Hello everyone, I'm so, so sorry about the wait but my word has been acting up, just not responding and honestly I've been busy as hell! But here it is, hope you enjoy and let me know what you think. And I am working on a vid for this, I have Chloe Grace Moretz as Katie and I was thinking of Audrey from the Scream MYV show to play Erin, thoughts?

JJ Xx

I can't catch my breath; everything seems to be spinning as I look into those big Bambi brown eyes "Erin?"

She backs away as I step near, trying to think of some reasoning to this "no, no, don't 'Erin' me! You are going to explain to me why my best friend is carrying around enough sedatives to knock out an elephant!?"

"Look just let me…"

Before I get a chance to say much else the far door behind me opens, both of us turning to see a corn syrup soaked Billy whose smug grin dies at the scene before him.

Erin looks from Billy to me, me to Billy as she starts to back away before making a break for it down the narrow hall "Erin wait!"

However, as I round the corner I see my cry is void as Erin struggles and panics in the deathly grip of a masked killer, her eyes are screaming, pleading with me to help her. I hadn't even realized Billy had sprinted after me, until he exhales a relieved breath beside me "Stu thank god… get her in the bedroom! Go…"

I can see Erin's terrified confusion as the lanky idiot drags her kicking, screams muffled by his gloved hand as he pushes past me to follow our 'ring leader' so to speak. Stu throws her on the bed only for me to shove him hard, making the buffoon stumble "be careful!"

Billy is trying to hold Erin still as he binds her hands with his chunky leather belt behind her back, I hope it's not too tight, hope it isn't hurting her "So… do we kill this one too?"

All eyes shoot to Stu as I punch him as hard as I can in the stomach "NO! Now get the fuck out of here."

"Yeah, don't you have work to do?" Billy glares, Stu looks for a moment like he might argue until Billy roars at him "Now!" causing Stu to storm out like a scolded child, even with the mask I can still tell he's pouting.

Fucking idiot!

My mind quickly forgets Stu to focus on my best friend, shaking in terror as she lies bound in the fetal precision, staring at me with a look I prayed I'd never have to see "Katie… what the fuck is this?"

I run to her side, curling onto the bed beside her and trailing a finger down her pale cheek "you don't have to worry, you're going to be ok. I won't let anything happen to you and don't listen to Stu, guys a moron! Everything's going to be fine."

My words seem to do little to sooth her as she keeps looking at me like that, I don't like it, reminds me of the first time a gutted a pig but more… makes my heart ache and I can almost feel my lip quiver "What have you done?"

"Stop it! Stop looking at me like that, like I'm the bad guy here! Did it ever occur to you that maybe we're the good guys? That we're just doing what needs to be done, that they are the Villain's not the victims?!"

"Katie, did you…did you kill all those people?" that's it that the final straw, I jump back off the bed as my voice all but screeches through the house "They deserved it! They all deserve it Erin, don't you see… if it weren't for that fucking little bitch and her whore friend, Aaron never would have had the chance to hurt me! And it was only a matter of time before Himbry covered up another assault; don't you remember what he did to Ashley McBride?"

She's still looking at me with this look you'd give a rabid dog and its breaking my heart "and Casey and Steve, please those assholes had it coming. Don't you remember what they did you you?!"

"Oh, my god… you killed them, because of me?" she's almost gagging on her words.

I take a knee before her on the bed smiling truly "for you… because I couldn't just let that go, you were so heartbroken, you, my string, brave, beautiful Erin. How could I just stand by and let that pass?"

She's shaking her head and glaring between Billy and I, who had remained silent through this particular conversation "yeah, I was hurt Katie, so you get some ice cream while we trash talk the fuckers in our pj's not MURDER them!"

I can't seem to stop my quivering lip as a tear rolls down my cheek, forcing me to bite my lip as I turn into Billy's waiting chest only to push him away, not even he can dim the pain echoing in my chest like rapidly tightening barbed wire splintering into my heart. I barely notice Billy's silent rage unfold as he stands in the background and he glares at Erin, laid out like a lamb to slaughter and if she had been anyone else, anyone other than my best friend I truly believe he'd have butchered her like a drug mule. Instead he sits beside her, taking a quivering hand between his own as he rationalizes all the blood pooled around us "Erin, I know how much you love Katie, so please try to understand… these people hurt her, broke her, in a way that can never be fixed, you know she needs this. When this is all over you'll lie for her, help us cover all this up, because we all know you love her just as much as I do. Maybe one day you'll even understand but until then…"

He shoved a sock into her mouth, ewe, then as she struggled we could hear a load crash from outside, from outside. Only for the cloned cell Billy has stashed to ring, I knew it was Stu, giving Billy an update like a good little lap dog, but Erin didn't… she squirmed and screamed through the sock shoved down her throat only for Billy to end his brief conversation and grab her by the throat in a moment of anger "shut the fuck up!"

I don't know what happened, a fog of black? Blink of magic, maybe? But in the very next second Billy is cradling his head on the floor, a small trail of blood now tricked down the side of his face, a gun pointed firmly at the love of my life while I growled, stood between Erin and Billy, the two people I love most "don't you fucking touch her! Not her!"

He looks up at me almost shocked, almost, as he stands slowly with his hands raised, he presses his chest into the barrel as my hand shake's and I choke on my own words "Not h…"

Not that I manage to get them out because in a flash Billy snatches the gun from my hand, while one of his is wrapped firmly around my throat, squeezing teasingly, but not enough to so much as leave a mark let alone actually choke me. No, he just holds me, looking into my baby blues as his brow rests against my own. To anyone else this would look threatening but not to me, I know him better than that, maybe that's why Erin starts struggling so hard, inching closer and kicking wildly with muffled screams.

Billy pays her no mind, except for a quick glance that brings half a smirk to those devilish lips. He gives my next a light squeeze as he pecks a kiss onto the tip of my nose "Ok… not her."

At his words my heart flutters as his hand now moves to cradle my cheek, without a thought I cradle into it, kissing his palm. He moves from me to kneel before Erin, tears now running down her cheeks as she sits shaken and confused "Erin, I'm sorry… I didn't mean that, sometimes my temper gets the better of me. So yeah, sorry."

If anything she looks even more confused, but the matter it put to an end as we hear the arguing from down stairs, begging and pleading about a gun as that nasty shrill voice echo's through the house "Fuck you both!"

Billy and I share a look as he quickly cleans and places the gun back in the draw Stu's dad keeps it hidden before he rushes to me, both hands cupping my cheeks as he kisses me with a hard, teeth clashing kiss and smiles that beautifully sinister smile the devil graced him with "time for the final act, baby. I love you Princess."

"I love you to Billy-Boo."

Then he's gone, and a new pain slumps into my chest, anxiety, excitement… so many things all at once I can barely contain it.

I take a seat beside Erin, think dark eyeliner and mascara half dried on her cheeks and I carefully take the sock from her mouth just as a gunshot ricochets though the large country house "what the fuck was that?"

Loosening her wrists slightly I brush back her short disheveled hair "that's my cue… stay in here until I come for you, you'll be ok. After tonight everything will be better, I promise. God I really wish you'd have just drank your damn soda."

"Katie, wait please!" I kiss her brow and smile before racing to the door, turning back just got a moment "no matter what you hear stay put, and remember that I love you, Erin."

"Katie, Katie!" I shut the door firmly behind, she'll be safe and soon it'll all be over.

I can barely contain myself… so here it comes, the grand finally!