A/N: Hey guys! Got some requests coming up, so better get to work. Here is my very first CADE romance story. Based on a premise suggested by our Challenge King.

I've not written Cat very often and usually when I did she was very much OOC. I will try to keep that under control. I want her to feel like the Cat we all know and love while filling in the gaps (lets face it, she's a mystery).

And Jade...

where do I begin with that girl?

Time to take these two lovable (and unstable) girls we all have come to be familiar with and see where we go.

Enjoy and please review!

WARNING: This first chapter is intense for its violent nature. Be warned. If you choose not to read this part, PM me and I can give you a summary.

Cat Valentine opened her eyes; everything around her was looking blurry.

Before she could truly focus, she was very aware of a throbbing pain in the back of her head. At first she thought she fell. Cat had admitted more than once that she was not the most coordinated.

She was confused when she began to feel a weight on top of her torso and a pair of legs kneeling down on opposite sides of her body.

The moonlight reflected off something metallic. A knife.

"Don't you fucking move," the male voice warned. Just then, a black ski mask ambled into her view. "And don't even think about screaming."

Cat was very aware now and scared to death. All she did was nod and whispered, "What are you gonna do...?"

The guy titled his head quizzically, genuinely put off by the question.

"This," he responded and with a flash his knife was downturned and he began to cut through her pink shirt. It progressed about halfway before the dull blade got stuck. Frustrated, he put the knife in his teeth and tore the rest of the shirt until Cat's naked torso was exposed.

Brandishing his knife once again with one hand, he began traversing her stomach with the other. Eventually, he made way to her lighter pink bra. He cupped one of her petite breasts and squeezed hard. Cat let out an audible wince from the pain. She watched the man lick his lips during this, not sure what he was going to do next.

Ever since Hollywood Arts, Cat had encountered her share of creeps and perverts but never anything like this. You could take the most notorious perv like Christopher Manchester and you never felt scared for your life. That kid used to sneak around Cat and her friends, taking upskirt pictures with his phone. One day he tried that with Jade West and she put him in her trunk and proceeded to driver out to the desert. She made a point to dutifully hit every conceivable rock and bump along the way.

Jade.

Where was she? Cat thought to herself. That's right, she was at the movies. Theatre was a good five blocks from the campus.

Cat closed her eyes as she felt her jeans unzipping. She opened her eyes, unable to ignore the harsh to and fro of someone trying to take off someone else's skinny jeans. Several yards away, Cat could make out a group of students walking by. She had just come out of a frat party and recognized most of them from inside. She weighed her options. If she screamed once and loud enough, they could hear. Everyone had told her she could sing those high notes so a scream would indeed carry.

Unfortunately, just when Cat was preparing herself to belt it out the guy must have either read her mind or saw the upcoming group. He put the knife aside and started choking her. Cat's windpipe lost its steam; there was no chance of screaming now - just a sense of drowning. Her vision was beginning to blur again. She was getting desperate. It then dawned on Cat that he was using both hands which meant the knife wad discarded.

She felt around, hoping that he put it close by for fear of losing his only weapon - next to his brute strength. Cat contained her anticipation as her fingers seized the knife's handle. She gripped it with whatever strength she had left and jabbed him in the side. He let out a yelp and rolled off of her.

Cat saw her opportunity and got to her knees and eventually to her feet. She was trying to run but her legs were tingling with the pins and needles something awful. The bastard must have known what he was doing, intentionally interrupting the blood flow to her legs in case she tried to get away.

He covered her mouth and picked her up off the ground.

"You're gonna pay for that, you fucking bitch!"

He then spun her around and head-butted her, letting her fall on her own to the ground. He picked Cat up by her hair and punched her face continually, occasionally slapping her with enough force to make her head spin. When he was all done, she had a black eye on the right, a swollen one on the left, a cut lip she was just black and blue everywhere else.

Only in her bra and panties now, the man rolled her onto her stomach. He then slid down her panties and began to mount Cat. She spat out the loose blades of wet grass. The lawn around the campus was cut earlier today but the dew that accumulates during the night made the grass all wet. Being freshly cut, the grass stuck to pretty much anything. The little blades stuck to Cat's face.

Then Cat was overcome with a horrible painful sensation in her lower rear cavity. She started screaming in unendurable agony until he panties were stuffed into her mouth. Tears streamed down her delicate face. She shut her eyes because what was the point? The unspeakable was being done to her where she couldn't even see anyway.

Every minute that went by when she felt she couldn't stand any more, he just kept going. It felt like a million years had passed but his thrusts were finally tapering off. All she could hear was his panting and soft mutterings to himself.

Pulling up his pants, he said "I've had better." Cat just laid there motionless, waiting for him to go away and never come back. He settled his sneaker on her and nudged her onto her back again. It was the first time Cat had felt pressure on her behind since being sodomized. The pain was indescribable. She had heard people brag about how good anal sex felt (boys and girls) but if one isn't prepared for it, fewer things hurt more.

"Wh-wh-wha-wha-" Cat stuttered. She was attempting to ask him what more he wanted from her but her words were drowning a lot like her oxygen just a little while ago.

"See you around," he said right before stabbing Cat in the right thigh. She really screamed at the very sudden pain. As expected, that scream did carry thanks to the echo and the bastard ran off out of sight.

Two guys who were coming out of the party heard the scream and in the moonlight made out a flash of red. Cat had never been more grateful for her high profile choice of hair color than right now.

"Oh god," one of them exclaimed. "Are you alright?"

The closer he got the worse it looked. Clearly not wanting to be pegged for this and getting closer would unwittingly introduce him to the apparent crime scene, he kept his distance. He ordered his buddy to call an ambulance and the police while he kept watch.

Cat was taken to the university hospital, the Tang Center. It was closer than anyplace else and the police were en route when a rape was called in.

Being it really late, just shortly after midnight; staffing at the health center was minimal to say the least. Just a handful of nurses and an "on call" doctor who lived nearby. He was on his way to assess the victim.

Cat laid there, drained of all energy. One of the nurses came in to check up on her after leaving for two minutes to get some supplies for the room. She thought she heard something barely audible coming from the redheaded girl who had been through too much.

She put her ear practically to the girl's face to make it out.

"G-G-G-G-et...J-J-J-J-Jaaaade," struggled Cat. "Please..."

The nurse looked puzzled. "Who is Jade?"

The door was kicked open with a vengeance. All of that force made the door smack against the wall with a loud crack, which startled the hapless nurse.

"What the hell happened?" The brunette demanded.

A/N: Many of the details of the rape were inspired by the book "Lucky" by Alice Sebold. (Yes THAT Alice Sebold). It was a memoir about her attack on campus back in the eighties (chapter 1 is literally the rape itself) and her journey to recovery and ultimately justice. I highly recommend it. Obviously, this was a difficult chapter for me to write; normally I would only hint at any form of sexual abuse rather than confronting it head on. But in a story like this I felt it was necessary to really see what Cat had gone through.