Disclaimer: Victorious and all of its associated copyrights are not my property and I stake no claim to them.

A/N: Apologies for the late chapter, real life issues. I'll start this by repeating and slightly contradicting myself, this story isn't supposed to be very dramatic, but this chapter kind of negates that in every form. I got this idea and it wouldn't leave me alone, so I hope it's cool anyway.

Jade's POV

Sitting around two of the high tables by the big front windows of Pierce, sipping on a complementary round of screwdrivers, we were winding down after our concert. We were in the midst of working out the kinks of our recording contract, tour dates, locations, and such. We were planning on staying mostly national, maybe international if things work out that way.

As I was looking over a list of dates and locations Kev had assembled on his phone, I got a text on my own from Tori.

Help!

I looked over to the bar, where she was supposed to be getting another round, but apparently got stopped by a dude.

"Hang on, Kev. Got somethin' to take care of." He looked at me curiously, so I pointed over to the bar and he laughed, "Don't kill nobody."

With a dismissive wave of my hand, I set off towards the bar. As I approached, the guy's eyes locked on, well, where they shouldn't be.

"Hey perv, eyes are up here," I said in an annoyed tone. Tori immediately looked over to me and sighed in relief.

He gave us a really creepy grin, "Hey, hotstuff, you know her?"

I narrowed my eyes, "We do know each other, very well in fact."

The guy, who was obviously drunk out of his mind, decided it'd be a brilliant idea to go in for the kill by moving in to kiss Tori. I immediately intercepted him, grabbing his right arm and twisting it behind his back in a perfect hammerlock. Tori and I have a thing for submission holds.

He screamed in pain, begging me to let him go. I laughed, "You gonna leave my fiancé alone?"

"Yes!" I let him go and shoved him away, which only assisted in his high-tailing escape.

"Can't take you anywhere," Tori said with a laugh.

I shrugged, "There're limits."

We went back to our tables where I got a high-five from Kevin, "Dude! That was awesome!"

"You went all Bruno Sammartino on his ass!" Brad added excitedly.

"I dunno, Sammartino usually applied that on the ground, standing it's more commonly used by cops," Tori commented.

Brad rolled his eyes, "You and your logic."

"You and your lack of logic," She retorted with a grin.

"Jade, your fiancé is being mean to me," Brad jokingly whined to me.

"Sounds like a you problem." I said with a smirk

Ben and Kevin laughed while Brad muttered, "I hate you."

We decided to retire for the night and all headed home. When we got back Kevin went to the kitchen to make us some Mai Tai's while the rest of us readied the PS3 for a CoD marathon. Two hours, three rounds, and many streams of swear words later, the guys were completely out and Tori and I were heading to our room.

We both got changed and settled into bed. Taking up our usual routine of checking random shit on our phones before bed, we were both quiet for a while until Tori spoke up, "Looks like Anderson's doin' better."

I laughed, "He better, can't have the best MMA fighter in history knock himself out of the game."

She went and played the trailer again of UFC 168, she loves that, "Why does this song sound familiar?" She asked, just external thinking.

I listened for a moment, before pulling up the Shazam app on my phone, and asking her to replay the video. It came through as Happy Together by Filter.

"Oh for the love of god…" I muttered.

Tori laughed and went to play the song, and it took us less than 30 seconds to realize they had used a love song for a UFC pay-per-view.

"This is absolutely brilliant," Tori said, barely containing her laughter.

I decided to put my phone away, and Tori soon followed suit. The only light being the strings of green lights we had put up around the top edges of the room as we settled down for the night.

Suddenly she spoke up, "Jade?"

"Hmm?" I sleepily replied.

"I love you."

I smiled and pulled her over to me for a kiss, "I love you too."

The next night at Pierce we were sitting around a big circular booth talking about random stuff while sipping bottles of Sam Adams. Brad had gotten his way and we were going to look at dogs tomorrow. The guys were working on writing a new song, while Tori and I were watching an MMA best submissions video. We were laughing at the guys crying out in pain, being reminded of how we've made other people do that.

"Well, well, look who it is…" We heard the slightly slurred voice of practically the last person we ever wanted to see.

"Didn't think we'd see you guys again," there's the last one we ever wanted to see again.

I looked up to see Ryder and Emma being all friendly while looking at us with contempt. I laughed, "Oh look, Hades and Persephone have decided to grace us with their presence, and to what do we owe this honor?"

Emma rolled her eyes, "Cute, Jade, real cute."

I smiled, "I'm known for that."

"Do you guys need something or do you really have nothing better to do?" Tori asked.

Emma scoffed, "Like you're worth the time of day, just thought I'd come say hello to Jade here."

I jumped up and charged straight at her, barely retaining enough control to keep my hands off of her, "You watch how you speak to her!"

I backed off a little bit as she said, "Or what?"

I stood there for a moment, trying to keep my anger in check, before the bitch had the audacity to slap me. I let go of my attempts at control and grabbed her neck, slamming her against the wall. I about knocked her lights out a second time, before I remembered the trouble it almost got me in last time.

"You always did like it rough," she spat at me. Oh fuck you.

I abruptly felt myself being pulled off of her, "Stop, she's not worth it," I heard Tori say to me. I gave up my struggle and Tori and I decided to leave Pierce to prevent any further conflict. The car ride home was quiet, Tori didn't say a word until we got home. As we walked inside, she simply walked to our room without a word or even a glance in my direction. I was honestly wondering if I had really upset her.

I sighed and went to the kitchen, finding myself an emotion blocker in the form of my stash of 190 proof Everclear. Normally, I wouldn't bring out such a stiff drink, but this situation calls for desperate measures, I just need to sleep. This shit has a tendency to knock me out in no time, sounds good right about now. I poured a decent amount into a glass and took a sip, the potent liquor searing my throat.

I felt my mind begin to cloud up, and I was content. Usually my alcohol tolerance is enough to keep me sober, but this shit shoots that to pieces. I went to go sit on the couch, turning on the TV to see if anything interesting was on. I found the near 24/7 Law and Order channel and kicked back, readying to pass out anytime.

Kevin's POV

We left the bar soon after Jade and Tori did, Ben and Brad immediately went to their room and went to bed, while I went to go see if Jade was still alive on the couch. I wasn't blind, I could see she had gotten out the Everclear, as to why, I wasn't sure.

I went to her and Tori's room, knocking on the door and receiving a faint, "You know how to use doors." Good to see traumatic experiences haven't tempered her attitude.

"Hey kid, you doin' alright?" I asked as I opened the door.

"Let me guess, Jade's passed out?" She answered with a question.

I sighed and nodded, not that she could see it, "Yeah, what's going on?"

I went to go sit on the edge of the bed as she muttered "Can't ever have a quiet night, can we?"

"Sorry, that's not part of the deal," I responded lightheartedly.

She sat up and rubbed her eyes, "I knew that when I started dating Jade, hell, I knew that when I agreed to marry her, but for fuck's sake, come on. Really is upsetting how Jade decided to knock herself out instead of bothering to see how I was, as stupid as that sounds…I mean I had to see Ryder again tonight, and she goes and gets in a fight with her ex."

I laughed, "She tends to run from her problems more often than facing them, 'cause when she actually does face them she goes balls to the wall and usually gets herself in trouble. It's just habit these days, I guess. And you know she was just being protective, it's her thing."

"I'm a problem?"

"If you want me to be blatantly honest, yes, though she'd never admit that. I mean come on; before, she lived off of one-night-stands because she couldn't stomach the fact of having to deal with the obligations of a real relationship. She heard the L word and she took off like a shot, and the M word was just a legend. Tori, you are her biggest problem. But you're the best kinda problem to have. Those are her words by the way, and if you chew her out for this I won't tell you anything ever again."

She fell back on the bed with a heavy sigh, "Can you bring her to bed?"

"One passed out drunk coming right up," I said as I walked out to retrieve my sister.

I poked her a few times, satisfied that she was completely knocked out; I threw her over my shoulder and carried her to her room.

"Here you go, and goodnight."

The next morning I woke up to an unusually quiet house. Oh great, I have to cook. I got up and got dressed, walking out in the living room to see Jade sitting on the couch, doing absolutely nothing. She was sitting in the corner of the couch just looking at the wall. Her eyes moved to me for a fraction of a second, but quickly moved away.

"You alright kiddo?" I asked hesitantly. She didn't say anything, just nodded towards the coffee table, where there was a folded up piece of paper. I got a sick feeling in my stomach as I looked at the paper.

Jade,

I have to leave, and I'm not coming back. For your own good, don't look for me, I'll be just fine.

I looked to Jade, who looked absolutely distraught, "I woke up this morning and she was gone. I found that on the nightstand."

I was confused beyond belief. Tori would never leave Jade…would she?

"I talked to her last night before I took you to bed, she seemed fine…" I was cut off by Brad, who walked into the living room, greeting me, and then giving a strange look to Jade.

"Huh, didn't think you'd be back this early," he said as he went to the kitchen, probably to check for breakfast.

Jade looked as confused as I felt, "What are you talking about?"

He raised a curious eyebrow, "You and Tori left last night, didn't you?"

"No…We both went right to bed…why?"

He bit his lip nervously, "Well uh, Tori left with someone last night… Guess I assumed it was you."

"What did you see?" I asked.

"Didn't see nothin', just heard some banging around, then the front door opening and closing and a car driving off. What's going on?"

Jade and I exchanged an 'oh fuck' look, "Call me crazy, but I don't think she left voluntarily, kiddo." She simply shook her head.

Jade's POV

I was irate, someone took my Tori. Someone had the audacity to take Tori from me, while I was passed out in the same fucking room! I was ready to open up a can of whoop-ass on whoever had such insolence.

I got up and went to my room, calling Trina as I got dressed.

"Jade? Whats up?" She asked when she picked up.

"Do you know where Tori is?" I rushed out as I went to get my car keys, which weren't where I left them on the kitchen counter last night.

"What? No, why?" She asked, suddenly sounding fully alert.

"She left last night while everyone was asleep. I have no idea where she is and I have a sickening feeling that she didn't leave on her own. That and my fucking car keys are gone!" I shouted out the last part not directly to her.

"You've got like a billion cars, take a different one! And I'll call my Dad," Trina said.

I hung up and went back to my room to get the keys to the Edge, much to my dismay, those were gone too. I groaned in frustration and went back out to the living room, "Kevin I need your keys."

He went and got his jacket, and frantically searched all the pockets, coming up empty, "They're gone!"

"You've got to be kidding me," I grumbled as I rushed over to the bowl on the kitchen counter where we keep all the spare keys, and oh look, they're all gone!

"What the fuck!" I shouted, completely pissed.

I looked to Kevin, who was suddenly struck with a thought, "Spare keys in my bedroom, Tori didn't know about those so they're probably still there. There's a key to the Mustang."

I ran over to his room and looked in his desk where he kept his important stuff, finally locating the one god damn set of keys still left in the house. I went back to my room and got my new gun from the nightstand and loaded it, pushing past Kevin on my way out, "I'll be back."

A/N: Eeek. I like Badass Jade, what can I say. I know I have a reoccurring problem with rushing things, but as of late things were supposed to be that way, especially here. That being said, I'll be back soon with the next chapter.

The names Jade referred to Ryder and Emma by (Hades and Persephone) are Greek Gods; Hades is the God of the Underworld, Persephone is his consort and the Queen of the Underworld.

The conversation Tori and Jade had is all true, Anderson Silva (alleged best MMA fighter in history) -may have- retired himself due to a technically self-inflicted injury at UFC 168. The song Happy Together actually was the song used in a commercial promo for said show.

Lastly, the phrase "open up a can of whoop-ass" belongs to the World Wrestling Entertainment franchise and/or Stone Cold Steve Austin. Can you guys tell I have a thing for wrestling/MMA?