While stranded at Jade's house during a bad storm the pair plays a game of truth or dare, but what happens when truth or dare goes just a little too far?
Rated: M.
Sorry about the wait, I got distracted by my Fake It sequel. Anyways, enjoy the chapter! Sorry not too much Jade/Tori interaction in this chapter, there will be more in the next chapter. Hope you like the story!
The next morning Jade and Tori spent the first two hours hanging up fliers all over the neighborhood, and then they went back to the house where they took shifts watching the cat.
Jade turned on a movie and the pair sat and watched in silence, the cat they were calling Kitty, snoozing between them. Tori flicked through her feed on theSlap silently, half watching the movie, while Jade gave it her whole attention as away to distract from the feverish feeling she was getting.
As the movie dragged on Tori noticed the color fading from Jade unmake-upped face, her eyes were getting droopy and she was shivering while curled up in a ball at the end of the couch, and then without a word, Jade ran upstairs. Tori stood up and followed her friend who was now getting sick in the toilet. She pulled Jade's hair back with a grimace and tried not to look or listen.
Once Jade had stopped puking she rinsed her mouth with some warm water a few times before allowing Tori to lead her back downstairs. Tori set a pan in front of Jade so she didn't have to run back and fourth if she puked again and then went upstairs to get a blanket, thermometer and sweater.
She dropped the sweater on the back of the couch, draped the blanket over Jade and opened the thermometer case, "Open up." Tori snapped, turning the thermometer on. Jade silently opened her mouth, tucked the device under her tongue and closed her mouth, "do you want some chicken noodle soup? I can go get some while I get more cat food."
Jade nods, the thermometer beeps and Tori checks it, "how bad is it?" Jade asks.
"99.8. Stay here, I'll get you some soup and Gatorade. That's what my mom always gave me, is that okay?"
"As long as it's the orange kind." Jade says, Tori nods and grabs her keys, wallet, and a jacket to head to the store, she calls Doctor Doty at a long red light and he says Jade probably has a 24 hour bug and tells her how to help.
When she reaches the store she rushes in, heading straight for the soup section and grabbing five cans of soup, finding some Gatorade on an end cap and then heading to the pet isle to find some cat food. She gets canned food, just so she doesn't have a left over bag, and then checked out and sped home.
When she got there she dumped some cat food on a plate and set it down before cooking the soup, chicken noodle. Jade was still curled up on the couch, watching Kitty eat her food happily. Tori silently handed her the soup and a cup of Gatorade. On the floor Kitty was pacing back and fourth around in that towel.
While Jade ate her soup Tori went upstairs and brought her laptop down, turning it on and researching information about pregnant cats, she was terrified that the poor thing would start having kittens while just her and Jade there to provide assistance.
Eventually Kitty settled down, and Tori decided she wasn't about to go into labor, so she shut the laptop off and turned on some cartoons and watched mindlessly while Jade napped on the couch. Tori ended up falling asleep with her head resting on the back of the couch; she woke up when someone pounded on her door around 4 pm.
"Vega." Jade groaned, kicking out and hitting her in the thigh, "Vega the door!"
"Don't kick me." Tori complained, slapping Jade's leg when she kicked her a second time. Getting up, Tori stepped over the cat who was pacing back and fourth, and Jade's hand, pulling open the door while pushing her fingers through her messy hair, "hello?"
"Do you have my cat?" the woman at the door has short chopped blonde hair with blue tips. Her wide brown eyes were scanning over her shoulder nervously, "she's pregnant and Bengal." She shows Tori a picture of a grey leopard looking cat.
"Yeah, she's in here. Come in." Tori stepped back, the woman rushed in and Kitty noticed instantly and rushed toward her, rubbing up against her legs and meowing loudly.
"Jewel, my baby." The woman knelt down to pet the cat, "how long has she been pacing?" the woman asked looking up at Tori with her eyebrows drawn together in the middle of her forehead.
Tori blinked at her, "Uhm…."
"Forty minutes." Jade answered from where she was curled up in the sweater under the blanket, "and meowing like someone was shoving a nail through her paw."
"Is your friend always so morbid?" the woman asked Tori, Tori just nodded, "I can't move her since she's this close to going into labor, I hope you don't mind…"
"Not at all, do you need me to do anything?" Tori replies.
"No, no. I just need to call my girlfriend to bring me the supplies." The cat began to meow loudly and Tori saw Jade tuck her head and cover her ears to protect her from the noise, "I'm Heather, by the way." She held her hand out to Tori as she stood.
"I'm Tori, my friend over there is Jade."
"Do you have a phone I can use? I left mine at home." Tori nodded and walked over to the counter to grab her house phone, she passed it to the woman who walked closer to the door to make her call.
"Jade, let's get you up to my room so you can have some quite, okay?"
"Sure." Jade mumbled, Tori helped her up from the couch, wrapped an arm around her back and walked with the wobbly girl up the steps. Tori pulled her covers back and helped Jade into the bed, going to get some medicine for Jade before leaving her on her own. She was almost out the door when Jade called her name, "can I have the remote, just in case I can't sleep?"
"Okay." Tori walked over and grabbed the remote from her desk, setting it down on the nightstand beside Jade. She leaned over and felt her forehead that was still burning up, "you stay in this bed, text me if you need something. I'll be back to check on you in an hour."
"Okay." Jade whispered, Tori spun and walked back over to the door, "Thanks, Vega." She rested one hand on the door frame and looked over at Jade who was lying in her bed with her eyes closed, breathing softly.
She walked out and pulled the door shut silently behind her. When she got downstairs there was another woman in her living room, this one with long auburn curls and pale skin, "Uhm, hi?" she called out.
"Oh hi, I'm Lynn." The woman greets.
"I'm Tori." Lynn smiled at her and Tori returned it easily, heading to the kitchen. She noticed Heather in the corner with some sort of box where the cat, Jewel, was laying down crying loudly while Heather fussed around her.
"Nice to meet you." Lynn turns around and looks over her shoulder at Heather before standing up from whatever she had been doing, she walks toward the kitchen and shakes Tori's hand.
"Nice to meet you, too. I'm so glad I found her owners I was so worried she was going to have the kittens with just me here." Tori says, "can I get you something to drink?"
"Water would be nice." Lynn says, studying Tori as she spins around grabs a glass and walks to her fridge.
"Ice?"
"Just a little, thank you." Tori nods and switches the dispenser to cubes, fills the glass with some and then switches it back to water and fills it all the way up, "so how did you find Jewel?"
"My friend found her, she almost ran her over I guess, and started following her during the storm. Somehow they both ended up hunched by the bush next to my driveway while the rain poured down. I brought them in, and went out to get some cat food this morning after we put up fliers. I'm so relieved you guys showed up."
"There's a kitten!" Heather squealed. Lynn winced taking a sip from her glass, Tori peered around Lynn to see that Heather was sitting back just watching the cat. "Lynn!"
"I think you've got it, hun." Lynn replies, "I am not going anywhere near that gross fest."
"Is it really that gross?" Tori asks, peering over at where Heather was sitting by the cat grinning like a mad woman.
"Go look for yourself." Lynn replies, "Can I use your bathroom?"
"Yeah, upstairs first door on the right." Tori answers, "Just be quiet, my sick friend is passed out up there and she's not pleasant."
"Alright." Lynn took swig of water and then made her way upstairs. Tori continued to watch Heather from the counter. And then slowly she makes her way over to the couch where she peers over the couch to watch Jewel pushing a small cat out.
"Oh my god that is so gross." Tori ducked her head behind the couch and she heard Heather laughing from where she was beside Jewel, "How can you look at that?"
"The results are pretty amazing. Look at this little girl." Tori popped her head back up to see the small little kitten Heather was cleaning off. It wasn't even as long as her hand. It was so tiny and precious.
Tori crawled over the back of the couch and sat down while Heather turned her attention to Jewel who was pushing a second kitten. Tori focused on the already cleaned off kitten. It was almost black looking with hair sticking up. Heather cleaned the next after it was out and Jewel seemed to calm down some.
"It'll probably be awhile before the next one." Heather tells me, "This could take awhile."
"Would you like some water?" Tori asks, standing up and peeling her eyes from the cat.
"Yes, please. That'd be wonderful." Heather stands up and looks around, "where's Lynn?"
"She went upstairs to use the bathroom." Tori replies, pausing, "and she should have been back down by now." Tori turned and went up the stairs, Heather following right behind her. When she reached the landing her door was open and Jade was leaning against the door talking to Lynn, "feeling better, Sicky?"
"Yeah." Jade replied in a rough voice. Tori narrowed her eyes at Jade and marched forward, pushing Jade back into the room, "Vega."
"No. You get back in that damn bed." Tori hissed, pushing her down onto the mattress, "you're sick and you're not leaving until you're better because I'm not taking care of you for weeks."
"Fine, whatever. But I'm so bored. Stay up here and entertain me." Jade argued. Tori just rolled her eyes and pulled the blankets up to Jade's neck, "Vega."
"No. You stay here." Tori demanded, "I'm going downstairs and I'll make you some soup and bring it back up. Stay. Put." Tori demanded. Jade closed her eyes and snuggled down into the blankets.
Tori went downstairs where Lynn and Heather were sitting by the cat. Tori got Heather her water and then set to work making Jade some soup. She brought it upstairs, watched Jade eat it and slowly slip back to sleep, and then she went back downstairs.
"She had another girl." Heather said happily, "can you come help me get these kittens to feed while Jewel is taking a break?"
Tori nods and kneels beside Jewel and Heather, who shows Tori how to get the kittens to feed, "that is so cool." Tori whispers, "and the kittens are so cute. The process is kinda disgusting but they're so adorable." She heard Lynn snort from where she was scribbling things down in a journal out of view of the kittens.
"Yeah, this is her fourth litter." Heather said, watching them with a smile on her face, "I'm happy you found her. I don't know what I would have done if I lost her and she had to do this all alone…"
"I'm glad I found her, too. I'd hate for someone to loose their pet."
"I'd hate to lose her too; she's been with me for four years, even since my first cat died. I'd be heart broken without her." Heather reveals, she strokes her head, Jewel buts her head against Heather palm and purrs softly.
An hour later only one more kitten has been born, making a total of four, and from an x-ray Heather knew that she had 7 kittens, possible more hiding, so she had 3 more to go. But she was sleeping happily in her little box.
"So where are your parents at?" Lynn asked when Tori sat down on the couch and kicked her bare feet up onto the table, digging around in her pocket for her phone.
"With a dying aunt." Tori replied with a shrug.
"Shouldn't you be there, too?"
"The woman hates my guts." Tori replied, "So I'd rather be here." Lynn nods her head slowly and sips her water while Tori checks for a message from Jade, there isn't one, but she goes upstairs anyways.
Jade is still asleep in her bed, curled up in a tight ball in her sheets still in the sweater. There's sweat beading on her forehead and her cheeks are flushed. Tori walks over and gently places her fingers on Jade's forehead, the girls eyes snap open, "hey, just me." Tori whispers grasping for the thermometer on the dresser, "open up." Jade obliges silently and Tori squats in front of the bed, stroking the girls dark hair away from her face. When it beeps Tori checks the thermometer.
"How bad?"
"99.5. It's going down. Do you need anything?"
"No, I'm okay." Jade whispers, "any cats yet?"
"Yep. Four." Tori pulls her phone out and opens the picture's she'd taken, she turns the phone toward Jade, "they're all girls."
"They're cute." Jade comments, her eyes slipping closed.
"Yep. Get some more sleep." Tori whispers, pushing Jade's hair back from her forehead once more, she stands up after that and silently walks back downstairs, washes her hands and sits down on the couch.
"How's Jade?" Heather asks.
"Her fever is going down, she's woke up for a bit and then went back to sleep." Tori replies, Heather nods slowly and then her eyes flick back to the cat, widen and she scoots closer to snatch the kittens carefully from beneath Jewel who must be pushing again.
Tori spins onto her knees to watch Heather work, this time she has two more kittens, two boys, before settling down. Lynn kneels beside them and writes stuff down in the journal before returning to her spot on the couch, looking rather grossed out.
Eventually Tori ends up falling asleep again, curled up on the couch for three hours. Lynn falls asleep for two and Heather is busy avidly watching Jewel until she, too, falls asleep. It's well into the night now, and that's when Tori finally woke up.
It was dark outside, and very bright in the living room. Beside her Lynn was asleep with her chin on her chest and Heather was lying on the floor beside Jewel who was grooming her kids.
She turned her head toward the kitchen and figured out what woke her up. Jade was pouring herself some Gatorade and it looked like cooking soup in the microwave. She was still in the sweater, her hair pulled back and her face still pale with sweat shinning on her forehead.
"Jade?"
"Sorry, I didn't mean to wake you up." She whispered, concentrating hard on pouring the Gatorade into the glass. Tori blinked at her slowly, watching the sick girl put the bottle down, cap it and rush over to her soup. She reached straight for the bowl and hissed in pain when her skin made contact.
Tori laughed and quickly got up, grabbing some oven mitts she gently pushed Jade aside, grabbed the bowl and poured the hot soup into another bowl, "give it a few minutes or you'll burn your tongue off." Tori snapped, smacking away Jade's hand with a spoon in it. Jade glared at her, "I'm serious."
"Whatever." Jade grumbled, picking up her cup and taking a sip.
"I'll carry the bowl upstairs, lets go, move it." She hissed silently, Jade grumbled and made her way upstairs with her cup while Tori picked up the bowl of soup and followed her. Once Jade got settled into the bed she handed her the soup bowl, "how're you feeling?"
"Better, I haven't vomited in three hours. Which is a great thing. Hopefully it won't start again." Jade slowly spooned some soup into her mouth, swallowing and then attacking the soup viciously in her haste to finish it. Tori stayed upstairs to watch her eat and then took the bowl when she was done.
"Get some more rest, since you seem to be feeling better." Tori told her, Jade nodded and settled down into the sheets. Tori left once more, flicking the light off as she walked out, tiptoeing down the stairs quietly. She set the bowl in the sink and looked across the living room. Jewel seemed to be pushing again, "Heather." Tori hissed, crossing the living room in a jog, she leaned down and shook the woman awake.
"What…"
"Jewel." Tori said, Heather sat up so fast Tori wondered how she wasn't insanely dizzy. She leaned forward and plucked the kittens out from under Jewel, setting them in a pile of blankets and warm-well probably colder now-socks. Jewel was too busy pushing to realize she was on top of her other kittens.
Once the kitten was out Jewel settled back down and Heather set to work cleaning it off, grabbing the book and writing stuff down, "this little boy is the runt." Heather observes, "strong little boy though." She replaces the kittens near Jewel and checks her books with a smile and nod she closes the book and just watched Jewel.
"He's so small."
Heather just nods, "hopefully that's the last little one and I can take her home tomorrow. I don't want to move her just yet."
"It's fine with me if she stays here." Tori says, smiling down at Jewel who was bathing one of the kittens, her eyes instantly returned to the runt cat who was nursing happily snuggled among his siblings.
Heather eventually woke up Lynn who went home to check on their dog and the male cat so she could get some sleep and go to work. Heather then crawled onto one of the couches to sleep and Tori went back upstairs to check on Jade, who was still asleep.
She went back downstairs and grabbed her journal and sat down at her piano with the light on and the key cover down so she could write some more music until she decided to go to bed and crawled onto the second couch to sleep.
