AN: I warn you, I have no medical knowledge. Sorry, please just bare with me.

Chapter Five: Winning The Rat Race

Jema took her helmet off as Blake pulled up next to her at the finished line of the track.

"Who beat you?" She asked, cupping her ear in her hand and leaning over to Blake. Blake rolled his eyes and pushed her away.

"You did." He muttered.

"That's right, mister." She said happily, dismounting her bike. Blake waved her off.

"Whatever." He said before taking his helmet off and dismounting his own bike. "So, what have you been doing this past few years?" Blake asked as if it had just been a few days since they had seen each other. Jema shrugged.

"Not much. School, training, biking. You know, the non motored kind." She said. Blake raised an eyebrow.

"Why non motored?" He asked. Jema shook her head.

"You know how my dad was. He hated all the dangerous stuff I did. When we moved, he wouldn't let me near my moto-bike. He said a could ride the normal ones, the ones 'Girls are supposed to ride'." She said, imitating her father's voice at the end. Blake sighed.

"Well, you get to moto for a little while at least." He said. Jema shook her head.

"Maybe more than a little while. I'm thinking about moving back out here. I'll be eighteen in, like, two months. Then my dad can't stop me." She said. Blake nodded.

"Yeah, that'd be great." He said with a big smile. Jema smiled back. She loved his smile, it was so real. She shook her head.

"Anyway, you wanna go get a bite to eat?" She asked. Blake nodded.

"Yeah." He said.

"What am I going to do?" Tori asked Shane while waving around a a paper she was holding that had listings of apartments for rent. She had just told Shane about the 'Cam Kiss' and was now asking his advise.

"Well, do you like him?" Shane asked as they walked up the steps to an apartment they were going to look at. Tori put her hands up to her face.

"No more hard questions." She said before opening the door and switching into interview mode.

"I win!" Dustin shouted as the two rangers got to the finish line. Hunter waved his hand at him.

"Your not gonna win a second time!" He shouted back before taking off around the track again. Dustin started his bike once more.

"Hey, not far!" He yelled, taking off after Hunter.

Tori walked back into Ninja Ops around 7 o'clock that night.

"Find anything?" Cam asked as he turned around in his chair. Tori was startled a bit by this because of the events of the day before. She thought for sure he wouldn't talk to her alone. Instead of saying all this however, Tori just shook her head.

"A big fat nothing." She said, falling into one of the chairs at the big table in the middle of Ops. Cam stood up from his chair.

"Sorry about that, I think I'm gonna go to bed." He said. He was obviously a bit mad at her by the tone in his voice. Tori looked after Cam as he walked into the little hallway.

"Cam!" She yelled after him desperately.

"'Night Tori." Cam yelled back just before Tori heard a door slam. Tori let her head fall to the table. She then lifted it up and looked around. She wanted to get out of there. But that wasn't going to happen without wheels. Tori bit her lip.

"I'm gonna go back and get my car." She said to herself out loud. She then stood up and walked out of Ops.

Tori hid in the bushes near her car. She would have gone over to get it. She had her keys in her pocket, all she had o do was drive away. Thing was, she had to walk past the living room window to get to her car. Which she then had to unlock, open the loud squeaky door, and climb in. Tori told a deep breath before doing a small Ninja Streak across her yard. Tori sighed a relieved sigh when she saw that her father wasn't barreling outside. Tori then stuck the keys in the lock. As she was turning it, someone came up behind her and hit her head against the side of her car.

"You bitch! How dare you come back here after what you did!" Her father yelled. He pulled her head back, and hit it against the car again. Tori started to get lightheaded as he hit her head against the car one more time. Tori called up all her strength, turned slightly, and push him into the grass a few feet away. She then turned back to the car and frantically, but clumsily, tried to turn the key and open the door to her van. When she got it unlock, her dad came up behind her, pulled her away from it, and through her onto the grass. He then kneeled down next to her and started to choke her. "You freak. You ungrateful little bitch. How dare you hit me?! I'll teach you a lesson you'll never forget!" He yelled. Tori tried to push him away, but she could barley see him. It when she stopped fighting, she felt him being pulled off her. She then registered her name had been yelled.

"Tori!" She had heard Blake yell. She tried to stand up to look at him, but her head hurt to much. She felt herself be picked up by Blake. She realized that Jema was with Blake.

"Quick. Get her in the car." Tori heard Jema say, and Tori heard her car door being opened. That was when Tori registered that Jema was with Blake. Within seconds, she heard two more doors shutting. She now realized that Blake was driving her car while Jema was looking at her to make sure she was going to be all right. "I think she might have a bit of a concussion. She'll have more than one hell of a headache when she really wakes up." Jema said. She then looked at Tori's neck. "And she'll be lucky if she only gets a few bruises." She added.

"How do you know some much about this?" Blake asked. Jema shook her head.

"I just have experience." She said in a 'I don't wanna talk about it' tone. "We should probable take her back to Ninja Ops." Jema added quickly. Blake nodded and headed the van toward the forest.

About ten minutes later, Tori felt herself being lifted out of her van and carried through the forest by Blake. She then felt herself being cared down steps and set onto a table. She then heard footsteps and a banging sound.

"Cam, get out here!" She heard Blake yell through Cam's door. 'Oh no oh no oh no!' Tori thought to herself. 'He's gonna think I was so stupid for doing what I did!' She added to her thoughts as she heard more footsteps.

"Jesus Christ." She heard Cam say as he quickened his pace. Tori figured she looked like hell. She pretty much guessed that she was bleeding, had grass stains all over her clothes, and a few rips in her shirt.

"That's what you get when your father beats the shit out of you." Tori heard herself mutter. If she could have forced enough energy to throw her hand over her mouth, she would have.

"What?" She heard Blake say in disbelief. Tori let out a small sigh and tried to sit up. This caused her to get very dizzy, but she managed.

"You heard me." She sort of snapped.

"Oh God, Tori." She heard Blake say. Apparently, he didn't notice the man he was throwing away from Tori back at her house, was her father. "I didn't know." He said. Cam reach up and check the wound on her forehead.

"Why did you go back there?" He asked. Blake looked over at Cam in astonishment.

"You knew?" he asked. Cam nodded, going over to the cabinet to get the first ad box.

"That's why Tori's staying here." Cam said. He then walked back over to Tori, opened the box, took out a disinfectant cloth, and dabbed Tori's forehead with it.

"I went back because I'm stupid and thought I could get my car." She half snapped, half muttered, answering Cam's question.

"There." Cam said, finishing cleaning Tori's wound even though he could see a bruise and a bump was beginning to form.. Tori reached up to rub the back of her neck and winced.

"I wouldn't do that if I were you." Jema said. Tori looked over at her.

"Why?" She asked. Jema pulled a compact out of her back pocket and handed it to Tori. Tori opened it and looked at her neck. There were bruises forming on it that said she had almost been choked to death. They were already starting to turn that yellowish/brown color. "That's just great!" Tori said sarcastically before hopping off the table. The second her feet hit the ground, Tori stumbled and fell against Cam who was standing closest to her. "My God, can't I even go lye down without cracking my head open?" She snapped to herself.

"Come on, Tori. I'll help you to your room." Cam said, letting Tori lean on him as he walked toward the guest room. In as bad a situation as it was, Cam was surprised to find that he enjoyed Tori leaning on him. He mentally berated himself for the thought as he helped Tori into the guest bedroom, and then onto the bed. As soon as Tori's head hit the pillow, she was out. Cam, seeing this, tried to wake her up to make sure she was okay. But it didn't work. Cam left the guest room and went into the main room. "She's definitely got a concussion. She just passed out." he said. Jema should her head.

"She'll probable be out for a day. Two days at the most. I'd worry, but not to much." She said, standing up from where she had sat. "Somebody's gotta stay with her though." Jema added.

"Do you want us to stay here with you, bro?" Blake asked. Cam shook his head.

"No, I live here anyway. Just go home." He said with a kinda sigh as he left the room and headed back to the guest room. Blake stood still for a second, staring in the direction of where Tori was. Jema pulled on his hand.

"There's nothing you can do." She said sincerely. Blake nodded and the two left.

AN: I Hope you liked that chapter! R/R!