The Black Phone (One shots!)

Survivors Guilt (Finney) (Gender neutral)

You groggily get up and walk to the living room, where the phone is ringing. "Hello, can I help you?" You ask slightly annoyed at the fact somebody is interrupting your sleep, "Yes is this Y/N L/N?" the person over the phone asks. "Yes, it is, why?" Your question "We found Finney Blake, you know him right?".

Instantly you awoke, straightening you're back and your eyes open wide. "Y-Yes I know him! Where can I find him?!" You ask "We are at *****, trust me it's not hard to miss," The person says before hanging up. You knew that place, you would walk past there while you were walking to your Grandma's house.

You quickly put the phone back on its holder and quite literally sprinted to the front door, putting your shoes on at an ungodly speed. Once your shoes are on, you sprint out of the house and to the street, it didn't even go through your mind to tie your laces.

As you turn the corner, you met face-to-face with blinding red and blue lights. I guess that person wasn't wrong, you keep running until you make it to one of the police cars. A police officer comes over to you, "Hey kid you can't be here, this is a crime scene!" He speaks harshly, "Nonono I know Finney! I was told this was where he was!" You exclaim.

The police officer nods and points to a figure, "There he is" he says. With a quick nod, you sprint over to the boy, wearing a dirty white and blue shirt, and dirty jeans. That's him! That's Finney, that's the boy that made you cry, smile, and laugh. That's the boy whose name you defended when he was missing, that's the boy that you yelled at people for doubting his likeness of being alive.

You run as fast as you can, trying to make sure you don't fall. "Finney!" You yell, tearing up at the sight of your best friend alive and well. "Y/N-" before he could finish you cut him off, by basically crashing into him crying, and hugging him. "Oh Finney I'm so happy you are alive, I knew! I knew when they told me you were dead, I just knew you weren't!" you sob into his chest.

"Oh god Y/N.." Finney says in a shaky voice as he hugs you back tightly. Everybody thought he was dead, hell even at one point you were crying at the edge of your bed thinking he was dead. Those thoughts went away quickly though, in all honesty, you hated this town and the way they gave up after a week of barely searching just shrugging it off and saying he's dead.

But he's alive, and in your arms right now at this moment, this very second. "Y-Y/N, I killed somebody.." Finney says, slightly muffled by your shoulder, you were overwhelmed with emotions and couldn't process what he said. "Y/N I miss them" He sobs into your shoulder, and you rub circles on his back "Miss who?".

"Bruce, Billy, R-Robin, Griffin, hell I even miss Vance!" He says weakly, you can tell he's not in a good headspace right now. "Come on Fin let's go sit and get you fixed up," You say, putting a gentle hand on his back and guiding him to an ambulance.

You patiently sit beside Finney, swinging your feet back and forth as the nice lady patches up a few of his cuts and tapes his slightly bloody hand up. "All done," she says smiling at Finney, "Thank you miss," he says politely.

{Time Skip To A Few Days Later}

You wake up to the sound of banging on your front door, causing you to quickly wake up and run to it. "Finney?" you ask, looking at him and finally taking in what shape he was in. His eyes were red, and puffy and had a constant flow of tears coming from them, his breathing was heavy and shaky

"I didn't deserve to survive, I'm a monster Y/N! I just left them there!" Finney says as he collapses into your arms. "Come on let's go inside Finney it's cold out here," You say, tearing up at the sight of your friend in this condition.  You knew he felt guilty but you never knew that it was this bad.

You guide him to the couch and sit down beside him "Finney, you had no control over those boys' deaths. There is nothing you could've done to get them out of the house, and that's alright you put a stop to the grabber, now people can walk to and from places feeling safe" you said. "I know but if I possibly declined to help Robin, then maybe he.. he would be alive or if I offered to walk with Bruce. I just can't shake this undying guilt, I just feel like I did something wrong! Like maybe I should have chosen a different choice" Finney said as he fidgeted with his hands, looking down at them.

"You said you killed someone?" you questioned, looking over at the delicate boy beside you "Yeah.. well I killed the grabber but he said I killed his brother? I d-don't understand, I am pretty sure it's my fault though" Finney answered. You remember one morning, you were sitting at the table reading over the newspaper and a title in big bold letters caught your eye "Grabber finally caught" is what it said. So you got intrigued and read it, the descriptions of the scene were graphic but you continued reading, a skimmed over a part written about how the Grabber's brother Max was dead in the room as well with an injury to the head which looked like he got hit with the axe by the Grabber.

"Oh no, Finney.." you say looking at him "What did he say to you?" you ask. He began talking, taking a deep breath "His brother came downstairs and opened the door saying something like no fucking way, and then suddenly he was hit in the head.." "By the axe?" you ask and Finney nods. "Then the Grabber told me 'look what you made me do, you made me kill my brother' but I didn't make him right?" Finney says turning to look at you for any sign of agreement  "Of course you didn't make him, he did that himself, Finney".

After a few moments of silence, Finney speaks up "You know anytime I see a van or hear any noise at night, I freak out. But I don't know why it's just out of habit, and some nights I have these really bad nightmares that I wake up crying and all sweaty". "What are the nightmares about?" you ask "It's sometimes about what would've happened if the plan didn't work to kill the Grabber, or sometimes it just replays the scene of me getting kidnapped over and over until I wake up." Finney says furrowing his eyebrows and you embrace him in a hug.

"Your safe now Finney"