Welcome, readers! I've been dedicating more time to writing original novels as well as essays and reviews for a newsletter I started last year. But as you may expect, inspiration always comes back for fanfiction, and it came when I saw the new Chucky series last month. The Child's Play series is one of my favorite horror series ever, and that includes even the more campy and ridiculous movies in the series. In this story, I'll be looking into one question many people still have after the first season of Chucky: what exactly happened to Glen/Glenda after Seed of Chucky? I hope you'll enjoy reading this story, and that you'll appreciate my attempts to make sense of some of the plot holes in Seed of Chucky. Aspects from both the movies and the show will be used in this story.
Disclaimer: I don't own the Child's Play movies or Chucky series.
Santa Monica, 2013
A group of fourth graders gather around the community park after school with much to say over how they're doing on their first week of school.
"Man, why is Ms. Peters so mean?" says Paul Johnson.
"I'm so mad that I'm not in class with any of you guys this year!" says Ashley Winslow.
"All this homework we're getting doesn't make any sense. I don't want to fail already!" Emma Diaz cries out.
"I don't want to read all these boring books right now. Why can't we read anything fun like Twilight or that Shades of Blue book my mom likes reading?" Danny Bennet complains.
"Danny, have you seriously read those books?"
"No, Paul, but they sound like fun."
"And it's Fifty Shades of Grey, dumbass, not shades of blue!"
"Who cares?"
"A lot of people do, including people like your mom who read that book all the time."
Tired of talking about this, Danny turns to Ashley. "I'm really sorry that you're not in our class this year, Ashley. You're always fun to be around."
"Yeah, it sucks," Ashley says. "Instead, I'm in this class where some of the kids are total freaks."
"Why do you have to call them freaks, Ashley? That's not very nice," says Emma
"I'm calling them freaks because that's what they really are, Emma, especially these twins that give me the creeps."
"Are you talking about the two red-haired kids that are always playing together at recess?" Paul asks.
"Yeah, those two," Ashley says.
"What are they like?" Emma asks.
"The girl, Glenda, is obsessed with some of the creepiest things ever. She'll sometimes dress all in black, with shirts that have glittering skulls or pictures of monsters like Frankenstein or Jason. And the fact that she's the tallest girl in the class makes it even weirder, because when you look at her, it's like you're being surrounded by darkness The teacher, Mrs. Larson, tried to get her to stop wearing those kinds of clothes, and Glenda said something really rude in response."
"How rude are we talking about?" Danny asks.
"Yeah, Ashley. Don't leave anything out," Paul says.
"Okay," Ashley says. Then, in a whisper so that no children playing close to them can hear, she tells her friends, "She told Mrs. Larson, 'Fuck off, bitch, or do you want me to tell the whole class how you soon won't be "Mrs." Larson anymore?' This scared her so much that she hasn't gone back to teach in two days."
"Wow. That's just mean," Emma says.
"I don't think I could say something like that even to Mrs. Peters," Paul says.
"How would she even know that about Mrs. Larson?" Danny wonders.
"Perhaps she saw her Facebook or Twitter page, but even so, it's so weird that she would be willing to tell the whole class about it. Whatever our teachers are doing with their husbands or wives shouldn't be our business," Ashley says. "And that's not even the worst thing I've seen her do."
"What else has she done?" Emma asks.
"Yesterday at recess, she came up to me and asked if I wanted to see something cool. I told her I didn't want to, but she grabbed this stick from the floor and said I was never going to forget what I saw. Right at the tip of the bottom of the stick was a dead bird. Its eyes had been taken off and there were bugs crawling all over its body."
Emma made a face. "Ew! That's so gross!"
"She asked if I wanted to touch that bird and see what a real dead animal felt like. I told her to get the hell away from me and started running away, and she said to just till next week when she'd have something worse to me."
"Now that's insane!" Paul exclaims.
"That girl is certainly a psycho. Mom says killing animals is a sign that someone is crazy," Danny says.
"Did you even tell any of the playground monitors about it? Maybe they could have done something about her," Emma asks.
"Emma, after what happened with Mrs. Larson, do you seriously think I'd want any other grown ups dealing with Glenda? After she showed me the dead bird, I didn't want to know what else she could try doing next."
Emma nodded slowly. "I see what you mean, Ashley. I wouldn't want her to do anything worse either."
"But what about her brother?" Paul asks. "I saw him talking with some other kids one time, and he seemed nice."
"Well, Glen doesn't seem as bad as Glenda is, but he's still weird in other ways. When I said hi to him on the first day of school, he greeted me in Japanese, and was already acting as if I wanted to be good friends with him. He was preparing to sit next to me, going on about how much he was looking forward to getting to know me this year. I had to point to the name tags on our desks to let him know that he couldn't just sit with whoever he wanted, and instead of shutting up right away, he asked if he could sit next to me at lunch instead."
"All right, so he's a bit annoying, but have you ever seen him do any of the creepy things Glenda does?" Paul asks.
"Not really. He seems to be the opposite of her, but the way he still likes being around her during recess and acting nicely around her is almost as freaky as what his sister does. If he were like any other nice kid, he'd get nowhere near her, or call the police as soon as he saw her doing something crazy."
"I don't think I'd want to be friends with someone like that either, Ashley," Danny says.
"Maybe he's just pretending to be nice so that others won't think he's like Glenda," Emma says.
"Or maybe he's just doing the best he can with her. It's not so easy to actually hate your sibling," Paul says.
"What are you talking about? My older brother absolutely hates me! He almost never talks to me and always calls me names when he does," Danny says.
"And my older sister acts like I'm a loser since I can't do as many things as she can," Emma says.
"Whatever," Ashley says. "I think you guys get my point: those twins are…"
"Hi, Ashley!" a cheerful voice interrupts. A red-haired boy wearing a purple short-sleeved shirt and blue jeans comes up to the four friends, smiling at them as if they'd invited him to join them. "I didn't know you'd be at the park today. And I see that you're with Emma too. Are you two friends?"
Ashley gives Emma a curious look, and at that moment, Emma realizes she's met Glen before. It had been yesterday at recess when Danny and Paul had decided to play soccer with some other boys and Ashley had her encounter with Glenda. After an unsuccessful attempt at jump rope with some other girls, she'd played by herself for a while before deciding to go swing. While there, she was joined by Glen, who sat in the next swing quietly for a while, simply smiling at her as he swung around. He then asked if she wanted to see which of them could swing higher. Emma agreed, and for the last couple minutes of recess, the two of them chuckled happily as they tried going higher and higher with their swings. She managed to tell him her name, but the bell rang before Glen could tell her his.
"Uh, hi, Glen," Ashley says, trying to act normally. "And yes, Emma and I have been friends since kindergarten."
"That sounds nice. I wish I've had a friend since kindergarten, but my family is always moving around, so I've never had many friends," Glen says.
"Is that why you and your sister are so close?" Emma asks, just as Ashley shoots her a dark scowl. But now that she knows who Glen is, Emma just has to get more answers. She really wanted to know why someone as nice as him could be close to that monster Ashley had just described to her.
Glen looks a bit surprised that Emma knows he has a sister, but he responds as if the question were expected. "Yeah, Emma. We sort of have our differences, but we've always found ways to work things out. If you're always going to different places, it helps to be close to someone, especially when it's your twin sister."
Emma understands what he means. Having always lived in the same nice house in Santa Monica with her parents and two siblings, she couldn't imagine how things would be like if they were constantly moving from place to place.
Ashley sighs and prepares to say something. "Glen, there's something I have to…"
"Would you mind if I join you and your friends today? I spend some time with Emma yesterday at recess and we had a lot of fun together."
"No. Glen, I…"
"But it won't take long. I have to be back home by five, since that's when my mom should be getting…"
"Glen, no!" Ashley says, running out of patience. "I don't like you, and I don't want you trying to spend time with me or my friends. Do you understand?"
"But why?" he asks, looking hurt, while Emma, Danny, and Paul look as if they think Ashley's going too far. "Is it because you think I'm weird? Is it because of Glenda?"
"All of the above. You think everyone likes you and would be happy to be your little buddy, but that's not how it is at all! Now will you please just leave me and my friends alone? I'm..."
But before she can go on, Ashley feels a sharp hand wrapping itself around her back, going on to grip her so hard it feels as if her bones could break. She notices a dark figure springing out of the bushes and it doesn't take long for her to recognize the red-haired girl glaring at her.
"Hey, Ashley, did your parents ever tell you that if you have nothing good to say, to just keep your stupid mouth shut?"
"Glenda, don't do that!" Glen yells. "Leave her alone!"
"Too late for that, Glen!" Glenda says. Then she slaps Ashley twice in the face and shoves her to the grass.
"What the hell, you bitch?" Ashley screams. "Get away from me now!"
"We'll call the police if you don't stop right now!" Danny says, attempting to come to her rescue, and Emma and Paul follow closely behind him.
"Step back!" Glenda yells. "Get any closer and I'll beat the shit out of you guys too." She walks over to Ashley, who's now lying in the grass and crying hysterically, and kicks her in the arms, stomach, and legs.
After giving Ashley one last kick in the knee, she says, "Now let's make one thing clear, Ashley. You can say anything about me behind my back. Call me a witch, a freak, Lizzie Borden, or whatever you want. But don't you ever try messing with my brother again. He has nothing to do with the way I am and would never try doing all the things I'm more than willing to do to you and your dumb little friends. Do you get it?"
Ashley mumbles something incoherent.
"I said, do you get it, you idiot?" she demands, giving Ashley a hard kick in the stomach.
"Ahh! Yes! Yes, I get it!" she shrieks.
"Good. Now get the hell away from us."
Ashley struggles to get up, crying and trembling with fear. Paul and Danny give her a hand, and Emma hands her a napkin to wipe all the blood and dirt around her body.
"And if I ever see any of you doing this again, I will do something so much worse to you!" Glenda says as they leave.
Neither of the four kids turn to look at either her or Glen, who simply stands around looking almost as scared as they are, and instead walk out of the park as quickly as they can.
…
A half hour later, Glen and Glenda Ray sit around the coffee table of the large living room of an old mansion their mother had just gotten in Santa Monica. Whether she'd bought or rented the mansion, or she was "borrowing" the place of a family or individual who hadn't returned home in a while, was something neither of the twins had bothered figuring out. The fact that they were staying in a mansion originally built in the turn of the 20th century was something that got both twins excited, Glen because it reminded him of the old British novels he liked reading and Glenda because such places were always the sites of long buried murders, and the chance to either find hidden bodies or communicate with ghosts always excited her.
But right now, they're not in the process of reading, hunting around in the attic, or even watching TV. Instead, they're sitting quietly, unsure of what to say about what just happened in the park.
It's Glen who finally says something. "Glenda, why did you have to beat up Ashley? Just because someone says they don't like me doesn't mean you have to hurt them."
Glenda gives her brother a small frown. "Glen, what is it going to take for you to get it? People like Ashley will never be your friends! They aren't interested in it, and they don't deserve to be your friends either."
"They're not all bad, Glenda. You should have gotten to know Emma. We had a lot of fun during recess yesterday, and she would probably have been interested in being friends with us if you had given her a chance."
"Emma isn't that far off from being like Ashley. She's one of those people who just follows along with whatever anyone tells her. Before you came along, I heard her saying that you're probably just pretending to be nice so others won't think you're like me. She may have had second thoughts once she realized who you were, but given a day or two, she would probably take Ashley's warnings into consideration again and turn against you."
Glen is quiet for a while, a little upset over what he'd just found out about Emma, but also uncomfortable over how far Glenda was willing to go for him. He considered it a mixed blessing to have a sister that was so interested in watching out for him. In the other schools they'd briefly attended, she usually scared off potential bullies in one way or another. Once, a boy in the second grade had made fun of the way he spoke, and the next day, the boy discovered that all his school supplies had been stolen. Months later, in a small Montessori school in San Diego, a girl spread some nasty rumors about the twins. A day later, she found an anonymous note claiming all her secrets would be revealed if she didn't stop bothering other kids in her class.
He hadn't complained about either of these occasions, but he hadn't been too happy when Glenda had punched a boy in the playground just a week later after he'd refused to let Glen join a game of tag. Because of the school's zero tolerance policy on physical fights, the twins had to leave the school after this incident.
They'd had to leave schools before due to how rapidly the two of them were growing (they already looked as if they should be in middle school, being quite tall for their age and a bit more physically developed than most of their classmates when they were technically nine years old), as well as concerns for their safety that began after an incident during their fifth birthday, but this was the first incident where they'd left due to Glenda's expulsion. Their mom may have been proud of it, but it made Glen feel uneasy. Just how far would Glenda be willing to go for him? Could she really one day kill someone, just as their parents have done?
But for now, he decides to put his doubts aside. After all, Ashley had been quite mean to him in the playground. Perhaps what Glenda had done was necessary. Maybe Ashley needed to have someone stand up to her so she could stop being such a bully.
"Well, Glenda, maybe you're right," he finally says. "Perhaps Ashley had it coming after all."
Glenda grins. "You're finally starting to get it. Anyone who tries messing with us should always think twice. If there's one thing I never want to see happen to either you or me again, it's someone trying to make us into their sideshow freaks. Ashley and her minions could easily have done that with you if you hadn't been careful enough. But sooner or later, I think you'll start knowing better, and maybe even defending yourself more often. Think you can do that?"
"I'll try," Glen says.
"Great. Just remember that not everyone is as good as you think they are. Deep down, everyone is a monster in their own way."
Be sure to review if you enjoyed this story, and stay tuned to find out what happens to the Ray twins in the future and to see if anyone from the gang in Santa Monica returns.