Summary
Bob Sheldon did not lose his life on that fateful night. With the help of his brother, a Miskatonic Medical School dropout, he was able to lose so much more. "Nothing rests in peace in Dr Sheldon's house of horrors."
Authors note
The best way I could think of describing this is if that junior high had petitioned Brian De Palma or Dario Argento to make a film based on The Outsiders instead of Francis Ford Coppola. Things get a little crazy, melodramatic and bloody in this version. Bob and Darry may also get a little out of character on this one
Also, be warned, about 2 character deaths in this one.
The Outsiders and its characters belong to S E Hinton. I own nothing.
I also don't own any of the elements I borrow from H P Lovecraft's The Re-Animator including Miskatonic University. The character Greg is based loosely on someone who may have assisted Herbert West in his later years. Of course I am going with his incarnation from the 1922 novella. If I went with the 1985 movie I think Herbert West would be about 5 years old at the time this story takes place. I did borrow some elements from the film as well so I must also mention that the movie Re-Animator is the property of its producers. It is also not mine.
Frankenstein also does not belong to me.
And, yeah, the medical stuff may be a little off here.
Parsons is mine (hey, I own something).
Chapter 1
The streets were eerily quiet as Bob drove the mustang back home. The only sound was the rumbling of the engine.
What the hell did they do?
"They."
That was funny.
"They" were only doing what he wanted them to do.
Question really was ….What the hell did he do?
Why the hell did he do it?
Yeah, he was talking to Cherry.
Yeah, that made him mad.
When he asked what she was doing with him, her response made it worse.
"He reminded me of you Bob! How you used to be before…."
"Before what, Cherry? Before what?"
She turned away from him.
"Forget it Bob. Just forget it, " she said in a defeated tone. "Just take me home."
He had Randy do as she wished but his blood was boiling.
Randy was having his own debate with Marcia. Apparently she had made a similar request.
Bob knew what Cherry was talking about.
Before.
Before mom was sent away to be treated for her "problem." Though if asked he was told to say she was visiting his ill Aunt Sylvia. Aunt is apparently still ill. Could be worse. Could have been told she had "passed on."
Before Dad was never home. Always out on business. Lecture tours. Guest teaching at this university or that. Think he was in Switzerland last time anyone bothered to tell him where he was.
Oh, and before he came home from medical school.
Didn't graduate.
Just left.
"There was nothing more they could teach me."
His parents were gone and Frankenstein was back. Living in Dad's old office. Doing God knows what.
Occasionally he would hear a crash, or a scream of a tortured animal.
It got too much.
So he drowned it out. All of it. With a little help from Johnny Walker.
Cherry didn't like it. She let him know that. Never let him forget that.
Then that kid came along and reminded her of what he used to be. All of the good. None of the bad.
Couldn't have that.
So, Bob, with a little help from his friends, took care of that.
Which is how the kid wound up in his trunk.
