Disclaimer: Victorious and all of its associated copyrights are not my property and I stake no claim to them.
A/N: It's finally here, the sequel to Life in the Fast Lane! So, one thing I changed, Cat is not pregnant. It was a detail I decided I didn't want later on, so that little bit has been removed from the plot of this story. One more thing to note, I don't know how quickly I'll be getting these chapters out, as I'm working on quite a few other stories since my mind seems to constantly wander. Other than that, things are the same, read on!
"You guys ready?" Ben's voice echoed in Jade and Kevin's ears.
The siblings looked at each other and nodded, "Let's go."
"Ok, Jade you go left, Kevin go right."
The two took off in opposite directions, struggling to see through the fog and darkness.
"Jade take a right at the next fork and go forward, she's headed your way, get behind her. Kevin, loop around and go to the middle."
Jade crouched behind a stack of crates and listened carefully, she checked that her gun was ready to fire and hopped up.
"Kev, any sign of 'em?" Jade asked, breathless from running and the adrenaline.
"I'm getting close, I can hear her," Kevin responded quietly.
"Jade, watch your back! She's coming for you!"
She sprinted to the next turn and tried to lose her pursuer.
"Kevin, take a left and you'll be right behind her," Ben whispered.
Jade finally found some cover and listened, not hearing the heavy breathing and stomping of someone running after her, she figured she was safe, for now.
"Get her Kevin, before they see you. Damn! Nice shot. Ok, Jade it's all you now, finish this."
She smirked and turned around, slowly winding her way back. "She's in the bottom left corner, seems to be lost." Not surprising.
Making sure she was out of Brad's line of sight, Jade crept up behind her target, lined up the shot and took a deep breath.
"Now!"
She fired just as her target turned around, hitting her in the chest, the force of the impact causing her to fly backwards into a pile of old tires.
"Whoa dude, that's a kill shot for sure," Ben laughed.
Jade smirked in victory, taking off her mask and walking towards her target, who was trying to recover from the blow.
"This is what we get for challenging Wests, huh?" She laughed breathlessly.
"Damn right."
She extended her hand, helping up her fallen opponent. Jade looked at the splattered paint on Tori's protective vest and grinned, "I think you're dead."
"A little bit," Tori laughed as she took off her mask as well, smiling as Jade gave her a kiss.
Kevin and Cat finally found them, not seeing any paint on Cat, she asked Kevin, "I thought…"
Cat turned around, showing a nice huge splatter of neon pink paint on her ass and both Jade and Tori cracked up.
"You shot her in the ass?!"
"You shot Tori in the boobs!"
Jade looked at Tori and laughed, "Yeah…I did."
"That shit hurts," Tori muttered.
"No kidding," Cat agreed.
Ben and Brad finally joined them down in the lobby, Tori immediately getting right in his face, "Why didn't you tell me she was right behind me?!"
"I didn't see her!"
"I told you man, Tori and Cat are good, but no one can go up against the Wests," Ben told him.
Brad shrugged, "I know that now."
Jade and Kevin grinned at each other, Kevin wrapping his arm around her and messing up her hair playfully.
"So, how do you guys wanna spend our last night in LA?" Ben asked as they walked out of the paintball arena.
"Pierce," they all said nearly in unison.
With a few drinks in their system, they were all on the dance floor; Kevin and Cat, Ben and his girlfriend Julia, Brad and his girlfriend Nikki, and of course Jade and Tori.
"You remember the first time we came here?" Jade whispered in Tori's ear.
Tori grinned wickedly, "Vaguely."
She turned around, pressing her back up against Jade's front, biting her lip as Jade trailed kisses all the way up her neck to her ear, gently biting and tugging on it. Jade maintained her grip on Tori's hips as the two grinded to the music.
After the song ended, Tori turned back around, kissing her passionately.
"You wanna get out of here?" Jade asked with a seductive smirk.
Tori nodded, winking as she turned around and headed out the door.
Kevin's POV
Watching my sister leave a bar with pure lust in her eyes never seemed like something to smirk about, but the fact she had her eyes locked on a certain brunette that seemed to make everything okay for her, simply made me happy that she wasn't miserable anymore.
"What're you looking at?" Cat asked, wrapping her arm around me and using me for support, as she got pretty wasted.
"Jade and Tori just left."
Cat rolled her eyes, "I swear if pregnancy was possible with those two, they'd be on one of those TLC shows about having a billion kids."
I laughed, "I wouldn't doubt it."
"Doesn't it bother you?"
"What?" I asked, confused.
She shrugged, "I dunno, usually big brothers get all protective and I-have-a-gun when their little sisters get into relationships."
I shook my head, "Nah. Jade's happy, Tori's happy. I finally got my sister back, having her smile and laugh again is worth it all."
"I don't know what you're talking about," she grunted.
I tilted my head at her in confusion and she continued, "I've known Jade since she was in first grade. This attitude is totally new for her, it's like Tori puts her in this perpetual state of nirvana whenever they're together."
"Having her not bring home a new fuck toy every night is nice too," I muttered.
"Bet those early morning interrogations were fun."
I laughed, "She never let anyone stay the night."
"Can I stay the night?"
"Oh...I suppose so," I said with a smirk, following her out to my truck.
The next morning I woke up early and saw Tori already up and laying on the couch, using her phone.
"Damn, she make you sleep on the couch?"
Tori looked up at me and grinned, "Nah, just woke up early."
I looked at my watch and laughed, "Only in this family would 9:45 be 'early'. Hey you want any breakfast?"
"Some coffee would be fine. Probably should get Jade some as well, and some pancakes."
I laughed, "I'll get the coffee."
Tori's POV
Kevin took over finishing up the pancakes as I went to wake up sleeping beauty's evil twin.
I crept into the room and closed the door, crawling in bed next to her and whispering in her ear, "Time to wake up baby."
She was barely awake as she answered, "Time for sex already?"
I laughed, "No, time for breakfast."
Jade pouted, "I wanted sex."
I placed a soft kiss on her jaw and got up, "Get dressed and come eat your breakfast and I might consider."
"I hate you," she muttered.
"I love you too babe."
A few minutes later Jade came out and headed straight for the kitchen.
"Hey kiddo, how you doing?" Kevin asked as he gave her her breakfast.
She grunted, "This bitch wakes me up at the ass crack of dawn and won't even give me sex. Like what the fuck, seriously."
Kevin and I both laughed, "It's 10:15 baby, not dawn."
"Shut up," Jade mumbled.
"You know, today's the big day," Kevin said with a smile, walking back to get some coffee for Cat, who had just woken up.
I sighed, "I'm gonna miss this place."
"Yeah, but think about all the cool stuff we'll see, not to mention playing huge concerts," Ben added as he walked into the kitchen, with Julia close behind.
I sat in Jade's lap and just enjoyed her absentmindedly rubbing my back as she ate her breakfast. "First show's in Vegas, right?"
Jade smirked, "Yep. You know, what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas..."
"The city of no regrets!" Brad laughed, joining our party along with Nikki.
"Hell yeah. Man this is gonna be wicked awesome," Kevin said excitedly.
Cat wrapped her arm around Kevin, sipping her coffee, "I find it quite hilarious that when you guys finally go to Vegas, you can't just take home a random fangirl and kick her out later. Yes, Jade, I'm talking to you."
Jade shrugged, "I told you when I got engaged that I wouldn't need anybody else."
I turned around and gave her a kiss as Kevin clapped his hands together, "Alright guys, its 10:30 now, we've gotta be packed and out the door by noon, so get moving."
"Wanna take a shower?" Jade whispered in my ear.
I smiled and nodded, getting up to head into the bedroom.
Kevin's POV
After Tori left Jade finished eating and put her dishes away before going to her room as well.
"Ben, Brad, you guys good to go?" I asked the guys.
"Yeah, most of the stuff is sitting at the top of the stairs. I think Julia and Nikki had a few other things," Ben answered.
I still couldn't get over the fact those two were dating twins. The only way to tell them apart would be the charm bracelet Nikki always wore. If she didn't have that on, we'd all be screwed. Somehow Ben and Brad learned to tell them apart just by appearance. Their height, facial features, and length of slightly curly, light brown hair was all the same. At 26, they were around the same age as the rest of us.
"Well, you guys wanna get dressed and help me get this stuff packed?"
They nodded and we set off to our separate rooms to get changed for the day. Afterwards we got everything together and started packing it in the bus. Eventually Jade and Tori came out of their room and Jade helped us pack the last of our things.
I looked at my watch when we got back inside, "11:45, we got everything? Chargers, instruments, basic necessities?"
"By basic necessities you mean phones right?" Tori asked, much to the amusement of Jade.
"Yeah, sure. Brad you got all of Aero's stuff together and packed?"
"Yup, he's good to go."
Jade went and turned off the A/C as I set the security alarm, "Alright guys, let's go."
I locked the front door and we all piled into the bus.
Jade's POV
A few hours into the drive Brad, Tori, and I were working on the guitar parts of our songs. Brad was sharpening his skills as Tori practiced her solo.
Brad seemed to be having a problem with one of the sets, "Here, let me show you," I said, taking the guitar.
"You were doing it backwards, A5 then G5," I showed him.
"Yeah that does sound a lot better," he laughed.
He took back the guitar and tried for himself, grinning widely when he finished it.
"Didn't know you played guitar, Jade," Nikki said.
I looked at her with raised eyebrows; we'd never really talked much even though she and her sister moved in a week ago. "Yeah, it was the first instrument I learned."
"First?"
"Yep, drums, bass, and piano are also on my résumé."
Julia spoke up from her spot next to Ben, "How did this band composition come to be?"
I bit my lip as I thought about it, "Well at first it was just Kevin and I, at that time we didn't really know what parts we wanted to play, 'cause he knew drums and guitar, as did I. We recruited Ben later on; he's always been a good friend of the family. Brad was Ben's friend's little brother, he joined a while after Ben did. Then about a year ago we found Tori, one of our buddy's friends."
"When did that start?"
"Well, I moved in with Kevin after I finished high school, sometime during college was when we started. So I was about 21-22, and Kevin's two years older."
"It was pretty nice when Tori came along though, Jade was scary before that." Brad muttered.
"Not to mention the fact I didn't have to introduce myself to a new person every few days!" Kevin shouted from the driver's seat.
"Person? What, you aren't lesbian?" Nikki asked.
"I'm equal opportunity."
"And you?" She asked, looking at Tori.
"Gay as gay can be," Tori muttered, not even looking up from her guitar.
"Can you believe they slept together the first day they met?" Brad added.
Tori laughed, "Yeah, Jade got me drunk out of my mind and I ended up passing out, woke up in her bed."
I rolled my eyes, "Not my fault you were such a lightweight."
Ben looked at Julia, "This fight has been going on ever since it happened, I swear it's a conflict that never gets resolved."
I was sitting on the couch with my feet kicked up on the one opposite me, Tori was laying down with her head in my lap just practicing her sets.
Ben and Brad were on the other couch with their girlfriends, Aero was on the floor near Brad, and Kevin and Cat were up in the front seats.
"Hey Ben can you grab me a beer?" I asked him.
He handed me one out of the mini fridge right next to him. I popped it open and took a drink, only to have Tori steal it and chug half of it.
"Not a lightweight anymore," I laughed.
"Practice," she said, grinning at me.
"So when did you two get married?" Julia asked.
I smirked, "You guys are very inquisitive. It was about a month ago."
"And you're how old?"
I huffed angrily and Tori spoke up, "She's getting old. She's 28 and I'm 24."
Brad laughed, "Dude you're like, middle aged now."
"Shut up, Ben's fucking 31!"
"I age better," Ben said, running his fingers through his hair dramatically.
We all laughed at that. A few minutes later Kevin spoke up, "Hey guys, check out this sign!"
"Welcome to Las Vegas!"
A/N: The few notes that Jade told Brad about are from the song Paralyzer by Finger Eleven. Name of this story comes from the Tubeway Army song This is my Life.