"And now it's time to pay the price" Jade said and smiled maliciously as she looked down at Beck's head.
Jade could only think about everything she'd been through and all she wanted was to pull the trigger, she wanted to make him pay for all her pain but part of her also refused to do it, she didn't want to kill him because she loved him. It was confusing but she knew that if she'd been able to kill Annie, she would be able to kill him too and she thought that was the right choice. He deserved to die.
"No, no, you're wrong, I didn't tell anyone about you" Beck affirmed scared.
"Stop lying!" Jade ordered.
"Wait, if you were in a CIA black site, how are you free now?" Robbie asked confused.
"How do you think? I escaped, I watched them, I studied them and I planned it for months until I could finally do it and everyone who tried to stop me is dead, as they should be" Jade informed coldly. "But it's only a matter of time before they send someone to get me again and that won't happen, at least not before I make you pay for it" she said to Beck.
"No, no, no wait!" Tori said scared.
"Shut up" Jade ordered. "I want to enjoy this moment, I dreamed about it for months!" She exclaimed full of rage another tear streamed down her face.
"Jade, I didn't betray you, they must've found out through someone else" Beck affirmed.
"Only you knew all the details, they couldn't have known all of that by themselves" Jade said.
"What?" He asked.
"They told me things about my childhood while they tortured me! Things I said to you because I trusted you" Jade said clearly hurt "I can't believe how stupid I was, I really thought you loved me"
"I do!" He affirmed.
"Yes, so much that as soon as I left your house you ran to Katherine and told her everything" Jade responded. "You are a liar"
"I'm not lying, the only people I told were them" Beck said referring to the gang and she looked at them nodding.
"Really?" Jade asked emotionlessly and they looked at each other scared. "Interesting…"
"No, Jade…it's not what you think" Andre said nervously
"On your knees now" She ordered as she aimed the gun at them.
"Please put the gun down, it wasn't us" Tori said scared.
"Now!" She demanded again and they slowly got on their knees. "I should've killed you in my basement when I had the chance, you're all the same, you're all like Annie" She said angrily.
"Who's Annie?" Tori asked and Jade chuckled cynically.
"Why don't you tell her, Beck?" Jade said. "You enjoy talking about my past so go ahead, tell her who Annie is" she added with irony in her voice.
"I didn't do it, Jade, you have to believe me" He responded. "I have never even met Katherine" He said sincerely.
"Do you really expect me to believe that?" Jade asked coldly.
"It's the truth, why would I even tell her anything?" Beck asked. "If I had wanted to get you arrested, I would've done it before, don't you think?" He asked and she thought about it.
"You might've had good intentions, maybe you wanted her to help me defect, I'll give you that" Jade said and took a breath. "But it doesn't change what happened, it doesn't change the fact you betrayed my trust, Annie had reasons to do what she did too but that didn't save her, and it won't save you" She affirmed.
"Who is Annie? What did she do?" Tori asked again.
"It's a nice story actually" Jade said with a hint of irony in her voice.
"No, it's not" Beck responded but she ignored him.
"Once upon a time in Russia, there were two little girls who were inseparable, they weren't allowed to be friends, but they loved each other so they hid their friendship for a while" Jade said calmly and they realized she was talking about the friend Beck had told them about. "One of those girls was me and the other was Annie, we promised we'd stand by each other's side forever, however, one unfortunate night, our bond was put to the test, I really thought our friendship was stronger than anything but Annie's loyalty wasn't as big as she claimed and she betrayed me, so I smashed her head against a rock until all the pretty snow in our yard turned red with her blood" She commented. "And then I got to eat cake!" She exclaimed with a cynical smile. "The end"
"Oh my god" Tori said appalled and Jade laughed a little.
"Yeah, oh my god!" Jade said in a mocking tone. "She deserved it, nothing can justify treason and that night taught me a valuable lesson" She said and sighed "A lesson I decided to ignore when I arrived here because I thought you all truly cared about me" She commented coldly.
"We do care, Jade" Beck affirmed.
"No, you don't! They were right all along, I'm alone and I can trust no one!" She affirmed. "I can see it clearly now"
"That's not true, you need to listen to us" Beck responded. "We didn't betray you"
"Yes, you did" Jade said.
"Jade, it wasn't us, you have to believe us" Andre affirmed.
"I don't have to do anything other than making sure you don't see sunlight again" Jade commented upset.
"I don't wanna die" Cat said as she cried terrified.
"I didn't want to be tortured nonstop for months either but here we are" Jade responded.
"We never wanted that either" Beck affirmed.
"It doesn't matter if you wanted it, it's what happened and it's your fault" Jade said coldly.
"Please don't hurt us" Cat begged crying but Jade simply checked the charge in the gun.
"I only have three bullets, pity" She informed and saw their terrified faces "So, do you want to choose or should I?" She asked.
"Jade, please don't do this" Beck begged "This isn't you" He affirmed.
"Oh, you have no idea who I am" Jade said. "This is the purest version of me you've seen, I never wanted you to be on the other side, but you insisted…" She added cynically and they stared at her completely terrified. "So, no options?"
"You seriously want us to choose whom you'll kill?" Andre asked appalled.
"No, of course not" Jade said like it was obvious "I'm going to kill all of you, I just need to decide which ones of you go the easy way and which ones are going to mimic Annie's death" She commented and they looked down trembling.
"Please don't hurt us, I swear it wasn't us" Tori begged as she cried her eyes out but Jade didn't even blink.
"You deserve this as much as Beck does but I'm going to give you the easy way out because I'm tired of hearing your stupid voice" Jade said and aimed the gun at Tori's head so she covered her face terrified, but then the door suddenly opened, Beck expected to see his father or the police but it was John West.
"John!" Jade exclaimed gladly.
"I got your message, but I didn't expect to find this" He commented as he saw all of Jade's friends on their knees with their hands behind their heads. "Care to explain?"
"These rats blew our cover" Jade informed "But that's not why I called you, if those bastards know about me then they know about you so you can't go back home" She said "We need to leave the country at once"
"I know, I left on a trip after you didn't come back because I suspected they'd caught you" He informed "I also activated my contact at the CIA as soon as I got your message this morning, they had kept your arrest secret but that changed, they are not happy with what you did" John commented.
"I'm not happy with what they did to me either" Jade responded. "Those fucking bastards deserved what happened to them"
"Did you…?" He started but she cut him off.
"No, don't worry, they didn't get a single word out of me" Jade informed and he exhaled relieved.
"I knew you could do it" He responded proudly and she smiled. "But why are your friends hostages now? Explain this"
"They betrayed me, they found out about us and-"She started but he cut her off.
"And you failed to report it to me" John said coldly so the gang looked at each other scared "Since when?"
"A few months ago, when we killed the man in the training room" Jade confessed and he took a breath as he stared at her coldly.
"Oh Alexandra, I told you, I said your emotions would get the best of you and look what happened, was it worth it?" He asked disappointedly and she looked down ashamedly. "These people should've been taken care of long ago, we could've staged an accident but now it's too late, they'll know it was you"
"I don't care, I trusted these traitors and they told Katherine about me, they deserve to die like the rats they are" Jade said and John sighed.
"Trusting them and allowing them to live was your mistake, not theirs" John said coldly.
"Don't worry, I'll fix it now" Jade said and put the gun on Beck's head again, so he closed his eyes in resignation, he knew she would kill him.
"Wait" John said before she pulled the trigger "According to my source, the intel came from one of the defectors, Petro" He informed.
"That's impossible, I killed Petro with my own hands months ago" She responded.
"He must've somehow told Katherine before you killed him, which means she played you for months after that and you didn't realize it" John said coldly and she looked to the side feeling ashamed of herself, she couldn't believe she had let Katherine fool her all that time.
"I…" Jade didn't even know what to say, that changed everything.
"That makes two major failures in matter of months, if the CIA doesn't kill you, Russia sure will" He added.
"You think I care about dying? I've been waiting for it my entire life" Jade said.
"You'll have to keep waiting because it won't happen for now, I'm covering this up for you, I already have a plan to change the story behind your little stay with the CIA" John commented and she looked at him surprised.
"What? Really?" Jade asked confused and he nodded.
"Yes, it's a risk but you're worth it" He responded sincerely "And I don't want you to die, Alexandra, especially not under those circumstances" He added and she gave him a little smile.
"Thank you" She said and he nodded.
"As for them, only we know about this and if you kill them, I won't be able to justify it to the Kremlin so let them go" He ordered and the gang felt their souls coming back into their bodies, they never thought John would be the one saving their lives.
"Are you sure it wasn't them?" Jade asked again keeping the gun on the back of Beck's head.
"Yes, I'm sure" He affirmed and she took a breath as she put the gun down so they all exhaled in relaxation and Tori wiped a few tears away.
"So, now what?" Jade asked as she walked towards her father and the gang gathered in the back of the RV still scared.
"Well, first we need to fix your appearance, you do look like you just broke out of prison and we need to be discreet" He informed and it was true; Jade was wearing grey pants and a grey ragged shirt, she had bruises and some blood on her arms and on her face, her hair was all messy and she had huge dark circles around her eyes "Don't worry, I got what we need in the car"
"We need to leave now, I am not going back there" Jade informed seriously.
"You won't but just in case something goes wrong, here..." He said and handed her a small pill, she looked at it relieved and nodded while the gang looked at each other appalled, they knew it was another cyanide pill and the fact she was glad to get it was both, disturbing and heartbreaking for them. They knew those months had been horrible for her.
"Thank you" Jade said and he stroked her face with a little sad smile, even though their relationship was based on work, he'd developed some paternal feelings for her and he didn't want her to go through more unnecessary pain. They were a team after all, and teammates look after each other.
"As for you" John said and turned to the gang, who were staring at them nervously. "You've kept your mouths shut for a long time, and if you want to keep breathing, I suggest you continue to do so, if anyone comes to ask questions: you don't know anything, you haven't seen Jade and you just want your friend back, that's about all you have to say"
"Yes" Andre said scared and Jade simply stared at them coldly, she felt terrible for having blamed them, especially after realizing Katherine had been playing her for months but she didn't know what to tell them, she'd nearly killed them and she knew that hadn't John appeared, she would have done it.
"Jade…" Beck said but she simply looked down, she didn't want to face him and she knew she had to leave anyway, so there was no point in trying to fix things. They would be out of her life and she would be out of theirs, they would finally have peace and she would finally go on to live as Alexandra, her true self.
"Goodbye" John simply said as he grabbed Jade's hand and the two of them walked out of the RV carefully, so the gang finally took a breath and Robbie immediately locked the door.
"Oh my god" Tori said still in shock. "We almost died"
"Yes, she was really gonna kill us" Andre added.
"Thank god her father arrived" Robbie said.
"She was so angry" Cat commented.
"Of course she was angry, she spent all this time being tortured" Beck responded and took a breath. "And she thought I'd caused it" He added sadly.
"I mean, she had a point" Andre added. "She thought only we knew, who would have known Katherine was playing her? It's crazy"
"I know" Beck said. "She was no victim at all…"
"So, now what? She is gonna disappear?" Robbie asked.
"Does she have a choice? She is an outed spy in an enemy country, she'd die here" Andre commented.
"At least we won't have to worry about this anymore" Tori said but Beck wasn't sure about his feelings, he agreed with Tori but he also refused to simply let her go, he knew Alexandra had to leave but Jade was part of his life and he didn't want to lose her. Not even she had nearly executed him.
Jade and John disappeared after leaving Beck's RV, the gang had waited a few days and then walked around their house to see if they would show up, but it had been ceased by the CIA. Jade's social media pages were deleted and her phone disconnected, they really had no idea where she'd gone. It was as if she'd never even existed, there was no record of her or her father. The government had tried to keep his true identity hidden because they couldn't afford to admit to the public that Russia had infiltrated a judge in the country, it was an embarrassment.
"I can't believe it's been six months and we still know nothing" Beck commented annoyed during lunch and the gang looked at each other.
"Beck, she is gone" Tori affirmed. "Jade never existed, she was a lie and she had to disappear, she had no choice"
"I know but I thought she'd come back or that at least she'd let me know she is alright, she said she loved me" Beck responded upset.
"That was before she spent three months getting tortured and wishing to kill you" Andre said and Beck looked down, he had a point. "But even if that were case, even if she loves you, she would risk getting caught or getting you killed by making contact, do you really think she'd do it?"
"No" Beck said and sighed. "I wish this were all a nightmare, I wish she were here"
"I miss her too, but…when she was Jade, not when she killed those people and when she threatened to kill us" Cat admitted.
"Yeah, we all do but we have to move on" Tori said. "The Jade we knew was never real and Alexandra is long gone now"
More time passed and Tori's words became reality, they moved on, they grew up and they got over the trauma of what had happened, they no longer feared going on the street thinking they were potential targets, they no longer thought about Jade and they continued living, even Beck. He hadn't started a new relationship, but it had been two years since Jade had left, it had been two years since the incident at his RV and he had not heard from her in all that time. He didn't know if she was even alive at that point, but he'd mourned her loss long enough and he felt he was ready to meet someone new.
Beck signed up on a dating app and started talking to a few girls, he'd decided to talk to the ones who didn't look like Jade at all because he didn't want to be reminded of her, it still hurt him to remember her and he knew she would never truly leave his heart. However, a new girl could arrive, and he was open to the idea of moving on completely.
Beck set up a dinner date with one of the girls, a beautiful blonde with big brown eyes and sparkly personality but she wasn't boring or dumb. She was perfect because she was the opposite of Jade and that's exactly what he wanted. He showed up at the restaurant early and simply waited for her to arrive, he was nervous and excited at the same time, but it really felt like he was doing the right thing.
"This is your table, Miss" The waiter said nicely.
"Hi" Beck said nicely as he stood up to greet her but as soon as he saw her, his eyes wide opened and the smile on his face dropped. She had long blond hair with bangs and she was wearing a nice red dress just like the one on her profile photo, but it wasn't her. It was Jade.
"Hi Beck, did you miss me?"
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