Disclaimer: I do not own Until Dawn, nor any of the characters.
Chapter 1: A prank gone terribly wrong
In the middle of winter, a snowstorm was blowing over the Rocky Mountains in Alberta, Canada. On top of one of these mountains called; Blackwood Mountain, was the place of the Washington family estate, Blackwood Pines. It had been the property of Bob Washington since the 1990's for using it as a vacation spot for his growing family.
However, the lodge wasn't only used for spending some quite time with his family. His teenage children, Josh, Beth and Hannah, would use it to host annually winter getaways together with their friends, Mike, Emily (Mike's girlfriend since high school), Jessica, Matt, Chris (Josh's best friend), Ashley and Sam (Hannah's best friend).
Normally everything would be all partying and having fun together. However, on this one night of February 2nd of 2014, some of the people of the friend group had different plans.
It has been known for a while, that Hannah has a huge crush on Mike, despite him being already in a relationship with Emily. Hannah went even so far that she took a tattoo of a butterfly on her right upper arm to impress him. Jessica had told the others, excluded Chris and Josh (who were asleep after a drinking contest), that she'd placed a fake note of Mike in Hannah' room, telling her to come and see him in the guest room to have 'a little fun'. And once she comes in, they will all have a little surprise for her.
Emily and the others were all in for Jessica's plan and hoped it would finally keep Hannah away from Mike. Matt and Ashley saw it as nothing but a harmless prank and simply joined in, just for the heck of it. Only Sam was against this cruel idea.
"Oh my God! I can't believe you actually did this!" Emily said after Jessica told her little plan.
"Shhh… shhh… shhh…" Jessica hushed as she didn't wanted Hannah's twin sister, Beth to know what they were planning. Luckily for them, Beth hadn't heard it and was just staring outside to the snowstorm from a window.
Sam tried to convince the others to reconsider this "Don't you guys think this is a little bit cruel?"
"Oh come on, she deserves it." Jessica answers.
"But it's not her fault she has a huge crush on Mike-"
"Hannah's been making moves on him for too long. I'm just looking out for my girl Em." Jessica tells Sam while leaving the kitchen. The others followed her.
While they all went to Mike's room, Emily says "Just because he's class Prez doesn't mean he belongs to everyone… Mike is my man."
"Hey, Em," Mike states to his girlfriend "I'm not anybody's man."
"Whatever you say, darling!" Emily says all cheery.
Instead of following the others, Sam went upstairs, in the hope of finding Hannah in time and warn her of what was about to happen. Hannah meant a lot to her and wouldn't be able to bear to see Hannah heartbroken "Hannah!" Sam called as she walked faster to check on Hannah's room, hoping to find her there 'Damnit, I hope I'm not too late!' Sam mentally said to herself.
Beth, who was still in the kitchen, watching from the window out of boredom. Suddenly, she sees a unknown man moving in the distance, despite that it was dark outside and the view was bad because of the storm "Hey… Did you guys see that? Dad said it'd just be us this weekend. Josh?" She turns herself, seeing that her older brother didn't respond. Beth walks up to him and checks the alcohol bottles that he and Chris have drank "Jeez, Josh. Once again brother you've outdone us all." she says while shocking her head. She did wonder where the rest of her friends went to. Then, as she went around the table, she finds a note. She reads the letter, clearly it was not Mike's handwriting.
Hannah
You look damn hot in that shirt…
But I bet you're even hotter out of it.
Come to the guest room at 2:00am
Mike
XXX
"Oh my God. What'd our naive sister get herself into now?" Beth asked, as if she was speaking with Josh, but clearly was talking to herself. She hoped that her younger twin sister wouldn't do anything she'll regret.
In the guest room, everyone was hiding in different places, getting ready for the prank.
As Mike was waiting for Hannah while standing in the middle of the room, Ashley quietly laughs as she crouches behind a partition. Matt was hiding inside the cabinets with a video camera in hand to capture the moment, and Jessica and Emily were hiding under the bed. Both women chuckled, only imagining Hannah's reaction.
Not long after, they heard footsteps behind the door "She's here… shhh…" Emily whispers that they all needed to be very quiet now.
The door opens, revealing the youngest of the Washington twins, Hannah. She entered while holding a burning candlestick for some light "Mike? It's Hannah."
"Hey, Hannah." Mike greeted her.
Hannah placed the candle down on a nearby table. Nervously she walks over to Mike "I got your note."
Mike smiles to her "Glad you could make it."
Hannah felt like she was in heaven. After so many failed attempts, Mike finally started to notice her. Hannah knew that some day her determination would pay off. And when she read the note that Mike desired to see 'more of her', she couldn't refuse his offer. However, she felt a bit unsure if she should show more of herself to the guy she liked for years.
Mike noticed her uncertainty and ensured her "Maybe we should start with a little… you know, making out, and see where it goes from there."
Hannah's insecurity disappeared after Mike said that. She slowly gave a nod and was about to take off her blouse "Ohhhhhh hell yeah." Mike said while smirking, getting to see Hannah's boobs.
Jessica started to giggle as Hannah was about to take off her blouse "Oh my God! She's taking her shirt off!"
"Shhhh!" Emily tried to shush Jessica.
But Hannah had already heard it, while her blouse was only halfway off "What…? Oh my God!"
The others came out of their hiding places. Matt had filmed the whole thing. Some chuckled of performing the prank, but Hannah felt confused… and sad "Matt?! Emily?! Ashley?! What are you guys doing here?!"
"Uh, I'm sorry, Hannah, this got outta hand, but…" Mike tried to explain.
Sam then suddenly stormed into the room "Hannah! Hannah, they-" but then she saw she was too late 'Oh no.'
Hannah looked at Mike heartbroken. How could he and the others do something like this to her? "Mike…!" Tears formed in her eyes. Hannah left the guest room and runs out of the lodge while she started to sob.
"Uh… damn!" Mike said, as this was not how he'd expected the prank to end.
Sam stares angrily at her friends for performing that cruel prank on her best friend "You guys are jerks! You know that?!" Sam then ran after Hannah "HANNAH!" The others followed.
Meanwhile in the kitchen, Beth looked out the window again and saw Hannah running outside while sobbing. Beth quickly runs out of the kitchen, to the door to the main entrance "Guys! There's someone outside!" Beth then notices that no one was around "What the hell…?" She grabs her purple winter jacket and keeps running to the main entrance.
Sam exited the lodge with the others, looking for Hannah. They all stopped while Sam calls "Hannah!"
Beth catches up and shoves Matt out of the way while putting her winter jacket on "What's going on? Where's my sister going?"
Jessica rolled her eyes and said while going back inside the lodge "Ugh, it's fine, she just can't take a joke…"
"It was just a prank, Han!" Emily called out to Hannah, telling that it wasn't such a big deal.
Beth demanded to know what the guys did to Hannah "What did you do?!"
Mike tried to explain "We were just messing around, Beth. It wasn't serious!"
"You JERKS!" Beth said angry of how they just played with Hannah's emotions and ran into the storm, looking for her twin sister "Hannah! HANNAH!"
Sam watched Beth disappearing in the distance. She couldn't just stand while now both her best friend and her sister went into the storm "So… should-" Mike asked, but was interupted then Sam shoved Mike out of the way, went back inside and puts her grey winter jacket to go after Beth, looking for Hannah.
As Sam was about to go, Mika called back her "Hey! Shouldn't we… come with you?"
Sam paused and told Mike very angry "Y'know, I kinda think you are the LAST person she want to see now, Mike!" Sam then runs after Beth.
"Sam, wait!" Ashley called to Sam, hoping she would stop, but she didn't and too disappeared into the darkness "Oh great! Now three of them are into the cold storm!"
Sam ran down the path into the woods. It was hard to see because it was so dark and because of the heavy snowstorm. Luckily she spotted the three branch on the path and jumped over it just in time. She then saw Beth jumping down from a nearby stairs "Beth, wait up!" Sam called to her as she jumped down too.
Beth kept running, following some footprints, hoping they were Hannah's. She couldn't even hear Sam because of the hard wind. As Beth stops for a moment and takes a different path, following the noise, what turned out to be nothing, she ran a bit slower "Dammit, Hannah… where are you?"
Just then, Beth heard Sam running to her "Beth!"
Beth stops and turns herself, looking at Sam. Still thinking that she too was involved with what the others did to her sister, she asked Sam very angry "You got a lot of nerve, you know that!?"
"What?" Sam asked as she stopped in front of Beth.
"How could you do that to Hannah?! You and-"
"Beth, I had nothing to do with it!" Sam said, interrupting her while explaining "I tried to convince them that they should't do it, but they wouldn't listen! I wanted to warn Hannah not to go into Mike's room, that it was a trap! But I was too late. Beth, Hannah is my best friend and care about her and you a lot! I would never do something like that! You know me, Beth."
Something inside her felt that that Sam was telling the truth. Beth nodded "Let's just find my sister, then we can talk further."
Beth and Sam walked further into the woods, together. They both turned on their flashlights on their smartphones to have a better view.
"Hannah?!" Beth called.
"Hannah!" Sam called out as well.
"Hannah, where are-" Beth was then startled of a deer passing by "Oh shit!"
"It's okay, Beth. The deer won't harm us as long we won't harm them" Sam ensured Beth.
"That's a relief…" Beth said, but wasn't really convinced about that yet.
After a minute of walking, they heard cracking noises not far from them "Hello? Hellooo?!" Beth called, trying to know who or what it was. But nothing…
"Damnit, Hannah, where are you?" Sam asked herself.
Suddenly, Beth noticed a fire coming from a distance "Huh?"
Sam didn't see it and wandered what Beth had seen "What? Did you saw something?"
Beth tried to think what it could be, but just shook her head "No. No, it was probably nothing. HANNAH!" Beth called out again for her sister.
"Hannah! It's us! Me and Beth! Where are you?!"
After another minute, all of the sudden, both women were startled of sudden a fire coming out of the woods! "What the hell was that?" Beth asked.
Sam didn't know "I… don't know. Let's just find Hannah and get back to the lodge, quick."
"Yeah, we should…"
Then, after another few minutes of searching… they finally found Hannah! She was sobbing on the ground, but was also shivering because of the cold.
"Hannah? Hannah?!" Sam called.
"Hello?" Hannah asked who it was. She was relieved to see it was her sister and her best friend.
Beth immediately ran up to her "Hannah! Oh my God you must be freezing." Beth started to take off her coat.
At that moment Sam came to Hannah fast and embraced her "Oh thank God! I'm so sorry, Hannah. I wanted to warn you… but, I was too late."
Hannah broke the hug and slowly nodded, understanding it.
Then Beth gave her sister her purple coat "Here, take my coat."
Hannah stands up and puts on the coat. She was still sobbing of what happened and that she was so stupid to think that Mike really liked her "I'm such an idiot! I'm so dumb…"
Sam hugged her again "It's going to be alright, Hannah." Hannah returned the hug.
Unknown to them, they were watched by someone… or something, staring at them like they were its next prey.
The girls heard a screaming noise. All three looked where it came from "Hannah…?" Beth asked while being scared
"Beth…? Sam…?" Hannah asked, being just as scared as her twin sister.
Sam tried to use her flashlight to see what it was, but nothing was seen because of the snow storm and the darkness of the night. Then they heard more noises, different screeches, coming from all directions. They heard it came closer.
Then Sam saw movement, coming right towards them! "RUN!"
All three girls were running away from whatever was after them. Even though Sam loved nature, this made her really scared, same as for Beth and Hannah.
When they ran over the bridge, Hannah fell! "Hannah!" Beth and Sam came back quick and helped her up, but as they run, Beth accidentally drops her phone and it falls through the floorboards.
They continued running, with Hannah ran closer to Sam.
Then Sam stopped the others "Wait! Stop!" It was a cliff they stood in front of, that goes far down below.
It was a dead end "Oh Jesus Christ!" Beth said while panicking.
Hannah held Beth's hand, while standing behind Sam. The 'thing' was coming even closer. They moved slowly backwards, close to the cliff.
"Sam…" Hannah said very scared while holding her end. This was it… she felt they were going to die.
"Stay close!" Sam said to them, but was just as dead scared as her friends.
"No! Shit! No… Get Back!" Beth called to the thing to stay away from them "Fuck!" They walked back further. Hannah held Sam's held really tight. But then… Beth slips, dragging Hannah and Sam with her "NO! ARGH!"
Hannah held on to Beth with one hand and to Sam with the other, who was still on top of the cliff, holding on to a piece of rock. Sam desperately tried to hold on to Hannah "Hold on!" She called.
Suddenly Hannah and Beth saw flames behind Sam and all heard some-kind of beast screeching and a man yelling out "We got it, brother!"
Sam only looked back for less than a second, but saw nothing but flames. She then looked back at Hannah and Beth, still hanging on "I'll pull you guys up!"
She tried to pull then both up, but they were too heavy.
"You can do it, Sam!" Hannah said to Sam, encouraging her that she can do it.
Sam tried really hard, but was slowly loosing grip on the rock and nearly lost Hannah's hand! "No!"
Hannah was frightened that she was about to fall, but Sam wasn't going to let go of her friend.
Beth saw how Sam struggled to raise them up. She knew that she and Hannah were too heavy and if Sam would lose her grip, all three of them would fall down. She looked down, then back at Hannah and Sam. Beth had no choice. She called to her sister "Hannah!" Hannah looked down "I'm letting go…" Beth said softly.
Hannah's eyes went wide "What?! NO!"
Sam had heard what Beth said and shook her head "No Beth, don't do it!"
Beth tried to reason with her sister "Hannah… were too heavy. Only you can make it…"
"No! No!" Hannah begged her sister not to let go.
"Beth! I can get you up!" Sam called out.
A tear fell from Beth's eye. She'd made her choice "I love you, Hannah…" she was about to switch her arm so Hannah would lose her grip on her.
"Don't do it!" Sam yelled.
"No Beth! Please No!" Hannah yelled.
Beth gave one more big switch and fell straight down into the darkness below!
Hannah and Sam watched with horror as Beth falls to her death.
"BEEEEEEETH!" Hannah screams as her twin sister fell to her death.
Sam couldn't believe what she'd just witnessed, but she'd no time to process all if this as she was still holding Hannah. With all of her strength, she raised her best friend back up.
As soon as Hannah was on top of the cliff, she cried over the loss of her sister and screamed down into the darkness below "BEEEEEETH! NOOOOOO!"
Sam held Hannah close to her. Now boty cried for the loss of Beth. They hugged each other. Sam allowed Hannah to cry on her shoulder "Beth…!"
"I'm so sorry for you, Hannah. I'm so sorry…"
Both held each other close, not letting go for some time. For a moment, Sam saw a glimpse of two men, running into the woods. She didn't see who they were, nor the thing that was after them. All she saw was some burned ground close to them. But now, she didn't mind any of it. Right now, she had a friend that needed comfort for the loss of her twin sister.
More than an hour later, Hannah and Sam had finally arrived back at the lodge. Both of them were still in shock of what happened. Some of their tears had been frozen because of the cold and both were shivering of being outside in the snowstorm for so long. Sam held Hannah close to her as they entered the lodge.
When Ashley saw them coming in, she jumped from where she sat on the couch "Hannah! Sam! Are you guys okay?" she asked. Both didn't answer. Ashley led them inside the living room, letting them sit at the couch.
Matt, Mike and Emily stood up "Jesus, you guys are freezing-" but Emily stopped, when she noticed that Beth wasn't among them.
Ashley then said "I'll get some blankets." and went upstairs to get some blankets for Hannah and Sam to warm up.
Mike then asked "Wait, where the hell is Beth?"
Hannah started crying again and sobbed on Sam's shoulder. Sam held her close "Hannah? What happened-?" Mike stopped asking as he saw Sam giving him a death glare and got nervous about it.
Jessica then walked into the living room and said "Oh, look who's back. What? Still weeping over a little joke?"
"Shut your fucking mouth, you bitch!" Hannah yelled to her angry, with tears flowing from her eyes.
Jessica was not happy being insulted like that "Uh, excuse me?! What did you just called me!?"
"She called you a fucking bitch, Jessica!" Sam also said angry to her.
Jessica was about to fire back with an insult, but instead asked when she noticed that Beth hadn't come back "Why isn't Beth with you guys?"
"SHE'S DEAD!" Hannah yelled out, like all her emotions were released with just those two words.
Everyone was shocked.
"What?!" Emily asked horrified.
"How… How did she…?!" Matt asked.
Hannah cried even more, trying to say what happened "There was that thing that followed us… and… we tried to run from it, but we had no were to go and… and…!"
"Wait… what followed you?" Mike asked confused.
"We don't know, Mike!" Sam said telling further what happened "We… we run till a cliff, we were all so scared and then… then Beth… she… she fell from the cliff! I tried to pull her up, but… She's gone! She's fucking gone!"
The whole group fell dead silent, even Jessica couldn't believe what happened and was just as horrified as the rest. Ashley came down with the blankets, but tears came from her eyes as she'd heard everything that Hannah and Sam had told the others. She handed over the blankets to Sam and Hannah, but both refused to look at anyone. All that Hannah wanted was Sam now. Both kept each other close with their blankets covering over them. Ashley, Matt and Emily tried to comfort them, but Hannah didn't wanted any of them coming close to her after what they did to her.
As time passed, the others went to bed, but the whole partying mood from the beginning of the weekend was spoiled and was now replaced with sadness and grief over the possible death of Beth. Ashley was the last to leave, but said very sad to Hannah "I'm so sorry, Hannah…" she left to her room with guilt, feeling responsible for Beth's death.
Now, only Hannah and Sam were left. They hadn't broke the hug for a long time and kept close to each other. They had first witnessed Beth sacrificing herself to save them and sobbed over her loss. Eventually, they fell asleep on the couch.
When morning came, Josh and Chris had finally woken up while suffering from a major hangover. When they came into the living room, they saw the whole group was together. Hannah went over to her brother in tears and told him everything what had happened last night. Josh was devastated. Both had now lost a sister. Sam then walked over to Josh and embraced him for comfort. Chris was completely shocked by this revelation, but tried to be there for Hannah and Josh, and even comforted Ashley as she was feeling very guilty for taking part in that stupid prank, that in the end had cost Beth's life. The others felt terrible, for this was something they never wanted to happen.
But only Emily and Jessica were talking behind everyone's back, as they believed that it was also Hannah's fault.
"You know, Em, if Hannah hadn't ran and whining after that little joke, her sister would not go after her and would have lived." Jessica said.
Emily agreed with Jessica "Yeah, who would ran away after overreacting to something that was harmless?"
Sam had heard everything and marched straight towards Emily "Something harmless!?" Sam then pushed Emily for saying those things about Hannah.
"Hey, don't push me!" Emily said angry.
This resulted in a fierce argument and even Jessica was interfering. It nearly became violent, if it wasn't for Mike who stopped them in time "Stop it! This is not helping! Beth can't be found back if we start arguing or pointing fingers to each other!"
"That's easier for you to say, Mike! If you hadn't broke Hannah's heart, then maybe Beth would still be alive!" Sam said to Mike and pushed him aside as she went upstairs back to her room.
A little while later, the group called Hannah and Josh's parents and told them what had happened. They also called the police, who arrived late in the afternoon. The whole group had to go home, so the police could search the area for Beth's body.
Beth was for now only reported missing, for she cannot be pronounced dead, as long as the police hadn't found the body yet. That gave the Washington family a bit of hope, that maybe Beth was still alive.
However, their hope would soon start to fade away as days became weeks. Eventually, after more than a month, the police had no choice but to call off the search. For Hannah and Sam may have witnessed Beth falling from a cliff, but didn't know where because of the storm and it was too dark to know where they exactly were, the police was unable to find Beth's body. And even if she was still alive, it would need a miracle for her to survive that long in the freezing cold.
The whole family was in mourn, as the Washington's needed to face the fact that Beth was truly dead.
Sam was there to comfort Hannah and as time passed, the two become closer than ever before.
As for Josh, Sam tried to be there for him too, but was more around Hannah, for she and herself had to endure such a traumatic experience. Luckily his best friend, Chris was there for him, for he had been like a brother to him ever since they were little. However, slowly things didn't improve for Josh as he was starting to feel schizophrenia, what brought him more disconnected with reality. But was able to hide it from his sister and the others. Not long after, Josh dropped out of college and was now mostly home with his parents.
Many months had passed and all the students at college were about to make their leave for the summer-break. Some went away on long vacations or just did what they enjoyed the most during the summer. The Washington's however had no plans to go for any long holidays overseas, for it reminded them too much of Beth and were not ready until they had processed this phase.
But despite all of that, it wasn't going to stop all the Washington's for having fun. Josh had organized a summer party in his parents mansion at the first evening of the summer-break. Dozens of college students came, including the whole friend group.
Chris was hanging around with Josh and Matt, while Jessica was flirting with a few boys from Matt's football team.
Mike was with Emily, being dragged into a conversation that some of the girls had. Their relationship had deteriorated the last few months and Mike had even sometimes tried to avoid Emily, as he was in no mood to have any arguments with her about anything useless.
Ashley was dancing on the dance floor with a guy she knew from science class, what made Chris envious. Luckily for him, Ashley pushed the guy away when he tried to kiss her and went over to Chris. They just sat together and talked. Their conversations soon turned into a debate on either Star Trek or Star Wars was the better science fiction franchise. In the end, both Chris and Ashley agreed that Star Wars was the better science fiction franchise.
As for Sam and Hannah, they were mostly together, taking a few drinks, talking or dancing together. Hannah had tried to move on, which was very hard for her without her twin sister around anymore, but was happy to have her best friend by her side. When Mike tried to talk to Hannah, she was avoiding him by going to the bathroom herself. In there, Hannah started to cry a bit. Even after months, she was still in pain for being played with her emotions by the guy she used to like for long. As Hannah's crying died out, she looked at herself in the mirror witha determint face. She whipped away her tears with a tissue, readjusted her makeup and said to herself before coming out of the bathroom "Fuck Mike!"
Hannah started drinking a few more alcoholic drinks what made her more loose on the dance floor. She then started to dance sexy with some guy from Matt's football team she had never met before. Sam became worried that Hannah was about to do something she'll regret, but was taking it out of her mind when Josh came over to her with Ashley and Chris. Sam had slowly been reconnecting with Ashley, as Chris had nothing to do with the prank from last winter, so Sam was kind of sucked into talking with Ashley as well.
After an hour, while Sam was talking with Matt, she spotted Hannah and had gone a bit further with that guy she was dancing with and were now making out in the corridor. Sam could clearly see that he had dirty things in mind. Hannah then whispered something in his ear, what Sam couldn't hear. Hannah then took him upstairs to her room. Sam had a bad feeling about this and followed them from a distance.
Hannah had taking the guy into her room and locked the door behind her. They started kissing passionate and Hannah started to moan. Then as the guy touched Hannah's breasts, she gasped and broke the kiss.
She took a few steps back from him, making him look confused "What?! What's the problem, babe?"
What seemed like an hour in her head, was only for a couple of seconds in real life. Hannah started to have doubts of what she was doing and felt so stupid for dragging a guy she'd never met before to her room. Feeling guilty, she said to him "Look, I'm sorry uhm…. This… was not what I had in mind." The guy had it difficult to hide his anger for being wasted his time. Nervously Hannah said while taking a few more steps back "Look… let's just go downstairs…. No harmed feelings… another time?" she turned herself to open the door.
But then suddenly, the guy grabbed her glasses from her face and threw it away "Hey-" she said before he grabbed her by holding her arm and her mouth so she won't make a sound and pinned her to a wall!
Hannah was scared, as the guy spoke "There is not going to be a next time, honey! It's now or never," Hannah struggled to get him off of her, but he was to strong "either you like it or not." he smirked and licked her cheek "So try to enjoy this, for this will be something you'll never forget…"
He pushed her on the bed and tried to rip apart her shirt. She struggled to get him of off her and pushed him away, trying to crawl away "He- Help!"
Hannah's mouth was then shut as a whole arm grabbed her by the face, nearly chocking her. She bite him hard "AARGH!"
The guy led her go and she ran to the door, trying to open it "Help! Anyone, he-" Hannah was pulled back by the guy and was slapped hard in the face, before she fell back on her bed. Her face hurt. He was holding her tight and pulled her pants down. Hannah felt paralyzed, unable to stop him.
At that same moment, Sam had heard Hannah's call for help and tried to open the door. It was locked "Go get your own party!" the guy inside yelled.
Then she heard Hannah's voice again "SAM!"
Sam tried to kick the door open, but was unsuccessful.
Then, Matt came upstairs "What's going on here-"
"HANNAH IS IN DANGER!" Sam called to him. Without a doubt, Matt kicked the door open! They saw the guy forcing himself on Hannah "HEY!" Sam ran to the guy and jumped on him, punching and kicking him to get him of her best friend "GET OFF OF HER!"
The guy then grabbed Sam and pushed her hard to the floor. Matt quickly came to the rescue and body slammed the guy against the wall! He tried to punch Matt, but he held it and kneecapped him and punched the guy knockout!
Sam raised herself, going over to Hannah who lied nearly paralyzed on the bed, sobbing, with her pants pulled down and her panties and shirt nearly ripped apart "Hannah! Oh my God, Hannah…!" Slowly, Hannah sat straight and immediately embraced her best friend and sobbed on her shoulder. Sam returned the hug and kept Hannah close to her "It's okay, Hannah, it's okay. I'm right here." Sam whispered softly while rubbing her back.
Matt dragged the guy out of the room and said to Mike and Emily, who'd come upstairs because the noises that they had heard "Call the police. This asshole nearly raped Hannah." Matt said very serious.
Emily nodded and called 911 right away with her cell phone, while Mike took the guy away with Matt.
The guy was later arrested by the police for sexual assault on Hannah.
Soon after, all the college kids left the party. But only the friend group stayed a bit longer, to be there for Hannah.
Sam helped Hannah to take a shower, so she would come to rest after what had nearly happened to her. Josh remained downstairs with rest of the group. He first wanted to help Hannah too, but after Sam told him that this is more or like a women's thing, he understands and waited downstairs with the rest, who were either a bit relaxing or cleaning the party mess.
Emily wanted to try to talk to Hannah together with Jessica, to show Hannah that they still cared about her and be there for her after such an experience. But also hoped that she finally had left the whole prank thing from last winter behind her. Jessica was pessimistic about this, but went upstairs with Emily anyway. Mike came along with them.
Part of the bedroom-door was broken because Matt had to break it in, so Sam had blocked it with a small closet. Inside the bedroom, Hannah was wearing her morning coat, sitting on her bed with her arms folded looking down. She felt ashamed how she had behaved and let this guy taking advantage of her "What was I thinking, Sam? I'm such an idiot!"
Sam took Hannah's glasses that she found on the floor and gave it to her when she sat next to her, rubbing her back "We all do crazy things in our lives, Hannah."
Hannah nodded while putting on her glasses "I know, but I should have known better! I mean… when Mike came to try to talk, all I could think of was-"
She was interrupted when a few knocks came from the door "Hannah? It's me, Emily."
Hannah was not in the mood to talk to Emily "Go away."
"Please, Hannah, I just want to talk."
"Are you alone?" Hannah asked to Emily, still standing behind teh door.
There was a small moment of silence, until Emily answered "No… Jessica and Mike are here too."
Then Jessica said "Look, Han, we just want to talk, nothing more."
Hannah doubted if she wanted to hear what they wanted to say. Sam then asked "Shall I send them away?"
Hannah thought about it a moment but shook her head and said "No. Let them in."
Sam stood up from the bed and walked to the door to push the small closet out of the way, to let Emily, Jessica and Mike in. All three slowly walked in.
"How are you, Hannah?" Emily asked.
Hannah stood up from the bed while rolling her eyes "I'm doing great. Fucking fantastic!" She answered in a sarcastic way. Clearly she was not ready to hear anything from them "There, now you guys know."
Jessica knew she was still angry with them after that prank from winter and said calmly "Hannah, I know… we all know that you're still mad at us after… you know? But we came here to let you know that we are here for you. That that guy from Matt's team even tried to-"
"Here for me?! HERE FOR ME?!" Hannah yelled to Jessica, what made her scared "Were any of you guys there for me what I had to through after I saw Beth falling to her death!? Were any of you there for me, or Josh, OR FOR MY PARENTS WHAT WE ALL HAD TO GO THROUGH!? HUH!?"
Emily tried to calm her down "Hannah, we just-"
"SHUT YOUR FUCKING MOUTH!" Hannah yelled "I know all about the rumors that you and Jessica spread around behind my back, Emily! That I overreacted!? MY SISTER IS GONE! YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW IT FEELS TO LOSE YOUR OWN SISTER, YOU BITCH!" Emily just froze, she was caught completely off guard of Hannah's confrontation.
Mike tried to calm her down "Hannah, we-"
Hannah Immediately faced Mike "Don't even try to pretend that nothing happened, Mike!"
"I… I-I didn't say that-"
"How could you do something like that!? To me?! You knew I had a crush on you and you just thought it was a funny way to play with my emotions!?"
"But… but…" Mike stutered.
"If I was the one who pulled a prank on you like that and humiliated you like you did to me, how would you have reacted!? And that in the end, that little prank cost the live of any of your relatives!?" Mike was completely speechless. He had no idea how to respond to it.
Hannah turned her back on all three of them, while tears were forming in her eyes. Sam stroke her back in support and nodded to the others that it was best for them to leave.
Jessica sighed and said under her breath to Emily "I told you she's still overreacting about it."
Hannah had heard that and had lost her temper. Angry she grabbed a lamp from her bedside table and throw it to Jessica, who saw it and dodged just in time! "GET OUT!"
That made Jessica and Emily to leave the room faster. Mike had only stayed a few seconds longer, but knew that it was pointless. He sighed and left.
When they were out of Hannah's room, tears flowed from Hannah's eyes and she fell on her knees because of all the emotions she had just released "Oh Hannah." Sam went on her knees and embraced her best friend, letting her sob on her shoulder.
"I miss Beth so much!"
Sam held her close and she cried too "I know. I miss her too…"
They both remained like this for some time, unaware that the rest of the group had already left to go back home. Finally the two girls broke the hug, looking into each other's eyes. While Hannah wiped away her tears, she asked Sam "Will you stay with me tonight?"
Sam smiled and answered "Of course." and they shared another hug.
Then Josh knocked on the door and came in "Sorry that I'm… disturbing you guys…"
"No no, it's fine, Josh." Hannah said while she stood up, together with Sam, ensuring Josh that it was okay.
Sam then asked Josh "Uhm… is it okay that… I stay for tonight? Hannah needs all the comfort she needs."
Josh formed a small smile and just shrugged "Sure, Sam. You're always welcome here." He then gave his sister a hug and asked "Hey… you're okay now?"
Hannah gave a small nod "A bit."
"Right, well… Ashley and Chris have already helped me with cleaning all the mess downstairs and have already gone home with the rest, so… I'll be in my room if you guys need anything."
Both girls nodded "Thanks Josh." Sam said. And he left the room, leaving the girls alone.
Mike walked together with Emily back to her house. He hadn't spoken a single word to her ever since they had left the Washington mansion, while Emily did talk along way. When she noticed that her boyfriend wasn't answering, she asked him serious "…Mike? Mike?!"
"Hmm? Yeah, yeah absolutley." Mike said in a way he had listened the whole time.
Emily wasn't taking that and said in an annoying way "You… you didn't even listen to what I told you."
"Does it matter now?" Mike asked while rolling his eyes.
"Yes! It kind of does!"
Mike shook his head in frustruation and walked a bit faster, trying to keep some distance from Emily.
Emily walked faster and then stopped Mike, asking him "Mike! Honey, what's wrong?"
Mike sighed deep and answered "She's right, Em."
"Who?"
"Hannah! She is fucking right! We were never there for her after Beth's death! And that I also don't know what it feels like to be pranked on like what we did to her! I should have just…"
"Just what?" Emily asked.
"I should have told Hannah a long time ago that I wasn't in to her! Then maybe none of this would've happened."
Now Emily became really annoyed "Oh really?! And how many times have I not told you to do so, huh?! No, you just wanted to keep-"
"To keep being nice to her, yes! Because she is my friend and I thought that eventually she would…"
Emily crossed her arms and finished what Mike wanted to say "That it would flow over? C'mon! And you still don't agree with me that if she hadn't ran into that snowstorm in the first place after that harmless prank, Beth would never have gone after her and she wouldn't be dead! You know that I'm right, honey! Admit it!"
Mike then said very serious to Emily "I don't hear Hananh or anybody else laughing about that prank we performed, Emily!" Mike then turned the other way, leaving Emily
"Where are you going?!" Emily asked
"I don't know. Somewhere!" Mike answered without even looking at his girlfriend and kept walking away.
Emily wanted to say something back, but no words came. She just let Mike go and went her own way.
After some time of walking alone through the streets, thinking about what Hannah said to him, Mike was back at the college grounds. He was surprised to see Jessica sitting on a bench alone, with her hands on her face, looking sad. Mike wandered why she was sitting alone like that "Hey."
Jessica looked up and saw Mike before her "Oh, hey Mike…"
"Why are you here?" Mike asked as he sat next to her.
Jessica sighed and answered "Hannah. And you?"
Mike shrugged "Same."
Some silence fell between them for some time, till Jessica asked him "Aren't you going to spend the night with Em?"
Mike shook his head "No. I'm not feeling to do that right now."
"Why? I thought… well, since you two have been together for years."
"We are, Jess… but, now… it's complicated." Mike answered, not feeling so sure if he and Emily are still a couple.
Jessica placed her hand on Mike's and said softly "If you… ever need to talk to someone, I'm always there to listen."
Mike looked to Jessica and fromed a small smile. He then noticed that she was shivering a bit and gave her his coat, what she appreciated.
"Thank you." she said after Mike covered her with his jacket.
"You're welcome."
For a long time they didn't say much, other then what their plans were for the summer and watching the stars together. When Jessica was about to leave and gave the coat back to Mike, she gave him a kiss on the cheek "Goodnight, Mike."
"Goodnight, Jess."
That night, back in Hannah's room at the Washington's mansion, Sam was sleeping together with Hannah in her bed, as they've always done that many times before when they had a sleepover. However, this night, was a lot different than the other ones. Both girls were having different dreams.
Sam was dreaming about when she and Hananh were still little children and became best friends really quick. She saw the many games they played together or the other things they did together when they grow up. Then, Sam even saw the moment that… she was starting to develop a crush on Hannah, but was afraid that it might ruin their friendship. She remembered how she finally buried those feelings when they went to college, but had only reemerged recently.
Without even knowing, Sam moved in the bed closer to Hannah.
Hannah was dreaming about the moment she lost Beth, of how much pain she had to suffer for losing her own twin-sister. She saw how much Sam had been there for her, how much time they spend together and how much closer they became over the last few months. Sam was always the one she could trust and would love and cherish her… and somehow was feeling… more than just friendship?
Without even knowing, Hannah moved in the bed closer to Sam.
Both embraced each other in their sleep.
The next morning, both girls woke up simultaneously. When they opened their eyes, both were surprised as how close they lied together. They had no idea what to say or how to explain this.
Hannah was the first to try to answer this after shoving a bit away from Sam "Ehh… I guess we accidentally moved out of our own… at the same time in our sleep?" she laughed a bit, same as Sam.
"Yeah… I guess…"
When Hannah puts on her glasses, she noticed that she had a message on her phone. She checked it and saw that it was from Josh. She read the message.
I have to do something important, so I'll be gone for a few days. You and Sam have the house for yourselves for the rest of the day till Mom and Dad are home.
Have fun sis!
X
"Josh had left for something important? Hmmm." Hannah asked herself after reading his message, wandering what could be so important for her brother to 'disappear' for a few days without even saying anything. But then she shrugged "Ah well, we have the whole house to ourselves." she then got out of the bed while happily suggesting "Let's get something to eat!"
"You read my mind, Han" Sam said while smiling to her best friend. And both girls went in their pajamas downstairs to make some breakfast for themselves and spend the rest of the day together.
They left the whole thing of crawling together in the bed last night out if their minds, but still… it felt for both Hannah and Sam for some reason… alright, but didn't say it to either of them.
Another many months had passed and a lot of things had happened during that time.
Mike and Emily had ended their relationship, what didn't came as a surprise as it had been going downhill for some time. However, Mike started dating Jessica and were happy together. As for Emily, she was having a hard time after the break up, but felt comfort around Matt. The two didn't really dated yet, but Matt wanted to make sure that Emily would be feeling better, what she dearly appreciated and thought it was cute of him to do that for her.
Josh however was not improving. He was acting more and more mysterious and would not come home for days. He always said that it was for something very important, but always avoided answering questions from either Chris or Hannah who wanted to know what it all was for.
Hannah and Sam still spend a lot of time together and even held contact with Chris and Ashley. Hannah had slowly forgiven Ashley for participating in the prank from last winter and both were friends again. For Matt, it was still going slow, but he and Hannah did chat from time to time. However, Hannah still refused to see or talk with either Mike, Emily or Jessica.
It was on that evening of November, a few days after Hannah's birthday, that Hannah and Sam were invited by Chris and Ashley to see the movie premiere of 'Interstellar' with them. Hannah wasn't really a science fiction fan but became curious to this new movie after reading a lot of positive reviews about it and how her father spoke well about this picture. Even Sam was wandering how good this movie was.
As the cold weather of November had started to decend, both women were wearing a winter-jacket. Sometimes, Hannah would wear Beth's old purple coat that she got from her before she died, but this time was wearing a new one that she bought a few weeks back. Hannah and Sam saw a big line in front of the movie theater and couldn't see either Chris or Ashley among them. After a few minutes of searching, the two girls found them almost at the beginning of the line.
Ashley waved to them, calling "Hannah! Sam! Over here!"
They came up to them and greeted them "Hi guys. Gosh, it's hard to find anyone in this crowd." Hannah said.
Sam agreed with Hannah and asked Chris "I hope you already have tickets, Chris? Cause it looks like this movie is going to be sold out pretty soon."
"Way ahead of you, Sam." Chris said as he showed her the tickets, that he held in his pocket, but put them back so he won't lose them.
Ashley saw that there were only two tickets and asked him "Only two tickets, Chris? There are four of us."
Chris scratched the back of his head and explained "Yeah, about that…"
"What?" Sam asked
"…I did not really expected that the tickets were being sold out so fast, so… the only ones I did managed to get were… love seats." that last word came from him very embarrassing. All the girls giggled. Chris turns to Ashley "Ehh… you… don't mind if we…?"
"No, I don't mind…" Ashley answered shily while she shook her head, not minding at all to share a love seat with Chris. She tried to hide her blush.
Then Chris glanced at Hannah and Sam, wandering what they thought about this. Sam just shrugged "We are okay with it, Chris. Right, Hannah?" Sam asked her best friend.
For some reason, Hannah was conflicted about this. Would she just go along with it or ask to change seat with Chris? She knew that Chris was at least trying to be close to Ashley, since both had a crush on each other but hadn't yet take any action yet, but Hannah also thought about when she slept over at her place and slept really close to another, without even noticing.
She looked at Sam and answered while she shook her head "…Nah, I don't mind to share a 'love seat' with you," she answered with a small smile "besides, it's only for this once, right?"
Sam nodded "Yeah, one time won't bite"
"Good, that's settled!" Chris said enthusiastic as the line was finally moving and all the people went inside.
Once inside, Chris showed the tickets to the 'ticket guy' and all four were allowed further into the movie theater. Since the movie had no breaks, they all went to buy some extra snacks. Chris bought some popcorn and a soda, while Ashley bought some nachos and an energy drink for the both of them. Sam and Hannah just took some water as they saw how Chris and Ashley bought so many snacks for just seeing one movie.
"Don't you think that they aren't going a bit too far with that?" Hannah asked Sam.
Sam stated "Well, they both have a crush on each other for 'God knows how long'. Maybe they try too hard to impress each other?" Both giggled of thinking of that.
Then Hannah got an idea as both checked if they either take a small or medium popcorn "Hey, Sam? If we buy a Large Popcorn, we can share…?"
Sam thought for a moment of that and said "Sure… why not" Sam took a big sized popcorn for both of them to share. Once they have paid for their things, they joined Chris and Ashley to the hall where the movie was going to be shown.
As the movie started, it was for Hannah and Sam a bit confusing why a farmer would all of the sudden become an astronaut. But as the movie progressed, there were some exiting and heartbreaking moments. Ashley and Chris were paying fully attention to see how all the scenes in the movie were even scientifically possible then paying attention to each other. Sam noticed it and was thinking that Ashley and Chris were maybe too shy or too scared to take the initiative.
As the end of the movie neared, Hannah had a few tears flowing from her eyes as the part where the young version of the father meets his elderly daughter on her dying bed. Sam held her hand and stroke it. Hannah looked at Sam as she whipped away a tear. Sam was showing Hannah in a way that it's just a movie. Hannah nodded. Then, as they both wanted to take the last popcorn, their hands touched again. But this time, they both felt… different about it. Instead of taking the popcorn, their hands were stroking one another. Sam's eyes closed for a moment as she sighs out. Hannah blushed, and didn't know why she was even blushing from all of this. Hannah looked into Sam's eyes, as Sam meet hers, not taking their focus away from their friend. They blinked only once as Sam moved her face closer, same as Hannah. A lot of things were going through the Washington girl's mind, why was she feeling like this about her best friend? Why was she even blushing? Their faces slowly moved closer together… and closer… both closed their eyes and… their lips connected. Nor Hannah, nor Sam were realizing in their heads of what they were doing, they were kissing their best friends, what shouldn't even be a possible thing… but still they felt relaxed about it, how right it felt. Their tenderly kiss lasted for a few minutes, without any of them realizing that the movie was finished.
As the lights slowly went on again, Hannah and Sam opened their eyes and broke the kiss right away! They just looked at each other in shock, without words coming from their mouths. Both had no idea how to respond to what had just happened. Hannah and Sam just stood up, took their stuff and went together with Ashley and Chris out of the movie hall, who hadn't noticed even what Hannah and Sam just did as they were more focused on the movie.
While on the way back to college, Ashley and Chris were talking the whole time about the movie and what parts they thought was the best, while Hannah and Sam walked after them, still now knowing what to say to each other.
As they all reached the campus grounds, Ashley and Chris said goodbye to Hannah and Sam. They said an awkwardly goodbye to them, what Ashley and Chris thought was a bit strange. Ashley was thinking while walking together with Chris 'Did something happened in the theater that me and Chris hadn't even noticed?'
Sam neared her room. She glanced at Hannah, not knowing what to say, neither did Hannah "So… eh… Goodnight, Hannah."
Without looking at Sam she also said "Yeah… goodnight." Sam opened the door to her room. As she was about to go in, Hannah tried to say something to her "Ehh… Sam…?" but it was too late, Sam was already inside and locked the door. Hannah sighed as she went back to her own room.
Sam was holding her hands on her head, not believing what she just did 'Holy shit! What have I done?! I kissed Hannah!' she mentally screamed to herself as she was struggling to get all those thoughts out of her head, but was unsuccessfully.
After hours in her bed, Sam gave up the struggle and thought deeply of what that kiss meant. Are the feelings that she had for Hannah before coming back to her? She blushed as she thought further about it, but was also scared of how this would ruin their friendship.
Hannah was dealing with nearly the same isue as she was trying to fall asleep 'Why did I do that?!' she mentally asked ehrself 'Why did I kiss Sam?!' Hannah tried to think what it could all mean. After a while, she finally knew what it all meant 'I… I think I'm falling in love with Sam."
In the weeks that followed, Hannah and Sam had been acting a lot more differently when they are together, but both tried to hide their true feelings for another or from their friends. Only Ashley had her suspicions, but didn't act on it.
Both girls were constantly with their minds if either they should say what they feel for each other, or try to keep it a secret, like how Sam had done for years. But now, it became harder for her then in the past.
One day, Hannah was having a conversation about it with her mother, Melinda (but didn't mention that it was Sam that she developed feelings for). Melinda then told her daughter that she shouldn't hide her feelings forever, for if she waits too long, it might be too late, like how Hannah's mother nearly lost het father when she was too afraid to tell her feelings to him. Melinda held Hannah closer to her and said "Listen to your heart, Hannah. Just tell what you feel for this girl. Even if she says no, know to yourself that you shouldn't hide anything from the one you really like." Hannah smiled when her mother said those words and gave her a hug, what Melinda returned.
Not long after, the whole friend group got an invitation from Josh to come back at the family's lodge on Blackwood Mountain for the annual winter getaway. Surprisingly, it was to be held on February 2nd 2015, what was exactly a year after Beth had 'disappeared'. All the friends found it odd to held the winter getaway, exactly on the day that one of their friends died, or had gone missing as the police still hadn't recovered her body. But that didn't stop anyone from going back there anyway, in the hope they all could finally leave the past behind and move on.
However, Hannah did not share her friends enthusiasm and said on the online invitation that she won't be joining them, for it was too painful for her to go back. Sam and Ashley have tried to change her mind, but still would not come.
Sam was disappointed that her best friend wouldn't came with them. For she'd hoped that it would help Hannah to leave the past behind by coming back to the lodge, but respected her decision.
Months had past and as winter had set in, the day to go for the winter getaway was nearly there. One day before they would leave, Josh came to visit Hannah and telling her that she should reconsider her decision. After nearly an hour of trying, Hannah still wouldn't change her mind. Josh gave up and was about to leave.
But before he left, Josh said to his sister one last thing "If not for yourself, do it for me. It would… make it a lot more easier for me if you came as well, sis." and Josh left the room.
Hannah at that same time was thinking about what her brother said, and also thought about her mother's encouraging words, a few months back. She collected some courage and went after Josh "Josh, wait!" Josh stopped as Hannah called him, he smiled and turned towards her.
One day later…
Sam had just entered the bus that was going in the direction of Blackwood Mountain. She told the driver to stop at Blackwood Pines for her, the driver nodded as Sam sat inside and noticed that she was alone with three more people.
As the bus drove away, Sam sighed, wishing that Hannah would have come too. However, she was still struggling with the reemerged feelings she started to develop for Hannah and was thinking that maybe this mid-weekend would clear her head. She took out her phone, wanting to send a text message to Hannah.
Sam: Just entered the bus to go to the lodge. It's a pity that you didn't wanted to come, Han. But I understand that you're not yet ready for this.
After a minute, she saw Hannah was typing a message back.
Hannah: Yeah, about that… (Mischivous emoji)
Sam: What?
Hannah: I CHANGED MY MIND! I'M COMING TOO! :D
Sam eyes went wide of gladness after seeing that message, she typed a new one straight away.
Sam: REALLY?! THAT S GREAT HANNAH! (Lot of cheering emojis).
Sam: What made you change your mind?! :D
Hannah: Josh… But mostly you and Ashley ;)
Sam: (Blushing emoji)
Sam: So when will you arrive?
Hannah: Well, I went together with Josh. We're just about to enter the cable car to go to the lodge.
Hannah: See you later, Sam!
Sam: See you then (blow kiss emoji).
Hannah's next message took a bit longer. Sam wanted to put her phone in jet pocket, but felt the vibration of her phone. She checked and saw Hannah's last message.
Hannah: Yeah… see you later (Blushing kiss emoji, Blow kiss emoji, Heart emoji)
Sam smiled a bit as she saw the message. She felt somehow warm inside from seeing that message. Sam wanted to put it out of her head and mentally said to herself 'Come on, Sam! She is your best friend… we're just… friends. Friends that… kissed in the movie theater'. Sam gave up the struggle and just put her ear pins in to listen to some music on her phone.
What she didn't know, is that during this winter getaway, things will take place that will change her life… forever.
And so… this is my first chapter of my Until Dawn fanfic story. I changed a bit of the dialogues so it would suit the story I will write on. However, I cannot take all the credit, for the scenario and the idea of Sam and Hannah develop feelings goes to my friend on this website, imerik001. He gave me the scenario as a gift… and I want to personally thank him for giving me this opportunity, for I did mention on my profile that Until Dawn will maybe one day among my future stories, but didn't had a scenario yet. So imerik001, thank you.
The future chapters will be named, depending on the choices I would make in the game and will follow mostly of the original storyline. You guys may have noticed two strangers at the beginning… trust me, It'll be explained later in the story.
Hope to see you all in the next chapter! See you then!