can't take it anymore. I can't be in that room and I get up and head downstairs.
Dom's POV
I feel Letty pull away from me. I open my eyes just in time to see her walk out of the door.
"Let?" she doesn't even turn around. So I get up and follow her through the dark to the living room. As I enter, I see her sitting motionless on the couch with her legs crossed under her. I've never seen her like this. She's really starting to worry me.
"Let?" I say in a whisper. She turns and looks at me a little surprised, but her face turns to one of sadness. I can see one tear rolling down her cheek but still she says nothing.
"Letty, are you alright?" I ask cautiously. That's when I see her face morph from one of sadness to one of rage. I try to prepare myself for what she is about to say.
"Am I alright? Dom, I remember everything now, everything. How could you leave me like that? We made vows? You promised?"
"In the DR? Letty, I told you I'm so sorry. I never meant to hurt you. I thought I was protecting you. I didn't want you to have to take the fall for my mistakes?"
"But I did, didn't I?" she says while leaning forward elbows on her knees while rubbing her temples.
"Letty, if I would've known I…I…"
"…You what? Would've stayed?" She asks while raising her voice and snapping her head up to look at me. Her eyes showing how deeply she was hurt by my actions.
"Letty, why are you bringing this up now? After all this time? What's going on?"
"Before I had no idea who the hell I was. Let alone who we were, and after "the flood" I was just happy to have my memories back. To have some sense of my identity and glad that you were alive. Then while living with Mia and Brian and with jack running around I just never had time to really sit down and process everything and then with that stupid dream...ughhh." she screams while throwing her hands in the air in frustration.
"What dream…" she doesn't answer me she just gets up and starts pacing back and forth "Letty what dream?"
Finally she turns to me eyes red holding back tears, "What if I hadn't missed my shot?"
"What? Back in London? Letty that's wasn't…"
"Dom! Listen to me, what if I hadn't missed? What if you had died by my hand? What if I had unknowingly killed the only man I have ever loved huh? Then what?"
"Letty you couldn't have known. It wouldn't be your fault don't stress yourself out over the past" I attempt to walk over to her to try and calm her down but she keeps pacing. I figure its best she finally gets her chance to vent.
"That's just it, I wouldn't have known. I wouldn't have been able to know just how much you meant to me. How hard it would be to pull that trigger, because I would have no idea what I was giving up. What I was putting an end to. But you, you knew, you knew what you were walking away, from in the DR. You knew what you were giving up on. Was it really so easy for you to walk away from me?" She's says defeated as she falls to her knees head hanging down. I can hear her soft sobs. I hate seeing her like this and it breaks my heart its so out of character I've never seen Letty so broken.
As I walked up to and kneel down in front of her she instinctively moves herself back wiping quickly at her tears.
"Letty" as I reached towards her and took her face in my hands forcing her to look at me.
"Leaving you was the second hardest thing I have ever had to do. I want you to know that at the time I really believed you would be safer. I didn't think you would do what you did. I hoped you would wait for me. I should've known better, but I didn't. If I had known there was any possibility of you getting hurt I would've never left. You have to believe that I love you more than anything in this world…"
"What was the first?" she spoke up cutting me off. "What was the hardest thing?"
"Watching them bury you" this time it's me who has to look away. That's an experience I don't like to look back on.
This time its Letty's turn to pull me around to look at her "Dom I'm sorry. You're probably having a hard time dealing with all this and I'm over here making it worst."
"No, this is good you need to get this out or you'll end up resenting me."
"I could never resent you."
"So you're gonna stick by me?" I ask recalling a conversation we had at the garage years ago.
She starts to giggle a little bit. But looks up at me through her long eyelashes, while giving a knowing smirk. "Maybe."
"Maybe?" I say while leaning in, capturing her lips with mine.
Scooping her up bridal style in one swift motion I begin leaning my forehead against hers, as if trying to telepathically tell her exactly how much she means to me, with a heavy sigh I start to carry her back to our bedroom.
Just as I start to set her down on our bed I feel her hand start to caress my cheek. I close my eyes at the gentle touch not wanting her to stop "Ride or die, right?"
How could she even doubt it at this point? "You already know the answer to that."
"You'll have to prove it" she says while pulling me down close to her as she whispers in my ear.
"Happily. Every day. For the rest of my life. I love you Leticia Toretto." I like the way that sounds. But that wasn't always the case. Sometimes I can't believe that I actually married her. Don't get me wrong. I'm completely in love with the girl. but growing up I never would've thought we would end up together. She was this tough tomboy from down the street, who would hang out with my little sister and worked in my dad's garage. And after Mia let it slip about her having a crush on me, the guys and I were ruthless. Well, until the day she punched Vince in the face for teasing her. After that we let up a little. But my dad always warned me "Son, one day your gonna want a girl like that, and if you're lucky enough to get her you're never gonna want to let her go". At the time I thought my dad was nuts. I couldn't imagine myself hooking up with or marrying for that matter the girl who I had always seen as family. But I guess a father just knows. Ha-ha, Pops if you could see me now.
"I Love you, Dominic Toretto".
That night I fell asleep with Letty snuggled into my side with her head tucked under my chin, allowing me to breath in the scent that could really only be described as Letty. It was sweet almost fruity even with the smallest hint of engine grease, just the way I like it. This was the first night that I hadn't woken up to a nightmare, of her being ripped away from me or waking up and left with an empty bed. No, tonight I would sleep peacefully with her by my side and to the sound of her voice.
-Again some feedback would be great. Please and Thank you. Also I have the next few chapters written out already but if there's something you hope to see in the chapters to come let me know, and maybe I'll find a way to slip them in there.
I hope to introduce some new characters next chapter, and believe me I know how big of a turn off OC's can be, but I promise I will try my best to make them seem like they've belong there the since the beginning. :)
