Next day Jade went to school and found her friends standing by the soda machine so she approached them. "Hey" Tori said nicely. "You feel better today?"
"I'm sorry about yesterday" Jade said to Andre.
"It's okay, Beck told us…we understand and I'm sorry for scaring you, I really didn't mean to" He said and smiled at her but she remained cold.
"I know" She said.
"And do you have plans for tonight? We thought about going to a play" Beck commented to change the topic.
"Sure" Jade said and they all left to class, which went by without any issue but Sikowitz preferred to avoid stage exercises with Jade. That afternoon they met up to see a play and then went to the Nozu to have dinner.
"I was starving" Tori said as she ate her food.
"We all were!" Andre added and took a sip of soda.
"Did you like it?" Beck asked Jade because she was eating calmly and not saying anything.
"Yeah…" She said but he could notice she was distracted, it was clear her mind was somewhere else and he didn't know how to ask her without making her angry; a few seconds later her phone rang and she immediately picked up. "Hello" She said casually but then her eyes wide opened.
"There a problem?" Beck asked and she tried to pretend it was all fine so she shook her head.
"Yes, I understand…I'll be there" Jade said and hung up. "I have to go"
"Why? And where?" Beck questioned.
"My mom, she just arrived and she wants to see me" She informed and they smiled. "Bye guys"
"I'll drive you" Beck offered.
"No!" Jade immediately said and they got confused by her attitude. "I'll take a cab, you finish your food" she said and kissed him before she left.
Jade indeed took a cab but she wasn't going to see her mother, she went home to pick up her car and then drove off to her actual destination, which was an abandoned factory outside the city. She walked inside and saw two young men smoking by the door.
"He is in" One of them said and she smiled, they guided her all the way to the end and she saw a man tied to the wall with chains and with his head covered. She looked at the guy and he uncovered the man's head so he would see her standing in front of him.
"You…?" He questioned confused and she smiled.
"Yes, it's me" She said cynically. "Aren't you glad to see me this time, Alan?"
"Where am I?" Alan questioned.
"In my hands" Jade said.
"What are you gonna do to me?" He asked scared and she laughed.
"Relax, I won't do anything for now…I just wanna chat, tell me about you and your friends, all five of them" Jade demanded.
"Let me go" He demanded.
"You're not in position to make any demands, Alan, so just do what I say or I'll make you do it" She threatened as she dragged a chair and sat down in front of him. "Come on, I'm waiting"
"We should have killed you" Alan affirmed and she laughed.
"Too late for regrets" Jade said. "Look what I brought, I bought it thinking of all of you" She commented and grabbed a whip from her purse.
"You don't scare me, stupid little girl" He commented and she hit his face with the whip so his lip started bleeding.
"Oh you do bleed, I thought I would see only dirt if I cut you" She commented and whipped him three more times. "TELL ME WHAT I WANT TO KNOW!" She demanded and grabbed his hair violently to make him face her. "Speak now or I'll make you scream, I'm not joking…the little party we had won't compare to what will happen to you"
"What do you want to know?" He asked scared.
"All of their names, where they live, what they do, your relation to them…everything" Jade responded.
"I don't know them well, we all work for Scar…that's what I know but I can tell you their names" Alan said and she nodded. "Robert Munch, Erik Torres, Dave Woods, Gabriel Castles and Scar, he…his name is Alexander Johnson" He informed and she wrote them down.
"Where do they live?" Jade asked.
"I only know where Erik lives" Alan said and gave her his address so she wrote it down and smiled.
"What happened after you raped me?" She questioned.
"We…we woke up in the morning and Scar wanted to find you, he wanted to follow your trace but we convinced him it was a bad idea" He commented. "We only grabbed our things and left, then he told us to keep our mouths shut about it and we went back home…separate ways, that's all"
"Mhmm…okay" Jade said as she thought about it. "So it was just a casual morning, nothing special right? You kept going with your life, they all did" she added calmly but with anger dripping from her voice.
"Please let me go, I know nothing else" He affirmed
"Are you sure? Nothing else you can tell me?" She asked and he shook his head.
"Nothing! I told you all I know" He affirmed and she nodded.
"Guys, I think it's time…" Jade said and stood up so they chuckled.
"Time for what?" Alan asked.
"Time to pay, Alan, an eye for an eye…but worse" Jade said and smiled at one of her young employees, who was holding a metallic bar and looking at Alan.
"No, no, no…please don't, DON'T!" He screamed terrified but Jade only laughed and watched as her two assistants, whose names were John and Ricky, set Alan in his knees and started raping him with the stick. "AAAAAAAAAH! STOP PLEASE!" He begged in agony but she felt so much joy seeing him suffer, she couldn't help it, his screams made her remember how she'd felt that night, she remembered her suffering and to see him going through the same pain made her feel satisfied.
"Looks like our little whore can't take a lot" Ricky said and chuckled.
"Wake him, I need him to be conscious" Jade ordered and they threw a bucket of water on him, only to keep torturing him as she watched. "What's the problem, Alan? I thought this is what you liked, our little party was so much fun so I thought it'd be nice to return the favor, enjoy it" she said cynically as she looked at his face and they raped him.
When they were done Alan was just trembling and tired of crying, he couldn't scream or fight anymore. He just wanted to strangle the life out of Jade and she was enjoying it. "Did you like it? I'm sure you did, an eye for an eye buddy" She commented cynically and laughed at him.
"Bitch…" The man whispered but she only laughed more.
"Now what?" John asked.
"Now…now it's time to let him rest, forever" Jade said and they looked at her surprised, that hadn't been part of their deal.
"We didn't talk about that" Ricky said.
"Any problem? You're too scared to do it, you cowards?" Jade asked coldly. "I'll double your pay, now obey or leave" she said and they looked at each other.
"No, please don't kill me" Alan begged as he cried but she felt nothing, it was like her ability to empathize with other person's pain had disappeared. "Please!"
"Accidents happen, I always thought getting run over by a train was a terrific death…let's find out" Jade said and he started crying more as the two young men looked at each other nervously. "Let's go"
They took Alan away from there and tied him to a railway, Ricky and John took a breath and Jade chuckled. "You look nervous, guys" She said.
"This is wrong" John commented.
"What you did in that factory is wrong too, stop whining because you're going to get paid for this" Jade responded and then they saw a train approaching so they hid, they watched Alan panicking and Jade rejoiced in every second until the train crushed his body into pieces so she smiled, she never imagined how good revenge would feel, she never thought she would come to enjoy such brutal things but that night had transformed her and seeing her rapists die made her feel she was getting parts of her life back; the two guys preferred not to see because it was disturbing and as soon as it was over the three of them got away.
Jade drove them back to the city and dropped them by a building, they were brothers and they still lived together in an apartment downtown. "Now we know their names and an address…catch the bastard and take him to the place, I want it done this week" Jade ordered and they nodded. "Very well, I hope you two are not thinking about backing out…or going to the police"
"No, of course not" John said. "We just didn't expect the murder"
"He had it coming, they all do" Jade simply responded. "Open the glove box" she ordered and John was next to her so he obeyed and saw her wallet next to a gun, he and Ricky immediately looked at her nervously and she smirked.
"Relax, I'm just paying you off" Jade said and grabbed her wallet to hand them a check. "Anyway, just in case you get any crazy ideas remember you did it all so if I go down you're coming with me but worse, also keep in mind that I know all about you and your very pretty family, you wouldn't want to be on my list, would you? Your mom and your sister seem lovely" She commented in a warning tone and they looked at each other.
"No, don't worry" Ricky said and she nodded.
"Good, I'll see you soon"
Two days went by and Jade finally got the call she'd been expecting, Ricky and John had caught Erik so she paid them a visit at night. She watched as he got raped with the stick as well and she beat and burnt him until he spilled all the information she wanted. He actually gave her the addresses of all the others, all except Scar but she wasn't in a rush so that was enough from him.
"Very good boy, I'm glad you cooperated" Jade said as she stroked his head and smiled. "And since I'm so grateful for that, your death won't be that bad…gunshot, I think that's our best option, besides I need your whole body"
"Please don't kill me, please" Erik begged.
"I begged you too but you didn't listen, it's too late" Jade said and smiled maliciously. "Goodbye Erik, pleasure meeting you" she said and shot him between his eyes.
"It was easier this time" Ricky commented.
"Yes, it was…" John said and Jade laughed.
"Don't tell me Alan was the first bastard you killed, I don't believe it" She commented.
"No, we have killed before but with guns…it's quick, it's easy, you like other methods that's why we felt strange" John responded.
"Oh and there's more coming, the next step is those three bastards…Take them all and call me when you have them, don't forget to give them some love" Jade said referring to the beatings. "But wait for me to rape them, I have some ideas"
"You really hate them, uh?" Ricky asked.
"They deserve it" Jade said. "Freeze this corpse, I have a very good idea" she commented and laughed to herself.
"What are you gonna do with it?" John questioned.
"I'm a very generous host and our next guests are going to enjoy a very special last meal" Jade said and their mouths dropped open.
"You're joking" Ricky said and she sighed.
"When have I joked about anything? I'm serious, it's going to be a nice surprise" She commented and chuckled as she bit her lip imagining it. "You'll be the ones cooking so look up some recipes, make him taste less disgusting" Jade ordered.
"You're crazy, bitch, we are not doing that" John said and she glared at them coldly as she aimed her gun at his head.
"Don't make me, you've seen what I'm capable of and two more people won't make any difference" Jade threatened.
"It's disgusting" Ricky said.
"Yes, exactly! Those animals will eat this pig and I will tell them, now tell me if you will do it or if I will have to pay your family a nice little visit" Jade said and they looked at each other.
"Fine" John said.
"Very nice, freeze him for now and cook him once you have all three of them" Jade ordered and they nodded.
"It'll be done, don't worry" Ricky affirmed and she simply walked out, she got in her car and went home. Jade got in the bath and simply stared at the wall, she remembered the past few days and she couldn't believe what she'd done, especially because she didn't feel any remorse. During the day when she planned the murders and executed them she felt so content with herself, so satisfied with their pain but at night, she remembered what she'd done and it felt surreal to her, she didn't really connect with what she'd done, it was like a dream.
"What have I become…" Jade whispered and drank some wine, she closed her eyes and flashbacks of the rape fulfilled her head followed by images of two of her rapists getting raped and killed, she heard her own screams and their laughs and then her laughs and their screams and it made her feel a strange mix of joy and sadness. Jade didn't regret what she'd done, she hated them and she wanted to make them suffer and see them die, she wanted them to die because that's how she'd felt ever since that night but the fact she was incapable of feeling guilty made her sad, they'd taken even that away from her, they'd destroyed her humanity, they'd left her empty and dry, they'd turned her into a monster. She was just like them now.
I know, things have changed... She is pretty angry and I personally think they deserved it but I guess that's up for you guys to decide, if you agree with her or not.
Anyway, I hope you enjoyed the chapter.
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