Hmmm, my first Jori multi-chapter fic. I'm excited. I've already got five chapters written! Well, enjoy.

Chapter One – Comfort

Tori Vega is roused out of sleep by the blaring ringtone of her pearphone. She groans and rolls over. Before answering she glances up at the clock that blinks red at her.

"Hello?" Her voice cracks.

"Tori, can you come pick me up?" A familiar voice cuts through the quiet. Tori furrows her brow and pulls the phone away from her ear. A picture of a glaring female with long thick black hair stares back at her and underneath the picture it reads Jade West.

"Jade its two thirty in the morning." She falls back on her bed. "What's wrong?"

"I need your help, please come pick me up." Jade's voice is so pained that Tori finds herself running out of her room without grabbing shoes.

"Okay, where are you?" Tori asks as she gets in her car.

"My house, just, please hurry up." The line goes dead and Tori feels her heart hammering in her chest. Jade doesn't say 'please', Jade doesn't ask for help. Tori can barely keep from going over the speed limit as she drives to Jade's house. She keeps forgetting to breathe. When she pulls up to Jade's house she finds Jade's parents screaming at her on the porch.

"You're an ungrateful little slut!" Jade's mother screams.

"Get out of here! I don't want to see your disgusting ass around my house anymore!" Her father bellows. Jade has a determined look on her face and she throws something at her father and it hits him in the face.

"Get out!" He pushes his wife into the house and slams the door shut. Jade turns around and sees Tori's car. She lifts her two bags into her hands and hurries to throw them in the trunk. When she practically falls into the passenger seat tears are falling freely. Tori pulls away from the house immediately, sensing that Jade didn't want to stay longer than she had to.

"I fucked up Tori, I fucked up real bad." She seems to plead for forgiveness in her dark eyes.

"What happened?" Tori asks making sure to keep her eyes on the road ahead of them.

"I'm pregnant." She let the rest of the air in her lungs blow out slowly. Tori's head snaps to the right so fast her neck cracks.

"What!"

"Yeah, I'm with child, knocked up, I've got a bun in the oven, whatever you want to call it..." She pauses and sucks in a shaky breath. "I have a baby inside of me." Her hand absently flutters to her stomach.

"Beck's?" Tori questions. Jade shakes her head from side to side.

"I don't know who the dad is. I can't remember." She sighs.

"I am a terrible person."

"No you're not. It is not your mistakes that define you; it is how you handle them." Tori glances at the crying girl. Jade shakes her head again.

"I can't do any of this. I can't get an abortion, I can't give up my baby, after carrying and loving a baby for nine months I could never let go. But most of all, I can't take care of a baby." She starts crying again and Tori pulls into her driveway. Her car clock reads 3:15. Thank God it's Saturday.

"Look Jade I'm gonna be real with you here. It won't be easy. What will be better for your child? That is what you need to think of. I don't care how you feel, I want you to think into the future and imagine what kind of life your child could have; either with you or in an adopted family." Tori answers. Jade nods.

"Well, I certainly have time to think about it. I'm exhausted now though." Jade glances out the window at Tori's house. Tori nods and puts a hand on Jade's thigh.

"Okay, come on, we have a guest room." She pats her thigh and gets out. Both girls take up a bag and carry it into the house. They try to stay as quiet as possible as they get Jade settled into the guest bedroom.

"My room is right across the hall, if you need anything." Tori shuffles as she stands in front of Jade who sits on the pale yellow sheets with mild distaste. Jade nods simply.

"Thanks Tori, thank you for being so nice to me when I don't deserve it." She whispers.

"You're welcome, everyone deserves kindness." Tori walks out the door and closes it with a quiet click. She tiptoes to her room and falls into her bed exhausted. Before drifting off she sees the clock, blurry trough sleep deprived eyes. 3:51.

Tori is pulled from her sleep once more, someone is knocking on her door. She rolls from her side to her back grunting. It's still dark and the clock reads 6:32. Her door opens and Jade pokes her head through. Her face make-up-less and pale nearly glows in the dark.

"What's wrong?" Tori sits up. Jade looks ashamed.

"I had a nightmare." She sighs. She steps into the room and closes the door behind her. "I'm going to keep the baby." She whispers. Tori nods her head.

"Do you want to talk about the nightmare?" She slides over on her bed and pats the space next to her.

Jade nods and climbs next to Tori.

"Well, I was in the hospital and I guess I had just given birth because I was holding a baby. My mom and dad burst into the room and they were screaming at me. They ripped the child from my arms and handed him over to the murderer from The Scissoring. And she cut my baby into pieces." Jade sobs. "God, I'm barely pregnant and my hormones are all over the place." She smiles through the tears and wipes at her eyes. Tori wraps her arms around Jade's waist.

"It's okay, everything is going to be okay; I'll help you with anything you need. But for right now, why don't we go to sleep, it's still early." Tori coos. Jade lets out a ragged breath.

"Yeah, okay." She starts to shift to slide out of the bed but Tori's hand lands on her bicep.

"You can stay here, if it'll help with the nightmares." She says. Jade's eyes flick around the room.

"Okay," she stretches out beside Tori.

"Jade?" Tori whispers as the sun starts to filter through her blinds.

"Hmmmm?" The girl shifts.

"Why'd you come to me?" Tori flips over so she's facing Jade.

"Technically, you came to me..." Her breath is hot on Tori's face; a smirk plays at her lips.

"Jade," Tori says in a warning tone, "you know what I mean." Jade groans.

"You're the only one I trusted, okay?" She rolls away from Tori.

"Is that a good enough answer for you?" She sounds angry and Tori sighs.

"Thanks." She whispers. Jade grunts in answer and both girls fall asleep as the sun lifts into the air. The clock blinking an angry red 7:13.