A/N So welcome back yall! And of course any familiar dialog and junk is not mine. Hopefully though after this chapter it'll all be original work. Enjoy! Sorry for any mistakes and all that!

"You know how Josh and I met?"

Sam hesitated and glanced at Chris. "No…"

"Ok. Third Grade. Josh sat in the back of the room, I sat in the front. We didn't even know each other existed. But the kid sitting next to Josh started strap snapping the training bra on the girl in front of him so the teacher made him move to the front- where I was sitting."

"Okay, so?" A scratching at the back of Sam's mind told her she already knew what he was going to say.

Chris beamed with excitement as he continued to the point of his story.

"So I got moved to the back! And next to Josh! That's how we met! And became friends. To this day."

Sam felt her next words through her whole body, knowing that she had said them before.

"A match made in heaven."

"If it weren't for the fact that Jeanie Simmonds hit puberty three years early and on that day decided to wear a low cut shirt that showed off her training bra… I mean who knows? You could be riding in this cable car alone. Right now. Or talking to some other person entirely. Boom. Butterfly effect."

Sam stared at Chris as she was filled with an intense wave of déjà vu. Her eyes searching his perfectly happy expression, looking for any sign that this conversation wasn't simply in her head. But a jolt from the cable car and the resulting bump her head took to the icy cold window told her that a conversation from her dream had just happened once more.

'Just a coincidence Sam… the stress of going back to Blackwood is getting to you…' Sam thought to herself but she couldn't stop the shiver that ran along her spine and it had nothing to do with the cold winter air.

Despite the sadness that followed Sam, as she expected with returning to the place where her best friends disappeared, she knew that she was deeply excited to see Josh again. All thoughts that her nightmare was somehow coming true were halted as she and Chris reached the final turn toward the lodge. And there he was leaning against a snow covered tree.

Only when he heard the crunch of their boots on the snow he looked over at them and smiled at her, did that excitement come to halt. He looked just as he did in her dream.

Same flannel shirt peeking from beneath the same puffy vest, beanie, warm smile and happy eyes. A worried knot began to form in her chest. Sam hardly heard the conversation between Chris and Josh as her mind raced to make sense of everything running through it.

The possibility that Josh really had only invited them back only to play a hideous prank in revenge for his sisters and that ultimately they would all die- save her- at the claws and teeth of a monster.

Sam answered Josh's greeting with a forced smile of her own and followed the two to the lodge where Matt and Ashley were already waiting by the steps. The hellos and the discovery that the door was frozen shut came as no surprise to Sam and she watched the others silently. Chris and Ashley did their usual stumble through awkward conversing before he and Josh disappeared around the corner to find a way to break in.

Sam bit her lip as she struggled with what she should do and with a smile at Ashley she went after the two guys stopping to watch and listen.

"When are you gonna take her to the bone zone?"

Sam rolled her eyes at the crude yet completely legitimate question. She had to admit she was dying to know as well. But it did seem as if the conversation put some pep into Chris's confidence as he sounded one hundred percent ready to finally make a move and Sam decided to wait for Josh to come back.

He was gone from her sight for only a moment and when he was in her line of sight Sam studied him as he walked toward her. He had his head down so she had a moment to take in his clenched fists and deep frown.

"Josh?"

He looked up quickly and Sam almost gasped at the angry gleam in his eyes but it was gone in an instant as he quickly buried it beneath a warm smile and opened his arms wide.

"Sam! There's my girl. Sorry I haven't given you a… you know proper greeting. Get in here!"

She couldn't resist and quickly walked toward him and wrapped her arms around his waist as his went around her back. His winter vest was cold but his breath on her cheek was warm and he smelled just as he always did. She missed this, missed him.

After a moment Sam pulled back and looked up at Josh. She had so many questions tumbling through her mind and there was so much to say but the words died on her lips as he chuckled.

"I know that look. You look like you want to talk and ask me things but let me beat you to it. Yes I'm as fine as can be expected. You look great and I've missed you."

"You know I would have come up earlier to help you get this place into shape."

Sam saw the flicker of some unknown emotion cross his face and she had the sinking feeling that he wasn't looking at her anymore.

"Sorry Sam, I know I could have asked you but… something I needed to do myself." His voice was strangely hollow and after a short moment his gaze focused on her once more. "You understand right?"

Swallowing thickly Sam nodded and she tried to keep the suspicion out of her voice as she asked a newly realized question.

"Josh, if the front door is frozen shut, where have you been staying?"

"Sam! Josh! Quit flirting and get over here! I think Chris is at the door. Finally!" Ashley called from the front of the lodge safely giving Josh the excuse he needed to pretend as if Sam had never voiced her question. Instead he quickly brushed past her and Sam was beginning to panic.

A silent Sam watched as Jess and Emily nearly came to cat scratches and hair pulling. Their fight played out before her in the exact same way. Before Emily threw the comeback "At least I can think. Four point O bitch, honor roll." At Jess, Sam knew she would say it.

As Emily continued her verbal attack with "Suck on that when you're trying to sleep your way into a job." Sam mouth the words along with her and tears filled her eyes.

"Stop it!" Josh yelled forcefully, and Sam snapped her eyes to him. "This is not why we came up here. This is not… helping. It's not what I wanted. If we can't get along for ten minutes then maybe we need a little bit of a break right? Mike, why don't you check out the guest cabin? The one I told you about."

"Yea..." Mike began to agree.

"No!" Sam cried out, fright made her eyes wide and shook her hands.

Her yell had the desired effect and all conversation ceased as everyone turned their gazes toward her.

After sucking in a shuddering breath Sam fought for calm and tried to turn her expression from terrified to concern.

"I-I mean that's a really long walk up to the cabin… I don't want anything to happen to you."

Mike rolled his eyes and gestured toward the window.

"What could happen Sam?"

"Yea Sam?" Jessica threw in.

Telling her friends the truth, that she'd had a nightmare just hours before with events and conversations oddly similar- no not similar but exactly the same to the present, and that in this nightmare terrible things would happen and all of them would die… they would tell her she was crazy and Sam wasn't sure if they wouldn't be far from accurate.

"Look why can't you just wait until morning? I-I'm sure I heard on the way up here that there was supposed to be a snowstorm sometime and with what happened-"

Mike held up a hand, guilt shining in his eyes when he quickly shifted his gaze from Sam to Josh, who was standing with his hands in his coat pockets, expression blank but Sam could see his jaw was clenched.

"Fine Sam if it'll get you to stop, Jess and I'll wait for tomorrow. But-" Mike ignored Jessica's loud gasp of outrage and the way she folded her arms and glared. "This is going to take some serious boozing and we call the big ass tub for ourselves."

Relief flooded through her that Mike and Jess weren't going to be sent through the hell they went through in her nightmare and she nodded eagerly.

"Alright, good. So Josh, why don't you get a fire going and I'll go see what I can raid from the booze bar."

"Where's my bag?" Emily asked and Sam froze again.

A light "huh?" came from Matt before Emily's tone turned bitchy again.

"My bag!"

Sam watched them argue over whether to go get it and she couldn't find any possible reason for them not to go.

"Wait!" Sam called as they began to walk away and Emily gave an annoyed sigh.

"What is it now? Don't want us to go because of the scary snow?"

Sam swallowed and looked between both of her friends wishing she knew how to keep them safe.

"No just… be careful okay?"

"Sure Sam, let's go Matt." Emily muttered over her shoulder as she dragged her reluctant boyfriend through the front door.

"Sam where's the drunken bliss I was promised?" Mike called from his spot on the sofa, Jess at his side and she spun around. Josh had knelt down by the fireplace, while Ashley and Chris looked for matches.

"I'll just go get that then." She whispered and hurried toward the kitchen.

Josh watched Sam practically run from the room with a slight frown.

"Do you guys think Sam is alright?" He asked to the remaining friends.

"She seems fine to me. Quiet at times but for the most part she's her usual happy go lucky self." Chris answered.

"Nah did you see the way she freaked when Mike and I were going to leave and then again with that whore and her toy?" Jess piped in. "Totally weird."

"She just wanted to make sure everyone is safe… and after last year can you really blame her? I mean she feels so guilty about it…" Ashley defended.

Josh shook his head and looked at the picture of his sisters, Sam, and himself, that was perched on the fireplace mantle. Something was off.

The way Sam was looking at him, and now his plan to get Mike and Jess out of the lodge until he could deal with them later was postponed.

"Hey babe… want to sneak away to the cabin before Sam gets back?" Josh heard Mike ask Jess quietly. He didn't have to look back to know that she had agreed and they were already making a run for the front door.

He gave a pleased grin. "Have fun kiddo's! And remember! Don't do anything I wouldn't do. Like stay out past curfew!" He called after them while Chris and Ashley gave amused chuckles. They stopped abruptly when Sam hurried back into the room, a full bottle of vodka in one of her hands.

"Did they- did they just go to the cabin? And you let them?" She asked and Josh could see the fear in her eyes.

"Well yea… you think I really want to listen to them pound it out all night in my bathtub? Let em go Sam they can take care of themselves."

"No, no, no, they can't go out there. No this can't happen. They were supposed to stay here! Wh-where it's safe!" Sam said in a panicked voice.

Chris took a step toward a now pacing Sam. "Sam… They'll be ok…"

She looked up at him with sadness. "Oh Chris no, no they won't be."

Josh reached her and set his hands on her shoulders and lowered himself to her eye level. "Is this about last year?" He watched as her eyes watered and she bit her lip before shaking her head.

"No, it's more, so, so much fucking more."

"Sam what is it then? What has you so freaked out?" He asked with genuine concern. He had never seen Sam this messed up before. She was level headed and steady. And always when he couldn't be. "What is it you aren't telling me?"

She lifted her chin. "I'm going after them. I can't explain it without sounding insane so I'm just going to say that there is… something… out there and again it can't be explained rationally. But if I don't do something then everyone… everyone will die." Josh watched her take a shaky breath as she kept her eyes lock on his. "And it starts with those two going up to the cabin."