Psychopaths (SCREAM 3)

Chapter 5

Third POV

Trigger warning.

The distant screams in the dark mansion echo as Roman takes the lives of the cast of Stabb 3, Amara groans against the old carpet waking up confused in the dark creepy hidden room, the door unlocking catches her attention, and she quickly gets to her feet facing the door.

Three unfamiliar men appear in the room panting as if running from something, or someone. When one of them sees her he does a double take, his eyes widening in disbelief. "How the hell are you alive!"

His voice makes her fingers twitch as she recalls the haunting screams and begs of her aunt pleading for her life. The necklace heats against her neck.

'Kill them'

"That was years ago, there's no way she's Ruby," another one says, stopping the angry man from approaching her. Another one scans her over, and Amara doesn't like it one bit. Before they can say another word Amara grabs a bottle breaking it against the bar.

The men shout in surprise backing away, "Woah, calm down, just put that down, we're not gonna hurt you,"

Amara groans caught off guard by the sudden pain in her head, thinking she's not paying attention, one of the men steals the opportunity to run at her trying to take the bottle, she headbutts him before driving her knee hard into his stomach, he kneels gasping for breath, he only received little air, before she jams the sharp ends of the bottle into his neck

"You already have," she whispers in a low tone, she stares at him watching the life drain from his eyes until the screams of the remaining men who flee away from the chaos, she notices an ax on the wall no doubt left by Danny, she takes the sharp object staring at it, Amara gasps in pain trying to keep control but then she smells it.

Fear.

She follows the scent of the men whimpering in the corner. It was rather pathetic, she thought, how she begged and pleaded for them to let her go, but they locked her in this very room, took advantage of her, stole her innocence and when she tried to tell the police, they murdered her.

They don't deserve the little life they have remaining, they should die the way I did, Screaming.

The sounds of flesh being torn and limbs being chopped piece by piece bring a pleasurable smile to her lips, with every swing of her ax she could feel she was losing herself and someone else was taking over, exactly like he wanted.

By the time she's done, she barely recognizes herself, she's covered in blood and doesn't know her name, she drops the ax in shock gripping her skull in pain. She looks around confused not understanding why she's here.

'I just want it to end, why can't I just die?'

The sound of the door unlocking has her senses on alert, she backs away confused when a tall man in a mask comes through the door, "You've never looked more beautiful,"

"Do I know you?" she asks, confused, her eyes going back and forth from the ax to the man, one wrong move and she'd drive the edge of that ax through his skull. Roman smiles at her confusion, he takes off his mask slowly walking up to her. He saw this as an opportunity, with her memory gone, he could take her and start over.

"It's me, Roman, I know you're confused right now but if you just come with me," he reaches out his hand for her to take. "I can help you, as soon as we take care of Sidney and the others we can leave here together"

She rapidly shook her head, not sure who the hell Sidney was she thought staring up at the man there wasn't any part of that sentence she liked."I don't know you,"

She grips her head in confusion at the things around her, the blood, the pain. Roman grabs her wrists pulling her into him. "I can take care of you," this isn't right. I don't know this person. Why can't I remember?

She pushes against him but he holds onto her making them fall over, he grabs her waist when she straddles him looking down at him confused while he stares in surprise but doesn't push her off too distracted by the fact he had her in his arms this way, willingly against him. He cups her cheek, wiping some of the blood off her cheek.

"All you men are the same," she mumbles in disgust, down at him, her eyes glowing a red hue surprising him, using his knife she stabs into his chest.

"I don't need you to take care of me," she stabs him again, he screams pushing her off of him, she falls but gets right back up grabbing her knife, and she stabs into his back as he tries to crawl away.

"Amara please!" He pleaded not wanting to hurt her but she was surprisingly strong.

"Shut up!" she screams, stabbing him again and again.

"Oh my, look at the mess you've made," a voice familiar to her says, making her look up, at a handsome boy with sharp features holding a tied-up older man. "Gotta say I've never been more attracted to you, Maya,"

"My name... my name is Maya," she says slowly realizing, before removing the knife roughly from Roman making him groan, he passes out losing a lot of blood. That's who I am.

Danny throws the tied-up man to her feet, the man looks at her in complete fear, and she stares back at him confused until it clicks. John Milton. "Kill him pet, then take your place by my side like you were meant to be,"

'Don't know who the hell he's calling his pet but I'm gonna kill Milton because I want to, not because he told me to.'

He hands her a baseball bat, she looks at it confused only for a second before snatching it from him.

Milton's muffled cries of begging went ignored as the bat connected with his skull over and over, she panted out of breath by the time Milton finally stopped moving, and Danny leaned against the Pillar watching her.

She points the bat angrily at Danny surprising him, "Your next,"

"I did all this for you," he tells her firmly but she shakes her head. "This isn't my body, I know me this isn't me, you trapped me in that necklace!" she screams, her eyes narrowed at him. He pushes himself off the pillar surprised by her anger, ignoring the bat that she hasn't swung at him he cups her face.

"Why? Why would you do that to me?!" she cries, her voice breaking.

"Maya," he whispers as tears roll down her face, she drops the bat leaning into him. "Why didn't you just let me go? I had to relive my trauma over and over," he wraps his arms around her for the first time in years feeling guilty.

"I couldn't just let you go, I'd do anything for you," he whispers into her neck not minding the blood she's covered in. He tries to catch her eyes, he grabs her chin, lifting it, her watery eyes meet him and his heart thumps uncontrollably. "I'd bring this world to its knees, all you have to do," he leans down his nose touching hers, his lips hovering over hers, desperately wanting a taste. "Is ask,"

Their lips barely brush before she roughly pushes him away, his eyes widen but he stays in her space "No, I didn't ask for this Danny, you comforted me and you made me feel in control which was what I needed at that time but this.. Is too much,"

His entire aura changes as he grabs her wrist roughly, "I've done too much for you, just for you to say no to me," she looks up at him for the first time in fear he leans down against her neck breathing in her scent.

"Danny, please move, you're scaring me," her voice wavers as she pushes against his chest but he ignores her protests pushing her against the pillar caging her in. A voice inside her yells in protest telling her to fight but Maya is too overpowered by fear.

"If I can't have you, no one can, Maya," he whispers into her neck before biting down hard, Maya screams at the searing pain of having her flesh punctured, she roughly pushes against him as he grips and touches her body anywhere he can.

"Don't do this to me, you know what I've been through," she cries when he tries to touch under her dress, his eyes glow a horrifying red before he gives her a wicked smile. "I own you, you belong to me," he scans her, a smirk on his lips before cocking his head for a moment.

"Gotta say, Amara would've put up a better fight," he grabs her thigh to wrap around him, Roman tackles Danny off of her, stabbing his knife through his stomach, he holds down Danny and looks back at Maya, who's just standing there in shock.

"Run, Amara!" Roman yells at her before stabbing him again, Maya doesn't know who that is but runs anyway, the door now open she tries to find her way out of the mansion of her nightmares. She finally finds an exit through a broken mirror but almost doesn't pass through when she sees the body of a young girl.

"Amara, I killed him for now, you're safe," the man's voice scares her into running through the mirror and as far away from these crazy people as possible.

As she walks by a room she hears muffled groans, she almost ignores them but some instinct tells her to open the door, she listens to it opening it and cocks her head confused when she sees a pretty blond girl tied up in the closet.

"Sidney?" she asks slowly, the girl shakes her head at her.

She closes the door a moment, shaking her head before opening it again. 'She's still here,' she pulls the woman out of the closet untying her and slowly peeling off the tape.

Tatum groans massaging her jaw, "Surprised you didn't yank it off, and did you call me Sidney?"

"That would hurt you," Maya tells her, pulling her up before Tatum can say a word, Maya's dragging her out of the mansion, and before she can get past the door she's yanked back away from Tatum and into Roman's arms.

"I saved you," he growls in her ear.

"I didn't ask to be traded from one cage to another," she yells fighting back, a gunshot sets off hitting Roman in his shoulder he groans but grabs Maya by the neck turning her against him. Two men in Ghostface masks appear out of the darkness of the woods.

Billy Loomis takes off his mask first, tossing the gun to his partner, he pulls out his favorite knife, shrugging, "I'm a knife kinda man anyway," Maya turns, pushing her finger into Roman's wound before stealing his knife.

Now outnumbered, Roman runs hearing sirens heading toward them, Stu tries to run after him but Billy places his arm in front of him. "Leave him, we have bigger issues,"

"What took so damn long?" Tatum asks them, annoyed and relieved that the police are coming. Billy rolls his eyes at Tatum and sets his sights on who he thinks is Amara, but she turns her knife at them and pulls Tatum close behind her, tatum looks at her confused.

"Amara?!"

"Please stop calling me that, I don't know who that is," she rants, backing them farther away from the scary men, "Why do people like you keep popping up in that mask? You work for him, don't you? I won't go back,"

She suddenly points the knife at Tatum who backs away from her startled, "We're your friends, your name is Amaya right? We know your sister, Christina,"

Maya looked at her surprised, she hadn't heard that name in a long time. She hated calling her that, she always called her "Chrissy?" Tatum nods quickly, starting to take slow steps toward her as she slowly puts the knife down.

"I can take you to her but we have to go now," she nods in understanding but keeps her distance from the men who won't stop staring at her. A feeling inside her is telling her it's safe to be with them.

The car ride is silent while everyone else feels weird about the woman beside them. She looks around her confused at the new model car. The more she saw the more confused and scared she felt, you'd think because she has a second chance at life that she'd be happy and excited about living but she wasn't.

The only reason why she hasn't driven the knife in her hand through her own heart is because she didn't get to say goodbye to her sister and she wants the opportunity too but once that's over she plans to make her escape from Danny so she can die peacefully the way she wants to.

They lead her to a Motel, making her wait outside before coming in. The smaller yet broader man covers me with a long coat before leading me inside. I see an older woman standing in the middle of the room picking at her nails until her eyes land on Maya.

"Maya?" she says slowly

"Chrissy?" she nods, opening her arms for her, Maya rushes into them holding her tight, she starts to sob holding on. Giving them space, Billy and Stu leave, joining Tatum and the twins in the other room.

They hold each other for a long while until Christina takes her shower, noticing how sticky the blood on her has become. While she's showering, Billy, Stu, Christina, and Tatum discuss what to do with her.

"She's scared and Danny will come for her," Billy says, staring at the bathroom door.

"I vote we kill her," Stu says suddenly, Billy's head whips around at Stu, "You are the last person I thought would give that option,"

"We're not killing my best friend, she could still be in there" Tatum yells at them, Stu sticks up a finger in her face.

"First of all, I was her best friend first, second, exactly if she's still in there, maybe she'll just come back." Tatum scoffs smacking his finger away, Billy rolls his eyes staring at the bathroom door again.

"You know that's not Amara right?" Christina asks him as Tatum and Stu argue on the other side of the counter. Billy takes a deep breath nodding "Yeah I know.. I just don't know what to tell the twins, it's hard to see her like that and they will know,"

The bathroom door opens to reveal Maya drying her hair with a towel wearing a skin-tight pink shirt and blue jeans, Billy and Stu look at one another and can only think one thing. That's not our girl.

"Is that my shirt?" Tatum says surprised and annoyed that it looks better on her.

She stares at them before sitting on the couch, After a few seconds of feeling their stares burning into her back she suddenly turns to them annoyed, "I understand how important this body is, and I'll be happy to go knowing that I'm an aunt,"

"You're saying," Tatum says slowly, skeptically.

"I'm saying, I don't wanna be here. I know it sounds crazy to skip out on an opportunity to be with someone who'd destroy the world for you," she thinks for a moment.

"No it's not crazy at all, the guys a lunatic" Tatum says.

"So you'd just give up a new body just like that?" Billy stares at her not believing her.

"Yes, you think I wanted to be trapped in that amulet? Everything around me is weird and even though I know I'm controlling this body I know it's not my own, especially since she keeps fighting me,"

"You can still feel her?" Stu asks, surprised.

"Oh yeah," she nods, putting her wet hair in a bun. "At first I thought I was in my limbo again, going crazy, hearing voices but she was different,"

"How long before you think he'll come after you?" Billy asks her but she shrugs, she's just as in the dark as they are.

"The Danny I knew is different. He was sweet but after what I had been through I just couldn't see myself being with anyone not that it mattered. A young female scream startles the group, Sam runs into the room, tears shedding her face as she runs into her father's warm arms.

"Warren. Something came out of the darkness and took Warren," she cries into his neck, Billy picks her up keeping her facing away from the woman who she thinks is her mother, as Stu rushes into the room looking for Warren.

"Fuck!" Stu yells stomping back into the room.

"Just give him me, I'll get close and I'll be able to kill him," Maya says with a shaky breath, she had no idea children were involved and cannot let Danny keep hurting them because of her. The small girl tries to turn her head to look at her mother but her father keeps her tucked in his neck.

"I'll stay with her," Tatum says, taking Sam from Billy who was reluctant at first.

Maya hugged Christina one last time before heading out the door with both scary men who promised they'd protect her, but they'd have to use her to set a trap.

They end up back at the Stabb studio, completely trashed and vacant due to the killing sprees, Maya inhales deeply before heading inside the replica of her old home but modern, she heads upstairs to her old room which she knew he would be.

She slowly opens the door to see Danny sitting on the bed next to a sleeping boy, Danny looks broken as he stares down at the child, he can't help but feel jealous of Billy, he's just as evil as him yet has everything he ever wanted.

"I want to reconsider your offer," Maya says slowly revealing herself, he lightly chuckles not taking his eyes off the boy.

"What if my offer is no longer on the table?"

"I'm sorry Danny, I was just surprised by everything, it was a normal human reaction you can't blame me," he suddenly stands coming toward her, Maya forces herself not to flinch as he towers over her, he pushes a piece of hair behind her ear before lifting her chin to look at him.

"Kiss me, and I'll forgive you," he whispers teasingly, Maya swallows her anger and fear as he leans down brushing his lips against hers. She thought he'd try to take it too far but the kiss was gentle, having two completely different effects on them.

He suddenly drops to his knees looking up at her, "I'm sorry about before, I got angry and possessive, I shouldn't have tried to do that to you," Maya gives him a fake smile running her hand through his curls.

"You have to give the boy back," she tells him ignoring his apology, his body tense, and he suddenly lets her go standing back up.

"I don't want to give him back," Maya looked at him surprised, especially to see his eyes were genuine toward the boy.

"You can't be serious,"

"I like him, he's like me and you're already technically his mother," he points out, Maya stares at him for a few seconds before wrapping her arms around his neck. Danny's surprised but he hugs her back.

"We can have a family, I'll give up killing, I promise," he whispers.

A tear rolls down her face as she raises a knife Billy gave her that's covered in her blood, before she can have second thoughts she drives the knife through his back, Danny groans pushing her away with surprise and betrayal written all over his face. Billy and Stu reveal themselves smiling darkly as Danny backs away in a corner growing weaker.

Maya stares at him only for a moment before she grabs Warren taking him out of the room, the small boy starts to wake up just as the sounds of Danny groans and the stabs into his flesh haunt her ears but she instead covers Warren's ears holding him tight against.

Maya starts to gasp for breath, Warren looks up at her worried, he stares at his mother surprised when her eyes glow a dark red, "You're not my mom," he states dryly, looking his eyes at her.

She moves away from the boy leaning against the wall, she snatches off the necklace that trapped her for so long before throwing it to the ground and stomping on it. A red hue bursts from the crystal, her eyes glow red one last time before she smiles a tear rolling down her cheek.

Amara's body collapses but Billy catches her limp body before she hits the ground.

"Is she mom again?" Warren asks, staring at her father and uncle who's covered in a dark red substance, it was the most beautiful color red he'd ever seen. He watches as his uncle approaches him trying to hide something in a jar behind his back.

"I hope so," Stu says, picking up Warren and putting him on his back.

They head back to the Hotel where Christina and Tatum waited nervously for their return. For three hours Amara's body remained motionless, Christina had to put the kids to bed since Billy would not leave her side.

"The twins are asleep," Stu tells Billy as he leans against the door watching him watch her, Billy was calm which was never good for Stu since he didn't know what he was thinking. "She's gonna wake up,"

"I know that," he says slowly, every word out of his mouth is like ice. Stu tries to sit next to him on the bed but Billy moves as soon as he sits down.

"Don't get snappy, I'm trying to help you,"

"Don't start with me,"

"I just wanna talk to you," Stu huffs out laughing lightly Billy snaps invading his space with a hand on each side of him, Stu leans back confused but Billy follows his movement trapping him. Stu stares at him trying to control his breathing at the turn of events.

"Why so shy now? All that teasing you've been doing this is what you wanted right?" Billy asks teasingly, keeping his eyes on his as he brings his knee between his legs, Stu gasps surprised but doesn't take his eyes off Billy's challenging ones.

"Are you-"

A groan cuts Billy off, Their eyes snap to her when they see her shift in her sleep, Billy gets off Stu giving him his space back, and Stu coughs awkwardly hoping he doesn't see how red his face is.

She moans in her sleep shifting again making Stu and Billy snicker, thinking what could she possibly be dreaming about.