The Woodsboro police department is a minor operation. In a small town where the most trouble is a few rowdy teenagers at the local hot spots after curfew or the lone homeless guy making trouble at the park they didn't get much action.
Twenty officers work there, with only eleven or so officers on shift at the same time. There are only a few cops still working that were there when the original murders happened. None of them wants to be on the case, knowing all too well the fate of cops associated with it. Yes, Deputy Dewey Riley had survived the initial attacks and those to come, but it cost him his badge and for a while, it looked like his life as well.
Nevertheless, they all knew he was a happier man now. Not the town sheriff like many had thought he would one day become, but the proud husband of successful author Gale Weathers-Riley. They have a little girl and a nice life in southern California. Though neither of them were afraid of their past they just could never bring themselves to raise a family in a town with so much pain in its past.
Dani enters the precinct, the sheriff's jacket still over her shoulders. She is led promptly to a lieutenant's desk and given her own chair to sit in. A young officer walks over with a small stack of paperwork in one hand and a large cup of coffee in another.
She sits, zoning out, unable to keep her mind on one subject for too long. Her hands clench tightly around the arms of the chair. Wringing them as she waits for the officer to start questioning her. She looks up from the spot on the desk she had been "studying" when he called for her attention.
Looking at him, she realized she actually knew the officer.
Nathan Porter was a student at Woodsboro High two years ago. Dani and Ashley had seen him around the halls plenty of times. His hair was still darker than anyone else's she had ever met. Too short to be shaggy but too long to be short, the cut worked well for his somewhat younger looks. Everyone knew he hated the fact that he would always be carded when he went into bars, no matter how old he was. Dani had to admit, she had had a small thing for him back in her freshman year. She thought he was as charming and smooth as they come, until she met Sean.
"Alright, I am-"He began after organizing his desk quickly, only to be cut off.
"I know who you are Nate, we went to school together, remember?" She asked, loosening up a bit at the thought of not having to talk to someone she didn't know.
"Right, yeah I knew that. Sorry Dani, these are just some protocol we have to follow." He said, scratching behind his head, he gave off an air of inexperience that told you he hadn't been doing this long.
"I understand." She said nodding her head.
"Alright so, let's get this over with." He said before launching into the questions. She answered all of the preliminary questions and was soon retelling the entirety of what had happened that night.
"You say you were attacked by someone in the Ghostface costume from the Stab movies?" Nate asked, reading from her earlier statement.
"Yeah." Dani said nodding. Tensing up as she remembers the cloaked figure coming at her, brandishing their long knife.
"You also said you got a call from the attacker. Did he say anything important?" He asked, wanting to make sure there wasn't any piece of information she had forgotten to tell them.
"No, not really. I mean there was this one thing about…Mackenzie Saint but…that was pretty much it. He threatened to kill me." She said, fighting back tears.
"Look, were pretty sure it's just some…crazed Stab fan. Were gonna catch this guy Dani." Nate said trying to reassure her. She had never been much of a Stab fan before but now after living the movie…well it makes sense why Sidney Prescott went back into hiding.
"I just have a few more questions for you and then you can go." Nate said. Dani nodded, ready for this to be over as soon as possible.
"So your Mom's out of town right now?" He asked after finishing the last of the questions.
"Yeah, she left today. I'm staying with Ashley's family till she gets back." She said, nodding her head the direction of her friend who was currently asleep in a chair across the room.
"Well I think you've spent enough time here. We'll be sending a squad car to patrol the area, make sure your safe tonight."
"I'll be fine Nate." Dani said with a false smile on her face. She hated when people worried over her and tried to protect her. The last thing she wanted was to waste someone's time watching a quiet street.
"Just to be on the safe side. And it's Officer Porter." He said with a slight smirk.
"So we can go?" She said sitting up in the chair and looking as eager as she could, considering the circumstances.
"Yeah, take the back exit. Avoid the circus." He said as he led her over to Ashley, who was trying to play it off as if she'd been awake the whole time.
"We leaving?" She asked Dani as she stood and stretched her arms behind her.
"Yeah…" Dani answered back, leaving the Sheriffs jacket behind.
Ashley nodded before following Dani and Officer Porter out the back door of the precinct.