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When is Jade not Jade.

Chapter 4

Jade's POV

Just sitting in this stupid futuristic waiting room is boring; I don't even have any magazines to read.

Not to mention the fact that I'm still kind of freaked out and worried about Tori.

I heard the door open and Verbina walked in holding something.

"How are you Miss West?" Said the Doctor cheerfully.

I put her finger to my chin to make it appear like I was thinking. "Hmmm…Lets see, I'm trapped 9 years in the future worrying about my girlfriend and on top of that I have nothing to do. In other words Just peachy" I said rather sarcastically.

She put a bunch of magazines and a scissors on the table.

"You friend Cat, is quite unique. Not only can she see Al our project observer but she could tell that you were not you in 2012. Currently she is assisting Dr. Becket in his attempts to get Tori back with you."

Jade couldn't help but smile. "She's something isn't she."

"She has a very bright future in store for her." Verbina said.

"But not me, otherwise I wouldn't be here?" I said looking rather grim.

Verbina looked to the floor and then back at me.. "The Jade West in this time is currently in the 9th year of a 20 year prison sentence for attempted murder. Tori Vega in this time lives in LA and works in a call center for a collection agency, not to mention she is paralyzed from the waist down."

I closed my eyes and leaned on the table for support as tears came to my eyes. The weight of the knowledge that both our lives would be destroyed was too much.

"Oh God" I said quietly.

"But Your and Tori's lives are in good hands. Dr. Becket will set things right and all this here in the future you won't even remember. But in the mean time, your friend Cat told Al this would help you." Verbina said pointing to some old magazines and a nice red pair of scissors sitting on top of them.

"Good Ole Cat" I said feeling boosted by the magazines and scissors.

"We'll keep you posted Miss West." Said Verbina.

"Have this Al Tell Cat thanks for me. These magazines and scissors are great. She's a lifesaver." I shouted as she walked out of the room.

"We'll do."

I nodded and grabbed the scissors and magazines which were from 2016.

I paged through one and laughed to find out who Taylor swift would eventually marry.

"I never would have guessed. Apparently he got tired of Angelina and went after Taylor." I muttered to myself.

Looks like I get some spoilers. I thought paging through the 2016 gossip magazine before I happily cut it up.

Sams POV.

Tori avoided me the rest of the day so I was not able to talk to her. I figure I would let her cool down until tomorrow the day of the talent showcase.

It's odd sleeping in someone else's bed night after night. But for all intensive purposes I'm Jade West so I do as she does. She had some algebra homework which I burned through in less than 5 minutes. Her room is almost like a strange morbid museum, rather interesting.

I found a notebook with a partially written novel she was working on. It was a horror novel about a haunted hospital. It was actually extremely good and I was disappointed to find she hadn't finished it. I made a mental note to see if after things get changed Al can find a copy of this book in a bookstore. She's going to be a writer if I can prevent this accident.

The next morning I picked out some clothes that I assumed Jade would wear. Mostly Black with a splash of red tossed in.

I came to school and found Cat standing outside the school conversing with Al.

It was odd that no one seemed to care that Cat was talking to someone who wasn't there. The other students just acted as that was normal for Cat.

"Oh before I forget. Jade say thanks for the magazines." Al said to the Giggly red Haired Girl.

"Hi Cat" I said walking up to her. "What were you and Al talking about?"

"I was giving him advice about how to patch things up with his girlfriend Tina. He also said Jade is doing better."

"Good" I said. "You do need to remember when this is all done. Jade will remember very little if anything about her time in 2021. She'll probably think she was abducted by a UFO"

"Kay Kay" she said.

Al Popped out and Cat and I entered the school. I could see Tori by her locker. I tried to smile at her but she just looked at me sadly and walked off.

"Don't worry Jade er I mean Sam." You just need to get her alone and I'm sure things will be fine.

Tori skillfully avoided me most of the day or made a point to be near someone else

I finally saw Tori between 5 and 6th periods walking through the hallway alone and decided to Make my move. She was standing by her locker when I approached from behind.

"Give me your wrist" I barked. I had no idea why I said that, it was probably something Jade did. As i said i sometimes pick up traits and memories of the person I leap into.

Tori spun around and her face immediately clouded with anger.

"No Jade, I have nothing to say to you"

I figured this wasn't going to be easy so I just grabbed her wrist and pulled her into the Janitors closet. I got the feeling like Jade had done this before.

When we were in I shut the door and blocked it with my Body.

"Let me out Jade" she demanded.

"Just let me explain Tori" I said calmly.

Her face seemed to twist with anger. "Explain what, that you slept with some blonde Skank."

"Tori I didn't sleep with this girl, I don't even know her, those pictures are fake." I said somewhat more stearnly.

"I don't believe you Jade. I'm not even sure I even know who you are. She yelled.

"Just give me a chance Tori" I pleaded.

"NO, NOW LET ME OUT OR I'LL SCREAM!" she demanded.

"Tell you what Tori, Give me 30 seconds and if you don't believe me, I'll let you go"

Tori huffed and seemed to relent. I could see in her eyes there was some part of her that wanted the pictures to be false.

Tori looked at a clock on the wall. "Ok, Jade you have exactly 30 seconds."

I pulled out the blow ups of the photos I printed

"How did you get those" She said with an accusatory look.

"Never mind look at this" I showed her the first picture and pointed to a spot.

"This picture, this shadow should be pointing right, it's pointing left. Here this fold in the sheet on the bed changes abruptly."

I spent the next 25 seconds pointing out the inconsistencies and finally I pulled out the last one.

"Tori you know my tattoos right, what is wrong with this one?"

Tori still looked somewhat skeptical but looked and shook her head.

"Tori the tattoo is backwards in the picture, you can faintly make out the writing. But the clock in the background isn't. This picture is fake, just like the texts on my phone. I did not cheat on you."

I could see the expression on her face change from one of anger to one of surprise and disbelief.

She picked up the pictures which I had dropped on the floor and re studied each one of them. As she looked at the final one with the reversed tattoo I could see tears welling up in her eyes.

She looked into my eyes, I could see the tears streaming down her face like a river.

"I'm sorry Jade, Please forgive me"

I pulled her into a hug and held her tight, she cried for several seconds.

"I forgive you Tori, just as long as you will be my girlfriend again." I thought that it was a suitable thing for Jade to say. Judging on the fact that she squeezed me tighter and then kissed me told me I had said the right thing.

After the kiss she looked at me a bit strange. "You kiss different today Jade."

I just smiled "Don't worry Tori, by tonight everything will be back as it should be."

"Why would someone want to break us up?" asked Tori.

"I think it has something to do with the Talent showcase tonight, I'm not exactly sure. Maybe to wreck your performance or something." I didn't want to worry her so I lied.

"Who would do such a thing?" she asked.

"I don't know, you go to your next class, I need to check on something, I'll see you later at the showcase."

Tori started to leave and turned to look at me. "I love you Jade"

I felt slightly bad that she wasn't saying it to the real Jade but at least now she will have lots of other chances to say it to the real Jade. "I love you too Vega" I responded confident that it was exactly what Jade would say. I'm unsure why I said her last name instead of her first but I suspect it was something Jade normally did.

Tori paused in the doorway. "So how did you get those pictures anyway"

"Cat helped me and sent them to my phone from yours. I knew if I got them I could prove they were fake. Don't be mad at her."

Tori smiled "Cat's something else isn't she"

"I agree"

Tori then left for her next class.

I left shortly after heading to the auditorium where the showcase was taking place tonight. I had gotten them back together and now I had to stop the accident.

The Auditorium was empty when I arrived. I then headed up to the cat walk about the stage where the lights were where Al was waiting for me."

"Hi Sam"

"Hi Al, I got Jade and Tori back together"

"Good all you need to do is stop the accident and you leap out" said Al taking a puff of his cigar.

"Do you know which light falls?"

Al pointed to one on a near the end of the cat walk.. "I was looking around, I think it's this one here."

I went up there and looked at the light and realized that it was rigged to fall and swing down towards where Tori would be standing during her performance if it was so much as even touched.

If someone even tried to keep the light from falling it was rigged that it would anyway I determined.

"Perhaps the person responsible lured Jade up her and sent the light flying" I said aloud

"She gets seen up here and gets blamed."

I pushed the light and it went swinging down across the now empty stage. A few seconds later I used a pair of scisssors that Jade had in her bag to cut the cable holding the light where it finally crashed down on the stage.

"No more accident" I said proudly. "Do I leap out now?"

All looked at his hand link, where his face quickly took a very worried expression.

"History is changing, now there is a 100% chance Tori Vega will die tonight and Jade West is sent to prison for life for her murder."

I was astonished "What?, How?"

Al looked at his handlink "Lets see she and one other student are killed by...,"

Suddenly Al yelled "Sam Look out behind you"

Before I could even turn someone struck me in the head and everything went black.

Gotta Love Cliffhangers...