AN: Hey guys, here's chapter 3 to Dead Hearts. Enjoy!

Jade sits in the corner of the hideout, her mind wrapped on the info that was spoken of yesterday.

"Tori", she says outloud. Her mind still wrapped on the mysteries girl.

"HELP!"

Jade stands quickly and covers her ears as the yell rang through.

"HELP"

"Who keeps saying that?", she yells in frustration.

She gazes about the room, looking for anything or anyone that could have called out. Giving a rather annoyed sigh, she takes a seat back onto the chair. Her gaze never moving from about the room, fearful of hearing the desperate shout. Her mind once again settled back on the events that occurred yesterday with the Tori girl.

Yesterday:

"Hey Tori", Beck called from the other side of the street.

"Oh…Hey Beck", Tori said with a smile.

Jade looked from Beck to Tori, studying the two of them closely from her little spot. Tori walked over into his open arms as he brought her into a warm hug. Afterwards Andre and Robbie pulled her into a hug as well. Her blonde friend by the name Tiff, came and hugged the guys too.

Jade stood there with crossed arms, looking amongst her friends and Tori with confusion.

"Hey there lil senorita. How have you been?", Andre asks with a smile.

"I've been alright…um… Honestly I wasn't really into coming out tonight after what happened, but Tiff encouraged me so…here I am", she says with a smile.

Jade noticed, even from her distance that Tori's smile was one filled with pain and regret. Stepping closer to her and she placed her hand on gently on Tori's shoulder. Tori jumped, having Jade snatch her hand away in fright. She looked at her shoulder, rubbing her hand over it.

"You alright?", Beck asks looking at her with a raised eyebrow.

"Yea…I just got this strange chill. Just kind of frightened me, that's all", she replied looking beside her, but indirectly right at Jade.

"Let's trick r' treat together huh?", she suggests taking the attention off herself.

"Yea","Sure","Sounds awesome", everyone replied.

"Oh nice costume by the way", Beck says smiling giving her a once over.

Jade glared at her ex/ friend. Oh how she wanted nothing more to smack his eyeballs out of his head. Wait…where is this jealousy coming from? Jade followed the gang closely, never taking her eyes off of Tori, but keeping a weary eye on Beck. The gang and Tori easily fell into a decent conversation…well for a while at least.

After the tenth house, Robbie walked beside Tori, which pissed Jade off a little more than the usual. She glares at the close proximity, wishing nothing more than to squeeze herself between the two. Robbie shudders a little, looking over his shoulder with fear. Jade smiled, "oh how things never change", she thought.

Shaking it off, Robbie focused back on Tori as she wrapped up her little talk with Beck. Considering the gang was all Tori had at the moment as Tiff decided to bail out on her for some costume party that was happening in the next town. Robbie clears his throat catching Tori's attention.

"So Tori how was your weekend?", he asks. Tori paused midstep, looking out ahead of her. Hearing the catch of breath, Jade moved to the front to make sure that she was alright. Tori's face hid nothing, it was taking every ounce of her not to cry infront of everyone.

"Robbie it's-", Andre began.

" I mean you never mentioned what happened last Friday", Robbie questioned receiving a hard glare from Andre. Beck looked from Andre to Robbie with mere confusion.

"Um…Robbie no offense or anything, but I'd really like to leave that subject alone", Tori replied with a hint of venom and pain.

The gang, minus Andre, looked at Tori in mere shock. The nice girl was gone in that moment and all that was left was a pissed off hurt woman. Robbie threw is hands up in surrender, slowly backing away not wanting to anger Tori any further. She looked at Andre before giving a deep sigh.

"Hey um…I change my mind. I don't really… feel so good", she says looking at her feet.

"Why don't I walk you home?", Andre suggests with a caring smile.

"Yea I'd like that", she says with a small smile.

If looks could kill Andre would be dead. Seriously are he and Beck trying to piss her off any further today. Jade paused at the thought. "What the hell is wrong with me", she questioned. Nonetheless she followed Tori and Andre. Both were in silence for a short while, making Jade feel slightly uncomfortable.

"So…how have you really been?", Andre asks.

Tori gave a tired sigh before looking at him as the tears began to welt up.

"Honestly… I…I don't know. I feel a combination of everything…like I feel like total shit and pathetic. I..i…i didn't want things… to end the way it did", Tori says with a crack in her voice.

"I know. Trust me, it's hard to…to…*cough*…get that night out of my head. It still haunts me too.."

"Andre I wish to take back what happened…you have no idea how much I want to take that night back. I feel like it's all my faul-"

"DON'T YOU FUCKING DARE SAY THAT", he says angrily.

Both girls stopped and looked at him in shock. This was a first, well for Tori at least.

"That night was not your fault, ok? Look… you're still alive. I…I lost someone too that night ok, but you know what… that self-sacrifice was to save you and I'm happy that I have one of my friends alive and breathing. So please don't blame yourself", he says with a heavy sigh choking back his own tears.

Tori wiped away the tears that had already fallen. Andre gave her a small watery smile, throwing his arm over her shoulder pulling her into a hug. Jade gave a sigh, hearing her friends confession.

"Wait…. self-sacrifice?"

Present:

The rooms silence begins to grow uncomfortable. Jade shifted a little hoping to emit some sound, but remembered that is wasn't possible.

"Fuck this", she said getting up from the chair.

Walking through the door, she heads down the street needing a different place to be in. Her arms crossed and a small scowl on her face. Unknown on the exact location, Jade continues to walk, her mind reeling on what was said yesterday.

A child's giggle is heard not too far ahead. Jade smiles seeing few kids playing on the lil playground. She walks over to one of the swing sets, looking from here and there at the kids that run past her. Taking a seat on one of the swings, she looks about the smile never leaving her face.

"They are precious aren't they?", Cat says with a grin.

Jade jumps slightly at the appearance of the small girl.

"Jesus, are you trying to give me a heart attack", she gasps.

Cat giggles, moving to sit next to her. Both keep their gazes on the children. Jade looks to her hands before clearing her throat.

"Cat…"

"Hmm.."

"What's going on with me?"

"I'm afraid I don't understand what you're asking me. Can you explain it further", Cat says gesturing for Jade to continue.

Jade gave her a small glare before looking back at the playgound.

"These past couple of days have been weird… especially yesterday. My friend…*sigh*…my friend mentioned something about self-sacrifice happening last Friday…and I want to know…does that have anything to do with how I died?", she asks looking at Cat with a sad curious expression.

Cat turns away from Jade looking back at the children. The smile leaves her face as she goes to stand. Jade in panic grabs onto her arm.

"Please don't leave. I need your help, please", she begs.

Cat sighs turning back to Jade, her face still sad stricken.

"Jade…I want to help you, believe me when I say I do. But…I can't give you the answers…and from you've told me, you're working your way up to getting the answers you seek for. You just gotta keep going", Cat says moving her arm from Jade's grasp.

Anger fills her quickly as she stands from the swing. Cat never takes her eyes off of Jade as she moves closer to her. The puffs of air leaving her nose, warns Cat of the possible shout heading her way.

"HOW THE FUCK DO YOU CALL YOURSELF A GUARDIAN IF YOU CAN'T HELP ME!? I'M STUCK IN THIS FUCKING PLACE WANTING NOTHING MORE THAN TO BE AT PEACE! YOU TELL ME THAT YOU'RE HERE TO HELP ME AND YET YOU CAN'T DO A DAMN THING!", Jade yells.

Cat stood before her unfazed, her expression changing rather quickly.

"My job as a guardian is to make sure those stuck in purgatory at least find some form peace before moving on, but then there are those who wish to seek a way to restore what they had. You are different from most of the people I've helped move on Jade. I can't give you you're answers, you have to solve them yourself", Cat says sternly, "I'm sorry that I am of no help…but my job is only to push you in the right direction, not to solve your problems. Honestly you're closer to your answers than you think. Don't give up just yet, you can do it…I know you can."

With that statement Cat turns and walks away disappearing from sight. Jade screams angrily; one of the kids running past her stops looking at her spot. He steps away from the area scared, "Mommy!"

Jade kicks the ground, having her foot slide through. "ARGGHHH", she growls turning to make leave. A flash of brown causes her to stop. She looks to her right and catches the sight of a small petite latina. "Tori", she whispers.

AN: Hey everyone sorry for the wait, I got caught up with some things. Chapter 4 will probably take a while to post up since I'm going back to school Monday. But please give some feedback on this and don't 'Jori' will be coming real soon that's a promise. Ok guys peaces ~ Magone.