Chapter Twelve
And The Killer Gives Mercy To…..
Sidney had began her shift at the crisis hotline. Tatum was in the kitchen with the boys while Billy and Mickey were outside filling up both cars with gas. Sidney sits at her desk listening to a victim discuss her situation and coming up with ways to counsel the young lady. Tatum smiled listening to Sidney talk with the young lady. Sidney is a great listener who offers great feed back. Sidney was rubbing Rocket when another call came through her line.
"California Women's Crisis Counseling, my name is Laura, how can I help
you?" Sidney asked.
"Oh Laura, I do have a crisis!" Frantic Woman on the phone says.
"Ok, well whatever it is, you can tell me." Sidney said realizing the woman is in crisis.
"Oh my God, I've killed someone Laura!" Frantic Woman says.
"Are you sure?" Sidney asked not believing the woman.
"Uh-huh I'm sure, I've killed someone I know it! OH my god, I did." Frantic woman says.
"Well, then the people you need to call are the police." Sidney said hoping this wasn't a prank. Tatum looked up at her frowning wondering who the lady was on the phone. Her senses telling her that this something else.
"No, I need to call you. Just you." The Frantic Woman's tone changes. Sidney recognizes the voice.
"I'm sorry your voice." Sidney said to her. Tatum stood up.
"Don't you want to know how you can help, Laura?" Frantic Woman's tone is menacing. Sid sees that the call is on her home line. "Are you listening to me, huh?"
Tatum leaves the kitchen to go get Billy and Mickey. The boys are fine cause Sidney isn't too far from them she can see her boys are ok.
"Who is this?" Sidney asks.
"It's mother Laura. Now be a good girl and turn on the news. Do as mother tells you!" Frantic Woman demands.
Sidney-
"You are not my mother, how did you get this number? Who is this?" Sidney demands to know. She shouts at the phone. Tatum returns to the house with Billy and Mickey in tow. Both stare at Sidney wondering who's on the line.
"You know your mother's voice when you hear it, no turn on the news!" She does.
Reporter-
"And with the second cast member murdered, 'Stab 3' has been officially shut down, prompting those involved to hope and pray that these killings may be over." The Reporter says. She, Tatum, Billy and Mickey watched the news. Sidney turns it off.
"Just one question. Do you think it's over Sidney? Do you?" The killer asks. Sidney hangs up the phone immediately removing her headsets. She reaches for the gun kept in the draw. Tatum, Mickey and Billy all grab their guns from various places. Tatum and Mickey had brought their own just in case. Sidney stared at the window, seeing nothing.
"Who the fuck was that Sidney!" Billy asked her.
"The killer. He knows where we are." Sidney said her voice shaky.
"It's not safe here." Billy said.
"We gotta do something." Tatum said.
"I'm calling my parents. We're taking the boys to stay with them until this over with." Billy said going over to his desk and picking up his cell. It rings. He stares at it unsure whether to answer it. He decides to. "Hello."
"Hello Billy." Ghost Face said. "How's married life treating you?"
"Who is this?" Billy asks.
"Come on surely you know by now who I am. I just got through talking to your wife Sidney. She's still got that sexy voice." Ghost Face said taunting him.
"Who the fuck is this!" Billy yells.
"I'm gonna have so much fun tearing you apart. I'm gonna make Sidney watch you die before I slaughter her." Ghost Face said laughing.
"Fuck you! If you so much as touch a hair on my wife, I'll kill you." Billy taunted back.
"We'll just see about that Billy boy. I know where you and Sidney live. It must be nice to have a house outside of town in the mountains." Ghost Face said. Billy's eyebrows shot up surprised. "If I wanted to kill the two of you, I could've done it a while ago."
"What stopped you?" Billy asked.
"William and Scott Loomis." Ghost Face said as Billy frowned hard. How did this killer know his family.
"Fuck! Fuck!" Billy cursed.
"I'm not a child killer. But I will make orphans out of them." Ghost Face chuckled.
"What do you want?" Billy asked clearly upset.
"You know what I want, it's only a matter of time before I get it. By the way tell Tatum and Mickey I said hi." Ghost Face said then hanging up the phone.
"FUCK!" Billy yelled slamming his phone down on the table.
"Who was that?" Sidney said worried.
"It was the killer. He knows." Billy said breathing heavily his anger boiling over. "You were right baby. He knows where we live. The mother fucker has known all this time. He could've killed us when he wanted to."
"What stopped him?" Tatum asked.
"William and Scott. When Sidney got pregnant and had the twins it delayed the killer from attacking us." Billy answered. Sidney was truly terrified now. "By the way, the killer knows you two are here as well." Billy said to Tatum and Mickey.
"What now?" Sidney asked.
"We're leaving here and taking the boys to my parents place." Billy told her. Let's get packing. He said as all four began packing. Sidney made sure to pack the bags for the babies, herself and Billy. Mickey and Tatum grabbed their bags. All four grabbed whatever stuff they had to and left the house. Billy and Sidney loaded the kids into the back of his van while taking their bags and putting them in the back of the van.
Mickey and Tatum did the same, then got into their car and pulled off. Billy and Sidney got into the front. Billy started the ignition and drove off their property. Sidney made certain to put in the security code before leaving. Rocket was in the back with them.
Meanwhile at Jennifer's house, Stone is walking outside and hears a noise, but it is a cat. Inside are Tom, Angelina, and Jennifer. Tom is ripping up the script and tossing it in the air.
"Is this a wrap party or is this a wrap party? Scene 34, Maureen's murder flashback." Tom said with a cigarette in his mouth.
"I never liked that scene." Jennifer commented.
Dewey enters the living room.
"That's cause you weren't in it. Scenes 40 - 47, the Prescott house Flashback." Tom told her.
"I'm starting to understand why Brad and Trisha didn't stay." Angelina said.
"They're wack jobs couldn't act their way out of a paper bag. Brad who thinks he's Billy Loomis and Trisha with her fake tits thinks she's hot shit. She's a Tatum Riley wanna-be" Tom said.
"Tom, stop it. You're scaring me. Two people are dead." Angelina said.
"Scaring you? HA! Give the sweet young ingenue act a rest." Tom told her.
"You're drunk." Angelina said then gets up and leaves.
"I'm coping! I bet she fought and clawed for that Sidney part. I bet she stepped on any poor girl that got in her way." Tom said to Jennifer.
"So you asked her out and she said no?" Jennifer asked him.
"That has nothing to so with it." Tom said lying.
"Right... come on Dewey." Jennifer said as they leave the living room.
"Scene 50, Dewey saves the day." Tom says to no one particular.
Outside, Gale's car pulls up. She goes to the door and rings the bell. No one answers and she hears Dewey and Jennifer talking. She follows them by looking through windows.
"She's so focused on success that she never thinks about who she's hurting to get it." Dewey said to Jennifer.
"And you saved her life how many times?" Jennifer asked.
"Gale wants the whole world to love her. One person's never enough. She's a dreamer." Dewey said to her.
"She's a narcissistic psycho bitch." Jennifer said not knowing Gale at all.
"No she's not. She's got a good heart, she does. She just hides it away because she thinks people see that as weak." Dewey said as he holds up a publicity photo of Jennifer as Gale. "This is a good picture of you. You look just like her."
"God, Dewey. You make it sound as if you're still in love with her." Jennifer told him.
"I left out the part about how she's cruel and selfish, obsessive and annoying." Dewey said.
Stone grabs Gale.
"We've got one Gale Weathers here, we don't need two. Hey Dewdrop! I've got your girlfriend out here." Stone said.
In the living room.
"Look who I found slinking around the yard, the nightly news." Stone said sarcastically.
"I wasn't slinking, I was walking." Gale said.
"You were eavesdropping, the bedroom window." Stone told her.
"Yeah, a bedroom that you seemed awfully at home in." Gale said to Dewey.
"All right, let's talk. Come on." (Dewey said as they go into the bedroom) "What's this about Gale?"
"Did you know they released Roman? Sarah's call didn't come from his cell phone." Gale asked him.
"Where did it come from then?" Dewey asked her.
"A cloned cell phone, it's untraceable." Gale told him.
"Well thanks for the update Gale, why don't you just go back home?"
"Wait a minute, just wait one second. How old do you think Maureen Prescott is in this picture?" Gale asks him.
"19, 20?" Dewey said.
"That's what I though, so I checked it out. I cannot find any information about her at this age, I mean nothing." Gale said to him.
"Well she lived in Woodsboro her whole life. Someone there must know something." Dewey said.
"Almost her whole life. Two years before she met Sidney's father she left Woodsboro. No one has any idea where she went or what she did. It's like she fell into a black hole Dewey, she vanished!" Gale said.
"So?" Dewey said.
"So? Why is the killer leaving pictures of Maureen? At that point in her life." Gale asked.
"I don't know! If I thought like a homicidal maniac, then I'd know how a homicidal maniac thinks!" Dewey said then grabs the picture back from Gale. Then it hit him.
"What?" Gale asked.
"Jennifer!" Dewey said to her.
"Jennifer?" Gale asked. They go into the bedroom. He comparing a picture of Maureen and Jennifer. "Look at the buildings, the second story, there and there. It's the same. It's the same street 28 years ago.
"Oh my God, Maureen Prescott was at the backlot of Sunrise Studios!" Gale said. "Shit!" She cursed.
"What?" Dewey asked her.
"Roger Corman. He connected to Maureen Prescott." Gale said.
"What do you mean?" Dewey asked.
"Det. Kincaid found another photo of Maureen at this time in her life. On the back of the photo it reads Corman's crime." Gale said.
"So is Corman responsible for Maureen?" Dewey asked confused.
"No. We know that Randy Meeks and Stu Macher killed Maureen. I know that Roger Corman and Maureen Prescott knew each other. The question is how?" Gale said to him.
"Maybe Maureen was an intern or something and worked with Corman." Dewey said guessing.
"If that was the case, why would the killer murder Corman?" Gale asked.
"I don't know. I gotta make some calls." Dewey said taking out his cellular.
Outside Dewey's trailer, Stone is walking. His phone rings as he is about to enter the trailer.
"Steven Stone Protection Services." Stone said.
"Stone where are you?" Dewey's voice on the other line.
"I'm just checking out your tin can Dewdrop." Stone said to him.
"Well come back inside and stay with Jennifer. Something's happened. I have to go to the police." Dewey asked him.
"Is that an order Dewdrop? Cause Steven Stone doesn't work for you." Stone told him.
"Get back in the house Stone! Would I call you if it wasn't important? What are you doing in there anyway?" Dewey asked on the other line.
"Me, I'm just checking to make sure there's no killer in here waiting to off you." Stone said sarcastically.
"What did you say? I can't believe you said that. That makes me-" Ghost face pops out behind stone and pulls a knife and stabs Stone in the back. "ANGRY!" Ghost Face's voice said.
Stone [attacking Ghost face]- "Fucker!" Stone said struggling with Ghost Face.
They struggle and Ghost face pushes Stone against the wall, driving the knife further into his back. Ghost face grabs a pan from the sink and hits Stone from the left, then from the right. Stone goes down and attempts to get up. Ghost face deliveries a final blow to Stone's head and leaves.
Back at the house Jennifer's living room. Dewey and Gale enter.
"I gotta call Kincaid." Dewey said.
Gale realized the room is empty.
"Dewey, where is everybody? She asked.
The front door slams open by itself and Gale and Dewey scream.
"Jennifer? Angelina? Tom?"" Dewey calls out to them.
Jennifer enters through the patio doors. Dewey screams. Jennifer screams.
"My God! What happened?" Jennifer asked holding her chest.
Tom and Angelina enter. Dewey screams and points a gun at them. All scream.
"Don't do that. We're overreacting." Dewey said.
Stone who still alive somewhat stumbles outside.
"Dewdrop?" Stone said gurgling.
"Stone?" Dewey said.
"Oh my God!" Angelina said.
"Oh, God, Stone." Tom said shocked at what he's seeing.
Stone falls, dead.
"Oh god!" Jennifer said.
Dewey goes outside to check on him.
"Dewey is he dead?" Gale asked.
"Yeah." He hears a noise. "Everyone back inside!" Dewey said.
They rush back in. All are breathing heavily scared to death of wondering what's to come.
"It's all right, don't panic." Dewey said.
The lights go out. All scream.
"Go outside!" Jennifer said.
"Everyone outside! Stay together and try to remain calm!" Dewey said to them.
They go out to the backyard. A phone rings, Tom, Gale, Dewey, and Jennifer all check their cell phone, various, "It's not mine!"s are heard. Jennifer, realizes that it's the fax machine.
"It's the fax!" Jennifer said.
They run inside to read it. Jennifer uses a flashlight to read.
"Interior Jennifer's house. Living room, night." It's a script page!" Jennifer said reading a script page.
"W-w-w-what's it say?" Angelina asks.
"With the bodyguard stabbed to death, the five stand trapped." Jennifer continues reading.
"He's rewriting the movie!" Tom said.
"As the killer waits outside, suddenly the fax machine sends news of
their fate."
Dewey-
"It's a trap! Everybody outside!" Dewey said to the group.
"Outside where do you think he wants us?" Tom asked.
"Hey! The killer prepares to grant mercy to only one of them." Jennifer continues.
"Don't you get it? The killer says he outside because he wants us here, inside! Come on!" Gale said to them.
Jennifer [reading a new fax]-
"Who will survive? Is it Jennifer? Tom? Angelina? Dewey? Gale? The killer will give mercy to..." WHO?" Jennifer continues.
All are talking. Dewey drags Jennifer outside. Angelina and Tom follow. Jennifer attempts to run back in.
"I wanna know what happens! I wanna know what happens!" Jennifer said trying to go back into the house.
"Hey! Wait for the fucking movie!" Gale yells holding her preventing her from her from going back into the house.
"I've gotta know. I'm going back in!" Tom said trying to be brave. His curiosity is getting the better of him.
"Get back, stay together." Dewey yelled but Tom was already in the house.
"What's it say?" Jennifer asked.
"The killer will grant mercy to... Whoever" Tom said trying to read the page.
"Whoever?" Angelina asks.
"WHOEVER?" Jennifer asks.
"I can't see shit." He goes into the kitchen and flicks on a lighter. The page reads, "Whoever smells the gas, Whoever smells the..." Tom said.
The house explodes. Tom can briefly be seen in the center of the explosion. Gale, Dewey and Jennifer scream and run. Angelina has disappeared. As the house continues to explode, Dewey, Gale and Jennifer jump off the balcony and roll down a hill.
"Stop rolling, dammit!" Jennifer curses.
Dewey rolls farther than the others and finally stops. He rises.
"GALE? JENNIFER?" Dewey calls out to them. He can't see Gale or Jennifer.
"Dewey!" Gale yells out for him.
"Dewey!" Jennifer calls him. He cannot see them.
"Dewey where are you?" Gale asks.
"Over here Dewey!" Jennifer yells.
He runs toward Gale.
"Dewey!" Gale said.
"Gale!" Dewey sees her.
He spots her near some cars on a street below. The killer jumps out behind her.
"Gale behind you!" Dewey yelled.
Gale screams. Dewey shoots the killer. Ghost face falls back against a car. Gale falls to the ground. Dewey Shoots one last time and falls down a hill. Ghost Face falls down and slides under the car and disappears. Gale stands to her feet.
"Dewey! Are you all right?" Gale said helping him up.
"Yeah, never been better. Where'd he go?" Dewey asked.
"He rolled under the car." Gale told him.
"All right, stay close." Dewey said holding his gun.
Dewey checks under the car, in the car, and around the car.
"Is he back there?" Gale asks.
"No. He's fast, I could've sworn I hit him. Are you all right?" Dewey asks her.
"Uh-huh. Thanks for saving me." Gale said smiling at him.
"It's habit." Dewey said smiling back.
Gale touches Dewey's cut face softly.
"Oh, God." Gale said to him. She tries to kiss him. Jennifer appears behind them.
"What the fuck happened to you?" Jennifer asked angered.
"Jennifer, wait a minute." Dewey told her.
"Who gave you a place to stay? Who are you supposed to be protecting?" Jennifer said.
"Jennifer!" Dewey said before she punches him across the face.
"Hey!" Gale said then punches Jennifer, who falls to the ground.
"My...lawyer... liked ...that." Jennifer said to Gale holding her face.
"Not as much as I did." Gale remarked holding her hand.
A noise is heard as Angelina enters from the hill.
"Angelina?" Dewey called to her.
"Tom was in the house." Angelina said to them.
"How'd you end up way over there?" Dewey asked her.
"Oh my GOD, Tom was in the HOUSE! Are we safe?" Angelina asked.
"Safe from who?" He asked. Angelina doesn't answer. Dewey spots something on the ground. "Wait a second!"
He picks up a new picture of Maureen Prescott.
"Another picture." Dewey said. Written on the back are the words, "I KILLED HER"
To Be Continued!