A/N: Most of this chapter was Tori's idea & writing. I altered a few words and added things in teh beginning and end. A few thigns...I probably wouldn't be so extremely nice to Millie, I had to put in some David angst ^^, ansd the whole last Ashley POV was awesome to write. I was saying the things outloud along with in my head. Boy did they sound funny. XD I really tried going to sleep with my hands over my eyes once when my littlest sister slept in my room.
As always...Read, review, and enjoy!

Chapter 15: Visitor

(Tori POV)

She was sitting on the couch next to David, watching a Comedy Central standup on TV. They laughed at the comedian when he said something funny. Just then, a door bell rang. Tori looked over at the barricaded front door curiously, then back to David. He shrugged and got up. He walked over to the door and moved the desk out of the way enough to open the door. David opened the door and Tori noticed a brunette woman standing in the doorway. She walked in, her heels clicking as she walked. The woman was wearing a pair of black strappy heels along with a pair of dark skinny jeans and a purple tank top over a black jacket. "David, you're here!" she said loudly as she hugged him unexpectedly.

Tori watched from the couch and grumbled to herself. 'Who is this chick? Why's she throwing herself at him like that?'

David peeled the woman off of him and gave a weak smile. "What are you doing here Millie?" he asked in a confused, yet stern voice.

'This is Millie?' Tori got up and walked over to the kitchen, glancing at Millie a few times.

"I just wanted to stop by to see you is all," she said innocently.

"You flew all the way to New York just to say hi?" David asked her with suspicion in his voice.

Millie gave a shrug. "Yeah and I wanted to see how you're doing…"

David sighed. "I'm doing fine. So could you please-"

Tori heard David stop talking as she noticed from the corner of her eye Millie was approaching her. Millie held out her hand. "Hi. I'm Millie."

Tori faked a smile as she glanced at David, who gave a small shake of the head and shrug. "Tori. Nice to meet you. I've heard about you." 'If I have to keep this act up…'

Millie smiled and turned around, "David, are my old clothes still here?"

David's expression went to surprised. "Um…sort of. Why?"

"I wanna take them home, silly," she said with a giggle.

Tori rolled her eyes and said, "I'll go get them." She rounded the counter and dashed to the hallway. She opened the door to the spare room and found Griffin on Ashley, attached at the mouth. "Jeeze," she rolled her eyes as the two sat up, acting as if nothing was going on. "I have to get Millie's clothes. She's here," Tori said with sarcastic enthusiasm as she went over to the closet and began pulling clothes off the hangers.

Griffin coughed. "Then I'm gone. She's annoying." Tori heard the sound of a kiss and sensed a jump.

"Millie's here?" Ashley asked, sounding happy.

"Yes," Tori groaned as she rolled her eyes.

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(Ashley POV)

"I'm gunna go meet her then," Ashley said. She hopped off the bed and darted into the living room. She saw a woman sitting on the couch and David sitting in the nearby chair. "Millie?" Ashley said with question as she looked at the woman.

The woman perked up and smiled. "That's me. Who're you?"

"Ashley." She waved to Millie, who was looking her over.

"Are those mine…?" Millie asked, pointing at Ashley.

"Yeah. Sorry about that. Paladins ransacked us and we've been crashing here. David said it was okay," she said, shooting David a look. "You have good taste in clothes."

A faint blush came across Millie's face. "Thanks. Just keep the stuff you have on. They're just an old memory I don't need."

Ashley beamed. "Thank you."

Tori came to her side and dropped a pile of clothes on the coffee table. "This is all yours," she said gruffly. Ashley watched as Millie picked up the small pile and Tori stormed off. She looked to David, who rolled his eyes. 'Jealousy bug is around and biting hard.'

David got up and walked Millie to the door. They said their goodbyes and Ashley saw Millie actually kiss David on the cheek before leaving. He pushed the desk back in front of the door once she left. "Where'd Tori go?" he asked as Ashley was changing the channel.

"Dunno," she said uninterested. "Check the room." Ashley nodded towards the hallway and clicked the remote a few times.

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(David POV)

David took Ashley's advice and walked down the hallway, into the spare room. Tori was sitting on the bed, her arms crossed and eyes full of anger. "Tori…"

Tori glared at him. "What?" she snapped. "Aren't you supposed to be with Millie right now?" Her tone was pure sarcasm and rage.

David shook his head. 'I'm not one to usually get angry but…' "Why are you being like this?" he asked sternly. "Are you jealous of her?"

She scoffed. "Of who, Millie? What's there to be jealous of? She's a freakin' airhead."

David was shocked. "Aren't we so judgmental? I'm positive you're jealous, Tori. And you should get over it."

"Maybe you should get over it!" Tori shouted as she threw her hands up.

David was taken back by this. He waited a few seconds for an apology, but none came. "Fine," he said as he approached her. David grabbed her wrist and jumped her to the lair. "You can stay here then," he told her in a gruff voice before jumping back to the living room with a sigh.

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(Tori POV)

Tori lay, sprawled out, on Griffin's couch, watching a movie she found in a stash Griffin had. She crossed her arms. 'Damn it, David!' she screamed in her head. "I hate you!" she shouted aloud.

"What're you doing here?" Griffin startled her.

"David stranded me here…" Tori answered, casually as if Griffin should somehow know.

"Well, why don't yeh leave, yeah?" Griffin scowled.

"Why don't ya shut you're mouth and leave me ALONE, YEAH?" Tori mocked. Her voice was filled with malice and her sudden change had made even Griffin flinch. Griffin glared at her, but kept silent. "What are YOU staring at?"

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(Griffin POV)

Griffin's eyes widened a bit. She hadn't even glanced at him. How could she know he was glaring at her? 'Can she sense even that?' "That's it!" Griffin growled, back to his usual, angry self. "I'm taking you back to David's!" Griffin jumped in front of her. Tori stood, staring him down. Griffin's left hand flinched. 'She's actually frightening me a little…'

"I will not go back there!" she hissed. Griffin tried to hold his glare. It was surprisingly difficult.

"Fine…" he grabbed her shoulder and jumped them away.

"Where am I?" Tori demanded.

"A little place called the Grand Canyon…" With that, Griffin jumped back to the lair, leaving here there.

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(Tori POV)

"Who's there?" a horse voice called. A skinny, black man with white hair crawled over to her. His eyes were wildly staring at her. "A-are you a Jumper?" his voice cracked with what sounded like a combination of fear, hatred, and…hope.

"No…" Tori looked at him with sympathy. "Unfortunately."

"Did you bring food?" the man asked, desperately. Tori looked at him and noticed he was beyond skinny.

"No…" Tori said again. Her stomach rumbled. The thought of being here with no food made her suddenly hungry, and made her feel pathetic and vulnerable. "What's your name?"

The man hesitated. It was like speaking to a child. "Roland," he finally managed. Tori thought nothing of it and sat down beside him.

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(David POV)

David was pacing in his living room, staring to worry about Tori. "What if Griffin decides to take her to the shark pit in Cuba?" he wondered, his eyes growing wide.

"If you're that worried," Ashley said rolling her eyes, "go back and get her!"

"Good idea," he said before jumping away. "Tori?!" he called, standing in Griffin's lair.

"Not here," Griffin said nonchalantly while playing a video game.

"Where'd you take her?" David growled.

"Wouldn't you like to know…?" Griffin just shrugged. David, now angry as hell, jumped in front of Griffin and hoisted the shorter jumper by the collar of his black shirt. "Off the shirt, yeah?" Griffin scowled. He glared at David, who glared back with fiery eyes.

"Not until you tell me where she is."

"With our pal, Roland," Griffin snickered as David angrily let go. He could hear Griffin's laughter as he jumped away.

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(Tori POV)

Back at the cave, Tori was asking Roland how he got here and for how long. "I've been here for about a year…" Roland rasped. "At least, I think so. As for how I got here, David jumped me here…" His eyes glowed with such hate and fear, that Tori almost believed him. He winced. "It's been a few days since I've eaten. I think the few animals here have caught onto me…"

Tori stood abruptly, startling the already frightened and helpless old man. "You're lying!" she said in a low voice. "David would never do that. He'd never…"

"Leave someone to die a slow, painful death?" Roland guessed. "Would never leave someone to starve? Maybe not…but he did to me." Tori felt tears well up in her eyes. "I would've rather been dropped with the sharks…"

She shook with anger. "You're lying!" she screamed. Roland flinched and Tori felt a little guilty.

"He may never come back for me," Roland rambled on. "Perhaps he won't come back for you?"

"Shut up!" Tori began to cry. 'I can't take it anymore.' Roland sat silently. He crept a little further away. Suddenly, Tori sensed a jump. Then she turned and heard it. 'Am I getting better at sensing these things? Can't tell.' She was too angry and frightened and sad to truly notice.

"Tori?" David called.

She spun around and ran over to him. "David!" she cried. "I wouldn't believe it. I couldn't!"

"Believe what?" David asked. "You're crying…"

"Believe that you left me here…" Roland rasped from the back of the cave. "Go on tell her!" He paused, rethinking his approach. "Wait! David, please! Don't leave me here! Not again!" But before Roland could state the last sentence, David had jumped them away.

The two returned to Griffin's lair. Tori looked at David and backed away slowly. "Tori…" David's gaze softened.

"Please tell me it's not true," Tori murmured.

"What's not true?" Griffin asked as he jumped into the lair.

"It's true…" David said sternly. "I left Roland there."

"Why?" Tori cried, a tear rolling down her left cheek.

Griffin watched them, slightly amused. David didn't answer, so Griffin stepped forward. "Look, Roland was a Paladin. In fact, he was one of their leaders. Did most o' the killings himself."

Tori's eyes widened with shock. She looked from David to Griffin and back to David. "I'm…sorry about what happened earlier…" David said softly.

"Hold that thought!" Griffin jumped away. He returned a minute later with a bucket of popcorn. "Continue, yeah?" he said, as if they should have continued the second he got back.

"Griffin!" David exclaimed.

"Wha'?" he shrugged, munching on popcorn.

"David, its okay…" Tori smiled. She glanced at Griffin. "But let's go home, okay?" Griffin put a handful of popcorn in his mouth.

David nodded and enveloped her in a hug. He whispered to her, "Don't worry, I'll make it up to you…once we get home…" Tori's eyes widened in surprise and her cheeks flushed.

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(Griffin POV)

"Aw!" Griffin whined when David jumped away with Tori. "That is NOT how it's supposed to end!" He said, putting another handful of popcorn in his mouth, disappointed. He saw Ashley appear in the lair. "What are yeh doing here?" he asked with a slight scowl and a mouthful of popcorn.

"I got kicked out for the night," Ashley pouted with her bag slung over her left shoulder.

"Oh you did, did you?" Griffin laughed. 'I have an idea why…' "What if I don't let you stay here?" he asked, jostling the bucket of popcorn.

She smirked. "Then I'd have to go stay a hotel and hope a Paladin doesn't find me," she said with a fake sadness.

He grumbled, "Fine. I'll let you stay, but this is the last time." Ashley beamed at him and nodded. "And you have to go drinking with me if you're staying."

Griffin watched her as she pretended to think about it. He set the popcorn bucket down as she said, "Why not?"

"Good," Griffin said as he jumped next to her and took hold of her hand. He sent her a small smile and jumped.

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(Ashley POV)

She had her head down on the bar. Griffin just kept the drinks coming. 'Wasn't that the six? No it was the seventh, I think…' She looked up at him and he smiled. "I-I tink you're tryin' ta get me like this," she slurred.

He smirked at her. "Why would I do tha'?" He took a sip of his drink.

'Griffin only had, like 2 drinks… Or maybe three.' Ashley pointed at him and grinned lazily. "You like, you like me better like this." She looked at her feet, which she was swinging slowly. Ashley remembered she was wearing his jacket and pulled the sleeve over her hand, rubbing her face against the smooth leather. "Your jacket is soft."

The man behind the bar approached her and took her empty glass. "Another round?" he asked nicely.

She held up a finger and was about to ask but Griffin chuckled, "I think you've had enough sweetheart. Thank you though." He waved the bar man away and she pouted at Griffin. "C'mon. Let's get you home, yeah?"

"But I can't go back to Davy's," she said with a sad look.

Griffin helped her off the bar stool and directed her to the door. "You're staying with me, remember?" he whispered into her ear.

Ashley giggled when his warm breath tickled her ear. "Stop that," she said with a wave of her hand. She heard him laugh before jumping them back to the lair. She saw they were in his bedroom and she pounced on the bed, landing on her back with her hands over her eyes.

"What are you doin'?" Griffin asked, laughing lightly.

Ashley sat up slowly. "Sleeping," she told him in a childish voice. She grinned and he approached the end of the bed, pulling off her boots. "Hey, none of that mister." Ashley laughed at her own joke before he could. He put her boots at the end of the bed and walked over to the side she was nearest to.

Griffin reached for the jacket zipper and she blushed. He rolled his eyes and unzipped the jacket. "Can you get the rest yourself?" She watched his eyes in awe, spacing out over the colors. Griffin snapped his fingers in front of her face and she went to bite them. "You're weird, ya know that?"

Ashley simply grinned at him and looked at his shirt with a small frown. "Can I help you?"

He furrowed his brow. "No that's okay I can-"

She pulled the edge of his shirt up and poked his stomach. "Muscles," she said, glancing up at him. He averted his eyes away and was biting his lip.

Griffin pulled away, and took his shirt off the rest of the way. "Happy?" he asked gruffly. Ashley nodded and let herself fall back onto the bed. She lay directly in the middle, nuzzling her head into the pillows. "Move over, yeah?" she heard Griffin half command, half ask.

Ashley's eyes went open. "Make me," she said before sticking out her tongue at him. Griffin raised an eyebrow and crawled into the small spot next to her. He pushed her over, causing the blankets to go with her. Ashley laughed. 'This is fun. I like this game.'

Griffin rolled over onto her. "Please move," he said through a clenched jaw. Ashley craned her neck and kissed him. "Okays." He rolled off and she scooted over. Rolling onto her side, she watched him intently. He kept glancing at the jacket.

"You sure you wanna wear it to sleep?" Griffin asked, sounding concerned. Ashley made a sound of disapproval as she shook her head. She flung the one arm and managed to get it out of the sleeve. "Sit up and I'll help you," Griffin sighed.

She sat up, watching him with a blank expression. He carefully got her other arm out and tossed his jacket behind him. She sprung at him while he was putting the jacket on the floor. "Griffy," she cooed, resting her hands on his chest.

Griffin turned and looked at her with a sigh. "Ashley, please get off and go to sleep. I don't wanna do this when you're drunk."

She pouted and kissed his cheek. "Do what?" she asked.

Griffin pushed her by the sides of her arm. "You know what." She held onto his arms and ended up strattling his waist. Griffin let his head fall back and sighed, "Bloody fuckin' hell." Ashley giggled and drew pictures on his abdomen. He slapped her hand away and moved her off of him. "Enough. Please. Sleep. Nothing more an' nothing less." Griffin leaned and gave her a quick kiss on the lips, which she pulled him in closer for. In seconds, she felt him pull away. "I'm serious. Now shut your eyes and I'll give you a present," he told her suddenly.

Ashley's face lit up and she said, "Okay." She shut her eyes and waited for her present, but only felt herself drift away to sleep.

EXTRA NOTE: I took my jacket off like that once. It doesn't work, just so you know. :)