Loving the Buster//Brian O'Conner

Fourteen

It feels surreal. Like it's all some nightmare that I can't seem to wake up from. Letty was murdered. Mia has been crying non-stop and I've been trying to keep it together but I can't. Jason has been the one staying strong for the both of us. But it doesn't make a difference. We lost a part of our family.

I head out to the garage with a box of Letty's things. Mia and I can't bring ourselves to throw them out. I turn around when I hear someone behind me. Dom steps out of the darkness.

"I told you not to come," I remind him. "They're staking the place out. If they find you..."

"They won't," Dom assures. "Come on. Look at you."

Dom looks around the garage and notices the Dodge Charger is sitting there.

"Letty wouldn't let them junk it," I tell him. "Even though it is a goddamn curse. When Letty came back we were always in here working on it. It was like she knew you were coming back. I think she had even conceived me."

"I want to see the crash site," Dom tells me.

"If that's what you want." I nod my head. "I'll get Mia and Jason. They should see you."

Mia and I agree to take Dom to the crash site. It's pitch black outside as we pull up to the spot. We get out of the car. I've never been here before. I could never bring myself to come here.

"It's straight ahead," Mia tells him.

Dom stares at the tire marks in the middle of the road. He crouches down and touches something green on the ground.

We drive in silence back to the house. We sit down the street in silence.

"You found something back there," I state.

"There were burn marks on the ground. The kind that could only be caused by nitrometh. There's only one guy in all of LA that sells that," Dom tells me.

"Nothing you or I can do is gonna bring her back, Dom," Mia tells him. "If I were Letty, I would ask you... No, I would beg you, please, let this go. Before it's too late."

"It's already too late," Dom tells her. He leans in to kiss Mia's forehead. "I love you."

Mia and I are both hauled in by the FBI. They must know that Dom was here. We sit a glass office with some Agent Stasiak. He keeps asking about Dom but neither Mia nor I will say anything. I can tell he's starting to get annoyed with us.

Stasiak leaves without giving a reason. I turn to Mia.

"Any chance we'll get breakfast?" I remark.

The door buzzes and I look up. It's Brian O'Conner of all people. That asshole didn't tell me he was back. And he sure as hell didn't tell me he was working for the Feds.

"Hey, Tyler, we got two transfers." Brian walks towards Mia and I. "You want to come with me?"

Brian cuts Mia loose. I guess he really just wanted to talk to me. I haven't seen him in three years. I thought he cared about me. I thought I made it pretty obvious to him in Miami that I cared about him.

I look down at the cup of tea I was drinking. "I'm almost done." I look at Brian. "Why don't you tell me why you dragged me here, Brian?"

"You know they're going to capture Dom. Maybe worse. I don't want you getting tangled up in this. So stay away from him," Brian warns.

"That's what you have to say to me after three years?" I ask. "All of a sudden, you care what happens to me."

"What I did to you was wrong," Brian says.