TITLE: Resurrecting Randy
RATING: R
SUMMARY: Scream 2 rewritten with much more Randy, everyone's favorite geek.
DISCLAIMER: I disclaim
AN: This will look a lot like the movie at first but once you hit the scene where Sydney is talking to Randy about the murders it's gonna start to change. I don't know how reliable the script I have is. I'm also cutting some scenes down so the thing doesn't stretch on for years.
AN2: Anyone whose read my other fics will know that I put songs at the top of each chapter… think of them as the soundtrack lol.
AN3: Keep in mind that I'm a hopeless romantic and I'm all for the geek getting the girl. This will probably have a romantic angle near the end. (Sid/Randy of course)
AN4: I made up the name of Randy's roommate, I know they said it in Scream 3 but I don't have the movie to refer to so I decided to make it up and save myself the trouble of looking for it.
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Is this who you are
Some sweet violent urge
A weak fallen man
With the promise of an end
All the pretty people died
Innocence is out of style
All the whores have gone away
Now there's nothing left for me
~Fallen~ 30 Seconds to Mars~
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Sidney strolled leisurely across the campus quad Derek shuffling along next to her, his hands shoved in his pockets as he glanced back at the men tailing them. Sidney felt the slightest degree of tension ease from her shoulders as the warm breeze whipped her hair across her face. The policemen following her made no effort to be discreet and Sidney was glad for the protection they provided.
"Do these guys have to follow you everywhere?" Derek asked impatiently shooting the cops another annoyed glance.
"Oh we're attached at the hip," Sidney drawled.
Derek grabbed her hand and leaned towards her, "How am I ever going to get you alone?" he asked in a conspiratorial whisper a wolfish smile crossing his conventionally handsome face. Sidney halted their slow progress and gentlely disentangled her fingers from his.
"To be honest Derek it's probably in your best interest if you stay as far away from me as possible," she began, cringing when she saw the hurt on his face.
"I hope that was an off the cuff remark that holds no subtext whatsoever," he replied.
"Derek I'm being serious," Sidney said before backtracking, "This is serious. I mean look at you, you already got hurt, I don't want to see that happen again." Derek fingered the edge of his bandage self consciously his gaze never straying from Sidney. They had spent a hectic night at the hospital following Derek's injury and the guilt was still fresh in Sidney's mind.
"It's not that you don't trust me is it?" he asked suspiciously.
Sidney's eyes ticked nervously to her body guards before coming back to rest on Derek, silently answering his question, "Like I said, I just don't want to see you get hurt." She could see his anger in the way he stood and the confusion clouding his eyes and she wished she could've given him a more satisfactory answer without it being a lie.
"This isn't about Randy is it?" Derek asked suddenly, more than a hint of jealously in his voice.
"Jesus Derek, now is not the time for you to make a big deal out of your petty jealously. Randy is a friend if you want to make him out to be more than that it's your mistake." Sidney snapped before setting of across the courtyard, "I'll see you at lunch,"she called over her shoulder. How dare he suggest that her concern for him was just a front so she could to run to Randy with a clear conscience. Well if it isn't than what are you doing now? a nagging voice asked as she scaled the steps leading to Randy's dorm. She knocked lightly on the door before letting herself in. Randy was still dressed in his pajamas which consisted of a pair of oversized sweats and a white t-shirt, it being his day without classes.
"Bout time you dragged your lazy ass outa bed," Sidney teased, her discomfort over the situation with Derek fading quickly. Randy flicked her off as he reached over to grab the jeans hanging off the edge of his bed.
"You mock but you wait till you have to deal with a roommate who has no qualms banging his girlfriend right in front of you. I was out until two in the morning and I still caught the tail end of the performance." Randy groaned, shuffling to the closet where he retrieved a fresh t-shirt, this one blue. Sidney forced a small smile, knowing that Randy's sleep depravation had nothing to do with Todd's unconventional social habits and everything to do with the terror that was seizing both of them. The overwhelming sense of dread that nagged at the back of their minds reminding them that this time might be different. This time they might not make it. Even if the lie was a weak one Sidney appreciated the effort.
"I came by to see if you wanted to go to lunch," she said turning to allow him to slip on the jeans, "But seeing as you just got out of bed lunch may not be the appropriate term."
"Lunch," Randy said, tossing his sweats at her, "sounds great." Sidney laughed, pausing briefly to examine her appearance in Todd's mirror. The bags under her eyes that she had tried to conceal with makeup were still visible and her hair was pulled into another casual ponytail. The outfit she had thought looked so cute that morning just looked forced like she was trying too hard to appear unaffected.
"So where're we going?" Randy asked, linking his arm through hers to propel her out of the room and out into the quad once more.
"How's the dinning hall sound?" she asked sheepishly.
"Yum," Randy drawled a lazy smile spreading across his face. Sidney gave him a playful punch on the shoulder as Randy moved his arm from it's position linked through hers to rest casually around her shoulders. Sidney made no attempt to pull away and Randy relaxed with a satisfied smile. He beamed brightly at their passing classmates enjoying how they passed by accepting them as just another college couple. He half expected one of Derek's frat buddies to tackle him from behind at any second.
They reached the dining hall before Sidney ducked out of Randy's semi-embrace, "Well Mr. Meeks here we are. Not very elegant I know but on my budget we gotta think cheap."
"Better your budget than mine," Randy quipped sliding in front of her in the cafeteria line. Sidney looked ready to protest but just stepped back, laughter dancing in her eyes, "Ladies first."
"Oh you're quite the comedian Prescott," Randy replied a grin tugging at the corner of his mouth, "And I'll have you know I have a scathing retort ready but I don't want to steal your spotlight."
Sidney laughed again, something she found herself doing less and less and in the those infrequent times it was almost always prompted by the blue-eyed comedian currently in her company. "Come on Meeks you're holding up the line." Randy blinked innocently at her before grabbing a soda from the cooler in front of him.
Mickey passed by the line, a video camera in one hand his lunch in a crumpled paper bag in the other. "What're you two doing here?" he asked pausing in front of his two friends. Sidney heard the inflection in his voice which said that his real question was what were they doing here together. Sidney almost always spent lunch with Derek from start to finish, Randy, Hallie, and himself accompanying her to her drama class afterwards to socialize.
"I've kidnaped her," Randy said throwing his arms around Sidney's neck, "We're eloping."
Mickey shook his head tolerantly, used to Randy's tendency to use humor to avoid ever having to give a straight answer. The constant sarcasm made it hard to tell when he was being sincere.
"Yeah well if you're crazy enough to go through with it Sid please try to keep him away from here." Randy tried his best to look offended as Mickey set off towards the group's usual table.
"Hey you think Sidney would do an interview for my documentary?" he asked sliding into the seat next to Hallie.
"She turns down Dateline, 20/20, Primetime, but for you... Yeah," Hallie sneered earning a scowl from Mickey that indicated he had got the sarcasm.
"You know I was thinking about who the killer might be," he continued, not to be slighted by Hallie's insult for long, "Have you guys gotten a good look at Randy lately?" A flash of relief crossed Derek's face before it was quickly covered by a mask of disbelief similar to the expression Hallie wore.
"Randy?" he asked skeptically.
"I know he seems innocent enough at first but he's a little off you know." Mickey clarified
"Come on, Randy?" Hallie asked, echoing Derek but with more sincerity, "The guy's harmless."
"That's what they said about Dahmer," Mickey informed them with a smug smile.
"Drop it," Derek hissed as Sidney and Randy approached the table, "What's up Sid?" he ignored Randy hoping that it was purely a coincidence the two of them had arrived at the same time.
Sidney smiled, her mood having greatly improved since the events the hour before, "Hey!" she greeted seating herself across from Derek, Randy taking the seat to Derek's right, across from Hallie.
"So where are the secret service guys?" Mickey asked excitedly, glancing around the crowded cafeteria.
Sidney was caught unaware for a moment, having lost track of her body guards in her race to get away from Derek's stifling boyfriendishness. "Uh, Over there," she finally replied noticing them seated at a table by themselves talking quietly as they kept watch. They ate lunch possibly to appear inconspicious but in a crowded campus dining hall dressed in neatly pressed suits they looked grossly out of place.
"And which one is Kevin Costner?" Hallie questioned, examining the men carefully.
"The one on the left is Officer Richards, he's a Gemini, divorced, two kids," Sidney reeled off obviously having converted the information to memory. "The one on the right in Officer Andrews, Capricorn, single... but I think he's gay."
"Really?" Hallie asked in a conspiratorial whisper.
"Mmmhmm," Sidney confirmed grinning happily.
"You think he'd go for Randy?" Mickey asked eyeing the detective in question. "Poor guy might be able to calm down a little if he got laid once in a while." Hallie suppressed a smile and Derek let out a loud bark of laughter.
"Oh but I'm an Aquarius so we are totally incompatible," Randy said in a mock falsetto, fluttering his eyelashes exaggeratedly.
The girls laughed delightedly as Mickey turned his attention to Derek, "Derek," he began, eyeing him suspiciously, "What's on your mind?"
"Well I woke up this morning," Derek said his tone taking on a singsong quality before he broke out in full song, "and I decided to myself, I'd hide it to myself."
"What is he doing?" Hallie asked watching Derek jump up from his chair his eyes trained on Sidney as he sang. Randy's head hit the table with a loud thump as he groaned.
"Uh, Top Gun, Tom Cruise, 1986," Mickey replied realization dawning on his face. Derek continued his song despite Sidney's emphatic head shaking and embarrassed flush. He pulled her to her feet before launching himself onto an empty chair, every eye in the room trained on him and a laughing Sidney. Mickey stood and started a slow rhythmic clapping enjoying this almost more than Sidney herself.
"Oh she likes this?" Randy asked bitterly. "The singing?" Hallie yanked him back into his seat as he stood up yelling, "Hey Sid pull his string see if he'll do it again!"
"Boy you might wanna go check your eyes, they're looking a little green," Hallie warned him.
"Oh I get it, that's funny Hallie now why don't you stay the fuck out of it?" Randy snapped staring angrily at the spectacle unfolding in front of him. Hallie shrugged, understanding the source of his anger enough not to hold his sharp words against him.
Randy stood quickly as Derek hooked his frat letters around Sidney's neck muttering something about protection.
"Isn't that a big frat faux pax?" Mickey asked Hallie.
"Oh yeah that's a big no no," Hallie confirmed with a scandalized grin, "The brothers are gonna kick his ass. But it's tradition."
Sidney fingered the necklace before leaning up to kiss Derek softly on the lips. He deepened the kiss to the sound of catcalls and applause from the students in the room.
"I'm- I've got to split," Randy choked, "Tell Sid I'll see her at the rehearsal." He quickly made his exit a look of almost physical pain and revulsion on his face as he ran from the building.
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RATING: R
SUMMARY: Scream 2 rewritten with much more Randy, everyone's favorite geek.
DISCLAIMER: I disclaim
AN: This will look a lot like the movie at first but once you hit the scene where Sydney is talking to Randy about the murders it's gonna start to change. I don't know how reliable the script I have is. I'm also cutting some scenes down so the thing doesn't stretch on for years.
AN2: Anyone whose read my other fics will know that I put songs at the top of each chapter… think of them as the soundtrack lol.
AN3: Keep in mind that I'm a hopeless romantic and I'm all for the geek getting the girl. This will probably have a romantic angle near the end. (Sid/Randy of course)
AN4: I made up the name of Randy's roommate, I know they said it in Scream 3 but I don't have the movie to refer to so I decided to make it up and save myself the trouble of looking for it.
~~~
Is this who you are
Some sweet violent urge
A weak fallen man
With the promise of an end
All the pretty people died
Innocence is out of style
All the whores have gone away
Now there's nothing left for me
~Fallen~ 30 Seconds to Mars~
~~~
Sidney strolled leisurely across the campus quad Derek shuffling along next to her, his hands shoved in his pockets as he glanced back at the men tailing them. Sidney felt the slightest degree of tension ease from her shoulders as the warm breeze whipped her hair across her face. The policemen following her made no effort to be discreet and Sidney was glad for the protection they provided.
"Do these guys have to follow you everywhere?" Derek asked impatiently shooting the cops another annoyed glance.
"Oh we're attached at the hip," Sidney drawled.
Derek grabbed her hand and leaned towards her, "How am I ever going to get you alone?" he asked in a conspiratorial whisper a wolfish smile crossing his conventionally handsome face. Sidney halted their slow progress and gentlely disentangled her fingers from his.
"To be honest Derek it's probably in your best interest if you stay as far away from me as possible," she began, cringing when she saw the hurt on his face.
"I hope that was an off the cuff remark that holds no subtext whatsoever," he replied.
"Derek I'm being serious," Sidney said before backtracking, "This is serious. I mean look at you, you already got hurt, I don't want to see that happen again." Derek fingered the edge of his bandage self consciously his gaze never straying from Sidney. They had spent a hectic night at the hospital following Derek's injury and the guilt was still fresh in Sidney's mind.
"It's not that you don't trust me is it?" he asked suspiciously.
Sidney's eyes ticked nervously to her body guards before coming back to rest on Derek, silently answering his question, "Like I said, I just don't want to see you get hurt." She could see his anger in the way he stood and the confusion clouding his eyes and she wished she could've given him a more satisfactory answer without it being a lie.
"This isn't about Randy is it?" Derek asked suddenly, more than a hint of jealously in his voice.
"Jesus Derek, now is not the time for you to make a big deal out of your petty jealously. Randy is a friend if you want to make him out to be more than that it's your mistake." Sidney snapped before setting of across the courtyard, "I'll see you at lunch,"she called over her shoulder. How dare he suggest that her concern for him was just a front so she could to run to Randy with a clear conscience. Well if it isn't than what are you doing now? a nagging voice asked as she scaled the steps leading to Randy's dorm. She knocked lightly on the door before letting herself in. Randy was still dressed in his pajamas which consisted of a pair of oversized sweats and a white t-shirt, it being his day without classes.
"Bout time you dragged your lazy ass outa bed," Sidney teased, her discomfort over the situation with Derek fading quickly. Randy flicked her off as he reached over to grab the jeans hanging off the edge of his bed.
"You mock but you wait till you have to deal with a roommate who has no qualms banging his girlfriend right in front of you. I was out until two in the morning and I still caught the tail end of the performance." Randy groaned, shuffling to the closet where he retrieved a fresh t-shirt, this one blue. Sidney forced a small smile, knowing that Randy's sleep depravation had nothing to do with Todd's unconventional social habits and everything to do with the terror that was seizing both of them. The overwhelming sense of dread that nagged at the back of their minds reminding them that this time might be different. This time they might not make it. Even if the lie was a weak one Sidney appreciated the effort.
"I came by to see if you wanted to go to lunch," she said turning to allow him to slip on the jeans, "But seeing as you just got out of bed lunch may not be the appropriate term."
"Lunch," Randy said, tossing his sweats at her, "sounds great." Sidney laughed, pausing briefly to examine her appearance in Todd's mirror. The bags under her eyes that she had tried to conceal with makeup were still visible and her hair was pulled into another casual ponytail. The outfit she had thought looked so cute that morning just looked forced like she was trying too hard to appear unaffected.
"So where're we going?" Randy asked, linking his arm through hers to propel her out of the room and out into the quad once more.
"How's the dinning hall sound?" she asked sheepishly.
"Yum," Randy drawled a lazy smile spreading across his face. Sidney gave him a playful punch on the shoulder as Randy moved his arm from it's position linked through hers to rest casually around her shoulders. Sidney made no attempt to pull away and Randy relaxed with a satisfied smile. He beamed brightly at their passing classmates enjoying how they passed by accepting them as just another college couple. He half expected one of Derek's frat buddies to tackle him from behind at any second.
They reached the dining hall before Sidney ducked out of Randy's semi-embrace, "Well Mr. Meeks here we are. Not very elegant I know but on my budget we gotta think cheap."
"Better your budget than mine," Randy quipped sliding in front of her in the cafeteria line. Sidney looked ready to protest but just stepped back, laughter dancing in her eyes, "Ladies first."
"Oh you're quite the comedian Prescott," Randy replied a grin tugging at the corner of his mouth, "And I'll have you know I have a scathing retort ready but I don't want to steal your spotlight."
Sidney laughed again, something she found herself doing less and less and in the those infrequent times it was almost always prompted by the blue-eyed comedian currently in her company. "Come on Meeks you're holding up the line." Randy blinked innocently at her before grabbing a soda from the cooler in front of him.
Mickey passed by the line, a video camera in one hand his lunch in a crumpled paper bag in the other. "What're you two doing here?" he asked pausing in front of his two friends. Sidney heard the inflection in his voice which said that his real question was what were they doing here together. Sidney almost always spent lunch with Derek from start to finish, Randy, Hallie, and himself accompanying her to her drama class afterwards to socialize.
"I've kidnaped her," Randy said throwing his arms around Sidney's neck, "We're eloping."
Mickey shook his head tolerantly, used to Randy's tendency to use humor to avoid ever having to give a straight answer. The constant sarcasm made it hard to tell when he was being sincere.
"Yeah well if you're crazy enough to go through with it Sid please try to keep him away from here." Randy tried his best to look offended as Mickey set off towards the group's usual table.
"Hey you think Sidney would do an interview for my documentary?" he asked sliding into the seat next to Hallie.
"She turns down Dateline, 20/20, Primetime, but for you... Yeah," Hallie sneered earning a scowl from Mickey that indicated he had got the sarcasm.
"You know I was thinking about who the killer might be," he continued, not to be slighted by Hallie's insult for long, "Have you guys gotten a good look at Randy lately?" A flash of relief crossed Derek's face before it was quickly covered by a mask of disbelief similar to the expression Hallie wore.
"Randy?" he asked skeptically.
"I know he seems innocent enough at first but he's a little off you know." Mickey clarified
"Come on, Randy?" Hallie asked, echoing Derek but with more sincerity, "The guy's harmless."
"That's what they said about Dahmer," Mickey informed them with a smug smile.
"Drop it," Derek hissed as Sidney and Randy approached the table, "What's up Sid?" he ignored Randy hoping that it was purely a coincidence the two of them had arrived at the same time.
Sidney smiled, her mood having greatly improved since the events the hour before, "Hey!" she greeted seating herself across from Derek, Randy taking the seat to Derek's right, across from Hallie.
"So where are the secret service guys?" Mickey asked excitedly, glancing around the crowded cafeteria.
Sidney was caught unaware for a moment, having lost track of her body guards in her race to get away from Derek's stifling boyfriendishness. "Uh, Over there," she finally replied noticing them seated at a table by themselves talking quietly as they kept watch. They ate lunch possibly to appear inconspicious but in a crowded campus dining hall dressed in neatly pressed suits they looked grossly out of place.
"And which one is Kevin Costner?" Hallie questioned, examining the men carefully.
"The one on the left is Officer Richards, he's a Gemini, divorced, two kids," Sidney reeled off obviously having converted the information to memory. "The one on the right in Officer Andrews, Capricorn, single... but I think he's gay."
"Really?" Hallie asked in a conspiratorial whisper.
"Mmmhmm," Sidney confirmed grinning happily.
"You think he'd go for Randy?" Mickey asked eyeing the detective in question. "Poor guy might be able to calm down a little if he got laid once in a while." Hallie suppressed a smile and Derek let out a loud bark of laughter.
"Oh but I'm an Aquarius so we are totally incompatible," Randy said in a mock falsetto, fluttering his eyelashes exaggeratedly.
The girls laughed delightedly as Mickey turned his attention to Derek, "Derek," he began, eyeing him suspiciously, "What's on your mind?"
"Well I woke up this morning," Derek said his tone taking on a singsong quality before he broke out in full song, "and I decided to myself, I'd hide it to myself."
"What is he doing?" Hallie asked watching Derek jump up from his chair his eyes trained on Sidney as he sang. Randy's head hit the table with a loud thump as he groaned.
"Uh, Top Gun, Tom Cruise, 1986," Mickey replied realization dawning on his face. Derek continued his song despite Sidney's emphatic head shaking and embarrassed flush. He pulled her to her feet before launching himself onto an empty chair, every eye in the room trained on him and a laughing Sidney. Mickey stood and started a slow rhythmic clapping enjoying this almost more than Sidney herself.
"Oh she likes this?" Randy asked bitterly. "The singing?" Hallie yanked him back into his seat as he stood up yelling, "Hey Sid pull his string see if he'll do it again!"
"Boy you might wanna go check your eyes, they're looking a little green," Hallie warned him.
"Oh I get it, that's funny Hallie now why don't you stay the fuck out of it?" Randy snapped staring angrily at the spectacle unfolding in front of him. Hallie shrugged, understanding the source of his anger enough not to hold his sharp words against him.
Randy stood quickly as Derek hooked his frat letters around Sidney's neck muttering something about protection.
"Isn't that a big frat faux pax?" Mickey asked Hallie.
"Oh yeah that's a big no no," Hallie confirmed with a scandalized grin, "The brothers are gonna kick his ass. But it's tradition."
Sidney fingered the necklace before leaning up to kiss Derek softly on the lips. He deepened the kiss to the sound of catcalls and applause from the students in the room.
"I'm- I've got to split," Randy choked, "Tell Sid I'll see her at the rehearsal." He quickly made his exit a look of almost physical pain and revulsion on his face as he ran from the building.
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