You Can Be My Hero

Summary: Nothing was going right in Jane's life. From what she learned of her father, to becoming attracted to Declan Coyne, the new guy in school and breaking up with Spinner, to being kicked off the football team because she hasn't been playing well. She decides to head to Port Charles on a little road trip---bringing Darcy who has just returned from Kenya along with her. What happens when these two troubled girls meet Damian Spinelli and Milo Giambetti?

Pairings: Jane Vaughn/Damian Spinelli, Darcy Edwards/Milo Giambetti.

Chapter One: Long Road Away From Home

Jane Vaughn sighed as she tapped her fingers against the steering wheel, waiting for her best friend, Darcy Edwards to come out and get into the car. She was anxious to get going already and was wondering what was taking the other girl so long. Jane usually wasn't like this. She usually wasn't the type of person to just up and abandon everything that she loved but circumstances had changed that. What she learned about her past and what her father used to do to her when she was little---younger than four---when he put her to bed. Her life had been going steadily downhill since then and she needed to get away from it all. From every memory, every reminder of what had happened to her these past few months.

Just then Darcy walked out of the house, tugging one suitcase along with her, Clare Edwards was following close behind her older sister with a small bag. They both stopped infront of the car and Jane took the hint and stepped out, taking the suitcase and the small bag from the girls and throwing them in the backseat. The next thing she knew, the fourteen year old threw pale arms around Jane's waist in a hug. "Take care of my sister for me, okay Jane?" She asked in a mere whisper before pulling away and wrapping her arms around Darcy in a sisterly embrace. Darcy and Clare, from what Jane could tell, were both crying and wiping their tears away quickly.

About fifteen minutes later, Clare ran back into the house, turning to wave at Jane and Darcy before she shut the door.

As they began their long drive, Jane turned to Darcy and asked. "You going to be okay?" Then a frown crossed her face. "You're not second thinking leaving with me, are you?" She honestly didn't know. Her usually talkative friend was being extremely quiet.

Darcy turned her head slightly to smile at her friend and road trip companion. She nodded. "Yeah. I just....I'm gonna miss my sister, ya know?"

The other girl nodded solemnly. "I know what you mean. I'm going to miss my brother and mom and Bella." Thinking about them, made her sad but it didn't make her not want to leave. She knew that both her mother and Lucas understood her reasoning behind all this. How could they not? They'd seen how depressed she had been and had went as far as to make comments on it, wishing there were a way to make her that happy, fun girl who wasn't afraid to get dirty and who played football with the boys, again. This bold move, was the only way she'd ever maybe get back to being that person again.

"You know...my rape is the main reason I decided to go to Kenya? I mean....I made the excuses that it was for the kids. And it was. Don't get me wrong...but mostly it was for me. I mean...when I went back to school...I kept seeing my rapist everywhere. In the halls, in the classroom, outside the school, in the lunch room. At the mall---everywhere. I don't even know what my attacker looked like so I suspected---everyone and that is a horrible feeling. Not being able to trust anyone because of what they might've done to you." Darcy said, voice cracking with emotion as she squeezed her eyes shut and sniffled a little bit.

"Well...look we don't have to deal with that anymore. What has happened to us? This is our chance to forget it all. Every disgusting detail." Jane replied carefully as she turned her car and took an exit.

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A couple of hours later, the two girls were restless and hungry. They stopped their car infront of a hotel that had a small diner hooked to it and went into the lobby to get a room with two double beds. They knew they'd feel up to more travelling once they were well rested and once they'd eaten.

"Jane?" Darcy asked timidly as she flipped through the television stations before stopping at one and tossing the remote aside so she could look at her friend.

"Yeah?" Jane asked, looking up from the map that she was currently laying on her bed, viewing.

"Where are we going to go? I mean...do we even have a plan...or are we just going to drive until we stop." The girl on the other bed asked, truly curious.

Jane sighed and looked at the map, dark eyes landing on the small words just inside New York. She'd never heard of this town before and she knew immediatly that this was the place that they should go. No one would know them there and it wasn't a big city even though it was on the outskirts of New York. "I think that we are heading to Port Charles, New York." She said, smiling at her friend carefully.

"I've never even heard of that place." Darcy commented, furrowing her brow and pulling back the covers on her bed to get beneath them.

"That's the point. No one will know us. It's small so we won't be overwhelmed or lost easily and if someone looks for us, they won't be able to find us." Jane replied as she took the map and put it inside the bedside table before she climbed beneath her own covers and reached over to turn out the light.

Next Chapter: A long road trip finally ends as the two friends reach their destination. Darcy and Jane meet Milo Giambetti and Damian Spinelli at the Metrocourt Hotel.