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Just who are you anyway?

Chapter 7 – Paying the piper.

No one's POV.

As they turned on to their street, Tori started to wake up. "Where are we?" Mumbled Tori, as they pulled in the driveway of their home.

Jade, feeling guiltier by the second, looked at Tori. "You did it. We're home."

Tori merely looked at her for a moment than diverted her eyes. It was hardly a look of triumph, Jade could see on Tori's face. It was a harsh look.

Beck had heard the car come up the drive and he and Julia quickly ran outside to see how it went. As they burst out the door, they saw Jade, Tori, Sara and Claire slowly get out of the car.

They were all covered in dust, blood, looked a bit dazed and had ripped clothes.

Beck ran to Claire and put his arms around her. "Are you ok Babe?" He could see she had a black eye and a huge bruise on her jaw.

"She blew herself up?" was all the Irish werewolf said, as she took comfort in his embrace. Then she paused and quickly smelled her boyfriend. While Claire was happy to have Julia's help in rescuing Jade, her unusual interest in Beck disturbed her. But other than some foul smell which she couldn't identify, she could not smell Julia on her. Not that she didn't trust beck, but tired and worn out she let her deeper animal instincts run the show. The wolf instinct to keep others from their mate frequently showed up in human form of werewolves.

Julia ran to Sara. "Are you hurt?"

Sara rubbed her head and then slowly shook it. "I'll be ok. We rescued Jade, there was a female wizard. We chased her but she cast the burning and put her hands to the side of a propane tank. I'm sure they'll be fighting that fire all night. Not to mention she blew up the building the nightclub was in."

Julia opened her eyes in amazement. "OH, my god."

Jade looked at Julia and said. "You're the wizard lady?"

"I'm Julia Hillardson, I'm Sara's wizard teacher. Let's get you all inside and check you out."

Jade put her arm around Tori and helped her walk in. The Latina said nothing and Jade could feel that she was still quite tense.

The pair walked inside the home and the first thing Jade noticed, was her sculpture of Tawney from "The Scissoring" Sitting on the floor and dented.

"She helped me subdue the demon that was pretending to be you." Tori muttered.

Then the group emerged into the party room, where Jade surveyed the damage. It reminded her of the aftermath of when she fought Livia. There was a smashed table, a destroyed display case, a section of shelves behind the bar was smashed and the glass patio doors were also broken. Seeing the destruction, it all started to sink in for Jade. Just how close her mate came to death, due to her recklessness.

"We destroyed the demon." Beck said to try and liven things up. "Well actually she destroyed the demon, I just carried things. I'm sorry to say, the pile of demon goo it left in your office smelled pretty vile. I cleaned it up but I don't think the smell will go way for a while. I put some fans and a couple of air fresheners I found down there. I even fished your scissors and the other weapon out of the pool for…" Beck said, his voice trailing off when he noticed that Jade wasn't even remotely listening.

Tori pulled out her phone and plopped down on a couch. She then proceeded to tell her mom that Jade was safe. When done, she just sat there with a tired but hard expression on her face. Jade looked over and realized that Tori, was barely holding herself together at this point. She had succeeded, but was in great pain and physically spent. But being her mate, she also sensed just how angry and upset Tori was.

Jade stood up. "I'm very grateful, but I'm sorry, but let's discuss this tomorrow. I need to be alone with Tori. Everyone come over tomorrow evening at 6. We'll throw some stakes on the grill and attempt to figure out what in the fuck just happened."

The assembled group nodded and Jade walked them to the door. As they walked, Julia said to Sara. "You did a good job. Don't worry about lessons tomorrow. You deserve a day of rest. I have to meet with the wizard tomorrow in an emergency meeting anyway. This incident disturbs them greatly."

Julia then turned to the group. "Nice meeting you Claire, Beck. Jade, look forward to talking with you further tomorrow. " It couldn't help but be noticed that Julia's voice perked up ever so slightly as she mentioned the word Beck.

As Beck walked Sara out, he asked her what she needed. Her reply was "I bubble bath and a glass, no strike that, a bottle of chardonnay." Jade did notice that she seemed to smell him again, as if checking to see if he had been touched. She seemed satisfied.

Having let everyone out, Jade closed the door and leaned her head against it. She knew that Tori was waiting for her in the next room, and she wasn't happy.

"Time to pay the piper." Jade said with a note of resignation. Jade then slowly walked into the party room see Tori now standing up. As Jade got closer, the Latina seemed to visibly grow angry. Her whole body tensed up and her Jaw seemed to harden, as a slow burning anger seemed to fire up.

Jade didn't even have time to open her mouth to apologize when she felt the hard slap across the face. It stung and left a red mark the side of Jade's face.

Then Tori blew up. "Jade West, this was supposed to be a romantic evening. So far I have been stabbed, slashed, beat up, thrown, beat up again, almost blown up and then really blown up. Not to mention that I've had to kill two people tonight and watch a third blow themselves up. Why, because I needed to drag your carcass out of a bar. Because you went to a strange bar, while your pregnant. You knew full well I would not approve for more reasons that I can count. Now I know Claire was enchanted but you weren't. You deliberately went against my wishes and lied to me. "

The only time Jade had ever seen Tori this angry, was right after she fought Livia. But that anger was due in part to pregnancy hormones. This time all the anger was quite real. The Latina was in full rage mode. For 5 full minutes, Jade got a full dressing down from her mate. Jade when she went to the bar, knew Tori would not approve. Looking at her, bruised, battered and covered in dust, she felt horrible. With each passing second, she felt more and more worse.

"Let's get back to your little lie. You said you were at the Nozu with Claire, when you were at some bar, with our babies. Not to mention that was in a terrible neighborhood. Not a place I want our babies to be. "

Jade could have protested and say she was just letting of some steam and felt smothered by Tori's overprotectiveness, but Jade said nothing. She just let Tori verbally tear her down. Jade felt as if she deserved it.

Deserved or not, Tori continued her anger unabated. "You had no idea, how much I worried, about you and our babies. How frantic I was to now someone had taken you. " Abruptly at this point, Tori slapped Jade again and stormed off towards their the stairs.

Jade just stood there, shaking. She had screwed up and both she and her mate and two of her two unborn children died because of it. For five minutes she just stood there, feeling the sting of Tori's intense anger. Jade was simply broken. Too broken even to cry.

She wasn't even sure if Tori wanted her in the house. Jade took a moment to wash some of the dust off her and headed slowly upstairs. As Jade reached the top of the stairs could see Tori was in the bathroom. She walked to the bedroom but just wasn't sure if she was wanted in there tonight. Her courage gone, Jade walked to the spare bedroom. She had just pulled back the bed spread, when Tori came into the room, looking no less angry.

"WHAT IN THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING?" She barked.

Jade looked to the floor. "I wasn't sure if…"

Tori cut her off and pointed to their bedroom. "GET YOUR ASS INTO OUR BED. I DIDN'T SAVE YOU, SO MY PREGNANT MATE COULD SLEEP IN ANOTHER BEDROOM." With that Tori disappeared into the bathroom.

Not wanting to antagonize her mate any further, Jade walked to the bedroom, stripped down and slipped into bed. Part of her wanted to cry, part of her wanted to fight back. But Jade found herself able to do neither. She just lay in bed on her side, feeling like she had truly let Tori down. She felt herself sinking deeper into a depression with each passing second.

A few minutes later, Jade heard the water in the bathroom turn off and the sound of footsteps. What was going to happen next, more yelling, a fight what. Jade just felt her stomach shrink as she felt the bed shift as Tori got into it.

Unexpectedly, Tori just slipped in bed behind her. A moment later Jade felt Tori, who was naked, move up behind her and begin to spoon her. Still Jade was afraid and felt like she didn't even belong in that bed. Even when Tori reached her arm around and took hers in hand, Jade felt no better.

For several minutes there was a tense silence in the room. All Jade did was blankly stare at the wall, afraid to do or say anything. Not wanting to hurt Tori anymore and through her actions had hurt her badly.

"I'm sorry. I fucked up and people died as a result. I put everyone in danger." Jade said, as a tear ran down her cheek.

"Why were you going to sleep in the other room?" Tori asked, in what sounded like a hurt voice.

More tears began to flow down Jades face. "You were so mad. I let you down. I wasn't sure if you wanted me next to you. "

Tori pressed in closer. "Jade, I'm furious, but don't think for a second I don't love you. Don't think for a second that your place isn't next to me. It's that, you and our babies are the most important thing in the world to me. I'm so afraid of losing you. I'm not going to apologize for being mad, but I am sorry if you felt that I didn't want you with me. That wasn't my intention. I love you."

Still crying, Jade said. "I did it because I wanted a little fun. I appreciate your efforts, but I was feeling smothered. But I fucked it everything up. What good am I?"

Tori brushed back Jade's hair and kissed her on the back, between the shoulder blades. At the same time Tori squeezed Jade's hand. "Don't say that. I'm sorry if I went overboard sometimes. You need to say things, when I get out of line. Now close your eyes and go to sleep. I don't want to talk anymore. All I want to do is just want to hold the woman I love. The woman I'll always love. I fought to get you back and I plan to spend the rest of the night holding you."

Another tear ran down Jade's face. "I love you too Tori."

I could wrap this up with one more chapter or keep it going longer. I'm not sure what people would like. Let me know. Wrap it up or make it longer. If I get enough response, I'll keep it going.