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.

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.

Chapter 28: The Finale

"Did you really think that you were going to get away with it?" Kay asked coldly.

"Honestly, I did. I guess I thought that you hated everyone, but I guess I was wrong. You all just banded together against me, didn't ya?" His voice had a comical undertone in it, as if he thought it was funny.

"You mean, like what you were planning to do with Savannah and I?" Kay spat back and inched closer. Her left arm was useless, Jake had popped it out of its socket but her right was raring to go.

Like her, Jake's left arm was useless but his right was fine. And he was much more powerful than his little sister. Her only hope was to be faster and hold out until Savannah and their parents came.

"So, what are you going to do, now?" Jake questioned, stepping closer to her.

She didn't step forward, like he expected, but held her ground. "Tell me Jake, why did you do it? I mean, what did you think you were going to accomplish?"

He stopped. Cocking his head to the side, he gave a short laugh and said, "You were ruining me. You were destroying everything I made for myself. I couldn't let you do that, now could I?"

She thought she was going to be prepared but she wasn't. When he answered her question, she'd almost flew into shock. Even at her worst, it couldn't hurt him that much. Her mouth dropped open a bit.

"Yeah, that's right. And now, my life is over! Look at me, Kay. I've got nothing. The family hates, the school won't except me… I've got nothing. And it's because of you!" He came right up to her, so close she could smell the sweat from their running.

"No, Jake," she said, bringing her face defiantly close to his. "You did it to yourself."

She saw a flash of anger rise to his eyes and suddenly couldn't breathe. It took her a minute, but she realized that her lack of breath was because of his strong hand griping her throat. She choked out incoherent words and brought her right hands to his arm, trying to get it to lose its grasp.

With her pounding at his arm, he felt the strength to squeeze tighter and saw her eyes start to bulge from their sockets just a bit. Her fist was getting weaker and slower but he pushed on meaning to kill.

"No!" he heard someone say and he looked up. Just behind Kay, his parents stood, staring at him. Savannah stood just behind, watching in horror.

"Let her go, son." Kevin said, trying to remain calm yet stern. He didn't want to force Jake's wrath any harder than it was. He stepped closer but stopped when he saw the muscles in Jake's arms grow tighter. "Son, son. You're not a killer. You're not. She's family, she's blood, and she's another human being. How could you live with yourself if you did that? There's still hope for forgiveness from your family and from God. But if you kill her, God's the only one who could ever forgive you."

With that, his grip loosened and then went. He dropped his arm and stumbled backwards. He brought his hand up and looked at it, horrified.

As soon as his hand stopped holding her, Kay fell to her knees and started coughing. The coughs were dry and harsh but they were something and they told her family that she was still alive. Savannah and Lucy ran to her, helping her stay up. But Kevin went to Jake.

He stood in front of his son, wondering how it got to be that way. When had it happened? "Oh, Jake. We were too worried about Kay to see you." He stepped forwards and took his son in an embrace. Kevin held onto him tight but Jake was still looking at his murderous hand. No. It hadn't murdered. It hadn't killed. Not yet.

But it could have, he realized. I almost killed my sister. My own fucking sister. He started to cry and buried his head into his father's shoulder. He was right. He was messed up. Real messed up.

Back at Gloria's house, Kevin had called the cops and an ambulance. Both Kay and Jake would need to go to the hospital but Kay was going to need to stay there. On the other hand, Jake had another place that he was going to go.

Since she could breath almost normally again, she didn't need to be on a stretcher when the ambulance came. Kay was about to climb into the red truck with Lucy when she saw her father escorting Jake to his ambulance.

"Hold on," she told her mother and the EMT and walked to Jake. When she got there, he didn't look her in the eyes; he was too ashamed. And perhaps disgusted too. Her father began to tell her to get to her mother but she stopped him. "I just wanted to say that I'm not pressing any assault or battery charges against you." Jake looked up and shook his head, as if he were saying that she should. "I don't want you to go to jail for this. I want you to get help. You need it. I think we all do." She touched him on his good shoulder briefly and backed up.

She stopped a few steps back and watched her father help Jake into the ambulance. He looked back at her before getting in himself and they drove off. Kay glanced around. It was just like a scene from the end of an action movie. Blue and red lights were flashing and bouncing off the pavement, neighbors in the pajamas cluttered around their driveways, wondering what happened, policemen wrapping up their investigation.

"Yes, this is real." Kay looked to her right, where Savannah was now standing and smiled at her comment, like her older sister knew what she was thinking. "How does it feel?"

Kay thought about it for a minute. "Surreal," she said.

"Yeah, my thoughts exactly." She and Kay stared it a moment longer. "Well, I should go and bring the SUV to the hospital. I'll see you there." She hugged her and went off to the SUV, keys in her hand. Kay gave her one last gaze before returning to the ambulance.

When she was there and the EMT helped her in, Lucy asked, "So, what now?"

"Well," she said and paused. She took a breath in and let it out slowly. "A lot has happened in two weeks. We could just adjust to it but that's probably the reason we're in this mess. Maybe that old Camden way of hashing out a problem until it's black and blue isn't such a bad idea? I'm not saying we should always do it but maybe turning a blind eye to it isn't good either. But even through everything that has happened, everything that has been taken away from us, we just got something more important. When Jake gets help, and I know he will, we'll finally be a family. It's gonna be hard and we might not like, but, you know what?" She smiled and looked to the night sky. "I think we'll be all right."

THE END

Or is it? Now, Ladies and Gentlemen, I take a little break and work on the sequel, because that nasty lady that has been on Kay's mind hasn't been found. But I wanted to end now because it seemed like the perfect ending. Look for the sequel; I don't know what it's going to be called yet, though. Review and tell me what you thought of the story. Even if you never reviewed, review now please because I want to know what everyone thinks of my story. I'm doing one more chapter but it's got no actual content in from the story. Thanks everyone!