(A/N Hi Twisted fans! Are you ready for another episode chapter of Twisted, well here you go, its all finished and ready for you to read. Our old friends are joining in and a some new characters. I can't say which chapter because you'll have to read and find out. Spoiler Alert! So on with the story.)

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Season 2 Episode 2 Forgive me Charlie McBride

Saturday Morning.

Jo wakes up huddled in her bed hugging her pillow tightly. She groans out of bed and walks to her closet to get her clothes. Today is visit Charlie Day. She opens her door, walks inside the bathroom and takes a look in the mirror. Eeek! Shouldn't have looked. Having mom buy sleeping pills sure aren't working, and won't even get rid of the nightmares. She combs her and hops in the shower. She takes a hot shower to wash away the fear and guilt as if the water will carry her away from Green Grove and never return. After showering, and putting on her clothes she heads downstairs to see her parents drinking a cup of coffee. her mom watches the news on the small T'V. and her dad reading today's paper.

Tess gets up to give her her breakfast. Jo takes a small look and slowly pushes it away.

"I know its hard for you honey, but you need to eat." said Kyle.

"I'm not really hungry."said Jo.

"I highly suggest you see the therapist again, you don't need to visit Charlie today." informs her dad. Having to almost lose his daughter, he wants whats best for her benefit.

Jo grabs the piece of toast and shoves it in her mouth. She's been through the therapist thing, the one with the bad breath. If therapy was her last option, she highly suggest they see him too.

"You don't have to visit him if you don't want to. If you don't go, we don't go." said Tess. That was actually part true, she would still see her long lost son but not without Jo's consent. The last thing she ever want to do is hurt her again.

"I'll go. But not your guy's benefit. After all he is my brother."

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Twisted Theme song

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The family waits in the waiting room till visiting time begins. Jo, Danny,Lacey, Rico and Whitney wait in the room. Lacey reads a fashion magazine, its a snap shot of a guy posing at the beach with his shirt off, and posing yoga style. Whitney goes through her phone texting her dad telling him where she is.

"I am here at hospital with Lacey;) we're totally playing safe 'n' hospital" she texts.

Rico sits next to Jo, Andie has a student body meeting today and she begs him via text message to come here her speech. Rico tells her to give him time to be there for his friends and a sad Andie exits back 'okay'.

Danny stares at the doors to visit Charlie. The news his Aunt Tara was the adoptive mother to Charlie brought the living daylight out of him. He's trying to clear his thoughts that this doesn't change his feelings for Jo. They aren't related by blood, adoption or not, he will do anything to protect Jo. Just as he has in the first place and always will.

The doctor comes in, visitation is ready. Jo's mom urges her to go first. Danny gets up from his chair to follow her. They walk down the hall to the room number. Jo hesitates to go inside.

The last time she had seen him, his blood was stained on her clothes after she undid herself after he stabbed himself. The gun that went off Kyle accidentaly pulled the trigger but he missed.

"I'll be right with you. Come on." he takes her hand they walk in together.

Charlie sits up on the bed eating chicken broth and sipping his big cup of water. He looks up and delighted with joy to see Jo but vanishes when he sees Danny.

"What a pleasure having some visitors around." said Charlie.

"We chose to come for not your benefit but for everyone. Said Danny eyeing Jo. Apparently it was for Jo's benefit to visit, if she didn't want to, they would just go on with their normal everyday lives.

"Nice to know there are people who actually care.'' Eyeing at Jo after she wouldn't take him back. If she would of taken him back, they would not be in this mess. But scratch that, things would be in a whole different circle with Charlie. Counting the one fact they are half-siblings.

Jo stands a few tiles from Charlie, her mind is going through hay-wire on what to say. Its nice to see he's adjusting well after surgery, but if it were her, she want the plug pulled off. Questions still need to be answered. She needs alone time with Charlie about everything.

"So how are you adjusting, feeling all right?" asked Danny.

"Like a knife passed through my heart." he informs.

"We tried to help. Seems your not a good listener!"

"You know what?"

"GUYS! Stop now!" said Jo speaking for the first time."Danny wait outside the hall, I need to talk to Charlie.

"You sure?" he asks.

"Yes, I'm sure." eyeing him to get out.

Danny walks out of the room before taking a one last peek then exits the room.

Jo takes a seat next to Charlie, with her hands in her lap while trying to clear her thoughts. Charlie can sense what he has done, but wants to make it up to her.

"Jo."

She looks up."Jo look. I'm sorry how what happened but I want to put that aside. I want us to get to know each other better."

"I think I know enough. There's nothing more to know, we're different."

"Maybe, but yes. After your mom told me I was her son. My mind snapped." Turns his body sideways and sits up a little."Tara was my mother. I was staying with other people, she worked then took care of me."

"As far as I am concerned Charlie, she never had kids, and if she adopted you, how come she never brought you around."

"I don't know." he said." She told me they lived faraway and it was expensive to visit. The only relative I knew of from her was Vikram."

"Did you know what happened to her?"

Silence fills the room. Charlie's body twitches, he knows the information to Tara's murder, but its not easy to say.

"Do you know the case to Tara's murder?" Jo asks again.

Charlie takes a sip of water, he urges Jo to sit on the bed. Jo walks to him real slow, she sits on the bed carefully and Charlie motions to sit up. He clears his thoughts and now the moment of truth. The truth to Tara's murder.

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Flashback

"Growing up, I was lucky to her. She was good mother. Every night before bed, she read to me. We would read the same story over and over again. She would laugh because she kept trying to urge me to read something different. I told her no because this is my favorite, it'll never get old.

As i got older, I've gone down a couple of wrong paths. She was never home, I invite friends over and they would trash the place. She came home early and hit me. I yelled at her, I told her she was never home, never tucked me in every night anymore and that she was a bad mother.

So i stopped having friends over, I went out. I decided I had enough and I ran away.

"Why would you do that?" asks Jo.

I ran away three towns over. Vikram spotted me. He took me in for awhile. I begged him not to call Tara. He said it depends if I don't tell him why I ran away. I told him Tara was almost never home to take care of me, and he asked why, she really loves you.

The biggest reason i ran away is because I understood she had to work out of town, and came home on weekends and Monday's. But here comes the most tragic things that has ever happened in my life. One of her friends tried to sell my blood. He drugged me, I was half asleep when he stuck the needle in my arm, i came out of the drugs and I pulled it out. I ran away from him, he caught me, and he stabbed me in the arm with the needle if I didn't cooperate.

I tried to tell Tara but he covered for himself. I told her I will run away if she keeps that man in the house. All she kept telling me was he's a good man and that its all in my head because she's working and he's babysitting. Four days after the incident, he payed me to shut about it if I told the cops, I tried calling Tara but he cut the phones off.

I ran in my neighborhood as fast as I could. A wired fence was in my way, but I didn't care, I climbed up and went over. I was cut all around but that didn't matter at the time. I hid in a barn till she came home. I survived on nuts and some water by the creek. He never bothered looking for me. No sirens, no search parties, etc. Nothing for days, I came home early, I sneaked inside my bedroom, and he was one step ahead of me.

"If you don't listen to me when I tell you, I'll have your ass on the wall." he threatened.

He left an hour before Tara came in, I packed up my things and left.

Vikram told me he'll take care of her. We went back to her house. Vikram kept his mouth shut. I went up to my room to think whats going to happen.

Thats when I heard I was adopted.

"You wanted a child, I gave you one, and this is how you treat him with a stranger."

"I love him with all my heart, you know I have to work to support because first of all I am not married, second, I think it was a mistake adopting him, I'm sorry but you need to take him back."

"Mistake? Did you say what I think you said."

"Im sorry it slipped my mind, I do love him but he needs help."

"HELP?! Your stupid brain needs help, this young man was abused while you were away and your saying he needs help. Charlie is my nephew, I will do anything to help him. This is too much coming from you, my own sister.

I ran downstairs and Tara looked me with big eyes.

"I'm adopted?"

"Sweetie, I do love you, I'll quit my job to be with you."

I pushed her hand away and I took the box of matches and set the kitchen on fire, I went outside and set her car on fire. I yelled out to her now no one goes anywhere.

Tara called the police to send me to juvie for violating her own property. Vikram tried to get me back but according to custody, she had every right.

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Flashback over

"The day before she was murdered, Vikram and Tara visited me and I was charged with class 2 felony for property damage and almost committing murder. I was charged for five years. Tara and I talked, she told me everything and I asked about my biological mother, she told me she doesn't know because no names were found on the record and my birth certificate was never found. Vikram told me he'll take care of her for what she did. I told him I hope she learns her lesson."

"So why did he make Danny take the blame?" asked Jo.

"I don't know, he probably didn't want to face guiltiness in jail. I don't why but he must of needed time to think about what he done. Murdering Tara changed him, he was a good uncle to me, but I regret going to him. I miss Tara everyday, I should of just went along she stay home to take care of me." Charlie starts crying.

Jo leans in to hugs him carefully, Charlie cries on her shoulder weeping in despair. She feels sorry for him. "Its okay."

Danny heard everything, his Aunt Tara was murdered all because he trying to protect Charlie. This solves everything. It all makes sense how why his dad murdered his aunt Tara. Danny flashbacks to the day he put the jumprope in his hand, Charlie was right, he's changed since he killed Tara.

How did classmate Regina get in? Danny knew all along that necklace belonged to Tara. Regina never knew his dad, Danny was in juvie for five years, and Vikram was assumed dead after the boat accident.

Danny snaps back into reality when Jo comes out of the room.

" I know why Tara was murdered. Charlie-

Danny interrupts,"I know! I heard everything. It makes sense now. But I'm still concerned about Regina's case."

"Me too, we have to tell my dad."

"No, not now, he'll never get over it. We need time to get all the clues together to solve Regina's murder. " said Danny in a clear conscience.

"I think your right. (Cocks her head.) So what happens to us if we solve the Regina Case?

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The group waits in the waiting room, its been 20 minutes, Jo and Danny must be having a good talk with him. Rico spots them, he gets up before everyone.

"So what happened, is he okay?" asked Rico.

That was Danny."He's all right, he needs more rest. We don't we all head to the diner, my treat."

Lacey walks up to Jo."What happened in there?"

"He said he was sorry, and he might reconsider help after he recovers."

"He almost killed you, are you sure he'll change after he gets out. Jo, we are friends again. You can tell me anything, I'm always here for you." Said Lacey.

"I know you are, lets go before they leave us."

'Okay!" they both laugh.

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Jack and Karen have a night out in the finest restaurant in town. Karen wears her best black slim dress with red heels, and Jack wears his finest suite, and black boots with the matching belt.

Karen orders white wine, Jack orders the red wine. For supper they will have the lobster special.

"What makes it special?" asks Karen.

"We use it because the chef orders too many lobsters. Don't tell him I said that." the waiter whispers.

Jack and Karen laugh. They tell the waiter they won't say a word. Its nice to get out from working and not having to cook tonight. Danny's out with his friends and this night can't get any better.

The wines are in, they toast and take a sip.

"Its a nice night." says Jack smiling at Karen.

"Yes it is, I am so relieved I don't have to cook tonight." takes a sip from her wine.

"I enjoy your cooking, restaurants don't make food the way you do." said Jack.

"That would be an inside joke. When Danny was little, I made my special brussel sprouts, he hid it in his no see-through lemonade and dumped them in the trash."

"Did you get mad at him?' he laughs.

"No i didn't get mad at him." she shakes her head."He told me later, and we got rid of them by throwing it at the cat who used to bother us at night. To our surprise he took them and never came back."

'Well that did the trick." he laughs.

'Yeah, good times we had. Only two years to spend time before he heads to college. A mom's dream for her boy." said Karen.

"The job I have to help pay for Whitney's college, I could maybe get her into an inexpensive community college. She wants to go into the pre med program."

"She wants to be a doctor, that's amazing. That was my first choice as a girl but it never came true."

"She's excellent in her studies, when she was little, she did first aid on all her dolls including myself even the slightest splinter."

"Well can't blame a girl for trying." Karen laughs.

Taking a small sip from his drink, he asks her the most important question."Karen, I know I don't have much but I offer you my love. Take all the time to think. Its a one time opportunity."

"Wheres this getting at?" asks Karen.

"Marry me Karen, I will do anything to make you happy."

Karen gasps.

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At the diner the gang finishes dinner and too full for dessert. Rico sits next to Jo, Lacey is across the aisle from them and Danny sits next to Lacey while Whitney is by her side. They talk, its almost junior year, and Rico is talking about the SAT's and Act's for college preparation.

"We don't need to worry about that till senior year." said Whitney.

"I know but if we do it early, we can get early admission before anyone else." said Rico.

"Okay well, lets not get too far." informs Lacey.

While the gang talks Danny touches his foot Jo's foot. Jo gasps a little, no one watches, she keeps still. She too does the same thing, and a moment later they foot lock. He smiles at her and she returns it. They continue on talking about the future with their friends.

(A/N I'm crying with joy at the last part I put in. I hope you enjoyed my theory on how Tara got to be murdered. I was brainstorming to create a tragic past for Charlie and how Vikram got in the case. Charlie was getting tired of that man watching him and turned to Vikram for help. My other theory which wouldn't fit well was she got frustrated with him breaking the law, picked up the habit of smoking and setting her car on fire. I dropped the smoking thing and added a little bit of breaking the law when he found out he was adopted. and added more to fit the story. I know you guys in this chapter wanted Tess to visit Charlie but I promise next chapter you will, in this chapter i wanted Jo to visit him because he did almost kill her so there you have it.

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