A/N: Hey all I hope you are enjoying the story so far, I recently have played Until Dawn: Rush of Blood. Not really part of the story line or anything but it was so fun, I know the makers aren't working on Until Dawn 2 but when they do. I really hope it's for the VR, that would be awesome!

Chris POV

Walking down the block putting my hands in my hoodie as the fall air whipped around me. I look down at the ground trying to avoid the wind whipping a stray leaf or dirt in my face. I started to smell coffee in the air and knew I was close to my destination. The things I do for my friends. The smell got stronger and luckily, I looked up as I was coming up on the door and almost passed it. I grab it and let a woman on her way out walk out before walking in. As soon as I walked in I felt my exterior melt, I removed my hat and ran my fingers through my hair so my hat hair wasn't too extensive. I hear my name being called out and turn around until I spot them sitting at a table and smile. I walk over to them pulling out the available seat "What took you so long Chris?" Sam says, I take off my jacket and place it on the back of the chair "Your coffee was getting cold" Ashley says placing the cup in front of my seat and says "it's your favorite" she says in a singing tone. I smile as I have a seat explaining "I had to park a few blocks away" I take a sip of the coffee, and taste the sweetness and feel the warmth going down my throat, since it sat here waiting for me it's not hot enough to burn. I put the cup on the table now that I've found my happy place, "So exactly why have I been summoned?" I say leaning back folding my arms. Ash says, "since when do we need a reason to summon you?" I raise my brow, Sam speaks up "It's been a few months since we've all hung out together, we're overdue." Ash continued "We've already got Mike, Matt and Jess onboard, still waiting on an answer from Emily." I took a sip of coffee filling myself with warmth once again before answering "I'm down if that's what you're asking" I glance over at Ashley but when we catch each other's eyes we both look away.

I look back at Sam and say "I'm assuming there's more" hiding my blush by taking a bigger sip. She says "I asked him to go camping" I furrow my brows "What does that mean?" she leaned in "I asked Josh to come camping with us, it's your turn" I put my cup down. "Why can't you ask him?" she didn't look away but I did see a blush cross her cheeks, "I don't want him to feel like I'm asking him to go as my date. I want him to know it's a friendly outing, so who better to ask him than his best friend?" I unfold my arms, "Well what do you guys have in mind" they smile Ash explains "Halloweens this weekend and we figured we could get dressed up go out, maybe get a room to hang out after so we can all pass out." Sam interjects "something along those lines, but we're open to suggestions" I shake my head taking a sip "sounds good to me, but pitching it to Josh may be a bit difficult; since he hasn't really left his house in months" Sam leans back in her chair with a slight pout, "all we can do is try…" I lean back in the chair reassuring her "We may be in luck since you know Josh loves Halloween" a hopeful smile crossed her lips smiling with the thought of him no doubt.

I know Josh said he needed time before he can be in a relationship, which I understand given the circumstances but damn Sam has been waiting for months for him to be ready. I reach for my phone as it vibrates while Sam and Ashley start talking about what their costumes are going to be, while texting I can faintly hear their conversation in the back of my mind.

Josh: you busy?

Chris: I'm at the coffee shop with Ash and Sam

Josh: I guess so

Chris: Not really, there talking about Halloween costumes

Josh: Tell Sam she would be a hot Daenerys lol

Chris: haha she wouldn't go for that.

Josh: Then I'll continue to see it in my dreams then lol

Chris: Are you busy Halloween?

Josh: you going trick or treating?

I shake my head taking a sip of my coffee thinking to myself, here he goes being difficult. I lift my phone up after putting my cup on the table.

Chris: No. We're trying to get everyone together for one night, to have fun. Sam and Ash said we can go out and maybe get a hotel room for everyone to crash.

I see the three dots pop up on my screen showing me he's about to reply then disappear and a moment later reappear, this happened for about a minute before I was beginning to write something he responded.

Josh: I'm down, on 2 conditions.

Chris: Which are?

I was snapped out of my phone screen when I heard Sam saying my name "Your deaf Chris" I look between the two of them confused "What did I miss?" Ashley looked at the ground with a sad look on her face, and my heart sank. Sam saw my face looking at me arms crossed, "Who do you think Ashley should be for Halloween Chris?" I look over at her while her head lifts slightly looking at me, I got lost in her green eyes for a moment without thinking and said "I think you'd make a sexy Poison Ivy." I imagined it for a second and tried to hold down the blood rushing down, but see her eyes grow wide and blush cross spread her cheeks when Sam claps snapping us out of our trance saying "Yes! I can totally see it." Ashley pushing her blush back looks over at Sam "What about you?" Sam puts her hand on her chin thinking, "Well Josh said he'd love to see you as Daenerys" she raised her brow "He would say that since it's his favorite show" Ashley chimed in "Daenerys is his favorite character on the show" Sam blushed putting her hands up "not going to happen" I felt my phone vibrate and laugh out loud to myself which caught the attention of Sam and Ash looking at me like I'm crazy "What's so funny?" I put my phone down "Do you want the good news or bad news?" Sam looks at Ash confused and Ash says "Good news" I lift my coffee up before bringing it to my lips saying "Josh says he's down" Sam smiles but then drops "What's the bad news?" I place my cup back on the table, "Well only half of it is bad news…He said instead of a hotel he'd want everyone to come back to his place after to crash." Sam leans in waiting for Chris to continue, "Let's just say he has made a personal request on your costume"

Sam POV

"Sam if you keep moving this curl isn't going to look right" Jess says pinning up portions of my hair, and curling random small curls. It was weird when she would do the front since she's Marilyn Monroe/zombie. Half of her face looks flawless like Marilyn's but the other side was a special effects party, with the blood and peeling flesh. I look in the mirror and see Ashley starting to feel insecure, "Chris was right you do look hot as Poison Ivy." Her hair was wavy and Jess finished her off with some spray glitter in her hair to let it shimmer slightly, she had green leotard and tights with vines and lace going down her arms and legs. Jess gave her yellow and green eye shadow with winged eyeliner and penciled her eye brows lightly in red making her eyes pop, finished her off with red lipstick outlined in black and blended into a pout.

We hear the car horn honk and Jess looks out her window and waves, "Alright ladies lets go" we all start to head out. I look at myself in the mirror pausing to make sure my appearance was okay I felt a little weird not being as done up as Ash and Jess. But it was what Josh wanted so I complied, I look at my face I had a nude eyeshadow pale rosy cheeks and a pale lipstick that had a slight shimmer. I had mascara on with no liner and my hair was pinned up in the back with a few stray curls that framed my face beautifully. What I did like was my blue dress that had gold accents on the shoulders and around my waist. The front was deep V neck it dipped so low I couldn't wear a bra, and the sides of it have been slit mid-thigh which showed my legs when I walked, I had gold strapped heels that I strutted out in front.

We walk out and see Mike and Matt out of the car in their costumes taking selfies with Jess and Ashley, Mike was Indiana Jones and Matt was a Fire fighter. "Come take a picture with us Sam" we took a few pictures since Jess kept blinking and finally we were off toward downtown. I look out my window as we drove and saw the houses of suburbia fading into taller buildings. Mike looks over at Matt "Reach under your seat" Matt complies and looks over at Mike "Vodka!" Ash and Jess start whooping and we all start passing the bottle around taking shots. I feel my phone vibrate and I pull it out,

Chris: Are you guys there yet?

Sam: We'll be there soon.

Chris: I had to make a pit stop and grab Emily after getting Josh.

Sam: Okay we'll meet you guys in the parking lot. We can take a few shots before heading in

Chris: Cool see you then

I put my phone away as the vodka is getting passed to me by Ashley, I bring it to my lips and let it flow straight to the back of my throat trying to avoid letting it touch my tongue. I can feel the heat flow down warming the pit in my stomach. After a few shots, I realize I haven't seen Josh in a couple weeks, even though we talk and text. I start to feel nervous and Jess must've spotted it "Damn Sam that dress is hot I wish I would of thought of being Daenerys" I smile at her compliment and Mike speaks up as we arrive at the parking lot. I tell them to wait for Chris so we all get out and start taking picture of us taking shots, when I see Chris' car in the distance. He parks a few spaces away Emily was the first to come into view with a long black wig, dressed as a playboy bunny. I notice the light sway in her hips as she passed Mike and Matt looking straight ahead, Mike followed but then quickly snapped out of it and turned away; unlike Matt whom I spotted watching too. I look up meeting Matts eyes and he turns away blushing. Mike turns asking Jess how she did her makeup for her costume since it looks realistic. I turn and see Chris and Josh, Chris is dressed like Clark Kent, I can tell because the tie is thrown to the side and his button shirt is unbuttoned revealing the superman logo. At least he already has the glasses all he had to do was change the frame to match his persona by getting a thicker frame. Josh was dressed up face paint and all as Jack Skellington, how fitting, he walks over to me clapping I curtsey "Good Evening" showing a little leg, he raises his brow saying "you look amazing" I look him over "not too shabby yourself" he tugs on the collar of his jacket walking over to Matt throwing his arm around him "Oh em gee Matt! it's been ages." They go off to the side no doubt catching up. Chris goes over to Mike and takes a shot from the bottle passing it to Emily, she takes a big gulp making a disgusted face after she swallowed. "Damn Em" Jess said "I can hold my liquor Jess I'm not a child" Jess snorts crossing her arms "Em lay off" Mike says in a warning tone, she turns her head away ignoring him, he quickly smiles turning to face us saying "Let's take a group picture" Jess squeals "Let me grab my selfie stick!" Everyone walks over to the car and we took a few group selfies and drank half the bottle before heading into the club.

Before even walking inside you can hear the hum of the bass, as we stood in line to get IDed and get wrist bands and compliments on our costumes along the way. Some people said I look just like Daenerys and requested to take a picture with me since they were a fan of the show. Once we finally got inside we split up girls went to the bathroom, while the guys went to the bar. Jess guides us through the crowd to the bathroom, some of us used the time to make room for more liquor and freshen up our makeup. We were small talking about what songs we can't wait to hear and ohh-ing and ahh-ing of the different costumes we saw others in. While I was washing my hands, I heard Jess say "Let's have fun and shake our asses" Ashley nods in agreeance, Emily looks down into the sink for a moment lost in thought, or maybe the liquor is already hitting her. I place my hand on her shoulder gently "you okay Em?" she looks over at me shaking her head "Yeah sorry I'm fine" Jess and Ash head out to the bar no doubt. Leaving us in the bathroom, for some reason I knew there was more than what she was leading it to be. Having taken the shots, it gave me courage to prod slightly. "you sure Em? You seem like something is bothering you" she looks at the ground but then looks back up at me trying to hide her feelings from showing on her face. "I'm fine Sam, you know how it is when you have someone stuck in your mind" she leaned in raising her brow "I know what you did this summer Sam" she says in a playful sinister voice, I smile, while she leads the way heading out obviously not wanting to go into detail on who and what. We head over to the bar where the guys, Jess, and Ash are and they gave us drinks, Mike holds his glass up "Let's party!" everyone beams clicking glasses then chugs.

The next few hours flew by as we were all dancing laughing having a great time, well most of us anyway. Emily ended up getting super drunk, she was slurring and falling over and ended up picking a fight with Mike, we're unclear of what it was even about. She went out to the front to get some air and Matt volunteered to check on her when she didn't come back for quite some time. Mike was off to the side venting to Chris, Jess, and Ash, about how ridiculous she can be at times.

I felt someone creep up behind snaking their arm around my waist, turning my head to see them. I see it was Josh and I feel his hand pulling me closer, I sway my hips to the beat pressing into him. Feeling the liquid courage in my veins dancing with him came easy, it felt like we were the only ones on the dance floor. After a few songs, we were breathless it felt amazing, I could tell how he felt as I felt it pressed into my ass, I knew if we were to continue where this night will lead, not that I would mind. I pull away dragging us over to the bar where everyone else is to get some water, which we happily gulped down.

Realizing we're still a few friends short, I turn to Ash and Jess "Where's Emily and Matt?" they shrugged their shoulders Ash yells in my ear since I can't hear over the music "they went to the front!" I nod and yell back in her ear "I'm going to check on them!" Jess reaches for my arm stumbling when I turn toward the front, "I'm coming!" she yells, I grab her hand and head to the front squeezing through all the bodies, Jess could barely keep up, until she stopped to take her heels off holding them in her hand. We finally arrive at the front and we start looking around and I'm having a difficult time remembering what their costumes were, with all the bodies in here. There was a genie talking to a fire fighter, various slutty maids, nurses, animals, a police officer dancing with a witch and another firefighter making out with a bunny? "Emily!"I thought I said that in my head, but I said it aloud, Jess followed my eyes but only caught the ending of them pulling away, her mouth lay gaped. Emily's lipstick is smudged around her lips with the same shade now plastered on Matt's, we just looked at them not saying a word. Emily tried rubbing the lipstick off her mouth, but those long-lasting lipsticks are a bitch to get off, same situation for Matt as his lips have a faint pink shimmer to them. Emily walks over to us stumbling with Matt holding her up, as if right on cue Chris and Josh walk over to us. "What's up party people!" Josh says putting his arms around me and Jess as we finally closed our mouths coming down from our shock, he looks at Emily who is suddenly looking very pale. "You okay Em?" she nods her head heading out the door outside mumbling that she needs air. Jess and I are right behind her when I turn to Matt quickly saying, "Can you get Mike and Ash so we can head to Josh's" he looks at the group embarrassed and turns to get them. Chris and Josh follow us, obviously seeing Matt's face they knew something was up but didn't press it right away. Thankfully, Jess was currently holding up Emily's wig out of her face while she emptied her stomach onto the sidewalk. Chris and Josh head to the car, pulling it up to the front of the club. While I headed to the nearest late night pizza spot and asked for a couple of bags and napkins. Matt, Mike, and Ash get to the front, and of course the first one trying to help is Mike, and she is pushing him away covering her face, insisting she is fine. Once the car pulls up I help her get in the car and I feel her grab my hand before I can lean back to close the door, "Sam ride with me" I turn to Jess and quickly say "we'll meet you guys there" I didn't even give it a second thought and hopped in. I take one of the bags and wrap it around her wrist for easy access in case she feels the need to vomit…again.

She has her head on my shoulder eyes are closed, mumbling of how she fucked up. I can see Chris look at us in the review mirror as Emily says "drop me off home" Josh turns looking at us and I can see he is concerned for Emily, which he has every reason to especially when she starts crying. "he must think I'm a slut for throwing myself at him" then it dawns on me she's not talking about Mike she's worried about Matt. I knew it! I saw the way he was looking at her earlier and how he was suddenly very concerned about her which led to their lip lock session that Jess and I walked into. Josh looks at me furrowing his brows but turns to face the road to give Emily some privacy. "What am I supposed to do Sam?" The question surprised me; considering I don't exactly know the situation. I just tried to be encouraging "You can tell he feels the same. When you sober up tomorrow talk to him about how you feel" Chris looked up as he parked and he and Josh got out making sure she got to her house okay, while carrying her shoes and bunny ears. I wave to her while she starts dry heaving in a planter on her porch, eventually she heads inside.

Josh and Chris get inside the car and immediately ask me "What the heck is going on?" I look at Chris' eyes in the rearview when I say, "When Jessi and I went to check on Matt and Em… they were making out…" Josh and Chris whipped their heads around like the exorcist, good thing we're at a light. Josh brings his hands to his head and says "mind blown" Chris shook his head "I never saw that coming." I looked straight ahead thinking back on what I saw "I guess seeing is believing."

We get to Josh's house and notice the only people waiting are Mike, Ash, and Jess. Josh says "Where's Matt?" Mike shrugs his shoulders "said he didn't feel good, so, I dropped him off before coming here" Jess crosses her arms looking over at us since we were missing someone as well "I guess Miss Emily wasn't feeling well either?" Chris shook his head "Plus, I didn't want her blowing chunks in my car" Josh puts his arm around Chris and Mike "Let's head inside and finish off our evening" he said obviously trying to lighten up the mood before heading inside. For most of the night we all sat around the kitchen talking catching up reminiscing of all our times together, talking about how much fun we had and that it shouldn't take us this long to get together while playing a few games in between.

Ash and Jess get changed into some pajama shorts and tops, I caught both Chris and Mikes gazes as their eyes followed the two ladies who walked by to ask Josh for some blankets and pillows. Since we finished off the bottle, everyone's inhibitions started to fade and it showed. Chris and Mike stayed in their costumes since they weren't much different than their regular clothes. Josh came out with a stack of pillows and blankets that he was trying to balance, I walk over and grab the top half of it "Thanks" I smile, "no problem" he threw a pillow and blanket on the single lounger, and the love seat. While I threw two pillows and a large blanket on the pull out. I look around and count the pillows and notice he's short a set. "There's 5 of us" I say to him and he looks over at me, "So you can't sleep with me when are friends are around?" I feel a blush cross my cheeks. I've slept over a couple of times and it was in his bed… He starts walking toward the stairs, "I'm going to take a shower."

I turn and see Mike plop onto the love seat stretching his legs over the arm kicking off his shoes, his shoes made louds thuds on the floor. He looks over at me with a smirk on his face, "So, you and Josh are a thang?" I smiled turning to look over the now empty staircase, "not officially" in an effeminate voice he said, "well excuse me" and we laugh. I see a thought cross his face where it saddened for a split second, "What's wrong?" he shook his head "Just thought about Em" I freeze remembering what I saw earlier at the club. I turn trying to hide my face "… Are you talking to anyone?" trying to deter his thoughts away from her. He shrugged his shoulders "I've had my eye on someone, I just don't know how to approach it" I took a deep breath. "Go for it" he puts his hands behind his head looking up at the slowly spinning ceiling fan, biting his lower lip obviously thinking about it getting nervous. "I try, I just haven't been honest on where I want it to go" I look at him confused "Well you should let her know, and stop thinking about Emily". I say lightly pushing the side of his head as it falls to the side "I know, I know" he says, lifting his head meeting my gaze he continues "old habits die hard I guess" Chris walks in "I want to watch Die Hard!" Ash raises her hand "Me too" Jess stumbles in tripping over Mikes shoes, she catches herself before she fell. "Michael! Put your shoes away, before someone gets hurt, like me!" Chris and Ash were already walking over to the TV trying to find the movie. "Sorry Jessica" he grabs his shoes and puts them flush against the couch out of the way. "Ah-Ha" Ashley says holding up the movie case opening it and putting in, while Chris went and shut off the lights. Everyone went over to their spots and got under the blanket, it felt so weird knowing I wouldn't be down here with them to pass out while watching movies like we used to. I walked over to the stairs throwing my hand up "good night" I heard a round of good nights while Jess said teasingly "Sam upgraded guys" I say "HA HA" sarcastically.

I head upstairs and I can hear the shower still running, I head to his room and notice there's a few boxes and random papers littered throughout the floor around his desk. I push some of the boxes out to the side, and hear metallic clanking inside I decided it was too heavy to lift and just slide off to the side. I look inside and see gears and pieces of track? I move onto the next box pushing it to the side it was empty so it was much easier, the name caught my attention since it had a cartoon pig of one of the biggest butcher shops in town. Looking at the size of the box I'm wondering what he ordered, Meat in bulk much? I walk over to his desk and start picking up some of the papers littered around the floor and place them on the desk. When something blue catches my eye, I start to pull it out and realize it's a rather large piece of paper, I don't pull it out all the way in fear of getting caught snooping. It looks like a floor plan of some sort but the layout is big but too big to be his house, then where? I stare at it as if I'm trying to walk through it and when I get to a split in a staircase, the lodge? I notice it's quieter and realize the shower is off, I push the paper back into the pile and pick up the rest of the papers covering it. I quickly undress into a shirt and some shorts, and lay on his bed and I'm immediately engulfed in his scent.

He walks in shortly after, towel in hand rubbing his wet hair, wearing a white tee shirt and navy sweatpants that's clinging to his moist skin. His eyes look around the room quickly then land on me smiling "you cleaned my room?" I feel a blush creep up my neck "I tidied up, since you took forever in the shower" it's half true. He looks over at his desk and looks over at me with an eye brow raised, "really?" he looks over at the boxes throwing his towel on the side of one of them. "Working on something?" I asked and he looked at me confused, I pointed at the box that had the gears. He turned around "Just some stuff I found in the basement, figured I can repurpose it" he flipped the light switch surrounding us in darkness with the faint glow of the light on the side of the house. I feel the bed dip in and I scoot over closer to the wall giving him space. "Why are you so far?" he says turning me and pulling me close, so my back is flush with his chest. I just had to ask "When I was cleaning, I noticed you have a blueprint of the lodge…" I feel him stiffen and turn to face him, "Josh?" he turns to face the ceiling, I can see his profile glowing from the light outside, and see he's biting his lip. "never mind I shouldn't have bought it up" he turns to face to me, "I've had it since they went missing…" I didn't respond right away, he continued looking at the ceiling but put a hand on his face trying to control his emotions. He turned to me, "I've been talking to my therapist about it…" put my hand up silencing him "You don't have to explain" he moved my hand "I want to…" I looked at him making sure it was something he wanted, then nodded for him to continue. "Sam…I need to go back to the lodge… for closure" my heart sunk but I didn't respond, I still have dreams of that night and wishing I could change what happened, but I know going back won't do anything but cause more pain… for me. "Sam your looking at me like I'm crazy" I shook my head "I'm sorry Josh it's just I can't imagine going back personally … What did your therapist say about it?" he reached for my hand it was so warm to the touch, he explained "He said that if it would help to go, then go… but told me not to go alone…" I resisted the urge to say so many things as I let him continue about having everyone go back. Once he was finished I didn't say anything right away, all I could mutter was "Why?" he removed his hand from mine leaving it exposed to the cold air around us. "In a few months, it will be a year they were ripped from all our lives, and I feel like we owe it to them to go back" I thought about it and each time something just didn't feel right, but looking at him like this. "I don't know…" he turned to me "you don't need to decide now, we have time before we decide if we should go or not" I shook my head and he placed his hand on my chin searching my eyes "Promise me you'll at least think about it", him looking at me with those eyes I melted but I put my finger up "I'll think about it" he smirked and leaned in placing his lips on mine for a brief chaste kiss before we rolled over and went to sleep. Sleep was difficult for me to attain that night as all I could think about was, Hannah and Beth; but more so…the errie feeling that came from the lodge.