AN: Edited as best as I could. This story is really only to help me work on my own issues (a lot of which has been used as plot lines for thisstory)
Jori just seemed to fit somehow.
Please comment, it makes me want to actually keep writing and update.
I loved Friday nights. Friday's were date night for Beck and I.
We were curled up on his bed watching a movie and everything felt like it usually did.
Relaxing and calm.
I'd kicked my boots off the end of Beck's bed, my scissors were no longer in the waistband of my skirt.
It was very relaxing.
We were watching Saw, the first of the series, and planned to watch the rest.
At least… it was. Until my phone started chiming with texts.
Groaning, I leaned over Beck to grab my phone and silence it when I saw it was a group chat with Trina in it.
Unusual, because we never spoke. And she knew better than to message me.
I swiped my thumb across the screen to open it and sat up quickly, making Beck grumble.
I'd barely even noticed he had fallen asleep until I looked over at him.
"Beck," I said, shaking his shoulder. "We gotta go to Tori's."
"Why?" He asked, his voice deeper and cracklier than normal due to just being woken.
"Trina's messaged me, Tori's missing."
"Missing?" He got up quickly, reaching for his shirt as I grabbed my bag, our phones and the keys to my car. "I'll take my car, you take yours. We'll look for her on the way."
I nodded, my throat closing up with nerves as I handed him his phone and pressed a kiss to his cheek before rushing out of his RV, pulling my boots on at the same time, my bag over my shoulder and over to my car.
I ran through the route in my head, how many ways one could get to the Vega household.
Seven from school. Five from Becks. Ten from my place.
Some were streets, busy or not, but mostly, they were back alley's.
I pulled over to the side of the road and called Trina.
"Have you found her?" Trina rushed out.
"No, I need to know when she was last seen though. It'll most likely help find her," I said as I ran a hand through my hair and pressed the speaker button, resting the phone on my knee as I tied my hair up off my neck.
"She said she was going to go to Nozu, to get sushi for her dinner, then come home. That was over an hour ago. She ordered ahead for take-away."
There was eight ways to Nozu from the Vega house. All but three were back alleys.
I glanced at the time on my phone. It was almost eleven at night.
"I'll go there and start heading back towards your place. Let me know if you hear anything."
"This is all my fault," I heard Trina sob as she ended the call.
Trina never showed emotion for someone other than herself, so it was strange to hear the older teen cry, I admit. But right now, I had to find Vega.
Tori… we'd only just started getting closer, hell, I'd even introduced her to my brother and had her visit my house twice.
I frowned a little as I rubbed a hand over my face. Beck hadn't met anyone in my family.
Well, he met Riley once, he didn't like my brother, I could tell.
My brother was the most valued person in my life, I'd chose him over anyone else.
Beck, he'd only been to my house a handful of times, we stayed in the kitchen the whole time.
Only ever doing homework.
My phone chimed, pulling me from my thoughts and I looked down at it, my eyebrows shooting up in shock.
"Jade, you idiot," I murmured to myself and opened up the message thread between Tori and I ignoring the group chat as people kept replying they'd checked places.
I tapped on Tori's info and it loaded up a map.
How could I forget we had our "find-a-friend" app turned on between our messages? We needed to use it just yesterday when we were working on a group project and couldn't find each other.
Her phone pinged right between Nozu and her house.
I tapped on the map and told it to give me directions to her and pulled out of the parking spot before taking off down the road.
I listened to the gps voice of my phone tell me to turn left, and right and go through the roundabout and then it told me I'd reached my destination.
I shut the car off, stuffing my phone into my pocket after locking it and kicked the door of my car shut as I looked around.
Yelling would be a bad idea this late at night. It was nearing midnight.
I pulled my phone back from my pocket and dialed Tori's number just as the thunder crashed above me, the clouds parted, and the rain started to pour.
I listened hard. My ears straining over the rain to try and hear her ringtone or at least a vibration of her phone. I looked around also, trying to see around me in case it were lighting up with my call.
"Come on Tori, where are you?" I huffed, jamming my phone back into my pocket.
"Tori?" I yelled, not caring for how late it was now. "Damnit, Vega. Fucking answer me!"
I looked around once more. There was three alleys around. Three options of where her, or just her phone could be.
"Vega!" I yelled, making my way to the boot of my car and unlocking it before tucking the keys into my pocket.
I grabbed out the pole for the jack, usually I'd have my scissors, but I'm pretty sure they never made it back into the band of my skirt when I sat them down in Beck's RV so we could cuddle in his bed.
I also grabbed a torch and slammed the boot shut before clicking the torch on, holding the pole tight in my hands just in case. The thunder crackling loudly across the sky, making me jump.
I hated storms so much, Vega better be okay, otherwise I'm going to give her hell for making me be out in this.
"Vega!" I called out once more as I made my way down one of the alleys to my right and pointed the torch ahead. It shined bright against the heavy rainfall and the trashbags resting beside a dumpster, but no Tori.
"Tori, seriously. Where are you?"
Moving the pole into the hand that was holding the torch, I grabbed my phone out and redialled her number.
Listening, watching, waiting.
I looked at my phone while it rang out and opened up the messages between Vega and I.
I went back to the map and noticed her dot wasn't right by mine.
It was across the street somewhere.
My phone started ringing as I was about to put it back in my pocket. I quickly answered when I saw Tori's name and picture on the screen.
"Vega?"
"She's so pretty," I heard on the other end of the line.
"Please, let me go…" That was Tori.
I knew that voice anywhere. Even through the crackling signal and her crying.
"Get her dressed, tie her to the chair for while we eat, I want to watch her." A voice said.
"We should keep her, she did bring us food," Another males voice said and my stomach turned.
I looked down at my phone and sent off a text to Tori's father. Letting him know I found her but I couldn't get to her. I sent my location to him also, telling him to bring backup but do it quietly.
He sent back an acknowledgment and I leaned against my car for a moment while I listened to the call.
The sound of rustling, cracking.
"W-Why don't you just eat, and then let me go?" Tori asked, and there was a beat of silence before the two men laughed.
"Why would we do that?"
"Because, I was due home hours ago and my father is a cop," Tori told them.
"Cop? He'll never find us, pretty thing." Silence. "What's that light? Is that her phone? You idiot, I told you to pat her down."
"I did! She must of had it tucked somewhere I couldn't find it," the other voice said.
There was movement over the line and I then the sound of the line going dead, making my chest tighten and my throat close up.
The flashing red and blue lights captured my attention less than a minute later.
I moved around the other side of my car and waved my arms above my head, making the lights all shut off and the cop cars skid to a halt by my own.
The first door to open was of course David, Tori's father.
I let him know I guessed two people as I pointed to the house my phone directed me to, and he nodded, telling me to stay back while they charged the house.
There must have been at least thirty cops swarming this small house, ten of them going around the back in case someone tried to escape.
The lights went out and there was shouting inside that could be heard from the cracked open windows before the cops charged in, yelling and swearing for people to get on the ground.
"Tori?" I heard her father yell over the other cops shouting.
"Dad?"
I frowned and ran passed all the cops, shoulder barging them out of the way.
"Vega!" I stopped dead in my tracks when I saw the torches pointed at a chair across the room, a wire across Tori's lap and rope holding her down.
"Jade, what're you doing here?"
"Well, your sister was upset so I had to come save the day, again…"
Tori smiled sadly and waited while a cop cut through the rope.
"You're not wired to blow, are you?" I asked jokingly to help ease the tension.
"No, they just couldn't find long enough rope," Tori said and stood slowly, which made me sigh with relief.
I watched as David pulled her into a tight hug, one of the captured men then started going off at the other about how he should of looked harder for a phone.
Growling, I clenched my fists and moved over to one of the guys, kicking him hard in the ribs which made him cry out in pain.
Before I could get pulled away, I got three more kicks in, two on the other guy and one more on the one I started on. I was about to start punching them both, but David had pulled me away.
Tori looked mildly amused but also shocked when I looked up at her.
I don't think she's ever seen me this angry.
Sitting beside Tori on the hospital bed as she was getting checked over, I looked at her and shook my head. "Who goes and gets food this late at night?"
"I was starving, no one wanted to come with me, I didn't have anything in the house," Tori said, smiling nervously.
"Yeah, well, next time, text someone… Why didn't Trina drive you?"
"She lost her keys, either that or mum has them."
"Well, call me next time." The seriousness in my voice made Tori look at me with a nervous smile and she nodded.
"Okay, but that means you can't get grumpy at three in the morning when I'm craving ice cream."
"No promises," I said, smirking. "But still, call me."
Tori rested a hand on my wrist, smiling softly. "Thanks, Jade."
"Any time, Vega," I said before looking at the door as it opened and the doctor came back into the room.
"You're clear to go home, Tori. Just a couple of bruises, nothing serious, and they used protection, so hopefully everything's okay down there," he said, making me do a double-take.
"They raped you?" I asked, the anger rising in my voice. "Why didn't you say anything?" Why didn't I piece it together sooner? They did say to dress her.
"I did… you were just out getting coffee." She sounded so small when she spoke, making my heart sink.
"Does your dad know?"
"No, and I'd prefer he didn't."
I nodded, respecting her wishes before looking at the doctor. "So long as he hasn't told anyone," I said with a slight threatening tone in my voice.
"I-I haven't, I swear," he said, shaking his head and holding his hands up as he took a step back.
"Jade, must you scare everyone you meet?" Tori asked, a sigh leaving her lips heavily as she spoke my name.
"I must," I said, nodding as I smiled innocently at her. "Can she go home now?"
The doctor nodded and waved his clipboard, "I'll get your father to sign the release, Miss Vega, but you may leave."
"Thank you, Doc," Tori said and I pointed to the door after lifting her clothes off the closest chair, sitting them beside her.
"I'll wait outside while you change back into your clothes, hurry up and I'll take you to get that three in the morning ice cream."
"It's okay, Jade. My dad can take me home."
"You haven't eaten, I can tell cause you get huffy. So, I'll go get your dad to sign off and tell him I'm taking you to get food."
"Like he'd allow it," Tori scoffed lightly. "But sure. Try it."
Raising an eyebrow, I pushed the door open and glanced over my shoulder at her. "Challenge accepted."
"How bad did you threaten my father?" She questioned, buckling her seatbelt.
"I think he peed a little," I said as I started my car.
"Wha-Jade!"
"Joking," I smirked, looking at her. "Kind of." She smiled softly at my. "I just said that I'd take you to get food and bring you home soon. And that I wouldn't let anything happen to you."
"Aw, you care," she poked my arm as she sang her words.
"Shut up."
"You caaaareeee," She chirped happily.
"I'm just going to take you straight to your place, fuck your ice cream," I said as I flicked my blinker on, pulling out of the car park.
"Noooo, I'm sorry Jade. It's just nice to hear you care, it's like like you show it all that often."
"Didn't think I needed to."
"It's still nice to be nice every once in a while, Jade."
"You know I care. I mean, I haven't threatened you in a while."
"True, but still. It's nice hearing you care."
"So you've said, Vega. Now, what do you want to eat?"
"Everywhere would be closed, Jade. Just take me home, please?"
"Nah, not everywhere. What're you in the mood for?"
"Honestly? A huge burger that's greasy and fattening."
"Oh, I know just the place." Pulling the car over I grabbed my phone from the cup holder I keep it in when driving and sent off a quick message before pulling back out onto the road and taking the next turn off onto the highway.
"Taking me to the desert to kill me?" She asked, a teasing tone in her voice.
"Yup," I said playing along, smiling as Tori laughed.
Something felt strange about is being together, the air around us different. Maybe it was because I was actually being a good friend to her in a time of need instead of being my usual snarky self, but whatever it was. I liked it.
"Home," I said after a moment. "My place."
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