A/N please review. I think this one is a lot better than my first fanfic. I really think I have improved, but I would prefer to hear it from you guys. All comments even critical are accepted. Doing my best.
Tori Pov
Let's see. I'm with Jade in our house that my parents own. Cat's with the new guy in his house that he just bought with the intention of designing it around her.
I still can't seem to feel jealous. I'm just too happy with Jade to really care. Right now though I was concerned about what we were going to do for the winter dance. It was in three days. I also had Christmas to worry about. That was in exactly two weeks. We needed to be prepared, all of us. However one person wanted to disrupt the holiday cheer we were all feeling.
It was later on today, when we were leaving school. Cat was hanging back with Syn and Sikowitz discussing something out front. Syn had said he needed to get Cat's jacket from the car. Jade and I had been out front with Cat and Sikowitz when we heard a certain someone talking to Syn. It was Beck.
We didn't hear much really. It was when Beck came over to us that it started.
"Jade, I need to talk to you." Beck said. I couldn't tell if it was anger or despair in his voice. It seemed like a mix of both.
"I have nothiing to say to you." Jade answered. Syn was standing behind Beck watching him intently. I never seen that look in Syn's eye before. It wasn't hate or even anger. It was irritation. Syn didn't get irritated.
"Will you just come to your senses and listen to me?"
"I have come to my senses. That's why I'm with Tori."
"Why are you being so difficult? Hey look at me!" He grabbed Jade's arm and pulled her hard towards him. What happened next took us all by surprise. Syn had been a good 15 feet away. The moment Beck grabbed Jade, he seemed to move with lightning speed. He suddenly had Beck's arm in his hand as he ripped it off of Jade, and Beck's arm was starting to turn a funny color. The look in Syn's eye had changed instantly from irritation to something I didn't think he was capable of. Hate.
"She said to leave her alone." Syn said with obvious anger in his voice. His voice was also much deeper. He normally was about a center scale in his speech. He was even starting to scare Jade.
"Who the hell do you think you are?"
"Jade's friend. Who do you think you are?"
"Her ex. Now let go of me. I'm losing feeling in my arm."
"Not until you apologize."
"Yeah right. Let go or I'm going to kick your ass."
"Not until you apologize, and if you do it again, I'll crush every bone in this arm until it's just a blob of flesh." Syn told him. The pure anger in his voice scared us alot now. He had never acted like this before. A second ago he had been happy and cheerful. Now he was angry and hateful. None of us thought he could do that outside of the stage. Even Beck looked at him wearily now.
"Make me." There was a loud snapping sound in the second that followed. All Syn did was turn his hand 180 degrees very quickly. The thing was, he did not let go of Beck's arm when he did it. The snapping sound I knew was Beck's arm. Syn let go and Beck fell to the ground clutching his arm.
"What the fuck was that for!"
"You said to 'make you' apologize. Now unless you would like having two casts, I suggest you do it." Beck stared at him, and I knew he was looking for some sort a sign of humanity or mercy in those eyes. I don't think he found it.
"I'm sorry Jade for grabbing and shaking you. I'll just go." He got up still clutching his arm and walked away to his car and drove off.
"Syn are you alright?" Cat asked. He quickly returned to his normal demeanor once Beck was out of sight.
"I'm fine. Let me go get your jacket from the car." He said smiling as he ran back to the car.
"Cat what was that?" I asked her.
"That was his hate face. The last time he had that on was when... Never mind." Jade seemed to know what she was talking about. I was still confused. How could such a sweet and a little naive guy go from happy, to insanely mad, and back to happy so quickly.
Jade Pov
Cat and I told Tori we would explain later. She hadn't seen the marks or heard the story yet. She was too innocent to understand the kind of pain he went through.
"Cat did something else happen on the day Sergeant Moskow saved him? Why did he have that face on then?"
"It was when his father made the marks. It's what made them think he was a sign. He has the capacity for a lot of cruelty. He rid himself of all that though when John saved him. He told me if he ever looked that way at anyone, it was because he knew someone was in alot of danger from them."
"I was in danger from Beck?"
"Beck was hiding a lot of rage with you. I saw a little of it, but it really showed when he started talking to Syn. I think if Syn hadn't been there it would have actually been a lot worse."
"How do you know that?"
"Beck has been posting hate comments about gays and lesbians all over the internet. He's been doing that ever since he left the Arts. He kept getting more and more violent in his comments. I think he came here to take all that anger out on you and Tori."
I couldn't believe what I was hearing. Beck, the guy everyone had liked, who was never violent, had come here to hurt me and Tori.
"How do you know he didn't want to just talk?"
"His status was violent and vengeful." She showed me his status update as of three hours ago. He had come to get revenge. Syn had seen it and defended us. He waited for Beck to touch me first, or come close to touching me so he would be in the right if he hit him. I still can't get the look he had out of my head. So much anger, hate and pain in those eyes. I was sure now he saw Beck's intentions.
"So he was really just defending us?"
"Syn is never violent with anyone who is friendly. He wouldn't have done that if he didn't fear for your safety. We were the first people to really accept him. He would lay down his life for us and not think twice."
"Was that hate or anger in his eyes?" Cat thought about it for a second.
"That was definitely hate. If it was just anger he would have stared Beck down when he said 'Make me'."
He never gave Beck a chance to reconsider. When he challenged him, he did make him. He snapped his arm like a twig. I had seen where he had held Beck's arm. It was the weakest part of the two bones in his arm. If you knew what you were doing, and were strong enough, snapping the bone wasn't really all that hard. It did say something about Syn's resolve though. The very few times he telld people to do things, which I had only seen this one time in his anger, they better do it.
"Cat your boyfriend scares me. I've never seen that kind of mood swing, not even from you."
"That won't happen again unless Beck comes back and tries again. It's gonna be a while though. His arm bone is snapped clean in half from the way that sounded. I guess being a military wife has it's perks." It took me a second to register what Cat just said.
"Wife?"
"I've decided I'm going to marry him whenever he decides to ask. I know he will eventually, and we both love each other. So why not?" Even though I knew the real Cat she still managed to weird me out. We walked back to find Tori talking to Syn calmly like nothing happened. We decided to leave it alone and go on with the day.