Chapter Eighteen: Finding The Past

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Jade felt like her legs were going to collapse as she was lead down to the ambulance. The sounds of sirens filled the area and the flashing lights made her look away from the vehicle that they were approaching. Chad stayed by her side, the boy not letting her out of his sight or letting go of her since he found her on the floor.

He helped her into the ambulance before checking up on his sister as well, since her girlfriend also died.

Jade stared at the ground, not talking or looking at anyone. Her body was filled with so much guilt, fear, and rage which caused her to go almost numb from the feelings.

People surrounded the yellow tape that the police put up, their phones were either pointed at the scene ahead or they were held up to their ears. She felt a hint of rage fill her as she stared at the people who were taking pictures or recording the place like it was some kind of game or entertainment purpose.

A blanket being wrapped around her body and a head laying on her shoulder pulled her away from the phones and towards Tara who held her knees to her chest as she used her friend for support. Neither of them spoke, but Jade putting her head on Tara's head was a confirmation that she was okay with Tara's actions.

Jade's eyes fell on Ethan, the boy appearing out of no where as he slowly approached the group, his eyes were on Chad. "Chad." he spoke.

Chad stormed up to Ethan and grabbed his shirt with both hands before slamming Ethan into the back of a car. "Where were you?"

"What? When?" Ethan asked, fear in his voice.

"Last night!" Chad asked, slamming him into the car once more.

"What? I had Econ, you know this!" Ethan replied, his voice shacking a bit.

"Bullshit man! You disappear and both my sister and girlfriend almost got killed!" Chad exclaimed, anger flowing through his eyes.

"Dude, i was in a study hall with a hundred other people... you can ask any of them." Ethan explained.

"Fuck man." Chad muttered, letting go of Ethan and walking backwards toward the ambulance.

Ethan turned to the alleyway that stood between Sam and Danny's apartment, Anika's body was laying in the middle of the alley. "Oh my god, who?"

"Anika, Quinn and.... Rachel." Chad hesitated, looking back to his girlfriend who was looking at Chad with a hint of tears. He slowly approached the the ambulance, Ethan slowly following. "Mindy.. Jade i'm so sorry."

"Take a step back." Mindy replied, grabbing onto Jade's hand as Ethan stopped in his tracks. "You're at the top of my list."

"Jade..." Ethan muttered but Jade didn't look at him, causing the boy to let out a breath. "I had econ!"

No one replied, they just all looked away from the boy until Detective Bailey came out from the apartment building. Everyone had sadness in their eyes as the watched the man grief for his daughter.

"I'm gonna be right back." Tara spoke, patting both Mindy and Jade on the legs before walking up to her sister who was also going towards the detective.

Mindy squeezed Jade's hand causing her to look up at her friend. "We'll get through this... we're going to make this son of a bitch pay." she stated, causing Jade to nod and bring the girl into an embrace.

That's when she noticed that Gale Weathers was now standing with Detective Bailey, Sam and Tara. The four of them having a conversation that Jade couldn't hear.

"Holy shit is that... Kirby Reed?" Mindy asked, her eyes wide.

Jade moved her eyes over to Kirby who was walking up to the other group. The group had a conversation until they turned to the group in the ambulance. Sam walked up to them, "We know where they're hiding."

Jade perked up, "Then lets go get them."

"That's my girl." Mindy stated, standing up from the ambulance and throwing the blanket off of her body.

"That's our girl actually." Chad corrected, helping Jade up from the ambulance as they walked after Gale, who was apparently the one who knew where they were going.

"Wait, we're friends with Gale again? I'm pretty sure she called me a shy book nerd... which isn't wrong but kinda rude." Jade stated, staring at the woman as they walked.

"I guess so." Mindy stated, turning to glare at Ethan.

They all walked into an alleyway which had graffiti all over the wall. The one that stood out the most to Jade was the painting of Ghostface with the words, 'What's your favorite scary movie.' below it.

"Jason and Greg were little Atlanta rich boys. Apparently, they used fake names to rent this place." Gale explained as they walked down the alley.

"How did you find it?" Kirby asked.

"It's called 'investigative journalism' for a reason. How didn't you find it? Weren't you tracking them?" Gale replied.

"I went through their financial records dozens of times... this was not in any of them. It doesn't make sense." Kirby defended herself.

"Don't worry, I'm just really good at my job. You'll get there." Gale finished, just as they approached a door. Jade could hear Kirby let out a sigh of annoyance.

Gale swiped a card on a key pad and the doors unlocked. The woman pulled the door open and walked it, everyone following behind her.

"How the hell?" Jade muttered as she walked into the door, causing the twins to slightly smile at the girls confusion.

They walked up the stairs which was surrounded by metal gate like walls, which had another door with a keypad on it. Gale opened that door, and turned her flashlight on since the big room was filled with darkness.

"What is this place, and what's with all the security?" Sam asked.

Everyone walked in just when Gale flipped the switch to turn on the power, causing the lights the turn on in the room. The group looked around in shock when they saw the sight in front of them.

"It's a movie theater." Tara spoke.

"It's not just a theater, it's a shrine." Gale responded.

A loud mechanically sound rang through the air, as the main curtains of the theater opened. Black robes laid on the stages as different clothing, knives, drawings laid around the seating area.

"They got the whole goddam franchie." Mindy stated, as everyone looked around the area.

Jade's eyes landed on a drawling of her aunt. The text beside it said, 'Hallie McDaniels, killed by Mickey Altieri.' while a silver necklace laid beside it. Her hand slowly wiped over the glass box as she stared at the white jacket beside it that was stained with a bit of blood.

Even if she didn't met her Jade felt a connection to her aunt at this moment, a type of connection where she had something to fight for.

"Chad, this was uncle Randy's." Mindy stated, looking at her uncles work shirt. "They've got everything."

"You all have been through so much." Detective Bailey stated, looking at all of the evidence that somehow got out of holding.

"This is insane." Jade stated, as she looked around at all of the other cases until she saw Wes's case. "Oh Wes." she muttered, her eyes scanning the picture of him in the case.

"How did they get all of this stuff, isn't this evidence?" Tara asked.

"Well cops like money, and evidence can get lost pretty easily. Present company excluded of course." Gale stated, pointing at the two cops in the room.

"Um, why am i here exactly? My alibi checks out." Ethan asked.

"So i can keep an eye on you.... roomie." Chad stated, glaring at him while his twin puts two fingers to her eyes and than points them to Ethan.

Ethan turns to Jade, "You know it wasn't me who killed Rachel right?"

Jade glared up at him, "Don't."

"This killer must have found this place before he murdered Jason and Gred, and then he took the masks off the manikins. All nine, from Stu and Billy to Amber and Richie." Gale explained, causing Jade to watch Sam walk up onto the main stage and towards her fathers manikin.

Jade had no idea how so many things from evidence could somehow get lost like this, and some how they ended up at New York.

"So someone killed these chuckle fucks and took over?" Chad asked, the boy now standing up on stage next to Sam, Tara and Gale.

"Someone who believes that Sam masterminded Woodsboro." Gale added.

"If this were a normal stab movie this would be the killer's lair." Mindy explained.

"Which means this isn't a normal stab movie." Kirby stated, looking around at the group.

Tara let out a breath before she ran out of the theater. Jade went to go after her but Sam beat her to it. So instead of doing that the girl walked back over to her aunts case. The girl opened the top and grabbed the necklace that laid on the table. No way in hell was she going to let this creep have it.

"Hey." Chad stated, walking up beside her.

"Hi." She replied, smiling up at him before she turned to case. "I know this is bad to say... but i don't want to end up like this. The memory of my murder being praised in a shrine type of way... or in a book." She stated, looking over towards Gale.

"You're not going to be murdered." Chad replied, grabbing her hand. "We're going to find this motherfucker and we're going to make them pay... i promise."

Jade smiled, "You can't promise that."

"Well too late, i already promised." Chad replied, before pulling her into a side hug.

The two sat there for a moment in silence until Detective Bailey, Sam and Gale walked back into the room from somewhere. "Sorry to interrupt.. but i might have an idea about how to turn the tables on this creep."

"Yeah, we're in." Gale responded.

"Sorry Gale no press allowed, police business. I'm good at my job too." Kirby spoke, her hands raised with sarcasm.

Everyone gathered to hear the plan, finally ready to take this asshole down.


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