Title: Another Take on the beginning (Ch.24)
Author: Bubblebear488
Pairing/characters: Logan,Gabby, Veronica, Lilly, Duncan, leo,Dick
Word count: 2018
Rating: R - nc-17 for language, violence, and sex
Summary: We left these wacky teens out in the woods lets see what horrors are afoot.
Spoilers: Season one, but mostly AU
Disclaimer: I do not own any of the original VM characters Rob does, however the others are mine so BACK OFF! just kidding, Rob Thomas is King!
Previous chapters (1-23)
(ch.1)(ch.2)(ch.3) (ch.4) (ch.5)(ch.6)(ch.7)(ch.8)(ch.9)(ch.10)(ch.11)(ch.12)(ch.13)(ch.14)(ch.15)(ch.16)(ch.17)(ch.18)(ch.19) (ch.20) (ch.21) (ch.22) (ch.23) She hid behind the tree, her heart racing so fast she was sure it was trying to burst from her chest. Panicked, she looks back to the campground just in time to see him charging towards her, bounding from her place she runs through the woods, tears streaming down her face. She tries to scream, yell, talk, but her throat is closed in terror, he is getting closer by the second, she can already feel his hands on her.
She turns behind another tree ducking down hoping the shadows will give her some cover. She closes her mouth allowing the deep shaky breaths to escape her nose, in hopes it will make less noise. The twigs crack under his feet as he steps closer, and closer, the slight metallic sound of his knife sliding against his pants lingers in the air forcing as shiver through her already quacking body. Then silence, she opens her eyes, not even sure when she had closed them, and looks around trying to find where he was.
They were gone, all of them. She woke to the sounds of horrific screams, forcing her out of the tent. Blind at first, her eyes finally adjusted to the pitch black, now focused solely on the pile of bloody flesh and bone before her.
Her friends, her brother, and the love of her life were now nothing more then a pile of limbs and organs. Tears filling her eyes, her blurry focus moves slowly from the gory pile to the body of a hooded figure. His hand clasped tightly around Veronica’s bloody slit neck. Gabby stood too stunned to move and watched as he slowly slid the long slick hunting knife along Veronica’s stomach enticing a load groan to fill the surrounding silence, only to realize the sound had come from herself. He turned around his face covered in a hooded shadow all but his mouth, his lips quirked slowly into a sadistic grin. This had been what finally catapulted her small slender body into action as she sprinted towards the woods.
Now here she was ten minutes later, hiding behind a bush and calming her breaths as she waited in torturous silence to be caught. She felt the chill of anticipation before anything else as he grabbed her from behind lifting her off the ground and turning her sharply towards him. As he lifts the knife into the air, she cries harder, her body falling limp as her mind lingers on everything and everyone that would be left behind. His hand reaches higher until it is at the bottom of his hood lifting it up to slowly reveal his face.
“Daddy?” she quivers, her voice nothing more than a brief exhale of air.
“Nighty Night, sweetheart” he says with a small grin before plummeting the knife down into her…
Gabby pops up, her hair now plastered to the side of head, with a mixture of sweat and tears. Heart racing like a hummingbird on E, as breathing becomes a chore. She traces her hands up and down her body looking for any signs of blood, or a knife but coming up with nothing. Looking over she sees Veronica, Meg and Natalie still sound asleep, unaware of the enormous turmoil Gabby had been going through.
With no chance of sleep in sight, she leaves the tent walking back to the fire they had left to burn and wrapping a blanket around her trembling body. When a twig snaps behind her, she jumps into action grabbing the black steel pan by her feet, whirling it into play high above her head.
“Hey, hey, hey, it’s just me” Dick exclaimed, holding his hands up in surrender, a move he had come comfortable with in the past couple of days.
“Sorry Dick” she sighed setting down the pan. “Bad dream” she answered before he could even ask.
“Wanna talk about it?”
“No, not really” she said simply.
“Good, because the last thing I need right now is some chick’s emo fantasy on my conscious” he says swaying back and forth.
“Well I’m sure you would have loved this one, it was right out of one of those old horror movies.”
“How many times did I tell you guys, watching House of Wax before going on a camping trip was not a good idea” he jokes rolling his eyes.
“Well no one listens to you” she states sticking her tongue out. “What are you doing up anyways, looking for a little romp in the woods with Natalie?” she suggests wiggling her eyebrows.
“Naw, gotta piss like a Russian race horse” he admits looking back at the forest.
“Awww, well I should let you get to that then” she says moving back to her tent, for some reason feeling a bit better.
“Hey Gabs, if you want you can take my place in the other tent and I’ll go cuddle up with Natalie in yours”
“Okay, but if you get caught, it was all your idea” she winks taking the new directions to the boys tent. “Oh and Dick?” she calls over her shoulder.
“Huh” he grunts impatiently.
“Thank you, for trying to be a decent human being” she laughs.
“Well it had to happened some time” he jokes back before trotting over to a nearby tree and dropping trou.
Gabby crawled into the boy’s tent, zipping it up behind her before moving herself over by Leo. Laying down in front of him, her back to his front, she uncrosses his arms and wraps one around her waist.
“Dick, I’m not up for any ‘are you that gay?’ games with you tonight, fuck off!” Leo snaps jerking his arms back and rolling away.
“You guys really play games like that?” Gabby giggles, “Well I can see that I am not wanted here” she teases getting up.
Leo jabs out his hand pulling her back down and rolling his body so it is cuddled behind her again. “Dick has this strange idea that if he does something gay and we don’t stop him, it makes us gay.” Leo answers his voice tainted with a heavy ‘I’m too mature for this’ sigh.
“Well maybe you should stop him then” she jokes pulling tighter at his arm.
“What’s wrong?” he asked concerned.
“Nothing, just had a weird dream is all”
“Told you not to watch House of Wax, Paris Hilton in the woods would give anyone a nightmare” he smiles into the back of her head.
“Yeah well Chad Michael Murray was totally worth it” she teases back before her playful tone slips and she becomes more serious. “Can you just hold me?” she asks her grip on his arm tightening even more.
“Sure” he replies, “I wasn’t planning on letting you go” he says, and she is sure he has more than one meaning for that.
“Hey Veronica and I are going for a walk” Logan states as everyone sits around the fire cooking up the last of the eggs.
“Okay but if you’re not back in an hour we’re leaving your ass to find your own way back to the cabin” Dick states before receiving a swift smack in the head by Natalie.
“Just don’t be too late, and have fun” she answers for Dick.
The two make their way along the designated path, each taking turns snapping photos of the other in front of different flowers and tree trunks. When they stray from the path Veronica starts getting a little unsettled.
“Logan the path is that way” she points back to the bared stream of dirt.
“Thank you for that new update Grettle, why don’t you leave a track of bread crumbs for us to follow home.” He teases continuing under low branches and over suspicious looking foliage.
“Hey that was Hansel’s job, do you have any idea where we are going?” she asked taking his hand.
“Of course I do, we’ve been coming here since Gabby and I were five, your going to love the surprise” he says ducking under another moss covered branch.
They walked for another ten minutes before making their way into a clearing. There in front of them was a set of twenty foot boulders and a large stream of water falling off the tops, creating a beautiful waterfall. A small pool of crystal clear water lay at the base, trickling down a set of streams.
“Logan, it’s gorgeous” Veronica gasps letting go of his hand, walking closer to the magnificent sight.
“Gabby and I found this a couple of years ago. No matter what was happening, what Aaron did to us, none of it seemed to matter when we were up here” he said wrapping his arms around her stomach while nuzzling his face into the curve of her neck.
“And you wanted to share this with me?” She asks her mouth curved in an expression of awe, and gratitude.
“I love you Veronica, and I want you to have a place in every part of my life, past, present, and future. You are one of the most important people in my life and I couldn’t imagine my life without you in it.”
“How long did it take you to rehearse that?” she teases turning in his arms and looking him in the eyes.
“The trip through the woods” he jokes back, to a flat boulder that looked like a platform near the pool. He sat down pulling her into his lap, kissing her soundly while wrapping his arms tightly around her body. She decided in that moment that she felt the most safe than any other point in her life. She could see what he meant about forgetting, about peace.
“I love you Logan Echolls, always and forever” she whispered into his ear, tucking her head under his chin and curling her body to rest easily in his embrace.
Lilly lay limp atop a equally exhausted Weevil both gasping for breath while their bodies stuck together in a mess of dried, and fresh sweat.
“Damn girl, you really are trying to kill me” Weevil murmured his body too weak to lift his head.
“Do you think it is wrong that we christened every room in the house” she giggled her chest rubbing against his while she did.
“Let’s just keep that to ourselves” he laughs.
“Don’t you want all the guys to know about your sex god stamina” she jokes stroking his bicep lightly with her nails.
“I don’t think they will appreciate that much information, plus they know I’m a god”
“Really? I don’t know if I’m convinced yet” she continues rubbing his arm, up to his chest, trailing her nails down to his hips.
“You’re insatiable” he grumbles tossing her back and positioning him between her legs.
“You know you love it” she says as he rams home. Their moans intermingling throughout the kitchen as they fuck on the tile floor.
“Dude, that squirrel was giving me the evil eye” Dick exclaims as they walk through the front door, dropping their bags into the living room.
Lilly and Weevil stall their faces frozen in shock as they heard the commotion. With only a kitchen island keeping the image of their mingled naked bodies away from their friends eyes they scramble closer to the cabinets, praying none of them want to use the fridge.
“Dick pick up your bag and put it in your room” Veronica says walking into the hallway.
“Yes mom” he grumbles before following along, Natalie in tow.
“You wanna help me get the tents back into the truck?” Duncan asked
“Sure” Leo replies as they walk back out the front.
“Lets go get that ice chest from the trunk so we can have something to drink down by the water,” Gabby suggests as she and meg walk out the door closing it behind themselves.
“You think that’s everyone?” Lilly whispers as she peeks over the counter.
“Yeah lets go” they get up running into the back room, slamming the door behind.
“Dude, what’s all over the kitchen floor?” Dick asks loudly laugher fleeing the two in the back room.