"Get me a wet towel, will you?" Jed asked.
She nodded and went into the bathroom, returning a few seconds later with a moist facecloth. Jed placed it on Abbey's forehead, then turned to look at their visitor.
"I knew it would be you."
"Well done," she replied, demurely.
"Abbey was convinced otherwise. She thought it was impossible."
"I don't blame her for thinking that, do you?"
"No. Patty, what the hell is going on?"
"That's a long story, Jed."
"Then you better get started because we don't have all day."
"Don't you think we should wait until she wakes up?" She asked.
"I'll fill her in."
"You know, I was really hoping you wouldn't come."
"Yeah, John said you were shocked when you heard."
"Yes, but for reasons he wouldn't understand."
"Why'd you do it, Patty?" Jed asked.
"Do what, Jed?"
"Fake your own death."
"I did not fake my—well, not really anyway."
"Then what the hell do you call it?"
"You and Abbey are the only people who thought I was dead."
"I beg your pardon?"
"Everyone else knows I'm alive. Quite obviously," she said.
"We were at your funeral, Patty!" Jed shouted.
"Yes, you were," she replied, quietly.
"How the hell do you explain that!"
"I can't."
"Your whole family was there, for chrissakes. Your twin sister was there!"
"All paid actors, Jed. Except the sister."
"You hired actors to play your family. You have got to be kidding me."
"I assure you, this is no joke."
"I don't understand. Why would you do something like that?"
"Because Abbey was the only person, besides myself, that Patty ever showed her scar to."
Jed's head was swimming. He closed his eyes for a moment, then reopened them.
"I'm sorry, what?"
She lifted up her skirt slightly and pointed to the pale skin on her thigh.
"See? No scar."
"And Patty had a scar on her right thigh…" Jed whispered, the pieces of the puzzle finally coming together.
"That's right."
"Victoria."
"That's right."
"You're Victoria."
She nodded.
"You…killed her?"
Victoria laughed.
"No, no. I'm an opportunist. She died and I ceized the opportunity."
"To do what?"
"To be her."
"Excuse me?"
"My life was crap, Jed. It was pathetic You knew it. Patty discussed me with you guys, I know it, you know it."
"So…you assumed your sister's identity and…"
"Told everyone Victoria died instead."
"But you told us…"
"I told you Patricia died because Abbey knew about the scar. She would have found out sooner or later that I wasn't Patty. She had to think she was dead."
"My God, Victoria! I can't tell Abbey this!" Jed exclaimed.
"Too late," Abbey said, groggily, slowing sitting up. "I heard it all."
