Tory drags Sam along through the woods keeping an eye out for Piper or anyone else wanting to try their luck. She already knew she'd have to deal with Piper talking shit about her going soft and helping Larusso. Speaking of Tory looked down at her.

"You still alive there Larusso?"

Sam rolls her eyes.

"Yes thank you if I die I'll let you know."

"Good"

Tory smirks a little at the exchange between them. She had to hand it to Sam she was quick witted with her comebacks. Eventually they get to the clearing back by the school and Tory looks at Sam.

"Right where's your car?"

Sam looks up and frowns at her.

"What do you want to know where my car is for?"

Tory rolls her eyes.

"I wanna ask it to prom…." She says sarcastically then adds. "Why do you think Larusso so I can get you out of here."

Sam frowns at that.

"What no we've got school."

"Larusso you look like you've been repeatedly hit by a bus and you want to go to double physics?"

Sam huffs a lirrle and mumbles.

"Biology actually."

"Whatever look you need to get fixed up so I'll drive you alright?"

Sam glares at her.

"You are not driving my car Tory….first even if I did trust you with it…which I don't…you couldn't. You're not insured."

Tory rolls her eyes at her again.

"Well then I won't crash it then princess."

"Tory I can drive myself home."

"Pfft you say that as I'm pretty much dragging your ass along…"

Sam groans knowing she has no choice.

"Fine it's over there."

She points to where she's parked. Tory walks her there and scoffs seeing the expensive car.

"Let me guess mommy and daddy gave you this as a birthday present….but it wasn't even your only present was it?"

Sam sighs and shakes her head.

"I'm not getting into this shit with you now Tory…"

Tory sighs.

"Fine…hand over the keys."

Sam looks at her hesitantly. Which makes Tory roll her eyes again.

"I'm not gonna drive off with it Larusso don't worry."

Sam just sighs and hands them over and Tory unlocks the car and Sam gets in the passenger very quick. Which Tory decides not to comment on as she gets in.

"Right let's get your ass home."

Sam frowns at her.

"You can't take me home…my parents are there they can't see me like this they'll freak out."

"Larusso they're gonna see eventually….it's kind of hard to not notice."

"I'll cover the worst of it with make up."

"Larusso have you looked at yourself….I could dunk your head into a barrel of make up and it wouldn't cover it…look some of those wounds look pretty fucked up you should get checked out."

"No way…look my parents are going to work this afternoon I can go home then."

Tory thinks then sighs.

"Okay I can take you to my place…I'll patch you up best I can then take you home after?"

Sam sighs, she really has no energy to argue it right now.

"Fine…"

Tory nods and starts up the car and drives, the 2 remain in silence the whole way back until Tory pulls up at her apartment building and looks at her.

"Right my mom and my brother are in but you don't talk to them okay…my mom will be in bed anyway…" Tory looks down a little. Sam looks at her and bites her lip.

"I..um…my mom mentioned your mom was sick….um…how's she doing?..any improvements?"

Tory glares at her.

"Don't pretend you give a shit Larusso. You know you hate me."

Sam nods.

"You're nor my favorite person in the world that's true…but I wouldn't wish anyone in your family to be hurt or to suffer…no one deserves that…not even you."

Tory looks at her a little surprised but shrugs.

"She's no better….But she's no worse either…thanks…for asking.."

Sam just nods.

"Yeah…well you're gonna need to help me with those stairs Tory.."

Tory pulls a face.

"Eugh fine…lucky you're so damm little."

Tory helps her out the car and takes her up to her apartment and opens the door. Sam steps (or stumbles) her way in and looks around. It was a small apartment but it looked pretty tidy and had lots of different stuff in it. It looked well lived in. Sam then feels Tory starting at her. She looks round and sees Tory is glaring daggers at her. Sam raises her eyebrows having no idea what she's done this time.

"What?.."

"Let's get your stupid little remarks out the way now….yes this place is a dumb nothing compared to your palace princess so let's get the condescending remarks out the way."

Sam frowns at her.

"I wasn't going to make any."

"Bullshit I bet it's killing you a stuck up little princess like you being in a place like this."

Sam sighs.

"Tory…why do you think that of me? You've always thought of me that I'm some snob who hates anyone with less money than me. Now I hate you for a lot of reasons but your financial situation is not one of them. Yes my family is rich, yes I drive a nice car, I live in a nice house and wear nice clothes…but I was also taught to respect everyone regardless of where they come from or what they have. My dad was far from rich at our age..he actually lived in a place just like this…my grandma still does..my dad offered to get her a nice place but she refused. You think I'm so snobby? Well Tory….I dated both Robby and Miguel as you well know. Neither of them are rich at all. Yet I still dated them and care for them both. If I was snotty and arrogant I wouldn't have gone anywhere them would I?"

Tory bites her lip a little looking to make a come back to insult her again. But she couldn't think of one as she had a point there.

"Whatever…"

Tory leads Sam to her room and sits her down on the bed.

"Just stay there I'll get some first aid shit to clean your cuts and stuff don't want them to get infected."

Tory goes off and comes back a minute later with some ice packs.

"Here stick that on your face get rid of the swelling at least."

Sam looks at her.

"You a nurse now or something?"

Tory shrugs at her.

"Hardly…but I look after my younger brother so you know little kid…he's always falling over and shit..as kids do….well I bet you didn't right?…probably had someone laying carpet down wherever you walked."

Sam just raises her eyebrows at her.

"Seriously Tory do you just wanna make every rich stereotype about me…yeah my parents could be over protective but I went out and I played with friends…I once broke ankle falling off my bike…and remember I did karate from when I was 7 I hurt myself plenty of times doing that. So can you please stop making stupid assumptions about me and my childhood because frankly it's getting old and tiring now."

Tory just glares at her as she rants at her.

"Whatever so yes I learned some first aid from my brother Alright…"

Sam nods and smiles a little.

"I never needed to for my brother…the chance would be a fine thing all he ever wanted to do was watch tv and play on the computer."

Tory looks at her with surprise on her face.

"I didn't know you even had a brother?"

Sam chuckles a little "huh what you mean I didn't tell you that in the middle of you trying to spike my face off or take my head off with nunchucks? Huh silly me how did I forget that."

Tory scoffs as she had a point there. But Sam keeps talking.

"No but serious yeah he's in middle school…he falls more into rich kid stereotypes than I do."

Tory thinks for a second then looks at her.

"Your brother…he wasn't there was he? That night at Christmas at your house?" She asks a bit worried last thing Tory wanted was to scare the shit out of some little kid who did nothing wrong. Sam shakes her head.

"No he was at friends house…thank god."

She glares a little at Tory. Tory just nods.

"Okay then. Look let's get this done."

Tory sits by Sam and starts to clean up her cuts which makes Sam wince and cry out a bit. Tory chuckles.

"Stop being a pussy Larusso and suck it up."

Sam glares.

"You keep jabbing the thing right in…I swear you're having fun doing this."

Tory grins.

"Hey I gotta get some enjoyment out of this havent I?"

Tory finishes cleaning it all up then examines her face carefully.

"Alright you're all good none of your cuts look like they need stitches and the bruises seem okay."

Sam nods and gingerly touches her face.

"Okay…well thank you…"

Tory nods.

"Sure well not done yet…come on shirt off"

Sams eyes widen at her words.

"Wait what you want me to take off my shirt?"

"No trust me I certainly do not but I saw Piper giving yohr body a hard kicking I need to make sure your ribs aren't busted."

Sam blushes.

"No way."

Tory rolls her eyes at her.

"Oh for god sake Sam we're both girls it's no big deal."

"No way I'm not exposing myself to you like that…so you can make fun of my body."

Tory sighs.

"I'm not gonna make fun of your body…"

"I don't care I'm not doing it it's embarrassing."

"Larusso you get changed for gym class in front of other girls don't you?"

"This is different."

"Why?"

"Because it just is."

Tory rolls her eyes at her.

"Sam…I don't wanna see you like that anymore than you wanna do it but if your ribs are busted that's dangerous okay."

Sam sighs.

"Eugh fine I can't believe this."

"Yeah. Neither can I. You are wearing a bra aren't you?"

Sam pulls a face at her.

"Tory I was at school..of course I'm wearing a bra what do you take me for?"

"You want me to answer that question princess?"

Sam sighs and shakes her head and takes off her shirt. Tory immediately goes to check her ribs aren't broken and puts some cream on the bruises sams body has before nodding.

"Okay you're ribs aren't broken just a few bruises you're all…"

Tory stops talking as her eyes focus on the top of sams arm. She sees the long scars on sams arm. Tory realiszes they were from her attackwith the spiked bracelet. Again Tory is feeling sick at the sight of them. She hadn't realized she'd done that much damage. Yeah she knew she'd cut her arm but she figured it'd be a scrape not permanent scars.

Sam frowns and looks at where Tory is starring and her eyes widen and she immediately covers them with her hand and grabs her shirt and puts it back as quick as she can and glares at Tory.

"Admiring your handiwork are you?"

Tory looks away she didn't know what to say. She didn't want to show Larusso any weakness but she couldn't help feel extremely guilty.

"I…I didn't realize I'd scarred you like that."

Sam snorts.

"You drove sharp spikes into my arm with the force of a punch…you think it was just going to tickle….you would've done a lot worse if I hadn't finished the fight."

Both girls minds flashback to that day. Tory remembers she had a hard grip on Sams hair and was throwing the bracelet at her face. The next thing Tory remembered was lying on the opposite staircase with Larusso still standing and holding her arm. Sam was the first to speak.

"Okay I have to ask this…what were you going to do to me?"

Tory looks at her confused.

"What?"

"That fight…you were pulling my hair so hard it really ripped out of my scalp…you threw that bracelet towards my face. What were you going to do with it…stab my right in the eye, rip it down my face so I had an ugly scar there? Or just plunge it in and kill me?"

Tory frowns as Sam lists the different options all of them sounded repulsive right now. As for her answer? Honestly tory had no idea. She sighs. She remembers her thoughts during the fight. She wanted beat Sam to a pulp to break the illusion of the perfect princess.

"I don't know Larusso…I didn't plan it…I just did it. I guess maybe the second one…scar you…I wanted to ruin you…to destroy that image you had, to make sure no boy ever looked twice at you again."

Sams breath hitches at that and she looks down regretting she'd even asked. Tory bites her lip and nudges her making Sam jump and look at her again as she keeps talking.

"But I'm glad I didn't…that shit I did went way way to far…I should've just stuck to kicking your ass but then you started to get the upper hand and I just snapped I lost it big time I was scared I was going to lose and be shown up by you in front of everyone and everyone would see you truly are perfect even at fighting…"

Sam sighs listening to her and folds her arms across her chest. This wasn't an apology it was Tory trying to justify it. But Sam realizes she needs to be a bigger person.

"Tory I'm sorry for what I did at that party. Kissing Miguel…I didn't plan on doing it. It wasn't to score points against you…it really wasn't…I was drunk completely drunk. You know that we were doing that dumb drinking game…which I won by the way…but I'd never drunk alcohol before so I was a mess…I was talking to him and it just…happened. It never should've happened and I never would've done it if I was sober."

Tory looks at her and nods. It made sense, Tory had known Sam was drunk, Tory had actually planning some prank on her to take advantage of her drunk state before that had happened, Tory rubs her head and decides to just end this awkward conversation.

"Okay you're injures are all patched up. Um I'd..offer you a shower but we have very little hot water…but well if you need it that bad I guess you can use it."

Sam looks at her surprised, Tory was literally offering Sam her families last bit of hot water and seemed genuine about it. Of course was not going to take it.

"No thank you…I can wait until I get home to shower…"

Tory nods slightly grateful that Sam didn't take her offer.

"Right well what time do you parents leave for work?"

"Um at 3."

"Okay so we got 2 hours…um maybe you should sleep it off best you can?"

Sam nods.

"Probably the best idea you've ever had"

She smiles weakly as her drowsiness started to take over.

"I'll go use your couch."

"No just use my bed. It's probably not as comfy as yours but it's better than the couch…I need to go out anyway and take my brother to his friends house as I got to work later….just try and rest ok…"

Sam nods and lies back on the bed as Tory gets up to leave. She looks at Sam she looked so small and vulnerable. Tory runs her hand through her thinking of all the terrible things she'd done. What she had done was more than some high school rivalry between 2 girls competing over a boy and yes Larusso was a pampered brat but she wasn't an evil bad person. Yes she'd done a few shitty things but nothing compared to what Tory had done to Sam and Sam had even just straight up apologized for one of her mistakes. Something Tory still couldn't bring herself to do yet. Then of course there was Tory's guilt from the tournament and the fact she'd stolen sams deserved win from her. Okay that wasn't actually Tory's fault but it had still happened. Tory sighs. She decides right there that the rivalry and the fighting is over. No she'd probably never truly like Larusso and they'd never be friends but simply Tory doesn't have the heart to fight her anymore.