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"I'm really sorry for your loss, Mr. West" was the last thing the man said before hanging up and destroying Eric's life with his words.
"No, NO, NOOOOOOOOOO" Eric screamed into the phone "Come back, come back!"
"Eric, Eric..." Carlos tried to calm his friend down but it was useless, Eric was crying into his hands nonstop, he had just been told that his daughter was gone forever. On the other hand the gang was completely appalled after the call; they couldn't assimilate what they had just heard.
"Jade's...gone" Tori said still in shock.
"Why do things like this even happen? Jade didn't deserve it" Andre commented angrily.
"It's just... you heard what he said, I don't even want to imagine what Jade must be going through right now" Tori added sadly.
"Let's try not to think about that" Robbie suggested and hugged Cat who was crying quietly. Meanwhile Beck was just standing there with a straight face, he just couldn't believe that Jade was gone forever, that he would never see her again and that her short life would have such a horrible ending.
"Jade, my Jade... No, no, NO, CARLOS, YOU CAN'T ASK ME TO CALM DOWN WHEN I KNOW SOME ASSHOLES ARE PROBABLY HITTING, TORTURING AND RAPING MY DAUGHTER AS WE SPEAK" Eric screamed "I'm not gonna calm down"
"You won't get anything from imagining it and freaking out so calm down" Carlos responded "If you want to help Jade, you need to keep a cold mind and think, it's that or making yourself to the idea that your daughter is dead"
"He said that they were leaving the country" Eric said.
"That could be a lie" Carlos exclaimed "We can't trust him, maybe he is saying that so we won't bother looking for her, I'm going to re-examine the area where the kidnapping took place and maybe get something useful, please don't do anything stupid while I'm gone, remember Jade could be alive somewhere and she needs you here to fight for her" he said and hugged his friend before he and the rest of the cops left the house.
Eric was so devastated that he didn't even realize Beck, Tori, Cat, Andre and Robbie were still there, he took a deep breath and started crying, he stayed in the same position for about five minutes while the gang just stared at him sadly because they didn't want to interrupt, in fact they wanted to break out crying too.
All the sudden Mr. West turned around and saw them standing in front of him "Oh... I'm sorry, I didn't realize you were still here" he apologized.
"Don't worry; we understand" Andre said and Eric tried to smile but he just couldn't.
"My baby, my little girl..." Eric said as he stroke a photograph of Jade when she was little, then he showed it to them, it was Jade wearing a white dress, standing by a tree and smiling, she was around 5 and she seemed a little angel. "You know, I've been a terrible father to her... ever since I got divorced and she moved with her mom I stopped being there for her and when she told me that she wanted to be an artist, god I freaked out... I told her many things that I still regret but now that she moved back here, I thought it'd be the perfect opportunity to become friends and in a way get back some of the time I lost with her" He commented "In fact, on Monday I took her on a date, I finally had the chance to talk to my daughter for more than 5 minutes and I realized she is a fantastic young woman" he smiled proudly but that smile dropped almost instantly followed by tears "and now she's gone"
"Could we please stay a little longer?" Cat questioned. "Just in case something happens"
"Yes, of course, please... this house seems giant and so empty now" Eric commented.
"You have to be strong" Robbie said.
"Yes, it's easy to say it but nobody knows what I'm going through right now... no pain in this world can compare to losing a child and in this way" Eric answered "Just thinking of all the things they must be doing to her, how much she must be suffering right now if she is still alive... I swear I just want to die"
"Don't think about it" Tori said.
"I honestly don't know if I wish I was sure that she is dead or not, because at least then I'd know that she's not in pain but this situation is just... I don't even know how to describe it, the angst I feel inside imagining her screams and her pain is something I can't deal with" Mr. West confessed and drank a glass of whiskey at once. "The worst part is that I know she is paying for something I did, those monsters are taking out the rage they feel towards me on her"
Next morning Tori was woken by someone knocking on the West's house door, she went downstairs and opened the door to see Mr. West's police friend, Carlos, standing outside "Good morning" he said nicely.
"Good morning, come in" Tori responded. "Do you have any news?"
"Yes, that's why I came... it's not exactly news but I think Eric might want to see it" Carlos commented.
"I'll wake him" Tori went upstairs and knocked on Eric's door. "Mr. West? Mr. Carlos is here and he says you need to see something" she said and Eric opened the door quickly.
"What? What is it?" He questioned rushed.
"I don't know he said that you might want to see it, I'm gonna wake my friends" Tori commented and Eric nodded, he immediately went downstairs followed by the gang because they all wanted to see whatever Carlos had found.
"Did you find Jade?" Eric immediately questioned knowing the answer wouldn't be positive but still hoping for the best.
"No" Carlos said disappointedly "But examining the area where Jade was kidnapped I realized that there is a store across the street and it has a security camera outside which recorded the whole thing, I have the video right here"
"Well, let's see it!" Eric exclaimed and put the disc in the DVD, they took a sit and he pressed play.
"That's Jade's car" Cat commented when Jade's car appeared, then they saw how the van got in her way and how they violently got her out of her car, the camera didn't record sounds but they could see Jade was screaming and when someone finally came to her rescue, one of the masked men simply shot him and knocked Jade out with a gun.
"Oh my god" Tori said mortified. "That was horrible"
"And so easy" Robbie added.
"Yes, it's scary how someone can just get you out of your car and take you away in matter of seconds" Andre commented.
"What can we do with this video? Did you find the van?" Eric questioned.
"In fact I did, they're not stupid... they abandoned it in a lonely neighborhood and even though we checked the records we didn't find anything, it's like that van never existed" Carlos informed. "Also, since you refused to think clearly I had to force your secretary to give me your list of recent cases and I think I know who did it"
"Who?" Eric questioned.
"Alexander Roche known as the boss, he is the head of a big organization of criminals, he traffics drugs, weapons and women, they've been traced by the police for years but nothing had been proven until you took the case and sent Alexander's son, Alan, to jail, he was the president of one of the companies they use to justify the money, remember?" Carlos informed "Alan was found dead in his cell and well, analyzing what that man said everything makes sense, the reason and the execution"
"Yes, yes you're right, it's him!" Eric exclaimed. "Well, we got him you need to find them"
"The thing is... this guy is a big one, Eric, you need to be prepared, he is known for being cruel and unfortunately really smart" Carlos commented sadly.
"There must be something we can do" Eric insisted.
"I'm going to be very honest with you, as a cop I can assure you we won't stop looking for Jade but as a friend, it is my responsibility to tell you the truth and at least from my point of view, I don't see a lot of hope I'm sorry" Carlos said sadly "I know that this is hard and I wouldn't tell you this if I didn't think it's necessary but unfortunately it is, we're dealing with very dangerous and powerful people and we don't have a single clue of where they could be"
"What are you trying to say? Just tell me" Eric demanded.
"I highly doubt that Jade is still alive and unless a miracle occurs, I don't think that we'll ever find her, I'm sorry"
So yeah...
Jade is officially gone or isn't she? Will they find her? or will they have to live with the memories? ;) The story is already written so i already know the answers but you guys don't! haha :p
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