"Billy's mother! Nice surprise Sid, didn't see it coming, did ya?" Mickey smiled feeling very proud of himself.
"No, it can't be. I've seen pictures of you" Gale said completely stunned as she looked at the woman who she knew as Debbie Salt.
"Lose 60 pounds and get a lot of work done!" Sidney spat nastily towards Mrs Loomis her hatred bubbling for the woman after what her son had done.
"It's called a makeover, you should try it. Look a little tired yourself there Gale!" she said back ignoring Sidney's comment and instead focusing on Gale.
"So, you two are in this together?" she said cuttingly completely shocked by the two. She hadn't really spoken to Mickey but she would have never have thought that the annoying reporter was the murderer.
"Yeah, well, I had to have financing. Tuition's expensive. Deb here, my backer, we met on the internet, psycho website "Class of Knives." He said slowly as he looked between them all.
"It's estimated that there are only 97 acting serial killers in the country today. So Mickey here was quite a find, definitely one on the way up, all he needed was a little guidance and nurturing" Mrs Loomis said smiling brightly as she looked at her protégée.
"As only a mother could do" Sidney mumbled her eyes completely transfixed on the woman who she had known most of her life.
"Wait until the trial! It is gonna rock!" Mickey squealed loudly his eyes bright.
"Oh Mickey, there's not going to be a trial!" Mrs Loomis said and he looked at her his expression dropping slightly. It was at that moment that she raised the gun and shot him several times. His body jerked back violently and just as he fell the gun went off in his hand. The bullet his Gale hard and she went tumbling down into the orchestra pit.
"Gale!" Sidney screamed looking as the woman disappeared from sight. Mrs Loomis then turned her attention to Sidney. She was the one she really wanted.
"Two birds, one stone. Talk about being rational! For Mickey, I don't blame the movies, my god. I'm very sane, my motive isn't as 90's as Mickey's, mine is just plain old revenge. You killed my son! And now I kill you, and I can't think of anything more rational" she said her eyes burning wild with hatred.
"You're never gonna get away with this!" Sidney seethed her anger beginning to get the better of her once again.
"Oh, of course I will. Everything is traceable back to Mickey, including the cop gun that he used to kill everyone. You see, let's say that you discovered Mickey was the killer and you got into a huge scuffle and you shot Mickey. Shot Mickey dead, but not before he got off on one shot at you. So, have I cleared up everything, does anyone have any questions? No, ok, besides, who gives a flying fuck! Let them go and track down the second supposed killer. Debbie Salt doesn't even exist" she laughed wildly the gun pointing at Sidney.
"Oh I've also got another littler surprise for you Sid!" Mrs Loomis said as she hit a switch as another one of the swinging props emerged from the side. Sidney's eyes widened in happiness and in horror as she saw that Sam was indeed alive but not in a good way at all.
The prop stopped a foot away from Sidney and she instantly looked at the girl on it. Her head was on her chest and blood covered her white shirt. Cuts littered her face and arms and she could see a nasty slice mark going across her stomach. Sidney instantly began trying to undo the ropes hoping to get her friend down as the position she was in looked awfully painful.
"Hands off Sidney she stays there" Mrs Loomis said firmly and Sidney reluctantly stepped back her face twisting with emotion. Her eyes stayed on Sam who's eyes were trying to open but she couldn't.
"What's wrong with her?" Sidney asked hurriedly worry filling her voice.
"Just a little sedative I've given her to make sure that she stays out of this!" Mrs Loomis said roughly as Sam finally opened her bright blue eyes. She lifted her head around an inch before it fell back down onto her chest so she instead decided to try and roll her head up onto her shoulder so that she could see what was going on.
She succeeded in doing so and somehow on her bloodied face she managed to send Sid a small smile. Sid gave her one of relief back as she squeezed her bound hands. "Aww how cute this is! Such a beautiful sight!" Mrs Loomis said mockingly as she watched the interaction between the two. "Make it last because in the next few minutes you're both gonna die!".
"You're as crazy as your son was!" Sidney screamed her hand still wrapped tightly around Sam's who's groggy head was dropping and then raising all the time.
"What did you just say? Was that a negative remark about my son? About my Billy?" Mrs Loomis growled aggressively her gun pointed at Sidney as she stepped closer.
"No, Billy was fine, Billy was perfect, you did a bang up job Mrs. Loomis" Sam managed to slur a light chuckle escaping afterwards. Damn whatever they've drugged me with it's making me feel slightly high she laughed inwardly finding it difficult to string a straight thought together.
"Better watch what you say. Randy spoke poorly of Billy and I got a little knife happy" she said pointing the gun towards Sam and firing as she set off a warning shot. The bullet just missed the girls head and almost instantly a loud ringing came to her ears. "You know what I am sick of? I'm sick of people blaming the parents. That it all starts with the family" she said turning her attention back to a stunned Sidney. "If you should blame someone, why don't you blame your mother! She's the one who stole my husband and my broke up my marriage, and then you took my son! You don't know what it is like to be a mother. To love him, and guide him.." Mrs Loomis trailed off her voice going surprisingly soft.
"And abandon him!" Sidney scoffed and then decided that now was the time to put her plan into action. "Isn't Mickey supposed to be dead?" she said pretending to be shocked as Mrs Loomis turned to look around. At this Sidney hit Debbie on the head with a beer bottle and then ran off through the back door narrowly avoiding the bullets that Mrs Loomis was firing through it. As she was searching for a way out she noticed another fire axe and thanked her lucky stars as she broke the glass and started hacking at the wires trying to get Debbie with some sort of prop.
Lights came crashing down around Mrs Loomis, and she just about dodged out of the way of one. Another hack by Sidney and it sent another set of lights tumbling down as Debbie dodged again. Debbie decided to climb over the scenery to get to Sidney but Sidney hacked another wire and bricks come tumbling down on top of Mrs Loomis as she fell.
Sidney turned off all equipment and sneaked through the door once again but just as she did Mrs Loomis popped out at Sidney with a knife in her hand. The two wrestled around as Sidney tried to rip the knife from Mrs Loomis surprisingly strong grip. Just as she thought she got the upper hand she felt a sharp pain in her side and noticed that somehow Mrs Loomis had turned the knife and plunged it straight into her side.
Her eyes widened and she was in such shock she didn't register the gunshot behind her nor Mrs Loomis spinning her around and putting the knife to her neck.
"Don't you fucking move! God damn it!" Cotton yelled as he watched as Debbie Salt held the girl captive. His eyes flicked between the two women and the other teenage girl who was hung limply a few feet off the ground blood forming a small puddle beneath her.
"Thank god!" Sidney breathed through her pain as she gritted her teeth. She could feel the blood seep through the fabric of her clothes but she had to hold herself together now.
"Look, I've had a very bad day and I would like to know what the fuck is going on here. Sidney?" he said running a hand through his hair but keeping the gun trained on Mrs Loomis's mad eyes.
"Cotton, meet Mrs. Loomis, Billy's mother, she's the killer!" Sam slurred from beside him and he watched as the girls head lolled about slowly. Her eyes met his and he nodded at her. His eyes then fell on the crumpled form of a boy on the floor. "Who's that?"
"The other killer. Mickey". Sidney said relief filling her as she saw the other girl was talking.
"He's just as crazy as that psycho bitch!" Sam added her eyes burning into Mrs Loomis's as the drug in her system finally began to wear off as she now had more movement in her stiff and aching limbs. Her shoulder was screaming in agony as blood continued to drip from it.
Sidney couldn't help but smile slightly at her words. Still filled with fight. "Ok" he said back still trying to wrap his head around the entire situation.
"Look Cotton" Sidney began trying to bargain with him.
"Shutup!" he said trying to sort his head out. "Oh, so hi! You're not Debbie Salt, huh, from The Post Telegraph?" he said sarcastically as the realization began to hit him.
"I could still help you Cotton" Debbie said sweetly looking at him eyes wide.
"Uh uh uh uh" he said covering his ears from her words. He wasn't going to fall for anything just yet.
"Come on, you don't need her, let me kill her! Then, you're all that's left, you're the star! She sent you to prison for over a year! Personally, I think that's quite poetic" Mrs Loomis smiled as she tightened the knife around Sidney's neck. Sidney could feel the blood loss making her feel light headed but she tried to shake it off.
"No, Cotton, don't you listen to her!" she pleaded knowing that if she was going to survive she would have to convince him someway.
"Woah! Ha ha! Woah! What a predicament you're in Sid. I mean, she does make a good point. I bet that Diane Sawyer interview is looking pretty good right now" he said locking eyes with her. He knew what he was going to do and he was making sure that she knew as well.
She nodded her head and braced herself. "Consider it done" she said and with that Cotton fired the gun. "Ahhhh!" Sidney yelled as she and Mrs Loomis went tumbling to the ground.
Silence fell in the auditorium as Cotton looked at the two unmoving figures on the floor. Fear filled his stomach as he thought that he actually shot Sidney but his fears are washed away when she rolled over onto her front and coughed loudly pushing herself to her feet. She had one hand pressed tightly to her bleeding side and one to her head.
"Woah. That was intense. Look Sid, you know I would never hurt you" Cotton said as he watched the girl pick up the fallen knife.
Sidney didn't say anything and instead she stumbled over to Sam and began to cut at the thick ropes that bound her. "A little help here!" Sidney said as Sam slowly fell forward onto her and in her current condition she was in no fit state to hold the light weight. Cotton stepped forward as the two eased the girl down onto the floor.
"You alright?" Sam asked lightly as she blinked a few times to try and gather her bearings. Sidney smiled and hugged her tightly avoiding the girls injuries.
"Yeah! You?" she said back with a smile glad that it was over. That's when she realised that she hadn't checked to see Mrs Loomis was dead. "I'll be right back!" she said to Sam who was lying on the stage floor hand pressing down on her wound. "Cotton, give me the gun." She said taking it off the taller man and with that he walked over to Mrs Loomis and sat down next to her.
"Look Sid, maybe we should discuss about what went on here, get our stories straight..." Cotton said anxiously not wanting to be sent down once more for crossed wires. Suddenly a hand from below grabbed a hold of Sidney's and they all jumped.
"Could someone get me out here!" Gale yelled as her other hand stretched up to try and pull herself up.
"Gale, are you alright?" Sidney asked relief filling her voice as she extended a hand for her to take.
"Of course not, I've been shot. Ow!" she whimpered as Cotton made his way over.
"Give me your hand Gale, Jesus you scared the crap out of me. So, are there anymore down there?" Cotton asked wearily as they pulled the reporter up from the darkness.
"No" she said with a shake of her head as she looked around at the scene around her.
"Nothing like reporting from the trenches, huh Gale?" Sam laughed from the other side of the stage as she slowly and gingerly sat upright and waved sarcastically at the reporter. Sidney chuckled loudly at this.
"Shut up Samantha!" she said back a slight smile on her face as she winced once more.
"How bad is it?" he said wondering if she was badly hurt. She didn't seem it.
"Just bounced off my rib" she said simply as she pressed a hand over it.
"Jesus Gale, you got more lives than a cat." Cotton laughed trying to ease the atmosphere there as they all began to deal with the instant aftermath.
"Give me one of those. Is she dead?" Gale said and Sam slid over the gun she had just pulled from next to Mickey. She picked it up.
"I don't know. They always come back, you know." Sidney said her gaze flicking between the two. Mickey suddenly jumped upwards and Sidney and Gale instantly shot Mickey down dead.
"Woah!" Cotton said watching as the two girls finished pumping lead into the boy who was definitely dead by now.
Sidney didn't say anything and instead she walked over to where Mrs Loomis was and fired a shot off into her head. "Just in case" Sidney whispered as she dropped the gun and walked back over to Sam and sat down next to her resting her head against the girl.
"You'll be fine ma'am!" the paramedic said as he wheeled Sam out on a stretcher Sidney in a chair right next to her hands woven together tightly.
"I feel like crap and as if I'm on a mega come down!" she winced and the paramedic merely laughed at her as he wheeled her into the back of the ambulance. Sidney jumped out of her seat and sat on the chair in there as the paramedics worked on the both of them.
"We've found a live one here!" came a paramedics yell as they wheeled out a very bad looking Dewey.
"Dewey! Is he going to be OK?" Gale yelled as she hurried over to the fallen deputy who was groaning quietly.
"Old scar tissue saved him" the paramedic said with a smile. "You're a lucky bastard you know that!" he said and Dewey just grunted in pain.
"I'm coming with you!" Gale said quickly as she jumped in the ambulance with her friend.
"Sidney! Sidney! Sam!" reporters yelled as they flooded around the open ambulance. The paramedic tried to push them away but there was far too many of them.
"Sidney, Sam, tell us, how does it feel to be heroes?" one of the reporters yelled as they snapped photos of the two injured girls.
"Talk to Cotton. He's the hero, he's the one you want to interview" Sidney said and that instantly shut them up as they ran off and began to flock around Cotton Weary.
"Well we did it again!" Sam mumbled lightly as she looked at Sidney who had a small smile on her face.
"Yeah we did, you were right as long as we stick together then we'll survive right!" Sidney grinned back using Sam's earlier words. The older girl nodded happily.
"Got that right! Thank god all this shit is over with!" Sam said with a light chuckle as she squeezed Sidney's hands.
Sidney just looked at her with raise eyebrows. "Really, you think this is all finally over?" she asked her face deadly serious.
Sam shrugged with one shoulder her other rendered completely immobile. "For now it is! We'll just come to that next step when we get to it alright!" Sam stated and Sidney nodded reassured by her words.
"Okay I'll hold you to that!" she laughed as the paramedic shut the door tightly and she felt the vehicle begin to pull off.
"I know you will!" she said and she then turned her attention to the incredibly good looking paramedic. "Hey doc I need more drugs! A girls in pain here!" she chuckled and the paramedic just shook his head at her.
"Sorry ma'am but we can't give you anything else until we arrive at the hospital" he said with a wry smile and she just scowled at him. Sidney laughed at her reaction.
"What's a girl gotta do to get some drugs around here….." she said but when she repeated the words in her head she cringed as did Sidney. "Okay scratch that I never said that line! It sounded so dirty!" she said with a wrinkled up nose.
"Sam!" Sidney said putting an end the girls rambling. She just looked at her with one raised eyebrow but then she chuckled loudly and nudged her friends gently. "Shut up!".
So scream 2 is done. Now onto number three and onto number four. If you enjoyed guys please do not hesitate to let me know! Thanks again for the continued support.
