"What?!" Cassie immediately protested, "no I'm not! Look at the facts! We caught Lukas with that White Pumpkin head RIGHT after Dan and Stampy almost got murdered!"

"I think you're just lying to protect him!" Cassie said, accusingly.

Lizzie looked at Jesse, a bit apologetically. "Cassie's making a lot of sense, Jesse... do you have any evidence to back you up?"

Jesse took a deep breath, and crossed all of her arms, beginning to walk across the floor, pacing back and forth. "Something's been bothering me for a while now. Something that happened in the Great Hall right after TorqueDawg got hit with that trap."

"What's that?" Cassie asked, snappishly.

Jesse was pretty sure Cassie didn't remember her. Not only from the fact that Cassie hadn't recognized her at all... but the fact that the last time they'd met, they'd been three. The only reason Jesse could remember it was because it had been suppressed, meaning that her long term memory had shoved it into a back shelf for storage and hadn't let it go.

"Cassie Rose was already in the room. No one else there. And TorqueDawg's picture..." Jesse looked at Cassie, right in the eyes, "was somehow crossed out."

"Oh yeah, Jesse's right!" Lizzie realized, eyes widening.

Cassie blinked, before frowning. "That doesn't prove anything! Lukas is still WAY guiltier looking!"

"How about this, then?" Jesse fired back, "when we were down in the basement, we found some rather interesting items. Items for the White Pumpkin's evening... festivities. And there was one rather important detail. The White Pumpkin had portraits- all ready to go, pre X'ed out, one for all of us... except for Cassie."

Stacy gasped, clapping a hand to her mouth.

"Ooh. That's good," Ivor said, sending a proud smile in Jesse's direction that made Jesse beam back. Lukas was also grinning at his friend gratefully.

"You're doing great, Jesse," Petra said, sending Jesse an almost literally beaming grin, "now go in for the kill. Metaphorically."

Jesse looked at Cassie, whose composure was starting to waver. "But it was the last piece of the puzzle that helped me figure out who we were really dealing with here. Cats. Dozens of calico cats. And they all looked just. Like. Winslow."

Cassie sidled in front of the cat, scoffing slightly. "An amusing story, Jesse. But if you saw all these supposed cats 'just like Winslow'... then what color IS he? Shouldn't be a problem if you saw as many as you claimed."

Jesse met Cassie's gaze, her red eye beginning to glow. "Winslow is black, white, and orange," she stated, calmly.

Cassie stepped aside... to reveal that Winslow was indeed, black, white and orange.

"Cassie, is... this all true?" Stacy asked, uncomfortably.

"This whole scheme has been about getting a portal key, hasn't it?" Jesse asked, her eyes going rock-hard, "killing whoever gets in your way!"

Cassie's eyes were wide, but then they went plain. She straightened up. And slowly started applauding. "How very clever, Jesse." She stopped, and turned away, walking away slowly. "Well. I guess that's it then. You caught me. I am. The White Pumpkin."

And a blast of thunder and lighting lit up the room.

"I just don't believe this!" Stacy exclaimed.

"I know. I was shocked too."

"I'm relieved... but also surprised," Lukas said, his ears twitching as he glanced at Winslow. Winslow blinked at Lukas calmly.

Jesse frowned, one eyebrow raising. "But what did we ever do to you?" she mused.

"Directly?" Cassie turned, walking towards Jesse. "Nothing. But you idiots had the one thing that I most desperately needed. I've been stuck in this stupid world with its stupid two moons for YEARS. Trapped, with a portal RIGHT UNDER MY NOSE but no key to open it! That is, until I finally heard that this world's portal key had been found."

And Jesse found it hard to equate the beaming little girl who'd been pleased when Jesse laughed with this hard-eyed, murderous girl who'd stopped at nothing to get what she needed.

"I knew it was one of you. So I tried my best to earn your friendship. Figure out who had it," Cassie said calmly, looking them all in the eye.

Jesse frowned a bit again, thinking slowly. "... why didn't your aunt come try to get you?" she asked, slowly.

Cassie jerked a bit. Her expression filled with shock, her eyes widened. "How did you know-" she stammered out, before her eyes narrowed again, and she tapped her head, looking at Jesse intently. "Hang on- hang on, hang on, hang on. You're- you're the spider hybrid, weren't you? It's the same name. Just, different hair..."

"You know her?"

Jesse thought about it for a second, processing both questions before doing a sarcastic little bow towards Cassie. "Yep. I'm surprised you remember," she spoke, her chest beginning to vibrate as she hissed, before reverting to English and saying calmly, "Barely. I think I knew her aunt more, but I'm not exactly sure. This was when I was three, so... yeah, I think so."

Cassie's eyes narrowed again, and she stepped back a bit.

"Well, we have to do SOMETHING with you, Cassie Rose," Stacy said, practically spitting out the girl's name as if it were a nasty tasting drink.

"I vote that we build an obsidian prison, and surround it with lava!" Stampy declared, putting his hands on his hips.

"No no no no no!" Cassie cut in, beginning to shiver as she stepped back, eyes widening, "I won't let you do that, I can't, no, no no-"

"Cassie!"

Cassie looked over at Jesse at her sharp exclamation. So did everyone else.

"Calm down. We didn't say we're going to do that yet. Calm down," Jesse ordered, her voice more insistent at the end.

"Well what are we going to do with her?!" Stacy snapped, throwing her hands in the air as everyone glared at the red-haired girl, who was still shaking but had stopped backing up, and was staring at Jesse with a funny look on her face.

Jesse crossed her arms and levelled a rather even glare at Cassie Rose. "Let me handle her," she said, her voice steely calm.

A/N: Annnd HERE'S where we're gonna have the first major deviation from the actual game. No, we don't have as exciting of a sequence as in the game. I apologize. But I've been rattling this idea around in my head and I've decided on this. So we will have a slightly more exciting sequence, but with a bit of a twist. Not much of one, but a bit.

Guess what the review section decided to do?

Yep.

It decided to bug out.

(sighs)

Hopefully it'll be fixed by tomorrow.

x.X. A.L. X.x.