NO WAY OUT {Halloween Forsaken x Reader}

The nightmare was supposed to be over. But evil doesn't die-it waits.

Lena Carter has spent her entire life trying to outrun the darkness inside her. Years of psychiatric facilities, violent outbursts, and the gnawing sense that she was never quite normal left her teetering on the edge of something she could never explain. But after watching a friend overdose when she was seventeen, she made a choice: she would become something more than her past. Now, at twenty-one, she's on the path to becoming a doctor, determined to prove to herself, to the world-that she isn't broken.

But the past has a way of finding you.

For her twenty-first birthday, Lena and her friends escape to a remote cabin in the woods for a weekend of drinking, laughter, and forgetting about the rest of the world. But something is watching them. First, it's small things-footsteps in the trees, the unsettling feeling of being observed, a bloody scrap of cloth caught in the brush. Then, one of their own vanishes without a trace.

And then the killings begin.

A monster has awakened in Black Haven. A thing that should have died in the woods three nights ago.

Y/N is barely clinging to life. Burned, broken, his mask seared into his flesh, his body barely holding together. His mind is fracturing-a voice haunts him, whispering his failures, driving him deeper into his own madness. Until he sees her.

Lena.

In her, he sees redemption. A second chance. A way to rewrite what was taken from him. And he will carve through anyone who stands in his way to make her understand.

As the night spirals into terror, Lena is faced with an impossible truth-this isn't just a man killing for pleasure. This is something worse. Something that doesn't want to end her life.

It wants her.

And by the time the sun rises, Lena Carter will either be dead...

Or she'll never be the same again.