Hey, so here's Chapter 2. Thank you to kkuzzz, Ai Ga Hoshii Dake, and fight-the-freakin-power for reviewing Chapter 1; I'm glad you all enjoyed it. (BTW: In the first paragraph, as well as in these first two chapters, I'm trying to imply that Derek got 'roid rage and that's why he totally spazzed out on Jane. You know?)
Derek changed as fast as he could, his jaw clenched in an attempt to stay calm. His heart was racing, his insides were seething, and he had no idea what was wrong with him. He knew that the conversation he'd just had with Jane should upset him, but not this much.
He abruptly closed his locker and turned to face his teammates. "I'll be right back, you guys," he said, putting his stuff down. He left the boys' locker room and made a U-turn into the girls'.
When he came around the corner he immediately saw Jane. She was rolling her shirt down; he realized she had probably been surveying the damage from practice. He silently approached her and waited until she closed her locker. She turned around and bumped right into him.
He could almost hear the alarms going off in her head as she looked at him. "Whoa, what the hell are you doing in here?"
He moved closer and stood up straight, trying to intimidate her. "You never answered my question."
There was fear and uncertainty in her eyes. "I have to go."
She tried to step around him, and without thinking he grabbed her shoulders and shoved her backwards as hard as he could. She hit the locker behind her and cried out, but then he got even closer. He pressed her against it, adrenaline blocking his ears from her gasps of pain.
"I won't tell anyone," she finally promised him through clenched jaws.
He almost laughed. People would say anything to save their asses. "Yeah? Why don't I believe you?" And with that he hit her in the stomach, then backed off when he felt her going down.
He looked down at her as she wrapped her right arm around her waist and used her left to try and move away from him, all while coughing and gasping for breath. On a sudden impulse he drew his leg back and kicked her hard in the ribs, then pretended not to have heard the sickening crack that came after.
"You're not going to ruin my life," he told her, kicking her over and over again as she clutched her ribs. He felt another surge of adrenaline coming on and kicked her in the face. Her body went limp, though he could see that she was still conscious.
He glanced at her for a second longer, then left the locker room without looking back. He went right back into his own locker room to pick up his stuff.
"Derek, we heard some interesting noise next door," Danny commented.
Bruce laughed. "Yeah, what were you guys doing?"
Derek sifted through a couple explanations in his head, then turned to the others and grinned. "I wanted to see if Jane needed any help changing," he answered suggestively. Someone wolf-whistled.
"Come on, dude, tell us what happened!" Danny begged.
Derek wiggled his eyebrows and decided to give them a half-truth. "Let's just say…I got me some action." He got some high-fives and pats on the back, and as he'd hoped, no one questioned further.
"Hey, we should hit The Dot," Danny suggested on their way out. They rolled their eyes when Sav stopped to say hi to Anya, who had just arrived for Spirit Squad practice with Mia and Holly J.
"Dude, let's go," Derek finally insisted. He had to get out of there before the cheerleaders went into the locker room.
After much nagging and pleading to get a move-on, using the excuse that he was starving, Derek finally made it to the parking lot. He jumped into Sav's car, Danny in the back, and as they drove away, Derek turned up the volume on the radio so they couldn't hear the siren of an approaching ambulance.
***
Jane opened her eyes. She was in an unfamiliar place, and there were strangers on either side of her clad in EMT uniforms. She glanced out the windows in front of her, then looked around—she was in an ambulance.
She searched for a familiar face and saw that Mia was sitting next to her. They made eye contact for a moment, but then the female paramedic blocked her line of vision.
"Jane, my name is Angela," she announced, shining a tiny flashlight into her eye. "Do you remember what happened?"
Jane inhaled to speak, but her ribs gave her hell for it. She gasped and clutched at the pain, trying to make it stop.
Angela glanced at her partner. "She has at least one broken rib."
He nodded and placed an oxygen mask over her mouth, then pulled the elastic around her head to hold it there. "You've got nothing to worry about, Jane. We'll be at the hospital in less than a minute."
Jane felt pressure on her hand. She looked to her left and saw that Mia was holding it. She felt a surge of gratitude—she and Mia hadn't been the best of friends at Lakehurst even though Jane was Isabella's aunt. Yet there she was, holding Jane's hand in an ambulance, and Jane found herself squeezing back.
Angela spoke to Jane again. "Since you don't have any head trauma and your vitals are stable, we're going to put you under. That way you can sleep through the worst of the pain." She took Jane's arm and rubbed it with something, then stuck an IV into her vein.
As she felt the drugs begin to take over her body, she thought about what had happened in the locker room. Sleep through the worst of it, huh? I'm pretty sure that part's already over.
***
Derek was stuffing his face with French fries when the phone behind the counter rang.
"Thanks for calling The Dot, this is Spinner speaking," Spinner greeted absentmindedly, wiping off some mugs while he spoke.
Derek watched him on the phone purely for the sake of eavesdropping, though he was only half-paying attention.
Then Spinner froze. "What did you say?"
Derek stopped eating.
"Accident? What kind of accident? Is she…is she okay? What happened?" Spinner listened for a moment. "Assaulted? When? Where?" Another pause. "Yeah, I'm on my way." He hung up and dropped the phone and rag on the table. "There's an emergency, I have to go!" he shouted in the direction of the office. A man in a button-down shirt and tie appeared—probably the boss.
"I'll clock you out. Take as long as you need."
Spinner nodded once and bolted out of the café.
Derek looked down at his plate of fries. Suddenly, he wasn't hungry anymore.
Reviews, please.
Did anyone watch the V-Day Degrassi special last night? First of all, Claire should've gone to the dance with KC--one, because he asked her first, and two, because he's just so freaking adorable. Her friend, Connor, was annoying and mopey and wouldn't stop whining. Second, that was so cute how Holly J called Jay and they teamed up to get Spinner and Jane together. And last, but certainly not least--Spinner was so hot during that entire episode!!! His hair, his clothes, his Spinner-ness...I've been in love with him from the moment he got rid of his awful skater-dude hair cut (the one he had during the shooting episode?) So yeah. I had fun watching. :)
Wait, one more thing--Johnny and Sav's lil sister? WTF?! She is SO ANNOYING. She bothers me so much, I can't even remember her name. :P
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