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Jade's mind raced with everything she wanted to tell to Cat. She also wanted to hear what she was going to say in return. Despite the hellish traffic and distance, she was determined to make the journey to LA. After finding her shoes, Jade darted out the door with Harry's keys. He was having classes for the rest of the day, so he didn't need his car.

The Goth marched to the elevator and she rode downstairs by herself, which was preferred. Upon arriving to the ground floor, her peripheral vision was blindsided with the creepy guy. He went to approach Jade to ask some inane or uncomfortable question but she gave him the deathly stare down. She didn't use that look since high school. But it had to be done. Some don't take ignoring you as a hint.

It was an ideal summer style California day until the clouds began to gather overhead. Temperature dropped to the 60's. While she didn't mind when that gloomy weather more associated with the Northwest would creep into the "golden state," Jade couldn't enjoy it like usual. In fact, the whole drive down carried ominous feelings even as she was approaching the City of Angels.

Hell, Jade didn't even get an indicator that Cat and her mom made it back home yesterday. For all she knew they got into a terrible car accident and they have yet to be identified. The pale girl shook her head at such thoughts. The image of Caterina Valentine, the sweetest and most beautiful girl in the world, laying with her eyes shut and a sheet over her form in a cold room with drawers was too macabre even for this horror fan.

Jade almost dropped her phone when it rung and vibrated.

"What?" she asked the unfamiliar number.

"Miss West?" a familiar voice responded. "This is Det. Lewis."

The Goth bit her lip in annoyance of this whole business, even if his ilk were trying to help.

"What do you want? Did you get him or what?"

Lewis snorted before replying. "Not yet."

Jade's eyes widened immensely at his rather upbeat tone.

"What?"

"Got nothing on the note but we found a local tattoo artist who remembered a guy around Cat's description. Eyeballs on the wrists."

"Who?"

"Nick Rothman; age 24, six foot one, 185 lbs. Ring any bells?"

Jade shook head, "No."

"We're tearing apart the campus looking for this guy and nobody's seen him. However, we were able to place him at the party that night from several eye witnesses. Also, he vanished around the time of the rape. Plenty of time to commit it and flee."

The pale girl thought she was going to hyperventilate as the realization began to wash over her. Cat's attacker has a name. And a face.

"Hey Lewis," Jade swallowed before continuing. "Can you send me a picture. I'm out of town at the moment and maybe he fled."

"I've alerted pretty much all the counties in the California area," he replied. "Give me a minute. These phones are like an honors math calculator."

Jade blurted out a mild chuckle. She forgot the age of the cop.

After a few seconds, Jade was face to face with the man who raped and beaten her girl. Now the graphic imaginings of what she would do to him began to really take shape. In a flash Jade had the image of tying the man to a chair with chains and with her rustiest pair of scissors, she would cut him ALL OVER. Then when he was bleeding from every possible angle, the chair would be hoisted by a crane and dunked into the icy salt water of the Pacific Ocean. It was a bizarre variation on one of the tortures they would use back in medieval times to make suspected witches confess. Then the worm on the hook would come out of the water and once his wounds began to heal, Jade would open them up again and send him back into the water. This would go on for twenty days and twenty nights, or until he died. Whichever came first.

Jade took a deep breath and asked "What's his care look like?"

"He was last seen in an blue early 2000's Honda civic. License plate ZUV-47A."

"Okay, thanks" Jade said. "Listen, I know I can be a bitch but you were looking out for Cat and I can't ignore that. Thank you."

"You're welcome, Jade. You know, I'm a father myself and I know its not professional of me to say this but we will get him."

Jade nodded, "Okay, bye." And with that she hung up and tossed her phone gently to the passenger seat.

She was turning into Cat's neighborhood. It was an affluent area but not stuck up because much of the people who lived there made their way through years of hard work. Jade admired that aspect. It wasn't just a bunch of blue bloods. Driving slowly because of all the yellow children signs, Jade leaned her head as extreme as she could to see around the corners, counting down the streets until Cat's house was in her sights.

Jade's heart sank when she approached the large residence. Blue Honda in the driveway.

"Please don't be it," she prayed out loud, sneaking past the strange vehicle. Sure enough the tags were a match. Jade thought she was going to be sick.

"He found her," she thought. "That son of a bitch found her."

She was about to dial 911 when the sight of a red Volkswagen Jetta started coming down the pike. Jade quickly parked where she stopped, just across the street from Cat's house, and ran up to wave down the car. It screeched to a halt.

"Are you crazy, freak show?" yelled Trina Vega from the driver's side window.

"What are you doing here?" Jade demanded, visibly shaken.

Tori Vega stepped out of the passenger side and approached Jade. "We heard Cat was back in town and we wanted..."

"You," Trina corrected.

"WE wanted to see her. I overheard my mom talking with her mom last night. She was attacked?"

Jade nodded, clearly not her usual queen bitch self.

"Jade?" Tori asked concerned. "What did happen?"

The pale skinned girl looked back at the house, unable to see or hear what is going on inside but she didn't like it one bit.

"I need your help."

A/N: I know I am a stinker for ending it here but I didn't want to interrupt the climax. Give me time to work on it. I really want it to be extra special for all you lovely readers.

There won't be that many chapters to go but the very next one will be a big one. Stay tuned ;-)