AN: so still in my head crying over the last episode because one Kate and Jake did nothing but argue Two the show stole my story line of Kate having a sister i mean you all know I wrote that first right lol and three it was the last EPISODE! So lets not mention her real sister Beth in this...I have moved to far along for that to be possible. Warning major plot development in this chapter...

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Beth. xx

The day had been probably one of the most confusing and creepiest of Kate's life, a child who had been brought up to fear her parents and her own belief dead from fright but Kate...somehow...deep down didn't believe that could be the cause of death, it just didn't seem right. Of cause she could not argue with pathology report but that didn't stop her wondering.

Kate went home on her own and fell back on the sofa, it was late, way past midnight. She would be shattered the next morning but she couldn't really care that much. She got a glass of water from the kitchen before standing by worktop to drink it. Her mind wondered to the school, the place was creepy, how had Jake and Rachel managed to stay sane in that place? Well Rachel anyway...She smirked to herself.

She walked back to the living room when she heard a car pull up outside her house, she heard the sound of heavy footsteps coming towards her doorstep then she heard the door being broke off it's hinges.

She hid behind the sofa, somewhere they, whoever this was, wouldn't see her unless they moved it.

The people who had broke down her door came into the living room and the sight of them made her heart race. Their were four of them, they were covered in dark red and black.

"where is she?" One of them said in a creepy distorted voice.

"She's not here..." Another replied sounding exactly the same.

"Shame..." One of them scoffed.

"She won't be here for the fun then...it's going to be a right ssscccorcher..." The final one laughed stretching out the start if the word as much as possible.

They were suddenly throwing some sort of liquid around the room and Kate quickly identified it as petrol. they're gonna set this place alight... she thought way to state the obvious...ok this isn't the time to argue with myself...

One of them struck a match and as the others were leaving they threw it into the room and left.

Meanwhile Jake got home around the same time as Kate, he went to his front door to find it already open; someone had broken the lock.

He went inside, wondering who the hell had done this and why to find his place trashed. Everything of it's side every photo frame smashed and then written in something red on his living room wall was You're girlfriend is next.

Jake quickly forgot about his place and ran, which was a complete and utter first for him, to Kate's hoping whoever did this hadn't got to her and if they had, he hoped she was ok and he could get there in time.

Kate knew it, she was trapped, she had moved from her hiding place but was still trapped as the flames stopped her getting to the door. crap she thought, her phone was...on the kitchen table. Ok so no way of getting out or calling for help before being burned to death...chance of survival...0.1% she was really counting on that point one percent at that moment.

She coughed as the flames produced thick black smoke and it got into her lungs. she felt like she couldn't breath; she remembered something about keeping low during a fire, somehow that wasn't going to help her now. She coughed, that smoke was really getting to her,suddenly she couldn't see anything...she couldn't breath, she collapsed to the ground hitting her head on the radiator as she fell

Jake arrived and saw the flames, he immediately called 999 before running to the door.

"Kate!" He shouted "Kate!"

There was no sound in reply, that could mean two things, she wasn't there or she...she was dead...

something in him decided he wasn't waiting to find out the latter and ran in through the flames, Kate would call him an idiot but at precise moment he didn't really care.

After collapsing Kate had slipped into unconsciousness,barley even breathing. Jake ran through everything into the living room where the flames had move from slightly.

"Kate!" He shouted seeing her body laid on the ground; not waiting to check if she was alive or not he lifted her off the ground and quickly made his way out.

He reached the outside and at a safe distance he had no choice but to put Kate down, the smoke in there was lethal and was getting to him too.

He put his hand to her face, he then checked for a pulse and he found one but it was very weak. One of Kate's neighbors had appeared as well saying he'd called for an ambulance.

"Don't you dare die on me Katherine Barker..." He warned but his voice was quiet and almost scared "Don't you dare..."

He heard the sound of sirens, fire engine and ambulance. they pulled up and the firemen set to work and Jake coughed that there was no one else in the building.

"What's her name sir?" The paramedics asked as they began giving Kate oxygen.

"Kate..." He said "Kate Barker..."

"Age?"

What that had to do with anything he didn't know "28..."

"And you are?"

"Jake Thorne..." He coughed; that smoke was a killer "I'm her boyfriend..."

The police including Ronnie and Sam were there then and seeing as the paramedics weren't sure if Kate had any injuries they were firstly treating her there before taking her to hospital, another pointless and time wasting thing Jake thought but at that moment he was in no position to argue when Kate's life was at stake.

"Jake!" Sam called running over with Ronnie.

"What the heck happened?" Ronnie asked

"I got home to find my place trashed and whoever did it left a message on the wall saying Kate was next. I got here to find her whole place on fire..." Jake explained.

"And you went in there and got her out?!" Sam exclaimed "man you must really care abut her..."

Jake starred at him and he got the picture, to say he was betting on them being together he was quite oblivious to everything.

"so you and Kate are...oh..." He scratched the back of his head; well he'd made that awkward.

"Jake go with Kate to the hospital, we'll call her sister, and get yourself checked out, smoke inhalation is never good..." Ronnie told him ignoring Sam and Jake nodded before getting in the ambulance with Kate.

The moment they arrived Kate was rushed out of the ambulance and into the hospital with Jake rushing behind.

"Female, Kate Barker, Twenty Eight, house fire, probably arson, major smoke inhalation what look like head injures..." The paramedic said as they pushed Kate through the doors.

"Bp's dropping!" One doctor shouted.

"She's not breathing!" Another one cried.

"defibrillator!" A doctor called when they reached the emergency room and Jake was still stood there watching because no one had told him not to.

"Clear!" The doctor said and the he shocked her, Jake didn't know what to do as they desperately tried to save her.

"nothing..." A nurse shook her head.

"Come on girl..." The doctor said to Kate before shouting "Clear!" Again.

The nurse shook her head again...the room suddenly dropped silent...