Veronica's breath caught in her throat. She was terrified until Logan spoke "Beaver?" he asked. It was in fact Cassidy. "What the hell are you doing out here?" Logan asked. Veronica found that she could breathe again.
"I was just looking for Duncan, that's all." he explained. Veronica and Logan glanced at each other. "Why?" Logan questioned. "He was missing and sombody had to find him." Cassidy replied. "No, I mean why did you want to find him?" Logan said.
"I don't know, why do you care so much?" Cassidy asked. "Um, well there is a pyscho on the loose, for a second I thought you were him." Logan said. "Cassidy, why didn't you wait with the others?" Veronica spoke up.
"I don't know, I was just trying to help. Sorry." Cassidy mumbled, kicking aside a stone and walking past Logan and Veronica. "Well that's great but you could have been killed." Logan poined out, following Cassidy.
Veronica took one final look around before quickly walking after Logan. She grabbed his hand and walked along side him. "Well if sombody wanted me dead then they probably would have done it by now." Cassidy said. "He's right..." Veronica agreed.
"You thought they were going to hurt Mac." Logan said, it was more of a statement than a question, but Cassidy nodded. "I didn't want her going so I decided to. She wanted to find Duncan...I don't know why." Cassidy explained, glancing at the two.
"That's Mac for you." Veronica said. "Well this still doesn't help us any, where the hell is Duncan?" Logan asked. He looked around to see the surroundings showed no trace of Duncan.
No trace of anybody for that matter. "What if somthing happened?" Veronica asked. "To Duncan? Like he would let it." Logan told her, gripping her hand.
Veronica felt safer whenever she was so close to Logan. She liked it much better that way as well. "Maybe we should go back to the party and get more people." Logan said. Veronica nodded, but any hope of finding Duncan alive was quicky draining from her.
"Yeah, that's fine." Cassidy said. After ten mintes of walking in circles, they found the exit due to light from the blazing bonfire. Veronica exited the woods last and took a quick glance behind her. Though nobody was there, she could have swore sombody was watching her.
The three met up with Mac and Wallace by the same bench. Veronica sat down next to Logan and Cassidy sat on the ground by Mac. "No luck?" Wallace asked. "No..we did find Beaver though." Logan said, pointing to Cassidy.
"What exacty were you doing in the woods?" Wallace asked. "I was looking for Duncan, okay?" Cassidy explained once again. He ran a hand through his hair.
"Well we're just glad you're all back, we were starting to get worried." Mac informed them. "Look, if we want to find Duncan we need to go now." Logan said. "Yeah but waht if he's...what if somthing already happened?" Cassidy asked.
"What if it didn't?" Veronica replied, standing up and looking around, hoping to spot Duncan. The group of kids was thinning out, surprisingly, but no sign of him anywhere. There was sort of a icy cold feeling in Veronica's stomach. She didn't like it at all. "Well we could go for help." Wallace suggested.
"Yeah, look how that turned out last time." Logan replied. Veronica was jst about to speak when they were all cut off by shouting. The group looked to see Dick and another boy, Todd by the fire arguing. Todd Grabbed Dick by his shirt and threw him to the ground. Other kids gathered around to watch.
Logan got to his feet and jogged across the field. Dick pushed Todd away from him and got back up. Before they could really fight though, Logan pushed Todd back. "Dude, knock it the hell off!" he said. "This prick is about to get the shit beat out of him!" Dick said.
Todd had calmed down somewhat and looked from Dick to Logan. "Look, dude I don't want to fight, okay?" he said. By now Veronica and the others had joined the group of kids watching. "Then what do you call what you just did?" Logan asked. "Fuck this, i'm out of here!" Todd shouted, walking across the field without looking back.
"What was that all about?" Logan asked. Veronica half wanted to stop Todd, but she didn't. "He said some really bad things about Gia." Dick said. Veronica knew Dick liked her, that must have been why he was so defensive. "Like what, what was so bad that you almost beat him up?" Logan questioned.
"It doesn't matter, it's over lets just move on." Troy said, stepping in. "Yeah good idea." Dick agreed. And the party continued like nothing had ever happened. Veronica then looked around for Gia, only to see she too was missing. Just like Duncan. How could she have forgotten Duncan so easily?
"Where is Gia?" she asked, looking around for her. Mac also started looking for her. that's when Dick stepped in. "Earlier," he started "about maybe ten minutes ago, after Todd made her upset, she walked away. Said somthing about being alone for a while." Dick explained.
Great, now she and Duncan were both missing. "Thanks Dick." she said, then turned around and walked towards the lot by herself. Logan spotted her and jogged to catch up. "Going alone?" he asked. She turned around "Yeah, Gia left." she told him. "Oh how nice." Logan said sarcasticly.
"Well maybe I can still catch her." Veronica told him, Then added "Will you come with me?" Logan nodded and smiled at her. "Sure will." he said. Veronica laughed and then they both stopped walking and just stared at each other.
Then suddenly, Logan was kissing Veronica again. She put her arms around his shoulders and kissed him back. Everything bad seemed to just dissapear and for that amount of time they kissed, Veronica was happy. But when Logan pulled away, all the worry and saddnes came back to her too quickly.
"I just want this to all be over." she said after they stopped. "It will be. Don't worry about it, now let's find Gia." he said, taking her hand. "Where do you the went?" Veronica asked, following Logan as he searched for Gia. "I don't know." he admitted.
"Well we-" Veronica was cut off when she saw somthing dark standing behind a tree by the parking lot. At first she really thought, and hoped it was her imagination. But it didn't look like a shadow, it defidently was sombody. Sombody watching them. "Logan!" she said as the figure vanished into the trees.
He turned around and looked "What?" he asked. "There was sombody..he was watching us." she told him, feeling terrified once again. "You're serious?" Logan asked, walking towards the forest. "Yes but Logan don't go in there." she said, grabbing his arm. "Veronica, this is important. It could be Gia or Duncan..or the killer."
"Exactly!" she said. Logan stopped "Hey Duncan? Gia?" he called. Nothing. Veronica waited for a moment then spoke up "Guys? Is that you, please stop playing around." she called. Still no answer. "I don't think it was them." she said, suddenly very afraid.
"I have an idea." Logan said. "What is it?" she asked, staring into the woods. "I'll go in there and wait five minutes, if it's a joke then sombody will let me know by then." Logan explained. Veronica immediatly had a horrible feeling. "No! Logan what if this is not a joke?"
"Well then...just let me do this and see." Logan said. "Are you crazy?" she asked. "Why, yes...just a little, come on Veronica. If sombody is going to attack me, they would probably have done it, even with you around. I will only take a second then I can come right back." Logan said, glancing over his shoulder into the dark, deserted woods behind him.
Veronica wanted to object, bur knew this is wht Logan was going to do, whether she wanted him to or not. "Fine," she said defeatedly "Take this." Veronica pulled out the taser and Logan simply shook his head. "No, you need it more than I do." and with that Logan walked into the woods.
I cannot believe I just let him talk me into this, she thought as he dissapeared from sight. She glanced around, feeling as if she was being watched again, but there was nobody around. Again. Veronica shook her head slightly and waited.
It seemed to take an eternity. She really kept expecting sothing horrible to happen. But everything was calm. Clearly nothing had happened to Logan and Veronica wasn't afraid. But as soon as she thought it was safe there were footsteps behind her.
A twig snapped and Veronica turned around as quickly as she could to see nothing. Nobody was standing behind her, nobody was even in sight. Slowly, she let out a deep breath and turned around to see sombody standing in front of her.
She screamed and the figure tried to grab her. Whoever it was, they were wearing all black, a black jacket and jeans. They also had a ski mask pulled down over their face and a large knife in one hand. Thee knife was smeared with dried blood.
Thinking fast, Veronica pulled out the tazer and tazed the killer. He screamed in pain and dropped the knife. Veronica turned to run but he grabbed her arm and tripped her, making her fall in the proccess.
Veronica fell hard and before he could get hold of the knife, she kicked him in the face and without hesitation, Veronica got back to her feet and grabbed her tazer, running off. She didn't know if he was chasing her, she really didn't care. All Veronica wanted was to find Logan.
She ran until her lungs felt as if they would burst. Even then, she ran some more. Finally Veronics stopped as she saw Logan. He had just stepped out of the woods Veronica grabbed his arm. "Logan, I saw him. He's back there and he tried to..I was..." Veronics stopped.
"Whoah, hey calm down." Logan said, looking past Veronica into the darkness. "Okay, what are you talking about?" he asked. "Logan, he's out there, he chased me and..we have to go." Veronica said quickly, afraid the killer would come back.
"Okay." Logan said, but just at that moment they both heard sombody scream. It was a familiar voice and Veronica immediatly reconized it as Mac. They both turned around at the same time. The scream came from the same area Veronica was just in.
A feeling of dread and terror washed over her. "Mac!" she shouted, running towards the noise. Logan ran to catch up with her "Mac?!" he called. They ran back through the darkness and eventully Veronica saw why Mac screamed. Todd was laying dead on the ground and Mac was standing across the field.
Veronica reached her best friend. "Mac, what happened?" she asked. "I don't know..I heard a gnshot and saw Todd, sombody killed him then this..guy I don't know who came out and attacked me!" she informed them. Veronica could see a small pool of blood forming around Todd's head.
That's three down, she thought. "Where'd he go?" Logan asked, stepping over Todd's body. "I don't know, Duncan chased after him." Mac said in a shaky voice. "You found Duncan, he's okay?" Veronica asked. "Yes." Mac said.
"He was...well in the woods, making out with Gia." Mac added as an afterthought. Veronica and Logan exchanged glances. "Where's Gia now?" Veronica asked. "She ran after Duncan." Mac told her, she sat down on the grass and put her face against her hands. "I can't believe this..."
Veronica sat next to her and Logan remained standing. "We have to figure out what's going on." Veronica said in response. "We will." Logan assured them both. Moments later Gia returned by herself. "Where's Duncan?" Veronica asked, standing up.
"He is trying to get a signal on his phone, told me to come back here." Gia explained to them. "Look, we can't do this. No more going off by ourselfs. And everyone needs to go home." Logan said. "Okay, fine." Veronica agreed quickly. Duncan jogged back to the small group. "I can't get a damn signal, I have no idea who that guy is."
"He dropped this." Mac said, holding up a small silver pistol. "Does it have any ammo?" Logan asked. "Yeah, I think so." Mac answered. "Okay, just keep it. We need to get back to the party." Duncan said. The five of them walked back across the lot and to the field where about fifity kids still remained.
Veronica rolled her eyes and found Dick. He was sitting with a small group of kids talking. "Dick, did you forget to do what I asked?" she said. "Oh, hold on." Dick told them, he put a cup down and joined the others. "We need to get them to go home, it's not safe here. How can you have fun while people died?" she asked, keeping her voice down.
"Hey, I tried to make them go home but they didn't listen." Dick told them. "Well try harder, dude." Logan answered. "Okay, okay, whatever." Dick agreed before walking back to the table and getting up on top of it. "Okay everyone, yeah listen up. We have a...situation and it's been brought to my attention," Dick started.
Everyone was listening to what he had to say, fortunately. Veronica almost smiled at how Dick was acting. "We need to leave the party, like right now. That is all and thanks for coming." he finished. Sime kids groaned about it while others simply walked away as if it were no big deal.
They were laughing and walking as they left and pretty soon mostly everyone was gone. Instead of leaving Wallace rejoined them and Cassidy walked across the field to Mac. Just when everything seemed fine a bright red sports car pulled up.
Logan sighed and ran a hand through his hair. "I'll be back." he said quietly to Veronica. Aaron Echolls gout out of the car. Logan stopped and began talking to Aaron. Though she could not hear what they were saying, Veronica could tell the two were arguing.
Aaron said somthing and Logan shook his head before walking away. Without stopping him Aaron got back itno his car and drove away. Then two kids, a boy named Devin and a girl named Sarah came over to Veronica. "Hey, have you seen Madison?" Devin asked.
Oh no, Veronica thought. "No we have not." Logan told them. "She left earlier and we haven't seen her since." Sarah explained. "Well that's just great!" Logan said, walking away from the group.
Veronica ran after him "Logan, what's wrong?" she asked. He stopped walking and turned around "What the hell isn't wrong?" he asked. "I know but-" Veronica started but suddenly an ear piercing scream cut her off. She and Logan both turned around.
"Madison..." Veronica whispered. Madison Sinclair wasn't Veronica's favorite person, but she wouldn't scream for no reason. The first thing that came to Veronica's mind was the killer. Had he found Madison? Logan started across the field and without thinking Veronica followed him.
They stopped when Madison ran out of the woods looking completely unharmed. Her face was as white as a ghost and she looked horrified. "That..that guy he's dead!" she said, looking behind her. Veronica and Logan looked at each other.
She must know about Caleb, Veronica thought. "What are you talking about?" Devin asked, joining them. "I don't..." Madison started but Logan cut her off. "You know what, we'll go check the woods out. Veronica, you wait here with Madison and Mac. Kay?"
Five minutes later all the guys were going off into the woods. It made Veronica feel better that there were five guys and one killer. Sarah went home apoun learning about Caleb's death. Nobody really knew where Gia had gone.
Now, in the empty field, the three girls sat in silence. Mac stared down at the ground, playing with a loose thread on her jeans. Madison was sitting with her back turned towards the woods, her expression unreadable.
Veronica, however, continued to stare into the woods looking for any sign of somthing out of the ordinary. It had been rather quiet for a while. "What exactly were you doing in the woods anyway?" Mac asked suddenly. "I just wanted to see what else was here." Madison answered.
"Well...Caleb went into the woods alone and look what happened to him." Veronica said. For a moment Madison said nothing, then she stood up. "I can't do this." she said, walking away from their table. Veronica knew she was heading for the parking lot, which was not a good idea at all.
She stood up and followed her "What are you doing?" she asked. Madison didn't stop walking "Home." she said flatly. "Why don't you just wait for Devin?" Veronica questioned her. "I'm scared, okay? I just found dead guy so i'm getting the hell out of here." Madison said.
"Listen to me, leaving now would be a really, really bad idea. Jut wait until they're back." Veronica said. By now they reached the lot. Madison was walking to her car when she stopped. "Why would I stay, sombody killed Caleb and they could still be here." with that Madison turned around to unlock her car.
Veronica gave up on any hope talking to Madison and turned around. She barley got three steps away when she heard Madison scream. Veronica turned around to see her being thrown to the ground by the killer, who seemed to have appeared out of nowhere.
Madison fell and the killer pulled a knife out of his back pocket. "No!" Veronica shouted. Madison screamed again and Veronica pulled out the tazer. Without hesitation she grabbed the mans arm and tazed him. He screamed in pain and dropped he knife, falling down just inches away from Madison.
The knife clattered to the ground and Veronica tried to grab it but the killer grabbed her leg and pulled him down as well. Pain shot through her arm as she fell. The killer was getting back up but Veronica kicked him hard in the face.
At that moment Mac ran around the corner and saw what was happening. "Veronica!" she shouted. Madison was still trying to get back up when the killer grabbed the knife out of Veronica's reach and jammed it into Madisons back. She screamed once more, it was probably the loudest Veronica had heard anybody scream.
Mac ran to her best friends side and pulled her up to her feet. The killer pulled the knife out and prepared to stab her again but Veronica kicked him hard in the leg. He cried out in pain and collapsed.
Veronica bent down next to Madison without paying attention to the killer. But she could tell, Madison was already dead, or at least close enough to it. Then she heard another scream and the sound of her tazer followed by somthing heavy falling.
She turned around to see Mac had tazed the killer again. What Veronica should have done was stabbed him, or even unmasked him. But Madison was dead and she was scared. "Come on!" she said, stepping over the fallen man and running. Mac followed with the tazer in her hand.
The two of them ran across the lot and back to the still empty field. Just when Veronica thought it was safe she turned to see the killer standing behind her, holding the knife.
A/N: Sorry it took me so long to update, I meant to sooner but I kept forgetting (Stupid, I know). Anyway I took some of your advice and I hope yu ike this chapter. And again, if you have any suggestions, feel free to let me know. Thanks.
