Hey everyone. Well, I finally decided to write a sequel. I had a lot of fun writing Hide & Seek, so hopefully the sequel will be fun to write aswell. For those of you that would like to read the whole story for the beginning, feel free to click on my profile and read. But for those who are either busy or don't want to bother with the first story, here's a brief summary of each chapter to help you catch up. Sorry for any grammatical errors, I'll be sure to correct them soon.

Summary for Hide & Seek:

Chapter 1… Rescue Me

All the guys and girls – Brooke, Chase, Bevin, Skills, Mouth, Rachel, Lucas, Peyton, Nathan and Haley – leave Tree Hill for a short trip to an old house in the middle of the woods. It seems like the perfect getaway… until they reach. The house looks antique, but they make do. Everyone gets a room, except Rachel and Mouth, who have to sleep on the couch and floor. Seeing as things aren't going as she'd planned, Rachel storms out the house into the woods for a walk. Time passes, but she doesn't return. So the remaining teens set out into the darkness to look for her in four groups – Lucas/Peyton, Nathan/Haley, Brooke/Chase, and Mouth/Skills/Bevin.

Chapter 2… Spirit In The Night

The four groups look around in different parts of the forest for Rachel. While Bevin feels defeated since she is the only one yelling to find Rachel (while Mouth and Skills laze around), Brooke tries to get Chase to sort out their differences. Lucas and Peyton stumble across a clearing to a lake, where they see a few old boats, piled half high with knives and old scissors, some covered in rust. Haley suggests the possibility that Rachel could've actually found her way back to the house, and wouldn't have a way in, since everyone is out looking for her. Nathan agrees that they should go back. Meanwhile, Chase and Brooke come across a patch of open land where they see an abandoned carnival in the distance. The whole time, ironically, Rachel has in fact been waiting impatiently outside the house, hoping someone comes to let her back in.

Chapter 3… Crimson

Nathan and Haley are the first to arrive back home, and find Rachel. They all go inside, and Haley does her best to get back at Rachel for her forever-snide comments. She then goes for a shower (on the first floor), but soon hears two knocks on the bathroom door. She thinks it's Nathan and asks him to come in. A figure does walk inside, but she can't tell who it is, so she pushes the shower curtain away and finds that whoever it was, is now gone. She wraps the towel around herself and goes outside, calling Nathan, who she finds has been downstairs all along. He comes up and consoles her, saying she must be imagining things. While he's up, Bevin, Mouth, Skills, Chase and Brooke all come back. Chase explains his excitement at the abandoned carnival, but Brooke doesn't seem all that enthusiastic. Lucas and Peyton too arrive, after an hour, not explaining their disappearance. Later that night, Haley wakes up after a nightmare. She goes down for a glass of cold milk, but after closing the refrigerator door, finds Rachel's still body covered in blood on the couch.

Chapter 4… Every Night Is Another Story

Haley screams out, waking everybody up, only to discover Rachel isn't actually dead and is playing a prank on her. Haley calls Rachel a bitch and storms away, and everyone, somewhat miffed, goes back to sleep. The next morning, Peyton asks Lucas why they didn't tell anybody about the boats, and Lucas explains that it would just freak everybody out. Peyton nods, but doesn't agree with him. Chase and Brooke argue about the carnival – Chase thinks its interesting, while Brooke thinks that if it's so far away, nobody would want them to find it. Not listening to her, he leaves. When he doesn't return at nighttime, Brooke tells everyone she knows where he is and goes to find him. Rachel predicts another wild goose chase, like last night. Peyton too mentions how sitting around is making her sluggish and decides to go for a walk. Lucas asks to come with her, but she tells him to stay. Bevin, on the other hand, decides to tag along, always excited. Peyton, just as they leave, asks her, "Bevin, do you like boats…?"

Chapter 5… Tragedy Strikes In Threes

Brooke reaches the carnival, to find no Chase. She yells out for him as she passes the old and dusty stalls, and then walks toward a white and red striped tent. Meanwhile, Peyton and Bevin reach the boats, but Peyton finds that they're somehow different. Then she notices – the knives and scissors have all disappeared. She then asks Bevin if she'd like to go for a boat ride. At the house, Rachel sits on the couch and boringly flips through channels. She looks back through the window, and yells out, backing away towards the kitchen table. Mouth, Nathan and Haley come running down and ask her what's wrong. She tells them she saw someone watching her through the window. Haley refuses to believe her after the stunt she pulled earlier, but Mouth convinces Nathan to go outside and look. At the carnival, Brooke enters the tent, only to find Chase lying on a table, bloody. He has gashes all over his face, and three paintbrushes jabbed into his body. To Brooke's surprise and relief, he's still alive. He can't speak much though, and after Brooke removes the three paintbrushes from his body, he pleads her to 'run'. Just then, Brooke looks back to see the back of someone. She drops the paintbrushes and runs for dear life. Bevin asks Peyton if she knows where they are going. Peyton says yes, she does, and remember the island she'd seen the last time she'd come there, the one she hadn't told Lucas about.

Chapter 6… This Time We All Breakdown

Brooke runs across the carnival, and stops in front of the House Of Mirrors. She wishes she was back in Tree Hill, when suddenly a man's hand covers her mouth. He tells her not to scream – he hates it when they scream. She knows she has to get away to tell the others. So she steps on his foot as hard as she can and bites his hand, the blood coming into her mouth. His hold loosens and she runs, not looking back. Meanwhile, Bevin and Peyton reach the island, lit by only one dim lamp. Peyton starts to question herself, and how she may be bringing their lives in danger, but due to Bevin's enthusiasm, she agrees to look around. They enter a cabin, which is surprisingly well kept, where Peyton finds a loaf of bread. She wonder how it is that the bread is still fresh, when Bevin finds a diary – belonging to a man named Ian Banks. Outside the house, Mouth and Nathan have found nothing. They decide to go in, when Nathan suddenly questions Mouth's feelings about Rachel. But before he can answer, they hear a bloodcurdling scream from inside the house, and rush inside.

Chapter 7… Knock Knock, Are You Alone?

An hour ago, Lucas had been wondering where Peyton was, and hoping that she was okay. Skills had knocked on his door and told him he was going for a shower, if anyone asked. Lucas didn't know when, but he fell asleep soon after. An hour later, he was awaken by a scream, and ran out to the hall, to find Mouth and Nathan running up. He asked them what was wrong, but it was Haley who stepped out of the bathroom, telling them Skills was dead. They all walked inside, to find him sitting on the floor, a knife holding his neck erect against the wall. Meanwhile, Brooke was running through the forest, trying to escape whoever was after her. Amidst her haphazard thoughts, she wondered if she was a coward for leaving Chase at the carnival. Peyton realized that they needed to get out of the house… soon. If they didn't, Psycho Derek would get to them. She convinced Bevin to leave, and left the cabin. She'd walked a fair distance, when she noticed Bevin was still inside the cabin. She was annoyed at first, but then saw Psycho Derek in the distance, walking to the cabin. She hid quickly behind a tree and some bushes. She needed to save Bevin – but the question was, how? Brooke was two hundred steps away from the house when she collapsed out of fatigue, her leg bleeding, her cheeks wet with tears.

Chapter 8… And At Night His Face Lit Up A Tinted Blue

Peyton bend down and picked up a sharp rock, throwing it towards Ian's direction with as much force as she could. She could now only hope it had been an ample distraction. Bevin had heard the sound, and was about to leave the cabin, when the corner of her eye caught Ian's body, and she wondered if there really was a killer. If there was, Peyton was trying to save her. The distraction did work, as Ian walked towards the trees now, slowly, knowing how it couldn't be Peyton - she wasn't brave enough. But meanwhile, Bevin ran out the house into another patch of trees. Lucky for them, Ian was heading to the wrong side of trees, and Bevin and Peyton found each other and ran for the boats. They thanked each other for being there, and rowed, only to hear Ian laughing from the shore of the island. At the house, Lucas got angry at Nathan for not wanting to find Skills' killer. But Nathan argued that they needed to get out. Rachel asked them about the four friends outside the house. Nathan in a moment of desperation took out a gun from a locked up drawer and gave it to Haley, asking her to stay with Rachel incase anyone came back. Lucas left to find Peyton and Bevin, while Nathan and Mouth found Brooke. They made sure she was okay, but needed her to find Chase. They weren't going to leave without him – dead or alive.

Chapter 9… Twinkling Lights Of A Different Kind

Brooke, Nathan and Mouth somehow reach the carnival. Brooke feels helpless that she can't remember which exact tent it was she found Chase in. But they soon find that he isn't in one of the tents, his body hanging limp in front of the giant wheel. Peyton and Bevin make it back to the island, Peyton worried – knowing Ian is out there. Bevin takes her hand and they leave the boats. Haley and Rachel are left alone in the house, when suddenly, repetitive thuds start coming from the top. Rachel argues that they should stay down, so as to not be surprised, but Haley wants to make sure that it isn't a person by going upstairs. They both head up, Rachel making jokes now and then, and search all the rooms. They find no one, and Haley looks up to see a thread hanging in the ceiling, leading to the attic. She remembers how no one ventured to look in there, and pulls the cord down, and Rachel is shocked to see two eyes staring at her through the now open attic.

Chapter 10… Through A Glass, Darkly

Rachel pointed the gun and shot at the man. She missed, and the recoil made her back up a few steps. Haley was paralyzed with fear as the man, tall, pale, with black wavy hair rushed past her towards Rachel. Instinctively, Rachel threw the gun down the stairway, and used the distraction to hit the man. Haley ran past Rachel and down the stairs, just as Rachel tried to escape, but he attacked them both in time, knocking both of them out. Lucas reached the boats, only to see one of them coming closer to where he was. Thinking it was Peyton, he yelled out a couple of times. But there was no response, and then suddenly, he was attacked from behind. Brooke, Mouth and Nathan retrieved Chase's body and decided to leave the carnival, just as Lucas's body was being dragged through another path to it. At the house, the man had tied up Rachel and Haley back-to-back, under a white cloth. He had left then to meet up with Ian, taking the gun along. Rachel gained consciousness, but needed to get free of the ropes. Ian arrived, amused at the thought that all of the teens were here.

Chapter 11… No

Peyton and Bevin meanwhile reached the house, and hid behind bushes. Peyton noticed something was up, since all the lights in the house were off. But Bevin impatiently ran over to the side of the house, and Peyton followed, afraid of being left alone. Felipe, the man who had killed Chase, was now dragging Lucas through the forest to the carnival. Unaware that anyone was close, he was grumbling and grunting. He tripped over a vine and cursed, dropping Lucas, who shuffled slightly. Brooke heard this, not being more than 20 feet away, and so did Mouth. After a slight argument with Nathan, they decided to find out where the noise was coming from – for it could be one of their friends after all. Ian met up with the man and asked him if he'd seen Peyton or Lucas. The man said no, to which Ian felt infuriated. They headed to the house. Rachel and Haley had realized they were alone, since Rachel had made a few sounds and no one had responded. But then, they heard a window shatter somewhere, followed by some quick steps. Hoping it wasn't the killer, they were relieved to find it was Bevin and Peyton. They told each other of their experiences, realizing there was more than one killer. They scurried to find any weapons to defend themselves. But before Rachel could break the news of Skills to Bevin, Ian reached the house, and yelled from outside for them to come out and play.

Chapter 12… The Hero Dies In This One

Felipe keeps Lucas in a shaft, his own personal torture room. Lucas provokes Felipe a number of times, and Felipe blames teens for never learning. He then takes his own customized pliers and proceeds to rip of each of Lucas's fingernails, one by one. At the house, Rachel breaks the news of Skills to Bevin, who doesn't break down, but tells the other that Skills wouldn't have wanted them to give up without a fight. She's feels sad though – she never got to tell him she loved him. They push up sofas against the doors and cover the windows, except the broken one on the first floor, which they need to guard. Bevin takes out a baseball bat she'd brought along, Rachel reminding them that this isn't over as yet. Mouth, Nathan and Brooke eventually trace Felipe's path and find the shaft, deciding to go inside.

Chapter 13… Let The Reigns Go Loose Now

Brooke, Mouth and Nathan enter the shaft to witness a bloody scene. Lucas is pinned against a wall, with two paintbrushes lodged in his neck, his chest gashed, and bloody weapons on a tray next to his body. Nathan and Mouth rush to let him loose, Brooke wondering if he too is dead now, gone into oblivion. She can't help but cry, and falls forward. All of them are near him, when out of the blue, Felipe returns to the shaft, smiling at the sight. He reaches his wall of weapons to attack them, when Brooke stands up, picks up a sickle from the tray and proclaims – 'it's our turn'. At the house, Bevin goes up to their room to find the bat. It's kept under the bed, and when she reaches to get it and stands up, she finds the man with the dark hair standing at the door. He smiles and she bitterly reminds him he killed her boyfriend. He mentions it as a pity, and then lunges to her. But she swings with her life, attacking him viciously. She gets a few good hits, his jaw, his fingers, etc. Downstairs, Ian taunts Haley before breaking a window and entering, while Rachel distracts him and stabs him in the thigh with a kitchen knife. Haley and Peyton run out through the window, Rachel running up to get Bevin, Ian cackling at how his friend Torrence would have probably killed her by now anyway.

Chapter 14… Misery Is A Butterfly

Rachel rushes up the stairs to find Bevin, to see everything silent. She finds Torrence's body, a blood battered mess, and presumes he's dead. She then hears her name being called, and runs to the first floor window, seeing a rope attached to a hook, leading down, where her friends are waiting. She grabs it and starts rappelling down, knowing Ian is just a few feet away, already up the stairs. At the shaft, Felipe asks Brooke to do her worst. She stares at Nathan, and then, throws the sickle into the air towards Felipe. It misses, he laughs, and reaches for a weapon, when Nathan takes the pliers and whacks him on the side of the head. Felipe falls to the floor, and Nathan takes the chance to grab a pickaxe from the wall, and swivels it in the air. He then says, 'you made us' as an explanation for his actions, and brings it down upon Felipe numerous times. He then goes back to the limp bodies of Lucas and Chase, when suddenly; Felipe grabs a small pike from the wall and jams it into Brooke's leg. She yells out in pain, and Nathan runs forward, knees Felipe in the head, removes the pike, and jams it into his head. At the house, Rachel falls to the ground as the rope breaks, and Peyton helps her up. They all run to the woods, just as Ian jumps from the first floor through the window, after them. Rachel hears a whipping noise in the air and turns to see that Haley has been hit by a knife thrown by him, a bright red spot developing in her shirt. She forgets everything, and in rage, takes a knife Bevin has and runs to Ian, stabbing him in the stomach, calling him a motherfucker. But she fails to notice he too has a knife, which he stabs into her stomach aswell. Both of them fall to the forest ground.

Chapter 15… Halo

Peyton ran to Haley, while Bevin ran to Rachel. They both reacted differently to the situation, Peyton wondering if Haley would leave Nathan again, just like the last time, while Bevin sobbed wildly. Brooke, Nathan and Mouth arrived at the house to see the carnage. Nathan ran to Haley, and she told him she loved him, and he replied by saying he loved her too. All she could say was 'okay', before the light left her eyes. Peyton walked over to Lucas's still corpse, at first in denial, before breaking down. Nathan called the patrol cars with a functioning cell phone he'd found in Felipe's shaft. Rachel accompanied by Mouth was carried to the hospital for the gashes she'd suffered, leaving Brooke, Nathan, Peyton and Bevin to leave in a patrol car. They knew life would never be the same. All that was left now, was to pick up the pieces.

Thanks for reading. The first chapter for the sequel is a click away. Hope you like the story.