Summary: Mia makes herself a new family.

Notes: Happy Yuletide ilyena_sylph! I enjoyed writing this for you, and I hope you enjoy reading it.

Title from Matthew 25:35: "I was a stranger and you welcomed me." Thanks to M and S for read-through and consulting services; any remaining errors are my own.

Story on AO3

( And You Welcomed Me )

Disclaimer: Not mine, no money being made.

Summary: Mia leaves while they're out. She puts the letters she wrote where Dom and Brian will see them, hitches Nico higher on her hip, and leaves her car in the airport parking lot with no intention of ever coming back.

Notes: Written for eternalscribe as part of Yuletide Madness 2011.

( Adrenaline Junkies )

I unironically loved it. I feel like I should have more to say, but I don't. I just had to post about it because I have an (also unironic) "i heart vin diesel" tag.

Okay, a few things:

• It was not quite as amazing as the first movie (what could be?), but way better than two and three.
• I was so excited I could barely keep still. Seriously, I had to ( Read more... )

I've been posting some snippets to royalfic, and it has me thinking again about posting some of my never finished fic. Maybe you'll enjoy it. Maybe it'll inspire you. Maybe it'll just fill up your friends page ( Read more... )

Generally speaking, I dislike the silly surveys that pass through LJ. But this one held my attention enough that I kept thinking about it on my way to work. I've emulated Dara's approach of eliminating the questions, and I've gone one further by renumbering, or relettering, the questions for my own convenience.

A. 1. A good From Eroica With Love ( Read more... )

I went to see The Fast and the Furious for the fourth time tonight. On the big screen for free again. I didn't take many notes because I wanted to just watch and try to get a feel for Letty's character, but I did write down a few numbers ( Read more... )

I spent my evening watching The Fast and the Furious on the big screen for the third time. And this time it was free, thanks to the Carolina Union Activities Board ( Read more... )

Mia was looking smug. Mia never looked smug. She was happy a lot, and triumphant sometimes when she won a race or got the highest grade in the class, but never smug. She never walked around with this little smirk on her face ( Read more... )

Phrase without context: Tough-slutty Letty and girly-girl Mia.

I don't know why I'm so fixated on The Fast and the Furious. I wasn't before, but then Joanne asked somewhere about Mia/Letty, and I started wondering how that could be done, and now I walk around doing roomchecks for work thinking about Mia and Letty making out and how Mia would deal ( Read more... )

I can drive, and I've got my own car that I put together myself--Dom taught me that much--but I'm not like them. Letty and Dom, all there is for them is cars. I remember Letty, fourteen, oil covering her hands, leaning over the engine of some car when Dom let her fix something all on her own. She barely even glanced up when I brought her a Coke ( Read more... )