Sorry this took so long to continue, I'm in a really bad mind set and I've got a bloody hang nail that hurts like a bitch! But I'm going to start working on this again, also please check out my Harry Potter fic I've started, if you're a fellow Pot-head please let me know what you think so far.

Well here it is 'See you soon' chapter 3: Mourning and Secrets.

Damien woke up the next morning his head, eye and gut in immense pain, 'What the hell happened?' he asked himself. 'Well you kinda fought with your wife's best friend because of your petty insecurities.' his subconscious told him while reading a horror novel. Nodding his head in agreement he sat up in his bed only to discover his lovely wife hadn't joined last night, sighing heavily Damien walked into the bathroom and stood wide eyed at his reflection, no wonder his head and eye hurt. Damien was now sporting a rather impressive black eye, and had a massive bruise on his temple, his male pride slowly wept as he splashed water on his face, wincing every now and again at the contact the water made on his eye. Collecting a bath towel he softly dapped his face dry and walked out of the bathroom and made his way to the kitchen, getting your ass kicked sure does work up an appetite. Walking over to the counter Damien peaked into the living room and still couldn't find Tori anywhere, 'Its Saturday perhaps she took Tracy and they went shopping or something.' He noted as he saw that Tracy had also failed to show herself this morning, his subconscious was now looking at him sceptically but he chose to ignore it and made his way over to the kitchen counter, reaching for a glass and rinsing it he, he walked over to the fridge and opened it and took out the orange juice. Shutting the door his eyes caught sight of a small letter written to him, in Tori's handwriting, he shivered slightly and took the note off reading it slowly to himself.

Dear Damien

What came over you yesterday was, well scary to say the least. Tracy hadn't stopped crying until 3 a.m this morning. What happened? Why did you do that? Do you realise that Tracy didn't want to see you because she was scared? I've packed a few clothes for me and Tracy; we're staying over at Jade's for a few days until you get yourself together. Call me when you read this.

Tori

Damien read and re-read the letter several times before he fumbled for his cell phone only to remember he left it upstairs, he dashed up the stairs his male pride constantly begging him not to do it, and that she's the woman she must apologise not the other way around, his conscious however invited his courage, charm and sensitivity and they were all giving him a standing ovation. Reaching for his phone he quickly dialled Tori's number, an angry, violent, no nonsense voice was heard.

"What do you want, Grant?"

"C-Cat? Um is Tori there?" he mentally shrugged his courage for not backing him up on the intro.

"She's busy." The short response made him shrink a little.

"Okay, then would you let her know I called?"

"I'll think about it."

Before he even had a chance to thank her, the line went dead. Sighing again he tossed the phone onto the bed and walked into the kitchen to make some breakfast, but oddly found he had no appetite.

∞oo∞

Cat hung up the phone call steaming with angry until Robbie walked into the room and gave her a small kiss on her temple which instantly relaxed her.

"Who was that?" Robbie asked motioning to Tori's cell phone in her hand.

"Oh, nobody." She said sweetly giving him a slight peck on the cheek.

After a few minutes the couple made their way into the Wes-Oliver living room and found Tori speaking with Jade and Beck.

"Thank you again, so much for well everything you've done so far."

"Vega, seriously, if you thank me one more time… I will cut you." Jade said sternly but her eyes danced with humour.

Smiling Tori did something no one had ever seen or even thought she'd do, she hugged Jade, and even the 'full frontal, best-friend, kinda awkward but who cares' hug, which Jade returned. After pulling away Tori looked to Beck who opened his arms and embraced his former crush in a 'buddy-buddy' hug, after a few minutes everyone sat down and Cat and Robbie had joined in on the love seat with Tori in the single couch and Jade and Beck on the long couch.

"So any of you guys heard from Leon?" Tori asked looking down at her hands.

The others shared a secret look before Robbie spoke, "No, he uh hasn't been returning our calls." He said watching Tori closely.

∞oo∞

Now not many people knew this but back in Hollywood Arts André had been in a fight, with Russ the stage fight director, and not fake hitting, they had a full blown attack fit which ended with several people having to hold both male's back. André had stated that Russ had made an inappropriate comment about Tori, Jade and Cat, and he asked him nicely to not say things like that which resulted in Russ threatening him and saying he was a coward for not doing anything to those girls, André lost his cool and threw the first punch. He had admitted it but no one believed him, everyone thought André was just jealous that Russ had a shot with the girls where he hadn't, now the rest of the gang knew that this was not how André was but instead of defending him they stood idly and watched him fight a lost battle.

André had been suspended from school for a few days and had to make an appointment with Lane about his anger issues, no one looked at André the same way again, but that's not what bothered him it was that his 'friends' were now sitting with him at lunch after his suspension and acting like nothing had happened. He didn't speak to them for weeks and it had an effect on everyone especially Tori who thought she had just lost her best friend, but after a while André showed up and had forgiven them but only to a certain degree, but the main problem was under the bridge and everyone was back to normal again.

∞oo∞

Tori sat in the couch with the memory of what happened still fresh in her mind, the fear that Leon is angry with them and refuses to return their calls out of spite, her stomach clenches and she suddenly feels as if the world had dropped a huge metal bar on her shoulders as she slumps over in hopes to ease the pressure she feels. Her thoughts were interrupted by Beck receiving a phone call; Tori looked up at him pain in her eyes as she watches him dig in his pockets for his cell.

Beck's eyes widen as he motions to the phone before answering, "Hey man. Where you been buddy?"

Everybody held their breath hoping not to miss anything important.

"Yeah man it's cool really. Yeah? Oh everyone's over at mine and Jade's place, sure man come on over." With that Beck hung up and saw eager faces watching him, he gave a warm smile and nodded, everyone then gave a collective sigh and sat back in their seats.

Everyone was sitting in comfortable silence as they waited patiently, then a loud thud was heard from the stairs, followed by two more, three more, seven, ten. Everyone turned to see what the commotion was only to spot little Tracy lying on her back rubbing her elbow and giggling like a maniac, Tori faintly heard Jade whisper "Vega's they're all crazy." Looking over at her she saw a small fond smile and shook her head slightly while smiling herself, she looked back at Tracy.

"What's wrong sweet heart?"

"MOMMY! UNCLE LEON'S HERE!" she nearly screamed as she fumbled again near the bottom of the steps but regained her composure, and ran over hugging her mom, her eyes filled with excitement and eagerness. That however was soon tripled as Drake and Cindy came rushing into the room only seconds before the doorbell sounded, the three children rushed over to the door.

"Freeze!" Jade's icy voice did the trick as all three stopped moving instantaneously right in front of the door with Drake's hand on the handle, "Calm down." Was all Jade said. All three then took a deep breath as they pulled the door wide. There he was Leon Thomas the third, in a bright red shirt, black skinny jeans and white Nike sneakers and dirty blonde dread locks.

The three children could no longer contain their excitement as they crushed his abdominal area with huge hugs, kneeling down to their height he gave each one a long lingering hug then turned back to face his pears.

"Sup?" he said with a crooked grin.

"'Sup?' Really Thomas is that all you can say after putting us in a bind like that?" Jade's anger was now evident and even Beck looked at him disappointedly.

"Sunrise, Beck, Tori, Cat, Rob… I-" Leon tried but was cut off by Jade again.

"No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no! You're not allowed to disappear make us all feel horrible and then automatically come back into our lives and pretend everything's fine! You just can't! Do you know how long we've been sitting here trying to contact you! Hoping you weren't in some ditch somewhere! Do you know what that would do to us!?" Jade finished her eyes overflowing with tears, she stormed out of the room, Beck turned to the others and gave a small nod then looked to Leon who looked scared and shocked and gave him a warm smile, Beck then followed Jade out of the room.

∞oo∞

Beck followed Jade out to the back yard where she sat on their hammock and gently swayed herself back and forth, he slowly walked up to her as to not startle her. Putting a gentle hand on her leg he looked at her as to ask if he could join her, nodding slowly Jade moved over a bit so her husband could lie down too. They sat in silence for a few minutes.

"You know, you really scared everyone back there." Beck started as he softly stroked her hair.

"Yeah well I'm a scary chick."

"What's wrong babe, talk to me." Beck pleaded.

"It's nothing."

"Jade the only time I've ever seen you cry was when we were watching Titanic; you weren't even upset about them dying but that there were survivors."*

"Well it was a sad ending." She replied looking away, Beck couldn't help but smile at her.

"Babe, is this about André?"

Jade sat quietly as tears threatened to fall again, Beck knew better than to press on and waited patiently knowing he would get his reply.

"Of course it is." She said quietly, "10 years Beck, he's been gone for 10 years. Nothing's been the same without him. We had plans for the future we were all supposed to finish school and become famous, the Solid Six; can you believe some people actually called us that? Then that stupid day came when all we could've done was just answered our bloody cell phones he would've been here now, happy with all of us. Heck maybe even married Tori, instead of her marrying that sack of puke. Why Beck? Why did he have to go? I mean I know it's not his fault but he could've caught a taxi, why'd he walk!? He could've just caught a freaking taxi-" By this time Jade had completely let go and was crying freely into Beck's shoulder.

This didn't surprise him at all; in fact Beck and the others have been waiting for this day for over 10 years. Jade is a strong woman everyone knew this, but none the less she a woman with emotions which she avoided at every turn. Jade hadn't shown any mourning toward André's death, except at the hospital, where she claimed it was from lack of sleep and coffee. But everyone knew that she was just as affected by the events that had happened, but then Leon came into the picture, Jade was lost, she felt as though they had replaced their best friend with a copy. Not that she didn't like him he just seemed like an exact replica of André and that made her feel immensely guilty.

Beck looked down at his wife who had now calmed down.

"You okay?" he asked slowly stroking her cheek.

"Yeah, I'm good. Let's get back to the others." She replied climbing off the hammock.

Beck followed her and held her hand as she gave him a small kiss on the lips followed by the rare, loving Jade West smile. Entering the house and walking into the living room Jade froze at what she saw while Beck smiled and slowly shook his head.

Cat and Robbie were going through heaps of baby clothes, which were custom made to have the groups face's on some of them, the others were small pink, blue and yellow dresses. Cat was talking a mile a minute with Robbie desperately trying to respond in his own excitement.

Tori had gotten a brand new laptop, her old dinosaur just didn't cut it apparently, but that was also special made. The design was sparkling blue, with the name Tori on the cover with musical notes and bars in the background and faded deeply in the background the words 'Make it shine' were seen.

Drake Tracy and Cindy had all gotten tickets to their all-time favourite past time, Stunt plane watching. They were in deep discussion about the model of the plane's which would be worth watching, their excitement was practically oozing out of their skin.

Jade looked around but Leon couldn't be seen, feeling a pang of guilt and sadness she grabbed Beck's hand once again, and walked into all the excitement.

"Jadey!" Cat screamed, "Look what Leon bought us!" she said unable to hide her happiness. Jade gave a happy smile and nodded.

Beck felt a bit cheated; where were their presents? He pouted slightly but then he heard a roar outside all the commotion froze instantly. Beck rushed to the door followed by Tori, Cat though she needed help by Robbie and the children and Jade shortly. Pulling the door open Beck stood gaping at what he saw a Lamborghini Di Ablo… His dream car, he told André how he'd give anything for that car, even if it was an old model of the Lamborghini he didn't care he had to have one. Now here it was in front of him in deep blue and black rims, Leon climbed out of the driver's seat with a huge smile on his face, he turned and looked at Beck then tossed him the keys.

"Happy birthday!" Leon called at him.

"But my birthday isn't for another 2 months."

"I know but the dude who sold me this car had another buyer so I had to get it now." Leon said with a grin.

"Wow, dude, oh my god, thank you, like really man." Beck stumbled over his words.

"No problem man, go on take it for a spin."

Beck ran like a small child on a sugar high and practically dived into the car started the engine and shivered slightly at the roar that came from the engine, closed the door and revved it once again before reversing it out of the driveway and onto the road, and with one final roar he disappeared down the road.

Jade stood watching her husband act like a child and racing in off in a highly expensive car and then she noticed Leon looking at her expectantly. She was about to comment but Leon held up a finger to silence her then right on cue she heard her cell phone ringing, she was about to answer when Leon said, "Put it on loud speaker, trust me."

Reluctantly Jade pressed the loud speaker button and the voice echoed off the walls of the hallway.

"Hello, is this Miss Jade West?"

"Yes, who's this?" Jade asked confused.

"My name is Henry Davis, a horror movie producer who heard that you have a knack for writing scary rather than gory scripts." The man said in a cheery voice.

"Um, yeah I guess I find it's easy to scare people with blood, but it's harder freaking them out with jump scares or mind blowing imagery." She said getting even more confused.

"Well we'd love to have you write a proper horror film for us, where you shall direct, write and star in of course." He finished with a slight pleading tone.

Jade stood wide eyed unable to believe what she'd just heard, she was writing plays for theatre, yeah she always dreamed of being on camera but how? The plays, were always packed maybe someone recorded it? No they ask that all camera's and cell phones are switched off while they perform on stage. Her mind wrecked itself with question, she then looked around the room and found everybody nodding at her eagerly, then her eye's found Leon's and he had a soft smile on his face.

"I'd love to." Jade said still watching Leon who nodded at her.

"Fantastic, we'll call you with the details, sometime later this week." Henry said before ending the phone call.

Jade stared at the phone then ran and hugged Leon tightly muttering an apology, which Leon kept waving off.

"Sunrise, I'm really sorry about disappearing for those few days but I couldn't risk giving anything away that could ruin these surprises." He smiled at her and hugged her again then pulled away from her and smiled.

Beck came rushing in through the door, looking drunk with power, "That car is a beast!" he exclaimed and everyone laughed at the Calm and Collected Beck Oliver acting like a little school boy after getting his first puppy. He practically ran up to Leon and gave him a bone crushing hug, finally letting go he noticed everyone had a very uncomfortable look on their faces even the kids all looked surprised, "What? I can't be excited?" he asked with a mock glare. Everyone just laughed and shook their heads at him.

Beck looked to his wife, "So, what he get you?" he asked still on his high.

Jade smiled at Beck and told him about the phone call she had just gotten, Beck's mouth dropped as he turned slowly to Leon and high fived him and giving his wife a huge kiss (Which made all the kids in the room gag slightly) and congratulated his wife. Turning to face Leon, Jade asked, "Staying for supper?"

Leon looked over at Tori, who gave him a sweet smile and a nod, "Well duh, you kinda owe me Sunrise." Leon said playfully looking back at Jade, she gave him a death glare, but eventually broke down in laughter.

∞oo∞

Damien Grant sat in front of his laptop, unable to complete the design his employer had set out for him to do. Instead his mind kept reminding him of one thing; Tori, his beautiful wife and their amazing daughter Tracy, who for some other reason also couldn't resist the bloody pianist! No, no, no calm down, you know what happened last time you got like this. His subconscious said giving him a disappointed glare, but he ignored him, his pride on the other hand was enjoying its eighth case of beer with his drinking buddy; jealousy. This isn't going to end well… his subconscious mused while shaking his head.

Damien was now fuming, he knew Tori had liked this André guy in high school, but he was too stupid to get her then he goes and gets himself carved like a turkey and leaves her behind! But only when she gets married and has a kid does he try to go after her? Oh hell no! Damien wasn't having any of it! He slammed his laptop shut and went upstairs to get his phone and no he wasn't calling Tori, he had had enough of Leon slash André slash Piano man slash the undying bastard for long enough! He had to get taken of, permanently.

He dialled the number; the phone rang twice before it was answered.

"Sup?"

"I've got a job for you." Damien said suddenly.

"Ha ha, do you now? Let's see, last time you wanted a job done, it was a little over 13 years ago." The voice said with a hint of amusement.

"I know, I know, but it looks like the bastard didn't die!"

"What?"

"Yeah his back, somehow…"

"Really? Man I'd love to have a second go at that brat, he gave me something I need to return the favour for." On the other end of the line the voice gently rubbed his hand where a massive scar was shown."

"Good, get it done, the money will be transferred into your account the moment it is. Then I can get my Tori back." Damien said quickly.

"Sure, it'll be like a little family reunion." the voice said hanging up the phone.

Damien stared at the phone then at a picture of Tori, Tracy and himself, they looked so happy. He knew he was doing this for the Grant family, it was- no IS his duty to protect his family and with Leon/André out of the picture he's job as protector will be set again.

So? What do you think? Did you really think I'd make this story a simple one? (–.-) if you did, I am ashamed of you. Zakumi122 never makes anything simple! There's always a twist. Now I'm trying to decide who to make the devious bastard/bastardette that assaulted our beloved André I have some ideas but obviously I won't say, so here's my proposal, if you guys have an awesome idea for who the asshole/assholette could be send me a P.M and they will be put in the next update with the mentionee, which I'm hoping will be tomorrow.

Until then; Peace, Love and Respect!

Zak!