Jade's P.O.V.

I didn't know what to say; I just stood there with my mouth hanging open like an idiot. "Uh..." was all I could get out. I guess Andre would have the first say in this, though he seemed a bit lost for words, too.

"Jade...Cat and Beck, they...how...you're dead!" he exploded. He seemed frightened. Strange. I was the one that should be scared; I was just caught by one of my friends after I "died", about to turn off the power in some creepy science lab.

"Well, I can tell you're glad to see me," I said, rolling my eyes. "Get over here," I ordered. Andre approached me slowly, as if he wasn't sure I was real. When he was standing about two feet away, I growled, "Look at me closely...do I look dead to you?"

"Um, not really," Andre replied. "But Beck...he came and found me after...he seemed so convinced that you'd died; everyone else too, for that matter. You wanna explain why you're standing here right now?"

"Look, I pretended I was dead to get out, and now I have to help the rest of you. Only Cat was supposed to know, but it looks like that's down the drain! You can't let Beck know, you hear me?" I asked, my patience thin.

"Why can't I tell Beck?" Andre questioned. "He's so depressed it's not even funny! You know you're the love of his life, and I don't like my best friend being all sad like that."

I glared at him, even if I knew he was right. Beck just couldn't know about this. "If Beck finds out, he'll try to stop me from going through with my stupid undeveloped plan! He cannot know I'm alive, at least not until we're all on our way out of here. You do understand why I have to hurt him like that, right?" I asked. I knew I was crying a little, but that was okay; everyone has been acting weird since we were captured.

"And Cat knew about this?" Andre asked, and I nodded in response.

"Well, it's not like she couldn't know; we were sharing a cage. Anyway, I needed her to act like I was dead, not like I was having a nice long beauty sleep! Now, are you going to do us all a favor and not tell Beck about this?" I asked, my voice slightly threatening.

Andre sighed and nodded, and I knew it was hard for him to give up like that. I hoped we got out of there soon so we could go on with our normal lives.

Beck's P.O.V.

I glared at Miss Lilith, my fists clenched. "You heard me," I growled. "I want you to let me and my friends go. My girlfriend is dead! Do you not care about that at all?"

"Now, Beckett, you know we can't just let you go," Miss Lilith said through a fake smile. "You'd just go run and tell the cops about us. We can't have that, now can we?" That was it. That was the final straw. I rarely get violent, but when I do, I mean it. I swung a fist, not caring where it hit, just making sure that it landed on Miss Lilith.

Yeah, I know it's kind of illegal for men to hit women, but this didn't count, right? She was a kidnapper and murderer.

I was jolted out of my thoughts when Miss Lilith's hand flicked up and caught my fist. I couldn't believe it; her grip was so strong that I couldn't twist out of it. In the course of a second, she'd managed to grab my other hand, too, and shoved me against a wall.

"Well, I guess I just can't trust you to work for me anymore, now can I?" she asked.

Cat's P.O.V.

I sat in the corner of the cage three hours later, still crying. I wasn't still acting, but I missed Jade and I hated being alone. I wished that this was all some stupid nightmare and I'd wake up in the morning and I'd eat some red velvet cupcakes and go to school and have fun in Sikowitz's class, but I knew that a dream couldn't possibly carry on for this long.

Tori and Robbie were yelling at me through the other two cages, demanding to know what had happened, but I didn't try to answer. They gave up after about half an hour when the door opened. They must not have wanted to be caught trying to talk to me.

I heard grunting and yelling, and Beck was thrust through the door, followed by Miss Lilith. Somehow she was holding both his hands behind his back with only one of hers, and she opened the door to my cage and shoved Beck into it.

"Beck!" I cried. Why was he here? Miss Lilith paused in her retreat when I called Beck's name, and she grinned. It freaked me out, because it looked almost like one of Jade's evil grins.

"Are you one of Beckett's friend?" she asked. Not knowing what else to do, I nodded. Beck looked at me with desperation in his eyes, as if telling her I was his friend was the worst thing in the world to do. Turns out, it was.

"Well then, I guess I'm going to have to take her with me. I think seeing her die will be punishment enough, don't you?" she asked, directing the rhetorical question at Beck.

"No!" Beck yelled, but the lady had already slipped back into the cage and grabbed my wrist, pulling me out of the room and away from my friend.

I feel like it took me forever to write this chapter, even though it's kinda short. I had a headache earlier today and I felt like I was staring at my email all day and yesterday waiting for a message about a story being updated, but that didn't happen, so I've been kind of deprived of reading new chapters of other people's stories :( God, I need a life XD I'll try to get the next chapter up soon!

Darlin24: Your review from chapter 5 cracked me up XD I don't know how many people actually caught it, but Jade wanted Beck to take her away because she wasn't positive if Andre knew about taking them to the forest, not because she's freakishly attached to him or something :D

ohsnapitzzhannah: I was wondering how many people were thinking that! As I was writing it, I was like 'this seems kind of like I'm hinting that Jade's really dead...but oh well!'