AU to Scream 6!
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Ophelia Murphy had always had an easy life. She'd only ever seen scary things like kidnappings, murders, and disasters on movies and TV shows. She'd never had to experience it firsthand, considering her father did his best to prot...
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"Dad!" The sound of Lia's voice echoed throughout the night, the girl abandoning her spot on the back of the ambulance to run over to her father.
Ken Murphy didn't hesitate to pull his only daughter into his arms, the sound of the girl's cries echoing in his ear drums. It broke his heart to see her this way, and he couldn't help but blame himself. He should've caught whoever was doing this already, then this wouldn't have happened.
"Boss, we're going to need you over here," Kirby Reed, one of Ken's coworkers grabbed the man's attention. He just nodded at her, the girl sending a knowing look before going back to the police officer she was talking to.
"Lia, I gotta get to work, okay?" Ken asked, pulling her away from him. "All your friends are standing right over there. If you need to you can always come stay at home and it'll-"
"No!" Lia quickly cut Ken off, "I just-" She stopped, wiping at her cheeks. Her face was dirty with blood and tears smeared all over. "I just want Ethan." She mumbled, "I'd feel safer if he were here."
Ken glanced around, failing to see the boy. The only people around besides reporters were Ozzie, who had been getting checked up at the same ambulance Lia had come from, then a couple of other students named Amanda Cook, Cleo Vornado, and fraternal twins Jonah and Jenny Bennett.
Lia nodded as she realized by the look on his face that Ethan was yet to arrive, and so she pulled away from her father entirely. She knew he was here mostly for work, and he didn't really have the time to sit and comfort her and make sure she was okay. She just took in a deep breath, nodding once more before walking past him and to where the rest of her friends stood.
"Lia, I-" Amanda stopped. She didn't know what to say, yet neither did anyone else in their friend group.
Although they had been keeping up with all of the news articles and shows, they hadn't believed anything like this would actually happen.
Tears pricked at Lia's eyes as she glanced at Jonah. He stared at the ground emotionless, tears threatening to spill. He didn't let them fall, however, and instead would just look up at the dark night sky to make them go away.
"Jo," Lia softly said, ignoring everyone else.
The boy looked at her, and as he saw the look on her face the tears finally began to spill. A pained sob left Jonah's lips, and Lia found herself beginning to cry all over again. She pulled him in, wrapping her around tightly around his torso.
"What did he do to deserve that?" Jonah asked, his voice cracking in pain.
Jenny, who looked at her brother in hurt just lightly rubbed his back, while Jonah clung to Lia for support.
"He didn't," Lia managed to spit out, her eyes clouding with tears all over again.
"I-Is, are you bleeding?" Jonah sniffled, pulling away from Lia to look at her. "You need- you need to be checked out by the ambulance, you could di-"
