I don't own PRNS, you probably already know that. But I'm just doing this for precaution

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Tori lied in her hospital bed covered with blankets. After their blowout, Blake had followed Tori. Witnessing what had happened, he ran to Tori who was unconscious, got her out of the freezing water, and took her to the hospital. She had been treated, and now was waiting to be released. The guys were getting everything ready for her and were going to take her home. She was still cold, but the doctors said that it take a little while for her to get warmed up.

During the whole fiasco, all Tori could think about was how she had hurt Blake. Seeing the look on his face, had broken her heart. It looked like she had just slapped him. Seeing that look reminded her of a similar look her father had when her mom left.

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flashback

eight-year-old Tori had just woken up and went downstairs for breakfast. There she saw her father sitting down at the table, looking barren.

"Dad, what's wrong?"

He didn't answer. Just looked down the hallway into their bedroom. She went in and saw that all of her mother's posessions were missing. She went back into the kitchen.

"Daddy?"

Tori's dad slowly looked up from the table. In a whisper he answered,

"She's gone."

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There was a knock at the door. She turned to see Matt walk into the room.

"Hey."

"Hey yourself. You ok?"

Tori shrugged. "As good as can be. Except that I'm really cold."

"Well, that is to be expected. The doctor said you'd feel like that till you get warmed up again." He sat on her bed. "So, what's up?"

Tori looked up at Matt. He was the only one who knew about what happened. She had been too ashamed to tell the other guys about it. She knew he was the only one he could talk to about this.

"Am I anything like my mother?"

"Why are you asking?"

Tori told him about everything that had happened before she fell, all the while tears falling down her cheeks. After listening, Matt took her hands in his and looked into her eyes.

"Now you listen to me Victoria Anne Hanson, you are in no way like your mother. What she did was unforgivable. She was selfish and a total biatch for hurting you and your father. And you, are in no way selfish nor a biatch. Yes you did hurt Blake, but that can be fixed. What she did to you guys can never be fixed."

Tori nodded. "Thanks."

Matt gave her a hug. "No problem." He broke away and looked at her, "Now once you're out of this hospital and better, I want you to talk to Mr. Bradley. And hopefully put us out of misery and get together already! You hear me?"

Tori laughed through her tears, "Yes sir!"

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Tori was just sitting there staring at the fire, reliving everything when she heard a noise. It was coming from her bedroom window. Though she was still shivering, she shed all of the blankets, stood up and walked to her room to see what was going on.

There, she saw a figure trying to get in! Panic over came her, and as soon as the figure got through her windowsill, she flipped him over and pinned him. Seeing who it was shocked her even more.

"Blake!"

Blake grunted out a hello.

Tori got off him, "What are you doing here?"

Blake got up, "I wanted to see how you were doing. Apparently very well."

Tori blushed, "Sorry. How did you get here anyways?"

Blake gave her a guilty look.

"You ninja streaked!"

'Um... Yeah."

"But why?"

"I wanted to see you."

There was a little pause between them and Tori started shivering again.

"You cold?"

Tori nodded. "Let's go to the living room."

There, Blake helped put the blankets around her and they sat next to the fireplace. However Tori was still shivering.

"Here, let me try something." Blake said, although he looked a little uncomfortable.

"Okay."

Blake took off all of the blankets, leaned Tori against him, he wrapped his arms around her and started warming her with his thunder ninja powers. "Better?"

"A little."

Both were uncomfortable, though they admitted to themselves how much this position felt so right.

Tori loved being in Blake's arms. They felt so safe.

Blake just sat there his arms around Tori, in total bliss.

For a while, neither of them said anything. Till Blake broke the silence. "I wanted to say I'm sorry for what happened before. I feel so terrible."

Tori looked up at Blake. "It's okay."

"No, it's not. if I wasn't such a jealous, jerk you wouldn't have fallen in."

"Blake it was an accident, it wasn't your fault. Besides, what did you have to be jealous about?"

Blake looked away, and then looked back down at Tori. "You and Matt."

Tori sat up and faced Blake, "Really?"

Blake sighed, "I saw how you were with Matt and I couldn't help myself. I mean I guess it's my fault, I should've told you how I felt about you earlier. If you wanna be with Matt, I understand."

Tori just stared at him and laughed.

Blake was hurt. He thought that she was laughing at him, "What are you laughing at?" Starting to get mad.

Still laughing Tori answered,"You thought Matt and I were together! Don't you know?"

"Know what?"

"Matt's gay!"

Blake was totally shocked. "What?"

Tori got her laughter under control. "You didn't know? I thought everbody knew, it was kind of obvious."

Blake chuckled a little. "Hunter was right, I do have bad gaydar."

They both laughed.

Tori settled down and then looked back at Blake. "And even if he wasn't, we're not like that. We're more like brother and sister. He's helped me through some tough times."

"Like what?"

Tori looked down. She knew this was gonna have to come out someday, but was she ready to tell him? Could she trust him? She looked back at Blake, and just from his eyes she could see everything he was feeling. Concern, guilt, fear,

And love.

From that, she knew she could.

Tori took a deep breath and began her story. "When I was younger, I thought my parents had the perfect relationship. They always looked happy, and deeply in love. At least I thought they did. Then..." Everything was coming back to her and she was feeling everything she felt that day, all that pain. She kept going.

"One day when I was eight, I came down into the kitchen and there was my father. He looked so broken. I tried to call him but he wouldn't answer, so I went into my parents bedroom to see if my mother was there and all of her belongings were missing. I didn't understand so I went back to my father, and he told me that she was gone."

She wiped a tear away, "no note, no nothing. Just all her stuff gone, and I haven't had contact with her since. My dad has never been the same since then, just moves like a machine. It's like there's no life in him anymore."

Blake didn't know what to say except, "Tori I'm so sorry."

"It's ok. It's just..."

"Just what?"

With a broken voice she said, "I've always feared that I was like her. It's why I've kept everybody I've cared about at arms length. I thought that if I got too close to anyone, I would hurt them like she hurt my father and me."

Trying to comfort her, Blake put a hand on her arm. "Tori that could never happen."

Tori shook his hand off. "What are you talking about! It did! I hurt somebody, the one I cared about the most, you!" She started sobbing. "All I can think about is the look on your face when I said those stupid things. You looked so hurt, just like my father did that day. How can you say that I'm not like my mother!" She looked away from him.

Blake took her into his arms. "Look from what you've told me, it sounds like what your mother did was planned for a while. She didn't really love your father, and I'm sorry that he had to endure that and I'm sorry for you too. But Tori, I know what you did was unintentional. you never meant to say it, it just came out in the heat of the moment. You could never intentionally hurt anybody Tori, it's just not like you. That's how I know that you're not like you're mother. That's also why I love you."

Tori looked at him, had she heard what she thought she heard? "You love me?"

Blake looked straight into those blue eyes of hers. He now had the confidence to tell her what'd he'd wanted to tell her for so long. "Yes Tori, I love you. Ever since the day we met I've been in love with you. I've just been too scared to tell you because I never thought that you'd feel the same way."

Tori smiled, "I love you too Blake."

They both leaned in and kissed. Starting innocently, moving to the most passionate kiss they've ever had. Both parties putting their feelings into it. They finally broke apart when breathing became a great difficulty. Both were breathing hard but had huge smiles on their faces.

"So Matt's gay?"

"Yup."

"How come he doesn't want anyone to call him by his real name?"

"He says it's gay."

Both Blake and Tori laughed while leaning in for another kiss.

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Well, that's it! The final chapter to this story! I'm finally done! Sorry if the ending's crappy! I want to thank all those who've read this, especially those who pushed me to finish it! I hope I haven't disappointed you!

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