The ground crumbled beneath me and gave way.

Jade's POV

"Okay, who the hell are you and what the hell am I doing here?" I yelled, spinning around to face my captor, who was currently hiding in the shadows.

"Three guesses?" He said, and I could almost feel him smirking at me. His question also sparked a dilemma in side of me; should I play dumb and pretend I didn't have a clue, about him, or anything else for that matter, or should I take it head on. The way only Jade West could. As much as it killed me, the first option was safer. But I couldn't go straight from one character to another. Acting had taught me that much, unless you were playing a character as bi-polar as Cat.

"To be honest I don't have a clue. That would be why I asked!" I said, okay timid wasn't going so well. One more try.

"Really, that makes my job a whole lot easier then." He stepped forward out of the shadows and I cringed. He had tattoos right down his right arm and burns down his left one. He was also the type of guy who could pound me into the ground without thinking. He could probably pound Beck into the ground. I had been hoping for someone Robbie-ish, even though I knew it was unlikely. I gulped and took a step backwards, this was not good.

He looked me in the eye and smirked again, taking a step forward and filling the space I had vacated.

"So what's your name anyway?" He asked, leading towards me and making me pull back against the wall. Screw acting, I was really getting scared now and that was not like me.

"Jade." I whispered. The man, Parker, threw back his head and laughed. This guy really was mad, which didn't bode well for me at the moment, not that any of this boded well for me at the moment.

"Jade, really? God, that makes Beck even sicker than I am, him falling in love with you. "

"What are you talking about?" He laughed again, which was beginning to terrify me.

"Looks like your boyfriend's been keeping secrets from you,"

"Okay, I'm only going to ask you one more time. What the hell are you talking about? Beck has told me everything, Parker. And in fact, I'm the one who called the cops on you." Oops.

"What!" Parker lunged for my throat and squeezed making it hard for me to breathe, and snarled. "You mean, some teenage whore called the cops and almost got me arrested."

"For a crime you committed!" I choked out, he looked like he was going to kill me. Which given his track history, might just be true. But it wasn't like Jade West to back down, no matter how stupid the alternative was. I had already gotten past the earlier attack of timid-ness, (is that even a word, oh, who cares, this is my inner monologue). But even the fact that I was being an incredible idiot didn't shut me up.

"And I am not a whore." He looked at me closely and creepily enough began to smile.

"You will be soon." He whispered in my ear, giving me shivers down my spine. He continued, "But first I need you to do something for me. You need to call the cops and tell them that your psycho boyfriend forced you to call them and say that I did it. Because he went nuts that night and killed his little sister, and now you're scared something is going to happen to you. And something will happen to you."

"What about Beck?"

"He's just going to kill himself." How did Parker say that so nonchalantly. He was talking about my boyfriend killing himself or rather the maniac in front of me shooting him. "And now you're going to make that phone call."

Beck's POV

I was almost back to my old home when my phone began to ring, I checked the Caller ID and something lit up inside of me as I pulled the car over.

Jade.

"Tori, listen to me." She said, her voice quivering. Tori. "It wasn't Parker that started the fire, it was Beck. Beck went mad." Okay, I was beginning to understand.

"Jade calm down, just tell me where you are. Say I've locked you somewhere."

"He's got me in his old house and I'm getting really scared. I think he's going to shoot me, or worse." I gritted my teeth, or worse, I wished I had killed Parker when I had the chance. But I was not going to let history repeat itself.

"Jade hold on, I'm coming." When there was no response I tried again. "Jade. Jade!"

"Wait, who was that. You said you were calling your friend Tori." Oh shit, what had I done. "Give me the phone. I said… give me the phone!" There was a large pounding and Parker's voice was on the phone.

"Goodbye, Beck. Have fun. I know I will."

"You let her go or I swear I will personally kill you." But he didn't hear the threat I had told him thousands of times. He was gone, and so was my connection to Jade. But at least now I knew where she was.

There we go, two in two days, a treat for forgetting for four months.

CANON 24