It's a bit short, but I hope you enjoy. It's officially getting intense. Although it does start off happy... sort of.

Beck smiled as he jumped on top of Jade. They had spent the whole day together and it was almost like they were a couple again. Almost.

Jade laughed as he started to kiss her all over, laughing again, she pulled him closer and pressed her lips against his.

They were now at her house, Jade immediately growing sick of the RV, decided they should go to her place. Beck had agreed and then he drove them there. But immediately after closing the door to her room, he had started to tickle her, and then she jumped on the bed, him jumping after her.

This was the first time they were going to have sex, without it being so angsty. It was once again, like they were an actual couple.

He kissed her deeper, his fingers running along the side of her face, as he pressed himself as close to her as he could without crushing her. She looked up at him, her eyes staring into his for a moment, until she sat up a bit, and pushing him off of her.

He breathed heavily and sat up, running his fingers through his hair, staring back at her.

She only smirked and reached to touch the end of her shirt, pulling it over head, she threw it to the side, and then started to kiss him again, pushing his plaid shirt off his body as she did.

"Should we be doing this?" He asked her, breaking the kiss and looking at her, he still stayed close to her.

"What?" She blinked and then pulled away. "Oh right, shit. We're supposed to be just friends now. And starting over… oh my god. What are we doing?"

"We're… we're doing what "Beck&Jade" always do." He said, "We've never been one to ignore our feelings."

"Right," She said, leaning up and kissing his lips softly. "We're "Beck&Jade" and that's all…we'll ever be."

"We can't stop." Beck spoke softly, his fingers running along her face again.

"No." She whispered, "We can't."

And with that, she kissed him again, tangling her fingers in his hair.

"Cat? Cat! Oh my god! Cat!" Robbie immediately rushed over to her, and wrapped his arms around her hugging her close. "Calm down, it's okay, it's okay." He began to rock her back and forth, in an effort to relax her.

It worked, because a minute later, he crying had subsided and she seemed okay, for the most part.

"What happened?" He asked her, gently running his fingers through her hair. She was silent for a few more minutes, before she was finally able to speak again.

"I—I got a call from M-Mark." Her voice was breaking, sounding almost like a broken record, she was so freaked out. "I don't know h-how he got my number, but he c-called me and asked where Jade was. When I told him I didn't know, he told me to go to hell."

Robbie's eyes widened, "He what?"

"And then I said, fuck you and hung up." Her hands were visibly shaking, so Robbie put his on top of hers, to calm her down. He then pressed his lips to her hair, and held her. How could someone do that to her? Especially someone like Cat, who was very mentally unstable.

"Did you block his number?" He finally spoke, and Cat nodded. "Good."

She then looked up at him, her eyes filled with tears. "What's going to happen to Jade? Robbie, she's my best friend! I can't let him hurt her!"

"Don't you worry about Jade, she'll be okay."

"He's dangerous, Robbie." She took a deep breath and continued. "I heard from Jessica that he… hurt her when they dated, and… he did some other things, that I won't mention, but he's mean. And dangerous and if he does something to Jade, I'll never forgive myself."

And as Robbie listened to her, he realized something. Cat had been going on for weeks about how worried she was about Jade. Since she had started to act more removed, and didn't really hang around them as much. He also realized that she constantly wore long sleeves around and was always holding her wrist, especially during the Music Appreciation class he shared with her after lunch.

He couldn't tell Cat this, but he figured there was already something very, very wrong.

He looked down at her, and then started to get up. "Come on, Cat. Let's go get you your medication, they'll help you relax so you can get some sleep, okay?" She only nodded, as he helped her up, and took her to the bathroom that connected to her room. As he watched her take her medication, he realized something.

They were too late, something had already happened.

And it had been happening for a while.

She was breathing heavily as Beck slowly pulled away from her, still hovering above her. They both breathed heavily, trying to catch their breaths as they looked at each other.

She bit her lip to keep tears from coming to her eyes, but found it was very difficult. But what shocked her even more was that Beck was doing the same thing—holding back tears.

"I can't do this anymore," She finally whispered, continuing on before Beck had a heart attack. "I can't deny that I love you anymore."

Beck leaned forward a bit, shaking his head. "I can't either."

"But why does it have to be this difficult?" She asked him, "We've been sneaking around for months, and… well, I want to be with you. Not Mark. I hate him actually, I wish he'd… I don't know, fall off something very high and that his brains scatter all over the ground… wait. That'd actually be really cool and I just went into Cat mode didn't I?"

Beck laughed, nuzzling his nose against the side of her head, he turned it a bit, before nodding. "Yes." He said, "You sure did, but I got your point, don't worry."

He stayed there for a few minutes longer, just breathing in her scent. The oh so familiar scent that made him so happy each and every time he smelled it.

The suddenly he felt her body shaking and looked up to see she had tears streaming down her face. She immediately covered her face with her hands and shook her head.

"Jade…" He whispered, "Don't cry."

"It's not fair!" She suddenly shouted, but not loud enough to scare him. "My life is just… not fair!"

"What's not fair?"

She bit her lip and shook her head. She wanted so badly to tell him, but couldn't. The bruises had faded away already so she couldn't show him and he didn't ask any questions.

If she told him then everything would just fall apart.

Instead, she stopped crying and reached up, her hand going to his cheek. "I love you, Beck." She whispered, and then kissed him.

"I love you too." He mumbled against her lips.

And that was enough, for the both of them.

A few days later, at school. Beck didn't see Jade. But he did see Cat. She and Robbie walked in, Robbie's arm wrapped around her shoulders, guiding her as she looked down, her hand rubbing her arm as she somberly walked to her locker.

"Cat?" Beck walked to her. "What's going on? Are you okay?"

Cat didn't answer him.

"Cat…" He tried to reach for her, but she abruptly pulled away. What was going on? She wasn't normally like this. He looked hurt, but that didn't change her attitude.

She looked behind him and noticed Jade was there, at her locker. Alone. So she walked over to her completely blowing Beck off.

He turned to Robbie. "What did I do?"

Robbie just shrugged and followed her, brushing past Beck as well.

Beck—totally confused—turned around, and saw that Cat was angrily speaking to Jade. Jade just rolled her eyes, and snapped at her, which in turn caused Cat to put her hands in her hair, nearly ripping out the strands, which was where Robbie intervened.

Walking closer, Beck heard what she was saying.

"Jade, your boyfriend told me to go to hell because I didn't know where you were a few days ago. I covered your ass, and all you say to me is, oh well? You're taking your boyfriend's side? Like what are you? You used to have my back, and now? You're just a selfish, emotionless bitch."

A few gasps were heard, Jade stepping back from her.

If there was one thing Jade hated to be called, it was a bitch. She took it very offensively and always fought back, usually telling the person off—or in Tori's case, nearly ripping her hair out—but this time. This time, she just said nothing, tears filling her eyes.

Cat said nothing more, just turned around, grabbing Robbie's hand, she walked away.

"What happened?" Beck turned and saw Andre and Tori, beside him, looking confused.

"From what I understand, Cat got a call from Jade's boyfriend and told her to go to hell for not knowing where Jade was." Beck answered.

"Wait," Tori said, "How did he get her number?"

"He's a stalker?" Andre guessed, just as Beck's eyes widened, as the realization of the last few months hit him, and it all started to make sense.

"Jade's been distant lately right? And she's always wearing long sleeved shirts for weeks, before finally wearing something with short sleeves. And she's always rubbing her arm… right? I'm not crazy, this is all true?"

Andre and Tori nodded.

"He's controlling." Andre said.

"But wait, Beck controlled Jade as well."

"Yeah, but… Beck's control was more out of love… if he's somehow getting her friend's numbers demanding where she is all hours of the day…" He then looked at Beck, catching on. "And causing her to distance herself from us, seem scared and constantly wearing long sleeves around us, then that means he's—"

"Abusive. He's abusing her." Tori's eyes widened as she turned to Beck.

"I have to go talk to Jade," He said and then took off running in the direction she had gone.

"Oh my god." Tori breathed, "I can't believe this. I hope he finds her."

"I do too. Because if there's anyone who can get to the bottom of this, it's sure as hell going to be Beck."

Beck searched for her everywhere he could think of she'd be, including her hiding places that only he knew about, since when they were dating they'd sneak off and go there sometimes.

He was just about to give up and call her when he looked across the street and saw her sitting on a bench by the bus stop, smoking what looked to be a… cigarette?

He crossed the street and then sitting down beside her, he put his bag by his side, and stared straight ahead.

"Since when do you smoke cigarettes?"

"Since a while ago." She shrugged, and stared straight ahead as well. "How did you know where to find me?"

"Do you remember that time in seventh grade, when we just started to date, you and I got into a fight and you ran off?" She nodded. "Well, I remembered then that you had told me before that when you got into a fight with your parents, you'd walk off and go to a park by yourself and just stay there… for hours and hours. On the bench, reading, listening to music, writing and just taking the time for yourself."

"You remembered that? After all these years?"

He shrugged, "To be honest, I just took a chance and looked out the window and noticed you were here." He turned to her, causing her to look at him. "But still, you seem to find peace on benches, and a bus stop really isn't the greatest one in the world, but at least it's something."

She nodded slowly, taking a drag from her cigarette, she blew out the smoke.

"Why are you here? Aren't I just a horrible bitch? Why are you talking to me and not to Cat?"

"Because Cat's has Robbie to talk to you, right now… you don't. And I know right now, you need someone."

"Oh yeah?" She turned to him, rolling her eyes. "And what makes you say that?"

"Because…" He took her wrist, and lifted it. She looked at him, a bit scared as he pulled back the sleeve and inspected it. "I know what's going on, Jade."

She immediately snatched her wrist back, and stared at him. "What are you talking about?"

"I know about the way your boyfriend's been treating you, and really it's not fair. Is that why you were so upset the other day? Because of the way he treats you?"

She shook her head, at first saying no, but then quickly changed it to yes. She couldn't lie to him anymore. He was Beck, her protector, her savior, if he couldn't protect her no one could.

"Why did you tell someone? Andre? Cat? Tori? Robbie? Lane? Sikowitz? Me?" He grabbed her face, causing her to close her eyes as tears popped into them.

"Cat tried to tell me he was dangerous," She whispered, opening them, "But I wouldn't listen."

"And why's that?"

"I was angry. I felt like I deserved it, so I just let it continue."

"No one deserves to be hit Jade. No one. And I speak from experience."

Her mouth dropped open, "You've been hit before?" He nodded, "Who?"

He realized then that he kept a huge secret from her, almost making him a hypocrite. "My father. That's why I have nothing to do with him. And also why I'd never hit you or anyone else, no matter how annoying they can be."

She turned away from him, her head going in her hands for a moment, before dropping the cigarette on the ground and leaning against his chest. He wrapped his arms around her, and held her as she started to cry. Pulling her close, he realized just how hard she was crying.

"I need to break up with him," Jade whispered after a few moments, "But I'm scared."

It was at that moment, they both heard her phone go off. She pulled it out of her bag and checked it.

From Mark: You better get your ass back in school. If you're with your ex, you're going to get it. Bad.

She showed Beck the text, and he clenched his fists angrily. "You have to tell someone." He said, "And I don't mean just me."

"Like who? Lane? No! No… that will just set him off even more. Look, I have to go." She said, quickly gathering her things. "Forget I even told you anything okay?"

"He doesn't control you, Jade." Beck spoke, staring right at her. "You control your own life, you choose what you want, not what that jerk wants. Don't listen to what he has to say, anymore. Stand up for yourself!"

"What gives you the right to say that to me?" She demanded.

"Because, Jade. I'm still the one person who knows you better than anyone else."

She stared at him hard for a few moments, before breaking her gaze.

"Just forget I told you anything. Promise me or I'll never speak to you again."

He still said nothing, so she just walked off. Across the street and back to school.

He had a feeling he'd be seeing her later that day anyway.

A knock came on his door at exactly nine o'clock. He groaned but opened it up to see Jade was there. She was wearing a hood so he couldn't see anything, as it was covering her face. It was cold and rainy (as usual), so he quickly pulled her inside, not noticing her wincing as he did.

"Wow, Jade, didn't expect you to be here." He spoke sarcastically, but still he didn't get an answer as he went to grab the towel. He handed it to her, slowly, noticing how she still wasn't speaking. Concerned, he looked at her again, but she refused to make eye contact with him.

"Jade?"

Slowly, she reached up and took the hood off of her. He had assumed she was wearing it because it was raining outside, but what he soon saw, made him realize just how wrong he was.

Jade's face was completely beaten up. She had a split lip, with blood still coming out of it and a bruise on her cheek. Her lip looked swollen, and her bruise looked terrible. Then she stood up and took off her jacket, which then revealed a very swollen wrist that he was sure was broken.

"Did he do this to you?" He asked her and she slowly shook her head. Looking up at him, she whispered one simple word.

"Yes."

And at that moment, as he walked over to her, and wrapped his arms around her, gently hugging and holding her close, Beck vowed to keep her safe, no matter what happened. He didn't care about that asshole anymore.

All he cared about was her. And keeping her safe, was now his main priority.

Whoa, there. Now everyone knows. Well, they more or less figured out. Except Cat. She's still kind of not in the know, just yet. Jade pretty much admitted it to Beck. Well, I hope you enjoyed it. If anyone gets affected by this, I'm really sorry.

I don't mean to hurt anyone at all. I'm just feeling very emotional because it's the year anniversary of a death in my family. I was very close with him and I just miss him... a lot.

Anyway, there you go. I'll try not to take too much time with the next chapter, but no promises. Xoxo.