DISCLAIMER: I do not own 7th Heaven or anything related to 7th Heaven. All medical information on this story is either half-truth or completely made up. I am not a doctor. Also, if you are a fan of the happy relationships in 7th Heaven, don't read. Thos story contains a "rebel" who doesn't agree with her family and not so nice language and themes are sometimes used. Thank you. Enjoy! PS: this part contains some characters from another story called D4 from PaUlKaRiYaSgUrL9. She (the author) let me use them. Therefore I don't own them or the characters from the Mighty Ducks. Don't worry, they are just minor players, they will have no impact on the story aside from that they are friends. I don't own the plot to Jawbreaker, either, or the title.

"Well, that didn't pan out," Savannah said as she climbed back into the gas-guzzler.

"I don't know…" Kay peered at the house that they had just emerged from a minute before. "Something doesn't feel right. There was this look she had…"

"You noticed it, too." Kevin interrupted, turning to face her.

"Yeah."

"Well, maybe there's another cop in the family, after all." Lucy said and buckled her seat belt.

Kevin turned on the engine and after they heard its roar, he asked, "Where to next?"

Kay got the book from her pocket and opened the page that they had found Gloria's name on. She read Jake's ex-girlfriends name. "Dana Berkely, 45 Maple Hill Avenue."

Chapter 27: A Walk in the Woods

It took them the entire rest of the day and some of the night, but after 23 houses they came to the end of the book . At every house, they repeated some version of the speech that they made at the Alderman house and at every house they got the same reply. During the last few houses, Kay and Kevin had taken a good cop/bad cop approach (Kevin being the good cop and Kay being the bad cop) but they still didn't get anything.

"That was the last address," Kay said, looking despairingly at the book that was in her hands. They were parked in the driveway of Heather Valery, a girl who Savannah knew from her P.E. class.

"Are you sure?" Lucy asked with little hope left in her eyes.

"Yeah. That's it." Kay let out an exasperated breath of air. "You don't have any messages on your cell, do you dad?"

Kevin grabbed his cell phone and checked the list. After pressing a few buttons, he said, "Nope, nothing. I don't know what we should do."

"Maybe we should go back to Gloria's?" Savannah suggested, looking from family member to family member. Kevin was about to answer before she continued, "Well, I mean, both you and Kay had weird feelings about her, maybe we should check it out."

"No," Kevin said. "If she knows something, she's not going to tell us willingly. And since this isn't a formal investigation, I can't bring her in for questioning. Besides, Mr. Alderman isn't going to let us back in the house at this late of an hour." He gestured to the clock on the radio that said 10:15pm in neon green and started the car.

"Wait," Kay said and Kevin stopped pulling out of the driveway. "You said that she wouldn't tell willingly, right? Well, what if I were to say that I left something in their house? Then I could ask to use the bathroom and since I'm guessing that it's upstairs because I didn't see a door downstairs, I could check? I mean, it's difficult and a bit prime-time drama-ish, but it could work, right?"

There was a long pause while Kevin thought it over, his mind playing out every way it could end up and decided that it couldn't do any harm. "It's such a silly plan that it could work."

"Exactly." Kay said smugly and with that, Kevin backed out of the Valery driveway. On the street, he put the SUV in drive and made his way to the Alderman's. Ten minutes later they were in the Alderman driveway, only this time there wasn't any sign that Mr. Alderman was home.

"Maybe he's asleep?" Lucy suggested but she knew that if they were going to find Jake, they were going to have to act on every feeling they got. And Gloria didn't give them a good one.

Kevin turned around in his seat to gaze at Kay. He had a look in his eyes that Kay thought she never saw before and when she realized what it was, she knew she never had. "I just wanted to tell you how proud I am of you," he said with a smile and reached out his hand to touch her cheek.

For the first time she could remember, Kay's tears were happy ones. Only a few escaped but they said what they needed to. "Thank you, dad." She touched his hand on her cheek and held it there for a moment before gently pushing it away. She gave him a glare and said, "But I'm still mad at you." She couldn't hold the glare for long before she smiled and got out of the car.

Kevin rolled down his window and said, "Remember, keep it quick, don't stay in one place for too long. If you see him, yell like the devil himself was after you, as that old saying goes, got it?"

"Yeah, I got it. I won't let you down." She looked at the house again and whispered, "He's in there, dad. I can feel it." Kevin gave her a nod and then watched her walk up to the door. Her hands were clenching and unclenching but if she was nervous, it wasn't on her face. That was stone cold.

At the door, she rang the doorbell and waited for Gloria (hopefully) to answer. Her hand went up to ring again but the door opened and Gloria came into view. She was wearing a short robe, that wasn't fully tied and her hair was a mess. "Can I help you?" she said, apparently out of breath.

Uh-huh, he's in here, she thought before saying, "Yeah, hi. I think I left my ring here. When we came earlier, I was wearing it but I think it fell off because it wasn't on my finger in the SUV after we left. Can I just check your couch quickly?" Before getting an answer, she started in the house and Gloria didn't realize it until she was passed her.

"Umm… sure. But I don't think it's here," Gloria said and Kay detected a hint of nervousness in her voice.

Not letting her cover slip, Kay proceeded to the couch she had been sitting on a few hours earlier and pushed her hands between the seats. After a few minutes of looking, she pulled out a silver ring with a star on it. It didn't occur to Gloria that she had put it there herself.

"Ah-ha! Found it," Kay said and stood up straight. "Well, thanks. I should get going… oh but… hehe, I'm kinda embarrassed but I haven't used the bathroom in like, 8 hours and I really need to. My house is like, a half an hour away and I don't know if I could hold it in. May I use yours?"

If it had been Jake, he would have said to piss off and chuckled at his own pun. But Gloria wasn't a bad person and was raised to be hospitable. Too bad for Jake. "Sure, it's upstairs. I'll show it to you." She started up the stairs but Kay caught her.

"No, no, that's alright. I'll find it." Kay went up the stairs and found the bathroom. Before stepping inside, she saw that Gloria couldn't see her from where she was standing and closed the bathroom door, with her on the outside of it. Keeping her eyes on the stairs, she backed up down the hall, looking in every room that she passed. When she reached Gloria's room, instinct took over. "Oh, fuck!"

She ran out of the room and raced down the stairs. Half way down, she realized that Gloria wasn't in the living room and her suspicions were confirmed. That little bitch tricked me!

When her feet hit the carpet of the living room, she turned on her heels and faced the kitchen. At the back of the kitchen, Gloria stood pushing another figure threw the back door. Jake, she thought and tried to go after him but Gloria saw that she was coming and stopped helping Jake and started going after Kay.

"He's just scared," she said, apparently trying to reason with Kay but when that didn't work she brought up her hands and ran for Kay. Before she reached her, she extended her arms, just in case Kay was going to go through them. Not seeing any other way out, Kay backed up and walked up the stairs a bit.

When Gloria came around the corner, she was met by a pair of sneakers to the face. With her hands on the railings, she had drawn her feet up and kicked them out, just in time to catch Jake's new girlfriend. The force of the blow sent Gloria to the ground, passed out cold. But not for long.

Kay had only enough time to scream as loud as she could before Gloria started to get up. Seeing it as her only opportunity, Kay tried to race around the corner but a hand caught her foot and she too was sent to ground. Fortunately, her hands hit first and she was able to use them to spring back up, with Gloria still attached to her foot.

"He doesn't love you!" Kay yelled as she tried to shake Gloria off.

"Yes he does!" She yelled back and drew her other hand up and around Kay ankle.

"He's using you. He thinks you're dumb. Why would he come here if he loved you? This could get you in trouble! If he loved you, he'd want to keep you away from it!" After hearing her words, Gloria's grip loosened a little but it was just enough for Kay to kick her foot. Once out of her grip, Kay bolted for the door, hoping that Jake hadn't gotten too far.

She was hit by the black darkness and it took her eyes a few moments to adjust. After they did, she scanned the backyard, looking for any way he could have exited. the Alderman's lived in front of a small forest that was only a mile or so long, but it was big enough for Jake to get a good escape going.

Off of the porch and behind the pool there was an opening that looked that it had been used recently. Kay ran for it and was soon in the darkness of the trees. the moon shone through a little bit, but it was in scattered places and she couldn't tell where she was going. There was only one way she could find him. Smell him out.

Kay knew how much cologne he put on daily and made her brain recall the smell. It found it easily and soon she was sniffing the air like dog. It worked, all right, but it was everywhere. There was too much of the smell to pinpoint a specific location. She started walking in the forest, not knowing if she was even going the right way.

It was only few steps in before she heard a noise and stopped to hear where it was coming from. Almost straight in front of her she the noise came again and stared for it.

She ran after the noises for a few minutes before she saw him. He was 50 or so feet in front of her, running full speed. It seemed to Kay that he hadn't known where to go and even though he had a two-minute head start, he'd used most of that time trying to figure out where to go.

They ran a hundred yards more before they heard noises coming from behind them. Even though she was out breath, she called out, "Hear that, Jake. They're coming for ya. It won't be long until they get you!" She heard him roar a response but she couldn't understand him.

He pushed forward; harder than he had ever ran in his life. Over branches and stumps and logs and clumps of grass. He ran so hard and so fast he thought he was going to puke. But adrenaline was pumping something fierce in his veins and it charged him and kept him going strong.

If Brooke and Kay had run more, this would have been easier on her but seeing as how she rarely exercised, even the adrenaline couldn't keep Kay going for much longer. He was only ten yards or so away so with her final burst of energy, she ran at him and flung herself at his body.

She almost missed but in a stroke of luck she grabbed onto his calves and brought him down. If he hadn't been running so fast, he could have stopped and gotten her off but by the time he tried to stop, his body was too used to going forward and the momentum pulled him down. He landed hard and hit his arm on a tree, wincing as he heard a snap and pain burning through his arm.

As soon as he hit the dirt, he spun around, unmindful of his broken arm. "You bitch!" he cried with a voice much more like a devil than a teenage boy.

She still had his legs and though she was tired, she carried on. She pulled herself higher on his legs and withstood his kicking feet. When her arm was off him, reaching higher on his leg, he put the time to use and kicked her in the shoulder and she heard a pop. the force of the blow got her off of him and he spun to his feet. But he wasn't running.

She was on her knees, trying to get up when his well-toned leg came upside of belly and she felt all the air rush out of her. She cried out in pain and tumbled on her back. Before he could get her again, she rolled out of the way, far enough to get up.

Now brother and sister stood before each other, both with pain in their arms and hate in their eyes. They panted and stared at each other, daring the other to make the first move. Jake's plans of escaping flew from his mind and he had but one thing left. Kill.

Hahaha, cliffhanger. Will Jake get away? Will Gloria come back to help him? Where are the rents and Savannah? Find out tomorrow night!