So this is a one-shot. This is sort of based on the song Die Alone by Eminem. It's on his new album Shady XV. It's not for everybody but it's what inspired me to write this.
Disclaimer: I don't own anything.
Saw my old sweetheart, she said "Honey im back." Just so you don't die alone...
Jade's P.O.V.
When someone dies young, they become the news that never goes away. Most people pretend to be sad, and pretend to care but in 5 to 10 years their just going to remember that person who passed away as the person died to young. The people who actually care, who are close to the person who passed away not only hold on to their past but they hold onto the future that never happened. Thats a billion and million of unlived days for every that we live; an infinity. They're all day that will never come. This person for me is my beautiful fiancé Tori. Victoria Vega-West was going be her name. She was going to be a beautiful mother to 3 children. Beck was going to be the donor. She would have carry two and i would have one. She was working on a demo. She was about to be signed to a record label to become a Super Star. I was working on scripts for a big directors. We were going to live in a gated peaceful House in Hollywood Hills. We were going to honeymoon in Bora Bora, The Bahamas, or Hawaii. This was the future we were supposed to have, this was supposed to be our life together. But now my days are lonely, packing her things to give to her parents. The only things I wanted to keep of hers was our engagement ring and some photos, everything else was too painful to keep. It's too Painful to be here without her. Thats why I stand close to this edge ready to jump off.
"JADE PLEASE JUST STEP AWAY FROM THE LEDGE." Cat shouts crying. I look back remembering all the familiar faces of highschool. Beck, Cat, André, and even Robbie are all here trying to convince me to not be with my beloved Tori.
"Someone call the cops." Beck whispers.
"Do That and I'll Jump." I shout turning back to the ledge.
"Jade... Please stop... Its not what tori would want." Cat whimpers out. I whip my head around glaring at Cat, Allowing everyone to see the tears stream down my eyes.
"HOW DO YOU KNOW WHAT TORI WOULD HAVE WANTED. SHE ISNT HERE ANYMORE." I wail out wanting to jump even more. What would Tori say or do if she was here. If I could only hold her one last time. My Tori...
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1 MONTH B/F TORI'S DEATH
"HEY VEGA? WHERE DO YOU WANT ME TO PUT YOUR RECORDING BOX STUFF? IN OUR OFFICE OR THE STUDIO?" I shout across the house.
"THE OFFICE. THATS ALL MY DEMO STUFF THATS DONE." She shouts back. Tori and I have been together since highschool. We were living in a small apartment for about a year or so before I proposed to her. The day I proposed to her I told her we were having a reunion at Hollywood Arts. I planned out the proposal. It was supposed to recreate the first day when we first met, but Tori didn't get it at first and exploded when I called Beck my saved the whole thing when he told tori to sit down. When did the improve scene and unlike the first time, instead of pouring coffee on her head I got down on one knee and proposed. She slapped me at first for calling beck my boy friend the quickly said yes afterwards. A week after I proposed someone bought a script of mine and we used some of the to move near a house close to Hollywood Hills and the rest of the money to our wedding. I place Tori's box on her desk then wipe my forehead from sweat. I hear someone clear their throat behind me. Tori is leaning against door frame checking me out. When she reaches my face I cock an eyebrow letting her know I caught her. She blushes slightly and walks over to me. She raps her arms around my neck and I wrap me arms around her lower back and she kisses me passionately. She pulls away first.
"You know, you look extremely hot when you carry heavy stuff?" She whispers in my ear. It's my turn to blush.
"You know you just hot in general. Especially when you're under me all hot and sweaty." I mumble in her ear trying to get her back for making me blush. I look at her face and notice the rosy pink color that her face flushed and laughed. She slaps my arm then kisses me.
"Theres more boxes to be carried, Mi Amor." She says then pulls away and walks out. I stick my tongue out at her when she walks away.
"KEEP STICKING YOUR TONGUE AT ME LIKE THAT, AND ILL SHOW YOU HOW IT REALLY WORKS." She shouts from the hallway. I feel my face heat up. I go the Garage to get more boxes so I can finish carrying stuff. By the time im finished Tori is already home with dinner. Luckily I hooked up the tvthe dvd player. I grab a box and make it our makeshift table.
"So the cable guy will be here tomorrow but i have the dvd player hooked up." I say reaching over grabbing movies. She puts our food out on plates and hands me one.
"So we got the Scissoring, The Scissoring 2, The Scissoring 3, and the Scissoring 4: Pretty girls revenge." I say hoping she doesn't say no. She groans.
"I hate scary movies Jade." She wines. I pout.
"I hold you a keep all the bad things away." I beg.
"Hm, Fine." She pouts. We finish dinner and I pop a bag of Popcorn and for the rest of the night we lay on the coach cuddling watching theScissoring series.
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2 WEEKS B/F TORI'S DEATH
"Babe come out already, I wanna see." I say bored while picking at my fingernails. Today we went to Cats to get my suit personally tailored. It's a white suit with a cyan collared shit and a navy blue tie. Now we're in Cat's wedding dress store looking for dresses for Tori. The curtain opens and my are caught by my fiances beauty. My mouth hangs open a bit and i sit admiring her. She frowns.
"What? Is there something wrong with this one? Does it make me look fat?" She says asking turning around frowning in the mirror. Shes about to go into the dressing room again but I quickly get up from my seat, latch my arms across her stomach, and kiss her neck softly. I look at her in the mirror.
"No il mio amore, guardare splendida." I whisper in her ear. I kiss her neck again then make eye contact with her. Her eyes are sparkling .
"Since when have you been able to speak italian." She says turning around and place her arms around my neck. I cock my head side ways and don't say anything for a bit.
"My grandmother taught me when I was little. I just never told you because I forgot most things until recently. When my grandmother came she spoke to me in italian forcing me to remember how to speak. " I say kissing her lips lightly. A gasp comes from behind me. I turn around to find cat whose shrieking. I take a step back not wanting to be in Cat's way. I sigh and walk over to the chair.
"OH MY GOSH, TORI YOU LOOK ABSOLUTELY AMAZING." Cat shrieks rushing her. Tori blushes.
"Well you're the one who made the dress designs, so actually your dress looks absolutely amazing." Tori says. Cat smacks her on her arm.
"No one has been able to pull of that dress until you put it on. Tori please tellme that's the one you want?" Cat says. Tori looks over her shoulder to me, Cat turns around and looks at me with big pleading eyes. I shrug.
"I already have my suit, this is your dress babe. I think you look beautiful in it, but I also think you look beautiful in a t-shirt and jeans." I say picking at my fingernails again. I look up at Tori and she's looks as if she's in thought.
"Non preoccuparti amore mio, sei bellissima." I say trying to reassure Tori. She looks at me and smiles lightly.
"I'll Take this one Cat." She says.
"Yay, Don't worry Tori, this one is on the house." Cat says.
"You don't need to do that Cat.." Tori trails off.
"No, but that dress doesn't work for anyone but you, so just so you have to wear it, it's on the house." Cat says in a cheery voice.
"Thanks Cat. Jade I'm going to change then we can leave and go look at cakes." Tori says. She quickly dresses and we leave Tori's dress in Cats hands. We get out of the store and walk to the car.
"That was sweet of Cat to get you that dress." I say holding her door open. I walk in front of the car to drivers side. I open my door and sit waiting for Tori to reply.
"I know right, I'm starting to think that maybe she wants us to get married that we do." She says laughing. I kiss her lips lightly.
"Nobody wants to marry you more that I do." I say kissing her lips again. She smiles lightly.
"Lets go look at cakes babe." She says. I start-up the car and pull out of the parking lot.
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10 MINUTES B/F TORI'S DEATH
The last few weeks have been crazy. After we picked out our wedding cake we went home. In the 2 weeks or so Tori has had her bridesmaid luncheon,i've had my Batchelor party, hosted by Beck who is my best man, and tonight is a Wedding shower hosted by my Mother and Tori's Parents. In a 6 days is ourrehearsal dinner and in a week exactly is our wedding.
I squeeze Tori's hand a bit harder as we walk down the side-walk. I notice a guy who seem a bit jumpy on a bench before I open the to bank for Tori. She smiles and we wait in line. We get into the front of the line and Tori rest her head on my shoulder.
"Hello, how may I help you." The woman behind the desk says. I'm about to say something when a gun shotis fired into the air. A bunch of people scream and I immediately drop to the floor taking Tori with me. I look her and motion her to follow me.
"NOBODY MOVE OR CALL THE COPS AND NOBODY WILL GET HURT." A man shouts. I look up at the three people with masks on. 2 ofthe people look like men and the last one looks like a female. 2 of the men walk to front and start demanding the clerk to money in his bag. I keep crawling hoping Tori is behind me. I get behind a table and look back for Tori. Shes behind me and looks like she might start crying. I pull her to me and hold her tightly.
"Shh baby, we don't want attention on us." I whisper in her ear. Her bottom lip quivers. I move my leg feeling a piece of metal scrape against my leg. I catch Tori's attention and point to my leg.
"We'll be okay, I got my scissors." I whisper to Tori.
"SHUT THE FUCK UP." The girl shouts. Tori looks at me a nods. I grip onto her tighter when I feel as if someones watching us. I feel a cold piece of metal placed on the back of my head.
"Thought you could hide? Bitch get where I can see you." The girl says. I gulp and put my hands up. I grab Tori and keep her close to me. We get out onto a clearing with the rest of the people and we lay down next to each other. The girl nods then looks up to the guys.
"Hurry the fuck up, the cops are going to show up soon." The girl curses at the two guys. One of the guys jumps over the counter anda loud alarm goes off.
"Shit. My bad." The guy shouts. The girl looks panicked and starts swearing in a different language that almost sounds french.
"Grab as much money as you can, and ill grab a hostage to go." The girl say. She walks over to us and I feel Tori being ripped out of my grip. Everything in mybody is put into rage mode.
"NO YOU CAN"T TAKE HER, TAKE ME INSTEAD." I shout getting up. The girl turns to look at me and points the gun at my head. Tori screams and struggles.
"GET THE FUCK BACK DOWN." A guy shouts but i shake my head refusing.
"No.. Take me.. Im worth more money. Im Jade West, The new famous writer..." I croak out.
"GET THE FUCK DOWN." The guy behind me shouts again.
"Please." I say tearing up. The girl shoves Tori to the ground. I run to her to hold her tight. I kiss her lips as if its the last time i'll kiss her. A strong grip rips me Tori apart and she's crying.
"I love you." She whimpers.
"I love you too." I say back.
"SHUT UP." The girl says and smacks me across the face. Out of no where a shout out side surprises us all.
"SURRENDER YOURSELF NOW." Someone shouts from outside.
"Shit, shit, shit." One of the guys says. The grip the girl has on me is tightened and a gun is pointed at my temple.
"We have leverage. LET US GO OR ILL SHOOT THE HOSTAGES." The girl says. Tori shrieks and rushes the girl who is holding me and as if time stopped the other guy fires a bullet. Tori stops in her place and drops to the ground. I freeze wide-eyed and then I start seeing spots. When my vision is clear the girl is on the floor with my scissors in her leg, the first guy is being pinned down by a man and the other guy is gripping his leg as blood seeps out and a gun is in my hand. Tori is laying on the ground not moving. I drop the ground and sprint to Tori. Shes closing her eyes and I start crying.
"Tori, please wake up. Please." I whimper out. I give her body a little shake and she wakes up.
"Baby... Its okay..." She whispers.
"Youre going to be okay, you have to be okay." I whisper back at her still crying. Her hand comes and grips my cheek and I hold it place.
"Jade... no matter what happens. I do, and I love you with everything I am..." She says she closes her eyes again. I shake her a bit more.
"Don't say that like this is goodbye." I whimper. I feel someone pull me back but i fight against it wanting to be with my Tori. A paramedic puts Tori on a gurney an begins rolling her out of the Bank.
"I love you too." I whisper. I fall to my knees and start crying. I feel a familiar strong arm grip across my waist. I look over and it's Beck.
"I talked to the police and said that Tori is being driven away. Let me take you to the hospital." He says. I nod feeling numb. He helps me into the car and we drive off. When we arrive he helps me out the car and sits me in a chair. He speaks with the clerk and comes back to me.
"She's in surgery now. The cops are here to speak to you. Do you want me here with you?" He says. I don't say anything but stare off into space. An officer walks up to me and sits across from me.
"I understand that's your wife..." Is all he can get out before I cut him off.
"She's my fiancé." I correct him still staring off into space. He sighs and takes off his cap.
"I understand your fiancé is in critical condition right now, but we need to talk to you for some answer about what exactly happened." He says
"Those are my scissors in the girls leg and im pretty sure I shot the other guy in the leg. I'm not to sure about the last guy." I say feeling numb again.
"Other witness say after you wi.. Fiance was shot you went berserk and took out a pair of scissors, stabbing the girl in the leg, the you kicked the tall skinny guy in the balls and after that shot the last guy in the leg..." He says trailing off. Im about to answer but beck squeezes my arm and the coughs.
"Look officer, I hope you understand this but my friend is also in a critical position as well with the love of her life. And althoughI wasnt there, I know my friend here would do a lot to protect her fiancé even if it goes as far as stabbing someone who has hurt her. Jade would not do that to someone unless someone has hurt her enough. If she did all of that, it was out of self-protection." Beck says in a strong voice. The officer coughs awkwardly then gets up.
"Thank you, please keep in touch for further questioning." The officer says to me.
"Will do." Beck answers for me. The door opens and cat rushes in crying followed by a worried Mr. and Mrs. Vega. Cat gripsonto me tightly and cries into my shoulder. My body feels even more numb as i continue to block everything out.
"OH MY GOSH JADE ARE YOU OKAY? IS TORI OKAY? I REALLY HOPE SHE IS. I HOPE NOTHING BAD HAPPENS TO HER..." Is all cat can get out before Beck puts his hand over her mouth. With his hand over her mouth Beck takes Cat out of the room. Mrs. Vega sits on one side of my and Mr. Vega sits on the other side of her. I look the other way and let tears shed.
"Jade, this is not your fault." Mrs. Vega says. I look over at her and her face is full of concern and grief.
"I should've done something more to protect her.. I should've mad her wait in the car instead... That should be me in there not her.. I understand if you hate me.." I cry out. Holly raps her arms around me and pulls me into a tight embrace.
"Oh honey, shhh. It's not your fault. You did as much as you can to protect her." Holly says petting my head. A doctor comes out from behind the surgery doors.
"Mr. and Mrs. Vega?" He says calmly. All three of us get up and walk over to him. He looks at me.
"Are you immediate family?" He asks.
"I'm her fiancé." I say with a bit of edge in my voice.
"I'm sorry but..." Is all he gets out. I grab his coat and get in his face. My voice drops dangerously low and Holly gasps.
"look buddy, for the past hour and a half I have sat in those damn uncomfortable chairs feeling numb as hell. I've had to talk to police officer about how i stabbed and shot somebody because they harmed my fiancé. I honestly would not like have to explain to them how i beat up some idiotic doctor because he wouldn't let me see my love. Got that?" I say staring him down. David grips my arm and I pull away. The doctor coughs and looks at David and Holly.
"It's okay. Whatever your about to tell her I would tell her 2 seconds later so it would just be easier to explain to all of us." Holly says not looking at me. The doctor glances at me and shifts awkwardly.
"Your daughter entered here in critical condition. When she was shot it punctured her left lung causing large amounts of blood to enter her lungs causing her to drown. We tried our best and she did too but she lost too much blood and it was too late by the time she entered surgery. I'm so sorry, but we lost her in the middle of surgery." He says holding his clipboard. He looks at me and steps away but i stand still. Holly cries out but David grabs her and helps walks her over to the chairs. A sharp pain enters my chest and I begin wheezing. I drop to my knees trying to catch my breath. The Doctor who gave us the news rushes over to me and place his hand on my shoulder but i quickly throw him off of me. He tries to help me again but I push him away with what little strength I have left. The sharp pain intensifies so i grab my chest. Nurses begin rushing to my side but i keep throwing them off of me until I feel something sharp stuck into my arm. I start seeing spots again till everything eventually turns into the dark corners of my imagination.
Translations:
No il mio amore, guardare splendida; No my love, look gorgeous
Non preoccuparti amore mio, sei bellissima; Do not worry, my love, you're beautiful
il mio amore; My love
Soooo, I'm so sorry i havent been able to update Long as your gone. I will do that first thing tomorrow along with the part 2 of this. I've been literally working on this since yesterday and its taking a lot longer than i expected. I did have this together as one before but decided to break it into parts just so I could update (Together it almost totaled around 5000 words, and that way higher than I wanted it to be). Part 2 is almost done but its late and im tired. I also used some references in this like the beginning part about the "billion and million unlived days" is a quote from Doctor Who, Season 7 (2005 version.)