Chapter Six

Halloween 1988- Part One

The Return of Michael Myers


October 31- Early Morning, around 4:00


Jennifer and Jamie stared out the front window, kneeling on the couch, they thought nothing of the tow truck in front, just stared and stared and stared. Neither heard Rachel come down and didn't notice her until she spoke.

"You two up again?"

Both looked sadly at her and then back at the window. "Couldn't sleep." Jamie muttered.

"Guys, it's four o clock, it's been a year, your Mom's not coming back!"

"11 months," Jennifer said. "And you never know."

Rachel chuckled. "Yeah sure, come on, I'll take you upstairs. Try and get some sleep, we'll have French toast, ok?"

Both went into their room and Jamie hauled out the box of pictures. Jennifer sat and looked at them with her, particularly interested of the one of their uncle Michael, six years old, two days before Halloween in his clown costume.

They said a prayer and put their stuff in the closet, went back toward the bed, the closet door opened. Jamie closed it but as soon as she returned, it opened again. As Jennifer moved to close it two hands shot from under the bed, grabbing each girls ankle. They screamed and kicked against it, pulled themselves away and both tried fiercely to open their door, and as they tried the Shape climbed from under the bed. It finally budged and both screamed as they saw him, knife in hand in the doorway. They began crying, screaming more.

"Jamie! Jenni!" Rachel and her parents ran in to find them in the closet, hands joined, crying hysterically. Mr. Carruthers took Jamie while Mrs. Carruthers took Jennifer. They held them and let them cry until they were calm.

"Who is he? Who's the guy in a mask? Who is he?" Jennifer screamed hysterically.

"Shhh, it's okay now."


"Girls?" Rachel came in the next morning. "Look, I didn't mean it. I don't mind watching you tonight."

"You wanted to go out, we ruin everyone's life." Jennifer muttered.

"No, in fact I'll take both of you trick or treating."

"We don't go trick or treating." Jamie whispered.

"Well then I'll take you for ice cream."

Jennifer shifted. "Double scoops?"

Rachel smiled. "Yeah, come on now."


Jennifer helped Jamie get past the kids teasing them after school, her arm protectively around her sister. They held each other and cried a while, then Rachel and Tina pulled up, so they got into the car.

"Hey girls." Rachel said.

"Hi Rachel, listen." Jennifer closed the door. "We did some thinking, and maybe trick or treating will be fun. Since we've never done it."

Rachel raised a brow. "I don't know..."

"Oh c'mon!" Tina said. "Vincent's is selling costumes on sale!"

"Well, where to, Vincent's or Dairy Queen?" Rachel asked them.

"Vincent's." Both girls cried.

"But can we still go to Dairy Queen after?" Jamie asked.

Rachel laughed. "Sure."


Both girls walked up and down the familiar aisles, hand in hand. They looked through the masks and then a rack of costumes, until they found similar clown costumes. "Rachel!" Jamie called.

Jennifer, excited called also. "Rachel! Come see we found the perfect costumes!"

They turned and bumped into a man in black, just as he was pulling a white mask over his face. Jamie screamed and Jennifer did so also, and they both went tumbling into the mirror behind them.

Rachel came running over and picked them out of the shattered glass. "What happened?"

"The nightmare man! He was here, he was here!" Jamie cried.

Jennifer looked out the window as a tow truck pulled away. She shook her head.

"Thank God you both weren't cut." Rachel murmured, and took them to pay for their costumes.


As they ate their ice cream, Jennifer kept watching out the window. She remembered that their uncle was supposed to be transferred to Smith's Grove the night before, she had seen it on a paper in Wynn's office. Could he be the one invading their dreams?

Rachel's eyes met Jennifer's exposed wrist, then she grabbed Jamie's arm and looked at the symbol on it. "What are those?"

"We... we both were playing and this thing, it fell onto the stove, and we got our wrists pressed to it." Jennifer tried to cover.

"Uh-huh. Ok." Rachel rolled her eyes. "Seriously, what is it?"

"That is what it is." Jamie said quickly and Rachel looked at her watch with a sigh.

"Well, hurry, we better get back if you don't want to miss all the good candy."


Tis short yes, but getting to the point.