Thursday morning came and Jade was in an uncharacteristically good mood. She ignored the stares of her peers at school, not noticing that they held more admiration than scorn. She knew why she felt so strong. Just being able to admit what happened for the first time was a load of her shoulders and not being judged was beyond relief. Despite her many issues, Jade was sure her feet were not touching the ground. The day seemed to fly by, and during lunch she seemed less cranky than normal. (She has an image). She texted Sinjin.

Jade: (To Sinjin): I'm sending you a map of where to park.

Sinjin: I don't have a car. Can I bring Burf, since he can use his brother's car?

Jade: I'll drive you. Don't touch anything unless told otherwise. That includes inside my car and especially ME!

Jade turned to Beck. "So you coming today?"

"I wouldn't miss it for the world. I need to finish some stuff here so I'll be there by four. That Okay?"

She sighed "I guess. I gotta drive Sinjin so that leaves me babysitting until you get there." An evil smirk spread across her face. The table got nervous. "Or I can have Sheldon's monkey do it. I'll see what I can do." She looked happy in that dangerous way of hers.

By the end of the day people were reacting the way Jade expected, barely hidden fear. She had heard the rumors, that she was building some kind of death ray, dooms day device or other method to killing off every person who ever annoyed her (A long list). Even Sinjin was unfailingly careful in not touching anything in her car for the entire twenty minute drive. He did send a mass text.

Sinjin: (To everyone) In Jades car, she is driving unusually cautiously. I think it's in the trunk.

Jade heard her phone go off, letting her know she should never have given Sinjin her phone number. Still, it was necessary to achieve her first bit of revenge. Jade really wanted to see the results of his work, and wondered if she should call the Pasadena police this weekend and ask about him. The thoughts were making her feel warm.

After 20 minutes Sinjin was starting to get antsy, needing to do something to release the stress of being with Jade. Once she parked, he ran out of the car and only stopped to check out the map and see where they were supposed to go. As a result he was waiting by her office for a while. Jade stopped to get coffee along the way.

Dave the Barista greeted her as she reached the front of the line. The wait was usually shorter this time of day, so she got to the front in only a couple of minutes. "Ah Doctor West. Beautiful day today. You want the extra large, right?" His eyes covered her body quickly before catching her own.

"Black, two sugars. Make it four considering the size of that coffee." She responded. He told her the price and she paid him. "Oh Dave, don't be such a perv next time. My eyes are up here." She walked away. Jade was in no hurry today.

Once she got to her office she found Sinjin sitting by the door. "Let me introduce you around so I can get to work and you won't need to see the inside of my office." She led him towards the nicer offices on the second floor. A quick knock and she entered the office labeled Doctor Sheldon Cooper.

Sheldon wasn't alone. As luck would have it Lenard was there acting as a referee since Doctor Kripke was screaming at Sheldon.

"Damn you Shewdon, Don't you dawe deny it. I know you did it. I know you'we jeawous of how advanced my weseawch is, but this is a new wow even for you. My little pwanks were hawmwess embawwassment. Youws... Because of youw wittwe wuse I've been wefused entwance to my wocaw stwip cwub. The one with the fwee buffet. Aww because I 'make the giwls uncomfowtabwe'." Kripke was red faced and the anger seemed to poor out of his body. "I never made the stwippews uncomfowtable befowe. How do I make them uncomfowtabwe? I pay to look at their bweasts, maybe get a wap dance, just like everybody else. Teww me how that make stwippews uncomfowtabwe." He asked Lenard.

"Not only do I have no idea what you are talking about, I have far too much work to spend time mucking about in that sort of place. Now if you'll excuse me I need to get back to my research." Sheldon looked confused in his condescending sort of way. Lenard just tried to stand between them, and Alex was looking at the potential fight nervously.

"So whats happening nerd?" Jade asked, smile on her face.

"Barry, Doctor Kripke, is accusing Sheldon of getting him banned from his favorite strip club. We were at a long lunch with a friend and got back twenty minutes ago. He just started yelling at us as soon as we got here. I can tell you, however, that Sheldon wouldn't know how to get someone banned from that kind of place." Lenard answered.

"Putting him on the Sex offenders list shouldn't get him banned from strip clubs." Sinjin said, confused. "Not even as a convicted rapist."

"Howd it. Did you say wapist?" Barry asked, suddenly confused.

"It shouldn't. I checked. He was just going to have to spend his weekend making the walk of shame under escort." Jade replied. She could not get angry at Sinjin for telling, since knowing who did it to you was part of the revenge.

"You did this to me?" He asked shocked. "I'm not a wapist. Why? Why wouwd you teww people I was a wapist." Barry was looking at Jade.

"You treated me like one of your strippers at the party last week and keep looking at me like you have a chance. Dude, I'm sixteen, I have a boyfriend, get over yourself. Don't act like a perv, and I won't treat you like one." Jade was enjoying this. Not as much fun as watching him tell everyone in his neighborhood that he was a perv, but it was probably better since they still had to work together. "I deliberately had it done so you were not put on the state or national databases, which is harder by the way. It should be easy to get off the list, just tell them it was a mistake and have them confirm it. I still don't get why they barred you from perv heaven though?"

"Local ordinance requires the list of sex offenders to be delivered to all the local strip clubs." Sheldon said. Looking at everyone, he answered the unasked question. "Howard told me."

"Just you wait young wady. I wiww get my wevenge,. My wwath wiww be swift and mewciwess." Doctor Kripke screamed.

"Wouldn't do that" Jade said. "I went easy on you for the first time. I have much nastier things up my sleeve."

"She does. Trust me. Besides, you don't want to see Jade get violent." Sinjin added. "She's once cut up the janitors garbage cans with just a regular pair of scissors."

"She's that strong? Lets see, the strength to make the cut, even over time, would require...Oh my." Sheldon looked at Jade. "So what brings you to my office and please remember you don't hurt your mentor."

"This is faw fwom ovew!" The retreating Physicist said as he left. Jade made sure she still had the number for Dave the Diaper Guy in case she needed it. Doctor Kripke would later be told by Sinjin that it would be wise to let her have this win.

"I need to borrow your monkey" Jade replied, pointing at Alex. Alex looked offended but didn't say a word. Jade was sounding seriously dangerous, and she didn't want to find out how far this girl could go for revenge. Best to be on her good side.

"What do you need her for?" Sheldon asked as if it were a normal request.

"Show Sinjin here the Entomology department, and then Lenard's research. I kinda owe him a favor." she gave her best half-heated smile.

"Well I can spare her for a while. Alex, would you like to show the young man around?" Sheldon was happy that Doctor Kripke had been taken down a peg. Alex seemed happy to do the task as it was less demeaning than many of the tasks Doctor Cooper asked her to do. She took Sinjin on the tour.

"Thanks." Jade went back to her office and enjoyed an hour of working on her own theories when the latest simulation that Sheldon had sent her (that morning) finished in her head. She was almost done writing out the results along with her recommendations when Beck showed up. It was four thirty. Jade decided to show her boyfriend around. First she showed him the lab where Howard worked. Howard seemed to vacillate between a fairly responsible and intelligent man and a sex crazed loser. During their visit he made what to Jade was the right choice. While explaining to beck what he was doing, he also had a chance to talk to Jade a little in French, Russian, Mandarin, and ASL. They both had their linguistic weaknesses but it was an amusing way to pass the time.

Then she stopped by Raj to talk. The astrophysicist had nothing to say to her, but she left them for a couple of minutes and Beck bonded with Raj on their shared meterosexual attitudes. By the time Jade returned from the bathroom, they were talking about some of the places they both visit from time to time, as well as what a pain it is to be the foreign born member of their group. Beck seemed to be having a good time.

Jade didn't want to bother Lenard since she had burdened him with Sinjin, but that meant Sheldon. She decided on a quick visit, just long enough to introduce them and let Beck get a taste of the Doctors personality. It was extended when Sheldon asked Jade a couple of 'quick questions' that took about fifteen minutes to answer and left Beck unsure if Jade was still speaking English.

Jade finished up at Lenard's lab, where Sinjin was helping him set up for an experiment. Lenard explained to the handsome Canadian what they were doing and told Jade that Sinjin was extremely helpful in setting up for this run. Apparently the skills they learned (and Robbie and Sinjin mastered) in setting up electronics for plays and movies were unusually transferable. Lenard was going to ask Doctor Gablehause if he could hire the lanky young man for the summer as a technician. "You know, maybe as an intern?" Jade's scream was heard across campus.

After they left the lab and she calmed down, Jade talked to Beck. "I think we should drop by Lenard's place tonight. They have a regular get together. We can just hang in an informal setting. Just you, me, maybe Vega? I'm not worried about us fitting in since my colleagues are all big kids anyway and this will give you a chance to see how normal life with the academically gifted can be?"

"Sounds nice. Just one question, Why Tori?" Beck didn't mind. He would have suggested it himself if she hadn't. He just needed to know why.

"I want to thank her for last night. I don't do gratitude well, and it would help me not have to say thank you to her face." She smirked. "Anyway, I'll get the address and we can go drop off Sinjin, Pick up Tori and grab a couple of pizza's. You know, so they have enough." She smiled. Considerate Jade was usually a warning, but Beck had a good feeling about this.

"Why don't I drop off Sinjin and Pick up Tori while you go get the Pizza's and meet us there." Beck countered. "It makes more sense, and it will give you a little time here to finish up before heading over."

"Sure" Jade responded, once again feeling the distance between them. 'Damn! I hoped that last night would bring us together. I need to be sure about Vega. I think I'm losing him and he wants to spend time with her. I need to be sure of her motives, and that she can resist his charm.'

She plastered on a smile and kissed him goodby, then spent the next half hour finishing up her work for the day. She also took the time to check on line to see how the local collage crowd rated the local pizza places, looked at their menus and placed her order. She then took a deep breath and headed to her car. It was time to get social with her peers.