One last time
Early in the morning Alyssa woke up and got dressed into a black tracksuit and wore a backwards cap. Cooper was taking her to a restaurant to have breakfast and afterwards they were going around town. When she was finished, Alyssa combed her hair and placed the cap over it. Letty knocked on the door and entered as Alyssa finished up. She took Alyssa to the corner and crouched down to her height.
"Are you ready?" Letty said running her fingers through Alyssa's hair.
"Yes but I need you to make sure you do something." Alyssa said.
"What?" Letty asked.
"You need to promise me that you won't go back to Cooper's side and that you won't leave again. You have to promise." Alyssa answered.
"I promise." Letty said pulling her into a hug. "I have something for you."
"What?" Alyssa asked a little excited.
"It's your necklace, so I always know where you are." Letty replied.
"Thank you." Alyssa said.
Letty picked her up and sat Alyssa down on her lap. Alyssa lifted her hair up and Letty attached the necklace around her neck. After they went downstairs and Letty left Alyssa with Cooper who was wearing really fancy attire. Before she left, Alyssa kissed Letty and hugged her tight.
"You are going to see her again Alyssa. There's no need to act like that." Cooper joked.
They left the house and Letty went upstairs to Cooper's office. The badge was gone and so were most of Cooper's documents. She went on his computer and there was one tab open. Quickly she clicked on it and it was a video of Cooper. Letty clicked the video and the video started.
"I know what you're up to Letty. You're getting Dom and his crew out because the kid has convinced you. You're weaker than I thought Letty and I'm disappointed. Thats why I've come to the decision to kill the kid because it's come to the point where this kid is becoming the problem. She dies at noon then you and your 'family' are next. I'm dropping the bomb Letty and I mean literally."
Quickly she switched tabs to the security cameras and took the mic from Cooper's desk.
"Dom! Can you hear me?" Letty yelled.
"Yeah, something wrong?" Dom said.
"It's Cooper, he's locked me out and he's going to kill Alyssa." Letty explained.
"What?" Dom screamed.
"You've gotta find a way to get out of there." Letty said.
"Dom, there's a mallet there." Tej cut in.
"Good eye Tej." Dom said grabbing the mallet.
He slammed the mallet against the padlock and it fell off. He let himself out and opened the rest of the cages.
"Where do we go now Letty?" Hobbs asked.
"Go to the garage door and pick a car boys. It's all on me." Letty said with a smile.
They all rushed to the garage door and Letty pressed the button. The door opened and the team were exposed to the greatest cars Russia had to offer. Unfortunately they weren't as great as the American types.
"We might as well ask a granny for a ride." Roman commented.
"Your granny can't even walk." Tej said.
"Hey Lottie can go pretty fast on that wheelchair." Roman said in defence.
"Stop talking about your half dead nana's and come choose your cars." Hobbs said.
When they had picked out their cars, Letty met them in the garage with her car. Dom got into the car. Dom got into the car and sat down beside her.
"Do you know where they are?" Dom asked.
"Cooper mentioned the restaurant Praline." Letty replied.
"Let's go to Praline." Dom said leaning back.
The whole team drove to the restaurant Praline where only Letty and Dom got out. They searched the restaurant but had no luck in finding them. Letty went to the front desk and asked if he'd seen them and he had. Both had left the restaurant only moments ago and no one knew where they were going. Now that she was stressed out, Letty went inside the car and Dom joined her momentarily.
"Did he say anything?" Dom asked.
"No, he just said a restaurant." Letty answered with tears in her eyes.
"We're going to find her." Dom said.
"No we aren't. Not at this rate anyway." Letty said annoyed.
Letty shifted her hand to the radio and accidentally pressed a different tab. On the map there was a red dot blinking to where the lake was.
"Letty, who's that?" Dom asked.
"That's...that's Alyssa. It's her tracker on that necklace." Letty replied starting the car.
"Why is he taking her to the lake?" Dom asked confused.
"That's one of the deepest lakes in Russia and one of the most iciest right now.'' Letty said. "He's going to drown her."
Dom picked up his walkie and told the team of what Cooper was going to do to Alyssa. Roman and Tej were going to head to the lake whilst Hobbs went to warn the Russian authorities. Both of them raced to the lake and found Cooper's car parked outside. Meanwhile Cooper was helping Alyssa across the frozen lake and trying to make sure that his ex was nowhere near them.
"Daddy, where are we going after?" Alyssa asked.
"You're going to see your mommy." Cooper answered.
"Aren't you coming?" Alyssa said raising a brow.
"Not today sweetie." Cooper said silently.
Alyssa turned around at his answer and looked up at him. He noticed her necklace and immediately grabbed it. He yanked it off her neck and threw it down onto the floor. After he grabbed her by the collar of her shirt and held her up in the air.
"You wore a tracker? You wore a freaking tracker!" Cooper screamed.
All Alyssa could do was stare and sweat bullets. She began to move around and cry but Cooper kept a tight grip on her. Cooper started to walk away further into the lake with his arms wrapped around Alyssa.
"Letty, come out now!" Cooper screamed. "Bring Dom out too.
From a distance both Letty and Dom could see and hear what was going on in that lake. They looked at each other and knew what they had to do for their little girl. Letty stepped out of the car with Dom opposite her and walked towards the edge of the lake. Cooper smiled at the sight of them and pulled out his gun from his belt. He pressed it against the side of her head and looked back at them.
"Don't do this Cooper." Letty said.
"There's no point in her being alive. We can never be together because she'll always get in between us." Cooper said.
"Cooper, she's a kid. She needs to be at school and she needs to have a normal life with friends. Won't you give that to her?" Letty said pleadingly.
"You can't talk to me about being a good parent. Where were you for the first six years of your life? That's right, on the roads racing a couple of bastards for money." Cooper shouted.
"I was a bad mother but now I know. You have to understand that my kid needs me and she'll need a family for the rest of her life." Letty said.
"Don't worry about her because the family will be joining in no time." Cooper said removing his gun from her head.
He pushed her down onto the ice so she was sitting on it. He pushed her down to the thin ice and she carefully stopped herself from slipping. Again Cooper took the gun out from her belt and aimed it at her. He pulled the trigger about five times and Letty turned away. When she looked back, Alyssa was still sitting in the same place and she was still breathing. Suddenly she heard the ice cracking and she began to sprint towards Alyssa but it was too late. She had fallen into the icy water and was sinking down low. Cooper knew that Alyssa couldn't swim and it would be easy to just drown her. Silently Dom walked down to where Cooper was and held him in a headlock. Cooper took his gun and began shooting everywhere but missed Dom. Both Roman and Tej climbed out from their hiding spot and helped Dom out. Meanwhile Letty had reached the edge of the spot and was looking into it. She dived into the the spot and swam all the way down to the bottom. She grabbed Alyssa and hoisted her over her shoulder. Quickly Letty swam up to shore and placed Alyssa on the ice but her skin was pale, her hands were numb and pale, her chest was no longer moving.
"Alyssa! Alyssa, Alyssa wake up!" Letty shrieked.
She breathed into her mouth and waited for her to cough up the water. She pressed against her chest and waited but nothing happened. Letty picked her up and brought her over to the car. She wrapped a blanket around her and drove to the hospital. Once again they took her to the emergency ward and started their tests. After a while, the doctor came out from the room and sat next to Letty.
"She's going to be fine. It's a good thing that you took her out of the ice before she completely froze over." The doctor said.
"Can I go see her?" Letty asked.
"Yeah." The doctor said. "Go on."
She got up and opened the door. Alyssa was laying on the bed shaking a little. There were needles in her arm and white patches everywhere. Letty went over and held her frozen little hand that was shaking like mad.
"It's going to be Ok now." Letty said reassuring her.
"It's never going to be Ok." Alyssa said. "Something will always happen."
"You know what? Something will always get in the way of normal life and all those things will make us stronger. Each experience we have brings us closer together, let's us dive into adventure and it's way better than the norm." Letty explained.
A slight smile appeared on her face and she looked at the door. Dom appeared and sat next to Letty.
"What are we talking about?" Dom asked.
"Things will never be normal." Alyssa answered. "But that's Ok."
"Yes it is." Dom said leaning back.
For a second she switched off completely but then for the next she remembered something.
"Did you find Aunt Mia?" Alyssa asked.
"Yes, she and the kids were taken but we found them in a Russian hotel near the capital." Dom replied.
She remembered something else and looked at Dom.
"We have to get out of here." Alyssa said.
"Why?" Dom asked.
"It's Brian's birthday." Alyssa answered.
Quickly they rushed out of the hotel room and booked their flight on the way. They got on the plane and flew back to the Canary Islands.
Brian woke up and walked to the kitchen where some presents were laid out for him. He opened them one by one and smiled. Ramsey came through and said happy birthday to him.
"Your party is later on." Ramsey said.
"Are my parents coming?" Brian asked. "And Alyssa?"
"I don't know." Ramsey said. "Maybe."
The day continued on and some of Brian's neighbours and friends came along to the party. It was a pool party but Brian didn't want to go in as long as his parents weren't there. He sat on the edge and splashed his miniature feet in the pool. Ramsey came over and crouched down.
"Cake's ready. Come on." Ramsey said.
Before he got up, a single tear rolled down his face and landed in the pool. He went into the kitchen where everyone else was waiting for him to arrive. Brian got to the middle seat among the many Hispanic kids and looked down at his birthday cake.
"Happy birthday to you." They said kind of struggling.
Suddenly the singing turned more deep and there was one voice overpowering the others. He looked up from the cake and saw his father, his mother and his sister. He got out from under the table and hugged them all.
"I missed you guys." Brian said.
"We did too." Dom said.
"It was one last time." Letty said.
"Now we can all be together." Alyssa finished.