Some new things revealed in this chapter...prepare yourselves...

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CHAPTER 11

Tori's POV

I felt very worried for Jade and her boyfriend. He was a complete and total mess, pretty much just a corpse at this point. Jade looked scared, angry and hurt at the same time, like she was struggling to figure out how to release her emotions.

When the ambulance Robbie called for arrived, they took Beck away in the back along with Jade, who insisted she ride along unless someone wanted their head separated from the rest of their body. I wondered where they would take him, because I'm eighty percent sure that he was dead. And also that left me with Robbie, who was really starting to creep me out.

"I didn't know she had a boyfriend," he commented as we watched the wailing vehicle leave.

"Yep. Apparently my necklace I gave her triggered her memory into remembering about him."

"Darn. You shouldn't have given her the necklace."

"What?" I stared at him.

"Nothing."

"So what do we do now? Go to the hospital or morgue or wherever the heck those two disappeared off to?" I muttered, not wanting to hang around here too much. I had no idea if my parents were really looking for me, and if they were, this would be a big problem for me.

"Let me call André and get him to send me picture of the place so I can get us there." Robbie brought his hand to the earpiece to converse with the IQer. I looked around and kicked the edge of the sidewalk with my toe. Finally Robbie was done and gave me a nod. I held out my hand and he took it, smiling like a dork.

Then we disappeared in a cloud of smoke.

I felt my insides trying to squeeze their way out of my mouth, the air being crushed out of my lungs. Suddenly the dizzying, tightening motion stopped and we hit solid concrete.

"You're okay, right Tori?"

"Yep. After the first time, it can only get better right?" I tried to smile away the queasy feeling in my gut. "Let's go wait in the lobby."


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Jade's POV

Beck—my boyfriend—did not look good. I was convinced he had actually died until the EMTs hooked him up to all sorts of machines and started shocking him back to life repeatedly. I could only sit there and watch in horror, hoping that he pulled through.

His face looked like it got shredded in a meat grinder, with chunks of his beautiful hair missing. Both arms and legs were twisted at the most awkward angles, bending in the middle and being turned almost three-hundred-sixty degrees. There was blood everywhere.

"What did they do to you?" I whispered, touching his cold hand gently. I opened his fist and noticed that he was holding something. Carefully, I slid the piece of crumpled paper out and looked at it.

It was a picture of him and me, on the beach, six years ago.

That was why he and Cat wanted those pictures, and they were taken in that old-fashioned Polaroid. There would be no time for them to develop otherwise (since they were attacked that night) and keeping them in a phone was out of the question.

I touched our smiling faces. He still had it, even though for the majority of time he had no idea who I really was.

Beck saved mine and Tori's life, and now was fighting to hold onto his own. I didn't want to cry. Crying was for losers. For weak people who lost everything and given up all hope.

But even still, I had to turn away so no one would see the mistiness in my eyes.

After we arrived, the medics took him away on the gurney straight to the emergency room to fix him ASAP. They gave me a bunch of forms as I had told them that I was girlfriend (which was one of the first truths I'd ever told anyone in a while) and was brought into the lobby to fill them out.

Tori and Robbie were there. They got up to sat down next to me.

"You okay?" Tori asked.

"No."

She sighed, patting my shoulder awkwardly before going back and fiddling with her thumbs.

"You know, if you guys want you can go and find your sister, kid. You don't need to wait for me. I don't think I'll be out of here for a while," I said, leaning back and scribbling the pen across the surface of the paper.

"No. We're all in this together," Tori responded firmly.

"Fine. But don't ever let me hear you say that again," I snapped. "We don't live in a musical."

She laughed.


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The nurses came back an hour later and told us that Beck would be in surgery for a while due to the amount of injuries he had sustained for whatever reason. I wished I could transfer my Regenator powers to him so he could wake up faster and tell me the answers to all the questions I had.

Tori and Robbie sensed my discomfort.

"Why don't we go out and eat something? It's not going to do you any good if we stay in this place all day," Tori said, standing in front of me to get my attention.

I put on my best pouty face and stared at her feet. "No."

"Come on." She tried to pull my arms away from my chest. "Let's go. It's not healthy to stay here like this. Here, I'll make Robbie pay for the bill."

"Hey!" came the voice of the Dimensioner.

"Please?"

I looked up and saw Tori's chocolate eyes, begging like a puppy. I didn't want to fall for it, but I couldn't help myself. "Fine, kid. But it better be quick." She grinned and yanked me out of my chair.

"I know the perfect place we can go."


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Beck's POV

I kept going in and out of the darkness. Demonic voices swarmed my ears, and hot hands burned my skin. I tried to flinch away, but my body wasn't responding. The heavenly voices of angels humming in the air overtook the evil and I drifted away peacefully.

When I finally gained 'consciousness,' the first thing I noticed was the strong scent of cleanliness; alcohol and disinfectants. I could hear the soft beeping noises of machines attached to my body with needles and sticky gel pads. Nothing hurt, so I guess that was a good thing.

Unless I was dead.

But was heaven really like this? No, no, I have to be in some fancy part of hell. Yeah, that's probably it. For hurting all those innocent people

"Beck? Beck?"

The words snapped me out of my thoughts. Oh no. Did Jade commit suicide and die too? Is that why she's here? Wow. I wonder how she managed that, being a Regenator

"Beck! You're not dead. I can see that stupid smile on your face."

I am alive! Success! And was I really smiling? Hmm…I don't even know what I'm so happy about.

I fought to open my eyes. It felt like someone was holding them closed but after much struggle, I finally succeeded, feeling a sharp stab in my brain from the bright lights.

"Hey, sleepy-head!"

I could make out Jade's form floating in front of me. Trying to take a deep breath, I realized that there was something in my mouth and down my throat that was in the way, and I felt the air whistling in uncomfortably loud.

"How you doing, baby?"

What is this? I raised my arms slowly, not feeling any pain and seeing that they were both heavily wrapped in casts. I sucked in a breath, the odd noise of it travelling down the pipe piercing my ears like bullets.

"Hmm, well you probably shouldn't be talking anyway," Jade said, observing my eyes. "Most of your ribs were either broken or crushed and because you're on a heavy amount of painkillers, the doctors wanted to make sure you would breathe, so that tube does it for you."

Wonderful.

"I thought you're a Trigger. Can't you read minds?"

I'm tired.

Jade sniffed before leaning over and kissing the side of my head gently. I would've turned to catch her lips with my own, but that would've been very awkward since I had the hose in my mouth that was trailing down my chest, over the side of the bed and towards the noisy machine that was supposedly breathing for me.

"I missed you. And I never got to say thanks for saving my life," she went on.

I blinked, looking up at her beautiful face that I had tried to destroy a while ago.

"I'd like you to meet the friends I made that helped me out this far," she said, standing up and gesturing to the door. As if on cue, two people walked in, a male and female.

"Beck, this is Tori Vega, a Kinecter, and Robbie Shapiro, a Dimensioner," Jade told me. "You helped save Tori's life the other day when you also tried to kill me. She's also the one who gave me the necklace." She hinted heavily to the last words.

Oh. So that's what she looks like.

Tori waved shyly at me, and Robbie grinned brightly.

"We'll go back and wait outside, Jade," Tori interrupted quickly. She grabbed Robbie's shoulder and pushed him out the door, shutting it behind her.

I sighed comfortably. Mission is almost accomplished. I hope you're proud of me, Cat, wherever you are.

"So Beck, I don't think I'm going to ask you what Archelaus did to you this time, but there are some other questions of the past that I'd like some answers to." Not now, please. "Why exactly did you—"

I shut my eyes and tried to drown out her voice.

"Beck! Oh come on, just look at me. You're not being a very good actor right now. You used to be a lot better if I can remember clearly." Yep, her nature hadn't changed a bit, even after forgetting me for six years.

My head lolled on my chest, and I felt the sharp jerk as the tube went down with it. "Hmm, fine. I'll stop talking now. You go to sleep then."

Thank you. She kissed me once more before I slipped away in peace and happiness.


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Jade's POV

I remained by Beck's side as much as I possibly could, when the doctors allowed me to stay. Tori was getting extremely antsy (but I didn't blame her), and I gave Robbie fifty bucks to take her to foreign countries like Paris and Australia so she wouldn't have to hang around the hospital so much.

According to André, Archelaus was still in his LA base, so I guess that was a good thing, although it could mean that he was planning to kill us at the same time.

Beck was now in a wheelchair while his legs healed but he could talk a little bit and interact with me, so I was fully satisfied. It felt like just yesterday we had been sitting on the beach together with Cat…talking about what our last words to each other would be…

Hold on. The memory may have occurred a long time ago, but it had been the most recent one before they all disappeared, so it was still fresh in my mind.

On the beach house, when Beck and I had been talking together right before we went to bed, he had asked me what the last thing I would say to him would be. I gave him my answer, thinking that it was just one of those things couples did, but I don't think so. He knew what was going to happen that night, but he didn't know if he was going to live again to see me.

How exactly did he know all that?

Cat?

The Predicter whose prophecies were always accurate and correct? How could she see so far ahead in the future?

"What's wrong, babe?" Beck's voice was similar to a low growl even though he wasn't angry. It was because his throat was left very dry after the doctor took out the tube and it was still hard for him to speak.

"Cat. What happened to Cat?" I asked, turning to look at him.

"I…I don't know," he confessed. "After that night, I never saw her again. I kept an eye out for her around Archelaus…but she wasn't there. She might still be alive, having gotten away too, or she could be dead. My only concern was you at the time." His eyes were filled with the agony of having to leave his best friend since second grade for his girlfriend of two years.

I breathed heavily out of my nose. Bubbly, happy, naïve Cat. My heart twisted up, and I said nothing. I held his hand in mine, smiling up at him, but he kept looking at the door before finally speaking.

"Could you…bring the other two in? I have some important information for all of you to hear if you want to bring down Archelaus."


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