How it Began

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"Hey," Alice says as she and FP join Fred and Hermione in the cafeteria for lunch. "you two free tonight?"

"We were just going to hang out and watch movies, why what do you have planned?" Fred questions.

"FP and I are going to hang out down at Sweetwater and if you two are free we wanted you to come keep us company."

"Fine, but no ditching us to go have sex."

"We would never!" Alice exclaims, a smile pulling on her lips.

"You do it all the time." Hermione points out.

"We're passionate." FP says as he steals a French fry from her tray.

"You're horny and gross."

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"So are we going swimming or something down here?" Hermione asks. "Because it's a little cold for that."

"I mean we can if we want, but I just wanted to come here to escape my parents."

"They're back now?" Fred questions.

"Yeah and they're being complete assholes. Funny that they went away to try and work on their marriage and only came back to bicker more." She scoffs. "They've always been like that though, don't know why I'm surprised."

"We all got shitty parents, Al. You and FP just got the shittiest of them all."

"Ain't that the truth." FP says.

"Yeah Fred has a literal angel of a mother and father, why couldn't we have gotten that lucky." Alice says. "My parents fight all the time and barely notice whether I'm there or not and FP's dad kicked him out when he was sixteen. We really got the bottom of the barrel."

"Hey, my mom treats you two like you're her children." Fred points out. "But I agree you two have the shittiest parents."

"I don't want to talk about my parents anymore, I came here to escape them and I would like to do just that." Alice says before hopping out of the bed of the truck.

"Where are you going?" FP asks her.

"For a walk. Are you coming or not?" All three of them nod and follow her.

They all walk along the river bank, just talking and laughing with one another when Alice notices something in the bushes. "Hey you guys," She says, gaining all of their attention. "look." She points to the bushes where something is laying on the ground covered by a white sheet.

"What is it?" FP wonders out loud.

"I don't know but I wanna find out." She walks over to the bushes and crouches down to better see whatever it is.

"Guys we shouldn't touch it, we should just call the sheriff and tell him we saw something down by the river." Hermione suggests as she walks cautiously over to the bush to join the three of them.

"Stop being a baby Hermione, he'd probably question us about why we're all down here on a school night in the first place." Alice says before focusing her attention back on whatever the sheet covered thing is.

"Fred?" Hermione eyes him up, trying to convince him to leave it alone.

Fred looks between her and FP and Alice who are standing beside the sheet covered thing. "Babe, I wanna know."

Hermione lets out a long sigh. "Fine. But if it has some kind of disease you're all paying my medical bill."

"Ready?" FP asks, waiting for each of them to give him confirmation before continuing.

He braces himself before pulling the sheet up and off whatever it is and he immediately jumps back at the sight. Alice clings onto his arm and let's out a squeal when she sees what's under the sheet; a body.

"Fuck." Fred breathes out as he looks at it. The man looks to be about middle aged and his throat is slit straight across.

"Oh my God." Hermione let's out as she moves closer.

"What?" The all ask in unison.

"You guys that blood is still dripping, it's fresh, he hasn't been gone long." She steps even closer and reaches out two fingers to touch the man's wrist. "His skin is still a little warm, definitely getting cold but this didn't happen that long ago."

"That means whoever killed him could still be out here." Alice says as a shiver runs through her body. FP wraps an around her waist protectively and looks around for any sign of someone.

"What do we do? Do we call the sheriff?" Hermione asks.

"I guess so." Fred says, continuing to study the body, feeling like something is off. "We should cover him back up though."

Alice takes the sheet off the ground and steps forward to cover the body up again. She drapes it over the body and as she leans down to cover the man's face, his hands shoot up and wrap around her neck. She makes a strangled noise as her own hands try to pry his away.

"Fuck!" Fred yells out as he watches the scene unfold. FP tries to pull the man's hands away from Alice's throat and in the blink of an eye the man falls back, his hands releasing around Alice throat as he falls limp.

Alice takes in a long inhale of air and reaches for FP as she stands up. He grabs her and pulls her into his arms, hugging her tight as he kisses her head. "What the fuck was that? Did he just come back to life for a second and then die again? What happened?" FP asks as he looks down at the man.

"No." Fred says quietly. All three of them look over to Fred who's standing there with a large rock in his hand. "I hit him."

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A/N

So Roberto and the parent cast has said that the parents all share one big secret that will affect them and their children in season 3 so that's what this is. I think it's some sort of "I Know What You Did Last Summer" meets Nightmare On Elm Street" type thing.