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Chapter 46 - Home is where the heart is.

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Chapter 46 – Home is where the heart is.

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Jade's POV

It's summer now, late July. Tori and I first made love a few months. Every time I think about that night, can't help but smile. I never thought I'd be able to connect physically and emotionally with anyone as much as I did with Tori. I know she feels the same.

We now have a good sex life, but my past sometimes gets in the way. For usually a day or so after a nightmare, I won't be able to do it. Tori instead gives me lots of cuddles and keeps telling me how wonderful I am, when I'm not being a gank that is.

I have another reminder of that special night; a New York Giant's football helmet, Tori bought me as a Joke, the next day. After all, we might just bump heads again. It sits on my nightstand to this day.

We're a happy couple, most of the time at least. We, like all couples, have our off days, our fights and whatnot. I also still have my trauma's which I'm still contending with. I hate to say it, but this is something I will have to deal with for years to come. Only Tori's love and devotion has helped me even begin to start getting past it.

I still have nightmares, but now when I wake from them, Tori is always right there to soothe me back to sleep

Our careers, once pretty much dead, have returned to life. About 2 months ago, Tori got a gig singing lead in an 80's cover band. Ok, an 80's cover band is sort of lame, but their previous lead singer got knocked up and they needed an abrupt replacement. The band's drummer was a friend of Barbie and when Barbie mentioned her good friend was a singer, they asked her to audition.

They loved her and now she's the lead singer. Granted some of the songs are rather old and cheesy, but Tori loves to sing and when on stage she looks truly happy. I love seeing the delight in her eyes as she gets to sing for a crowd. The gig with the band doesn't have to be forever and the money has allowed her to quit the job at the Playpen. Something I'm happy about as the thought of all those drunk creeps groping and eyeing her never sat right with me.

A week after Tori and I made love for the first time, I finally landed an acting gig. It was an episode of crime television show, really gritty stuff. I play a bank teller who gets blasted in the chest with a shotgun during a bank robbery. It was first on-screen death and something I'm quite proud of.

But as I said there was another development with my career and it was a big one. After having numerous auditions sabotaged and my confidence undermined by nameless, I finally got a serous part. Yeah, the bank teller bit was nice, but it was 2 whole lines and I get blasted in the chest. I spent the rest of the scene, having to lie motionless in a pool of fake blood. Not much acting skill required, for that one.

One of the auditions I went to was for this big HBO TV miniseries based on the life of the Roman Emperor, Augustus. It's pretty serious stuff with a big budget. I honestly didn't think I'd have a shot, but I tried out for a bit part of the wife of a roman senator.

I got a call back and I read for it. Much to my surprise I got a part, but not the one I read for. I was offered the part of a mute slave, named Alda, In the story, she is originally from one of the Germanic tribes and now is the personal and loyal slave of the wife of Augustus, Livia Drusilla.

It's a huge part, with me in 6 out of the 7 episodes. But the slave is mute so I have no lines, but regardless it's a major role with, Alda aiding Livia, in her various palace schemes for power. It's a challenge as I have to use body moments and facial expressions to do my acting. It could really be a big break for me.