As Tori began to stir, Blake heart skipped a couple of beats. After a minute or so, Tori's fluttered up slowly. She let out a small yelp of pain, reaching for her left hand. Blake realized he was crushing her hand, and released it. Then Tori's eyes settled on the figure that was crushing her hand, her vision was cloudly, but she could have sworn it was Blake.
"Blake?" She asked squinting her eyes to try and see better.
"Yeah, Tor?" Blake asked softly.
"Where am I?" Tori asked as she tried to look around.
"The hospital." Blake said quietly.
"Why?" Tori asked still confused, she went to sit up, but found her head was in amense pain, "And why do I feel like my head is a cannon ball?"
"You passed out from too much drinking, and hit your head on your coffee table, you lost a lot of blood. And they had to put stitches in your head. Suddenly everything came back to her. Hunter telling her, her seeing Blake, her getting drunk, but the last she remembers is yelling at a picture. She jerk her head away from Blake and turned on her side, letting a few tears fall, but not letting Blake see.
"Why are you here?" She said in a low growl.
"Cause I'm the one that kept your ass alive, Tor." Blake said, getting a little pissed that she was so pissed at him.
"How's that?" Tori asked, still not facing him.
"Cause I brought Dustin to your house when Mrs. Rider called him, I stopped your head from bleeding, and I had to tell Dustin to call the abulance, since he was just standing there." Blake said calmer.
"My hero!" Tori said sarcastically.
"Tor, I-" Blake began.
"I'm sorry Blake, thank you." She said in a low whisper, cutting off Blake.
"Blake I got you some ch- TORI!" Dustin said as he walked in, then dumping the food on Blake, who smirked at Dustin, as he ran to hug Tori.
"Hi Dustin." Tori said with a smile.
"Dude, I'm gonna go call Hunter and that nurse..." Dustin began before he trailed off to go call everyone.
"Hunter and what nurse?" Tori said finally turning to face Blake.
"Hunter and Nurse Luxed, well Tara, are out getting to 'know' one another." Blake said with air quotes. Tori laughed.
"Hunter picked up a nurse, while I'm lieing here. It figures." Tori said with a small laugh.
"It started cause he was stalling her while I talked to Niki." Blake said a small sigh. Suddenly Tori's face was sad again and she turned away.
"So where is your fiance'?" Tori asked coldly.
"Niki? I don't know, and I don't care. But at the moment, I believe I am engaged to the floor." Blake said looking at the ring, that was still on the floor from when it bounced off the back of Dustin's head.
"What?" Tori asked whipping around to look at Blake very confused.
"Niki and I broke up, and when I asked for the ring back, she threw it at Dustin's head, which it hit, and landed on the floor, haven't moved it yet." Blake explained.
"Oh, why'd she through it at Dustin's head?" Tori asked as she chuckled a little.
"Do you want a quick reason, or would you like to hear the tale of the four nights?" Blake asked as he leaned back in his chair.
"Four nights?" Tori said as her eyes went wide.
"Yup." Blake answered.
"Might as well fill me in." Tori said shocked. Blake began telling her all about everything. "So you and Niki broke up because she wasn't pregnant?"
"No, well yes. Sorta. I didn't know that you had feelings for me Tor, and when the letter said you and Dustin were getting closer, Niki made an offhand comment that Dustin was movin' in on you, so I drowned my self in alcohol. Then I slept with Niki. Then I found out that you and Dustin were becoming best friends, well closer than you had been. SO I decided I would tell you how I felt, as soon as I got home. I decided to give up racing, and head home. Then the month before I left, Niki said she was pregnant. So I took responsibily, and asked her to marry me. But when I got here, I realized that you did love me, at the time, and wantedto break up with Niki, but I couldn't 'cause of the baby. Of course by the time, Sensi, Shane and Cam, and Dustin, who surprisingly made the most sense, drilled it in that I loved you and you loved me, Mrs. Rider called, and then I was sitting here with you. But Sensi got a feeling that Niki wasn't pregnant, so we did everything, I broke up with her, and here we are." Blake said.
"Wow, I- I had no idea." Tori said as tears began to trickle down her face.
"Tor, Tori its okay." Blake said trying to stop her crying.
"No, its not. I'm so sorry Blake." Tori cried as she burried her face into his shoulder, as his arms were wrapped around her.
"Tor?" Blake said softly, as she stopped crying.
"Yes, Blake?" Tori said looking up at him, into his deep brown eyes.
"I love you, Blondie." Blake said smiling down at her. Tori's heart stopped. He said it, didn't just say he felt it, but he said the three little words that dreaded more than anything else in the word.
"I love you, too, Thunderboy." Tori said as he leaned down and kissed her. Dustin had left the door open, so they didn't notice, Hunter, Tara, Dustin, Cam, Kaylee, and Shane standing at the door, listening. As Blake kissed Tori, four sighs of relief were heard from the door way, Tori and Blake looked to see six people watching them.
"What is with the sigh?" Blake asked with a raised eyebrow.
"You two are finally together. Which means I win the bet." Dustin said turning to his three friends, holding out his hand. Hunter, Cam, and Shane, all reluctantly handed over $20 each.
"Excuse me?" Tori asked. Blake got up and took the money from Dustin., who was counting it.
"Hey!" Dustin said trying to get it back.
"You were betting on us?" Blake asked handing Tori the money.
"Maybe." Dustin said quietly.
"Since when?" Tori asked.
"Since we joined the rangers." Hunter said guiltily.
"You've been betting on this for a year and a half?!" Blake exclaimed.
"Yeah. Hunter said you get together before we defeated Lothor, Shane said before you left/after Lothor. I said when you came back from the pro's. And Dustin said that it would take a disastor of some form for you two to ever get it together. Wait a sec, he left the pro's half off thats mine." Cam exclaimed.
"Yeah, but it took the disator for them to realize." Dustin argued.
"But, he left the pro's, so I still win." Cam said.
"He left cuz he thought his girlfriend was pregnant." Dustin said.
"No, he was leaving before that!" Cam argued.
"Excuse me?" Blake said yelling over them.
"Neither of you win, cause I left the pro's to TELL TORI, therefore both of you are wrong." Blake said, "Which also means Dustin, you owe the pot $20 bucks."
"Oh man!" Dustin said handing it over.
"Now, as soon as I am out of this hospital, we're all going out to eat." Tori said smiling.
"Define all?" Shane asked.
"Me, Blake, Hunter, Tara, if she'd like, Dustin, Marah, Cam, Kaylee,if she'd like, Kapri, you, and Sensi." Tori said counting on her fingers, but need an extra, so she used Blake's.
"Oh, okay." Shane said with a huge smile.
"Tara?" Hunter asked.
"Sure, we can go to my family's restatuant if you'd like." Tara answered. After many nods of agreement, Cam and Dustin turned to Kaylee.
"Kaylee?" Dustin asked.
"Sure." Kaylee said with a smile. Since she'd gotten pregnant, all her friends dropped her, which is why she had to turn to Dustin. Having friends again was nice.
"Kaylee, how old are you?" Tara asked.
"22, why?" Kaylee asked surprised at the forwardness of the question.
"I guess I 'm oldest now Hunter." She said with a small laugh.
"How old are you, Tara?" Cam asked.
"24. Hunter's only 23." Tara said matter-of-factly.
"Hunter's birthday is next month." Blake said.
"She's still older." Tori said proudly.
"True." Shane said.
"So Tara, do you know when Tori will be out of this bed?" Dustin asked.
"Hmm...tommorrow morning?" Tara said.
"What time is it?" Tori asked.
"11:30, and we all have to get for class tommorrow!" Cam said ushering Shane, Dustin, and Hunter out, along with Kaylee and Tara, who all said a quick good bye, as Cam pushed them.
"So, Mr. Bradley, what now?" Tori said looking over at him.
"Now, I kiss you." Blake said pulling Tori into a deep pationate kiss.
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What a happy ending that would be, but its not the end. There's at least one more chapter. Sooo stay tuned!
-Storm Strider