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Revenge of the wolf

Chapter 33 – Surrender

No One's POV

It was a warm breezy Saturday afternoon and at the West/Vega mansion, the final preparations were being made for a party.

It had been 6 months since they had returned for the dead and in those months Tori and Jade tried to readjust to being in the land of the living. But of course, an explanation was needed to explain their return.

The children were, told an exciting story of fighting an evil witch and how at first Jade was hurt and how she needed to hide until she was strong enough to defeat the witch. Naturally Jade and Tori told their parents and family the entire story. They were saddened by the ordeal they had to face, but glad they came out ok.

The public of course, was told a different story entirely. When their deaths were first reported, they were told that Tori and her girlfriend Jade had died in a building collapse while doing some urban exploration. To explain their return, Jade worked with the werewolves in the us government to come up with a story. It was that they had been actually kidnapped and held for ransom by an obscure terrorist group and eventually rescued. But due to the sensitive nature of the negotiations with the group and the rescue operation, the reports of their deaths was only a cover story.

Tori's fans who had sent her album to the top of the charts, were more than overjoyed to have her back. She told her fans she was glad to be back and hoped to make more music very soon.

It was a struggle at first adjusting back to life, as while they had returned home, their nightmares and traumas, returned home with them. Jade and Tori both sought out consoling with a therapist who happened to be a werewolf.

Other than the therapy, Jade and Tori made a number of other efforts to both reconnect and repair the damage, both internally and between them.

Tori went to work on her music, starting to record a new album in the basement studio Jade had built for her.

Jade worked on her writing, kept running and spent a lot of time with both Tori and their children. She also spent some time, working on a few other projects.

Things were getting back to normal, but with the terrible memories and the continuing nightmares, Jade would often wonder if back to normal was even possible.

But today was a day to celebrate, the 6 monthaversey of them coming back. But the party, which was Tori's idea, was less to celebrate them coming back and more to officially thank all of those who helped them along the way.

Coming down to the party room, Tori looked about to see that all was in place. Tables of food were in place, the bar was fully stocked and music from the Disco ball, they had used in the fight was playing. They had turned off the holographic dancers for the moment, and just had it play music and lights.

Out on the patio, she could see, Jade, her parents, Jade's parents and her 3 girls all talking. The ring of the doorbell told her the first guests had arrived.

Hurrying to the door, Tori opened it to find, Beck and his 5 months pregnant wife, Claire at the door. A week after Beck came back to her, they eloped in Las Vegas and less than 3 weeks later was pregnant with their first child. Behind them was Cat, Robbie, Rex and Andre.

"The gang's all here." Announced Beck.

Smiling ear to here, Tori stepped aside. "Come in please, we've got food, music and best of all its free, for you guys at least."

The group entered, with Tori hugging each one as they came in. Once Andre got to her, he asked, with a slightly pensive expression.

"Just how many Jades will be here?"

"Uh….3…who know's up to possibly 5."

"5 Jades?" replied Andre, as he took a step backwards.

"Yes."

"And one of them is a vampire?

"Yes."

"Just don't touch her Tori and you'll be fine, she's somewhat sensitive about people touching her Tori. More so, than the other Jades."

"Uh…how will I know which one not to touch?"

Putting on a Jade like smirk, Tori leaned over and whispered. "You'll have to guess."

Before he could run, Tori slapped him on the back. "Relax, it's going to be great, besides, we will have name tags."

Tori escorted them all in and thus began the party. Only a few short minute later, the doorbell rang again. This time it was Valentina and Julia.

"Hey guys. Thank you for coming. How are you? I haven't gotten a chance to talk to you much lately." Greeted Tori warmly.

"Were good, busy, but good?" Replied, Julia.

"With you being on the council, I can imagine it's busy."

"Not even the word for it, really. The whole thing is a utter mess, not to mention that the wizard community is still in a state of shock, from all the revelations of corruption. But we're slowly working our way through the crisis."

"So have are you two…"

Julia took Valentina's hand. "This lovely and I might add deadly creature, has been at my side, ever since I got appointed to the council. Without her support, I'm not sure if I could have made it as far as I did. She's not only helped me personally but she's been working closely with the council, on tracking down some of the bad egg's that remained. Plus she's using her experience with Russian Military intelligence to help advise us in rebuilding our security force."

Tori smiled at Valentina who looked quite happy. "I'm glad you two are doing so well."

"More than that Tori." Valentina gushed. "In the last 6 months we've become more than close, more than girlfriends. In fact we have an announcement."

Suspecting what it is, Tori grinned. "What?"

The werewolf leaned in and quickly kissed Juila. "In the last 2 weeks, I've begun to bond with Julia. More and more I'm in tune with her and can sense her feelings. We discussed what it meant for us and our future the other night. I can happily report that Julia is now my officially, my mate. I'm going to be with her full time. In fact I resigned from the Russian military, just so I won't be away from her. We're looking at houses her in L.A., actually mansions."

To Tori, the news couldn't be better. In the werewolf world, to bond and have that person consent to be your mate is something that's very special. While Julia is a human and can't bond with Valentina, Tori could see she looked very happy with her new, mate.

"That's wonderful. My god, I'm so happy for you. Come on in, the party's just starting."

No sooner had Tori gotten them in than once again rang the bell. Opening the door, she saw not one, not two but three set's of Jade's and Tori's, plus another Cat. Any other time, that would be a strange thing indeed, but it was a welcome sight.

The Jade nearest the door, smirked. "For the record, I'm Jadelyn, As requested, I crossed over and picked up Una, Dawn, and the time travelers, TJ and TV. Thanks for leaving the car for us to get here. Please tell me the bar is open."

"Yes, but who does that Cat belong to?"

"Us, Said Victoria. She heard us talking about the party, and wanted to come and see another version of her."

Tori smiled. "Sure, come on in."

As they were walking in, Victoria asked. "So how are you both doing?"

"We're doing alright, things are slowly returning back to normal. We see a therapist each week and it's helping. We're working on things, In fact, Jade now almost always consults my opinion on decisions she makes as queen. She never did that before. But, I think we've got a long way to go."

"I'm glad."

A few minutes later Jade was talking to her mother when she spotted the other Jade's come out. But it was Una's strange reaction to seeing Mrs. West that caught her attention.

The vampire walked up to Mrs. West and with a faraway look, just starred at her.

After a few seconds, Mrs. West, started to become uncomfortable. "Jade, I understand the other versions of you but why is she just staring at me."

Composing herself, Una reached out her hand. "My apologies Mrs. West. As you've been told, I'm over 3000 years old and you're the exact duplicate of my own mother. Yours a face that I hadn't seen in a very long time. Very little surprises me anymore, but seeing the face of my mother again, caught me off guard. I know you're not my mother, but seeing you and your husband, for a moment I felt like I was back in my village again. Back when I was still human."

For a moment, Cynthia West, simply didn't know what to think. The whole werewolf thing was hard to get used to, but this was far beyond that. She didn't feel threatened and for a moment thought of what her own life would be like if she lived in Iron age Ireland.

Cynthia West shook, Una's hand. "I'm Cynthia West. So nice to meet, you."

Jade slapped the Vampire on the back, "Feel free to chat, just don't bite her. OK."

Una sneered back at Jade, as the werewolf walked up to Jadelyn, who was wearing a nametag.

"Nice name tag." It was then Jade spotted the 2nd Cat.

"Seriously. You brought your Cat here?"

Jadelyn shrugged. "It was Victoria's idea. Don't blame me."

"if there's one thing worse than having more than one of us in the same place is some fool putting two Cat's in the same place."

The pair watched as Cat from this universe and the Cat from Jadelyn's, spotted each other. Not only did they look identical, they were wearing the same red and white polka dotted dress.

For a moment they looked at each other in shock, then walked up and grinned.

"You look just like me!" Each said in unison.

"I'm Cat, what's your name?" Said the Cat a second later, also in unison.

Jade shook her head. "Oh goody, now I have to put up with two of them. And they speak in unison to boot. Thanks a lot Jadelyn."

"My pleasure, Oh and I took the liberty of giving her a bunch of candy on the way here, so she's on a pretty big sugar rush. Oh and by the way, nice to see you made it. That demon thing sounded really nasty."

"It was, half caterpillar half plant, as if my nightmares were bad enough, without that thing making the occasional cameo appearance."

So the party started in soon things were in full swing, Una and Dawn were talking to Jade's parents, Jade walking around with her three girls in tow being a good host and Tori was doing much the same.

However about an hour later, Jade turned off the music and stood on a chair.

"Sorry to kill the music, but I have something to say. I hate speeches, so listen up cause I'm only going to say this once."

Quickly the crowd grew quiet and focused attention on Jade.

"Some 8 months ago, I went after a bad guy, thinking that soon they'd be dead and I would win. I was so confident of victory, so sure of my own strength, that failure didn't even cross my mind. I was so overconfident, that I needlessly, pressured Tori into going. And we all know what came next."

For a moment Jade paused and looked over the faces in the crowd.

Looking rather somber, Jade continued. "I walked directly into a trap. One that nearly cost both me and My mate's lives. I remember waking up, some 9 days later, my body shattered and my spirit, utterly destroyed. I had no idea, I could ever come back from that. A defeat that still stings."

Jade looked down at Fiona who was standing nearby and smiled. "But I came back and emerged triumphant. But the glory in this victory is not mine. It's yours. If it wasn't for Tori's parents who watched over our little girls or Beck who saved Tori, or Juila and Valentina who kept the home fires burning to TJ, Victoria Jadelyn and the others, I and Tori wouldn't be here. Claudia would be still alive and spreading her evil. But now she's gone and Livia's legacy of evil, has been destroyed for good."

Jade paused for a moment again, as if she was starting to look emotional. "I once thought that strength was merely physical. It's not and that was a lesson I learned the hard way. It's very humbling, I can tell you. But I've since learned that strength lies not within but with the people you surround yourselves with. The power of the wolf lie,s within the pack and though many of you are not werewolves, you are my wolf pack, you were my strength, you pushed me when I needed to be pushed, you showed me things that I never thought possible, you helped me get back up and strike back. You was my strength, when I had none and for that I will be eternally grateful."

After interrupted by a round of applause, Jade continued to speak,

Tori then began to walk around with some envelopes. The first of which she handed to TJ. " Have some gifts, For TJ and her Tori, 100,000 dollars cash, from your universe. Something to invest in that pub of yours. Thank you for letting me see, a bit of the past."

Tori then handed an envelope to Valentina. Opening it, she could see it contained a wolf's head necklace of the same type that Jade wore. Not only were they symbols of the royal family but allowed the wearer to transform into a wolf without removing clothes.

"Val, as queen, I'm making you Duchess of … well, whatever you'd like. You're a Fenrir now, a member of the royal family. Plus, you get a mansion too."

Valentina bowed, "Thank you, my queen."

Next, Beck was given an envelope. "Beck, you saved my Tori and for that, now amount of money could thank you enough, so instead I bought you a mansion in Hawaii. Hope you like it. Tori's idea."

"You're welcome Jade." Said Beck.

Next Jade gave Julia a mansion, but this one was in Colorado, near a ski resort. She had recalled that Julia loved to ski."

Tori's parents, also got a mansion in L.A, as did Jade's parents.

"To Una and Dawn, Well Una, you're rich and powerful, what can I give you, that you can't buy yourself. Well, I know your road back to humanity is a long one and I'm sure will be not without challenges. Inside you're envelope you'll find a letter from me. If in the centuries to come, you find yourself in need of help to stay on that road, you give that letter to me or to one of my successors. It says that you should be given any and all help that can be given. It is my wish and it will be done. You'll also find detailed plans, provide by Jadelyn of the equipment to cross between universes. So not only will you be able to contact me or my successors, you can explore and see new things, new worlds. Something I'm sure you'd like to do."

Looking genuinely impressed, Una bowed. "Thank you. That means a lot."

"Lastly to Victoria and Jadelyn, who took us in, when we needed help most. You took care of us for 2 months, so I've arranged for a 2 month cruise around the world, from England to Australia. You'll be in the best cabin on the ship, all expenses paid and I've even kicked in some money to cover your bills while you're on vacation. So essentially, 2 months on me."

Jadelyn and Vitoria both smiled and said thank you."

"I can report that Claudia's criminal empire has been dismantled, the stolen art treasures she possessed have been returned to their rightful owners and even more important, through records we discovered in her castle, we were able to locate and free, every single girl she had put under a mind control spell and sold off as sex slaves. They have returned home and their owners, arrested. Things are returning to normal, but I'm not sure what normal is. It's one of those questions that probably will never be answered."

Reaching to Tori, who was standing next to the chair, Jade took her hand.

"Finally, I need to not only thank but apologize to my beautiful and loving mate, whom I couldn't live without. I love you Tori and though you are my mate, which is everything in the werewolf world, but…."

Jade then got off the chair, pulled out a ring and got on one knee. "Be everything to me, in not only the werewolf world but he human one as well, Marry me."

Not expecting a proposal and not with a huge diamond ring, Tori's jaw dropped. For only a moment, when she happily replied.

"Yes."

After a kiss between the pair and the resulting cheer, the party resumed and continued long into the night. Una told stories of the dark ages, while the Cat's got completely drunk and much to Jade's annoyance, seduced and even drunker Robbie and they had a threesome in the guest bedroom.

Julia and Valentina spent time talking with various people, but always together and nearly always holding hands. They looked very happy and hope to be so for a very long time.

Jadelyn for a long time avoided Beck as he looked just like her Beck who was abusive. TJ and Tori did as well, spending a lot of time with Andre.. But Jadelyn finally was able to overcome her anxiety and talk with Beck. He was apologetic about his double and said he was glad she had found happiness. They talked for a time and Jadelyn was finally able to put some of her own demons to rest.

Near the end of the evening, just before everyone started to leave, Jade pulled Tori into her arms and kissed her.

"Thank you."

"You already thanked me Jade and proposed."

Jade laughed. "I just realized that I don't think I ever thanked you for saving me in the park all those years ago. From that rapist. But my wolf guardian angel came to the rescue."

"Well, you're welcome Jade."

You saved me, in more ways than one and I plan to not only thank you but spend the rest of my days, paying you back."

Tori then grinned. "Well Jade, you've been giving gifts out, I have one for you."

The Goth, raised an eyebrow. "What?"

"Did you notice something about me tonight?" Replied Tori coyly.

Puzzled, Jade thought for a moment. "No."

"I wasn't drinking."

Tori didn't drink a lot, so Jade really didn't think much of it. "But….."

It was then Jade got it and this time, her jaw to hit the floor. "YOU'RE!"

Grinning ear to ear, Tori nodded and put Jade's hand on her belly. "Yes. I'm pregnant. My gift to you, another beautiful daughter, a symbol of our love and the fact that our love will conquer all. Not to mention another werewolf princess. Soon we'll have our own little wolf pack."

Bursting into tears, Jade pulled Tori even tighter. "I love you so much, Tori. I'll even stay at home and raise them so you keep up your singing career."

"I love you too Jade and we will raise them together, I want you to make your dreams too, you haven't acted in a while and I know it's something you miss. I want you to be happy too."

Holding her now pregnant mate, surrounded by friends and family, all people she loved and trusted, Jade couldn't have been happier.

She knew the life ahead would have its ups and downs, triumphs and tragedies, but she didn't worry, as she had friends, family, all people who cared for her. They were her strength, they were her wolf pack.

After the hug, Jade took Tori's hand. "Come on, let's announce our newest member of the family."

Squeezing her hand, Tori nodded. "Come on, life awaits."

THE END!

This is the last chapter in the last story in the Wolf in Me, Saga. I hope you've all enjoyed it and thank you ever so much in reading it. Thanks also for your reviews and please let me know what you think.

The song title, Surrender, is from the Cheap Trick song of the same name.

If you want to see something fun. I play the xcom computer games. If you're not familiar, it's a turn based strategy game where you help to fight invading aliens. The latest game in the series came out Xcom 2 and in that you can customize your characters.

So for fun I made my own Tori and Jade characters. Jade is a sniper and Tori, with a nod to Lindy from Eyecandy, is a hacker. You can see screenshots of them on my twitter page.

quittingtime101 is my twitter handle.

One final note on that, in the game when you go to and head out of a mission, there is a small scene, of the various soldiers you have chosen for the mission in the transport. I always try to pair Jade and Tori on missions and in each case, the computer has put them either sitting across or next to each other. A bit strange, but nice.

I hope to get back to Unfairly judged, real soon.

Thanks and until next time.