"Do you happen to know who Doctor Alexandra Woods is?" Mr. Smith asked and Jade felt her blood going cold, it was a moment of flight or fight feeling, she felt the adrenaline and fear going through her body and she couldn't escape it. Jade knew they had caught her but she still tried to pretend, it was the only thing she could do.
"No, should I?" Jade asked and Mr. Smith chuckled as he shook his head. "What's so funny?" She asked.
"You're really good, that school pays off" The detective commented.
"What are you talking about?" Mr. West asked.
"She is lying" He responded.
"Why would she lie about that?" Beck questioned upset. "This is ridiculous"
"It's been a stressful month for the police but we are finally connecting the dots" Mr. Smith said and grabbed an USB from his coat pocket. "Go ahead Jade, tell them who that doctor is or we will"
"I have no idea what you're talking about" Jade said and the man handed the flash drive to his colleague, who took a seat and put it on the laptop.
"No? Let me refresh your memory, Alexandra Woods is a British psychiatrist, she's twenty six years old and about three months ago she set up weekly private visits with Michael Johnson and Nathalie Rivers" The detective said.
"What does that have to do with Jade? Some shrink decided to interview those psychos and you come to our daughter?" Adeline asked and he sighed.
"The problem with that is that Alexandra Woods is in fact in Washington D.C. and she has never even been to Los Angeles, strange right? Considering she's been visiting Michael and Nathalie" The detective explained and Mr. Davis stood up holding the laptop, she turned it to them and they saw the image of an ID belonging to Alexandra Woods but with Jade's picture on it; however, she looked different because she was wearing a wig, glasses and contacts.
"What…what is this?" Mr. West asked and the gang looked at each other confused, while Jade looked down.
"Oh and we also have the tapes of the security cameras at both prisons, this 'doctor' has been seeing her parents every week for three months without any sort of restriction" Mr. Smith informed as his partner showed them two videos playing simultaneously where they could see Jade dressed up as that doctor walking into a room, which was different for the two tapes because it was the two prisons. "All the time she wanted, completely confidential…a hard privilege to get, one she got by manipulating the prisons CEOs"
"Oh my god" Adeline said as they all stared at the screen and then turned to Jade, who was simply looking into space with a cold expression; there was nothing she could say to defend herself and she could only think about her mother's remarks, Mr. and Mrs. West wouldn't want her after that, their fear would finally be revealed, they would kick her out and try to forget about her. She felt Nathalie was right, she'd been their project and they'd failed so she assumed they would want her out of their lives for good. Jade West was over and the only thing she had left was Hannah Johnson, she knew she had to embrace her true identity once and for all.
"You have been seeing your parents all this time?" Tori asked shocked.
"Just a few months" Jade said and her mother shook her head with tears in her eyes.
"Why?" Adeline asked hurt and confused.
"They are my parents, you expected me to just forget about them?" Jade asked like it was an obvious answer and they looked at each other. "Oh right, you thought that by keeping me from them you would be able to fix me" she added sarcastically. "I was never broken and I never should have let you tell me otherwise" she said angrily, all she could think about was her mother's words.
"Jade that was never our intention, we just wanted to give you a family" Adeline commented.
"I had a family and I lost it because you didn't let me see them" Jade affirmed.
"You never asked" Her father responded.
"Yes I did, right after they brought me I begged you to let me see them and you said no" Jade said angrily. "You have never cared about me, I was your lab rat" she added.
"Your therapist said it was risky for you to see them at that time" Mr. West said and shook his head. "I can't believe you did this behind our backs, we opened our doors for you!"
"Maybe you shouldn't have!" Jade responded and he stared at her surprised by her attitude. "But I'm sure that's something you've regretted many times before today, that gun next to your bed? Don't worry, I wasn't going to kill you" she commented and they looked at each other confused.
"Jade what are you talking about? That gun has never been there because of you" Mr. West affirmed.
"It's them, they've brainwashed you" Adeline added mortified.
"No, my parents told me the truth and I finally see it" Jade said.
"WE are your parents!" Adeline exclaimed with tears streaming down her face but Nathalie's words filled Jade's head, she felt she'd lost everything and the only thing she could do was hold on to the only life she had left, the life of Hannah which included her parents and the darkness around them.
"No you are not, you never have been and you never will be my parents" Jade affirmed coldly as she glared at them and they just stared at her shocked and heartbroken. She seemed a completely different person.
"Well, don't you people find extremely coincidental that the murders started a month ago? Two months after she started visiting her parents and on Sundays! A day after seeing them each week" Mr. Davis commented, bringing everyone's attention back to the matter and away from Jade's fight with her parents. "They must be proud of your accomplishments" he added.
"That doesn't prove anything" Jade affirmed and then looked at her friends and Beck, who were just staring at her completely shocked and disappointed. She'd transformed within seconds, her attitude just made them doubt her innocence even more.
"Oh but there's more" Mr. Smith said and everyone looked at him again, they didn't even know if they wanted to know it. "You were careful the first times but then, realizing you weren't caught, you started loosening up and the last three victims have something in common, you know what that is?"
"No and frankly I don't care, they are dead" Jade said cynically.
"Jade…" Nathalie said still assimilating the news and her daughter's reaction, she couldn't understand how the girl she'd raised for years had suddenly turned against her.
"Oh you do, believe me" Mr. Smith said.
"I doubt it but go ahead" She responded.
"According to their teachers and classmates, all three girls were contacted by a psychiatrist called Doctor Alex Woods and they were told they'd be interviewed to see the effects that the mainstreaming of the murders had on them" Mr. Smith commented. "The parents said they dropped their daughters off at their school, left them with a blonde doctor and they never saw their girls again"
"Oh my god" Beck said as he shook his head and pushed his hair back, he felt so overwhelmed.
"No, no, no wait, that wasn't me" Jade said and shook her head, while her parents were just staring at her debating whether to believe it or not. "I swear it wasn't me, I did go visit my parents but I never killed anyone, I never even saw those girls"
"Doesn't look like that to me" Mr. Smith commented.
"Shut up you know nothing" Jade responded.
"You'll have to come with us" Mr. David said and she shook her head.
"I didn't kill them!" Jade insisted but Detective Smith started cuffing her hands anyway.
"Jade West you're under arrest" He informed.
"Even with all of that you can't prove she did it, it's circumstantial and you know it, you can't arrest her without stronger evidence" Mr. West said.
"Oh don't worry we'll get it, as for now she is under arrest for identity fraud" The man said and Jade looked down scared. "But I can assure you this charge will be the least important in her trial, she's looking at five murders in the first degree, the jury will not hesitate to lock you away forever"
"Please don't take me, I didn't do it I swear" Jade said scared as they made her walk to the door and her friends looked at each other not knowing what to do.
"For crimes like that, you have a good shot at death penalty you know? Your parents only avoided it because they had info on more victims but in your case, I cannot wait to hear the sentence" Mr. Davis commented and she stared at him terrified, the gang looked at each other worriedly and Adeline covered her mouth.
"Stop intimidating my client" Her father said and the detective chuckled as he handed him an envelope.
"Here's your warrant" The man said as his partner made Jade walk to their car, they simply put her in the back and drove away.
"This can't be happening" Adeline said mortified as she held her head and the gang was just standing there not knowing what to say or think. "What that man said...is it true? Can they put her on death row?" She asked her husband.
"Yes, it's a big possibility if they find her guilty…which they will, all the evidence is against her" Mr. West admitted worriedly.
"You can't let that happen" Adeline responded.
"I don't know if I can prove her innocence and honestly, I don't even know if she IS innocent" Mr. West admitted and she shook her head.
"How can you even consider that? You know her as well as I do" Adeline affirmed.
"No, not the way she reacted today, I don't know that person" He responded.
"She was scared but I know my daughter, she is not a killer" She affirmed and he thought about it.
"No offense but you didn't even know she stole an identity and visited her psycho parents for months right under your noses" Andre commented. "How can you be so sure? Everything points to her"
"I know but I just have a feeling, she was cynical about the identity thing but not the murders, why?" Adeline asked. "Makes no sense"
"Yes it does, she is crazy not stupid" Beck said coldly and they all turned to him.
"Jade is not crazy" Mr. West affirmed.
"No? Then what do you call a person that tortures and kills children?" He asked and shook his head. "She played us, we have to face it…she is like them! Nature and nurture ended up getting their way"
"You know nothing about her, she's been through a lot of pain" Adeline said.
"No more than her victims I'm sure" He said and shook his head disappointedly. "I can't do this anymore, I'm done eating up her lies" Beck admitted and wiped a tear off his face. "I'm going home"
Jade was taken to the police station and a few hours later to arraignment, where Mr. West tried to persuade the judge to let her face trial in freedom but he denied his request and sent Jade to prison; she'd have to stay there until the trial but she knew it was a one way ticket because there was no way she'd be set free.
"Welcome back Doctor" The CEO of the prison said sarcastically and she stared at him coldly.
"Go to hell" Jade said.
"You were quite good, you had me fooled all this time" He commented. "But it's over Hannah, you're where you belong"
Jade did all the proceedings to get into the prison and then she was finally sent down to the cells, a security guard guided her and she could hear all the buzz, insults and catcalling from the other inmates as she walked by but she tried to stay strong and not show signs of weakness or fear.
"Welcome home princess, I have a feeling you'll be real popular here" The guard said and laughed as she walked away, Jade simply stepped into the cell and saw a bunk bed, she put her things in the bottom one and sat down.
"Who gave you permission to touch my bed?" A female voice suddenly said and she turned to the side to see a tall woman with two tight braids on her head; she looked about thirty five, she was blonde, strong and full of tattoos.
"I don't see your name on it" Jade said. "But whatever I'll take the other"
"That's mine too" The woman said and Jade stared at her coldly.
"And where am I supposed to sleep then?" She asked.
"The floor honey, unless of course you're willing to share" The woman said as she looked at Jade from top to bottom biting her lip. "I'm Amanda, you?"
"Jade" She simply said and looked at the woman coldly. "You gotta choose one, I'm not taking the floor"
"I know who you are darling, don't play games with me" Amanda said. "Everyone here has been waiting for you, you don't have many friends"
"And what am I supposed to do about it? Cry?" Jade asked like she didn't care.
"You could start by being nice to me, I'm your only chance at survival here" Amanda affirmed and smiled at her.
"I'll take my chances, now choose or I'm keeping the bottom one" Jade informed and the woman laughed.
"I like you and only because of that, I'll let you keep it" Amanda informed and got on the top bed. "Sooner or later you'll be up here with me" she added and Jade took a breath as she sat down again, she couldn't believe she was actually in jail, she was in the one place she'd been trying to avoid her whole life.
"Hey Hannah" A female voice suddenly said and Jade looked up to see her mother standing outside her cell. "You're finally here"
Yeah...thing don't look good.
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