Disclaimer: I do not own beyblades bit I do own Jess and Riven.

Last time-

"No I don't want to be alone Kai. Please stay in my room."

There was no way that Kai would have been able to say no even if he wanted to. He began to walk back down the hall towards Jess and her room. Reaching her door Kai dipped his head and kissed her on the cheek. "Your wish is my command." Kai chuckled to himself as he saw a fait blush colour her sort cheeks.

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Chapter 23

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Jess sat alone with Kai after diner that night. The day had gone well for all of them but it had left Jess thinking about the real reason they were here. Thinking back over the past week she realised exactly why they were all here. This was because of her breakdown the other day. She had tried to get over what had happened to her and move on with her new life with Kai, Tala and Mai but something always brought her world crashing down around her just when she thought things were starting to look up. It had occurred to her that she may never get over it no matter how much she wanted to. Some events, hurts, cuts run too deep to ever be healed. So should she just accept the fact that the sick fucker was going to taint every aspect of her life no matter what she did? It would make everything easier if she accepted it but Jess wasn't a quitter that much she was sure off.

She looked across to where Kai sat beside her watching her from the corner of his eye. It made her feel guilty to see him tip toeing around her like if he touched her she would go crazy and need to be locked away for the rest of her life. No that wasn't what she wanted, she didn't know if Kai was 'The One' but as far as she was concerned he was for now and probably for ever if things continued the way they were. She didn't need him to be scared of her, she need him to touch her and make love to her to let her know that there were people out there who cared for he deeply and limitlessly. Jess needed Kai to heal her. He was part of her process anyway.

Jess leaned across the couch to where Kai sat and smiled up at him. Before Kai really had a chance to react to Jess's smile she had straddled his hips and pressed a longing kiss on his lips. Out of shock Kai pulled away, this obviously wasn't what he had been expecting. Looking into her eyes Kai saw the hurt that had been placed there by him, so many thought ran through his head in the few short seconds before he pressed his lips against her again in a hungry kiss.

Kai's thoughts in list form because I'm to lazy to do a mental conversations at the moment.

What is she doing?

What if she thinks I don't want her any more?

What if she is doing this because she feels she has to?

What I go too far?

What if she thinks she has to please me?

What if she is doing this because she thinks that if she doesn't I will leave her?

They were only some of the thoughts running through Kai's head at light speed before he kissed Jess again.

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The next morning Tala found Jess sitting in the garden playing with a kitten that had wondered over from the chalet down the road. It was a lovely site for her brother to see her sitting there so calmly looking as though nothing had ever hurt her or would ever hurt her again and how Tala wished it to be true but deep down he knew it could not be true. There was always something lurking around the next corner to come out and get you when you least expected it. Tala felt his face contort into a snarl when he remembered the men who had tried to attack her when she had run away from Kai that day in the park. What would have happened to her if he hadn't worked out where she was, he dreaded to think of what might have happened to her. Jess was his life and if she wasn't, happy neither was he. It was that simple.

"I have a surprise for you." Tala told her as he picked the little kitten up off the ground and cradled it in his arms like a baby. Tala had always wanted a family and he finally thought he had found someone to spend the rest of his life with but like always she turned out to be a dud. Nothing more than a manipulative bitch, just like all the others. Granted he was too young to be thinking about settling down and starting a family but it didn't seem that way to him. He knew he had a lot to do before hand though, like choosing a career and getting a business going on his own without Jess as a partner. Yep that was a new job he could do. Make money away from Jess. Not that he wanted to push her away but he needed to start a life without her so that when Kai took her away he would atleast have something left.

"What's that?" Jess asked as she stood to stroke the kittens soft fluffy fur as it snuggled into Tala's chest.

"Seeing as we are in France I thought it might be an idea if Oliver came to stay with us for a few days and then considering that England is just over the Chanel we could go and see Robert when we are heading home. What do you think?" Tala looked at Jess waiting for an answer.

"I think it's a great idea. Have you already called him?"

"Yeah, he'll be here in a couple of days, by the way where's Kai?"

"Oh he's still in bed asleep."

"Why's he still in bed? He's always the first one up." Tala watched a wicked smile cross Jess's face and spoke before she had the chance.

"Don't tell me I don't want to know." Jess just smiled and continued to pat the kitten in her brothers arms.

Riven sighed as she trudged up the hill to the Chalet owned by the rich kid. Just what she needed, some stuck up richy rich kid who thought he was king shit. She had seen it all before. She shock her head when she remembered that once upon a time she would have been considered one of them.

Flicking through the songs on her mp3 player as she got closer to the chalet and began to feel sorry for herself, a rare indulgence that she hadn't allowed herself to do for so long.

(A/N:this isn't a flash back it is just part of Riven's past that fills in the blanks to who she got where she is now.)

Life to the ten year old Riven could only be described as crap, shit and hellish all rolled into on, with her young mind, though smart couldn't come up with a word bad enough to describe what she was living.

Riven was brought up in a house with too much money for it's own good. Her parents were from old money which, meant that neither of her parents had had to work for anything in their entire lives. Everything was laid out for them on a silver platter. They had been puppets really, doing what every their patents wanted. They wanted a grandchild and they got the monumental disappointment that was Riven. Thinking back Riven supposed she didn't really get the chance to be a disappointment to her grandparents. All four of then had died before she developed in to the family disgrace. That was how her mother referred to her. 'The disgrace' for the first maybe eleven years that had hurt but after that she didn't care anymore.

Riven had tried to talk to her friends at her school, or people who she thought were friends. Everyone turned out to be a back stabber given half the chance. She had confided in one friend about her problems at home after returning to school from a holiday brake. The reaction was not one that she had suspected to get. There was no compassion like she had shown towards her friend when she was in need. No all she got was judgement and to a further extent misfortune which, the girl turned around to suit herself and how her daddy wouldn't buy her a new pony. Boo fucking hoo!

After eight years of having a drunken mother waking her up in the middle of the night screaming at her that she was useless got old after a while. It didn't matter what she did to try to please her, she was a drunk and according to her Riven was useless because she was the wrong gender. Something that infact had nothing to do with her. She didn't chose what gender she was to be. No if anyone it was her mothers fault she was the one who had failed to produce and heir. Riven had already decide what she was going to do when she inherited all that was coming her way. She didn't want one sent of it. She was going to give it to a, or many charities.

Then when she reached the age of sixteen she left the home where her father ignored her and a mother who she wished would ignore her dwelled. She took the first steps out into the big bad world all on her own and Riven had never looked back. Things could only get better and that is exactly what happened for her.

Riven had worked for an old couple helping out around their farm further down the hill for her keep and board. They were a lovely old couple who had taken her in without a hesitation when the old man Jim had come across her in the local market looking for work with the stall holders. Now she still lived with them but she had taken over Clare's job as cleaning lady to the valley when her arthritis got that bad she found it had to get out of bed some day. Now here she was. Eighteen and a half, walking up the hill to see if the people she hated were happy with her cleaning efforts.

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End of whatever you want to call the last section.

What greeted Riven on the other side of the door when it was opened was not at all what she had been expecting.

"Ah, come in?" greeted a tall red head with bright blue eyes. This guy was not French, it she guessed she would say Russian going on the pail skin but then the hair wasn't really right for that race. Meh, who cared anyway.

"Clare sent me to see if you were happy with the cleaning." She felt a small smile tug at the pail lips in form of a greeting and she wished she didn't smile.

"Oh, I was kinda hoping to see Clare. She is such a nice lady and my sister really loves her.

Riven mentally smacked her head against the wall as she stepped into the house. She couldn't really say no knowing that he knew Clare and he had taken a step back into the place to let her through.

"Oi Jess, there is someone here." He yelled through the chalet. Then turned to face her again. "I'm Tala by the way." He stuck out his hand offering a greeting.

Riven looked at he hand for a moment as if expecting it to mock her before she decided to take it.

"The names Riven. It's nice to meet you."

There you go everyone. Will riven Become Tala's new girlfriend? Hmm I don't know really know. And just incase any of you are wondering this is the Riven from my other story I had on the net before. I don't even remember the name of it. It was deleted a while back but yes if you were wondering it's the sane Riven.

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