Laurie ran as fast as she could down the corridor. She felt terrible about leaving that kid but she knew that she couldn't have stopped Michael. Had she tried to help the kid, they would've both been dead. Up ahead, Laurie noticed the open door of the REC room and the light on inside. If she could save one person maybe that would make up for letting one down. Laurie rushed into the room to see Jennifer, the girl from the other night, watching TV.

"Hi Laurie" Jennifer said hesitantly, Laurie could tell that she was already judging her

"We have to get out of here" Laurie warned

"Are you okay? Do you need me to call someone?" Jennifer asked. Laurie could tell Jennifer thought that she was crazy. Poor coo coo Laurie.

"They're all dead" Laurie tried to explain "We have to go"

"Who are all dead? What?"

It seemed that Jennifer was struggling to get her head around what Laurie was trying to say. Laurie not wanting to give up, held out her hand to Jennifer.

"Please" Laurie said clearly "come with me"

Jennifer took Laurie's hand and after a moment they walked into the hallway together.

"I really think we should -" Jennifer started before being interrupted by a stern voice behind them.

"Laurie what are you doing out of your room?" asked Nurse Andrews

Laurie and Jennifer turned to see Nurse Andrews. She must've been on her rounds when the massacre started.

"We need to leave Smith's Grove" Laurie pleaded

"Yes, one day soon" Nurse Andrews said, she was talking down to Laurie. Talking as though Laurie didn't know her own mind. It looked as though Andrews was about to say something else when a blade burst through her chest. Laurie hadn't seen Michael standing in the darkness behind Nurse Andrews. Michael retracted the knife and Andrew's body crumpled to the ground but he wasn't done with it yet. He struck it over and over and over. So much rage. Laurie could almost feel it.

Forcing herself to look away, Laurie looked Jennifer in the eye.

"We have to leave" she said firmly

Laurie quickly lead Jennifer down the hallway. The poor girl seemed to be in shock. The two reached the elevator and Laurie hit the button. Laurie looked back at Michael. He was done with Nurse Andrews and was moving in their direction, slowly, tauntingly. The elevator doors parted, Laurie and Jennifer ran inside, Laurie hitting the button for the ground floor. As the doors closed, she could hear her brother picking up his pace. She could hear him grunt in frustration as he missed the doors by just a few seconds. Laurie smiled to herself. They had escaped, barely but it was still a start.

When the elevator doors opened, Laurie and Jennifer ran out, across the ground floor.

"Who the fuck was that?" Jennifer cried

Laurie stopped momentarily at the reception desk, she peeked over it. A dead receptionist and a nurse were lying inches from each other. What was left of their faces made Laurie feel weak. She tried her best to shake the feeling, moving past the desk and toward the door.

"Do you know?" Jennifer asked

"Know what?" Laurie snapped

"Who that fucking maniac is?!"

"My brother" Laurie answered, pushing the door open

The sound of breaking glass cut through Jennifer's reaction as a body hurled from one of the floors above and landed with a sickening crunch on the ground outside. Laurie immediately recognized the corpse's clothes. She prayed that she was wrong but she knew. Laurie pushed the door open and ran outside, she knelt down beside the body of Mr. Brackett. He had been stabbed many times, just like Annie. His blood was dried into his clothes, he had been dead for a while. Laurie held Mr. Brackett's hand. Another person she had known her whole life, taken by a monster she was related to.

"Laurie?" Jennifer called, snapping her from some depressing thoughts.

"We need to go, remember?" Jennifer stressed

Laurie nodded, she squeezed Mr. Brackett's hand and got up, casting a glance back into the building. It looked darker than it had a few minutes ago. The long shadows weren't very reassuring, Michael could be looking right at her and she wouldn't know. Laurie ran for the gates, Jennifer following behind. They were locked up tight, Laurie didn't know where the release switch was, though if she had to guess, probably back at reception.

"Shit!" Jennifer yelled

"It's okay" Laurie tried to calm her "I can give you a boost up and then you can crawl down it from the other side"

"But then how will you get out?" Jennifer asked

"It doesn't matter, we'll find a way"

Laurie knelt down and locked her hands together, she looked up at Jennifer, who was very clearly close to breaking down. There was nothing else for it though, she had to leave.

"Just go" Laurie pleaded

Jennifer nodded. Her eyes were full of panic and fear. Reluctantly she stepped onto Laurie's hands. Out of no where Laurie felt sick. The pain in her head was back and it was getting very hard to concentrate. He was coming for her. No she had to get Jennifer out of Smith's Grove. Laurie gave Jennifer the boost. She reached the top of the gate but only barely. Laurie felt weak. Something in the darkness hit her, she couldn't see what but it sent her back against the gate, Laurie's vision blurred and Jennifer fell back to the ground. She didn't move and Laurie's vision was so foggy she couldn't tell if she was dead or alive.

"Jennifer?" Laurie called

No answer.

Ahead of Laurie, two white shapes appeared seemingly from no where: a woman and her horse. Beside them appeared two other familiar figures: the two naked shapes of Annie and Lynda. Laurie could feel their gaze. They were judging her. Observing her. Waiting for something exciting to happen like she was some god damn sideshow attraction.

"What do you want from me!" Laurie screamed at them

"For you to come home" replied the voice of a young boy, appearing beside Deborah Myers

The boy was the one Laurie used to see in dreams. She vaguely remembered seeing him in the shed one year ago but her memory was fuzzy.

"I don't want to go home" was the sentence Laurie forced out of her mouth, she felt dizzy, she leaned against the gate

"But we love you Boo" the child replied

"You love a baby!" Laurie shouted "Not me"

"Boo" the child tried

"My name is Laurie" she snapped

The child stared at Laurie for a moment. His face was cold and blank. Of course Laurie knew who he was supposed to be, the costume and his age gave it away. Eventually the boy's face showed an emotion. Laurie thought it was sadness but her vision wasn't good.

"I'll bring you home, you'll see, you'll see" the boy promised

Laurie shook her head, the boy disappeared and in his place was the giant that was Michael Myers. He approached Laurie slowly, like a predator, his hunting knife was drawn and inching toward her. Laurie's head felt like it was going to burst but she didn't have time for that. She slowly backed away from her brother and then quickly turned, just missing a flick of Michael's knife.

Michael lunged at her, pulling her down to the ground. Laurie grabbed his mask, one swift move was enough to rip it apart. Michael's true face looked upon her, determined. He didn't seem to care. Laurie struggled, Michael raised his knife, he kept her pinned, he was just about to strike.

"That's enough!" cried Loomis, who appeared from the darkness like the other hallucinations.

"She has no intention of going with you" he said confidently "but I have an idea for how you can both be at peace"

Michael looked like he was considering, but the knife hanging over Laurie's head made her less hopeful. Out of the corner of her eye, Laurie caught a glimpse of something reflecting light. A shard of glass? Was it in arms reach? Laurie slowly reached out, trying not to attract Michael's attention. It was a broken glass bottle. Michael seemed to make up his mind and so did Laurie. She tightened her grip around the shard of the bottle and plunged it into his neck. Michael looked shocked. He dropped his knife and clutched his throat. Laurie grabbed the knife and painfully got to her feet. Michael knelt before her, his blue eyes pleading to a sister he had lost so many years ago.

"Boo" he gurgled his own blood

Laurie struck Michael in the head with his knife. Michael's eyes widened in shock then became cold and empty. His body fell to the ground, dead weight. Laurie puffed in a breath of air and ignored the hallucinations that were looking horrified by the sidelines. Laurie wasn't finished. She walked around to Michael's head, grabbed a hold of the knife embedded in his skull and pressing her foot against his shoulder for leverage, she retracted it.

Michael would just keep coming back for her, year after year. She had shot him and stabbed him and for some fucked up reason he just kept coming back. No more. Laurie knelt down beside Michael, held down his face with one hand and started cutting his throat with the other. The Loomis hallucination looked on grimly as she cut through nerves, arteries, muscles and then finally with time and effort and a disturbing crunch, bone.

Laurie looked up and realised that the hallucinations of Deborah Myers, her horse, Annie and Lynda were all gone, only Loomis remained. He lowered his head sadly.

"I'm sorry" he said after a moment

Laurie didn't know what he was sorry for. Being a hallucination? Writing a book exposing her secret family? Being Michael's doctor? In the end she didn't care, her brother's head was holding on by a thin piece of skin. Laurie cut and tugged, until with one good pull, she ripped Michael's head from his shoulders.

The hallucination Loomis was gone and the pain and nausea that had gripped Laurie followed his example. Laurie looked down at her decapitated and bloodied brother's head. It was over. All over. Laurie started giggling and held the head close to her. She lay down on the ground between Michael's headless body and Jennifer's intact one. Everyone was dead and it was all over.