StAlKeRs

Thirty-Four

16 years later
October 2014

It's been 16 years since Windsor happened. Stu and Billy got away just at the last second. Sidney and I learned that Gale and Dewey had been attacked before us and Dewey was stabbed a few times but she survived. I was taken back to the hospital along with Gale and Sidney. If one good thing happened that night it was learning Randy had survived the brutal attack from Mrs. Loomis. He was on life support for about a month and in a coma for a few months after that but he was alive.

We made the decision together to continue film school and follow our plans we made when we were kids after we had a couple years break. Of course, only two years later someone started killing again. This time it turned out to be Sidney and I's half-brother we didn't know we had. We learned our mother was an actress before she got pregnant and gave the baby up. He was jealous of the life Sid and I had. More Stab movies kept being made but they were no longer allowed to use our story.

I tried to distance myself from Stu. I knew it wasn't right to keep him away from his son but it just wasn't possible for him and I to be together. As you can imagine it didn't last long but not on the way you might think. I would send him pictures and update him every couple years. He is tired and still tries to be in Kieran's life. Kieran doesn't know who his father is and I feel horrible about it especially the older he gets because the older he gets the more he looks identical to Stu.

Three years again Sidney wrote a book and came back to Woodsboro. Our father died a few years ago and I inherited the house. While Sid was back home the killings started again. This time it turned out to be put cousin Jill and one of her friends but she was the master planner of it all. She wanted the fame we had thinking it was something we wanted. I didn't mind living in Woodsboro, even if I did have to commute to Los Angeles for work. Randy and I did graduate from Film School and started our own production company. We wrote, directed, and produced our first movie with a little help, of course. But we did it and were proud of it.

Things were finally quiet. There has been no ghost face and no killings since 2011 when Jill went off her rocker. It was peaceful. Sidney moved away though but still visited on holidays with her husband and daughter. The only thing I was dealing with now was having to explain to my son who his father is. He found the box of stuff I kept from high school in my old room and now I have to explain to him why I never told him about his dad.

"Well? Why haven't you told me about my dad?" I was leaning on the counter, my hands flat on the top. "Look, baby, it's complicated," I said. "It's not, mom. Look, I know everything, okay. I hear people talk and I've seen Stab. I've seen the old news clippings. I know what happened to you when you were my age. I just want to hear from you," he said. I sighed and nodded my head. I nodded my head towards the living room and sat him down. Taking a deep breath before I started to explain.

"Okay, so you know your dad's name is Stu Macher. He was one of the original killers. He and Aunt Sidney's ex-boyfriend, Billy Loomis, killed six people. They killed my mother, your grandmother, in 1995. Billy found out that the reason his mom left was because mine and Sid's mom was sleeping with his dad. He talked your dad into helping him and they brutally killed her. Sidney and I found her upstairs in the master bedroom, the room that is always locked. It's been that way since crime scene cleanup came in and cleaned it up after the police were done.

"Then a year later they killed five more people. Casey Becker and Steve Orth were the first to die. Then me and your Aunt were attacked the next day. The day after that your dad had a party at his parents house, which is in the middle of nowhere. No neighbors around. A curfew had been set so a lot of people left before then. A few stayed back to watch horror movies. Your aunt and Billy were upstairs doing-- things... I was down stairs with your dad, Randy, and a few others watching Halloween. Our friend Tatum had gone to get more beer earlier that night but then we could find her when people were leaving to be home by curfew. We thought someone pissed her off and she stormed out.

"We got a call saying the principal was killed and hung from the goal post so the others left. Then the killer appeared. I heard Sid scream and ran up stairs, found Billy dead or at least I thought he was. I found Sid. We went into the attic. I was able to get her out one of the windows before the killer got to us. I was able to get away from him but then ran right back into him and he stabbed me. Gale's cameraman at the time was killed that night. Sidney found Tatum dead, stuck in the cat door crushed by the garage door just like in Stab.

"Bully shot Randy and he and your dad cornered me and Sidney in the kitchen where we found everything out. Their plan was to kill us and make sure anyone else left was dead before killing your grandfather to make it look like he was the one that killed everyone and then himself. They were supposed to be the only ones to survive. They even stabbed each other to make it look good. But we fought back. We thought they were dead bit learned later then escaped."

Kieran sat there processing everything before asking questions. "Did you and dad love each other?" He asked. I nodded my head, "very much. I was confused as to why he would do any of that," I told him. "But you forgave him? And got back together even if he was a wanted serial killer," he said. "I never forgave him but I did give him another chance. I did it because I was young and in love. I knew it was wrong to be with him but I like pretending none of it happened."

"Do you regret having me? I feel like you do sometimes. I feel like it's hard for you to look at me." My heart broke at hearing him say that. I grabbed his chin to make him look at me. "No, baby. I don't regret having you. The older you get the more you look like your dad. You're identical to him. But I love you. I love you so much and I wouldn't do anything different if I could go back. When I saw Randy being stabbed over and over and thought he was dead it broke me. Whatever was keeping my sanity together that was what broke it. But then I had you. And I was slowly put back together."