First off, I will start by saying that this story is done a little bit differently to most stories here on FanFiction. The reason being is that I wanted to try a different approach to writing by writing this as if it was airing on TV. This first episode (I call them episodes) may be a little bit weird but its supposed to be an introduction to the characters. There's a couple of other little things to make note of before you start reading; CAPS usually means that a memory has been triggered or there is a change in camera angles (Remember, this is written as if you are watching it on TV.. Anyway, enjoy.
Episode one: "Hello, I'm Sidney Prescott" -
THE SCREEN STARTS BLACK. GHOSTFACE POPS ONTO THE SCREEN A FEW SECONDS LATER AND SLASHES THE SCREEN. NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS "RED RIGHT HAND" MUSIC PLAYS AND THE OPENING CREDITS START TO ROLL.
Text: SCREAM: BEFORE THE TERROR STARRING..
Image: MATTHEW LILLARD as STU MACHER
THE IMAGE FREEZES FOR A FEW SECONDS TO MAKE SURE EVERYBODY CAN SEE THE NAME BEFORE MOVING ON THE THE NEXT ONE.
Image: LIEV SCHRIEBER as COTTON WEARY
SAME AS ABOVE AND FOR ALL CHARACTERS UNLESS STATED OTHERWISE
Image: DREW BARRYMORE as CASEY BECKER
Image: ROSE MCGOWAN as TATUM RILEY
Image: LYNN MCCREE as MAUREEN PRESCOTT
Image: JAMIE KENNEDY as RANDY MEEKS
Image: DAVID ARQUETTE as DEWEY RILEY
Image: HENRY WINKLER as PRINCIPAL ARTHUR HIMBRY
Image: SKEET ULRICH as BILLY LOOMIS
Image: SCOTT FOLEY as ROMAN BRIDGER
Image: KEVIN PATRICK WALLS as STEVE ORTH
AND..
Image: NEVE CAMPBELL as SIDNEY PRESCOTT
AFTER A FEW SECONDS AND AS THE SONG CLOSES GHOSTFACE POPS ONTO THE SCREEN AND SLASHES HIS BLADE THROUGH SIDNEY'S IMAGE.
Its a dark night. You can hear natural noises, tweeting and traffic, that kind of thing. As the camera pans closer to the house in the distance, it looks familiar. Its Sidney Prescott's house! The camera continues towards the house and up towards a well light window. The light inside the room is on. Soon we are inside the window. A pretty familiar looking girl lay on her bed with a pen and her diary jotting down random things. Its Sidney Prescott! The Sidney Prescott!
Sidney jots down what has happened in the day. Its dated as NOVEMBER 1ST 1994. Sidney smiles to herself. Its been a good day. The light in her room flickers which causes her to sigh but she is soon back to writing in her diary.
SIDNEY'S VOICE MIMICS WHAT SHE IS WRITING THOUGH THIS IS NOT TECHNICALLY A SPEAKING ROLE HER VOICE IS EXPLAINING WHAT SHE'S WRITING.
She jots down "Tatum.. Ahh lovely Tatum. You gotta love her. Last night we went trick or treating and she ripped her costume and the whole thing fell apart. It was so funny because Randy couldn't stop staring. That is until Stu slapped him upside the head. It was funny. A good laugh. Tatum isn't the kind of girl to be upset by us joking which is one of the many reasons why I love her."
A BRIEF SCENE IS SHOWN WHICH FOLLOWS WHAT SIDNEY JOTTED DOWN TO THE LAST DETAIL BEFORE HEADING BACK OUT OF THE MEMORY AND INTO SID'S BEDROOM.
Sidney is smiling. She grabs a piece of candy from beside her bed and starts to eat it. "We still got lots of candy even though she lost her outfit. It was funny. Perhaps a little disturbing that we started getting more candy AFTER Tatum's costume malfunction but hey, its free candy." she continues to jot.
Sidney's bedroom door knocks and she is momentarily distracted from the diary. She closes her diary and straightens up her night gown. "Honey are you awake in there?" came a womans voice through the door. Sidney yelled back "Yes. Come in, Mom" and with that her door opened. There stood her mom with a bowl of chocolate milk and cookies. Sidney's favorite snack. "Oh good. I wanted to bring you these." said Maureen. Sidney smiled at her Mom. "Thanks." she said to her mother. Maureen looked at her daughter and said "I won't keep you. You get back to whatever you were doing. Make sure you get some sleep after the milk and cookies!" Maureen kissed Sidney's cheek and Sidney hugged her. "I will Mom." Sidney rolled her eyes. She hated sleeping when she was happy. With that, Maureen left the room but not before explaining to her daugter that she was popping out. This wasn't unusual to Sidney. Her parents were busy both night and day. It was no big deal..
Once the door is closed we see Sidney look to her left where the cookies and milk sit on the table next to a picture of her at the age of seven with her mom and dad. Sidney looks at the picture with a smile and then picks it up and runs her finger over the picture showing a sign of love.
WE HEAD INTO A MEMORY OF A SEVEN YEAR OLD SIDNEY ON VACATION WITH MAUREEN AND NEIL PRESCOTT (Where the picture was taken). SIDNEY HAS HER SIGNATURE LONG BROWN HAIR AND IS WEARING A DRESS. MAUREEN IS IN HER BIKINI. THE WOMAN WAS IN HER THIRTIES BUT SHE LOOKED GOOD BACK THEN, SHE STILL DOES THERE'S NO DENYING THAT. MAUREEN AND SIDNEY ARE MAKING SANDCASTLES. NEIL IS LAYING ON A TOWEL ON THE SAND. "MOMMY CAN WE TAKE A PICTURE OF OUR NEW SANDCASTLE?!" THE EXCITED YOUNG SIDNEY ASKS HER MOTHER WHO SMILES BACK AT HER. "YOU BETCHA HONEY. GO AND GET DADDY AND HIS CAMERA." MAUREEN SAYS. SIDNEY RUNS OFF AND ASKS HER DAD TO GET UP "DADDY! DADDY! COME AND SEE!" SID YELLS WITH EXCITEMENT. NEIL GETS HIMSELF UP "OKAY SQUIRT DADDY'S UP." HE'D BEEN ENJOYING HIS LITTLE NAP BUT HE COULDN'T DENY HIS LITTLE PRINCESS WHAT SHE WANTED. HE GRABBED HIS CAMERA AS SIDNEY RAN OVER TO HER MOTHER WHO NOW HAD A SHAKEN LOOK ON HER FACE. SIDNEY DIDN'T NOTICE, SHE'S ONLY SEVEN. NEIL TELLS MAUREEN AND SID TO POSE NEXT TO THE SANDCASTLE AND THEY DO. NEIL THEN ASKS A PASSER BY TO TAKE THE PICTURE SO HE CAN JOIN IN. NEIL
QUICKLY JOINS THE TWO AND POSES WITH THEM. THE MAN BEHIND THE CAMERA TAKES THE SNAP...
WE'RE BACK TO SIDNEY LOOKING AT THE PICTURE
"How cute" Sidney says to herself. She puts the picture down and grabs the glass of chocolate milk. She takes a huge sip before setting the glass down on the side again only she knocks the glass over and the milk goes all over her unit. Sidney looks for something to quickly clean the milk up with and picks up the first thing she can find. Its a teddy bear that Randy had picked up for her. She apologizes to the teddy bear, named Stuart (After Stu). Its funny how he got that name.
WE HEAD INTO ANOTHER MEMORY. THIS MEMORY SHOWS HOW RANDY STUMBLED UPON THE BEAR AT A YARD SALE AND BOUGHT IT BECAUSE SIDNEY WAS DEPRESSED ONE DAY. OUT OF ALL OF SIDNEY'S FRIENDS HE WAS THE MOST CARING BESIDES TATUM. RANDY BOUGHT THE BEAR AND GAVE IT TO SIDNEY.
BACK TO SIDNEY
"We've had some rough times haven't we, Stuart?" Sidney laughs as she looks at the bears half eaten leg.
BACK TO A BRIEF MEMORY OF RANDY AND SIDNEY HAVING AN ARGUMENT WHICH LEADS TO SIDNEY THROWING THE BEAR OUT THE WINDOW. RANDY STORMS OUT. SOMEHOW THOUGH A DOG GOT A HOLD OF THE TEDDYBEAR AS STU CAME ALONG TO STAY AT SID'S FOR THE NIGHT AS HIS PARENTS WERE OUT OF TOWN. (THIS WAS 1987 AT THE TIME SO THEY WERE ALL YOUNG, TOO YOUNG TO BE AT HOME ALONE.) STU FOUND THE DOG CHEWING ON SOMETHING AND HE RECOGNIZED THE BEAR. SO HE CHASED THE DOG AWAY AND PICKED UP THE BEAR, TAKING IT BACK TO SIDNEY. THUS GIVING HIM THE NAME OF STUART THE BEAR.
BACK TO SIDNEY'S ROOM.
Sidney shakes her head after remembering that. "We got up to some crazy stuff back in the day, huh? I can't even remember what we fought about. We just laugh now don't we?" she said to her bear. Sure, talking to a bear is weird but is it really that weird? Sidney decided not to use her bear to clean up the milk and instead found a shirt and used that instead. She cleaned the milk and got back on her bed.
It started to rain. Sidney could hear the rain patting against her bedroom window. She looked over at her bedroom window and saw it was open. She went over to it and smiled to herself as she thought about the window's uses.
SIDNEY TALKS THROUGH WHAT SHE'S THINKING ITS NOT AN ACTUAL SPEAKING ROLE.
"Its so funny how Billy always uses my window to enter my house. Its not even creepy when he does it. In fact its kind of cute. But then, everything about Billy is cute. Everything."
INTO A MEMORY OF BILLY AND SIDNEY, ONLY A MONTH AGO FINALLY GETTING TOGETHER AS A COUPLE. ITS A BIG PARTY AND EVERY GIRL EXCEPT SIDNEY IS DOLLED UP TO THE MAX. SIDNEY IS IN HER SHIRT AND JEANS. TATUM AND STU ARE MAKING OUT. SIDNEY WISHES SHE HAD THE CONFIDENCE TO BEHAVE THAT WAY IN PUBLIC. BUT NOT WITH STU. CERTAINLY NOT HIM. THAT WOULD BE STRANGE. BILLY IS DRINKING AND TALKING TO CASEY AND KAREN ABOUT SCHOOL STUFF. (SIDNEY DOESN'T KNOW WHAT SO NEITHER DO US, THE AUDIENCE. THIS IS HER MEMORY, DUH xD) SIDNEY AND BILLY HAD GROWN CLOSE BUT THIS WAS DIFFERENT. SIDNEY HAS GROWN REALLY CLOSE TO BILLY RECENTLY. TOO CLOSE. SHE'S HAD MANY GOSSIPS WITH TATUM ABOUT BILLY. TATUM GOES OVER TO SIDNEY AFTER FINISHING HER MAKE OUT SESSION WITH STU AND SHE TELLS SIDNEY THAT NOW IS HER CHANCE AS SHE POINTS OVER TO BILLY WHO IS NOW ALONE. SIDNEY SIGHS. THIS WASN'T GOING TO END WELL. SHE APPROACHED THE HANDSOME MAN AND SMILED AT HIM. SHE THINKS "KEEP IT COOL" IN HER HEAD. "HEY BILLY" SHE SAYS TO HIM. HE TURNS AROUND AND LOOKS AT HER. "OH HEY SID. YOU LOOK GREAT." HE SMILED AT HER. SIDNEY BLUSHED AND WAS TAKEN ABACK. "WHAT?" SHE THOUGHT. SHE'D NOT MADE THE EFFORT. MAYBE THAT'S WHAT BILLY LIKES IN A WOMAN? ONE THAT DOESN'T THROW THEMSELVES AT EVERYONE? EITHER WAY SHE ENJOYED THE COMPLIMENT. "THANKS. SO DO YOU, BILLY" SHE SAID TO HER FRIEND/CRUSH. THEY CONTINUE TALKING FOR A WHILE ABOUT SCHOOL MOSTLY. SIDNEY ASKS BILLY TO GO SOMEWHERE MORE PRIVATE AS THERE IS SOMETHING SHE WANTS TO TALK TO HIM ABOUT. BILLY AGREES AND THE TWO GO UPSTAIRS INTO STU'S BEDROOM. THIS DOESN'T GO UNNOTICED BY HALF THE PARTY GO-ERS. ONE BEING STU WHO MAKES A JOKE THAT THE TWO ARE FINALLY GETTING IT ON. THIS WAS OBVIOUSLY FALSE. SIDNEY WASN'T THAT KIND OF GIRL. TATUM PLAYFULLY SLAPPED STU BUT SHE DID FIND IT FUNNY AND KINDA CUTE. SIDNEY GOES TO THE ROOM WITH BILLY AND BILLY IMMEDIATELY ASKS WHAT SID WANTS TO TALK ABOUT. ITS AWKWARD. SOME AWKWARD SILENCE TAKES OVER FOR A WHILE AS SIDNEY STARES AT BILLY IN AWE. "I-I-.. UM-UMM" SIDNEY COULDN'T DO IT. SHE JUST COULDN'T SPEAK. SHE WAS ALONE IN THE BEDROOM WITH A GUY SHE WAS ATTRACTED TO. NONE OTHER THAN HER BEST FRIEND. BILLY WATCHED SIDNEY'S AWKWARDNESS. REALLY HE'D FELT THE SAME WAY ABOUT SIDNEY AND SINCE HE KNEW SIDNEY WASN'T GONNA SAY ANYTHING HE THOUGHT HE WOULD. "DO YOU WANNA GO GET A SHAKE SOMETIME?" BILLY ASKS HER. SIDNEY IS STUNNED BUT DELIGHTED. "UH-UMM." IS ALL SIDNEY CAN SAY. BILLY FOR A MOMENT THINKS SHE'LL SAY NO BUT SHE DOESN'T SHE JUST NODS. BILLY PECKS SIDNEY'S LIPS SOFTLY.
BACK IN THE BEDROOM.
Sidney smiles at that memory. Her Billy. She'll always remember that day. She looks at her chain necklace that he had bought her a few weeks ago. She smiled once more. Sid ate one of her cookies before getting into bed with Stuart. She smiled as she shut off the lamp.
She had a lot to smile about on November 1st 1994.. But she could never imagine the secrets, lies and horrors that were going to occur not far into the future.
WHEN THE LIGHT SHUTS OFF THE MUSIC PLAYS AGAIN. SOME VISUAL SCENES (EDITED) PLAY THAT SHOW THE AUDIENCE WHAT THEY'RE IN FOR IN THE SEASON. THESE FEATURE VARIOUS CHARACTERS AND DRAMAS THOUGH, THERE IS NO AUDIO AND ONLY THE BACKGROUND MUSIC LEAVING VIEWERS GUESSING WHAT IS GOING ON.
