die for you

Chapter 14

"That's the thing about slashers, Sam," Richie taunts as he follows Sam's blood trail up the stairs, "So many blood trails. This one yours? Only one way to find out!"

While Richie taunts Sam in a game of cat and mouse, Amber grabs Gale and pins her to the ground in the kitchen. Just as she did to Eliza, she grabs Gale's throat with both hands.

"I was the last thing Dewey saw before he died too," Amber taunts, "I can't believe I get to do you both."

Gale struggles to push Amber off as she struggles to breathe.

"No last-minute saves this time. Your story's over!" Amber grunts as she chokes Gale. The woman turns her head to the side, watching as Sidney struggles to help Eliza, "Time to pass the torch."

Gale finally manages to sit up, even with Amber's hands around her throat, "It's all yours, bitch!"

Gale wraps her hand around the back of Amber's head to head-butt her. Amber falls back and Gale kicks her hard with her heeled foot. The teen then stumbles back into the counter, accidentally turning on the stove burners.

Sidney reaches for the gun and Gale asks, "You wanna do the honors?"

"This one's yours," Sidney states, handing Gale the gun. Both women stand up as Amber struggles to
her feet, slightly concussed. Gale points the gun at her.

"No, stop, stop, stop! I'm sorry about Dewey!" She cries, holding her hands up.

"Fuck you," Gale seethes as she shoots Amber four times. Unfortunately, for Amber, she falls over and the alcohol in the sanitizer which soaked her and her clothes, catches fire from the burner.

"Ahhh!" Amber screams as she burns. Gale and Sidney are quick to move Eliza away from the burning girl, letting her fall to the floor on her own.

"Enjoy that torch," Sidney comments as they watch Amber lay ablaze on her kitchen floor.

Richie finally reaches the top of the stairs, knife in hand, ready to kill. He finds blood on a doorknob and figures that Sam is in there. Before he can grab it, she bursts out from a door adjacent to the one he was about to enter.

She slams him into the railing and he drops the knife over it. She wraps her arm around his neck and he grunts as he lifts her into the air.

He tries to pry her arms off of him while slamming her into the wall behind them, "Stop... fucking up... my ending!"

With the last blow, he falls to the floor and Sam topples off of him. She gasps for air as she pulls herself up to run down the stairs.

"Sam!" Richie shouts as he pulls his gun out from behind him. He follows her, "Sam!"

He falls into her on the stairs and they both roll down to the floor. Once they fall to the floor, Richie grabs his gun and stands, "Okay. What are you gonna do now, huh? Make a scary phone call to me?"

Sam pulls herself across the floor while Richie taunts her again, "Pop out of that closet in a Ghostface mask?"

Sam looks up at a mirror, seeing Billy Loomis in the reflection. He looks down and Sam follows his gaze. She looks over toward a curtain where a knife is hidden.

"No. Because you're the villain! And the villain dies at the end!" Richie says, although Sam is barely listening to him as she pulls herself toward the curtain, "Those are the rules."

She reaches out toward the curtain, "I'm introducing a new rule."

Richie kneels down, "And what would that be? Huh?" He flips her over and shouts in her face, "Well?" He laughs crazily at her as she finally reaches the knife.