Stop Those Tears

Main Couple/Ultimate Pairing: Jay/Holly J

Summary: Holly J abandoned it all for a stolen moment with Spinner only for him to break her heart. What happens when his friend, Jay Hogart ends up being her hero? Will he be the one to stop her tears? TWOSHOT!!!

Holly J Sinclair giggled as she kissed Spinner Mason back. She'd given up Blue---a guy most girls considered gorgeous and perfect for this. She had, had a crush on Spinner since she'd begun working at The Dot. He'd understood the motivation for her cattieness more than anyone. Not even Blue understood her. She'd stepped back though and allowed him to continue to date Jane even though he knew the feelings that she had for him---he'd known since that night he'd been shot. The scariest night of her life, really. Now here she was months later, in the arms of her crush and he was kissing her with so much passion. She could feel him nuzzling her neck with his mouth and nose and could feel his hand going to the buttons of her shirt. "Spinner." She breathed in his ear, a smile curving her pink lips upward. "I really love you Spinner."

"Love you too Jane." Were the words that he mumbled against her long, pale neck. They were the words that caused the strawberry blonde's hands to shoot out and push him away from her so she could climb off of the countertop where they had been making out. She could already feel the hot tears stinging at her tear ducts and she was Holly J frickin' Sinclair and she was not going to let him see how much he hurt her! She wouldn't let him see how betrayed and used he made her feel. "I hate you, Spinner." She seethed as she glared up at him before stalking past him and out the door of The Dot.

She couldn't believe that he'd done that. Couldn't believe that he'd been so prepared to use her like that just because he was pissed off at his ex-girlfriend who was now dating Declan Coyne. A new guy who'd just came to Degrassi this semester. She didn't know where she was headed and to be quite honest, she wasn't paying attention. She just knew that she needed to get as far away from The Dot---and from Spinner---as possible.

Holly J pushed the door open to a building---she didn't even check to see where she was going as she stepped inside, tears streaking her face. Immediatly, smoke began to fill her lungs and the smell of tobacco and alcohol hit her nose. She was in a bar. Her nose wrinkled in disgust. The stench of this place was going to permeate her clothing.

She turned to exit the bar only to have someone grab her arm and whirl her around.

"Leavin' so soon, baby?" A drunken man in his thirties asked as he clutched at her forearm, swaying slightly. He was so close to her face that she could smell the hard liquor on his breath and just about gagged.

"Let go of my arm loser!" She growled, blue eyes flashing as she lifted her other hand to dig her nails into the man's wrist.

"Don't think so. Your certainly a feisty one, aren't ya? Need to be taught." The drunken man's mouth smothered her's and a slimy tongue invaded her mouth. She shrieked and bit him, making him yelp and pull back to lift his hand as if he were going to slap her.

Suddenly, a large hand came out of nowhere to grip the man's wrist and twist it behind his back. "Didn't your mother ever teach you not to hit a woman?" A familiar voice snarled as they threw her attacker into a table.

"Jay?" She whimpered, looking at him.

Jay Hogart finally got a good look at the girl infront of him and cursed under his breath. Her hair was falling from it's ponytail in a complete disarry. There was a spot of blood on her lips and a red hand print on her left wrist. "Damn it Holly J! What the fuck are you doing in a bar?" He asked as he slipped of his coat and put it on her. She looked adorably childlike and small in it and it almost made him forget where they were---almost.

She didn't answer him. She only fell forward into his arms, clutching tightly at his shirt.

He slid his arms around her in shock. She felt so frail and she wasn't behaving like the Holly J he knew and liked. She was acting so......sad and scared like a terrified little girl. Knowing that she was really in no state to walk he put one arm under her kneed as the other remained at her back and scooped her up like a child. "I'm gonna take you home Holly J." He whispered into her ear as he walked out of the seedy bar and to his car. He opened the passenger side door with one hand and sat her on the seat, buckling her up. He went to the driver's side and got in, sticking his key in the ignition. "So are you ever going to me what happened Holly J?" He asked as he drove.

She glared at him with a smoldering gaze and then said in a sarcastically sweet tone, "Why don't you ask your friend Spinner that, delinquint?" Her voice was a hiss as she said the last word and her strong yet slender arms crossed under her chest protectively as she shrunk down in her seat.

"Real nice Holly J. Insulting the guy who saved your ass back there. God you really are a bitch." He muttered, narrowing his eyes as his hands gripped the steering wheel tighter, his knuckles turning white.

Holly J laughed bitterly. "Oh yeah Jay. I am a fuckin' bitch! That's right. That is all Holly J. Sinclair will ever be considered. A bitch who has no damn feelings. Funny. Maybe people should start taking their heads out of their asses and get to know me a little bit. Maybe then they will understand why I am the way I am. Then again, look how well that turned out tonight with Spinner. I mean...he got to know me and I thought he understood me and yet here he was tonight all ready to use me to get over Jane. Damn him!" She was hysterical now and was beginning to hyperventilate.

Jay's eyes widened and he drove off the road and parked the car in a deserted parking lot. He reached out to unbuckle Holly J and then careful, calloused hands pulled her onto his lap. She didn't seem to care that his hands had oil on them from working at the garage earlier today as she began to hit his broad chest with her tiny fist before she suddenly burst into tears and fell against him limply with her head buried in his chest.

Too be continued.....

Last Part: Jay comforts Holly J and she tells him what transpired at the Dot. Jay and Holly J end up in a liplock.