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Revenge of the Wolf

Chapter 22 – The Girl from Yesterday.

Tori's POV

Being in bed, with the body of Jade pressed up against me, is both warm and comforting. It's a very familiar scene and that's why it's so comforting. I hear her slow breathing with an occasional snore; I feel the bed move when she shifts. It's something I've grown accustomed too.

Looking at the clock I can see it's just before 3:30 in the morning I find myself lying awake, thinking all this over. I think this is the first time I've had a chance to think and process it all. In this familiar scene in the quiet of the night, I find myself able to think clearly.

When they first snapped me out of my wolf state, my mind was a spinning mass of memories and emotions, all rising to the surface at once. It was a toxic mix for sure and the result was me mindlessly blasting Jade for everything that had gone wrong. While Jade does bear a lot of the responsibility, I can no longer deny I played a part in this particular play. Jadelyn, in her rather pointed remarks, said that no one put a gun to my head.

And she was right, no one did.

Essentially, Jade and I failed to work together and as a result, fell into a rather a rather diabolical trap.

We're supposed to work together…she is my mate and to werewolf that is a scared thing. I sense what she's feeling and in our most intimate moments our bodies and minds are one.

A werewolf may have spouse, a girlfriend or a boyfriend and be very much in love and happy, having a true mate is not something that always happens. It's a special relationship, the bond between a werewolf and it's mate.. The day I realized that Jade was starting to bond with me was one of the happiest of my life. I knew that I had already started to bond with her and loved her, but to know she was responding in the same way. My heart flutters to this day when I think about it.

I can literally feel her heart beating in my chest, her voice in my mind, I feel the depth of her love. It is in those moments, intense but fleeting, we share our intimate thoughts and feelings, things that we can't easily put into words.

But even us, we're not always on the same wavelength. At times we fight, we disagree, we irritate each other, we don't communicate, any relationship, even ours takes work. Even I forget that sometimes.

I think we both forgot that and look at us now; both deeply wounded, at each other's hand.

But I didn't kill her, I thank God for that.

We both need therapy to work out these issues and learn to cope with the resulting scars, both physical and mental. I have anger and grief and Jade has anger and grief, powerful emotions that have to let out carefully.

I think my uncle Frank mentioned a werewolf friend of his who is a psychologist. I'll have to look them up when this is done. But for now, we will just have to cope.

But for now, we need to help each other so we can come back and finish Claudia for good. We have to destroy her. She turned my mate against me and tried to corrupt my children, for that, she will die.

I find my thoughts suddenly interrupted by Jade's stirring and moaning in her sleep.

She's making sounds indicating she's in turmoil and starting to move around. I think she's reliving the fight. My heart aches, just thinking about it.

Gently I put my hands on her, to try and shake her awake.

"Jade. Wake up. It's only a dream."

But she doesn't wake, she's locked in the nightmare. I dare not try and force her awake as that could cause her to turn into a wolf.

She did that before once, she had a violent nightmare that caused her to transform. Her wolf form was scared and disorientated and for a moment it looked like it would attack me. I can't risk Jadelyn and Tori.

So I gently hold on to her and speak in soft soothing voice.

"Jade, it's ok…you're dreaming. You're safe."

She keeps twitching and making very unhappy sounds as the battle rages in her mind. It hasn't happened to me yet, but I know it will eventually.

After 10 long minutes of me doing my best to keep her calm, she lets out this long mournful wail and goes limp. I think she killed me, that's her nightmare. She wins the fight.

My poor, tortured angel.

To see this firsthand, on top of my own terrible memories is simply too much. Breaking down in tears I pull her close and cry myself to sleep.

No One's POV.

The next morning, Tori hoped Jade would awake. But while the Goth opened her eyes, she remained still and unresponsive. It was distressing, to say the least, but at the very least, it outlined her first task; to bring Jade back.

The first thing she did, with Victoria's help, was to make Jade comfortable in bed. During the period she was unconscious, Victoria told her they used a bedpan and fed her intravenously. They still had those things so once again they set Jade up.

Tori over the next few days, focused solely on Jade. She held Jade's hand, talked to her, cuddled with her read her horror stories, anything to keep her engaged. The effort also helped Tori cope with her own demons.

At the same time, she did her best to give Victoria and Jadelyn their space as she got the feeling the whole bizzare situation was starting to put stress on their relationship. Jadelyn had volunteered to take Jade's place at her job, but Tori could hear them arguing about it in their room. They both had school and jobs so they were in and out a lot.

After 3 days, Jade was still largely unresponsive, but seemed to be coming out of it. It was at a very slow pace, however. Tori also became aware of Jade's nightmares which, happened every night. Tori felt herself fortunate as hers only seemed to happen every other night.

It was the night of the 4th, night and as Tori slept, she found herself reliving the fight. Another nightmare had begun.

It was like the one before it, her and Jade squaring off in that old building, only this time, all her friends and family were watching. Not just watching but cheering, with all of them rooting for Jade.

As the fight progressed and the nightmare intensified, Tori put up a valiant fight but with each passing minute the crowd became more and more bloodthirsty. Her sister, her parents, even Cat were not just calling for her defeat, but for Jade to slaughter her.

"Kill Tori! Kill Tori! Kill Tori!" Roared the crowed, which now seems to have grown from merely all family and friends to pretty much everyone she's ever met. A wild spectacle of death, Tori found herself in.

Wounded and bleeding and on her last legs Tori stood and faced a sneering Jade. "Time to die, my dearest mate!"

Turning into a wolf, Jade charged and Tori much to her horror, found she could no longer turn into a wolf. So she ran for the exit, but Cat and Trina soon caught her and threw her back, just in time for Jade to pounce.

Jade who had been locked away mentally, found herself aware of something outside her mind.

It was a scream of terror.

Not just anyone's scream of terror, it was her mate screaming. One of the deepest instincts a wolf or any other animal could have is, to protect its mate or it's young. Hearing her mate in distress, caused Jade to claw her way out of her self-imposed mental prison.

Breaking free and waking up, Jade found herself in bed with Tori, who was asleep and screaming in terror.

"Wake up Tori! Wake up please." Jade said quickly as she shook Tori awake.

Snapping out of her nightmare, Tori found herself crying and in Jade's arms. Jade had not only woken up, but was trying to calm her down.

"It's ok Baby….It's ok. I have them too….." Whimpered Jade.

Sensing Jade needed her just as much, Tori wrapped her arms around jade and held as tight as she could

Safe in Jade's arms, she began to cry. "Jade. Please know that I love you…..that it broke my heart to have to fight you. You messed up, I messed up, but know that I love you and always will. You're my mate, my companion, my lover, mother of my children. You're my life, the other half of my heart."

Affected by an equal rush of emotion Jade cried as well, "I'm so sorry baby. I could say it a thousand times and it would never show how much I hurt from hurting you. You're my mate and I wasn't true to you. I love you so much!"

In the darkness, amongst the tears, the fear and the pain, Tori and Jade reaffirmed their love.

A few moments later Jade whispered. "I need my mate…I need you to know how I feel, How much l love you…how badly I hurt…please make love to me."

It may have been an odd time to make love, but it was something both of them desperately needed.

Tori wiped a tear from Jade's face and slowly began to slip out of her night clothes and Jade did the same.

Soon the pair began to slowly touch each other and kiss. Along the way, Tori found and kissed every one of Jade's new scars.

They made love that night and for the pair, the experience, particularly, passionate, intense, beautiful and sad. For besides sharing their love, they had to share their pain.

And in that moment when Tori was near her climax, she felt again that special closeness; that moment where their minds and bodies came as one. She again felt Jade's heart beating in her body, Jade felt Tori's heart beat inside hers.

In that few seconds, the pair relived the fight, with each experiencing the others memories and the pain that came with it. Each know had a greater understanding of how their mate felt. Tori felt the soul crushing guilt that Jade felt and Jade felt the pain that Tori had to experience when she thought she killed he mate.

But they also let the other experience just how much love they felt for them. And in that final moment of togetherness, they vowed to help each other through this and to never let anyone come between them again.

The next morning Jade and Tori woke, in each other's arms. They had made it through the terrible night and though they knew the road ahead would be long and hard, they knew the worst now behind them. Knowing each other's pain, each now was in a much greater position to help the other.

Lying in bed, the pair lay facing each other, content with starring into each other's eyes.

"Love you Vega!"

"Love you Jade! We're going to make it aren't we?"

Jade took Tori's hand. "We already have. I have my mate back, you have yours. We have issues and need to work them out. This is not something we can just wash away with a simple lovemaking session, but we made it. No one will ever part us again."

Tori smiled. "Never again! Now what?"

"First we just lay here, enjoying the moment, then we sign you up for the gym I work at and get you some workout clothes. We have a battle ahead of us and we both need to train and train hard. Because we've got an appointment, with a certain soon to be dead wizard named Claudia."

Meanwhile in Tori and Jade's universe.

Claudia was sitting out on the upper patio of her, secret hideaway, eating her breakfast half thinking of how things could have turned out if Jade had won. It was greatly irritating to her, to see her plans ruined, but that was a minor loss, considering the immense satisfaction she had, that Jade and Tori were both quite dead. Fiona, Jade's daughter and the defacto queen, was only about 3 and a half years old and not even remotely a threat. The victory, though not quite was she envisioned, was still a victory and brought a firm smile to her lips.

But it was old business and Claudia quickly put her mind to reestablishing the sex slavery operation that Jade had so thoroughly smashed. It was a lucrative enterprise and she still had many clients wanting girls.

So she took a bite of her eggs and got started to scribble down some notes as to possible locations for the new brothel. She also wanted to try out a new form of mind control spell as the ingredients used in the old one, were getting harder and harder to find. She had much work to do and set about it.

Of course Claudia was unaware that Jade and Tori were not dead. There was also one other thing that Claudia was not aware of as she ate breakfast.

She was unaware that at that very moment, a Russian military, spy satellite was passing overhead, some 90 miles up. It was doing what spy satellites are programed to do, take pictures of things on the ground. In this case, the object on the ground being photographed, was her…

So Jade is back and the pair have reaffirmed their love. They know the road ahead is not easy, but know will be with each and other every step of the way.

Meanwhile, Claudia sits confident of her victory, not realizing she's quite mistaken…..

The chapter title, The Girl from Yesterday, is a reference to the Eagles song of the same name. It really doesn't have too much to do with the story. Other than the concept of being far, from the one you love. Something Jade and Tori have had a lot of up to now. But I mainly chose it, in tribute to the late great Glenn Frey of the Eagles. May he rest in peace.