Chapter Nine

Eyes opening with shock, the realisation of the predicament she was in finally became apparent after a minute of blissful affection. Jadelyn placed her hands on Flynn chest and willed herself to push them apart, locking eyes for a split second, intense blue waves washing over sea green, she gasped and forcefully pushed him over, resulting in the back of his head bashing against the ground. She scrambled away, her hands outstretched, palms facing him, signalling for him to not come any closer. She should had pulled away the second he thought it was appropriate to crash their lips together, but her feelings distracted her, they seemed to numb her senses, and they were all muddled, as if this kiss had thrown all of her emotions into a mixing bowl.

Glancing around frantically she stood up, leaving him seated on the ground, his forehead now a horrible blotched purple colour, and his hand placed on the back of his head, he winced when he touched it.

"I am going to assume you have a concussion." Lady Jadelyn hissed, "That is the only explanation for your actions."

Flynn groaned as he lightly touched his other injury, "Yeah what was I thinking, kissing you when you clearly didn't want me to."

"Exactly" she exclaimed, before she caught his still smug expression with that idiotic glint in his eyes, she scowled. "You were being sarcastic."

Rising to his feet, he staggered slightly as he made his way to the door, Jadelyn watched as he clutched on to the door and forced it open, she was about to call out to him, when he collapsed to the ground. Doubled over, he took deep breaths. Hastily she handed him a tin bucket from the corner of the room, passing it to just in time.

Throwing the bucket to the side, he managed to choke out one word, "Hospital." Before he passed out.

Jade placed her head in her hands, her eyes locked on the now unconscious driver who was lying at her feet. The acidic smell of vomit was beginning to fill the room, it was making her stomach churn. She only had a few options, and she did not like the sound of any of them. She could run from the garage and scream for help. But what would her father say if she ran up to call him? He would assume that Jade had hit him in self-defence, and then Flynn would be fired, or worse she thought as she chewed subconsciously on her fingernail, he would hand Flynn over to the police. Rushing to his side she shook him gently, calling out his name softly. He needed medical attention, but she could not bring him to the hospital without them asking all sorts of questions, and she certainly could not ask anyone to help her. This was all on her.

Taking a shaky breath, she grabbed him under his arms and heaved, slowly pulling him over to the car. Opening the back door she pushed him in, she prayed that no one would come in, that no one would spot the daughter of Lord Geoffrey West forcing an unconscious man into the back of her Ford car. Yelping from the effort she managed to get his body in the car, but it was tangled and at strange angles, like an odd pretzel.

Trying again, she slapped him in the face, "Flynn, wake up you moron!"

Panicking at the no response, she awkwardly dug into his trouser pockets and smiled when she pulled out the car keys. Closing over the curtains in the back of the car she slammed the door shut. Eyes flicking around the room she spotted his emerald-green coat and hat.

"I must be mad." she said to herself as she sat in the driver seat and started the ignition, cursing under her breath she straightened the cap over her hair and glanced in the back at the still unconscious chauffeur.

"Don't worry Flynn." she promised, "I'll get you help."

Slamming her foot down on the pedal the car lurched forward, Jade bit down on her lip so forcefully as she twisted the wheel, that she could taste iron on her tongue. She had to force back a scream as she raced down the lane and shot through her gate, lightly grazing the side of the wall. She cursed at the thought of the paint that was peeled away from the door, she would not be able to hide that from her parents. But she could not dwell on it, she had to look in control as a chauffeur would be. Avoiding the glare and gazes of everyone she flew past, she kept her eyes trained on the road, she could do this, she could drive a car. Several cars swerved to avoid her, her grip on the wheel was so tight by this stage, she reckoned they would have to use a crowbar to removed them. Turning into the gates she raced up the driveway. She smiled when she reached her destination, complete relief washing over her as she pressed her foot on the brake pedal.

Tossing off the hat and the coat she raced over to the door, desperate to find her.

"Jade?"

Spinning around she was greeted by a sullen looking Cat, her normally warm brown eyes where red raw from crying, "What are you doing?" she asked, completely bewildered by what she had just seen.

"Thank God." Jadelyn exclaimed, "I need your help. Can you keep a secret?"

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Lady Caterina was a master in all things strange, she had lived her whole life with people taunting her and calling her names, even just last year she had come up with that ridiculous plan to dress up as her own fiancé. But at this particular moment, Jadelyn West was in a league of her very own. Caterina had just emerged from the woods, after her disastrous conversation with Tori, she felt as if someone had cut out a segment of her heart, how could Tori have been so cruel to her? She was torn, she should have felt betrayed, she wanted to feel that way, but their was a small part of her that questioned what Tori had said, was it true? Was she so self-obsessed with her relationship that she had forgot to ask Tori about hers, it certainly did not seem like something she would do. However it was possible that her grief over losing Robbie had made her blind to the feelings of those closest to her.

Fortunately for the redhead she was pulled out of these thoughts because at that exact moment, Jadelyn had sped up the drive. At the beginning obviously she had not realised it was Jade driving the vehicle, all she had seen was a blur of green in the front seat as it skidded to a halt in front of her Manor. But the insane driving told her the only thing she needed to know: that something was wrong. Picking up the end of her long gray skirt she jogged up the drive to see the girl jump out of the front seat and pull off the uniform. Now that completely confused her, why did she feel it was necessary to play dress-up she did not know, but she guessed that she would find out soon enough.

After Jadelyn had made her swear this would be kept a secret, she then opened the back of car to reveal an unconscious chauffeur, Caterina went to squeal but Jadelyn shushed her by slapping her hand over the smaller girl's mouth.

"I'll explain after you examine him." she begged, her blue eyes glazed over with tears, "Please Cat, he really is not well."

Lowering her hand, Caterina instantly stepped into nurse mode, together the pulled the man carefully out of the car and each took a side as they brought him into the atrium. After strenuous effort they managed to lie him down on one of the chaise lounges, Caterina called in one of the maids and ordered a bowl of water and a cloth.

"What exactly happened?" she barked at Jade as the maid brought over the bowl.

"He got hit with a wrench, then he fell and whacked his head on the floor." she answered quickly, avoiding Caterina's critical stare.

"What do you mean he got hit with a wrench. Is his brain magnetic or something, did it just magically attract itself to his forehead?" Caterina replied, her voice dripping with sarcasm as she applied pressure to the bump on his head.

"Okay so I may have passed it to him a little too forcefully." she fabricated, "But I did not mean to hurt him. I swear. Is he going to be okay?"

Caterina mumbled under her breath as she felt his pulse,"Well lucky for you I think this is only a mild concussion. Go and get me my kit it's in the study, he needs pain medication."

Just then Sir. Robert walked in on this lovely scene. The sight of his wife leaning over a man on the sofa made him choke on his cigar, sending small puffs of smoke into the atmosphere as he asked, "Why is there an unconscious chauffeur on our sofa?"

Caterina shrugged, "I do not know, Jade is yet to tell me the entire story. Robbie if you are going to smoke can you please move away. The fumes make my head go fuzzy and I need to concentrate."

"Do you need anything?"

She shook her head, not taking her eyes from the chauffeur, brushing the hair from his eyes, "No, I'm alright."

Jadelyn returned to the room, carrying Caterina's bulky kit. Her eyes buldged when she spotted her cousin standing on the other side of the room. He was leaning against the door frame, smirking at her, his eyes flicking from the chauffeur then back to her. He winked at her before sighing theatrically.

"Well I will leave you girls to it. I suppose I should go and distract your mother, she will more than likely have a fit if she realises there's an oil-reeking, passed out man on her good sofa."

Jade glared at him as he turned his back to them and walked off, whistling merrily as he rounded the corner and disappeared from sight, she would have stalked after him and demand to know what he was insinuating, but the sound of someone moaning made her eyes snap back to Cat and Flynn, his eyes snapped open as he tried to sit up. Tentatively Cat placed her hands on his shoulders and forced him back down. Jadelyn watched on enviously, Caterina had performed that single movement with so much more grace than she had.

"You are okay, you just moved to quickly after you hit your head." she said soothingly, "Just try to relax. Now can you tell me your name?"

"Nathan Flynn." he mumbled as his eyes darted around the room, "Where I am, who are you?"

Caterina smiled warmly at him, "I'm Nurse Shapiro, Lady Jadelyn brought you to my house to be examined. Just rest, I'll check on you in a while."

Nodding Caterina lay the cloth on his forehead, then uses the ends of the sofa she propelled herself up and walked straight over to Jade, gesturing to follow her, the raven-haired girl grimaced as she stepped into the lounge. Caterina gently closed the door and turned to Jade, her eyes studying the guilty woman as she gazed down at her feet.

"Thank you." Jade said reluctantly as she poured herself out a drink, "I don't know what I would have done had it not been for you."

"Why didn't you just take him to the hospital? You thought it was more appropriate to dress up as him and drive manically up to my house? I'm sure Dr. Carter would have looked at him, you know eventually." Caterina said as she sank into the armchair closest to her, drained from the day's dramatic occurrences.

"Because I was alone with him when it happened and I could not tell my father or alert anyone. I am only trusting you with this Cat, so I drove him up to you. Plus you are one to talk about dressing up as a man, need I remind you of Lord Fitzgerald." she cunningly replied before gulping down the liquor. She quickly filled the glass again, "I should have not been there and you know how it looks, my father and mother would have twisted it."

"Keep your voice down!" Caterina hissed, "My mother has sonic ears, and you never know where she is hiding in this house. Look, what I do not understand is why you chucked a wrench at him in the first place, did he attack you?" she asked her voice alert, "Is he dangerous?"

"No." Jade responded, her voice harsher than she had intended, she softened it before she continued, "He's not the one that is dangerous, I am."

"Then why?" Caterina urged, as she threw her hands up in annoyance, "What possible reason could you have for injuring him?"

"I like him." she finally admitted, she swallowed the remains of her glass, wincing at the taste, "I hit him with the wrench because I like him."

Any excuse for me to dress more girls up in hilarious scenarios :P Regardless I did enjoy writing that bit!

Oh a Jade chapter! I quite like the way this is not completely Cabbie centric, that everyone gets there own bit. Anyway leave me a wee review and what not!

Oh yes CabbieLoverSAC22, Flynn was introduced in chapter four and has been in it frequently since and Cheery 22 it was a metaphorical toxin!

Sorry for the confusion guys!

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