Hi, so here is another chapter and the plot thickens some more...as I always maintain this story will resolve in Tori getting justice but right now she is in shock...as the story progresses I promise you that certain issues will be resolved.

This chapter also deals with a little bit more of Jade's perspective but the next chapter will bring the rest of the gang back to the story.

TRIGGER WARNINGS-This chapter contains mentions of rape, anyone affected by this should stop at this point. Thank You.

Disclaimer-Nothing is mine just the two detectives at the end.

Please Read and Review and let me know what you think.


Did You Hear What Happened To Tori Vega?

Chapter 4-The Nightmare Begins

Both Tori and Jade attempt to come to terms with what had happened and the lies that they are now telling.


When Tori woke up for a second, for a spilt second, for a glorious second she had no clue why she was in her bed curled around her duvet and her hand clenched into a fist.

Then she took one look at her bloody fists and it all came crashing back down around her. Ryder, the hospital…she had been raped.

The truth seemed to consume her. It dominated her for a second, so powerful that she couldn't breathe, she could still remember every tiny detail but she couldn't think about what it meant when she looked down and saw that she had gone to bed in her bra and was covered in scratches.

Then suddenly just as it seemed she was on the verge of a full-blown panic attack there was someone there with dark hair loose to her waist and a cup of tea on the side of the bed. It was Jade. Her makeup was scrubbed clean of her face and even in the midst of her panic she could see it made her friend younger, her hair was loose and she was in her own bra and her skirt and she grabbed Tori's face with her hands. Somehow the sight of Jade did make Tori control her breathing somewhat. She had called Jade she remembered, she had taken back some control in the situation and called for help, she had called the one person that she knew she could trust to be there in a situation like this.

No, it was not a situation. It was rape.

She started so much that Jade fell backwards before she scrambled up to her feet. She was barefooted and Tori noticed with a detached sort of interest that she had painted her toenails a pale lilac colour which was unusual for Jade.

"I need to shower" she muttered suddenly. It was like lice were crawling all over her and she couldn't breathe. Jade nodded catching Tori's hands and pressing them close together.

"Tori" she said slowly. "I can run you a bath and help you clean up but I should tell you that if we do that then you are going to wash…" she seemed to visibly struggle with something and then she said in a rush so fast that Tori had to struggle to keep her sluggish brain up with the words that were being said.

"But if you do that than you're going to wash the DNA off you and that could make it tricky."

"I thought…" she wanted to say that she thought they must have done that with the rape kit but she couldn't. Jade, wonderful woman that she was nodded catching onto what Tori was trying to say.

"Yeah honey but they might want more"

"No" she looked up then desperate to make Jade understand that she didn't want to be looked at differently, labelled differently, she was the daughter of a police officer for crying out loud she shouldn't have allowed herself to be put in this situation…but that was a debate for another day. Her brain couldn't handle it and she just wanted to soak under the water and never come up, she wanted to wash all the grime and the dirt and the stench of Ryder Daniels off her skin and then she wanted to sleep until she never woke up again.

There was a pause where Jade looked at her for a long second and then she nodded. "Ok" was all that was said. "But I am gonna insist that you keep the clothes you were wearing, I'll stick them under my bed until your comfortable enough to tell me to burn them"

Tori took that to mean Jade was going to keep all the evidence she could until Tori had convinced her that she wasn't going to trial. She nodded. Jade nodded again. "There are some painkillers next to the bed with the tea, I cleaned downstairs and Trina has gone shopping. I don't think she noticed anything. I told her that tonight you were staying with me as we were working on a project and that you'd see her at school tomorrow…if you wanna go in of course. I'll run you a bath and help you clean up your face but for now drink your tea and try…try to calm down a little. I can hear your heart racing from here and that's no good for anyone"

Tori nodded. She reached out then just as Jade was about to stand up.

"I don't know how to thank you" she said finally and she was ashamed to realise that tears were once again coming to her eyes. Jade looked away and Tori noticed that her eyes were overbright. Jade was not a woman to be overcome by a moment of sentimentality but Tori through the haze of fog clouding her brain suddenly understood that what she had asked Jade to do the night before might have taken a toll on the older girl in a way that neither of them would have expected.

"You don't need too" Jade said shaking her head and looking down at her chipped nail varnish. "You just have to put one foot in front of the other right now, besides, it's what friends do"

And with that she turned into the bedroom and Tori heard the sounds of running taps. She paused taking in another deep breath which sent a flare of pain through her ribs where Ryder had placed his knee on it the night before and took a sip of tea. The water burned her but it was nothing compared to what she was feeling and she tried to lie back down but she couldn't. instead she just sat there waiting until she could smell the fresh scent of her jasmine bubble bath hit the air and Jade came back.

The tears were still falling thick down her face but this time Tori tried to make herself stop. She had to make herself stop. It had to stop hurting at some point.

Right?


Jade took a deep breath as soon as the door shut and fumbled around for her phone. Already there were three text messages from Beck. She swallowed. She had text him last night when Tori had eventually gone into a light state of sleep, that she was spending the night with Tori to help her work on a project, either Beck had been drunk or half dead to the world but he had bought it, only know he was sending little texts hinting that he might come over and see if Tori had survived the night.

Once upon a time she might have loved him for that but now she just felt an indescribable sense of panic and shame well up inside her.

This was not Tori's fault she reminded herself sharply. Nobody, man or woman asked for this and Tori was one of the few people that Jade would be willing to bet everything on who did not deserve a single second of pain.

Because Tori was good, she was kind, she was…now a victim.

Jade was glad she had set the taps running in the bathroom before she turned and puked more bile into the toilet. She had not eaten since before she got the phone call and right now she wasn't sure if she could stomach anything other than three cups of coffee and the bottle of water she had ingested. Hell, she had only made Tori tea because Jade knew caffeine in Tori's system would do them no favours. Not with the adrenaline high.

Instead Jade wiped her mouth on the toilet roll next to her, flushed and then considered what to do. She didn't see a way out of this that didn't involve breaking the little trust that Tori had built in her since last night. And there was no way in hell that she was letting Tori suffer this on her own.

Lying to Trina had been bad enough but it had been manageable. She didn't want to think what lying to Beck was gonna cost her. And that was why she had text him this morning and not rang him-in truth she didn't think that she could have trusted her voice to speak without letting Beck know that something truly terrible had happened last night.

She turned and reached for the shower gel/bubble bath that she knew was Tori's and dumped half of it into the bath. The smell of jasmine was overwhelming and it almost made her head spin but she forced herself to her feet and catching sight of herself in the mirror.

Jade was almost too shocked to think. She had known this night had taken its toll on her but she could see in the whiteness of her face, her bottom lip where she had pulled away the skin throughout the night was red and bloody with bits of blood on her chin and around her mouth. Her hair was a mess of dark waves and she ran a hand through it wincing at the texture of un-brushed hair and pushed it back off her face staring at her dark eyes big in the mirror, dark circles etched under them.

She shook her head once breathing in deeply through her nose and trying to keep her heart rate that had been spiking all over the place in the last twenty-four hours under control. She breathed in sharply looking at herself in the mirror. "You are doing this" she hissed at the mirror.

"You are doing this, you are helping her, you are doing this…we are doing this…" Jade muttered looking down at the sink and brushing her hair back out of her eyes. There was a pause where she stood there and then she stood up straightening her spine and she turned around turning the tap of and opened the door to see Tori sat on the bed staring at her hands the tea and toast she had brought her practically untouched.

"Tori" she said gently "Bath's ready"

She stripped Tori down to her skin. She threw the jumper to the side, the sweats, the torn bra. She took in the bruises on her upper thighs, the blood drying there and the dark imprint on Tori's ribs, the scratches near her breasts and the deep cut near her head that the nurse had only just managed to stich up before they had ran from the hospital like it was the last thing that they would ever do.

She swallowed bitterly. Suddenly the injuries were so much worse in the light of day. Slowly she helped Tori into the bath and the other woman sat down amongst the bubbles her hair lank and her knees curled around her body in some sort of pitiful defence that made Jade grit her teeth against the rage she felt towards Ryder Daniels and the whole fucking world.

Instead she managed a small smile and picked up a sponge and some shampoo, she steadfastly ignored her phone chiming with a text that she knew was from Beck and decided not to gaze directly into Tori's deadened eyes.

And so, the nightmare begins she thought. So, it begins.


James Alexander had worked in Sex Crimes for more than five years now, had been a seasoned detective for nearly ten and was more than happy to contemplate retirement in order to forget some of the shit that he saw on a day to day.

This one was steadily shaping up to be a shit day.

The call had come through last night but by the time he and his partner, Anna Rayis had gotten the call the girls had ran from the hospital. It was not uncommon he knew for rape victims to run from the police but it just meant finding them and convincing them to press charges was a lot harder.

And this case didn't help, he had one name to go on. Jade. And according to the nurse it wasn't even her who had been attacked.

Right now, he had sort of photo of this 'Jade's' face-courtesy of the hospital camera's but nothing of the other girl except a mess of brown hair. Rayis had gone in search of two cinnamon Danishes that his wife would tell him not to eat and he was scrawling through yearbook photos online trying to find this girl.

They looked about High School age and if they managed to speak to the friend she might convince the victim-whoever she was to come forwards.

The door to the office creaked open and Detective David Vega popped his head round. James was just about to ask him if he had gotten lost on his way to Homicide but the man was already smiling.

"Hey, you don't know where Roman is do you? I asked him to run some blood down to the lab but that was over two hours ago"

James shook his head.

"No sorry dude"

David stared at him, they had known each other on and off for two years now.

"Bad case?"

"Yeah, teenage girl I think, ran from the hospital before we could speak to her"

David sighed. "You know it's shit like that, that makes me think of my two girls"

"Yeah" James laughed without humour. "I hear ya"

Another smile and David was gone in search of his elusive partner.

James took another deep breath and was just considering if his wife Cathy would kill him if he drank another mug of liquidised tar that was the coffee here when a ping from his computer told him he had found a match and Rayis walked through the door.

"You found our girl?" she asked passing him the Danish and a cup of real coffee (God bless that woman).

"No" James shook his head. "But I think I found her friend, the one who gave her name as Jade, when she went back in for her phone she got caught on a camera. She's a kid at that fancy preforming school Hollywood Arts. Least we can speak to her, see if she can help the other girl come forward, if she took a disclosure then she knows who did this"

"Who is she?" Anna asked taking a bit of her Danish.

James focused his attention on the screen.

"Jade West"


Hopefully the next chapter will be here sooner as I wont have so much on my plate but I cannot make promises.

And the next chapter is more than likely going to be in Jade's point of view.

Next Chapter-As Jade leaves Tori on her own in an attempt to cover for her at school she finds pretending that nothing happened too hard for her to manage especially when she gets some visitors and finds the web of lies she is spinning getting worse and worse.

Let me know what you think.