EPILOGUE.
February 12th, (1979)
Not too far out in the Haddonfield forest, inside Tommy's tree-house with stairs, which his Dad had built for him in 1977, he, Lindsey and Lonnie sat in a circle as she explained a dream she had last night concerning her, Tommy, Lonnie and the return of the Boogyman. So much had happened since that Halloween night until it was un-real. When Tommy went back to school on November 2nd-1978, Lonnie apologized for bullying him since the first grade and they became great friends after that, which was good. Probably the only good thing that came out of that terror-filled night, aside from the fact that Tommy never had any more fears or nightmares about the Boogyman after Halloween-1978.
As for Richie and Keith, they stopped hanging out with Lonnie when he started being friends with Tommy.
The relationship between Tommy and his friends was never the same. He told Logan, Holly and Will how sorry he was for the loss of their loved ones. He had found out from Will that his aunt, Jill Franco, was one of the ten staff-members the Boogyman had killed. He was sorry that when the monster came, he chose their relatives and not just him. But no apology in the world was going to erase the fact that they lost someone to the monster and he didn't. Tommy had to own up to that. After all, it was his monster that changed all of their lives forever.
Logan didn't speak to Tommy on November 2nd when they went back to school. He didn't look at him...he never sat with him during lunch like he use to...he never came by his house again. Nothing. They just had class together and that was it. From that day to this one, Logan didn't speak about what happened to his sister, Lynda. He barely spoke to Tommy at school and Tommy barely spoke to him.
The same could be said about Holly, Timmy and Will.
As for the teachers at school, they didn't discuss the events of that Halloween night. They didn't try to explain it away, the didn't bring it up, they didn't even recommend that Tommy or any of the other kids see the school therapist. Halloween-1978 became one of those things that you don't talk about. Just like Halloween-1963. But that was how grown-ups were. If they couldn't come up with an explanation for something, they just wouldn't talk about it.
Laurie never babysat him or any other kid ever again after what happened on Halloween night-1978. Nor did she ever come over to his house again. He couldn't fault her for that though, as the Boogyman had attacked his house that Halloween night. He rarely ever saw her after that. He had seen her around town or in stores and restaurants, but that was as far as it went. She didn't speak to him and he didn't speak to her. What were they suppose to say to each other?
His parents had stopped letting him walk to school. Instead, his head started driving him to school and picking him up later.
Lindsey and Lonnie were the only ones that stood by Tommy after the incident. Lindsey's feelings towards Tommy hadn't changed. Though he wasn't sure if it was because she had a crush on him or because she hadn't lost any relatives to the Boogyman. Aside from her dog, Lester, vanishing on Halloween night-1978 and never being found, she hadn't lost any family members.
Tommy's parents had made plans to move out of Haddonfield and start over again in Chicago. To be honest...he could understand why. The Boogyman had broken into his home and tried to kidnap him. It never felt safe in that house again after that. Even though they had moved back into the house on November 2nd-1978, the home never felt the same as it had before the events of Halloween night. He supposed a change of scenery would do both him and his parents some good. It was just what was best...for all of them.
"I can only remember parts of the dream...but...i was in a bar. That's where i was. I saw us, all three of us together back in this town. But we were grown-ups. Like our parents' ages." Lindsey said, explaining the dream.
"What were we all doing here?" Lonnie asked.
"I just remember how we felt. I felt like it was Halloween-1978 all over again." Lindsey answered.
Tommy then stood up. "Then let's make a promise. Promise...if the Boogyman isn't gone for good...if he ever comes back to this town...we'll be here ready for him."
Lindsey and Lonnie shared a look with each other before standing up.
Tommy joined hands with Lindsey...then Lindsey joined hands with Lonnie...then Lonnie joined hands with Tommy and they all stood in a circle for a few minutes.
"I gotta go." Lonnie said before he, Tommy and Lindsey let go of each other's hands. "I hate you." He said to Tommy.
Tommy just looked at Lonnie sadly. He really thought that things were different with him and Lonnie now. But he guessed he was wrong.
Lonnie then smiled and Lindsey smiled. "Hahahahahahaha!" They both laughed.
Tommy's sad look turned into a smile, relieved to know that it was all a joke. Things were different with him and Lonnie now. He was right.
"Well...it's been fun." Lonnie said before doing to the door.
"Bye, Lonnie." Tommy said with a smile on his face.
Lonnie opened the door and exited the tree-house, followed by closing the door afterwards.
Tommy then looked at Lindsey. "So...are you and your folks all packed for Aurora?" He asked. Much like him and his parents, Lindsey and her folks were moving out of Haddonfield because of the Boogyman's reign of terror on Halloween-1978. The only difference was Lindsey and her parents were moving to Aurora. Tommy couldn't blame the Wallace family for moving away. After all, the bodies of Annie, Lynda and Bob had been found in their home, according to the News.
"Yeah. Pretty much." Lindsey answered. "We're going tomorrow morning. Hope to see you again someday. Bye." The 7-year old girl then headed for the door.
Tommy then ran up to Lindsey as she made it to the door...he turned her around...and he kissed her on the right cheek.
Lindsey just looked stunned and surprised. She had never expected something like that to happen, not in real life. But she wanted it to happen again. Lindsey kissed Tommy on the left cheek...then turned back to the door, opened it and left, followed by closing it afterwards.
Tommy just stared at the door Lindsey had exited through. Had that really just happened? Had he really just kissed her? Yes. Yes, he had. Lindsey had had a crush on Tommy since the 1st grade and he knew that she secretly wanted them to be more than friends. She wanted them to be a couple. And maybe they would someday. But there was no point in them trying to pursue a boyfriend/girlfriend relationship now, since they were both moving away to different cities. He didn't know much about the boyfriend/girlfriend department, but according to Lynda, long distance relationships didn't work out. So since this was their last day together before Tommy and his parents moved away, he figured he'd make Lindsey's last day with him special and give her something to remember. So he gave her something she would never forget: A kiss on the cheek.
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Later, back at the Doyle residence, Tommy raced out of the house through the open door, carrying the baseball he had gotten out of the trap-door in the basement-closet Logan had dropped it down on Halloween-1978. He ran off the porch, down the steps, and made his way over to the car where his Mom was. They had helped the movers load all of their stuff onto the movers-truck, which had already left for Chicago, so all that was left for the Doyles to do was lock up the now empty house, get in the car, and head for Chicago themselves. But they would not be going there by plane. Instead, they would be driving there. A family road trip, to be exact. The Doyles hadn't been on a road trip since Tommy was 4, so Ronnie figured they'd use the move as reason to have another one, which Tommy and Stephanie greatly accepted.
Ronnie had written down the directions of the cul-de-sac neighborhood and given it to the movers, as well as gave it a picture of the house he had taken when he went to Chicago last month, so they'd know where to go and which house to move all their stuff in once they got there. He even gave them a key to the place. Of course he requested that they leave it in the house once they were done un-loading everything, which they agreed to do.
"Are you ready to go?" Stephanie asked Tommy.
"Yep. Dad's on his way out now." Tommy answered. Both he and his Dad had gone back into the house to take one last look around the place to see if the movers had missed anything. The only thing they had missed was the baseball Tommy was now holding. Understandable, since it was in a trap-door in the basement closet. The shoe-prints in the basement left by the Boogyman had disappeared, but Tommy wasn't worried about that. He figured that since the monster was now locked up and no longer posed a threat to him or the rest of kids society, it's footprints had simply faded away.
"Okay." Stephanie said.
"Hey!" Came the shouting voice of Ronnie.
Tommy and Stephanie looked and saw Ronnie standing on the porch, carrying the car-keys in his right hand.
"Let's move on out!" Ronnie shouted, with his left hand to his mouth.
"We're ready to go, captain!" Stephanie shouted back, saluting her husband.
Ronnie closed the front door behind him, used the keys to lock it, and he walked off the porch, down the steps, and went over to where Stephanie and Tommy were. Ronnie got in the driver's side of the car, Stephanie got in the front passenger seat, and Tommy got in the back seat on the right side behind her. They all put their seat-belts on.
Ronnie put the keys into the ignition and started the car. "Chicago...here we come." He said before he drove off down the street.
As the Doyle family drove down the street, Tommy looked around at the suburban neighborhood one last time as he began to monologue about what he'd learned from the events of Halloween-1978.
"Just past the front lawns and friendly faces...inside any kid's house...even the one next door...a monster could be haunting a kid...and you'd never know. If i've learned anything from Halloween-1978...it's that parents and grown-ups in general...can't protect us kids from the monsters in this world. Even they are fair game to the monster race."
Tommy and his parents were now driving through town, and he looked around at the community one final time as they drove through it.
"It's funny. Sometimes something that you think is real turns out to be a nightmare. Sometimes something that you think is a nightmare turns out to be real. And sometimes you think you've gotten away from the monster under your bed or in your closet. Trouble is...you never really do. It's always there...every time you close your eyes...inside your nightmares. I'm never...relaxed. I'm always on high alert now. I'm always making sure i'm on my guard. I believe in monsters more now than i ever did. And i would've never believed that one of them would physically come after me. But one did come after me and i invited it into the real world. And this is the consequence. You have to learn from it...and move on. You just work toward getting better. And that's what i'm trying to do, work on being better. And trying to get rid of the fear. I don't know if that'll ever leave me...but i'm not gonna let the monsters win. I'm not."
The Doyles drove past a sign that read NOW LEAVING HADDONFIELD. COME AGAIN SOON.
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TOMMY DOYLE and his parents moved to Chicago to start their lives over again in 1979.
LOGAN VAN DER KLOCK's parents divorced in 1979, and his Dad got full custody of him. Due to the nature of the loss of his sister, Lynda, and the impact it had on his Dad's mental state, Logan's father disappeared with him that same year. Their whereabouts are un-known to this day. Logan's mother continues to look for him and her ex-husband.
TIMMY MACKENZIE and his parents also moved away from Haddonfield in '79 and relocated to Abingdon.
LINDSEY WALLACE and her parents moved out of Haddonfield in '79 and started their lives over in Aurora.
LONNIE ELAM remained in Haddonfield with his parents until he graduated high school in 1987 at 19 years old and went off to college in Colorado in on January 2nd-1988.
MICHAEL MYERS returned to Haddonfield to take even more lives on Halloweens-1988/1989/1995/2002/2018/2022.
After graduating high school in Chicago at 18, Tommy returned to Haddonfield in 1988 where he stayed until the second massacre by Michael Myers, then he went off to attend college in Indiana where he graduated in 1992. On September 30th-1995, Tommy returned to Haddonfield where he encountered Myers a second time on Halloween night-1995. On Halloween night-2018, Tommy encountered the Boogyman one final time.
(c)1978
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Okay, everyone, this has been "HALLOWEEN: THE BOOGYMAN", an adaption based on the 1978 slasher film, "HALLOWEEN", by John Carpenter and Debra Hill. I hope it's been as fun and exiting for you as it has been for me. Thanks for reading and reviewing. Since this is the final chapter, i would like it if you all sent me long final reviews. I wanna know what your thoughts were on this story, the events of the Epilogue, and if i did a good job. Because i was trying to give this story that old 70s vibe. That 70s nostalgia, to be exact. And i wanted the readers to really feel that. I hope i was successful in that department.
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