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Even In Death

By Digidestend Angel

Summary: Beck never thought he would ever experience this much excruciating pain…it was probably equal to Cat's.

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"Beck?"

16 year old Beck Oliver turned around quickly with a confused look when he saw one of his good friend's Cat Valentine standing on the other side of the fence of their front yards. He laughed suddenly. "Cat, I seriously forgot you lived in this neighborhood!" He walked up to the fence, as did she.

Cat smiled. "So this is where you guys are moving to?"

Beck nodded, taking another look at the large house. "Yup. And just a big enough driveway for my RV."

Cat giggled. "I can tell."

"Are you home alone?" He looked at her house, and saw no cars in the driveway.

His answer came with a nod of her head. "They're…working late tonight."

"Oh, well, wanna help me unpack?" Beck motioned to his RV that they had just parked in the driveway. "And yes, you can feed the fish."

Cat squealed and ran over to his side of the yard. "Yay!" Beck chuckled as he led her to the RV.

Give me a reason to believe that you're gone

"Cat, just tell me what's bugging you." Beck sighed out, as if he'd been asking the same question all day…which he had. He was driving Cat to school in his car, but something was different about her. She wasn't smiling and happy, nor did she have her normal glow to her skin.

Cat's hands were together, gripping one another and shaking lightly on her lap. "Beck…do you think…that…sometimes…"

Beck looked to her, and then back to the road a second later. "Cat's, talk to me."

She rubbed her lips together. "Why do bad things happen to good people?"

Beck was startled by her question. "Um…what?"

Cat shook her head, and looked out the window. "Nevermind."

"Good people have bad things happen to them because others are jealous of them." Beck said, still in wonder of why she asked that question. "And you're a good person…so what happened to you that's bad?"

"Just things." Cat continued to stare anywhere else, but at him. "Things."

I see your shadow so I know they're all wrong

Beck hadn't slept at all since Cat left his RV around 10:30, and it was now 2am. He couldn't get his mind off his best friend, who he secretly loved romantically. Cat knew he loved her, but she thought as a brother-sister love. To Beck…no, it's more. When he heard a soft knock on his RV door, he looked out the window and dimly saw a small figure, with a black t-shirt on, and flannel pajama bottoms, with bright red hair and bunny slippers. Cat.

He ran and opened the door, practically grabbing her arms and hoisting her inside. "Cat, what the hell do you think you're doing in the freezing and rainy weather?" He scolded as he turned the light on and grabbed a blanket off his bed and wrapped her in it tightly. He sat her on the bed, and panicked. "What do I do? I can't have you getting sick!" Suddenly, her small hand came out from under the blanket, and stopped his pacing. Beck looked at her, but she was looking to the ground. He sat next to her. "Cat, what happened?"

Suddenly Cat burst into tears and leaned onto him, and Beck was shocked, but soon wrapped his arms around her small frame. "I have you, Cat. No one's going to hurt you." He whispered over and over.

Moonlight on the soft brown earth
It leads me to where you lay

Beck and Cat were laying out on top of his RV on a chilly night, looking at the sky. Beck was holding Cat's hand, as she was leaning against him. "Beck?"

"Hm?" He answered back, running his fingers through her hair.

"What do you think happens after you die?"

Beck closed his eyes. "Why would you ask that?"

Cat shrugged. "Just a question."

Beck sighed and held her closer to him. "I don't know what happens…but I hope you never plan on leaving me, Cat."

Cat let a tear fall. "I don't think anyone can plan dying, Beck."

They took you away from me but now I'm taking you home

Beck awoke to the sounds of police sirens dangerously close to his house. His first thought: Cat. Beck scrambled to jump out of the RV, praying with a heavy heart that the small redhead girl was unharmed and it was another neighbor on the street, and he went to get a good look at Cat's house when the police were gathered outside her home. Beck parents were already talking to policemen across the fence and Beck ran up to them. "Mom! Mom! Dad!" He ran to them, and they were both in tears. "Where's Cat?" He immediately asked.

And they just gave him sympathetic looks that stabbed Beck with a billion knives over and over. He looked over their shoulders and past the policeman, where he saw Mr. and Mrs. Valentine coming outside, in cuffs, blood covering them.

"No…" Beck cried as he jumped over the fence, past every policeman there, and stumbled into the house, and he immediately went to Cat's room, where he saw her destroyed, bloody body. "NO!"

I will stay forever here with you
My love

"Beck." Beck snapped out of his memories and looked his friend beside him, who was wiping his tears away. "The ceremony's over." Andre said, his voice raspy. He cleared his throat as he stood up and walked towards the front to say goodbye to her. Once everyone was slowly disappearing, they put her in the ground, and buried her, Beck let everyone clean up and leave. The graveyard was empty as he laid on the dirt, where her body was 10 feet below him. "The softly spoken words you gave me
Even in death our love goes on…"
He sang to himself, trying to keep it together. "Some say I'm crazy for my love, Oh my love
But no bonds can hold me from your side, Oh my love."
Beck wrapped his arms around his torso and sighed deeply. "They don't know you can't leave me

They don't hear you singing to me

And I can't love you, anymore than I do

And I can't love you, anymore than I do…"

"You loved her, didn't you?"

Beck inwardly groaned at the sound of his EX-girlfriend's voice. "Isn't that what I just sang? Go away." He growled.

Jade sighed, keeping her distance. "I'm sorry, I-"

"I don't want your damn apology!" Beck yelled, getting up and farther away from his beloved girlfriend of only a few months. "I want Cat back, but you can't do that!"

"If I was God, I would love to." Jade said, trying to act like she wasn't bothered by Beck's rage. "Not only for your sanity, but for me too."

Beck rolled his eyes, wiping away his tears. "Jade…did you know about the abuse?" He asked her cautiously, not sure if he wanted to know the truth.

"No." Jade simply said. "If I did, I don't know if anything I would've said or done would have helped her, considering her parents were two respected lawyers, who could get away with everything."

"Not this though." Beck smirked. "They're both looking at the Death Penalty. Good. They deserve to die. Like they killed Cat and her brother…they deserve to rot in hell for that…Cat tried to save her brother, you know?" Beck rambled. "She ran with him to her room and grabbed her cell phone, called the police, but…they put her on hold." He clenched his fists. "Before Cat could say anything, the operator said "can you please hold?" and didn't let Cat answer…it could've saved her."

Jade didn't want to hear any of this, but stayed silent because Beck was going to lose his mind if he didn't talk about it.

"Cat locked herself in her room with her brother, and tried to keep her brother out of sight in her closet, but her dad broke the door down and…" Beck swallowed. "And he got her and found him."

Jade walked up next to him. "Take pride in her, Beck." She told him. Beck glanced at her. "Cat was so brave. I promise you she was fighting for you. To stay with you and to be in your arms…she may have lost, but that's what she wanted more than anything."

Beck snorted. "How would you know, Jade?"

Jade reached into her purse, pulling out a letter and a envelope. "With this letter she wrote to me." She handed him the enveloped that had "Beck" written on it in Cat's handwriting and a pink gel pen. "She wrote one to everyone. These were delivered to me in a shoe box with my address on it and a note that said: "You're the messenger, Jade." Cat sent them to me. It was like she knew this was going to happen. Anyways, there was an envelope for every one of us; you, me, Andre, Robbie, Tori…all of us."

Beck opened the letter and shakily read it. Jade took this opportunity to leave, so he could mourn after reading his.

Dear Beck,

I know you're probably upset and angry with me for not telling you about the abuse, but it was for your own good. I was protecting you from this; all of you. I don't know about you, but I'm sure you liked the "bubbly, clueless, and innocent Cat Valentine" instead of a "fragile, messed-up, abused Cat Valentine". Yeah, the bubbly one sounds friendlier than the abused one.

You're also probably wondering how I sent out these letters if I didn't know I was going to die. Well my parents have been threatening to murder me and my brother on this exact day for over a few weeks now. Hence, why I asked you that one night "What happens after you die?" and it freaked you out a bit. I'm sorry about that. It just slipped out…I was scared.

That night I came to you during the rain storm, my dad had whipped me on my back and I was frightened. So I snuck out and went to you. I know it scared you, but I needed you.

You have no idea how much you kept me alive, Beck. Before you moved next door, I was always pacing in my room, wondering if I should end my life here and now so I could be free of the pain, but you came. That day changed everything. Just to know someone was close and loved me, that was enough to get me through another day over and over.

In all honestly, you should know this by now, I loved you. More than anything else in the world, I loved you. Don't worry. I knew you loved me too. It was obvious, hehe. You're a really bad liar, you know? Anyways, I just wanted you to know that. Thank you for all the fantastic times. Maybe one day, when you go to Heaven, we can hang out again. Like we did when I was alive and in your arms.

I'll miss you.

Don't forget me.

Love,

Cat

Beck dropped the letter, and dropped to his knees, and landed face first in the dirt that covered the girl he cherished most, sobbing and beating the ground with his feet and fists. "Why did you take her from me? Why did you take her? Give her back! Give her back to me! I want her back! You can't have her! GIVE HER BACK TO ME!" He sobbed and calmed himself…breathing heavily and feeling the world around him dissolve. "People die, but real love is forever…"