𝟸𝟺. 𝐼𝑛 𝑖𝑣𝑜𝑟𝑦 𝑡𝑜𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑠

The car pulled up to the LaRusso house, it was dead night. The two doors opened, Daniel and Johnny got out of the car laughing as they reminisced.

"Sober my ass. You're lucky there were no cops on the road." Daniel laughed out slightly drunk himself

Johnny panted out. "Ah, save it for the mat."

Unbeknownst to both, there was already someone in the dojo waiting for them or at least Daniel. Robby paced around in the dojo, he could hear people talking outside but he was too worried about everything else. He couldn't believe that the night had gone so horribly, he lost Julie and now he could potentially lose his mentor. Daniel was the closest thing to an actual father Robby has ever had, and the boy didn't want to lose that.

He heard the voice of Daniel get closer to the dojo, Daniel stumbled in and smiled seeing Robby. Robby turned and hurried up to Daniel.

"Mr. LaRusso, I really need to talk to you about something-" the boy stopped as he watched his father walk into the room

Johnny's eyes went as he saw Robby standing in the middle of the dojo and by the way Robby spoke to Daniel, it told Johnny that they were close. His mind tried to comprehend all the things that had been revealed to him, first Miguel started dating Daniel's daughter then he finds that Robby is dating Victoria's daughter which happened to be his student and then now he finds out that his son is Daniel's student.

"What the hell?" Johnny spat out at Robby. "What's going on."

Daniel tried to defuse the situation. "Hey Johnny, I forgot to tell you. You're not the only one with a student. I have a student of my own."

Daniel placed his hand on Robby's shoulder, and then in the blink of an eye Johnny pushed Daniel forward. The man hit the wall and his trophies came crashing down.

"What the hell's wrong with you?" Daniel yelled out and Johnny yelled back. "What's wrong with you? Man"

Robby stepped forward and stopped Johnny before he could do anything else to Daniel. "Hey, dad back off!" Robby yelled at Johnny

"'Dad?" Daniel was confused

"If you want to fight him, you're gonna have to fight me first." Robby hissed and Johnny shook his head at the situation

He couldn't believe it, none of them could. It was all crazy and too shitty to believe. Johnny just mumbled under his breath and turned to walk out of the door. Robby only let down his guard when Johnny was out of ear and eye shot, Daniel walked away from Robby as he tried to comprehend what just went down.

"Mr. LaRusso, I was gonna tell you." Robby said softly

Daniel whipped around. "Was this all just a con? Some kind of sick mind game you're trying to pull off on me?"

Robby shook his head. "No, it wasn't like that!"

Daniel yelled at his student. "You lied to me."

"Please, please you have to." Robby begged, he could lose Daniel too but the man just pointed past the boy. "Get out! Get out and don't come back to this house, not to the dealership, not ever! You got that? Ever again."

Daniel pushed Robby out of the dojo and slammed the door in his face. Robby tried to apologize but couldn't, finally the boy let out a sigh and turned from the door. Life was crumbling around everyone, their students and kids lied to them and went behind their backs.

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Everything hurt worse in the morning, Jules groaned as she pushed herself from her bed. The girl blindly reached over and grabbed the glass of water sitting on her nightstand, Jules chugged the entire glass. She forced her eyes opened and was met with the blinding light of the sun peaking through her curtains, but soon it passed and Jules rolled from her bed.

She quickly got up and walked out of her room, the girl headed downstairs to get some water for her headache. Jules looked over to see her mom doing laundry, Victoria's back was turned as she stared down at the piece of clothing balled up in her hands.

"Hey mom, where's the ibuprofen. I don't feel great." Jules called making up a lie on why she needed the medicine, she grabbed a water bottle out of the fridge. Victoria didn't respond to her daughter as tears welled up in her eyes

Jules turned around and took a huge gulp of water, she slowly walked out of the kitchen. The girl stopped in the living room as Victoria stood up, she slowly turned around and looked at her daughter feeling betrayed. Jules gasped as she saw her Cobra Kai Gi in her mother's hand.

"Do you want to explain this?" Victoria asked and Jules just shook her head as she saw the hurt in her mother's eyes. Victoria always did this, she made herself a victim. "Nicole told me about the fight as well. Julie I told you to stay away from them."

Jules just stood there, she didn't even try to say anything. There was nothing she could say, and so the teen just stood there as Victoria turned this against her.

"I give you so much, all I asked was for you to stay away from that dojo and this is what you do?" Victoria asked

Jules yelled back. "You wanna know what they've done for me mom? Sensei Lawerence has taught me so much more than you have. I have friends now who like me for me!"

Victoria shook her head trying to force the tears back. All the memories flashed in her head as if it was a projector, she saw a younger Johnny and felt the blood then she saw Terry and finally she saw Mike and it felt like she was standing over that edge again.

"Friends who are bullies." Victoria hissed out and her daughter scoffed. Jules shook her head. "No they aren't! You haven't met them."

"I don't need to meet them to know."

Jules shook her head as she took a breath. It was like arguing with a brick wall, she would never get her mother to understand. Victoria started walking forward and up to Jules.

"I'm just trying to protect you. I don't want you making the same mistakes Julie." Victoria placed her hand on her daughter's shoulder

Jules pulled from the woman's grasp, glaring at Victoria as she pulled the Gi from her mother's hands. "I don't need you to, I'm not making the same mistake as you!"

Victoria sighed and pressed her hand against her head. She needed Mr. Miyagi here, he'd say something to her that changed everything. Jules would see that she was wrong and then would apologize and then everything would go back to normal.

"You're so stubborn." Victoria sighed. "You're just like me."

Jules retorted, yelling back at her mother. "I'm nothing like you! And I never will be."

The girl turned and started towards the door. Victoria yelled after her daughter and tried to chase after her but Jules was out of the door and gone. The tears streamed down her face and the pounding in her head was the least of Jules's concerns, as her feet carried her down the street and away from her house.

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Nicole was relaxing at home when Victoria called. The woman reached over and grabbed her phone, Nicole quickly answered it. She pressed it against her ear as she continued watching the TV.

"Hello?" Nicole said

Victoria almost yelled over the phone. "Julie's gone."

Nicole sat up as her eyebrows furrowed. "What?"

"She ran out of the door and she's not answering her phone. I don't know what to do, I'm so worried Nicole." The woman was slowly starting to become inconsolable. Nicole tried to calm Victoria down. "Victoria it'll be okay, she won't be too far. I'll try calling her."

Victoria nodded and replied with a quiet voice. "Okay."

Nicole hung up the phone and as she scrolled through her contacts, her doorbell rang. The woman looked confusedly and turned off her tv, she looked down at her phone but the doorbell rang again.

"Coming!" Nicole called and shoved her phone into her pocket

She got up and walked to her door, through her window Nicole could see a silhouette. The woman quickly pulled open the door and gasped as she saw Julie standing on her porch. Her eyes were red and puffy, tears streamed down her face.

"Julie?" Nicole asked

The girl replied through sobs. "I didn't know where else to go."