Author Notes: This is a continuation of chapter six after Trina left the apartment she shared with Tori.

Disclaimer: I own squat, Dan owns the show.


"I wanna go home and die"

It had been an extremely long agonising day at college for Trina, the diva attitude within her made her comeback by making think that today was dragging on forever and that it just didn't want to end.

Not only that, she was dead tired and stressed out as a result of not only her sister's ongoing misery but add the preparation for her exams to the equation and you get one short tempered walking time bomb that would go off at the next person who pissed her off.

Needless to say, she desired nothing more than to calm her nerves; the last thing she wanted was to accidentally take her anger off on her little sister, so decided to hit the local jet brew for a latte on the way home.

Entering the hip coffee establishment Trina was welcomed by the familiar aroma of exotic coffee and the sounds of a soft jazz beat.

The place was crowed with various students and business types sitting at the various tables, but the young woman paid them no mind a she walked to the counter to make her order.

But alas, it seemed like someone was trying to test her patience since she had to repeat her order at least five times so the stupid pimply faced teenage boy would get it right.

"I dunno why I try, they always get it wrong one way or another." Thought Trina, as she stepped aside to wait for her latte.

It was then out of the corner of her eye that the brunette spotted something or rather someone that made her blood turn cold.

It was her mother, sitting in the corner, quietly drinking coffee and reading a ittle black book.

"Aw crap!" Cursed the elder Vega silently as she quickly turned her back to her now hated mother.

"Maybe she didn't see me." Thought Trina somewhat hopefully. "All I need to do is grab my latte and get the hell out, if luck is on my side things won't need to get messy"

Trina knew that sooner or later she'd would have contact with her mother, it was unavoidable to say the least, and while she was cursing her bad luck at the same time she was grateful that it had been her who coincidentally was in the same place as the older woman, if Tori was in her place... Well she didn't want to even think of the pain her religious mother would cause her already fragile younger sister.

Ultimately Trina prepared for such an event to a degree when it happened, but it had been a long day and she simply wasn't in the mood to deal with a discussion at the moment.

She just wanted to leave.

The place was busy so there was at least two other people waiting for their orders and all Trina could do was hope they hurried up.

She nervously waited, hoping that her mother wouldn't spot her, but the minutes seemed to turn into hours as the other two got their coffees.

Then it happened.

"LATTE FOR VOGA!" Shouted a looking gap toothed teenage girl, with stringy blonde hair, from behind the counter.

Already on edge, having her name mispronounced set Trina off. She quickly snatched the coffee away from the teen, "It's pronounced Vega you nit wit. And try using some conditioner; you look like a fucking redneck."

It was then Trina realized she had spoken just a bit too loudly.

"Trina!"

Much to her chagrin, her mother spotted her, she closed her eyes in annoyance for a moment and cursed under her breath. "Double crap!"

For a moment she looked at the door, thinking of a way to escape the conversation that was going to happen, but instead decided to confront the beast head on.

So with a rather dour expression on her face, Trina walked over to her mother's table.

What annoyed the brunette most about it was her mother's happy/innocent expression, as she was unaware of the elephant in the room.

"The elephant she brought on us all"

Arriving at her mother's table, Holly Vega motioned to the empty chair opposite her but Trina instead stood defiantly next to the table.

"Mother." She greeted coldly.

A frown appeared on Holly's face for a fraction of a second but composed herself almost instantly, smiling sligthly as she tried to make nice of the situation. "Trina please sit, it's been a while, how are you doing?"

"I'm fine, thank you."

"How's your father?"

"He's fine."

"So Trina are you in school, are you working?"'

Trina actually laughed and then sat down.

"You are so funny. You ask me how I'm doing, then you ask how dad is doing, yet you seem to forget about someone, but who?" Trina said as she pretended to think "Ah now I remember, her name is Tori! My sister! You know, about 5 foot five, brown hair, loves to sing. Ring a bell?" Trina said with a drink of her coffee, her words dripping with heavy sarcasm.

Only then did the pleasant smile on her mother's face seemed to vanish.

"I know who my daughters are and you better watch your tone young lady" Snapped Holly.

"Or what? Are you going to do hit me with that bible you're reading?" She sneered hotly "Besides, I thought you only had one daughter, so all of a sudden Tori's your child again? How perfectly convenient must it be for you to have a child that you can disown and then accept them as yours again at your whim."

Trina was hoping to strike a nerve in her mother and the fact that Holly promptly fumed in anger and pounded a fist on the table, indicates she had indeed it the mark.

"She always was much child and always will be, but to my enteral shame, she turned her back on God and all that is moral and decent in society by lying with that dirty whore."

Trina then reached across the table and tightly gripped her mother's wrist. "Her name is Jade" She hissed "And despite the fact she's not my favorite person in the world, if I hear you call her a dirty whore again, I'll cram that bible straight up your ass!"

Only then did Trina let go of her shocked mother's wrist. "How dare you treat me like that! Honor thy father and mother, one of the 10 commandments, which is GOD'S LAW!'

Trina quickly scoffed. "Honor's a two way street."

"It's god's law Trina, Leviticus 18:22 " Thou shall not lie with mankind, as with womankind; it is abomination and despite my best guidance and church my daughter Tori choses to violate that law."

It was then Trina was glad she had done some research in preparation of this day.

She calmly took a drink of her latte and chuckled. "You seriously threw Leviticus at me. Tell me mother, do you still eat at that lobster place over on Grant?"

"Of course I do, but what does that have to do with anything?"

"Let's see….oh yeah. Leviticus 11:12 which states quite clearly that anything in the ocean that does not have fins is to be regarded as unclean and not eaten. That includes, shrimp and lobster which I know for a fact you love. I've seen you eat a dozen shrimp at a time. Another thing, you're wearing a blouse that appears to be made out of Cotton and polyester. Guess what, Leviticus 19:19 which states very clearly that you are not to wear any garment on you of any two kinds of materials mixed together. It's amazing you shout one Leviticus verse as God's law, while conveniently ignoring those other two other laws. Just all the other hypocrites, you pick and choose bible verses to suite your purpose.

"I am one of the righteous, like Lot I turn away from the wicked city as it's destroyed."

Trina then started to laugh almost hysterically. "You do realize that after the Lot ran away from the wicked city and his wife was turned to a pillar of salt, he committed incest with both of his daughters and impregnated them both. If someone did that now, they'd be locked up for 50 years and rightly so."

"It's still a sin. Jesus condemns it."

"Oh really? Where?, because unless your bible is somehow different than mine, he don't say squat about that."

So for the next 10 minutes, Holly Vega rather frustratingly threw bible verse after bible verse at her first born child, only to have her throw others back or explain how they were being misinterpreted.

"How do you know so much?" Holly finally asked.

"I read up on all this because I wanted you to know there's nothing wrong with Tori. It's you there's something wrong with you and the others like you, hate the Gays, hate the Liberals, hate the Muslims, hate the Pagans, hate this, hate that. You've got it all backwards and distorted. Maybe if you actually read the book, you'd realize the message of Jesus is one of love and forgiveness."

"Tori needs to see the light!"

Trina got up sadly shook her head in disgust. "Mother, I'm tired and I want to go home. Even if I wasn't, arguing with you is pointless. I hope someday, you see your views are wrong, but by that time it probably will be too late, I tried to make you act like a mother and get over your negative view on homosexuality so you and Tori could reconcile and get some help but if you can't then don't come near her, don't come near me, I don't want my baby sister to get hurt again by you. You may have not turned your back on God, but you have turned it on everyone you're supposed to care about. Goodbye Holly."

Not waiting for her mother's response, Trina turned and walked away.


I Know that I said in the previous chapter was going to be the last one but Quitting Time gave me an intriguing idea and it was just too good to pass.

Speaking of Quitting Time, I want to thank my fellow Jori writer for helping me with this chapter, religion is not exactly my cup of tea so I needed assistance in the conversation between mother and daughter.

Finally, the following chapter will be the final one, for sure this time, ok?

Invader Johnny Signing Off.