₂ 𝐃𝐀𝐑𝐊 𝐑𝐄𝐃

𝐄 𝐈 𝐆 𝐇 𝐓

Absinthe opened her eyes and tried to rub them but quickly realized she couldn't, her arms had been restricted. She pulled but she couldn't break through the thick rope. She gasped when she smelt the metallic stench of dried blood, Abi couldn't help but wonder where it was coming from. 

She could feel a cold breeze on her chest when she looked down to see the ground was fifty feet beneath her and someone had cut her shirt open, exposing her chest. The last thing she remembered was jumping onto the killer's back to make him stop stabbing Dewey. When she passed out, her subconscious took her through a bunch of her old memories, good and bad.

Abi freaked out a bit upon noticing her distance from the ground. She wondered why the killer would even put her up here. What was his plan? She thought over everything she knew and just couldn't understand the purpose of being put up here. Even more so, why her shirt had been cut. She hoped Randy was fine and just studying. 

Abi couldn't take all of this information at once, she was injured from hitting her head. God, did her head hurt. She just closed her eyes not caring about what was going to happen for a moment.

"Sid, why the hell are we here?" Abi overheard Randy say, her eyes darted open. She couldn't scream as music played and echoed throughout the auditorium. 'Shit.' She whispered in her head. She wanted nothing more than to struggle through the ropes and she would've if she wasn't in the air.

"Hello? Gus?! Hello?! Gus?!" Sidney screamed. The music stopped and Abi could see the reflection of the spotlight.

"Hello?" Randy asked.

Abi then started moving down back onto the ground, she realized she was against a wooden board.

"Abi!" Randy screamed and ran over to her when he noticed her. Sidney did the same for Derick, except he was still passed out. She weakly smiled at him. "Are you okay?" He noticed the dried blood streaks that ran down her face and her shirt that had been cut open, barely covering her breasts. "What happened to your shirt?"

"I'm just peachy." Abi looked down, "I have no fucking clue when that even happened."

Sidney was still slapping Derick awake, when he finally awoke, he was groggy. "Derick!"

"Oh thank god Sidney, I thought I was gonna be up there until opening night." He thanked his girlfriend.

"Oh shit, the killer is here. He killed Hallie, he's here." Sidney said and everyone widened their eyes.

"What are you talking about, Sid?" Derick asked, he still didn't understand.

"The killer! He's here! Goddamn, Derick! It's not that hard to comprehend." Abi yelled, she quickly became annoyed. She just wanted down.

He took offense to that, "Then where is he, Abi?" Derick antagonized her. 

"Right here!" Someone said from behind them, they had the voice box in their mask causing his voice to sound like the one from the phone calls.

"So, you think is your fest, girls? Don't ya know history repeats itself, huh Sid?" The killer began to take off the mask.

"Fuck you!" Abi screamed.

"Oh my god." Sidney was shocked when the killed was revealed to be Mickey Altieri. "Mickey?"

"What the fuck?" Randy's face dropped in shock.

"Suprise, ladies." He held the voice box up to his mouth.

"Since Derick here disappeared on my ass, I've been alone all night. Thanks a lot, partner!" Mickey said.

"There's no way Derick would help you, Mickey." Abi laughed, not believing a word Mickey said. Sidney on the other hand was deep in thought.

"No! I would never!" Derick yelled to Sidney as she backed away from him.