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Summary: OK, I know the thing about Thunder storm pt. 1 was just going to be a one shot, but I got so many positive reviews, I knew I just had to write another. This takes place at the end of Thunder Storm pt. 2, after Blake's race at the end.
Category: Tori/Blake, a little bit of Dustin/Marah and implied Kapri/Shane, Trent/Kira, Connor/Kira, and Hunter/Cam
Note: It's in both Blake and Tori's P.O.V
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-TORI POV-
After Blake's race, all us rangers (former and current) and Marah and Kapri went to the park to hang out. I think Blake was having a bit of an ego trip because of the fact that leaving the moto track was almost impossible because of all these people asking for his autographs. But we all somehow managed, and here we are, sitting in the park. I looked over and I saw Dustin and Marah sitting off to the side together. Marah's perched on his lap, and he's staring in her eyes and smoothing her hair back. I can't help but feel a little jealous of the fact that my friend has found love with the one he's thought about for a while, and me, I've got nothing. I mean, yeah, sure, there was that time that Blake did say he liked me, but that was a long time ago, almost a year. And besides, since then, how many dates has he asked me out on? Oh right, none. I mean, I guess I could ask him myself or move on but for some reason, waiting around for him is this deliciously sweet torture that I can't seem to get out of.
-BLAKE POV-
To my right, I see Kapri and Shane sitting at a picnic table and talking in hushed voices. Every so often Shane would lean in and whisper something in her ear and she'd giggle, throwing her head back and putting a hand on his chest, pushing him away but obviously not really wanting him to move away. Shane just smiles and moves in closer to her. Man, when did those two start getting close? I guess it's only logical, I mean her sister seems to be attached to Shane's friend and all, but Shane and Kapri? Who'd a thunk it? And then, to my left, I see Hunter and Cam standing by a tree and talking. I'm pretty sure I see soft sweet smiles coming from both of them as they shyly flirt. My brother and the Sensei's computer geek son. Well, if Kapri and Shane can find their way together, I guess it's possible for anyone to be a couple. I see Kira sitting to the side playing her guitar softly and Connor and Trent sitting by her hanging on every word that's sung out of her mouth, yet at the same time trying their best to hide the fact that they are even paying attention. I see Ethan sitting with Tommy and discussing some thing that sounds way too scientific for me to understand so I don't bother trying. It's funny. We all came out here to hang out as a group, but everyone's off with their own group, except Tori and myself. I look over at her and catch her eye. She gives me a smile and I return the gesture.
-TORI POV-
I see Blake looking over at me and feel my throat suddenly feel like I swallowed cotton. So, I do what I always do when he looks at me with those dark eyes-I smile. He returns the smile and I think to myself 'wow, a year of no face to face contact and that's the best we can do....Wonderful.'
-BLAKE POV-
All right, that's it. I refuse to be the only one of our team not perusing a romantic endeavor. I mean for god's sake, I was into Tori way before Hunter, Cam, Dustin, Marah, Shane and Kapri were into each other, so why the hell was I sitting on the sidelines? I shouldn't be! I should be in the game! And I intend to get in that game. Maybe I was still on that confident buzz from winning the race, or maybe it was just sheer desperation, but I found myself getting up and walking over to her. She looks up at me and I swear I can feel my knees turning into jell-o at the sight of her blue eyes looking up at me.
"Hey." I manage to say.
"Hey." She responds. I nervously scratch the back of my neck, unsure where to go to from there. "Great job on the race." She says. I smile.
"Thanks." I say. I clear my throat. "Uh, you want to take a walk or something?" I ask. She looks at me and slowly nods.
"Sure." She says. She gets up and brushes some grass from the seat of her jeans. The two of us walk off together. I see Hunter looking over at me and he gives me an encouraging smile. Cam looks over as well and sees us walking off together. He smiles like Hunter, but also has a look that says 'hurt her and your dead'. I know that Cam, Shane, Dustin and Tori are all really close and I know that if I ever did hurt her-not that I had any intention of doing so-even Sensei, Kapri and Marah would line up to kill me.
-TORI POV-
Blake and I walked off from the group together.
"So.." I began, trying to think of something to say.
"Yeah?" Blake asked. I looked at him.
"Uh..." I said. I then caught sight of his hand. The knuckles of his right hand looked beat up. How come I didn't notice that before? "Your hand." I said. Blake looks down and gets what I was talking about. "What happened?" I asked.
-BLAKE POV-
I suddenly got nervous. What was I supposed to say?
"I....Um...Kind of...Punched a tree..." I muttered. Tori looked at me with a shocked expression.
"Is that some new motocross training technique?" She asked. I looked at her. All right, Bradley, you've got two choices here. You can either: A) Laugh nervously and say 'uh huh, yeah'. Or B) Tell her why you used the tree as a punching bag. I took a deep breath and decided the truth was always a good bet.
"No." I said. We went and sat on a bench. I looked at her. "When you guys first fought the dino rangers," I began, I saw Tori look down. Great, she's got the guilt...Damnit Lothor! "Hunter, Cam and I saw it...Afterwards I was a little upset that you.....I mean you guys were being used by Lothor like Hunter and I had been, so I took out my anger on a tree."
-TORI POV-
When Blake mentioned the first fight we had with the rangers, I couldn't help but feel ashamed, especially when he said he saw it. That's not exactly a moment I would've wanted him to see. I was horrible. I was an evil thing that was taking pleasure in the fact that the other rangers were being beaten.
"You hit a tree?" I asked.
"Yeah." He said.
"Did it hurt?" I asked. Dummy, of course it hurt, he hit a friggen tree you moron.
"Not really." He said. "I was running on pure anger and adrenaline, I didn't really feel it."
"Oh." I said, unsure how else to respond to that. "I.......I'm sorry you.....I mean you, Hunter and Cam...Had to see me......Us like that." I said. "I mean, for you and Hunter, we haven't seen you guys in a while and the first time you see us, it isn't exactly in a shining moment." God, why can't I just spit it out? Why can't I just tell him I'm ashamed he in particular saw me like that because now I feel like I look like a total monster in his eyes?
-BLAKE POV-
I looked at Tori. She had her head lowered and looked like a puppy that had just piddled on the carpet-ashamed. I reached over and took her hand.
"Hey, just think of it as everything balancing out. You saw Hunter and me at not our best moments, so now it's like all balanced." I said to her, giving her a reassuring smile. Tori gave a weak smile.
"I guess you're right." She said. I had to suppress a smile at the fact that she wasn't exactly making a move to take her hand back. Instead, I sort of felt her settle her hand in mine a bit, as if she had no intention of taking it back any time soon. "So, how's life been in the professional racing world?" She asked.
"It's been all right. Although with all this traveling, I could use a break soon." I said. Tori laughed. Oh that beautiful sound. It was so much better then that evil cackle from before.
"Oh, boo-hoo." She teased. "You're this globe-trotting athletic celebrity. Yeah, I could see how that could suck." She said. I laughed.
"I didn't say it sucked, I just said it was tiring me out." I corrected her. Tori giggled.
"Yeah, well, it sounds amazing." She said. "Seeing all these great places and all. I mean, the last letter you sent to me was all the way from Brazil." She said.
"Oh yeah, racing there was fun. I couldn't understand a word the announcers said. I ended up racing in the 250 race because didn't know they hadn't announced the start of the 125 race yet." I said, blushing slightly. Tori laughed. "Oh yeah, Roger and the other guys on the team thought it was hilarious too. That is, until Jesse, one of my teammates, made a similar mistake the next day."
"Oh you poor, poor things." Tori said, laughing still. I couldn't help smile like a kid on Christmas morning. Making Tori smile and laugh was the best thing in the entire world, and having her hand in mine also added onto the greatness factor of this situation.
-TORI POV-
I'm not sure what made me do what I did next. Maybe it was the extremely laid back atmosphere we were in right now, or maybe it was my head doing crazy things because I was sitting so close to him. I suddenly swept my thumb over his cut up knuckles. I heard him hiss a bit. I looked at him.
"Are you OK? I thought you said it doesn't hurt." I said, afraid I had hurt him.
"No, no, it's ok." He said quickly. "It didn't hurt at the time, but now, it's a little sore, no big deal." He said. Again, maybe it was the fact I was so close to him, I have no idea. All I know is, next thing, I lifted his hand up to my face and pressed my lips against his knuckles lightly.
-BLAKE POV-
Was I dreaming? Maybe at that last race I had hit my head and was now hallucinating. Or maybe I did fall into the bottom of the abyss and was now dead and in heaven. How else could I explain the fact that Tori's soft lips were pressed against my sore hand? I just stared at her. I guess she suddenly felt nervous or something because as suddenly as this dream come true had started, it ended. She let go of my hand, which fell back down limply, and moved away from me a little bit.
"Oh..Uh...Uhm...I...Sorry...Uh.." She stammered.
"No, no, it's OK." I said, I'm pretty sure I sounded like an idiot, just staring at her like that. But to be honest, I had no idea what to say or what to do.
"I just.." She said. "I don't know..I.." Whatever it was that had caused her to do that was probably the same thing that caused me to do what I did right then.
-TORI POV-
"I just..." I said. "I don't know..I..." I felt flustered and nervous. What the heck just happened. "I-" I started to try and make a coherent sentence again, but something cut me off. More specifically, Blake quickly cupping my face and capturing my lips in a kiss. Whatever I had tried to say got lost on his lips as I slowly sank into it like a hot knife through butter. My hands didn't exactly know how to respond, or react to this so they just sat on my lap as Blake and I kissed. I felt him suck my bottom lip into his mouth and his tongue gently sweeps past it, obviously trying to deepen our kiss. I instantly obliged his wishes and opened my mouth, allowing him full access to it as our tongues danced together. One of his hands slipped down my face and down to my legs as he leaned in closer to me. My hands suddenly regained their senses and went to his shoulders, pulling him closer.
-BLAKE POV-
Tori's lips, tongue, hands, everything, felt so good. I had pulled one of her legs over mine as the two of us melted into each other and fit perfectly like to pieces of a puzzle. Our shy, simple kiss had started out slow but had now escalated into a hot and passionate make out session. I wanted to taste her. All of her. My lips left hers and I couldn't help grin slightly at the unhappy groan she let out, but it soon died down as my lips found a new home on her neck. I gently kissed her pulse point.
"Oh..Blake..." She whispered, pulling me closer. We weren't Blake and Tori anymore. Now we were BlakeandTori, and I don't think either of us seemed to mind that at all. In the distance, I could hear something rustling, but Tori and I were too lost in each other to notice.
"He's kind of busy.." I heard someone whisper.
"Shut up! It's getting good!" Another voice whispered.
-TORI POV-
Blake and I were lost in one another when I heard voices. I turned my head and nearly gasped. Standing a few feet away from us were two people. One guy was holding a camera and a girl who looked like a blonde version of Marah.
"Uh...Blake..." I said.
"Mmm?" He said, busy kissing up and down my neck. Arg, this felt too good to stop, but I knew we should. Oh was this blonde Marah going to get a piece of my mind. And why the hell was that camera on us?!
"We've...Got some company." I said. Blake sat up.
"Huh?" He asked. I pointed over to the side. He looked over.
"Marah?" He asked, confused. The girl put on a big smile and walked over to us.
"Hi, Mr. Bradley, I'm Cassidy Cornell, I work for-"
"Uh, yeah...What do you want?" Blake asked, a little annoyed. I tried not to laugh at how cute he looked right now.
"Uh, nothing. Cassidy, we should go." The guy said.
"Devin, if I want your opinion, I'll ask for it." Cassidy said. She looked at us, giving us a wide smile. "I was wondering if we could get an interview with you." She said. Blake stared at her like she had gone completely crazy.
"I was kind of.....In the middle of something." He said.
"Oh right." Cassidy said. She stepped back and made the guy, Devin, raise up the camera. "Continue." She said.
-BLAKE POV-
My eyes widened. Tori and I quickly disentangled ourselves and I looked at the other two.
"Right....About that interview." I said. I looked at Tori, who bit her lip, holding in her laughter.
End for now.
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AN: I was originally going to make this fic just about Thunder Storm, but after lots of thinking, and suggestions from my beloved Twisted Emotions co-author, I've decided to make this a long fic. I'll have the next chapter up some time within the next few days. Love yas.