A/N: First of all, thank you all for liking, alerting and reviewing.
Blackguard: I am aware it might come over as sudden. What I was going for was Jade realizing she was in love with Tori all along. However, I did try to explain it a little further in this chapter, ;)
Also, this is a rather short chapter, but believe me, they'll be longer after this.

Disclaimer on chapter 1.

Can't Help Falling In Love.

One hour of my life wasted. At least now I'm happily seated in my office. After three years that still sounds weird. My office. Office. L'office. Nah, it just doesn't work. The door opens and my CEO, Kent Shaw, walks in.

"Jade, I hope you didn't forget the last auditions of Walking Past, this afternoon?" Kent is fifteen years older than me, though you wouldn't give him 37, and he's been working for this company since I was born. He started out as the kid who brought around the paperwork, but fifteen years later he is the CEO. I have known him all my life and if one man is sure of his job, it's Kent - you call that unfair, I call it loyalty. A trade that's hard to find in this business, so I've learned. He's also the only one around WWE who gets to disagree with me.

"No, I didn't forget." But hell, I ain't going.

"You must be there, Jade. As executive producer you ought to be there." I sigh. If there's one thing I hate it's wannabe actors reading for lead roles. And I'd still rather be in the reading position myself. I didn't go to a school where they taught me to become an actress to end up as an executive producer. Yeah, maybe when I'm 60.

"I will be there." I sigh again, this time in defeat.

So scratch meetings as the most boring hours of my life. This, watching people do auditions, is soul-killing. Any minute now and I'll start drooling 'cause my brain shut out on me and I can't function properly anymore.

"Okay, the last one. Tori Vega."

"Who?" I immediately sit up. Is hallucinating common with brain-failure? Probably, because of the lack of oxygen.

"Tori Vega." Kent is looking at me, confusion written all over his face. He opens his mouth to ask me a question, but slowly closes it as I wave my hand. I'm not hallucinating, that's verified. Okay, so Tori is coming to audition for the lead role in a movie I will be producing. The fact that I wrote it has nothing to do with any of the things I am currently feeling. What am I actually feeling? No matter how deep I dig, I can't find it. Where it comes from, what it means. Why now? Why not five years ago? Why not ever? It takes me one look in her eyes and I know? That only happens movies, believe me, I know. It's completely ridiculous. I'm probably seeing too much in this. I didn't expect to walk into her, but I did and I was just surprised. That's all this is. I am surprised.
The door opens and I snap my head up, looking straight into her eyes. Whoa, déjà-vu. She looks extremely surprised at first, then Kent takes the word and she focuses completely on him and then on the part. Proving to be the amazing actress I never acknowledged she was. She knows the dialogue by heart - she didn't even bring her script - and plays the part like it was written for her. Which it wasn't, before anyone begins. The fact that there are some similarities between Tori Vega and the character of Katherine are purely coincidence. Right? As she speaks the last words – I am sure that we did all the great things you say we did. But... I am not that woman anymore. I'm sorry. – a smile forms on my face. As I turn to look at Kent I see that same smile, well, more of a smirk in his case. Yup. This is our Katherine. And that's exactly what Kent tells her. I say nothing, I just look at her, smiling and clapping. Jade style. Bird-scene style.

"Jade, hold up." I hear a voice behind me call out to me and if it wouldn't have been hers I'd keep on walking. Mentally I am scolding myself – old Jade would never have stopped walking. She'd let Tori run after her. I turn around, briefly smiling at her. Why did I do that? I don't normally do that.

"What are you doing here?" She asks.

"Well... See, I kinda, maybe..., you know, like own Wild West Entertainment." Her face is one of confusion, followed by realization, that settles onto amazement.

"Come with me." I say, as I extend my arm, motioning for her to follow me. "I'll explain in my office." There's an 'Oeh' coming from her that makes us both laugh as we walk the corridor to my office. I sit her down on the black sofa and explain the situation to her. Then ten minutes later she is leaving again, because she promised Trina to have lunch with her.

"Hey, Tori." I stop her, right before she's about to open the door. She turns around, a look of expectation on her face I can't really place. It kind of freaks me out, as if she's expecting... too much from me.

"I may never have said this before, or said otherwise, but you are an amazing actress." I think she expected me to still be the same old Jade West, who never said anything nice to her. If I wouldn't have known better, I'd think she was about to cry. She slightly nods her head, mouths a 'thank you' and then quickly leaves.
And I just can't believe that a day ago I hugged her goodbye, thinking it would take another five years to run into her again, and tomorrow she will be back in this office to sign papers that'll have her coming back for the next three months. And frankly, I can't wait. I can't wait to see her again, yet my heart twists in my chest as I picture the look she gave me just minutes ago. And I don't know why it does that. I don't know why I am feeling happy and sad and confused and maybe a little bit angry all at the same time. It's as if my heart and brain have completed disconnected in the course of two days.

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