It was a couple of weeks after Jake escaped. Jade was looking over her notes on her note pad. She noticed something that wasn't in her hand writing. It looked like a quickly scribbled note. She read the note curious about it.
Sorry I couldn't stay Jade. Maybe when you cool down some we can get together, maybe we could even get dinner together. Sorry if I ever hurt you. Try to stay out of trouble, and we'll forget about this whole incident. See ya around.
Jade was surprised at what was writen. She wondered what she should do. Jade didn't think she could continue with her experiments for many different reasons. She did want to return to her normal life, but feared it. She sat there, confused of what to do now. Maybe she could join the labs again. She left the labs three years ago to try and cope with the loss of her only family. And new labs have been built. This could be her chance to return to her life. Now that she thought about it, she has been wasting her life. She could put her extensive skills to help cure illnesses, instead of creating hurtful poisons. She ran these thought's through her head over and over again. She would have to make a choice. She hoped she would make the right choice.
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" Jake, could you hand me that wrench?" Chance asked as he leaned under the hood of a car in for repairs.
Jake pulled himself from under the car now nursing a bump on his head. Chance had dropped the wrench while tightening a nut that would hold a part in place once tightened. Jake had been holding the part in place from under the car while Chance tightend the nut. Chance had become clumsy and dropped the wrench, which hit Jake.
" Be more careful Chance." Jake said in an irritated tone. Chance smiled at him as he took the wrench from Jake.
" Sorry buddy." Chance said as he finished tightening the nut.
Jake got up and walked inside. He grabbed some ice from the freezer then wraped it in a cloth and put it against the sore bump on his head. Jake sat at the table, watching Chance wash up. Chance looked at Jake who looked peeved.
" I said I'm sorry." Chance said with a nervous look on his face.
" Yeah, but it dosn't make my head stop hurting." Jake said in a low voice.
" Ok, how about an asprin?" Chance said in a joking manner.
" No." Jake said, then they heard the sound of a car pull up.
" I'll take care of this." Chance said heading out front.
He saw a familar car pull up with another car behind it, jerking to a stop. The first car belonged to Feral, where as the second one seemed to belong to Felina. Feral climbed out of his car and approached Chance as Felina climbed out of hers.
" Furlong, Felinas car started to stall down the road. If we could have made it to another garage, we would have. Try to fix it before we return." Feral said then returned to his car.
Felina took a seat in the pasengers side. She looked like she would rather walk then ride with her uncle. With that he drove off. Chance just stood there for a moment. He sighed and looked under the hood. He had his day's work cut out for him. He started looking over the engine to try and find the problem. Jake stepped out, he had heard Feral and waited until he was sure Feral was gone to go out. The bump on his head had went down some. He joined Chance in trying to find the problem. If it had been Feral's car they would have said forget it for now. Jake got the tools and they began to mess with the engine. After they messed with it for a while, they discovered the problem and fixed it. Feral would be back soon to pick it up, they could just tell.
Jake went inside and laid down on the couch. He could hear Chance in the kitchen, cleaning up. Jake tried to get some sleep real quick since there was nothing else to do. Suddenly Jake felt ice fall on him. He sat up and opened his eye's, only to discover Chance standing over him laughing. It had been a while since Chance had pulled something like this. So he couldn't be too mad. Jake gave up on trying to sleep and cleaned the ice off the couch. They heard a car pull up and Jake decided it was his turn to deal with the customer. Jake stepped outside and saw non other than Jade. He tensed up, She knew his secret, and where he was. That wasn't good, he wondered what she wanted. She hadn't tryed to get her hands on him in two weeks, why show up now?
" Hi Jake. Can I come in?" Jade asked, she had to be kidding. " Oh, come on. I won't try any thing. I promise."
Jake was going against better judgement. He nodded with the thought that Chance was still inside. He stood aside and allowed her to step in. Chance saw her walk in and froze. He didn't know what she was doing there, but she wouldn't stay long.
" What are you doing here?" Chance growled out.
" I came to talk to Jake. Hopefully alone." Jade said as she looked at Jake. SHe noticed the bump on his head. " What happened to your head?"
" Why should you care?" Chance said, surpressing his growls. Jade stepped behind Jake.
" Chance accidently dropped a wrench on my head." Jake said as he watched her closely.
" Oh. Can I talk to you in private Jake?" Jade asked. Jake thought it over for a second. Then Feral pulled up. Chance quickly left to deal with Feral and get him out of there.
" Alright, you have until Chance get's back." Jake said.
" Ok. Jake it's my turn to say sorry. I don't know what was going through my head. It was wrong of me to do as I did. I just wanted to get revenge, but I went way to far." Jade said in a soft voice, Jake was looking into her eye's. They seemed sencere enough. " I found the note you left me. It made me think of how I wasted the past three years of my life. I've decided to get a job at the new labs. I'm going to continue my life were I left off three years ago. I also want to thank you, for getting me to realize I was wasting my life."
Jake was stunned. She was in truth a nice kat, she just needed some one who cared about her. Jake wouldn't be surprised if she hadn't of spoken to any one before him in her three years of isolation from everyone while she had developed her poisons. Jake gave her a soft smile.
" Well, I'm glad you realized that. And that you're going to return to living your life." Jake said. " Would you like to get dinner together some time? Maybe, oh I don't know, like this weekend or something."
" I'd love that. Saturday's open for me. If you really want to get together." Jade said lightly blushing.
" Saturday sounds good. How about around seven?" Jake said, not sure why.
" Saturday at seven, sounds good. I'll be here then. And don't worry about your secret. My lips are sealed." Jade said.
Jake smiled as she said that. He was happy to know she wouldn't use that against him. Chance came back in and saw the two smiling at each other. He knew he must have missed something. Chance scartched the back of his head staring from Jake to Jade. He gave up on trying to figure it out. He decided to just keep a close eye on Jade, not trusting her for a second.
" I should probablybe on my way. Bye Jake, bye Chance." Jade said as shestepped out the door.
" What just happened?" Chance asked as he watched Jade get into her car and drive off.
" Nothing really." Jake said as he sat down on the couch.
" So why did she come by? Is she blackmailing you?" Chance asked.
" No, she said our secrets safe. She just wanted to apologize about what she did. We're going to have dinner together saturday." Jake said.
" What! I wouldn't trust her man." Chance said.
" I know you wouldn't. But at least this way we know what she's up to." Jake said.
" So, you're using the date to spy on her?" Chance asked.
" No, it's just an upside to it." Jake said.
" I remember going to school with her. She was always by her self wasn't she?" Chance said as he grabbed a can of milk.
" Yeah, and I didn't help with it either." Jake said.
" Oh come on Jake. You never did any thing that bad. Sure you poked a little fun, pulled a few small pranks, but you never did any thing really embarassing or hurtful to her." Chance said as he joined Jake.
" Maybe not, but it doesn't make it right." Jake said.
" Yeah, but thats the past. Look to the future." Chance said as he grabbed the remote.
Jake shook his head and headed towards the hanger as he heard Scardy Kat coming on. Jake escaped to the solitude of the hanger. He worked on ammo for the Turbokats weapons. He hoped he wouldn't do any thing stupid saturday.