A/N: Sorry that I didn't get this published sooner, like I had initially planned. I was having a difficult time writing this scene and probably ending up rewriting this scene more than any other one I have written so far. I really hope that it doesn't disappoint anyone.

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Tori the Zombie

Part Three

"Damn it Cat. You are going to have to talk to me sometime," I say out loud, while chucking my pear phone across my dad's living room and watching it bounce on the plush velvet sofa. I've tried calling her like three times since her brother picked her up over half an hour ago. She keeps ignoring my calls and sending me directly to voicemail.

I've been pacing back and forth enough times in this damn room waiting for Beck to get here that I am surprised I haven't worn out a permanent path through the expensive Oriental rug that lines the floor.

Cat's reaction floored me. I will never be able to unsee the hurt that I caused her by not telling her the moment I knew David was released. It is going to haunt me. I mean, sure, I have hurt her feelings before. I know that she will forgive me, just like she always has before. Cat forgives people, even when they don't deserve it. It's just not in her nature to hold a grudge. We've been best friends since the third grade. Every time she gets deeply hurt by someone she trusts, it is like another little part of her will withdrawal from reality.

The doorbell rings, making me stop my pacing mid-stride. I take a deep breath and start to walk towards the door, when my foot gets stepped on and I feel tiny hands shoving me to the side.

"I'll get it!" Jack shouts as he charges past me to the door. "Beck!" he shouts, and then leaps up into his arms. "Have you come over to watch scary movies with us? Jade says that you are still scared of The Scissoring, and now that she got the uncut version that we should tape your eyelids open to make you watch the scene where the killer makes the one person eat meatloaf made with some of their own brain."

I can't help but start to smile as I watch Beck's face begin to pale. "Uh, Jade?" he asks me, setting Jack to the ground.

"Makes you hungry, doesn't it?" I say, and then bite the insides of my cheeks to stop from laughing at Beck's reaction. "Breath easy Oliver. My uncut version of that movie is at my mom's house." I turn towards my little brother. "Beck and I need to talk. Alone."

"But I want to hang out with you guys!" Jack starts to complain.

"Jack, why don't you go in your room for a little while, and when Jade and I are done talking we will all go out and get dinner or something." Beck tells him.

"To In 'N Out Burger?" Jack asks him hopefully. I make a gagging face.

"Sure." Beck says, smiling at me.

"Okay. Just don't take forever," Jack said, looking straight at me. "And no kissy face stuff! Cause you said you had to talk. No gross mushy crap." he says quickly and then darts out of my reach.

"And just for the record- I'm not scared of The Scissoring!" Beck calls after Jack's retreating back. I start snickering. Beck turns to look at me. "I'm not."

"Whatever you say," I tell him skeptically.

"Since you and Jack are both acting normal I take it Daddy Dearest and the Stepmonster aren't here?" Beck asks, sitting down on the couch. "Lose something?" he asks, picking up my pear phone and holding it out to me.

"No, I knew it landed somewhere on the couch after I chucked it," I answer him, and begin to play with the bracelets on my wrists, spinning them around and around, avoiding looking at Beck.

"Jade, you sent Jack away for a reason," Beck says, standing up and walking to me. "Are you going to talk me, or are we just going to stand here in silence until your brother gets bored and refuses to leave us alone?" he asks, rubbing his hands up and down my upper arms. "What's going on?"

I look up into Beck's questioning eyes, and know that as soon as I tell him about David, those eyes aren't going to look at me the same way again. "Jack asked me something about an hour ago. And for the first time in my life, I didn't know how to answer him honestly. I couldn't fucking answer him. I've never felt that way before," I say, and begin to pace again, knowing that I can't look at Beck when I tell him. "How the hell do you explain to a six year old not only what rape is, but why someone would try do that to his sister, and might try again? And why his fucking stepmom doesn't think it is such a big deal?" I spin around to look at Beck, willing the tears that have sprung into my eyes to not fall.

"Jade, what the-" Beck starts to walk towards me, but I hold up my hand, and he instantly stops walking.

"How the fuck do I tell you that David got released, is living back down the street from my mom's house, and had been, for a couple weeks now, without you-" I continue to speak at super speed until Beck cuts me off.

"David's out?!"

I swallow and shake my head yes.

"And he's been out for two fucking weeks?" Beck asks me, and all I can do is silently nod again. "God damn it Jade!" Beck shouts, picks up a vase of flowers that is on the end table next to us and chucks it across the room. I barely register the sound of the cut crystal shattering against the wall. "And just when the fuck were you going to bother to tell me this?" he asks me, his eyes wild with fury.

"I'm…...I'm sorry. I just didn't know how-"

"Didn't know how? So instead you keep it from me, push me away, break up with me?" Beck shouts, pacing back and forth.

"Beck, it's not like he's tried to do anything again to me-"

"Yet." Beck interrupts me.

I sigh. "He's been nowhere near me." I say quickly as Beck snorts in disgust. "Well, relatively speaking. I can't help the fact that he lives a couple hundred yards away from my mom's house!" I can't help but yell at him.

"So you haven't even seen him since he's been out?" Beck asks me coldly, and the look on my face was apparently a good enough answer for him. Beck walks up to me and grabs my hands. "When the fuck were you going to tell me this?"

"What do you mean?" I ask him angrily. "I just fucking told you."

"Because Jack overhead-" Beck explodes, before being interrupted.

"Stop yelling at each other!" Jack runs into the room and pushes between us. "Stop yelling at my sister!" Jack shouts, pushing Beck. "Leave her alone!"

"Jack, it's fine." I grab my brother's arms and hold him. Beck and I look at each other for a full five seconds, silently agreeing to pause this conversation.

"I'm sorry that I scared you Jack," Beck said honestly, kneeling down so he is on his level. He has control of his emotions again, and I'm sure that Jack can't hear the strain in his voice like I can. "We are done arguing with each other. Right Jade?" Beck moves his eyes up to mine, and Jack turns around and looks at me for verification.

"Yeah, sorry we freaked you out Jackie," I say with a forced smile, hoping he will let the matter drop.

Jack looks back and forth at us a couple times. "Okay, can we go to In 'N Out Burger now? I'm really hungry." He tentatively grabs my hand and Beck's, and continues to look between the two of us. "Please?"

"Sure kid," I say, and force out a smile. "Let's go."

A/N: Sorry for the relatively short chapter, but I thought that this scene would do better on it's own. The next chapter I will get to the actual episode- I promise! :)

Please review and let me know what you think. Also, if you haven't voted yet on the poll on my profile page please do. I will leave it up for a little while longer. Last time I checked, Cat was still in the lead for a companion one-shot.