Hello all, I had lost access to my old account since I didn't remember my password nor do I have the email account I had set up with. If you recognized this fanfic at all it's because I was originally Sweet Dove. I have changed a few things in this story a couple of things have been taken out as well. I do not have rights or own anything that belongs to Stephen King. I am just using Carrie because I feel that she deserved something better.
Welcome to Carrie's Alternative Ending.
The girl in the locker room tossed a pad to the girl. And the rest followed suit with jeering words and laughter that was cruel. The girl lowered her arm and froze staring into the terrified eyes of the other blonde. As the realization left a sour taste in her mouth and a chill in her very body. The lecture her mother gave her, and the spanking near beating of her father, when he finally got home from picking up her older brother who was on leave for the first time in years from the army. The look in all their eyes had her wilted. Her sneaking out after being grounded donated her dress to the small theater in town. The imagines twirled around and around and the voices of her parents and hearing the cruelty from the other girls. That slowly turned into an unending mess of screams and twisted faces. A choked sob escaped her. As Flames flared behind her eyes as shrill sirens echoed around her as flaming and zombie-like people ran past her form.
A cry passed her lips as her eyes flew open. The young lady gasped loudly as she bolted up in bed, her hands clenching and unclenching at her bed covers as she looked wildly around with her heart racing right out of her chest.
Reaching over she clicked on the lamp by her bed and looks at the alarm and realized prom will be starting soon in less than an hour. She swung her feet over the bed and stood. She made her way into the bathroom and flicked on the ceiling light and looked at herself in the mirror. The sweating hair that stuck to her face and neck and the paleness of herself with no color made Sue Ann Snell realize, she didn't know the girl staring back at her anymore. She stepped into the shower and stood under the warm water still trying to come to terms with everything that happened in the past week. The bruises she received from her father's hand were fading now but sore. And yet she couldn't help but cry for everything, her guilt and for Carrie White herself. She slid down to the shower and curled herself into a fetal position, never noticing when the water turned ice cold nor did she hear her mother calling for her and the knocking on the bathroom door seemed to echo around Sue from miles away.
It wasn't until her mother pulled her up and out, wrapped her in warm towels, and started to dry her off like she did when she was little that Sue snapped back into reality. "Mommy?"
Mrs. Snell stopped what she was doing and looked into her daughter's beautiful but red-rimmed eyes and it brought tears to her eyes, for Sue had not called her mommy since she was twelve. "What is it, my sweet girl."
I'm not going to prom tonight. I donated my dress and asked Tommy to take Carrie to the prom instead."
"This is my daughter I miss and brought into this world. The one I raised and saw turning into a young woman."
"You are not livid or saddened?"
"I am glad you have learned your lesson and I am very proud of you. That is a very selfless gesture you did for that poor girl, Sue. Get dressed, and I will order us pizza, your father and brother will be back soon."
She brushed a kiss on her daughter's cheek and left the bathroom.
Sue moved out of the bathroom and watched her mother walking down the stairs with a hand on the railing, before moving back into her room. Rummaging through her drawers she found some comfortable clothes, a soft yellow shirt, and blue pants, and went downstairs. She sat on the couch with a cup of hot cocoa and a book. By the time her father and brother came, the pizza had been delivered. They all eat in comfortable silence, small chit-chat sprinkled off and on through the meal before moving into the family room to watch a movie.
Sue looked down as she felt her phone vibrate, and staring at Tommy's words, Sue smiled. Still, it slowly faded as noticed one from Kris, and her breath caught and she made a gasping noise that alerted her family, and her father paused the movie as they stared at the youngest member. Sue paid them no mind. As the fire and shrill screams of terror echoed in her mind and now she thought she smelled smoke.
Scrambling to her feet and rushing to the door slipping on her shoes, and blue sweater, and grabbing her keys from the hook she ran out the door only to be caught by her big brother. "Let me go, Josh!"
"What is going on, sis?"
"Josh, it's Kris, I know she is going to do something terrible to Carrie and I have to stop it!" Yanking her arm from his grip she yanked the car door open and slammed it shut, fumbling with her keys till she got it in the ignition and turned the car on. She quickly reversed out of the driveway and took off down the road. Never seeing her parents on the stoop with concern and angry looks. Nor did she see her brother, Josh, turning on his cell to make a call.
By the time Sue made it to the school and found a spot, parked and shut the car off, and got out. She ran like the hounds of hell were after her towards the gym. Once there she took a few deep breaths and moved to the gym that was decorated for prom. She paused as she saw Ms. Desjardin and snuck around behind her using her peers as a wall to block herself from the gym teacher.
Reaching the other side Sue ignored George's waving and shouts, as she reached the stage where Tommy and Carrie were and with the last burst of speed nearly missed being caught by Ms. Desjardin. She sprinted across the stage and shoved Carrie into Tommy hard sending them both tumbling to the floor in a tangle of limbs.
Sue went to apologize to them just as Ms. Desjardin was nearly upon her when Sue felt a cool and thick liquid splatter her from head to toe. Gasps were heard and her gym teacher was frozen in mid-step. Sue ignoring everything for the moment lifted her eyes to the rafters and spotted Kris and her boyfriend. She shouted up to them, "Satisfied Kris!" As she saw them hurrying along the rafters and down the steps as they realized they had been caught by Sue, and out into the night. They didn't realize that Carrie had looked up into the rafters at Sue's shout and saw them leaving.
She turned at the sound of a loud metal thumb hitting wood had everyone coming out of their stupor. Sue looked down at herself as she felt the blood sliding down the back of her neck and body she tried to wipe the liquid from her face but it smeared worse. The blood that was thinnest on her was drying and tacky. Tommy was the first to speak as he stood up and shouted, "What the hell?"
Tommy reached down and pulled Carrie halfway up when the sounds of words and laughter, and Carrie's pleading voice filled their ears. All four on stage turned to the noise and froze looking at the big screen. Sue, backed away as she saw herself on the screen. Twirling around on her heel and falling to her knees in the pool of blood. Through her tears, she pleaded for Carrie to truly understand, "I just wanted this night to be a happy one for you Carrie, it was one of many ways I was going to try to make up for everything that I had put you through. Truly I do not deserve forgiveness for all the hurt and pain that I have caused you.
I cut off ties with them all right after the prom committee was done setting up, it was on that day because of the harsh punishment I received from my father! I had no idea this past week they were up to something since I haven't spoken a word to them, Carrie. I speak the truth! It wasn't until this evening that Kris sent me a text with a picture of Tommy and you that I knew something bad was going to happen despite the premonition, I had gotten in a dream! Since the picture was taken looking down at you on the dance floor!" Sue gripped the bottom half of Carrie's dress and pressed her face into Carrie's legs. Leaving bloody hand prints on the dress.
Tommy knelt in the blood beside Sue and whispered for only Carrie and her to hear, despite all the laughter and jeering. "I believe our girl knows this." He pulled Sue into himself. All the while with pleading eyes at Carrie, when he noticed darkness slowly taking over the sweet and quiet girl, whose eyes were on the two in front of her.
Tina shouted, "Are you her slut, Sue. What of Tommy? Is he, her bitch?" At those words, Carrie's head snapped up and looked at their classmates.
Carrie's eyes hardened as something inside of her snapped slowly, breaking away chains of torment. She had endured the trials and torments' and now seeing these people if she could call them that was supposed to be Tommy's and Sue's friends, but by the snide comments of cruelty, they weren't true. Only animals will turn on each other. If they turned on someone who was trying to make amends then they weren't human. Only animals full of dirty sin and she was beyond hating and angry at them and they will pay!
Carrie stalked to the edge of the stage as the lights flickered in and out. A trail of bloody footprints was left behind her. The student's laughter slowly trailed off at the eeriness of what was going on and something felt wrong as some of the students made their way towards and out of the gym. Somehow Sue knew it was Carrie that was making the lights flicker. "Carrie, please don't. They aren't worth it." The fear and Sue's voice were palatable even as she clung to Tommy and he to her in frozen fear. Sue buried her head into his chest.
In the last ditch effort to reach the girl in front of them, Tommy called out to her. "Carrie! Please, we can leave and not look back!"
Carrie turned to Tommy and Sue and her smile was slightly unhinged and dark as she placed a finger onto her lips shushing him as Ms. Desjardin shouted at the students and staff in disgust after she moved off the stage not realizing at first what was happening.
In the dark recess of her mind, Carrie let out a telepathic blast that sent everyone and everything backward or flipped over. That is when the terror and panic set into mass hysteria. Just as some of the students including Heather reached the gym doors and headed out they slammed shut on them so hard that they broke bones or in this case killed Heather whose face went first into the glass. Carrie moved her hands in a twisting way and the twins were tripped and held down as they were trampled to death. Unadulterated with rage and glee she flung a flaming moon decoration that was ripped from the ceiling and separated the English teacher and Tina. She pushed Tina back with wires, and Tina cried out in pain from the electric sparks hitting her. Carrie's eyes narrowed and her hands moved and the basketball hoop came down and cut Heather in half and her cries ended abruptly.
She turned to the English teacher and grinned as her hands made a breaking motion and his bones crashed and he was shoved back into the flames dying a horrid death of pain. In his last moments of terror, he wet himself and sobbed. Some of the wires that had broken caught fire and the unlucky ones burned alive, and the charcoal-like smell, along with sulfur filled the air causing everyone that was fleeing or trying too to cover their noses, trying to block the smell.
Meanwhile, Sue and Tommy couldn't move or make a sound and yet they tried to block out the dying and terrified screams of their classmates that echoed loudly in their ears. George and Erica were the same way huddled against the wall trying not to bring attention to themselves as well. All praying to God they would make it out alive.
Carrie moved her hands up into the air above her head and the water from the fire sprinklers unleashed before bringing her hands forward and lifting Ms. Desjardin, George, and Erica at the same time and bringing them towards her with horror on their faces before tossing them behind her safely onto the stage next to Sue and Tommy. She looked at them and inside their heads, they heard a possessive, 'Mine.' As the remaining students were electrocuted some died and others passed out.
Then she stepped off the stage floating towards the doors and blasting them open and went outside where her feet touched the ground she headed in the direction of Kris and the boy with her.
Ms. Desjardin looked at the four teens beside her and gently shake them out of their terror and shock. Slowly Sue stood up looking like a warrioress as she stared at the chaos and horror with tears gently sliding down her face she closed her eyes for a moment to block out the sight before and then sirens wailing closer to the school were heard. "Not a word to anyone about Carrie inform any who made it out alive I mean it. She will disappear so too, will I."
George and Tommy glanced at each other for a moment and George nodded his head. Tommy said, "George and I, are with you beautiful." Sue gave a watery smile to Tommy that showed her relief.
"I'm in, too," Erica stated since she had taken a liken to the pretty and shy girl. The others turned to her and they grasped hands in a silent pact, followed by Ms. Desjardin.
They all ran outside and found Sue's car smashed they located George's bug and crammed inside and took off as Tommy gave instructions to Carrie's house. Once they pulled up to it. They found every single light was off but every window had candles lit and they glanced at each other nervously as Tommy slowly climbed out, followed by Sue and Ms. Desjardin.
The gym teacher turned and told George to ditch the car somewhere else, and come back."
"Yes, Ma'am," George said as He drove away with Erica.
"We will go in Ms. D." Spoke up to Tommy.
"Be careful the both of you." Whispered the teacher as the two teenagers moved up the walkway towards the front porch. They shared a look before Tommy grabbed the knob of the door and twisted, before pushing it open, as they stepped inside they took in the scene before them with sadness in their eyes as they found Carrie sobbing over her mother's dead body.
"Carrie," Sue Whispers.
Carrie looks up and grabs both of them through her powers as they choked out no. "You tricked me and for that, Mama tried to kill me for my sins!"
The two whose hands were at their necks struggling to breathe shook their heads no desperately as their feet scraped against the floor as they were pulled closer to Carrie. Next thing they knew a painful and rough presence was inside their heads, and then it was gone, and were dropped painfully onto the cracking floor. "Why?" was Carrie's broken response.
"Because we were. No, I was wrong, I got what I deserved even though it wasn't enough, even Tommy laid into me, along with my brother. It was a brutal week but it helped me to see my wrong. I lost myself and followed along the way. Tears pricked at Sue's eyes yet again as she continued, "All I wanted to do is try to make up for everything even if it takes a lifetime, for I was heartless and cruel to you. Having you go to prom with Tommy was my way of starting to make it up to you. I will still do anything; Carrie and I mean anything until I can have your forgiveness. I meant what I said back on the stage." She whispered.
"I was also in the wrong, Carrie though I spoke up for you in the past, I didn't do it actively nor made a stand against the bullying, and for that, I owe you an apology and seek your forgiveness, too."
The ceiling above creaked and groaned as it bowed more into itself as the house started to cave in. Carrie stares at the two and the next thing they know, they were flying out of the house and back on the road next to their teacher and friends. Erica and George helped them up.
Sue broke away from Erica's hold and ran as close to the caving-in house as she could along with Tommy and it was Tommy who shouted, drawing on lights from inside the neighbors' houses. "Please, Carrie! We will take care of you and go somewhere new, please!" Tommy's wavering voice brought tears to them all as they watched with ashen faces as the white's house came crashing down.
The house was being crushed by stones falling from the sky the ground cracked open and was sinking into the ground. The next thing they both knew a shadowy figure out of the smoke and dust came towards them. The figure glided toward them and Tommy reached out and pulled Carrie into a hug, and Sue followed suit and hugged Carrie from the side as Tommy whispered to them both, "My girls."
"What does that mean?" Carrie whispers to Sue.
"It means Carrie that we will be sisters in the end." Whispers Sue back.
"I would like that." Whisper Carrie shyly. Sue squeezes her hand as she broke away and smiled softly at her. George and Erica hugged the three too. A clearing of a throat broke through their moment and they turned to see Ms. Desjardin, who motioned for the teenagers quickly with no time to waste, they hid in the shadows and stood still blending in as the neighbors came out of their houses and sirens were heard yet again.
The solitary group stood still watching, and the grave voice of George spoke up, "Family we are, and no messes with family."
Erica spoke next, "Now what?"
They stood in silence and watched the chaos around them and the home of Margert White went up into flames in the ground.
The End