A/N: In which Jade picks Tori up from 'casino jail';


"Please tell me you didn't actually do anything that could be put on your record."

Tori spotted Jade coming around the corner of the tiny security room with her one currently working eye, looking positively worried.

"She hit me, not the other way around," Tori said, lowering the makeshift ice pack from her left eye, which was well on its way to becoming a black eye. "I wanted to, but I just used words like we talked about."

Jade immediately bent down and wrapped her arms around Tori's shoulders in a hug. "I told you not to come down here. I love you. You could have been seriously hurt. She's such a bitch. Why did you do this?"

"I know I said before that I wouldn't, but something in me today couldn't resist. You know I've been preparing what I've been wanting to tell her for ages, and today just seemed like a good day to finally let it all out," Tori said, replacing the ice pack on her hurt and swollen eye, wincing a bit as it made contact.

"What did you say?" Jade asked. She was both curious and didn't want to know. Her head was whirling from everything that had happened in the last half hour since Tori's phone call.

"I walked in and walked up to the desk," Tori began.


"Hey."

The girl working behind the hotel's check in counter looked away from her computer at Tori.

"Hi? Do you have a reservation?"

"No I don't," Tori said. She was trying to remain as calm as possible, resisting the urge to lunge over the counter and throttle the woman behind it and instead just stick to the script of what she'd been thinking about telling this woman for ages. "You don't know me, and I guess I don't really know you either. In fact, I've only heard things secondhand about you."

The woman looked confused. "Okay?"

"But those secondhand things I've heard aren't very good. I think you know Jade. Jade West?"

Tori felt a tiny bit of glee at the way she saw the woman's eyes widen behind her glasses at the mention of Jade's name.

"What about Jade? Who are you?"

"Let me introduce myself," Tori said. "I'm her girlfriend, Tori." She debated extending her hand to shake the woman's, but resisted. She had sworn to herself and Jade that if this meeting had ever happened, Tori wouldn't lay a single finger on the woman. The woman was watching her every move cautiously. "I know you two dated, and that's whatever. What's not whatever is the way you treated her while you were dating her."

"That's none of your business," the woman snapped immediately. "You weren't in our relationship so you can't judge anything about it."

"That's not what I'm here to do," Tori said. "I just want to tell you that I think it's really shitty how you and your husband treated her. We've been dating for almost three years now, and there's some things from your relationship that she's still insecure about. I let her vent to me about things and we're working through them and she's getting better, but I just wanted to say I hope you feel bad. I hope you regret some of the things you said and did to her. You lost an incredible woman, and I hope you regret it every single day. But I'm with her now, and I'm planning on marrying her and being the best thing that's ever happened to her."

The woman was now fuming, and Tori could see it clearly. She had gone somewhat off her planned 'script', but she knew exactly what would be the cherry on top of this verbal shit sundae.

"And you know how she talks about you now? What she calls you and your husband? Whenever she tells me a story about you, she refers to you two as 'Dumb and Dumber'—"

Tori was cut off there from an admittedly well aimed punch to the eye.


Jade was even more torn after hearing Tori's story of how she'd ended up in 'casino jail' (a single person ran security station with a security guard who said she could go when Jade got there since she'd technically not done anything wrong).

"I don't even know what to say," she said. "You're an idiot. I love you."

"I love you, too," Tori said. "Oh, and I'm banned from the hotel."

"But why? You didn't even do anything," Jade asked.

"It doesn't matter," Tori said with a shrug. "I think I said all I needed to and don't need to come back here ever again anyway."


A/N: Sorry this was kind of a serious/too real one. I know it's not healthy but I've been thinking about writing something like this for ages because whenever my girlfriend brings up her exes I immediately think about what I'd do or say if I had five minutes alone with them...so why not project about it? (I'm a lover not a fighter and absolutely don't condone violence but I would risk getting kicked out & banned from my girlfriend's ex's workplace over some choice words about how badly she hurt my girl if it ever came to it, tbh).

Thanks for reading! c: