A/N: Hello my darlings! It has been sooooo long. Oh god I'm so incredibly sorry. School is finally over and if you want to hear about my depressing life, read on. If not, get down there and read what you've all been so anxiously waiting to read.
If you're reading this paragraph I love you. Okay so I've told yall about IB. I thought the beginning of the year was hard? After Christmas it was 500 times worse. Literally no sleep for days. DAYS. It was so bad. But I survived! I'm a senior now, wooooo! And now I can write again, thank the lord. I missed writing this story man. But here you are!
The story is indeed wrapping up and I think 3 or 4 more chapters will do it I believe. After that, my first official fanfiction will be over D: But not to fear! Break You Down has a lot to go and if you don't like that, there is a lot more coming up! Thank you so much for putting up with my terrible updating schedule, I love you all to pieces. You guys are absolutely amazing. Thank you for your patience. Now, without further adieu, I present to you, the next chapter of Burning Wings!
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"What is going on? Where are you planning to take me?" Jade hissed, shoving some of her belongings into a duffel bag as Trina silently kept watch outside her window. "Trina! Answer me!" Jade almost yelled, only to have her mouth covered up sharply as a rush of air brought Trina over to her side in a blitz, shushing the tall Angel.
"Will you shut up? If they hear you, we're all dead, Tori included. And hurry up! You only need some clothes for a couple days, not a vacation to the Bahamas," Trina glared, venom dripping from her voice. Jade was frozen for a second, surprised by the change she saw in the brunette.
"What do you mean Tori might be dead?" she whispered, her heart pounding. Trina sighed, rubbing her temples.
"We don't have time for this. I'll explain later, but for now, we have to go."
Jade nodded, zipping up her bag and sighing. "Done. What now?"
Trina was about to reply when the scent of vanilla and lemons that wafted under her nose was stronger. She cursed softly under her breath. "They're not too far away. We have to hurry. Here, take my hand," she urged, stretching out her palm. Jade looked down and noticed her dark fingernails, curling toward Trina's palms. Her eyes narrowed. "Wait a second-"
"Later!" Trina hissed, grabbing Jade's palm and flitting out the window.
The sudden rush of time and space around her suffocated the Angel as she was pulled into the night air. Everything around her was a blur and her eyes watered until she shut them closed to avoid the burning in her retinas. She couldn't breathe, only focusing on the grip the older girl had on her hand. Tori, Tori, Tori, she chanted, wishing her girlfriend was okay.
Suddenly everything stopped.
Jade's feet hit solid ground and she wobbled, unsteady on her feet. She tried to regain her balance, opening her eyes as her hands shot to her sides to stop her from falling. It was dark but the room smelled familiar. Her eyes slowly tried to get adjusted to the pressing black as she realized the girl who had drug her here so forcefully wasn't in front of her anymore. "Trina?"
"Shhh! Do you want them to come back?" whispered a voice to her left. Jade turned toward the sound to see Trina pressed against the door, her ear against the white wood. Jade looked around the rest of the room and realized with a start that they were in Tori's room.
"What are we doing here?"
"They're going to follow the scent back here. God what do I do…." Trina started to pace across the room, her eyes flashing red. Suddenly, her gaze shot towards Jade. "I'm going to go check on Tori. Stay here. If you follow me, we all die." With a shove, Trina pushed Jade into Tori's bathroom and eyed the Angel suspiciously. "Don't screw this up West." With a slam, she shut the door.
Jade fell slowly to her knees as she tried to take in all the new information. She could've sworn Trina had flashed her red eyes, and she was pretty sure she saw dark fingernails. Not to mention the means of travel from her house to here. Honestly? It felt like Trina was a Demon. Jade snorted at the thought and closed her eyes. This was a dream. This was a weird and crazy dream and she would wake up at any second.
Sighing, she got to her feet and looked in the mirror at her tired, haggard eyes. She just wanted this day to be over. As she rubbed her dry hands, she looked around for some lotion, wanting to moisturize her dry skin. Scanning Tori's bath products, her eyes fell upon a bottle labeled Peaceful Harmony and she smiled. She loved that lotion. Jade grabbed the bottle when suddenly, it melted away to reveal a blood red switch. Her stomach dropped.
Shit.
Taking a deep breath, she flicked the switch carefully, closing her eyes. The room shook and she opened her eyes to see a darkened version of Tori's bathroom. The air was menacing, and she knew wherever she was, it was unwelcome to her kind. Which could only mean one thing….
Jade walked towards the door, her hand resting on the door knob. I'm not in the Detriverse, I'm not in the Detriverse, I'm not in the Detriverse….. With a swift motion she opened the door.
She was in the Detriverse.
Trina snuck down the stairs quietly, her senses on hyperactivity as she tried to assess the material of the presences downstairs. She frowned as she sensed nothing and she quickly flitted down to see that the Tormentors, Holly, and Tori were gone.
"Shit!"
She slammed her foot into a chair, causing it to fly across the room and slam into the kitchen walls. They took her.
Trina groaned and growled, throwing her head up into the air.
Think Trina. Calm. Where would they take her? What has David let slip before? Think…..
She pulled through all the memories of her Guardian she had stored away and sifted through them searching for a hint. David flitted through her thoughts and she focused on each memory as it flitted through.
"…. Half of the Protectors…."
"….. Arconia in the Senato…."
"….. Abraxos's head on a stake….."
"….. meatball sandwich Holly…."
"… taken to the Room of the Condemned …."
Her eyes snapped open. The Room of the Condemned! That's where her Sibling would be! Now she just had to figure out how to get Tori out of there.
A sudden breeze filtered through the room and the smell of vanilla and lemons was stronger; the Tormentors were following Jade's scent back. They needed to go, fast. Without wasting another second, Trina rushed up to Tori's room and walked in to find…. Nothing. Jade was nowhere to be seen.
Suddenly, she was grabbed from behind with a knife pressed against her neck. She growled as she recognized the scent.
"What do you think you're doing?"
Jade growled back and pressed the knife deeper into Trina's skin. Her wings were out and her glow became menacing in the darkening night.
"Tell me what the fuck is going on Demon, or I'll slit your throat with this salted knife."
Trina rolled her eyes.
"So you finally figured it out, woohoo. Took you long enough. And since you're obviously that smart Angel, you tell me. If I'm a Demon, that means Tori is too. Tori is in love with you. A Demon and an Angel. Why do you think they took her dumbass?"
Jade tightened her grip on the struggling Vega.
"That still doesn't make sense. If Tori was faking to get closer to me, why didn't she just turn me in? And why did they take her? I don't understand."
Trina groaned, annoyed.
"No you idiot, she wasn't pretending. Tori is… different from our kind. She's loving."
Jade scoffed, pressing the knife a bit tighter against Trina.
"That's impossible. Demons can't love. Your kind is incapable of it."
"That's why you're just like what an Angel is supposed to be like right Jade?" Trina growled menacingly.
Jade stopped, her sentence hitting her like a stack of bricks. Suddenly, things Tori had said began to make sense.
"There's just something inside me. I hate it.I hate it!I'm this loving, caring person and no one wants me that way. Honestly Jade, I wish I could be a gank like you. Not care about people and their problems. It would make everything so mucheasier! But instead I'm me. I care about people. And you're one of them."
They kind of believe that people should love within… their own group. If that makes sense.
My whole life Jade, I've always been something I'm not supposed to be. I have expectations that I cannot live up to because they don't show me for who I am. But I'm forced to live up to them anyway, because that's what I'm supposed to do. So I pretend. I've pretended all my life Jade. I should hate the ones that make me pretend right? I should despise them for not letting me be myself. They're the villains! They're the bad guys, I'm supposed to hate them Jade!
Suppose a murderer gave you a choice okay? A choice involving me. You could either live by leaving me, or die by staying with me. What would you choose?
I can't Jade! There are thing I cannot say and I cannot do and you're going to have to understand that! I'm forced to keep things from you even though I don't want to! There are things you don't understand right now and neither do I but I'm trying my best to get through it and all I want is your support! Do you think I like this? You think I like keeping things from you? Well I don't Jade! I'm not that selfish and I can't believe you think I am!
And then there was when Tori had run into the bathroom the night she slept over…. Jade was changing so she must've seen the wing ridges. And when she fainted when she learned that Abraxos was Jade's father…. It all made sense.
"So Tori actually cared?" Jade wondered out loud.
"Yes retard, she did, and she wouldn't tell them where your father was when they found out so they took her. Now will you let me go?! Or do you want her to die?"
Jade released Trina who sprung away from her. Just as quickly, Trina pounced on Jade and pinned her against the wall, throwing the salted knife away so Jade couldn't reach it.
"And for the record, if you ever touch me like that again, you're going to be sorry. I don't care if Tori is in love with you," Trina hissed, her natural appearance glowing. Jade nodded and Trina let her drop, eyeing her with suspicion and disgust.
"I know where Tori is. Now are you going to come with me and rescue her? Or are you going to be captured by the Tormentors coming back here to snatch you and torment you too until you tell them where your father is?"
Jade growled in anger and summoned her salted knife to her hand. They had Tori, and they were going to regret taking her.
"Let's go kick some Demon ass."