Hi Guys! 25th chapter! This one is going to have a lot of drama. AND A MAJOR PLOT TWIST! Many POVs but mostly from Matthew! So yeah, that's all I have to say. Love you guys! Please review and follow!

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I woke up and walked over to Rosa's room. She is probably awake by now. She always does wake up around 4 am, which is totally irritating in our house. But here I have no idea.

I knocked but didn't get an answer, so I knocked again. Still no answer. I opened the door and walked in to find her at her desk, asleep, her head resting on top of a bunch of papers.

"Rosa? Rosa wake up." I said quietly, shaking her a little.

"Huh? What? Oh Matthew. It's you. Sorry I kind of fell asleep while I was working." She said groggily.

I snorted. "Yeah, I can see that. But you shouldn't have been working that late at night. How long were you up for?" I asked her.

"Um, 3-ish?" She said sheepishly. I looked at her.

"Rosa." She groaned and put her head on the table.

"I know I know. I need to sleep and it isn't healthy to not sleep. I got it the first 100 times you told me." She muttered, her voice muffled by the desk.

"Well clearly you didn't get it. C'mon, there's this amazing thing, it's called a bed. It's right over there and is a lot more comfortable than a desk." I told her informatively.

She looked at me irritated. "Fine, fine. I'll sleep. On the bed. Happy now?" She asked.

I smiled. "Yup." I said, popping the "p". She glared at me and went to the bed, getting under the covers.

"Now go away." She said, her eyes already closing. I laughed a little and left, shutting the door behind me.

I walked downstairs where everyone else was eating breakfast. "Hey Matthew." Tanner greeted.

"Hey Tanner." I replied. I sat down at the table and got myself some cereal. "Rosa fell asleep working again." I said nonchalantly.

"Naomi does that a lot. It gets a little irritating." he said tiredly. I smiled at that. "I mean seriously, can she fall asleep on the bed for once? I mean how hard is that?" he exclaimed.

I grinned. "I know right! I don't think they know what that is!" I agreed.

Jason piped up. "Yesterday Red fell asleep on top of me at least five times. It was really funny actually." he said.

"Naomi and I usually fall asleep in the lab together." Robert added. We all looked at him and he shrugged.

"I had to physically remove Dianna from the lab before she fell asleep there the other day." Elliot said.

"Alana had been punching for so long that she ended up punching in her sleep. I had a bruise from that one." Tanner said, grinning.

"Yeah, Juliana falls asleep when she's drawing. She just kind of doses off in the middle of a sketch and then when I wake her up she freaks out. Something about perspective and angles and blah." Jack said laughing.

"Yeah bro, Sarah sometimes watches me shoot my bow for the heck of it, but she usually ends up falling asleep." Johnny said.

"Are you that boring?" Jack asked his older brother. Johnny stuck his tongue out at him. "Very mature Johnny. Very mature."

We all laughed at that. "When did this turn into a ranting session?" I asked rhetorically. Elliot looked at me smiling wildly.

"Di said that guys don't rant. She is wrong! Yes! I might just go and wake her up, just because." he said triumphantly. We rolled our eyes at him.

"Hey Elliot? A word of advice? Your girlfriend is always right." Jason said, giving him a pointed look.

"Well Jason, I don't know. She is wrong about this one." Elliot contradicted. Jason rolled his eyes.

"See, you and I know that. But we can keep it to ourselves. Actually I can't really do that either, because Red can read my mind. So you know, you have it easy." He replied.

"That really sucks." I chimed in. Jason looked at me and laughed, and I looked at him confused.

"Nah, it really doesn't. I never have to say anything out loud if I don't want to. And if I ever lose my voice, it wouldn't really matter." he pointed out.

We all laughed. "So Matthew, do you have a girlfriend in england?" Jason asked me. I looked down.

"I used to, until a week before coming here." I said quietly. They all looked at me a little concerned.

"What happened?" Tanner asked.

"Well, she was driving with her older brother and a truck hit them from the side. Her brother is paralyzed from the waist down and she- she was in a coma for a month. But when she woke up, she didn't remember anyone, not her parents, or me. She had serious brain damage. Then one day, she- she passed away in her sleep." I said, choking up a little.

"Oh no. Matthew, that's terrible." Tanner sympathized. "We- Naomi and I, lost somebody important to us too. We had a little sister, Amanda. She was born too early and she died when she was 9 months old. She had just said her first word and-" He stopped talking. We all looked at him sympathetically. The others had also known Amanda, and they missed her too.

"Apparently I had an older brother. I never knew him, but he died of leukemia when he was 7. I was born later that same year. It's hard you know? Because sometimes my parents start remembering him, and I can't imagine what it's like, to have him die so young." Elliot said.

"Yeah, we almost lost our dad to a mental disease. He didn't remember any of us, not even Mom. But they found a cure in time and brought him back, thankfully." Johnny said. "Jack is probably too young to remember it."

"In a way, I lost Red when she came back. She wasn't herself for the longest time, and it's hard to see someone that you love be like that. She was scared to go to sleep, something as simple as that. She would flinch whenever somebody touched her. When- when I found her, she didn't believe that it was me. She was pointing a gun at my head. I could feel it. All of her fear, and sometimes it was too much." Jason said, his voice barely above a whisper.

"I really hurt a lot of people the first time I transformed into the hulk. I had no idea how to control it. I almost hurt Naomi, but somebody shot me with a tranq gun in time. I have no idea what triggered it, it just kind of happened. I know that a lot of people ended up in the hospital." Robert said.

"I wonder where the girls are. They probably aren't still sleeping." I said after a long period of silence. The others nodded in agreement.

We got up and went to find them, they are probably talking somewhere obscure. I don't know, girls have this amazing ability to hide in the most secluded places without even trying.

We found them in the TV room, munching on some popcorn and watching Netflix. We rolled our eyes in sync and I waved my hand in Rosa's face. She shooed me away, not taking her eyes off of the screen.

"Really guys? NCIS?" Robert asked, standing behind Naomi. "Hello?" he asked when he didn't get a response.

"Hush Robert. We are trying to watch." Naomi said in a hushed voice. He rolled his eyes and I motioned for them to come outside.

"We have to get them away from there." I said. Tanner grinned mischievously and I rolled my eyes at him.

"Later. Maybe we can get JARVIS to turn off the TV?" I asked. Jason grimaced and shook his head.

"Nope. Red just told me, and I quote: "Don't even think about it." funny how that is so literal." he said, snorting.

"You know what? Forget the TV. Get them out of there." I said, grinning. Suddenly I got a voice in my head.

Matthew Hunter. Don't you dare, or I was punch that grin right off of your face.

I immediately stopped grinning. Jason smirked. "She threatened you didn't she?" he asked.

I rolled my eyes. "Yeah. She did. But you know what? Whatever." I said, throwing caution to the wind. I walked into the room and turned off the TV.response.

Naomi didn't look away. "Hush. This is the good part." She hissed. Robert backed away.

I went over and turned off the TV. "Matthew!" Came the chorus of whines and growls and angry screams.

My sister glared at me. "Go away and turn the TV back on." she said.

"Sorry Rosalinda, can't do that." I said, using her full name.

"Ugh! Don't call me that. I mean what kind of name is Rosalinda? It sounds like some kind of grandma name!" She exclaimed, irritated.

"It is Grandma's name." I said back, a little bit amused.

"Guys guys! Break it up." Jade intervened quickly before this escalated.

"Sorry. My brother is being irritating." She said, addressing Jade. "And never, ever call me Rosalinda. Ever." She told me, glaring.

"It means beautiful rose, you know that right?" Dianna told her.

"Well I'm good with just rose thank you." She retorted.

"Okay okay. And we had to stop watching eventually and I having my doubts about whether we would have done it on our own. And we have to change our of our PJs. Or not." Jade said.

Suddenly I noticed a taxi pulling up outside. I walked over to the window and looked out of it.

Then, walking out of the taxi, was a girl who I haven't seen in almost a month.

I briskly walked downstairs. I'm probably hallucinating. There is no way that it could really be her. When I walked down there, Jason followed me.

I told JARVIS to open the doors. A teenage girl walked in, with long brown hair and gray eyes. I took a step back.

"Hi Matthew." She said quietly. That's when I blacked out.

(JASON POV)

I looked at this girl. She looked a little familiar, but I don't know why. She had immediately came over to Matthew and started panicking slightly when he didn't respond.

"Who exactly are you again?" I asked sharply.

"Bridget Ronson." She said quickly. I blinked. No way. She's leaving here right now.

"Did you say Bridget Ronson?" Jade asked angrily from the elevator just as I opened my mouth.

"Yes. Can somebody please get him medical attention? I'm pretty sure he needs it." She said. Suddenly she glanced up and seeing our expressions raised her eyebrows. "Did I do something?" She asked sharply.

"No. Someone named Mark Ronson did." Jase said icily. Bridget's eyes widened.

"That's my dad. I never knew him. He left us before I was born. My brother says he was a drug addict." She said.

"Yeah. We know. He's a terrible person. So how do you know Matthew?" I asked.

"He's my boyfriend. I should be asking how he knows you." She said as though it was obvious.

"He said that you were dead." I contradicted her, although a small part of me definitely believed it.

"I wasn't. I had flatlined for a long period of time. He left before they got the news back to him." She said.

Jade looked at her and glanced at me. "She's telling the truth." She said.

I nodded. "Fine. I'll take him down to the med center. They'll help him there." I said crisply.

(MATTHEW POV)

I woke up on a hospital bed wit Rosa hovering over me worriedly, and I sat up. I looked at Rosa and raised my eyebrows questioningly. "Is Bridget- is she really . . . ?" I asked, my voice slightly hoarse.

"Yeah. She's really here." Rosa replied sullenly. I don't know why, but she looked really conflicted.

"Rosa? Is something wrong?" I asked her. She looked at me.

"The man who tortured Jade- he's Bridget's dad." She said quietly. My eyes widened. I had thought it was just coincidence, it is a fairly common name. But now that I think about it, they do resemble each other slightly.

"How is Jade taking it? Did she tell Bridget yet?" I asked worriedly. I know what Jade is capable of. If she got the wrong idea about Bridget then she could wind up seriously hurt or dead. Again.

"Jade doesn't blame her Matthew. Of course she's a little cold around her, but that's to be expected. A complete stranger showing up in her home saying that she came back from the dead and just so happens to be the daughter of the man that tortured her for a month, there is going to be some tension. And she didn't tell her yet. I don't know if they will. Jade is interrogating her at the moment, so if you would like to save that poor girl's soul, then perhaps you should go now." she told me.

I grimaced and got up, slightly disoriented. I walked downstairs and went into the viewing room, I don't want to be the one to get in Jade's way at the moment.

Jade was glaring intensely at Bridget, who was glaring back. Little did she know that Jade was reading her mind. I sighed and walked in there, but before I did, Jason stopped me and looked me in the eye.

"Be careful. Red isn't exactly in the friendliest mood at the moment. She won't hurt you or anything, but just watch yourself okay?" he advised me. I nodded.

"Matthew thank god. Can you tell this girl to leave? She said she needed to find out if I was telling the truth but clearly she just wanted to glare at me because she hasn't said a word." Bridget said, looking at me.

I looked at her and felt it all hit me like a truck. Bridget is here. She's really here. In the same room as me. Not dead. "Hello?" she said, getting up and waving a hand in my face.

Suddenly I crushed her in a hug and she yelped slightly, not really expecting it. I let her go and just looked at her, analyzing every feature.

"I leave you two alone." Jade said, smiling a little.

"You didn't even figure out if I'm telling the truth or not." Bridget said persistently. I rolled my eyes. It's definitely her.

"Actually I did. And I found out pretty much your whole life story as well." Jade said with a straight face.

"How? You didn't say a word." Bridget countered smugly. I shook my head at her.

"I'm a telepath." Jade said icily, shutting the door loudly behind her. Bridget looked at me curiously.

"What's her deal?" she asked me incredulously.

"Well- your dad kind of gave her those powers forcefully. And tortured her for a month straight trying to get her to reveal all the secrets she had on her friends and family." I said, cringing slightly.

She looked at me in disbelief. "She's making that all up." Bridget said defiantly. I shook my head.

"She didn't. But you know what? I'm just glad that you're alive." I said sincerely. She smiled.

(JADE POV)

I don't really have anything against this Bridget girl. She just reminds me of him. And she flew all the way here? Why would she do that? Does she even have the money for that? I'm probably being unreasonable. I bumped into Jason on my way to the kitchen.

"Oh. Hey." I said, a little distracted.

"Is everything okay? You are extremely nervous at the moment. And angry." He told me.

I turned to him, glaring. "I know. They kind of are my emotions." I snapped. He looked at me a little shocked.

I took a deep breath. "I'm sorry. I'm just a little- uneasy. I don't really like the idea of a complete stranger coming in our home without our parents here." I said, looking away.

"It's fine."

He looked at me. "Is that all?" He asked me.

"Yeah. I'm good." I said shrugging. He gave me a look and raised his eyebrows. I shrugged again. "I'm fine Jase. I promise."

"Okay Red. Whatever you say." He said, giving me a curious look.

(MATTHEW POV)

"So how did you know where to come?" I asked Bridget curiously. She laughed and gave me a look.

"Mom said that you guys had gone to stay with Tony Stark. I googled it and it turns out he doesn't live in a house, he lives in a giant tower. And this location is pretty much common knowledge." She said.

"Oh. Right." I said slightly embarrassed. She laughed. "So. I've seen some pretty strange stuff since coming here. I thought I lived dangerously."

"Wait a minute. You were serious about all that stuff with Jade? I thought you guys were playing a joke on me." she said confused.

I looked at her seriously. "It's not a joke. All of the kids and adults here have gone through their worst nightmares multiple times. Don't ever say something like that in front of her. She already doesn't trust you. She can seriously hurt you." I told her. I know that Jade probably wouldn't, but I'm not taking any chances.

"Please. I'm a black belt." she told me smugly. I snorted and she looked at me slightly offended.

"Yeah. And she's a telekinetic, telepathic super soldier. That happens to be undefeated except by Jason. Don't test her. I did. I ended up bruised. And it only took her a second to beat me." I warned her.

"Whatever Matthew. You can give up the act now. I'm not falling for it." she said. I groaned and rolled my eyes.

"It's not a joke! Just believe me already." I exclaimed, slightly irritated. Jade and Jason walked in the room together and Jade looked at Bridget icily.

"Don't believe him? You were born on December 3rd at 6:00 pm. You were born prematurely and almost died when you were three months old. When you were six you fell off your bike and broke your arm in three different places. You got a pink cast. You have been to 7 different schools in your lifetime and you only liked your high school, where you met Matthew. You guys started dating two years ago. You took a 5-hour long plane ride here. I know every detail about your life, whether you believe it or not." She said.

Bridget stared at her, jaw dropped. "How could you even know that? Matthew doesn't even know that much about me!" she said.

"Okay then. At least you believe me know. And by the way? I don't trust you. Not for a second. I can read your mind, but you are still a complete stranger. My friends have already run several scans on you and I have given you a full brain scan. You have lived a pretty easy life compared to some of us. Yet you still seem to think that you have had a dreadful life. You have already thought some incredibly hurtful things, rude things, about my friends. So don't even think for a minute that I won't protect the people I care about from outside threats like you." Jade hissed before walking out. Jason looked at me grimacing before going to follow her.

Bridget was furious. "Who does she think she is? That she can talk to me like she has had a worse life than me?! She knows nothing about me! She didn't grow up without a dad! She even knew my dad!" She said, getting up.

I got up and faced her. "Yeah. She knew your dad. And got stabbed in the gut repeatedly by him. Bridge- she is not someone you want on your bad side. She will not hesitate to kill you if she thinks that you are here to hurt her friends. She's killed more people than she can count. It's not right for her to belittle your problems, but she definitely is justified in doing so. She doesn't even trust her parents sometimes. The only person in the world she really trusts is Jason. I haven't known her long, but she hated me at first. I saw her scars in person. They are terrible. She just doesn't want anyone else that she cares about to get hurt." I told her.

Bridget glared at me. "Why are you so defensive when it comes to her?! She's not even your friend! I'm your girlfriend! You haven't seen me in a month. When you figure out the reason, then come talk to me." She said, about to walk out.

I grabbed her arm and kissed her. "Bridget. I'm not saying that she's right. I'm just telling you, for your own safety, don't get on her bad side." I told her.

She looked at me. "Sorry Matthew, I think it's a little late for that. She hates me and I have no clue why. I'm more than a little confused. None of the others have said a word to me. Not even Rosa. I mean, I know she never liked me, but I didn't think that she would be so hostile."

"I don't know what's wrong with Rosa. She's just a little shocked I guess. She thought you were dead. I thought you were dead. We all thought that we'd never ever see you again. Everyone else- well they trust Jade's instincts. Right now though, she isn't seeing you so muc has your dad." I said.

"But I'm not him. I've never even met him in my life. I don't know what he looks like or even what color eyes he has!" she protested.

"Gray. He had gray eyes. He looked exactly like you really, just older and male." I said shrugging.

Her eyes widened. "Had? As in past tense? He's not . . . dead, is he?" she asked nervously. I looked at her grimly.

"Yeah. She kind of killed him. She was on a mission and he happened to be there and she killed him with her mind." I told her.

"Oh." she said quietly. "So this Jade girl is a murderer? You've been living with a murderer? I never met my dad. And now I never will because she killed him." She said angrily.

I looked at her in shock. "Bridget! He tortured her. He was a terrible person. You wouldn't want to know him. And Jade isn't a murderer. All those people she's killed? Most of them were to get out of the place where they were keeping her in Australia. She doesn't like killing." I told her.

"Matthew. I don't believe her. Why would my dad torture her? It doesn't make sense. I don't believe it for a second. I should just go back to England. You and Rosa should come too. It isn't good, to be in a house filled with murderers." She said stubbornly, walking out. I sighed and put my face in my hands.

"Hey. She doesn't believe you huh?" Tanner said, sitting next to me. I looked at him with a sigh.

"Yeah. I have no idea why not. I've never lied to her before." I said. Tanner was about to say something when we heard a scream of pain come from the kitchen. We both immediately got up and ran over there to find Bridget holding her wrist in pain.

"What happened?" I asked frantically while Tanner examined his wrist. The others had gathered as well.

"Where's Red?" Jason asked equally as frantic.

"She can take care of herself. Bridget is hurt at the moment." I told him irritatedly.

"Oh okay. So let's just prioritize your zombie girlfriend that none of us even know." He sniped back.

"Well what do you want to do? Prioritize the girl who just hurts people for no reason?" I asked, practically spitting.

Suddenly Jason's eyes darkened and I could feel the anger radiating off of him. He clenched his fists. "How dare you." He said, his voice a low growl. I've never seen Jason this mad before, and it's a little scary. But I'm not telling him that.

"How dare I? It's Jade that just broke her wrist. It's Jade that gave me this bruise. It's Jade that punched that hole in the wall. Not Bridget. So yeah, I dare." I snarked back. Jason took a step towards me and I involuntarily took a step back.

"She has suffered through more than you ever have or ever will. So you have no right to say those things at all. Her coming here just screwed everything up. She was finally getting better, until she showed up. So don't dare. You'll get hurt. Badly. I was just starting to like you too. I thought maybe we could be friends. But I get it now. You are just another person that thinks that they have it so terrible. I've seen others who are mere shells of who they used to be after going through half of what she did. They aren't even themselves anymore." He said to me in a low threatening voice.

"She isn't herself either. I watched the videos from before and after. She used to be a good person. Now she's just a cold-blooded murd-" He punched me in the jaw.

"Jason!" Natalie exclaimed, shocked. Everyone else was watching, scared of what's going to happen next.

Suddenly I felt this indescribable feeling of pain and anger inside my head, pounding. I let out a strangled noise of pain. "Never, EVER, say another word about Red again, or it won't just be your jaw next time." he threatened, leaving.

The feeling went away and I practically collapsed. "What were you thinking?! Saying those things about Jade in front of Jason?! Do you have a death wish? You are officially insane." Johnny said, looking at me in panic.

"What happened? Why did you fall?" Rosa asked worriedly. Everyone looked at her darkly.

"That's what happens when Jason gets angry. When he loses control. Although I have the strangest feeling that this wasn't unintentional." Natalie said.

Juliana came up to me, and she looked mad. She's 3 years younger than me. She can't scare me.

Suddenly she delivered a strong punch to my ribs and my eyes widened in surprise. By instinct my fist shot out but she caught it twisted. I winced. I have a broken rib?! How? She's so skinny. There's no muscle there at all.

"I'm a super soldier. Don't underestimate me." She said coolly, glaring at me intensely. Natalie gave her a stern look and she rolled her eyes, walking away with Jack.

"Wow. Dude you messed up. Juliana has never, ever, punched somebody out of anger before. She doesn't even get angry as far as we know, and we live with her." Robert told me incredulously.

Bridget stared at me. "So this is why you told me not to get on Jade's bad side." she said, grimacing.

I gave her a look. "Yeah Bridget. At least you get it now. What even happened between you and Jade?" I asked.

She glared at a random point on the wall. "I had asked her why she was wearing long-sleeves when it's like 90 degrees outside. She said that I know why. I told her to prove it. That I don't even believe that she has those scars. She said that she wouldn't do it and that I should mind my own business. Then I tried to push up her sleeve when she wasn't looking but she grabbed my wrist and twisted it, hard." she told me.

"You seriously tried to surprise Jade?" Naomi asked. "You can't. She can read your mind. And you tried to lift up her sleeve? It's something called personal space." she said disgustedly, walking out of the room.

"Okay, I'm just going to look at your injuries. But I must say: How INCREDIBLY stupid of you!" she exclaimed.

"All right guys. We get it. We screwed up." I said, giving them looks.

Bridget snorted. "Speak for yourself. I don't know why you guys are getting so mad at us. We only ever spoke the truth. It's Jade and Jason that screwed up." she said.

Alana spoke up, getting extremely angry. "Oh really? They screwed up? First you come into our home uninvited. Then it turns out you're her worst enemy's daughter. Then you try to see her scars?! Yeah it's her fault. Definitely. I don't know who you think you are, but you have no right to waltz in our home and then blame your stupidity on us." she said before stalking out. Everyone else followed suit until it was me, Rosa, Bridget, and Dianna left in the room.

"Matthew . . . why? As soon as mum and dad come back we are going to have to go back to England. That's the last place I want to be at the moment and you know it. Don't you ever think about anyone but yourself?" she said disappointedly, shaking her head before walking out.