"I forgive you" Jade said and Tori smiled happily. A few seconds later the door opened and the rest of the gang walked into the cabin.

"I see you woke up" Beck said as he put some groceries on the table.

"Untie me" Jade ordered.

"What for? So you can kill yourself?" He asked.

"What's your problem? You tried to kill me a few days ago" Jade said upset. "Make up your god damn mind"

"And I'm sorry, I'm glad you stopped me from doing it" Beck responded sincerely. "Now I just want you to be okay"

"Get out" She demanded upset. "Otherwise, I'm going to kill you all too…I murdered a man for less than this. You know I'm capable"

"No, you're not and we are going to stay" He informed and grabbed a yogurt from the bag to give it to Jade. "You must be hungry"

"Yeah, kidnapping and murdering people is exhausting" Jade responded sarcastically.

"Well, you don't have to worry about that anymore" Beck said and started feeding her the yogurt. "I'll get real food later, okay? We can't go back like this, we need to plan things"

"What are you talking about?" Jade questioned. "I'm not going back"

"Yes, you are…we found you and we want you back, your parents want you back" Beck informed.

"Yes, but I don't think they'll be so pleased to see me in jail" She responded.

"We won't tell on you" Andre said. "Nobody will know you killed that man or that you kidnapped us"

"And how are you going to justify this? You've been gone for days" Jade commented. "And look at me, I'm bruised and still recovering from beng strangled, how will you justify it? It's self-defense in your favor, sure but I'll end up going to prison"

"I've been thinking about it and I think I got a plan" Beck said. "The same men who kidnapped you followed Tori and took her as well, we followed her trace and they caught us too. They took us to a house and we found you there, and one day we escaped while they were gone" He explained and everyone thought about it. "Your face can be easily justified, you were kidnapped"

"That could work" Tori said and smiled at Jade. "See? You didn't lose your life, you can get back…everything will be like before this happened"

"Do you really think so?" Jade asked sincerely.

"Of course, Jade! You'll go back to your life and we'll leave all this behind" Tori affirmed.

"I don't know…" Jade said and looked down. "Maybe things should stay the way they are"

"No, Jade, you're not dead and you have to let everyone know! Especially your parents, they miss you so much" Beck commented.

"Maybe they are better without me" Jade responded and they shook their heads. "I wouldn't like to have a murderer as a daughter"

"That's nonsense, you will come back with us" He informed.

"I'm scared, what if it doesn't work? What if I go to jail?" She asked. "I wouldn't stand it, I'd rather die"

"You're not going to jail, that's ridiculous…Your father is a lawyer, you'll be fine" Tori commented and smiled.

"But-"Jade started but Beck cut her off.

"Nothing, you're coming with us tomorrow…This needs to end" He affirmed and she sighed.

"Fine, untie me then" Jade demanded and Beck chuckled.

"Of course not, if I do that you'll escape and do something dumb" He commented and she rolled her eyes. "Now we have to practice our story"

They spent the rest of the day making sure they were all in sync and they practiced their answers to different questions. Jade was annoyed that they wouldn't untie her and afraid that the plan might not work but she just wanted things to be over. In the end, she knew that if they sent her to prison she would find her way out of everything.

Next morning they all got in Jade's car, given that she'd gotten rid of Beck's, and he drove them all back to the city. "Where are we going first? The police station is that way" Jade commented when Beck took a different turn.

"Your parents deserve to see you first" He said and her eyes wide opened.

"No, I'm not ready" Jade said.

"Yes, you are!" Tori exclaimed. "Just be honest, be you…they'll be so happy to have you back" she commented and Jade sighed nervously. Beck drove for about ten minutes and they finally got to Jade's house.

"It is time, go ahead" Beck said and she turned to him nervously. She took a breath, got out of the car and started walking towards the front door.

"Do you think this will be good?" Andre asked as they watched from the car.

"Yes, it'll help her get through with the plan…She won't want to lose her parents again and they won't let her go either" Beck affirmed.

Jade rang the bell and waited for the door to open, she felt as if hours had passed but it'd only been about a minute. The door opened and Evelyn appeared looking down at the floor, because she didn't really care who was outside. She was wearing sweatpants, her hair was a little messy and her eyes were puffy. It seemed she'd been crying and her face only expressed her profound sadness.

Evelyn looked up at Jade and as soon as she saw her face she stepped back shocked. "Hi mom" Jade said nervously but her mother couldn't manage to speak.

"Oh god, oh god…no, this is not happening" Evelyn said scared as she shook her head. "You're dead! YOU ARE DEAD" she screamed and Jade shook her head with tears in her eyes.

"No, I'm not" Jade informed and tried to step towards her mother to touch her but she moved back quickly.

"I've lost my mind…this can't be happening, we buried you!" Evelyn exclaimed.

"What the hell is going on?" Mr. West said as he walked towards the entrance and then he saw Jade standing there so his eyes wide opened as well. "Wha…" He couldn't even finish the word and Jade didn't know what to do either.

"Hello" Jade said awkwardly and tried to smile.

"Is she…is she here? Is she…she really here?" Evelyn asked her husband as she hugged him while trembling.

"Yes…" He said completely shocked as well. "Jade? Is it you?"

"You can't recognize me? Did you forget what I look like when you threw my portraits to the trash?" Jade asked coldly and he looked down trying to assimilate what was happening. "I'm sorry, I think I should've stayed dead" she commented and sighed as she turned around but then her mother grabbed her arm.

Jade turned to her again and simply saw how her mother's trembling hand moved towards her face. Evelyn was hesitant and scared as she stared at her daughter closely but she finally managed to stroke her face after several seconds and she immediately broke out crying as she embraced Jade in her arms.

Jade started crying too and hugged her mother back. "Oh my god, my baby!" Evelyn exclaimed as she held her daughter close to her and cried of happiness. A couple of seconds later Mr. West joined the hug and closed his eyes as several tears streamed down his face as well. They couldn't believe what was happening. Jade was back after months of crying over her death.

They hugged for about two minutes and when they finally seemed to assimilate the fact she was back, they broke the hug. "How is this possible, darling? They told us you had been burned alive"

"It didn't happen, that was another girl" Jade responded.

"Hey" Beck said as he and the rest of the gang showed up.

"You guys are alive! Thank god, your parents are so worried" Evelyn commented.

"Yeah, we'll let them know soon" Tori responded.

"Wait a second, why are you here too? Were you all together?" Mr. West asked and they looked at each other.

"It's a long story" Andre responded.

"I need to know it all" He demanded.

"Tori got kidnapped by the same men who had Jade, we followed her tracer and they caught us too, we saw Jade there and then we all escaped and that's why we are here" Cat informed, she'd learned the story pretty well but Mr. West stared at them suspiciously because it was obvious she'd memorized it.

"Is that true, Jade?" Her father asked.

"Yeah" Jade said as she looked down.

"What did they do to you all this time, darling? I can see you were hit and almost strangled but they healed you…That is odd" He commented "Overall, you seem well so I'm guessing they didn't beat you all the time…What did you do then? Did they just keep you for the sake of doing it?" Mr. West asked and Jade stared at him coldly pretending to be offended as she came up with an answer.

"They made me their precious little housewife, is that what you want to hear? They both raped me and forced me to work for them all this time, it was hell, you happy now?" Jade questioned upset and the gang looked at each other nervously because they didn't know if their lie would last long. "One of them tried to kill me and the other healed me because he said they could still use me, that's why I have this…They saw it, they can tell you those two raped me" she affirmed referring to her friends.

"Oh god" Evelyn said and covered her face mortified. "My poor baby, I'm so sorry, honey! I should've been there to protect you"

"Don't worry, Evelyn, that's not what happened" He said to his wife and smiled at Jade, who stared at him coldly. "I'm gonna be happy when you tell me the truth, Jade" He responded.

"Are you calling me a liar?" Jade asked angrily.

"Yes, tell me what really happened" Her father said. "Darling, you don't have to be afraid…just tell me the truth"

"That's the truth" Jade insisted.

"When was the last time they raped you?" He questioned. "Nice clothes, by the way…I like that brand, It seems they wanted their sex toy to look stylish" he commented and she rolled her eyes.

"John…" Evelyn said mortified, she knew that kind of question wasn't nice and it would probably hurt Jade.

"Three days ago, that's when and yeah, they made me dress with the clothes they stole from other victims or sometimes they made me role-play" Jade immediately answered. "Do you want to hear the details? I didn't know you were into that kind of stuff, dad, but I can do it, I can tell you all the gross things they did to me…maybe if I'm explicit, you'll believe me" She said.

"Oh don't worry about that, you can say everything to the doctor that will examine you, let's go" He said and grabbed her hand but she pulled it back.

"No, I showered…that's not gonna be of use" Jade affirmed.

"They will still see the trauma, rape is not that hard to prove" Mr. West affirmed and grabbed her hand to make her walk to the door again but she moved back.

"No!" She insisted and he sighed.

"Tell me the truth, Jade" He demanded and Beck sighed.

"Just tell him, it'll be okay" Beck said and she thought about it.

"No, I can't" Jade said.

"What's wrong, darling? Why aren't you telling the truth?" Her mother questioned confused.

"Because you're gonna hate me and I'll end up in jail" Jade affirmed as her voice cracked because she wanted to cry.

"That's never going to happen, we can't hate you" Evelyn responded.

"Tell us, Jade" Mr. West demanded and she sighed.

"The night it all happened they beat me very badly, they threatened to rape me with a burning iron but they didn't have the time to do it so they just burned me and stabbed me instead" Jade informed and Evelyn closed her eyes in frustration. "They made me dig a grave and set another girl on fire, they wanted to burn me too but I managed to grab a gun and I shot their legs and arms so they wouldn't move..." She said as she remembered with tears in her eyes. "I was so angry and so hurt and I just…I burned them alive and once they stopped screaming I simply buried them" Jade informed and saw her parents' shocked faces.

"Oh god" Mr. West said.

"And why didn't you come back?" Evelyn asked.

"I passed out somewhere in the road from bleeding and a lady helped me, but when I recovered you all thought I was dead and I panicked, I didn't want to go to jail for killing them" She responded sincerely.

"So where have you been all this time?" Mr. West asked.

"I stole that girl's identity, the one you buried in my place, and I've been living as her for months, I used her money to get me an apartment" Jade informed.

"Dear lord, Jade, you should've come back" Mr. West said and shook his head. "I could've justified the murder as self-defense, we could've made it work…but now on top of that, we have the impersonating of another person and since you've been using her money, it's fraud! We have two crimes now, the fact you left makes you guilty for the murder too" Her father commented upset.

"That's not all" Jade said coldly and turned to her friends. "You can add kidnapping and another murder to the list"

"What?" Evelyn questioned surprised.

"I kidnapped Tori, and the rest of them because I wanted to kill her for leaving me behind, I lost my life because of her and I wanted to make her pay" Jade informed and her parents' eyes wide opened. "That's why I look like this, Beck tried to kill me a few days ago but I survived and then he punched me yesterday to stop me from committing suicide" she said and Beck looked at Jade's parents ashamedly while they glared at him coldly.

"I'm sorry but I had to save my friends…" Beck said sincerely. "But I'm glad she survived"

"Oh god, Jade, are you crazy?" Her father questioned. "You could go to jail for life"

"She didn't hurt us, she regretted it" Tori affirmed and Jade looked down feeling worse because Tori was the one defending her.

"It doesn't matter, she is guilty of three major crimes" Mr. West said. "It's impossible to justify all of them"

"And what about the other murder?" Jade's mother asked and she looked down ashamedly.

"I was making them dig their own graves…and a man showed up, Tori asked for help and I panicked, I shot him in the head" Jade confessed and started crying her eyes out as she covered her face. "I'm sorry, I regretted it the second after I did it but I did…I'm a murderer"

"Oh my god" Mr. West said shocked.

"I should've died, if I were dead all this wouldn't be happening…maybe that man had a family" Jade said sadly and continued crying.

"Don't say that, baby, you being alive is a blessing" Her mother affirmed.

"What did you do with the body?" Her father questioned.

"I drove his car away and put him in the driver's seat, took his wallet and watch to make it seem like they'd robbed him and I burned those things" Jade explained sadly. "I'm going to jail, aren't I?" she asked.

"John, you won't let your daughter go to prison" Evelyn said. "Everything she did, she did because she was scared"

"I know but I can't do anything, her defense would be weak and she would go to prison if we tell the police what happened…I mean it wasn't something sudden, she planned it and executed it very well" Mr. West responded and took a breath. "Your idea might not be so bad after all, guys, but Jade, you can't say they've been raping you because it's easy to debunk such lie"

"Then what can I say?" Jade asked.

"They kept you tied up in the house and cut your hair like this to make you resemble someone they knew, you don't know what happened because they kept your head covered but one day they brought Tori and they put you with her" Her father said. "You need to be believable and terribly graphic, describe everything you saw…Remember the house you were in and tell the details, alright?"

"Okay" She said.

"The fraud and identity thing will have to stay in the back, hopefully no one will ever come after you for that but you need to get rid of everything related to that issue" Mr. West said and she nodded. "What can you tell me about that?"

"Well, her name was Emily Anderson, she's twenty six and she's British…she came from England after he husband died" Jade informed. "I bought an apartment with her money, I've been working as an assistant and recently got a promotion in a company"

"Alright, you need to quit and say you'll return to England or something, you'll sell the apartment and make use the same people who put your picture on her records to erase it" Her father said and she nodded.

"Now about the murder, did you wear gloves? Is there any way they can link you to it?" He questioned.

"No, I wore gloves, sunglasses and a wig while I was driving just in case…I don't think they can associate me with that if I don't confess" Jade commented and he nodded.

"Perfect because you won't" He said.

"Are you sure this will work?" Evelyn asked.

"If everything goes right, it'll work…" Mr. West responded and she smiled as she hugged her daughter.

"You're gonna be okay, darling"

Jade did everything her father had ordered her to and so did the gang, they were good in their testimonies and Jade could be cleared of all the crimes with no major issues. She recovered her identity and her life, which was more than she ever expected she would get. However, she still struggled with her guilt and her memories and she knew they would never leave her alone; she had killed an innocent man and that remorse would chase her until the day she died.

Beck had realized how much he truly loved Jade but many things had happened between them so it wasn't an easy process. Both of them had made terrible mistakes, especially Jade but he dedicated time to getting her back because she felt really out of place after she returned from the death even though she was going through therapy. Almost a year went by but she ultimately decided to say yes and they started dating again. Tori and Jade's relationship was never perfect and some resentment still remained but they were working on it to make sure their friendship was stronger. The gang was whole and back on the game again.

Jade had gone from being the victim to being the criminal and she'd learnt a lot about herself in that process, some of those things didn't please her but she had to learn to accept her dark and ruthless side. She knew what it was like to feel betrayed, hurt, revengeful and satisfied all in one night but she was glad she'd decided not to make her friends suffer and die because in the end, she had not been forgotten and life felt okay again.

YAY Happy ending!

I hate sad endings so I'm having Jade cleared from all the crimes because I can and because justice is not necessary haha but I hope you enjoyed the story!

PLEASE REVIEW! (And don't forget to check out my new story, which is up already! It's called Switching secrets).