Disclaimer: I do not own Scream, etc.
Author's Note: And thus begins Scream 2.
I will state right now that towards the end of the first Scream in this fiction, I was really excited to start writing about Scream 2 and include Mickey. But after days of trying to write it, I ended up hating it. However, seeing as how it would be terribly wrong of me to skip over the events of both Scream 2 and Scream 3 entirely, welcome to the shortened, filler chapter version of Scream 2. I'm sorry if you hate it, but I'm not ecstatic about it either. I've tried to make it as tolerable as possible and I'm sorry if you don't like the outcome. Please don't hate me and bear with it, because afterward…there's Stu!
"I never understood that," Kat's voice floated into the room, followed by two giggles. One from her and one from CiCi Cooper, whom she was walking with. Mickey's head, as well as Randy's head, snapped up at the noise. She was wearing a short black skirt and a pink blouse and she had on flip flops. She looked like a more mature version of her high school self, which in other terms, meant that Randy still found her undeniably attractive.
The two girls separated and Kat took her seat next to Randy, whom she kissed quickly before sitting down, "Morning, babes."
He grinned back at her, "Morning, Kat."
Mickey rolled his eyes, what could she possibly see in Randy that she couldn't see in him? He knew they'd been together since the Woodsboro murders two years ago, but they had been constantly breaking up and getting back together ever since Kat had joined the sorority that Hallie had talked her into and that the two girls were now trying to get Sidney to join with them.
He kept thinking that Kat was cheating on him with random frat boys, which Mickey couldn't believe. For whatever reason, Kat was hopelessly devoted to and in love with Randy Meeks. And she constantly bashed anything that resembled a frat boy. However, she loved her sorority. It was incredibly perplexing for everyone that didn't know about the relation between Kat Prescott and Stu Macher. The frat boys reminded her of him and thus, she bashed him. And because the frat boys were so much like Stu, it kept Randy on constant edge that she would leave him if she found one exactly like him. As she'd done in high school in a way.
The professor walked in and put his briefcase on the desk. "So, what topic would we like to discuss today?" A boy in the back raised their hand, "What about movies being responsible for someone's actions?"
The entire class turned to face him, interested and confused. The professor nodded for him to go on. "Well, I mean, didn't any of you see the news this morning?"
Everyone's faces scrunched up as they tried to remember if they had or not. Usually college students that woke up late for class and grumpy, just fumbled around to get decently dressed before their first morning class. And afterwards, they'd go get changed into actual clothes on a break once they'd woken up. Noone ever saw the news until the boring week nights spent in the common areas. Deciding to be the one to stop the maddening stupidity that she and her peers all seemed to be displaying, Kat spoke up, "No, why? What happened?"
The kid sat up straighter, "Well, last night was the premiere of Stab 2. And two of the people who went to the theater for the midnight show, who were enrolled at our school, were killed during the movie."
"What do you mean during the movie?" A kid spoke up, rolling his eyes, "How could nobody notice that?"
"Well, the theater gave out the costume with the mask and plastic knives as a publicity thing. The guy killed this girl's boyfriend when he was taking a leak and then he came back, in the guy's jacket and killed the girl. Everyone in the theater thought that it was a publicity stunt, so nobody did anything! They didn't even notice until she didn't get back up. And by then, the guy was gone."
"Oh my God," CiCi muttered out, "Are you serious?"
"Nobody did anything?" Kat questioned out loud. She criticized herself immediately, looking down with guilt. She realized that she really shouldn't be one to say anything about not doing anything. Mickey noticed this and was confused. When Gale Weathers had published the book, the Prescott family had begged her to leave out certain details of the story. Kat's helpful hand of remaining quiet was left out, as was her murder of Stuart Macher. Randy held her hand, realizing that she felt guilty, "It's okay," he whispered. She nodded. Mickey's eyebrow raised in even more confusion.
"So, what you guys are saying is that movies are responsible for our actions," the teacher tried to turn the topic into a more mature discussion.
CiCi raised her pen in the air, scoffing slightly, "That is so moral majority. You can't blame real life violence on entertainment."
"What?" a kid cried out.
Kat zoned out through CiCi's argument, still processing that someone was murdered here, and only tuned in when Randy began to argue with Mickey.
"Come on, Randy, the killer obviously patterned himself after two serial killers who've been immortalized on film."
The kid who'd started this argument thanked him for helping him.
"Are you suggesting that this person wants to make a sequel?"
"Stab 2?" Randy cried out, "Who'd want to see that? Sequels suck!" The entire class groaned as Kat rolled her eyes in agreement with her boyfriend. "Oh please! Please! By definition alone, they're inferior films!"
"That's a bullshit generalization!" Mickey shouted back at him. "Many sequels have surpassed their original films!" Kat's eyebrows raised. Mickey seemed genuinely insulted that Randy had trashed sequels.
"Oh yeah?" CiCi spoke up, "Name one?" she smiled at Kat who grinned back at her. CiCi could always speak up for the both of their thoughts in class without ever discussing it with Kat.
"Aliens," a kid from the front spoke up, "Far better than the first."
"Yeah well," CiCi shrugged with a smile, "There's no accounting for taste."
Randy chuckled, "Thank you."
Everyone began discussing again and Kat zoned out again. She couldn't place why, but she felt so light headed. Had she known Maureen? She didn't think so. Maybe she had a class with her freshman year. But…who had killed her? Who would show up on their campus and kill a student? With the same first name as her mother?
She was shaken out of her daze by Mickey who leaned down into her face, "He's dismissing us, come on." Kat jumped slightly at how close Mickey was to her, inhaling his cologne. It smelt familiar, as if she'd smelt it before. But she had to have smelt it before…she saw Mickey nearly every day. She shook off the feeling and nodded.
Kat stood up and saw her sister and Randy waiting for her by the door, "Um, yeah. I'll uh, see you around, Mickey," she waved him off and walked to her sister.
She and Sid were on completely better terms now. Kat still felt like shit, yeah, but Sidney had forgiven her. They had even roomed together, with Hallie, until she got to move into the sorority house the semester prior. Her room felt empty without her sister in a twin bed on the other side, but she supposed she'd have to get used to that after 20 years of sharing a room with her sister. Especially if she ever wanted to get married and live in her own house. Sidney wouldn't always be there for her.
"300 people were watching and nobody did anything! They thought it was a publicity stunt!" Sidney cried out as they were walking.
Kat was shaking her head, it was so sad. Especially because it was an entire theater of people watching.
"And it would've been a good one, too," Randy spoke with a British accent.
"It's starting again, Randy," Sidney spoke up, stopping.
"It's not," Randy stopped now, still talking with his accent. "A lot of shit happens at the movies. People get robbed, maimed, murdered. Multiplexes are very dangerous places to be now a days."
"And you are in extreme denial," Sidney rolled her eyes.
"And you should be, too. This has nothing to do with us." His eyes scanned his girlfriend's face, "Any of us."
She shook her head, "Randy a couple was stabbed to death in the movie telling our life story. And you can say that it had nothing to do with us?"
He shook his head, "Can we please go back to our somewhat happy existence? Hi, Derek!" he greeted Sidney's boyfriend happily, glad to get off of the subject. Derek pecked Sid on the lips and greeted everyone.
The group continued walking and noticed what Sidney and Kat liked to call a 'media circus', which in fact was really a press conference. Mickey had joined them and was taping the conference and then the groups' reactions nonchalantly. Kat tilted her head as she stood in-between Mickey and Randy and gasped. "Randy, it's Gale…"
Randy grabbed a hold of Sid, "Sidney look! It's Gale Weathers!" he pulled her towards them so she could see better. Randy began mocking her and Sidney stared off, "Be kind. She saved our lives."
Randy leaned forward, Mickey filming his face, "Ooh, she got calf implants!" Kat's face turned into a frown. Was he seriously checking out that tabloid twit? "I'm gonna get closer…" he walked down there.
She huffed, glaring at the direction that he was in. He was. Mickey grinned reassuringly towards her, "It's alright, Kat! You got me, still!" he chuckled wrapping his free arm around her shoulders and touching the top of his head to hers'. She smiled softly, Mickey was in a lot of her classes and she always talked to him in them. While he wasn't her best friend, he was one of her friends. Her best friend would always be her sister.
The main girls of the Delta Lambda Zeta house made their way over and began trying to sympathize and drag Sidney into their cult. When they left, Derek raised his eyebrows at Sid, "You going to dress like that when you pledge?"
"Unlikely!"
"The Delta Lambdas are the biggest bunch of fucking -" Mickey began to start.
"Excuse me," Kat raised her eyebrows, "I pledged Delta Lambda last semester, thank you very much," she stared over at him, accusingly.
"And I'm pledging Delta, this semester, too!" Hallie shouted at him. The two girls stood together, accusingly staring at Mickey.
He raised his hands up in the air, giving up, "I was just saying."
"Oh my God," Sidney stood up, staring off. Kat looked and saw a man walking, looking quite lost. She stood up as well, "Oh my God!" she cried out, excitedly.
The two girls cried out at once, "Dewey!" As they walked out towards the man. When he turned, they both sprinted, happily, each greeting him with a hug.
"What are you doing here?"
"I was worried about the two of you, after I saw what happened on the news. I had to come and make sure you were all alright."
Kat smiled, "Oh, Dewey!" she smiled. They each took their own walk with Dewey, catching up. When Kat's turn came, she linked arms with him, "How's Woodsboro PD?"
"I uh, I actually left the force."
"Why?" her face grew puzzled, "Because of your limp?"
"No, no. They were going to let me stay on with it. It was a personal choice to leave."
"Oh?"
"The uh, Sheriff wanted us to do some things that I wasn't necessarily comfortable with. So, I told him I wouldn't do it and I gave him my badge."
"Oh, Dewey. Well, good for you."
"Listen, Kat. If there's anybody trying to copy Billy and Stu…they're probably already in your life. And I know that out of all of us, you're the one who should most easily recognize somebody who wants to hurt you. Has there been anybody that gives you a weird vibe?"
She thought for a moment, carefully. Then, she shook her head, "I don't think so." She thought again for a moment. She sometimes got a weird vibe off of Mickey, but she just assumed it was because he was so into horror movies. She had had that vibe off of Randy when he first got really into them and Randy was generally okay in the head.
She shook her head, "No, I can't say I do. I'm mostly friends with girls, now. Last semester I pledged Delta Lambda Zeta and I moved into their sorority house. So, I think the only guys I really talk to are Mickey, Derek, and Randy."
"Derek is Sidney's boyfriend, right?"
Kat nodded. "And Mickey is?"
"Mickey is like an exact clone of Randy," she rolled her eyes. "He's really into movies and whatnot. He's nice though. He's in a lot of my classes and he's friends with Randy so we usually hang out with him."
"And who is Hallie?"
"Sid's roommate and my friend. She's getting Sid to pledge this semester and they're going to move into the house with me."
He smiled, "That's great, Kat. But you haven't even seen anyone. Anyone in the cafeteria that reminds you of Billy or of Stu?"
She shook her head, "No…I don't think so."
He nodded, "Okay, Kat."
When Kat re-joined the group, Randy had just left to go say hi to Dewey. Mickey began talking about how many times the girl had been stabbed last night before being told to drop it. As Kat and Sidney looked at him awkwardly, they were rudely disturbed by their least favorite savior.
"Hello girls!" They each turned around to face Gale Weathers. "How are you two?"
"Hi…" Sidney trailed off.
"What do you want, Gale?" Kat asked, annoyed as she saw the video camera.
"Well I was hoping I might get just a few words with you," she smiled sweetly, tapping the camera man's arm and having him part to reveal a man the two girls never wanted to see again.
Sidney's jaw dropped as Kat let out a gasped, "Fucking a."