Author: Tangilass
Rating:NC-17
Warnings: Spanking, language
Summary: This is a family fic, Dom and Letty are married and have a kid, this is about them.. and the team..
"So ya gonna spill about what ya were talking about or ya just gonna keep quiet?" she asked, throwing herself into a chair..
"Dom hit Star" Vince said matter of factly and Dom jumped up off the couch
"I did not hit her!, I spanked her!, theres a difference!, I dont' go around hitting anyone!, but I might just start!" he glared at Vince
Mia came out of the kitchen at that point and looked a him "Spanked Star!?"
"Spanked Star!?"
Both women spoke at the same time and looked at Dom questioningly, Letty demanding more of an answer in her tone, than Mia..
Dom ran a hand over his bald head and looked at his wife and his sister "Star got herself suspended from school today, apparently threw the first punch, same as the last two times she came home kinda beat up and let us belive it happened after school.. turns out the fights, they were all on school property, she got her third strike today, got suspended.."
Letty sat quietly, taking in what her husband had just said, it wasn't normal for Letty to just sit quietly for nuthing, Dom was looking at her, waiting for the storm to start.
"Dom, is she ok?.. I mean, well I know you didn't hurt her or anything, but is she ok?... from the fight i mean?" Mia asked him concerned chewing her lip
Shaking his Dom took a seat again on the couch "She's got a busted up lip, and her head looks like it might be bad under the band aid.. maybe you should go take a look at her, not impressed that the school seemed more concerned aobut the fighting than properly lookign after her cuts and stuff"
Mia nodded and started for the stairs, Letty got up and started to follow her, when Dom grabbed her arm
"Letty, baby, I already punished her, she knows what she did was wrong" he could tell his wife was pissed, she was quiet and THAT was never a good sign
Pulling away, Letty nodded to him " I know Dom, I still want to talk to her" Dom just took a minute to look at his wife, and thne nodded his head.. she was gonna talk to her reguardless, unless he pushed the issue, and there did not seem any reason for him to push the issue with her.
Mia hit the upstairs bathroom, grabbing the stocked first aide kit from under the sink and then proceeded to Stars room. she was grateful that they had started keeping stocked kits in the huse at all times, cut down on their trips to the hospital for things since she became a nurse.
Mia knocked on Stars door once, opened it and stepped inside, knowing that Letty was going to be up here soon and she wanted to get her patched up before the yelling started..
Star Looked up from her pillow and sniffled, smiling a little, she had just woke up and when she went to sit up, she thought better of it, she knew there would be no sitting without a pillow for a couple days atleast, possibly even a week, daddy had spoke and spoke hard, he never ever did unless she seriously messed up.
"Hi" she said quietly, and Mia stepped into her room and over to the bed
"Hey baby, how you feeling?" she asked taking a seat on the bed and pulled her chin up to take a look at her lip and head.
"tired, sore, can't sit up, need pillows, hate school, how are you?" she asked quietly
Mia smiled hearing her "well apparently better than you are now baby.. let me fix this up, you have a nasty cut here, i'm gonna clean it and put some butterfly strips on it to keep it closed, ok?"
Star nodded and winced, but let her do what she needed to do, there was noway she was gonna get in trouble again today, not for fighting aobut getting patched up.
"So tell me what happened?" Mia asked as she cleaned the wound out, and started to prepare the butterfly strips to go on..
"well" Star sighed deeply and winced again "well, she was saying stuff about mom again, bad things, in chinese to!.. she pissed me off aunt Mia!.."
Star stopped and looked up "not chinese, japanese, I forgot its Japanese or something like that, but it was in another language and I just knew it was bad stuff.. she can't leave me alone, ever" Star started to tear up again.
She knew exactally why the last three or four months, Marissa had been after her..it wouldn't have been so bad if she was talking about her real mom and stuff, but she wasn't, she was talking about Letty and that was a big NO.
"Baby, who is she and ok Japanese, but how do you know it was bad if you didn't understand what she was saying?" Mia started putting the strips on her cut to close it
"Cause she said it in English first and then in japanese or whatever.. and it was bad, bad bad!"
"Who is SHE, give me a name Star" Mia finished up and started on her lip, hiding a smile, Star always was pretty amusing when she was angry.
Star hessitated and then looked at her "Marissa, Marissa Tran" and Mia almost fell offa the side of the bed hearing the last name of the other girl.. Star reached out and grabbed her..
"You know her?" Ohhhh gawd this wasn't gonna be good if she did know her!
Letty had been standing in the doorway listening to them and watching Mia patch up Star through most of there conversation. she cringed at the bruises on her, they were definatly gonna be there for a good month, thats how bad they were.. and the last time she saw bruises that bad on HER kid was the first night she showed up at the track..
+++FLASHBACK+++
After Letty had stormed off and vented for a good half hour, she slowly made her way back towards the team, pissed because she freaked out, pissed because Dom wasn't careful, but more pissed because they had been trying to have a baby for months now and nothing was happening at all..
She stopped when she saw Dom with the little kid sitting on a bench away from the others and started over to them, if for nothing else but to apoligize for possibly scareing the kid, she liked kids, she didn't want to scare one, she only liked to scare Leon and jess, and sometimes Vince, she smiled at herself thinking about that and then stopped short when she heard Dom and the girl talking
"So kid, what happened to your arm?" he asked tapping lightly on the dirty cast, and wheres your jacket, its cold out here" he watched her
Star looked at the big man from her picture and shrugged "fell down, and don't got one" she was bad at lying, but she didn't think she should tell about her mom and stuff, not incase she had to go back, then it won't be so bad.. and maybe he wouldn't knwo she was lying.
Dom's brow raised and he looked at her "common kid, I can hear the lies coming from you, fell down my ass, now tell me what happened, and your mother, she know where you are?" he spoke gruffly
Star shook her head "no, I got my back pack and climbed out the window and came to look for you, and I did fall down.. really" oh how she sucked at lying
Dom stared down at the little girl sitting beside him, taking in her appearance, how dirty she was, how thin she was and was that a bruise under her collar, he strained to look close and Stars hand went up to her neck to cover it. she was scared.
"What happened to your arm" he asked again, although this time he was sure that even she would understand she had no choice but to answer becasue he was giving her no choice, and yes, she got it.
"Mom, she , she got mad at me and she hurt my arm.." she said quickly,part of her hoping he didn't really hear her and the other part of her hoping that he did hear her and all of her being scared..
Dom was quiet for a minute or two or three, long enough that Star was starting to get up again when he made her sit back down
"Where you think you going?" he said
"I.. ummm, well.. I should, umm, gotta go, she's gonna be looking for me probably" she knew she wasn't but she didn't want him to say no, if he said no, she was sure to cry and he didnt' look liek the kinda big man that was ok with crying and beside she was tough, she wasn't gonna cry..and if he did say no she could just go live with Becca and her mom.
"No, your gonna sit right there and tell me what happened" his brow raised
"Well, I was bad and she punished me, and it was an accident, really it was, mom always has accidfents and stuff.. kinda like me, its ok " Star looked down at her casted hand and fiddled with the hem of her thin shirt..
Dom reguarded her for a few minutes more, not liking what he was hearing, he was pretty sure, no scratch that, he was positive that this kid was his and he wasn't liking what he was hearing.
"And your neck, what happened there?" he finally asked her
"Fell" she blurted out before she could stop herself.."fell on my skateboard" she patted her back pack where her skateboard was in.. she may suck at lying, but she had always told people that when they asked, it was easier than the truth, cause the truth could get her into a lot of trouble.. alot of trouble and she was soo tired of always being in trouble, or jsut being trouble period.
He pulled her chin up to look at him
"Lies little girl, lies, and I'm gonna find out why, common lets get you into a warm jacket and take you home" He stood and went to take her non-casted hand.
Star jumped up "NO!, NOT GOING HOME!, NO!" and she took off, running as fast as her little legs would go, which for being 9 years old and being so tiny, was not very far at all before Dom had caught up with her, picking her up and making her look at him
"HEY!, I said home, I ment my home, not wherever it was you came from, calm down!" he raised his voice and she struggled, trying to get down and away from him..
Letty had followed them just incase she was needed, she was pissed even more.. pissed at this kids mother for treating her this way..and if she was this pissed, she could only imagine how Dom was.
"CALM DOWN!" Dom yelled and swatted her behind, not hard at all, just enough to get her to stop and listen to him, and it did the trick, she stopped struggling and gasped.. tho the gasp he wasn't antisipating and it was then he KNEW there was a whole lot more than falling to her story and he hugged her close
"Its gonna be ok kid, gonna be ok" he said turning to head back to the team with her and spotted Letty, he figured by the look on her face that she had heard what Star had said.
"hey, common Let, lets go back, get this girl taken care of" he held Star and Letty nodded and walked with him back to the guys.
The three of thme made it back to the team and Dom stood and looked at everyone "Lets get packed up and get going, I got stuff I gotta take care of" he said to everyone, and everyone just nodded and started packing things up.. they knew it was serious, Dom wasn't even thinking about finishing the races..
"I'm taking the kid to the hospital to get checked out, meet me there" he said and with that he took Letty's hand and still holding star headed to the car.
It got worse at the hospital, Letty remembered, remembered the waiting and waiting and more waiting as the Doctor examined Star, Dom was getting frustrated, because no one was giving him any information at all, and she was pretty sure he was gonna go back there soon to see what the hell was going on.
The team made it to the hospital in no time at all, thats what happened when everyone working togeather was that efficient. Everyone was sitting in the waiting room, save for Mia and brian who had took off to the late night mall to get the kid some clothes.. and Dom who was pacing.
Letty moved up behind him and gently encircled his waist with her arms laying her head against his back
"Its gonna be ok Dom, there gonna take care of whatevers wrogn with her and then come and tell us whats going on, jsut gotta calm down"
Dom took her wrist and pulled her around to his front, holding her close "if theres anything seriously wrong with her, i'm gonna kick that bitches ass" he said roucghly and then his voice softened and he tilted her chin up to look at her "You ok with this?.. I mean her?.. living with us, casue theres noway in hell I'm taking her back where she came from"
Letty smiled softly at him "I'm ok Dom, I was pissed, i'm sorry, its just that we ahve been trying so long to have a baby and then this kid shows up out of nowhere, I jsut , I needed to get my brain around it" she said to him.
Dom kissed her gently and tucked a strand of hair behind her ear. "A baby will come when its time Letty, no worries, we will have our own one day, but untill then, this kids gonna need a mother, one who loves her, gonna need to teach her things casue if ya haven't noticed, I'm far from being a girl, there are things I can't teach her"
Dom Stopped, getting ahead of himself and looked at her again "that is, if you are ok with her being ours?"
Letty smiel bigger now and nodded "She is part of you, and I love every part of you, even the parts that are walking outside your body" she said and then cocked a brow and looked at him seriously "Better just be no more walking out there Buster"
Dom laughed and kissed her, just as Jesse, who had been on his lap top all this time spoke up "hey Leon, Dom?, got some serious shit here on this kids mother"
Doms head turned and so did Letty's, and Leon got up and walked over "Whats up?.. what ya got?" leon sat beside him and Dom and Letty and Vince moved behind him to look at the screen
"I was checking around for things on this chick, shes got a wrap sheet the length of the city, and multable convictions for drugs and assault.. but the most interesting shits this"
Jesse pointed to the screen "Child Services has a case file on her a mile high, and everything is bad, its fucked up why they didnt' take this kid away years ago.. theres allagations of serious abouse here, and not all the physical kind either if you know what I saying bro?"
Dom leaned down and started reading what jesse had found, and with every new thing he read his fists started clencing tighter and tighter.. then he stopped "Wait, they knew I was her father and yet they left her with this piece of shit?.. someones gonna loose their job for this!" his voice loud, loud enough to scare the nurse that was walking by.
"Theres more bro, look at this" Jesse switched screens and pulled up Stars hospital records. "Says here the kids been to emergency care 42 times since she was 2 years old, more than half those times for a broken bone of some sort, and the other times, for cuts and bruises and lacerations to her" he stopped and cleared his throat "girly parts" the moment it was outta his mouth, Jesse leaned away and was sick, thank gawd the trash can was right there..
Dom winced as Jess was sick, and then turned when he heard the wall, Letty's fist went through and he moved to her "LETTY!, fuck, the wall, your hand, bet its broke!" He took her wrist and commenced pulling it from the wall and turned her to face him "I'm as pissed as you are, moreso, but we gotta keep it togeather here, for the kid"
Letty looked up at him, holding her hand against her, it was broken, she was sure of it.. fuck! "I'm gonna find her and I'm gonna break her neck!" her voice rose and jesse cringed, Leon backed up and Vince came walking in the room with.. coffee..
"Coffee's up.. oh shit!.. Let, what happened to yer hand, whoa, bro don't be looking at me like that I just brought the coffee!" Vince barked at Dom and started handing them out, Leon taking Vince aside and telling him what they found..
Dom watched Vince and Leon for a minute and then turned back to Letty "Common lets get yer hand taken care of, and then we can discuss the neck breaking of the bitch"
He took her good hand and started to lead her out of the waiting room when the doctor stepped in through the door "I am looking for the parents of Star toretto?"
"Thats me, us.. I mean, us!" He waged a finger between himself and Letty as Vince and Leon and Jesse got up and moved to them as well.
The doctor nodded "Star is doing fine, she is scared, she has been through alot by the looks of her little body, she has bruises covering most of her body, classic signs of abuse" and he held up his hand before anyone could speak.
"The nurse filled me in on everything, I KNOW her abuse was not caused by anyone here.. and I have fixed her up, she has some abrasions, we have changed her cast and put on a waterproof one, that she can get wet.. and I have given her some antibiotics that should help her tonight, until you get this filled" He handed Dom the little paper.
Dom took it and looked at it "that is a prescription for her, she has a serious infection that no little girl should ever have.. this will clear that up, and you should follow up with your family doctor in 10 days.."
He handed them another sheet of paper "this is for vitamin suppliments and pediatric suppliments, shes very under weight, the vitamins will help the immune system and the pediasure will help build up her strength and help put on weight.."
Dom took the other paper and Letty snatched them both from him with her good hand and started reading them..Jess and leon looking over her shoulder. "Can we take her home doc?" Dom asked, looking at him and he nodded.
"certinally, she's in the room at the end of the hall, shes hungry and eating, she charmed one of our nurses into reading her a story to" He smiled "She is a very good natured child, considering what she's been through for years"
Dom smiled at the charming comment, seems she did get something from him besides her looks "thanks Doc, wait.. can you look at my wife, she broke her hand on your wall over there" Dom smiled and Letty growled and the doctors eyes widened.. and Vince laughed.
+++++END FLASHBACK++++++
Star hessitated and then looked at her "Marissa, Marissa Tran" and Mia almost fell offa the side of the bed hearing the last name of the other girl.. Star reached out and grabbed her..
The Tran name being said was enough to bring Letty out of her thoughts and she pushed herself off the door jamb "Tran, did you say the last name was Tran?"
Star looked up from catching Mia and nodded, her mum was mad, you could tell.. way mad, gawd she knew .. but she can't know cause she never said nothing to anyone, well asides from Abby, her best friend..
"Umm, yes, Marissa Tran" Star said and cringed and tried to sit up making it to her hip "i'm sorry, really sorry, I shouldn't of been fighting I know, I'm sorry" she said
Mia looked up at her sister in law "Now Letty, lets jsut calm down, she knows what she did was wrong and Dom already took care of i-" and Mia was cut off when Letty abruptly left the room with a growl..
Star looked at her Aunt "Umm, shes really mad huh?" and Mia looked at her and smiled softly "not at you baby, not at you"