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"Jade...Please tell me something, tell me something that no one has heard you say. Show me anything that they haven't. What you're not comfortable showing them. If you do, then maybe we can bring you home."

She didn't know what she had done wrong for the woman to beg. Her own mother. From the countless horror movies she's watched she could detect fear at any given moment. Glassy eyes, rigged posture, her left finger hidden under the table hovering above the red button to signal help if needed. A mother wasn't supposed to be afraid of her own child that she had given birth to. Jade knew that, she had watched many movies about mother and daughter relationships. Observing anything and everything that went on in those movies, mannerisms, actions, tactics that the actors had. This wasn't what her mother should be feeling towards her.

"I don't know what you want from me,"

They told her she shouldn't yell, that if she yelled she was showing signs of anger. No, in order to get out of here she had to keep neutral. Her breathing pattern hitched. She was getting angry, but she knew how to handle the situation. She needed to keep a neutral if she wanted to get out of here. They told her anger was bad.

"Mom I miss you, and dad. I'm fine now, I've always been fine." She tried to force a smile. One she knew didn't reach her eyes.

Her mother stared at her for a second, tears springing in the corner of her eyes. Jade didn't see what she did, she didn't see what everyone else saw. How cold her eyes could be, the minimal effort put into the blank stare she always wore. No matter how hard she tried to force a smile, it just never seem to be right. Her face was always expressionless. Never have she experience or seen a smile so, so wrong. It was the eyes that drew the attention away from the upturned lips. Casey West shook her head. She refused to believe her daughter was put in her for the reason of her mental health.

"I know baby...It's going to be fine. You can come home soon, I promise." Jade narrowed her eyes. Eyes striking fear in her mother.

"No, you don't love me. You're scared of me. You don't want -"

"No Jade I do -" Her fist made a sickening crunch.

The sound deafening the ears of them both. Yet only Casey was the one to flinch at both sound and the reddening hand. She sobbed when Jade made no indication that she had even felt the self inflicted pain. Even more so when she was met with dead deep ocean blue, freckled with her own green. Jade was angry...but she didn't even feel it.

"Don't ever cut me off! I don't like it mom. You and I both know you're afraid of me. I've seen it. I watch the movies they send to my room. I don't like being in here, dad doesn't understand. He's forcing you to keep me in here isn't he?" She was heaving now.

The words didn't affect Casey at all, no it was the expression. There was nothing, not even a hint of a scowl. Just blank, Jade was angry yet she showed no signs she knew what she was feeling. Casey didn't even think she knew how to feel, nevertheless how to decipher anger and confusion. They had tested Jade, and told her that she was feeling anger...Yet Jade still didn't seem to understand. They didn't know what she felt, or if she felt anything at all. She only seemed to follow what they said she should feel, yet she just didn't get it emotionally. She only used her logic, but right now she had even lost that.

"It was that nurse right? I knew it, I told her sorry like I was supposed to. So what I pushed her, I told her I didn't like what they fed us. It was a test, I wanted to see if the pressure of the wood-frame, and force of the push would cause an indention in her skull. They told me she was fine because of the angle she fell. It was an accident."

Her mother shook her head, withholding her sobs.

"No, Jade baby you didn't do it on accident." Jade paused.

"Are you calling me a liar! I told you it was an accident, I meant to fracture her skull, not make her bleed. I promise. Why don't you believe me!"

When Jade stood her mother hesitantly pressed the red button her finger had been hovering over the entire time. When three men entered quickly, Jades eyes shot towards her mother...Still cold. Casey sobbed harder, when Jade was restrained.

"I knew it! You don't believe me. You want the truth?" Her voice grew neutral.

"She needed to be punished, I told her I didn't want to eat. But she wouldn't take the food back. So I punished her. You told me they were supposed to listen to me."

Jade smiled at the memory...One making her mother shiver.

Ethan West entered the room, happy that he had missed the brute his daughter was causing. He went as far as to keep his eyes trained to the floor when they had passed one another. Having no intentions in consoling his wife, he leaned against the door frame. Silently, watching the woman.

"She's fourteen Ethan, we can't keep her in here forever."

He glared at the back of the brunettes head.

"She is sick Casey. She killed her nanny, she doesn't feel anything, she doesn't show any emotion, no remorse. She's a sociopath." His voice cold, face hard and angry.

"She's your daughter! Her nanny was abusing her, and who failed to see the bruises, we did. Who knows how many times she was hit..."

Casey stood wiping furiously at the leaking tears. She didn't glance his way, only stopping a few feet after she passed him.

"I'm getting my daughter out of here. I know that she needs another year. That is all I am going to give them. I'll do whatever it takes to get my daughter back. With or without your help Ethan. She needs love. A loving family, a normal life."

Ethan scoffed, shaking his head. He had thrown that idea out when he had seen that video tape of Jade retelling what she did to Kara. He knew his daughter needed to be locked up. She was unfit to be free, if she even knew what that felt like.

He'd never forget that vacant stare she had given him...

Had to post this before I forgot...

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