Jade watched her friends leaving and simply looked down with tears streaming down her cheeks, she had lost them too, all because of those men. "Even after death, you keep taking things from me" She said and took a breath before getting in her car.
Jade drove all the way back home just thinking about everything and when she arrived, she found her parents having dinner in the kitchen. "Honey, come eat with us" Her mother, whose name was Evelyn, said.
"Yes, we are having pasta…it's quite late, we didn't think you'd be out" Her father added as Jade walked into the kitchen and sat down next to them. "What were you doing out this late?"
"I killed three men" Jade suddenly said and Mr. West choked on his water.
"What? What are you saying?" Evelyn asked smiling confused.
"Jade, this is not a good joke" Her father commented.
"I'm not joking dad, I killed five men in the last week…three of them today and two a few days ago" Jade said and they looked at her disconcertedly. "They were my rapists"
"What?" Evelyn questioned shocked and her father looked down trying to process everything.
"Please tell me it's not true, please Jade" Mr. West demanded coldly but she simply sighed.
"It is, I…tortured and killed them, all five of them" Jade confessed as a tear streamed down her cheek. "And I can't feel anything, I think I'm dead too"
"God, this is not happening" Her mother said as she held her head and cried.
"I'm sorry" Jade said. "I'm sorry that I am doing this to you but I'm not sorry I did it, they deserved it…they deserved to die!"
There was silence for almost two minutes as her parents processed her confession and she drank a glass of water calmly, she felt like she was in a dream, it was a weird feeling. "Okay, what did you do with them?" Her father asked trying to keep himself together.
"The first was run over by a train, the second was…made into a dish, which the other three ate today" Jade said and their mouths dropped. "So he is gone and the other three, well, they bled to death after I cut off their penises…and I told my boys to sink them in the sea" she explained and her parents looked at each other.
"Why didn't you come to me? I would have sent them to prison, the police was looking for them" Mr. West affirmed.
"The police wasn't doing a good job, proof is I found them first" Jade responded. "I needed to make sure they paid, I needed to see them crying and begging like I did, I needed to see them die" she explained with tears streaming down her cheeks.
"Why are you telling us now?" Evelyn asked and Jade thought about it, she was strangely calm, she talked and it seemed she was reading a book or a supermarket list, there was no hint of emotion in her voice.
"I don't know, my friends found out and they hate me so I figured that if I'm going to lose you too, I'd rather it be tonight as well" Jade commented and they felt their hearts crushing. "I wouldn't handle having to go through this pain again so it's better to have it all happen at once, don't you think?" she asked sadly and they looked at her with tears in their eyes.
"Oh baby" Evelyn said mortified as she looked at her broken child, Jade was so affected by what had happened to her. "You could never lose us, we are your parents" She affirmed as she stroked her cheek and Jade stared at her for a few seconds before she started crying so they hugged her.
"It's okay honey, it's all gonna be okay" Mr. West said as he embraced his wife and daughter. They hugged Jade for several seconds and then moved back to look at her face. "You're not going to prison, I swear"
"You're not mad?" Jade asked confused and they looked at each other.
"It wasn't right, Jade, we won't tell you that but those bastards deserved it" Evelyn affirmed and Jade looked at her father to see if he agreed, so he nodded.
"Your mother is right, I saw what they did to you…I've seen how much it changed you, I know they were beasts and I can tell you I fantasized about killing them myself lots of times" Mr. West admitted. "Revenge is not the answer but if you already took it in your hands, then what am I supposed to tell you? I'm not sorry for them, I'm sorry for you honey, I'm sorry that you have to carry this with you forever"
"I wish my friends thought like that" Jade commented. "They hate me now, if you'd seen the way Beck looked at me…" she said sadly. "I think they even fear me"
"They can't understand because it didn't happen to them" Evelyn said. "You can't blame them, honey, what you did is not something to be proud of"
"I didn't want them to find out but they followed me, I was so close to finishing this in the dark, they didn't have to know" Jade commented.
"Oh Jade, we should have kept a closer watch on you, I knew you weren't okay yet" Evelyn said mortified and covered her face. "God, how did we come to this?"
"It's not your fault, they had to pay" She responded. "There's just one more to go" Jade said and they looked at each other.
"You want to continue this?" Her mother asked surprised.
"Yes" Jade said like it was obvious. "Scar, he was the worst of them…he was the first and the last, he cannot be left unpunished"
"Darling hatred is blinding you" Mr. West said. "You have to stop this, it's destroying you"
"I will once he is dead" Jade simply responded. "I don't expect you to help me, but you know…I already have some hints, it's a matter of time before my boys catch him"
"Your boys?" Evelyn asked.
"I hired two guys to help me with everything but don't worry, they know they can't tell on me if they value their lives and their family's lives" Jade said.
"You wouldn't…" Mr. West said worriedly.
"Kill them?" Jade asked and sighed. "No, why would I? Relax dad, I'm not a serial killer but they need to fear me and they do" she responded.
"Jade, this is dangerous" Her father said.
"I know but I won't find peace until the last one of them is dead" She commented and they looked down. "This is not your fault, I am what I am because of them…but I know that when I finish my duty, life will be like before, I will be happy again" she said and smiled to herself but they didn't, they knew she would never be the same and that hurt them.
"Go have some rest baby, you need it" Evelyn said and kissed her child goodnight, that's all they could do. They were hoping to change her mind and set her on a different path but they also understood her thirst for revenge, they understood her need to recover control and they even shared it but they weren't going to actively support her killings.
The police reported the death of Alan Lopez as an accident because the train had completely crushed him, he'd been broken into pieces so it was impossible to see his face or any of his injuries. However, they conducted an investigation and it conducted them to Jade, he was the only rapist who had been ID'd.
"So he is dead?" Jade asked surprised. "But how?"
"Well, we believe it was an accident but it might have been a murder, we are not certain" The cop informed. "You didn't see him by any chance?" He asked.
"No, thank god I didn't…I wouldn't have handled it, that man destroyed my life" Jade said with tears in her eyes and her parents simply watched her as she lied, she was very convincing and they felt a mix of pride because of her ability to deceive the cop and shame because they knew she was behind it.
"I understand miss and that's why I thought you should know he is gone" The man informed and she sighed.
"I guess there's a god after all, I stopped believing in him after they raped me" Jade said. "But even then, I never wished for them to die, I'm sorry this happened…I wanted them to go to prison"
"I know and we are still looking for the others but nothing has come up" He explained.
"I hope you find them soon, I am always afraid they'll be waiting for me outside my door" Jade commented and looked down, her parents simply looked at each other mortified remembering her confession and the cop nodded before he left.
"Well, that was…interesting" Evelyn said and Jade smiled satisfied.
"They don't suspect me, they don't even know about the others…it's all fine" Jade said and bit her lip as she smiled.
"I'm your mother and I wouldn't have known you are behind it if you hadn't told us" Evelyn admitted sadly and Jade looked at her.
"I'm sorry for disappointing you" She simply said and stood up. "Both of you" she said and left the room.
"What have we done?" Evelyn asked mortified as she held her forehead. "We should have kept an eye on her, we shouldn't have let her come this far"
"It's late my love, we can only protect her now, she can't go to prison" Mr. West said.
"My poor baby…she doesn't see that no matter what she does, she'll never be the same again and she keeps diving deeper into this darkness" Evelyn said sadly. "I hope it's not too late to help her"
Jade missed school the following days because she didn't want to face her friends but next week she finally showed up in Sikowitz's classroom. "Jade, I thought you'd forgotten you had class" He commented.
"I've been busy" Jade responded and saw the gang looking at each other uncomfortably so she sat down across them.
"Get on stage" Sikowitz ordered and she obeyed. "Beck, you too" He said.
"I'd rather not" Beck responded.
"It wasn't a question, young man, get on stage" He said and Beck rolled his eyes as he stood next to Jade. "Jade, I'm looking at you…I don't want another assault in my classroom"
"What do we have to do?" She questioned coldly.
"You're married, Jade cheated, go!" Sikowitz said.
"I want to divorce" Beck said.
"I'm so sorry, it was a mistake" She responded. "Please, you have to believe me…I never wanted to hurt you"
"No? Then why did you do it? Why did you betray me like that?" Beck asked angrily and she knew he wasn't really acting, he was furious with her and with reasons.
"I didn't want to betray you, I just…I wanted to feel better" Jade responded. "I'm so sorry, please forgive me"
"You had no right and you know it, I just want you to accept it!" Beck said as he grabbed her shoulders with tears in his eyes. "I love you, I just need to know you're not what I think you are, just accept you had no right to do it, say it! SAY IT!" he demanded but Jade couldn't lie to him, she truly felt she was entitled to her revenge.
"I can't" She admitted with a couple of tears streaming down her face and he smiled disappointedly as he moved his hands back.
"See? This is why I can't forgive you, you don't regret it and the worst part is that I don't even think that that night was the root of this, one person can't suddenly become so…monstrous after just one day, you have been this way forever so I can only say…You had what you deserve, maybe just out of time, you were right…it was fate" Beck said and she stared at him hurt and shocked by his statement because she knew what he meant.
"You don't mean that, you can't mean that" Jade responded and she was right but Beck was so full of anger that he didn't really care to remember how hurt she'd been that night, he could only picture her killing those men and he felt disgusted.
"Oh I do, my dear wife" He said with irony. "You ended up in bed with all those men for a reason and now we know it, don't we? It's called karma…I hope they enjoyed when they had the time, in the end they paid for it" Beck said cynically and the next thing he felt was Jade's hand across his cheek.
"Beck!" Andre said angrily, only the gang could understand what they were really talking about and they didn't approve of his words.
"How dare you?" Jade asked furiously and Beck sighed as he thought about what he'd said, it sounded better in his head but then he realized it hadn't been right.
"Okay, I'm sorry…maybe it wasn't exactly like that but after all that's happened? I think it's fair enough, you said it yourself…it was destiny" Beck said.
"Go to hell" Jade responded coldly.
"Alright, I think this argument just got heated so let's go back to our seats, I don't see the context anymore" Sikowitz said but Jade simply grabbed her bag and left the classroom. "That girl has got some issues but what else is new?" He commented and went on with the class. Once it was over everyone left but the gang decided to talk to Beck.
"What was all that for?" Andre asked confused.
"Didn't you see her? She was saying sorry when she didn't mean it, she didn't change after what happened…she's always been twisted, she thinks it's okay to kill people, she doesn't regret it or feel remorse or anything, she didn't even hesitate" Beck said.
"What you said was out of place and you know it, Beck, how could you? Did you forget that night? How much those animals hurt her?" Tori asked upset. "She shouldn't have killed them but honestly, I thought about it and I think I understand her, what you said about her deserving to be attacked was just…disgusting, how could you say you hope they enjoyed? You were despicable" she added coldly.
"I didn't mean it like that, of course I don't think she deserved that, I just worded it wrong…it sounded better in my head, I swear" Beck said.
"But that's what you said and she had the right to be angry, I agree with Tori, it was out of place" Andre said.
"You were so mean" Cat added. "They had no right to do that to her, you didn't either" She affirmed and Beck looked down feeling guilty because they were right.
"I have also thought about it and I think I understand her position too" Robbie admitted. "I mean, I'm not a girl but…"
"No?" Rex asked and Beck rolled his eyes.
"Shut up" Robbie said.
"They hurt her a lot" Cat commented. "I think we shouldn't have been so harsh on her"
"We saw her torturing and murdering human beings, did you forget?" Beck asked.
"No but those were the same human beings who beat, burned, whipped and brutally raped her, did you forget?" Tori asked back and he thought about it, she had a very good point. "I don't agree with revenge but we can't possibly imagine the pain she went through, I don't think it's our place to judge…maybe we would be doing the same if we were her"
"I agree" Andre said sincerely. "Seeing her kill those men was shocking but when I look back and remember how much they hurt her, I can't say I'm sorry for them, I didn't enjoy watching their death but I can see why Jade did, I understand her"
"So you justify what she did?" Beck asked and they nodded.
"Yes and I think you should too"
I know, Beck was an asshole but I hope you enjoyed the chapter!
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