While stranded at Jade's house during a bad storm the pair plays a game of truth or dare, but what happens when truth or dare goes just a little too far?

Rated: M.

Tori didn't want to get out of Jade's bed the next morning, but the girl was prodding her side with her finger rather painfully and eventually Tori sat up and turned to glare at her, "get your dress on and get out to my car now. My mother is on her way home, now. I don't want her to see you." Jade said, jabbing Tori in the side again. Tori smacked her hand away, grabbed her clothes and quickly pulled them on, she picked up her shoes and rushed up the stairs, Jade shoving her faster.

Jade sped most of the way to Tori's house and was gone before Tori even got the door unlocked. Anger swelled in her chest and she slammed her front door shut and screamed out of frustration as loud as she could. She threw her shoes across the room; one took out a lamp and the other skittered across the kitchen table.

"Tori?"

"What!" Tori screamed in response to her sister's voice. Trina stood on the stairs holding Tori's favorite pair of shoes in her hands. Tori's eyes narrowed at Trina and it actually frightened her, she quickly returned the shoes, under Tori's watch. As soon as she left the room Tori slammed the door shut and locked it. She sat on her bed with her head in her hands crying, she couldn't believe she let that happen again.

"Tor?" Trina called softly, Tori heard her jiggling the handle and her lock popped open, "hey, what happened?"

"Nothing, Trina." Tori whispered, "Just had a bad night, you leaving for that acting thing now?" she sniffled and wiped at her eyes blinking back the rest of her tears.

"Yeah." Trina replied, letting her suitcase drop to the ground. She stepped into Tori's room nervously and wrapped her arms around her little sister slowly, Tori hugged her back for a few minutes before walking her downstairs and waving goodbye to her as she took off. Once she was out of sight Tori closed and locked the door, picking up her shoes and the broken lamp before going upstairs.

She changed out of her dress into a pair of shorts and a tank top and curled up on her bed around a pillow, burying her face in it and crying again. She wasn't sure why she was crying, she just knew that right then she hated herself and she hated Jade for treating her the way she did, and most of all she hated that she didn't stand up for herself. She didn't get out of her bed until 10am the next day, when she finally dragged herself into the bathroom.

She filled up the tub, set up a small radio to play relaxing music, and stripped down sliding into the hot water and instantly submerging herself under it. The heat seeped into her skin and warmed her up, chasing away the bad feeling. She sat up again, rung her hair out and relaxed as best she could for the next hour. After she got out she toweled off, tied her hair up and put on a pair of shorts and a light tank top. She brushed her hair out and let it fall around her however it liked.

She grabbed her song book a few pens, her iPod, keys and phone, tossing them into her large purse before she found her wallet and car keys and went out to the car. She drove to a coffee shop to get two cups of coffee, one iced and one not, and then drove to a park to find a quiet place to work on her music.

She wasn't ever one to stay sad or upset for long, she preferred to pull herself back together and get on with life. She could spend her summer alone, it wouldn't kill her. She grabbed her phone and silenced it before opening her song book to a blank page where started scribbling down a song that had come to her during her bath. It was a surprisingly nice day outside, the wind was blowing softly and she could distantly smell salt water. It was very calming.

She penned out two more songs and then flipped back to a few other songs and read them over, editing some things she just didn't think were right and picking at the melody behind it and the notes she'd used for things. When she paused to get a sip of coffee her phone was lighting up, Andre's name was on her screen.

"Andre! How's New York?" She asked, pressing the phone to her ear and sipping at her coffee.

"It's so great, I really love it here and this recording studio is amazing. I've never been in such an amazing place. The only thing that sucks is I'm here alone." He sighs, "how's your summer going?"

"It's going alright." She lied.

"Liar." Andre knew instantly, "so what are you doing right now?"

"Writing songs in the park." She replied, half of her attention on the song she was editing and the other half on Andre.

"So what happened that your summer isn't actually 'alright'?" Tori spun her head in every direction she could, even though she knew she was alone.

"This guy that I slept with used me for sex two more times and kicked me out because his mother was coming home and he didn't want her to see me." she could only hope that Andre knew she meant Jade, because she wasn't going to openly talk about her in the park, who knew where Jade was, the girl broke into her house, it wouldn't be too far fetched that she was following Tori, too.

"Jade?"

"Yep. And I let him and kind of hate myself for it, but I'm getting over it. It happened, can't go back and change it." She replied, scribbling out a word and replacing it with one that sounded better, she quickly sang the line aloud and then decided she liked it that way, a smile pulled onto her face.

"Nice line." Andre commented, "Well I'll call you later and talk more about New York, I've got to get back in the studio."

"Alright, bye Andre. Have fun."

"Thanks, Tor, I will." And he hung up; she set her phone back on the table and turned to her songbook again. Once she decided she had those done as good as they could be for now, she tucked the book away, put her phone in her pocket and grabbed her coffee, heading back to her car.

She set her coffee cup in the holder, started the car and just sat there, trying to figure out where she wanted to go. Eventually she decided to go home and change to go to the beach, so she went home changed into her suit and drove down to the beach, her song book tucked under her car seat, just in case Jade decided to break into her house again. The thought haunted her, that Jade could so easily get inside.

She shook her head to chase the thought away and crawled out of her car, grabbing her beach bag. She locked the car and made her way down to the beach, turning around to grab her book-just in case- before finally going down to the beach. She stretched out on her towel and started some music on her iPod, closing her eyes and enjoying the way the sun heated her skin.

She realized this was the most relaxed she'd been in days when she checked her phone and it was nearly six, which meant she'd been here for three hours. She packed up her things and drove back home where she ordered Chinese food and sat down to watch the Vampire Diaries while she ate, she was a few episodes behind so it'd be a good way to kill time.

After her TV session she went and sat in front of her piano and started playing the melody to one of her songs, since she had yet to test it out, and that led to her playing as many songs as she could think of, because she was having way too much fun playing, she was happy she'd picked piano as her instrument.

After playing for at least two hours she went back to her TV and found a movie to watch, In Time. She was asleep within an hour, curled up on her couch around a pillow, the movie still playing on the TV. She woke up three hours later to an ear piercing scream on the TV, when she sat up there was a bloody scene on the TV, she quickly shut it off, and after giving herself a few minutes to wake up, checked the door- still locked- and went up to her room.

Thankfully nobody was there this time and she crawled into her bed and slept for another four hours, waking up to a very heavy storm outside. She sighed, happy to see she at least had power, for now. She plugged in her cell phone and laptop just in case and went down stairs to find something to eat.

Much like at Jade's house the night of the storm, the only food she had was left over Chinese and pizza, along with two bottles of soda, Dr. Pepper and Mountain Dew. She went through her cupboards, hoping to find anything else, but only found some popcorn and a bag of stale chips.

She tossed those out and dug around in her freezer to try and find something she might've missed, but only found raspberry ice cream, which she hates. She closes the door and sighs dramatically, popping herself some popcorn for breakfast and sitting down to watch TV before the power went out, because she knew that was nearly inevitable.

It was nearly the end of the movie she'd been watching for two hours when there was a loud bang on her door. She shrieked, threw her third bowl of popcorn in her hand and jumped up from her seat on the couch. Outside she could see that the tree was blowing rapidly in the wind. One must've hit the door.

With a groan she set to work picking up her popcorn feeling her racing heart slowing down, she dumped it in the trash can, set the bowl in the sink and sat back down on the couch. She'd missed the end of the movie cleaning up the popcorn so she changed the channel and found some mindless TV show to watch.

As soon as she sat down she heard the bang again. This time she got up and walked over to her door, yanking it open and sticking her head out, because there is no way it would sound that way twice. Nobody was outside, but there wasn't a stick near the door, either. There were two rather large rocks, though.

Nervously, she stepped out the door and looked around, that's when she spotted it. A person hunched by a bush beside her garage across the driveway. Tori stepped further onto the porch and the person turned around, bright green eyes popped against the pale skin. Rain poured down on Jade but she did not move.

"What the hell are you doing out here, moron?" Tori called from her safe dry porch.

"Come help me!" Jade demanded harshly, without answering the question.

"Do what? Die?" Tori called back.

"There's a pregnant cat over here and she's hurt!" That was enough for Tori; she stepped into the rain and sprinted to Jade's side, rain pouring down on her head. True to Jade's word a fat pregnant cat was laying beneath the bush.

The girl had fur like a leopard, only grey. She was rather large and soaking wet, "okay, can you pick her up?" Tori asks, Jade shakes her head no, "come here kitty girl," Tori whispers, holding my hand out to her, she sniffs it and looks over at Jade suspiciously, "she's a mean-y, but she's okay."

The cat gets to her feet and let's Tori pick it up while Jade rushes to get the door open. Tori carried the cat into her living room while Jade grabbed towels from the hall closet. Jade handed her a towel to dry the cat off and then Tori set her down on the ground. The cat grabbed a dry towel in her mouth and dragged it around until she was comfortable and then she curled up on the towels and fell asleep.

"We'll have to take pictures and put them up tomorrow." Tori says eyes turning toward the sliding glass doors on her porch, "If it stops raining." She adds as an after thought.

"Yeah, I saw her run from the backyard of that pink house, almost ran her over, stopped the car and followed her here." Jade said as she toweled her hair off, "maybe she belongs to them?"

Tori shakes her head no and grabs a towel to dry her hair off, "they hate animals. My neighbor's dog ran into their backyard and they threatened to shoot it and any animal that set foot on their property."

"They sound like lovely individuals." Jade said, her voice shaking. Tori glanced over at her and realized she was shaking in her soaking wet clothes, "did you follow her here in your car?"

"No, I hit a fallen tree." She admits, "I'm fine, my cars a little banged up, but I followed the cat down here. I tried to get you to let me in before she hid in those bushes. She's stupid."

"She can sense what a horrible person you are." Tori replied without a second thought, "Now let's find you something to wear before you get sick and blame me." Tori led the way up to her room without a backward glance at Jade.

Jade followed her up the stairs and into her bedroom, Jade made sure to stare at the carpet and pointedly not at Tori or Tori's bed. Tori tossed a pair of sweatpants and a t-shirt at her along with another towel, "that should help warm you up. Bathrooms over there, as I'm sure you know."

Jade rolled her eyes at Tori and marched across the hall to change. Tori slammed her door shut and changed out of her damp clothes into some sweats and a t-shirt, pulling the door open quickly and skipping down the stairs to find the cat that was still curled up on the floor happily.

The cat opened its eyes part way, long enough to see Tori, and then closed it eyes again. Jade came down the stairs a few minutes later and sat on the far couch, the cat didn't bother checking who sat down this time, it just got up and moved further away. Tori smirked and flipped through channels until she found the Vampire Diaries marathon from yesterday.

"This show is stupid." Jade commented.

"You're stupid." Tori snapped back, crossing one leg over the other and staring at the screen with a ghost of a smirk on her face as she watched Katherine mess with some people.

"Are you really going to ignore me?" Jade asked, glaring at the TV.

"Yes, I'm really going to ignore you." Tori replied confidently.

"Why?"

"Because you're a bitch." Tori snapped.

"Because I kicked you out of my house?" Jade asked, moving to sit beside Tori.

"Am I really that embarrassing?" Tori hissed, turning her eyes from the TV to Jade with a glare that could rival the raven haired girls.

"What?" Jade said, a hint of amusement mixed in with her shocked tone.

"You didn't want your mom seeing me, so it must embarrass you that you keep sleeping with me." Tori turned her eyes back to the TV in time to see Katherine paralyze and then kill a girl.

"It's not that it's not you-."

"It is, that's just it Jade, it's me. It's me you hate, me you're using, your torturing me! What the hell were you doing near here? Coming to break in and use me again? You're bad news, Jade, and you need to just stay the hell away from me." Tori was proud that her voice didn't crack or let any of the sadness that she felt slip into them.

"It's really not you, Vega. It's her, she ruins good things for me, and I didn't want her to have that chance. I don't want her to be able to fuck with us like she did with me and-."

"Just shut up, Jade. I don't want to hear it; I don't care what you have to say. I just don't care. When it stops raining go get your car and leave." Tori turned away from her before her resolve could crumble under the heated stare of those green, green eyes.

"Tori, come on, at least hear me out." Jade tried to reason feebly. Tori was already ignoring her, or trying too, biting down on her cheek painfully hard. She tasted blood, coppery and nasty. But it successfully helped her ignore Jade's pleas.

"I don't care what you have to say Jade, find somebody else." Tori snapped, pushing up off of the couch and heading up to her room to continue the marathon. She turned on her TV, sat down on her bed and propped herself up by her headboard with pillows.

Jade came up an hour later, "Those two are such love sick puppies." She nods at Damon offering to get find Elena, "I wonder if it's nice having two people love you."

"If you were nicer you'd be able to find out." Tori replied, smirking when Tyler kicked a trash can into a car that's alarm went off.

"Do you really hate me?"

"I don't particularly like you." Tori informed her as a commercial came on. She frowned at the TV because now she didn't have an excuse to ignore Jade's presence in her room.

"Look, I'm sorry about the whole mom thing. She's just such a bitch and you're so nice. I just can't-look Beck and my mom met once and she just poisoned the whole relationship, Beck was such a nice guy before my mom started tearing us down and I like you, okay?"

"Yeah, alright." Jade grabbed a book and threw it at the wall beside Tori's head, "What the hell, Jade!" Tori jumped out of her bed and walked across the room toward Jade, backing her into a wall.

"What?" Jade snarled.

"You fucking threw a book at me, you got my attention now. What the fuck do you want?" Tori screamed, it terrified Jade to see Tori like that, "Do you just need a fuck buddy? Is that it? You want to use me for your own personal gains? Well you know what? I'm sick and tired of you and your attitude and you using me as a little chew toy you can spit on and use and then just toss away until you want to play again!"

Tori took a few nervous steps backwards and blinked slowly and then closed her eyes, "Tori…"

"Just get out of my room, Jade. You can stay here until the storm passes, but just get the hell out of my room."

"I'm not just using you for the hell of it, I like you, Tori. And I'm sorry it's turned into this, but it doesn't make it any less true. I like you, and clearly I don't know how to handle it." Jade sighed, pushing her fingers through her hair. Her body was shaking, Tori noticed. Jade looked genuinely upset. Tori reminded herself that Jade is a very talented actress and that hardened her resolve.

"Out." Jade nodded slowly and stepped out of the room, pulling the door shut silently behind her.

Tori turned and crawled back into her bed to watch the show mindlessly as tears built up in her eyes and then rolled down her cheeks and under her chin and her nose stuffed up. She pulled her knees up to her chest and took deep breaths to keep herself from sobbing uncontrollably.

As soon as she got herself under control she just started crying again. At the end of her bed her phone started ringing loudly; she didn't remember the ringtone so she just grabbed it and accepted the call because she needed a distraction, "Hello?"

"Hey Tori." A pause, "are you okay?

"Beck." She swiped at her nose and sat up to mute her TV, sinking into her pillows with a sigh, "I'm fine, how's the movie going?"

"It's alright, these past few days have been table reads and wardrobe fittings. Crazy busy, but I just wanted to check in with you, you seemed a little on edge at the party. Did you get home alright?"

"Yeah, had to crash at Jade's for the night, but other then that I'm alright." Tori mumbles, picking at her comforter, "I will never understand how you could put up with her crazy mood swings. She told me her mother was coming home and practically murdered me to get me out of there."

Beck chuckled on the other end of the line, "you're lucky, her mothers a demon in a woman's body. I hated her and you're lucky that Jade likes you enough to spare you from that fire breathing dragon of death."

"You sound like you're a big fan." Tori observed, watching the screen with a blank stare, her lip held captive between her nervous teeth, "I found a stray cat, I need to check on her, she's pregnant. I'll talk to you later, Beck. Enjoy the filming, bye." Tori hung up and tossed the phone away, taking her lip captive again.

Her eyes returned to the screen where Katherine or Elena, she couldn't say which, was talking to Stefan. With a frown on her face she turned off the TV and just sat on her bed staring at the black screen.

Did Jade really like her? Or was she just playing? Trying to achieve something, to get back into her pants? Did she want something, or did she really like Tori? Did she really want to find out, that was another good question, because she did. No matter what she had to say about Jade using her, she had been using Jade too. And she liked Jade, and thinking Jade was mean wasn't going to change that. And being Tori meant she'd give the girl a chance.

Silently, she stood up and made her way downstairs. Jade was sitting in a kitchen chair, soaking wet and shivering, "what happened to you?" Tori asks, hovering on the stairwell, her eyes taking in Jade's soaked appearance. At random, she glanced toward the door, wondering if maybe it had blown open or something, she didn't know why she thought that.

"I thought it had stopped storming, I made it a few houses before it started pouring down rain again." Jade explains, "I didn't want to ruin your couch…"

"Come upstairs, I'll get you something else to wear."

"You're way too nice." Jade observes, following her up the stairs.

"And you're way too mean, but I like you anyways." Tori replies, kicking open her bedroom door and heading straight for her dresser, she pulled out a pair of shorts and a tank top, "come on, you need to get out of all of that and warmed up. Change in the bathroom, put the clothes in the tub, I'm going to get you a jacket."

Tori tried to sidestep Jade and leave the room but the girl grabbed her arm gently and stops her, "Thank you." Tori sighs and leans over to kiss her cheek before freeing her arm and walking out the door.

When she got back upstairs with her jacket Jade was just walking out of the bathroom, "here this is my old school jacket, it's always so nice and warm on rainy days. Let me get you some socks or slippers or something."

Jade took the jacket and slipped it over her head, following Tori into her bedroom. Tori grabbed a pair of socks and tossed them in Jade's general direction before pulling back the covers on her bed, "in, before you get a cold and I have to take care of you, too."

"Why would anybody do that?" Jade asked, crawling into Tori's bed.

"Do what?"

"Take care of me. I'm a horrible person, it must be great for people to see me sick or weak or helpless." Jade commented while Tori just rolled her eyes and pulled the sheets up to Jade's chest.

"You know exactly why I'll take care of you. It's me, it's who I am. Now focus on getting warm and staying right there until you're dry. I'm going to get a towel for your hair."

"Thanks, Vega." Tori just nods and walks into the bathroom, plucking a towel from the cabinet and carrying it back to Jade. Then she went downstairs and got a can of soup to split between the two of them, when she made it back upstairs Jade was watching the show again, nestled under the piles of blankets.

"Here, soup." Jade took the bowl without a word and started eating while Tori crawled into the bed next to her and began to devour her the soup while watching someone getting sick on the screen and in the next instant the turned out to be vampire ripped someone's throat out.

"I'm shocked at new things about you every day. I would have never guessed you'd be able to stomach watching someone doing that to a person on screen."

"Who have you been watching TV with?"

"Beck, Andre, Cat, Robbie." Jade shrugs, "Beck can't stand to watch gory movies while he eats, Robbie hates them point blank, Andre doesn't like it, and he'll watch his food instead of looking at the TV. Cat though; she just doesn't seem phased by anything."

"It's fake and interesting, part of the cool thing of being in Hollywood Arts; I get to see how some of this stuff is done. I'd love to get a chance to see how some of the scenes in this show are done, the special effects makeup, the editing it's just all so cool."

"My favorite thing about movies has to be the fun stuff you can do, the effects, the stories you can create." Jade spoons some soup into her mouth happily and watches the screen, "look at how gorgeous all of that is. Her long hair, the scenery the outfits. It's just all so wonderful."

Jade glanced over and saw that Tori was watching the screen with rapt attention, tears building up in her dark brown eyes as Damon jammed his stake into Rose's heart. A few stray tears roll down her cheeks. Slowly Jade reaches over and wipes the tears off of her cheeks, sitting back against her headboard and finishing her soup.