A/N: I don't own MCR, Rihanna or the Notebook again. Nor do I own XS. I do own all my OC's and their personas. This chapter is quite dramatic to begin with and I am introducing more OC's but these ones are only around for a few chapters.
I just wanted to dedicate this chapter to Alex, he's my best friend and my rock. He literally is supporting me so much with this even though he was literally on the phone distracting me whilst I wrote this authors note and the beginning of this chapter.
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-Anna x
Ashley stuck her overhead headphones on and pressed play on her phone. 'Bulletproof Heart' by My Chemical Romance came on. It summed her and Jack up perfectly. She hummed along, the song began to end and the entrance to Jack's abode began to come into view. She fumbled to get her keys in the lock. She finally got the door open and the once clean place she called home was a mess. There was a smashed class and her plants were withered. She stepped into the bedroom. Her side of the bed was not slept in but Jacks side was. She walked into the kitchen and saw the note, unread. She heard a whimper from the bathroom. She pushed the door open cautiously and saw Jack lying on the floor with 'We Found Love' playing on repeat. He had obviously been there for a few hours.
"Jacky… Did you not read my note?"
He just gave her a blank stare. He began to claw at his skull, pulling a clump of red hair out of his head. "You're not her." He sounded frantic.
"Jack, it's me, Kat." She bent down and offered her hand to him.
"Don't pretend, you're just in my head. Get out, get out; GET OUT." The clawing became frantic and he began to draw blood.
She grabbed his hand and sunk down to his level. "Stop, Jack, just stop." He looked away from her. "Look at me, especially when I'm talking to you. I'm back now. I'm going away again and you can come with me but I know you won't want to so I won't force you but just listen to me."
He looked at her perfect angelic form and listened. She couldn't be real. She left him.
"I've been away for, oh I don't know, a fortnight at least?"
He wrapped his arms around her and squeezed her, expecting her to disintegrate or vanish again; like she had in his head but this time she didn't she hugged him back. "Ashley…" He breathed into her hair.
She loved how her name sounded when he said it. He loved how he brushed her hair down when they hugged and how he would kiss her before he left every morning or every night before they went to sleep. She loved it when he was tiptoeing around their room, trying not to wake her up early in the morning. She loved the way he looked at her when he thought she wasn't looking. She loved how he treated Sweetie like she was his child. But most importantly, she loved him.
"Jack…" She smiled into his neck.
"Please don't do this to me again." He sounded so young; he sounded like he did when they first met.
"Jack, I didn't want it to be like this. I assumed you had read my note…"
"What note?" He stood up, helping her to her feet.
"It explained that I was leaving for a while and that I wanted you to stay safe…"
"Oh, I didn't see it. You aren't going to leave me again? I didn't know where you are. I thought you went back to Chase…" He went quiet.
"Why would I go back to Chase? I mean, I love you; we're going to have a family." She paused realising what she had just said. "Of cats, like Sweetie."
"I love you too and we will have a real family one day too but if you want a cat family, then we can have a cat family!" He laughed.
'One day soon…' She thought. 'As in in about five months' time…'
"Where have you been staying? You have obviously been eating well; you've gained weight I think."
She gave him a glare.
"You look perfect; the weight doesn't make a difference to how you look. There's just more of you to love." He smiled.
"Jack, I've been at the Temple." She whispered.
"With the Xiaolin?"
She nodded.
"Why?"
"Because I want to do the right thing." She spoke so softly.
"That's never been a problem before!" He was starting to raise his tone at her.
"It was different then!" She shouted back at him; she began to walk to the door.
"How was it different?!" She was being totally unreasonable, in his eyes.
"I WASN'T PREGNANT THEN." She shouted and stormed out.
Jacks jaw dropped. That was unexpected. It explained why she practically glowed and the weight gain. He sat down on the kitchen chair. Sweetie jumped onto his lap and purred.
The team were not coping well with Twila's drills. There was too much work and Kimiko wasn't as flexible as she used to be. Twila had said next week was visitor week. Twila was beginning to get homesick, even with Zach there; she needed a slice of home. She needed Phoenix. Everyone was allowed one visitor to stay for that week with them. Kimiko had arranged for them all to be picked up in her helicopter. Anastasia was having her father come to stay, making Omi very nervous. Omi wasn't having anyone staying because he did not have anyone outside of the Temple. Rai was having Luci stay, Kimi had Frankie, Clay had Jesse and Taylor had her brother, Tyler. Zach was having his friend, Ben, stay and Twila was having Phoenix staying. Praise the Lord that Twila had arranged this. Ashley had no one to stay. Jack hadn't contacted her since she ran out of their place; let alone, she hadn't turned on her phone since then either.
The three days had passed and it was finally visitor's week. The helicopter was landing and everyone came running out. The seven guests piled out of the helicopter. Anastasia saw her dad and ran towards him. He spun her round in his arms. He grabbed his bag and walked with his tiny daughter. He was a very tall but solid man. He was wearing a huge coat and had gifts wrapped up for Anastasia.
"Well, haven't you grown Moya malen'kaya printsessa?" He smiled at his perfect daughter.
"Spasibo, Pape!" She looked up at the man that she told Omi about every day.
"And I will be introduced to your friends, Anastasia?" He looked at everyone hugging their visitors.
Anastasia looked around to see Twila on the back of her visitor, Ashley, Omi and Dojo hanging out, Zach greeting his friend, Taylor sitting on her brother's shoulders, Kimiko gossiping with her, Clay trying to impress Jesse and Rai spinning a little girl around.
"Later, Pape, I promise." They walked inside and there was a note on every door.
'Can everyone please go to the dining hall with their visitor for introductions at 2pm, please? No one is allowed to be late or drills, as usual. Thank you. Love T.'
Twila, Phoenix, Zach, Ashley, Dojo and Ben were waiting in the dining hall for everyone since it was 1.55pm. Phoenix was plaiting Twila's waves and Ben was telling them the news on the gang since they left.
Everyone piled into the room at 1.59pm exactly.
"Awh guys, you're early! That means so much to me!" Twila said really high pitched. She gestured for Rai to stand up at the front with her. She pulled her clipboard and pen off the counter.
"So, hi, I'm Twila-Cassidy Jennings and I'm the organiser for this team with my personal team of assistants!" She gestured to Zach, Dojo and Ashley who waved. Then it was silent. She nudged Rai who just looked at her. She gestured for him to continue.
"Oh right. Hi, I'm Raimundo Pedrosa and I'm the leader of this team but really, Twila's more the leader at the moment. She wants to do a load of introducing stuff so I'll hand over to her." He sat down in between Luci and Kimi; he subtly held Kimi's hand behind the chair leg.
"Okay then! So Phoenix, stand up!" He stood up beside her, pulling up his skinny jeans. She then thought Zach and Ben might as well stand up since they were kind of a group of people. "Zach and Ben, come and stand with us as well actually." They joined Twila and Phoenix.
"Right so I'm Twila, call me T-C or T-J or Twila or T, I don't mind. I'm sixteen from Midville, England. I like technology. This is Phoenix, he's eighteen. This is Zach, he's seventeen and this is Ben who is also seventeen. Zach and best friends who were born a week apart, Ben is older. We also all share a flat with our friend Mae who is back in England." She smiled and sat down. "You're next Kimi-Cub."
"Um, okay. So I'm Kimiko and this is Frankie, who is English, but we both live in Tokyo and we're both sixteen." Frankie waved. "She's my best friend in the world; I don't know where I'd be without her!" Phoenix blurted, endearing everyone. He sat down and glanced at Phoenix. He gave an approving eyebrow raise to Kimiko.
"I'm Raimundo Pedrosa and this is my fourteen year old sister, Luciana. I'm seventeen and we're from Rio in Brazil." He made her sit back down before she could make bed eyes at any of her friends.
"Hi, I'm Clay and I'm nineteen from Texas."
"I'm Jesse, I'm eighteen from Texas, you probably know me if you live in southern USA." She sat down next to Clay.
"Hi, I am Taylor-Jane Moxin. I am eighteen years of age and I am from Louisiana!" Her brother then lifted her up and sat her on his left shoulder.
"I'm Tyler-James; I'm twenty one and her brother. We have a sister called Tammie-Jay who is the littlun in our family."
Anastasia was now wearing a floor length black dress with red details. She was wearing heeled boots that weren't stilettos like for the date. Her hair was in two loose fishtail plaits, which complimented her face shape. "She looks fabulous!" Frankie whispered to Kimiko.
"Privet, I am Anastasia Pavlenko; I am fifteen years old and I am Russian. This is my Pape, Alexei. I take after Pape but my two brothers, Viktor and Valery, take after my mother, Veronika." They sat down. Anastasia had become fierce and cold since her father had arrived. She had even ignored Omi.
Ashley, Dojo and Omi stood up. Ashley and Dojo decided to give an interesting fact about them.
"Hi, I'm Ashley Jennings, Twila's cousin; I'm nineteen years old from England and pregnant with they're, hopefully, ex villain's child." She smiled as she saw everyone's, except Dojo's, Zach's and Twila's jaws, drop.
"I'm Dojo Kanjojo Cho; let's not talk about my age… and I'm a dragon."
"I'm Omi; I'm 15 from here and I like water."
The three sat down and Twila stood back up. "Um, thank you everyone for that. I loved the interesting facts everyone said. Tomorrow we're going to do an activity day that my friends and I have designed. Tonight, Ashley and Dojo have a movie that is compulsory to watch. So everyone here for food tonight, normal time, then we shall watch the movie!"
Everyone left with their friends.
"Kimi darling, who is the Phoenix boy? I would very much like to research him a little." Frankie and Kimi pulled out their phones and began to research Phoenix.
Kimi squealed. "Oooooh! Franks, he swings for your team!"
"I am so going to have some fun this week!" Frankie winked at Kimiko.
Phoenix walked out to the courtyard; he accidentally brushed Frankie on the way past. "I am so sorry, love." Phoenix's accent was extremely strong.
"Well, this is my cue, Kimi-Cub." Frankie sauntered off after him in true Frankie style.
Luci popped up next to Kimiko, who was looking at Rai. He was talking to Ben, Zach, Clay and Tyler. She noticed the sweet Brazilian girl who was studying her face.
"May I help you?" Kimiko asked, still looking at the boys.
"You've got really pretty hair." The girl said, running her hands through Kimi's hair.
She smiled. "I straightened it this morning."
"That's really cool." Luci thought for a minute. "Why are you staring at my brother?"
Kimiko flushed rhubarb. "I wasn't, er, you know, er staring at, your, like, brother."
"Oh, it just looked like you were."
"Not that he isn't, well you know, like, attractive because he, like erm, you know, he is." Kimiko was dithering again.
Rai noticed Luci smiling at rhubarb coloured Kimi. He walked over. "What are you two talking about then?"
"Erm, well, you know, yeah, erm."
"We were talking about you." Luci said, straight to the point.
Rai raised his eyebrows; Luci raised her eyebrows higher.
"You and your eyebrow rubbish, Rai." Kimi said.
"I've been saying that for like ever!" Luci laughed.
"Shut up Luci-lastic!" Rai said.
'My girlfriend and my sister ganging up on me; never thought I would see the day.' Rai thought.
"Did you just call me your girlfriend?" Kimi looked at him.
"GIRLFRIEND?! WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL ME SHE WAS YOUR GIRLFRIEND?! I COULD HAVE TOTALLY INTERROGATED HER AND EMBARRASSED YOU."
"Wait, did I say that out loud?!"
"YES." They both shouted.
"I didn't realise I was your girlfriend." Kimi whispered.
"I didn't know how to describe it in my head." Rai apologised.
"I'll leave you two alone." Luci sauntered off, winking at Rai who just glared back. They then went back to Kimiko's room to 'talk' as they were calling it nowadays.
"Tyler, this is my best friend Clay!" Taylor was sitting on a table between her brother and Clay.
"Well, isn't she a purty one, Clay? How did you bag a gal like that?" Jesse's twang was the strongest out of the four of them.
"I didn't bag myself anyone; you heard the lady, she's my best friend." Clay said.
"Ain't my sister good enough for you?" Tyler spoke. He didn't seem too fond of Clay.
"Pfft, she's too good for my dumb brother." Jesse laughed.
"We'll get along just fine, Jesse." Tyler said. "May I escort you to have a look at the moon tonight?"
"You may, Tyler." They walked off.
"What just happened?" Taylor asked.
"I think your brother is courting my sister."
"It's sweet though, ain't it?" Taylor sighed.
"Over my dead body will anyone be courting my baby sister, especially a twenty one year old!"
Anastasia and Alexei were sitting down discussing something serious in Russian. She was still ignoring Omi, which had him run down.
Dojo was chatting to Ashley who was being stared at by Ben.
Twila noticed Rai and Kim were missing. Zach came to her side. "I can't find Phoenix or Frankie either."
They went outside to find Phoenix and Frankie kissing very passionately. Twila coughed.
"Listen T-J, we can explain." Phoenix started.
Her face softened. "It's okay, Nix, you deserve a bit of fun now and then. I was actually going to say, could you two find Rai and Kimi?"
"Yes, miss!" Nix chimed. They were on the cheer squad together. He was her base and she was his flyer; it was how they met.
Rai and Kim had gone into Kimi's room giggling so they knew where to find them. They stood outside the door. "Do we open it?" Phoenix whispered.
"I don't know, I feel bad interrupting them." Frankie was uncertain what to do.
"Maybe we should leave them to it?"
"We need to make this look like we did it by accident."
"How do we do that?" Phoenix was a bit worried by this plan.
"Follow my lead." Frankie winked and kissed Phoenix. He immediately kissed back and they burst the door open, still kissing.
"FRANKIE, GET OUT!" Kimi screamed.
"Darling, it's not anything I haven't seen… ooo, is Rai topless?! Let me see!" Frankie was playing this so well.
"Dude, you heard, Kimi." Rai said.
"Twila came to us about ten minutes ago to tell us that food and movie are about to start." Phoenix looked at Frankie.
"We were going to tell you but we got a bit… preoccupied. Much like you two by the looks of things!" Frankie winked. "Be in the dining room in five minutes. I heard we're watching the Notebook."
They got dressed and grumbled all the way back to the dining room to cry through the most romantic film in the history of films.
A/N: Woah, a lot happened in that chapter! A lot of fluff and even better, a lot of Doshley! What did you think about my big reveal on Ashley? I thought it was really sad! Will they sort it out?
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-Anna x