Hello there, readers! So, I'm sorry for the late update. I planned on working on this chapter over Spring Break (which was, as of now, two weeks ago), and I had severe writer's block plus lack of time last week to work on it. I already had the first four pages of this written which is why I didn't start from scratch and write the chapter. I think I powered through at least four pages, so it might sound a little weird. However, I hope you all like this chapter. Leave a review telling me what you think, okay?

And in the next chapter, both girls find out the genders of their babies! I decided to wait until Cat was able to get her baby's gender in an ultrasound which you can do at sixteen weeks. So thank you to those of you who voted on what the babies should be. Until next time!

-Skye

"Chapter 11 – You Kill Me"

"I know that hope weighs on your mind, lost within the seams. It seems like we lose ourselves in between. But the harder things become, the harder you push away. It kills me. These promises that you can't keep, it's getting harder to hold on." – Sleeping With Sirens

She told them something bad was going to happen if they didn't leave.

She told them, but they didn't listen.

Jade knew she had to protect Cat, even if it meant putting herself in danger. She used to think Liam wouldn't hurt her nearly as bad as he'd hurt Cat, but he showed her a few hours ago how serious he was about keeping his whore sister in line. But whatever he was going to do it her would be nothing compared to the horrible things Jade thought he'd do to her best friend.

At least she knew for certain she'd live to see her babies…

She refused to speak as Liam drove her home, and he didn't force her. Occasionally, she'd look over at him to see his knuckles growing white with strain as he gripped the steering wheel tightly. She risked a glance at his face. It was pink and growing redder by the minute; a vein in his neck stood out like it normally did when he was scalding mad. She knew she wasn't going to die tonight, but he would probably beat her pretty close.

Maybe she breathed a little too loudly.

"You're gonna get it this time, you goddamn whore!" he exploded. He slammed his foot on the brake and she lurched forward in her seat, almost hitting her head on the dashboard. When she fell back into her seat with a breathtaking slam, her babies began kicking around again. She clamped her mouth shut to keep from screaming and gripped her stomach. She knew he'd get angrier if she made a noise, but she couldn't help the labored breathing.

Liam glared at her with sheer hate in his eyes. "You don't fucking learn do you?" he spat loudly. Jade didn't move or respond, but her breathing settled when her children stopped moving. "I bet you made that little shit think he's the father of my children, didn't you, you conniving skank? Didn't you?"

The intensity of his voice caused Jade to flinch and she turned away from him. "No," she told him honestly. She took in a deep breath and turned back to him. "I told them they weren't his," she explained in her smallest voice, "But I didn't tell him whose they were…"

Liam's lips fell into a hard line. "Tell me why I don't believe you," he snarled.

"I'm telling the truth!" Jade cried loudly before she could stop herself. She quickly covered her mouth and sank into her seat.

Liam's eye began to twitch with rage, but he couldn't hit her. He had to remind himself that. They were in public and he couldn't hit her. Instead, he grabbed her by the collar of her blouse.

"Listen to me and listen good," he demanded in a dark, quiet tone. "Since you want to be such a goddamn whore, since you want to be with me and fuck that stupid little ex-boyfriend you don't deserve while you're pregnant with my babies, you're going to go inside Spencer's and get yourself some vibrating underwear. You're going to wear them unless I say otherwise and I control the setting."

Jade gasped, disgusted. "No way," she denied. "That's gr—"

Liam slammed the back of her head against the passenger window. "Do what I fucking say or I'll pay Cat another visit and finish what I started!" he screamed. If anyone were around, they'd hear him; unfortunately for Jade, it was pretty late at night and everyone was already asleep or where they wanted to be.

Jade clenched her eyes shut. "I don't have any money," she whispered on the verge of tears. She kept thinking about Cat and what Liam would do to her if Jade didn't comply with his every demand; he might actually kill Cat…

"That never stopped you before," Liam sneered. "Go in there and steal it like the little thief you are. You always take what you want, so this is no problem." He shook her roughly. "Look at me," he demanded harshly. Jade quickly wrenched her eyes open. "If you mess this up, if you let anyone know what's going on, I'll beat you until they need to put you on life support. And when you have my children, I'll pull the plug on you myself. Do I make myself clear?"

At least he wasn't going to kill her right away…

"Yes, sir…"

Liam let go of her collar and reached for the door handle. When he opened the car, he sat up and looked her dead in the eye. "Go," he commanded, "And don't get caught."

Wordlessly, Jade climbed out of the car and made her way to the door. She didn't notice it when they had initially pulled up to the store. Of all the Spencer's in Hollywood, Liam picked the shadiest one. This one was practically a hole in the wall; crack heads and meth addicts liked to hang around this one, begging for money and offering sexual favors in return. They were lepers who weren't allowed inside many buildings in Hollywood, but this Spencer's didn't mind if they loitered. Business was scarce anyway, so who would the druggies scare away?

A woman nearly as pale as Jade with straw thin blonde hair and glassy gray eyes watched Jade as she approached the store. The swaddling clothed woman shot to her bare feet and moved to Jade. "I heard sex is the best when you're pregnant," she announced in a raspy voice. "I'll give you a good fuck for twenty dollars!" Jade looked at the woman with a disgusted sneer as she scratched at flaky skin hidden beneath her wisps of straw hair.

"Go fuck yourself," Jade snarled. Why was it easier to say that to a random stranger than her own god-forsaken brother?

The woman scowled and flipped Jade off. "You're gonna burn in hell, tramp!" she shouted.

Jade rolled her eyes and entered the store. That woman was just full of useless words.

When the bell rang, signaling she had entered, a tall man with hair as long as Beck's and bright blue eyes looked to Jade. His face was full of piercings and she wondered if there was any skin left under all that metal. Glimmering silver trailed up and down his neck and whatever free skin wasn't pierced had been covered in various tattoos. From under the white undershirt he wore, Jade could see there were more tattoos of various obscene words scrawled on his body.

At one point in time, he would have been the most attractive thing on the planet to Jade.

Now he was just revolting.

"If you're not going to buy anything," he began, "Please don't supply the druggies."

Jade grimaced. "I'll keep that in mind," she retorted. Then she made her way to the back of the store where all the sex toys were. At the very back of the store, where the pierced man wouldn't be able to see her, she spotted the vibrating underwear. They sat in a large, rectangular, pink box. The fabric was black and it gave a picture of how they were supposed to work. She'd never been curious, but now she knew; a mechanical piece that was attached to the underwear was supposed to go inside her and the remote that controlled it had ten different settings.

A tattooed hand reached out beside her head and grabbed a pair of vibrating underwear. Jade jumped slightly and turned around to face the pierced man; he practically had her pinned against the wall. "You look like you want these," he announced. He held the box out to her. It looked the same as the one she'd looked at, but the picture on the box showed there was an extra part to the underwear. "It massages your clit so you don't have to," he told her with a blank face. Jade looked from him to the box and back to him, just as the left corner of his lip twitched up into a smirk.

Jade snatched the box from him and looked away. "Can I just pay for the stupid thing already?" she griped. She was lucky she had stuffed some money in her bra; she really didn't want to steal from a sex shop…

"On the house," the man declared. "Pregnant girls need fun, too." His half-smirk had grown into a full, perverted smile and Jade ducked out away from him as she muttered a thanks. She quickly made her way back to the car, past the howling drug addicts that all promised the best sex that would be 'a thousand times better than that little vibrator.'

Once she got in the car, Liam eyed the box. "Did you flash your tits to get it since you're too chicken to steal it?" he assumed.

Jade scowled, but wouldn't look her brother in the eye. "No," she breathed.

Liam's hand snatched out to her left breast. Jade squirmed as his hand went down her shirt, but he held her tightly with his other hand. His nails scraped her skin as he felt around for the money and she let out a pained groan. When Liam removed his hand, he held up the folded up two hundred dollars, pink staining his fingernails. Jade looked down to see the top of her breast was starting to bleed, so she held her hand over it.

"How'd you get it?" Liam questioned loudly after counting the money.

"He gave it to me," Jade answered, looking away again.

Liam slapped her across the face and her forehead hit the passenger window. "Goddamn tramp."

~*Don't ever let me fall*~

When they got home, their father's car was nowhere in sight; he was probably in a hotel room with another one of his hookers. Liam got out first and slammed the car door. He walked around to Jade's side and ripped the door open, grabbing her roughly by her arm while she held on tightly to the box. The window shook as he slammed the door and he pulled his younger sister inside the house.

Once inside, Liam threw her on the couch and stood with his arms crossed. "Put it on," he ordered sternly. Normally, she would have protested, but she was tired and she would need her strength for when she was actually wearing the panties from Hell. So she slipped off her jeans and underwear at the same time. She ripped open the box and pulled out the underwear. As she did so, Liam snatched the box from her and took out the controller.

She sat down as she put her feet through the underwear and didn't stand up until they were halfway up her thigh. Hesitantly, she positioned the black mechanical part of the underwear and placed it inside her. It was wider than she was used to, so she let out an initial shocked moan. Reluctantly, she positioned the smaller mechanical piece over her clitoris and looked to her brother in wait.

"You only care about yourself," he accused. "You're addicted to being fucked and you'll do whatever it takes to get off. I'm gonna let you get off, Jade." He smirked darkly to himself. "You're gonna keep getting off until you can't stand it; I'm gonna break you of your whorish nature and to do that, I gotta make you have as many orgasms as possible. Then you'll learn."

Jade closed her eyes and crossed her arms. She was starting to get really tired of his shit, but she would have to just endure whatever her monstrous brother threw at her; she had to keep Cat safe.

Jade heard a small clicking and the underwear began to vibrate. She inhaled sharply and Liam grabbed her roughly by the chin, forcing her to open her eyes. "Go clean the fucking house, slut," he demanded. "I expect it to shine by the time I wake up." He pushed her by her chin and she fell onto the couch, the wide metal piece going deeper inside her. She let out a slightly pained moan that Liam ignored. Then he made his way upstairs, leaving Jade alone with what she knew was going to be a new form of torture.

~*Don't ever let me fall*~

By the time Jade finished cleaning the house, it was midnight. She would have been done at least half an hour earlier, but constant orgasms distracted her. As she cleaned, her babies wanted to move around and kick like no tomorrow, which made it harder for her to stand upright for too long. They were also making her hungry, so she had to stop every twenty minutes and forage for food; Liam hadn't gone grocery shopping lately, so there were only packs of Ramen noodles lying around.

When she was finally done cleaning, she collapsed on the couch. She had to be careful of the way she did so, because the metal piece inside her would pinch her in the wrong place. When she settled down, the quiet humming of the vibrator started to annoy her and her body shook with another orgasm. She wouldn't be able to go upstairs with that damn underwear on.

She wanted to call Beck, to make him rip off those panties, pick her up in his strong arms, and carry her far away from this hellhole…or at least to a police station so she could try and convince them Liam was a monster.

Moving slowly, she turned on the couch and reached for her phone. She had to grip the back of the couch since her bulbous stomach threatened to make her fall off. And lucky for her, Liam hadn't bothered looking for her cell phone. She pulled it out of her pants pocket and saw the small orange light blinking in the corner.

Someone had texted her.

Jade unlocked her phone to find a text from Beck saying that he was at the hospital with Robbie and Cat. Robbie was also in a coma.

Fuck, Jade thought. Shit…Why did that stupid puppet freak have to be at Beck's anyway?

God knows what Cat was going through right now; Jade knew how much Cat had liked Robbie, even before she dated Danny. Maybe Cat hated Jade; maybe Cat thought it was Jade's fault…which it was.

Jade held back her tears as she clicked a reply to her boyfriend.

This might be my last goodbye. I love you…

She turned her phone on silent so it wouldn't vibrate and forced herself off the couch. She didn't want to sleep downstairs and risk Liam coming down and doing God knows what to her. She would force herself to go upstairs; she knew for a fact that the paper Officer Meringues gave her was still in her pillow case and she needed that number.

Tonight she would get away from Liam, or she would die trying.

Each step made Jade feel like she was walking on needles; the metal vibrator pinched her insides and made her whole body tremble. By now, the orgasms were starting to drain her energy and she could barely stand up straight. Her clitoris felt like it was being rubbed raw with every step she took and each vibration of the smaller metal piece that covered it made her hurt in ways she never thought possible.

With as much balance as she could pull out, Jade gripped the staircase banister with both hands and pulled herself onto the first stair. The pinching of the large metal piece grew worse and she had to physically bite her lip to keep from crying out and waking the beast upstairs. Before continuing to the next step, she took in a deep breath through her nose and held it, only exhaling when she'd managed to climb two more stairs. And after what seemed like hours and countless breaths later, Jade reached the top of the stairs.

As soon as she reached the opposing wall to steady herself, she heard the door handling jiggling; her father must have decided to come home early tonight. Fear spreading through her, Jade moved as quickly as possible to get to her room; she couldn't have her father seeing her pants-less with vibrating underwear on while she was twenty-two weeks pregnant.

By the time her drunken father had finally shoved the front door open, Jade had made it to her bedroom door. She slunk into her room and gently closed the door so no one would hear them. With her last remaining strength, she moved to her bed and crashed face-down on her comforter. Her hand slid over to her pillow and she reached inside. At the back of the pillow case, her pillow contained a small tear that was just large enough to fit a small folded piece of paper in. Even if Liam had gone through her pillow case looking for anything, he wouldn't find it because he wouldn't be bothered with searching the pillow itself.

Jade wasted no time in unraveling the note and unlocked her phone so she could quickly punch in the number in her phone. She didn't believe in God, but she prayed that He would make the Officer answer his phone. But after four years, she lost her hope. She was about to hang up when the phone stopped ringing and a tired voice answered the phone.

"Officer Meringues," the Officer's tired voice announced.

"This is Jade West," she breathed quietly into her phone, trying to hide his excitement that he picked up. "You came to my house last week to check on me."

"Yes, I remember," the Officer told her. His voice sounded more alert, like he was ready for anything she had to throw at him. "Are you in any present danger?"

"If…if my brother catches me," she begins quietly, just barely above a whisper, "I will be. He put one of my friends in a coma. He…threatened me again today, threatening to hurt another one of my friends if I didn't do what he said."

"I'm on my way right now, Jade," Officer Meringues stated. "I'm bringing backup and we'll handle this; you don't have to be scared anymore, okay? Just try to keep yourself safe until we get there, alright?"

"Okay," Jade sighed.

Her phone went silent and Jade stuffed the note back into the pillow, fixing her pillow case as if nothing had been disturbed. She quickly deleted the call from her phone and, as she hit delete, she received a text message. The pop-up screen only flashed Beck's name with a little mail symbol under it, but she couldn't bear to read it. He would probably ask her what's going on, what's happening to her, and why she sent him the message.

But she couldn't outright say she might die tonight; that truth was too painful to take in.

She quickly shoved her phone into one of her bedside drawers and curled up on her sides. After a few moments longer, Jade's body convulsed slightly with another orgasm. With an annoyed groan, her hand snapped out between her mattress and her box spring for her favorite pair of scissors. Wasting no time, she forced the scissors between her thigh and the fabric of the devil's panties and clipped them. She rolled onto her back to do the same with the other side and pulled the God-awful underwear off. The metal piece inside her slid out of her with a loud slick and made a low drumming noise as it writhed on the floor when she threw it across her room.

Slowly, Jade pulled herself off of the bed and quietly shuffled to the bathroom. If she was going to be saved, she needed some time of evidence that she needed saving. Quietly, she closed the bathroom door and moved to the mirror. She pulled open the mirror cabinet and found one of her leg razors. Holding it in her hand and eying it with slight skepticism, she sighed heavily.

Just a little more pain and it'll all be over, she reminded herself.

Clenching her eyes shut, Jade put the razor to her skin and pressed deep against it, pulling it against her skin and feeling the stinging pain. She opened her eyes to find a large gash on her left arm, a wide trail of blood sliding down to her wrist. She repeated the same motion on her right arm, but higher up so it doesn't look staged. With shaking hands, she dropped the razor and it fell into the sink with drops of her blood.

Taking in a deep breath, Jade brought her fingernails, which hand grown long and strong with her pregnancy, to her cheek. She dug her nails into her flesh and scratched her cheek, feeling the blood spread on her fingertips. She then proceeded to scratch her neck on the opposite side.

Finally, clenching the sides of the sink, Jade readied herself and smashed her head against the mirror, shattering it with a loud smash and sending shards flying everywhere on the floor as the cut her face.

Realizing she made more noise than she intended, Jade hurried back to her room and closed the door. She forced herself to grab hold of her dresser and dragged it across her bedroom rug.

"Jade!" Liam shouted, pounding on his wall. "What the hell do you think you're doing?"

Jade refused to answer him, pulling her dresser farther across the room to block her door. Once she'd gotten halfway in front of the door, Liam began banging on the wood. "Answer me, you little shit," he snarled. "And what's that goddamn noise? You better not have taken those fucking underwear off!"

"Fuck you!" Jade shouted through the door. Blood spat out onto the top of her dresser as she spoke.

Liam banged rougher on the door. "What the fuck did you just say?" he screamed. He turned the handle and shoved the door open, but thankfully Jade had managed to somewhat block the door with her dresser. However, Liam still had enough leeway to stick his arm through. He began pawing at the air, trying to grab her and—if possible—pull her through the small opening of her door.

Jade kept her hands pressed against the dresser and put her body weight on it, moving along the front of the dresser until she got to the other side, so she could push it the rest of the way. Though Liam began to bombard the door with his weight, Jade still managed to push the dresser in front of it and, subsequently, shut the door the remaining way.

"Move that fucking dresser!" Liam demanded.

"No!" Jade shot back. She intended to wait it out in her room until the police got there. Listening to her neurotic brother would greatly falter her plan. Just saying.

Liam resorted to banging on the door as hard as he could with his fist, rattling the door with great intensity. Jade keeps her back pressed tightly against the dresser, digging her feet into the carpeting. After a moment longer, the rattling on the door stopped and Jade listened for any sounds. She didn't hear his footsteps retreating or anything really, but she wasn't going to slip up and step away from the dresser.

After a moment of silence, a loud booming noise startled Jade. She jumped against the dresser and turned to the wall that separated her room from her brother's. The loud booming sounded again and a small section of the wall shook violently. The wall shook again with the deafening boom, a small crack starting to form.

In the realization of what was happening, Jade gasped and scuttled to her closet. She stood as close to the inner most portion of the closet as Liam continued to break down the wall of her room.

"I'll teach you a lesson, you little cunt," Liam screamed.

Jade shut her eyes tightly, clinging to herself and shivering in the closet. With each loud slam of the wall, Jade flinched and fought back her tears.

When the blow was at its softest, Jade held her breath. But when the sledge hammer Liam had used to break the wall was thrown across the room with an ear shattering crash, Jade couldn't help but scream.

Walking slowly and filled with rage, Liam made his way over to Jade's closet where she cowered in fear. He stopped when he spotted the vibrating underwear writhing on the floor a few feet from the closet. He picked it up by the hips of the underwear and clenched it tightly in his hand. When he turned to face his sister, she looked up to him in sheer terror.

First, Liam's arm began to twitch with his blinding anger. Then it began to shake until his whole body shook with the fury within him. "You think this is funny?" he seethed through clenched teeth as he held up the underwear. Before she had the chance to speak, Liam threw the underwear at her. She ducked away with a small squeak and Liam lunged into the closet, gripping her tightly by her blouse.

"Get up, you shit faced tramp," he snarled. "What the fuck did you do to your face? Planning on running away and blaming it all on me? Trying to get me locked up?" Jade didn't speak. "Answer me," he ordered. She still refused to speak. "I said answer me!" Liam bellowed, causing Jade to flinch from the intensity in his voice.

"Yes," Jade whispered, refusing to look at him. Liam threw Jade against the wall.

"You lying piece of shit! You think I'm hurting you? You're hurting yourself by making me do these things to you; you're bringing your punishments on yourself!"

Downstairs, there is a small commotion, some shouting, and a distant crash. Jade couldn't make out what is being said, but she and her brother knew that the police were there.

Liam looked from Jade's doorway to his sister with a dark smirk. "Looks like I'm going to jail tonight," he sneered, "But I'll give them a reason to lock me away." With that, he wrapped his hands around Jade's neck and began to squeeze. He held her throat tightly and her hands clawed at his, trying to pry him off her.

"Come out with your hands up," came Officer Meringues' stern voice. "We have you surrounded!"

Liam grunted in anger and shook Jade roughly, slamming the back of her head against the doorframe of her closet.

"In here!" Jade choked out, her voice barely audible. Liam stifled a mocking laugh and continued to shake her, his grip tightening around her neck.

Jade could feel her life draining out of her, but she needed to keep going. It was endgame and Liam planned to kill her, regardless of the lives inside her. The babies, probably knowing of their mother's peril, began to kick harder inside her as if they were trying to get out and save themselves.

Adrenaline surged through Jade's body, and she found the strength to lift her knee up into Liam's crotch with enough force that he released his younger sister. He stumbled backward, hunched over as he held his injured testicles.

Jade staggered away from Liam, toward the gaping hole he'd gone through to get from his room to hers. She coughed fiercely, her lungs burning with the new air filling them. "In here!" she cried out in a rasping voice. She saw the policeman standing outside Liam's doorway, guns in hand, as the scoped the area for her before she'd called.

As they turned to her, Liam's arm reached out around her stomach and jaggedly pulled her back to him. "You can't take me!" he shouted, his voice pulsating in Jade's eardrums.

"Let her go," Officer Meringues demanded with an even tone. "You're under arrest for the abuse of Jade West. Come peacefully or we'll be forced to take you away."

Liam opened his mouth to say something else, but Jade stamped down on his foot and the pain made him release her. She moved out of the way and the officers charged in. Liam quickly regained his composure and ran through the hole in the wall into Jade's room. However, a younger blonde officer ran quickly after Liam and tackled him to the ground.

"You have the right to remain silent," the officer announced as he pulled Liam's hands behind his back and handcuffed him. "Anything you say can and will be held against you in the court of law. If—"

"Officer Meringues!" a female officer exclaimed. All the officers turned back to the young redhead to see her beside Jade who had fainted on Liam's bed.

Jade: 23 weeks

Cat: 17 weeks