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Title: memory in oil, sweat, blood
Author: Carla
Disclaimer: Characters from The Fast and the Furious belong to Rob Cohen and others.
Rating: 14+ for language and sexual topics
Author's note: First I wrote "always she is dominant" from Letty's point of view, then [livejournal.com profile] shisaiyan wrote "He Thinks of Her" as a comment sequel from the new woman's point of view, and now this is the next in the line from Dominic's perspective.
Summary: During the day he drives too fast and at night he dreams.



He has a new girl now. That’s what he asks, “Are you my girl?” She always nods and laughs and grabs his hands while she tells him yes with her lips against his mouth, his chest, every inch of his skin. She reminds him of the past, around the eyes and the mouth and she knows he stills carries old pictures in his wallet. She feels good against him, beneath him, beside him in the dark. The sheets stick to their bodies where sweat slicks their skin. He doesn’t think he’s ever called her Letty.

The desert heat bakes the top of his head. He doesn’t know how Letty can stand all that hair, plastered to her forehead and the back of her neck. Los Angeles forgets it was once dry wasteland. He can tell, can feel the desolation just beyond the streets.

His new girl loves to ride bitch and puts her feet on the dashboard and laughs whenever he takes a corner too sharp and she’s thrown up against him. Her hands curve around his arm as she holds herself in place. He shows off sometimes, hits the NOS, and she looks at him like he’s a driving god come down to earth. She doesn’t race or drive that fast or know the first thing about an engine.

Letty drives like she fucks like she talks like she tears down an engine: hard and fast. She puts his hands on her breasts and steers him with the twitch of her hips. She screams and grunts dirty words into his ear and thrusts down so hard it almost hurts. He always comes in sparks and electric clarity and it’s better than one quarter mile at a time.

Dom doesn’t promise his new girl anything. He touches her and makes her smile and doesn’t talk about the future or the past imperfect. He rebuilds cars in the desert and takes her to the shore whenever the heat is too much, which is often. During the day and into the evening he doesn’t think about the team or his family or Letty.

Letty tastes like blood when he kisses her and he knows it’s the last time. Her body is bruised and broken and she looks at him with haunted eyes, shadows crossing her face. She knows Jesse’s dead and Vince might be soon. She knows he can’t keep the promises he made and they’ll never relax in Baja.

At night, when he dreams, he’s by Letty’s side once more. Sometimes he drives and she laughs and flashes white teeth and her breasts in easy movements. In other dreams, she’s behind the wheel, arms straight and hands tight as she concentrates, confident in all she does. No matter what, she’s in control. Other cars join them as they flee across the desert, into freedom and the way things were meant to be.

When he wakes, he misses her strength and her dominance. Mostly he misses the way she made him home.

Mmm...

Date: 2005-03-09 03:06 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] shisaiyan.livejournal.com
Sexy, raw, powerful... very nice... anyone else getting the idea that we should maybe talk about a tag Fast and the Furious fic? Maybe based around these little ficlets of ours? Gimme a little while, I've got a response forming in my head

Re: Mmm...

Date: 2005-03-09 07:37 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] escritoireazul.livejournal.com
We should absolutely write a tag Fast and the Furious fic. This is killing me, the fun of it and the tight characterization we have going. I can't wait to read your response!

"She never lets us forget"

Date: 2005-03-10 04:56 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] shisaiyan.livejournal.com
I'm not Dom. She'll never let me forget it, never let any of us. She uses us, fucks us and plays with us, but we still stick around, an odd group of five or so that Letty parties with, races with, sleeps with on occaision. It's not a relationship of any kind, there's no nice words, or even a pretense of feelings. There's sweat and sex and grease and cars and that's it.

She fucks hard and long, always with her eyes closed, her fists clenched on my chest, never looking at me, never speaking, except to give orders in a hoarse, throaty voice, "Harder," or "Deeper", but not my name. There's another name on her lips, even though she never says it out loud, another face in her mind, another body beneath her. Behind those closed eyes is another place and time. All of us know it, none of us speak of it. We stay, knowing it isn't us she wants, but unable to leave. She's like a drug, addicting. She's pushy and mean and sexy as hell and I can't get enough of her.

So I ignore it when she closes her eyes, when she bites her lip as she comes to keep from screaming a name that isn't mine. I try not to listen at night, when she whimpers in her sleep. That's the only time she's ever weak, when she's dreaming. I refuse to see what she's seeing when she stops working for a minute, wiping her arm and streaks of grease across her face, when she lets the tools hang loosely in her hands and leans on the car, staring into the engine, but not seeing the metal and grease.

I'm not Dominic. I'm not a racing god. I'm not her god. None of us are. And she'll never let us forget.

Re: "She never lets us forget"

Date: 2005-03-10 05:16 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] escritoireazul.livejournal.com
Holy shit.

I'm sorry, that's all I've got right now. I'll try to give understandable feedback later but my mind is blown.

Re: "She never lets us forget"

Date: 2005-03-13 06:11 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] escritoireazul.livejournal.com
I'm working on my response now, but I wanted to ask, may I archive your responses with mine on my website? I'm in the middle of redoing it, and I want to post these so bad. I'm also looking for other places we can post them, because they're wonderful together!

Re: "She never lets us forget"

Date: 2005-03-14 02:33 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] shisaiyan.livejournal.com
Go ahead! What site is this? Of Love and Blood?

Date: 2006-01-04 11:35 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] buhfly.livejournal.com
Squeak. Ohmigod, SO MUCH LOVE for this one. I loved their relationship in the movie and you totally captured it here.

Date: 2006-01-11 03:25 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] escritoireazul.livejournal.com
Oh thank you, thank you, thank you! One of my biggest beefs with the Fast and the Furious fandom (the little I know of it) is the way it rarely handles Letty, and her relationship with Dom, very well at all. Mostly it's a slash fandom, and while I can see the attraction between Dom and Brian, I don't think Letty can just be ignored.

You made me so happy with this comment, thank you!

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