A Better Version Of A Heathers Remake
Written over the course of 8 hours by a fifteen year old who doesn’t know anything about movie making.
Right so, I know absolutely nothing about anything, so this is totally open to criticism. Also, I haven’t watched Heathers in a LONG time, so this might not…work in all places. Anyway, here’s modern!Heathers, featuring lesbian!Veronica.
Veronica has recently had to switch schools after someone read her diary and decided to out her to the less-than-accepting general public. Her parents are way more accepting, but her new school, Westerburg, isn’t. So, to protect herself from gaining newer bullies, she leeches herself to the cardboard-cutout “perfect girls”, the Heathers.
Heather Chandler is seen as the girls’ ringleader; she’s undeniably the most attractive, the richest, the coolest, the person everyone wants to be. Heather Duke is like her second-in-command, but, behind Heather Chandler’s back, all she wants is to watch her downfall. Heather McNamara is Heather Chandler’s best friend from from elementary school; she’s a clear try-hard at being a “mean girl”, because she knows the only reason the other Heathers keep her around is because Mrs. Chandler likes her.
So, the Heathers, mostly Chandler and Duke, enjoy abusing their power over Veronica and the rest of the school, because, well, they find it kinda fun. They know that nobody can touch them.
One day, Veronica gets fed up with the Heathers, who are making fun of Marty, a transboy, by deadnaming and misgendering him. She ends up striking up a conversation with JD, another lesbian in a black coat. Veronica feels like she is the first person to actually understand her, and JD asks her out for coffee. And as time goes on, the two begin dating.
Heather Chandler, however, is less than impressed by Veronica having a girlfriend. In an attempt to “improve” Veronica, she gives her a makeover and throws a party to “show her off”. Halfway through the night, Veronica, intimidated by some boys who keep pushing themselves at her, undoes the makeover in the bathroom and tries to sneak out. Heather finds her climbing out the window and the two get into a fight. In anger, Heather calls her a dyke and Veronica runs away, crying.
Veronica ends up spending the night at JD’s house. JD keeps bringing up revenge plans, most of which end in Heather Chandler dying. Veronica interprets all of them as jokes and falls asleep in JD’s bed.
The next morning, she wakes up and finds JD pouring poison into a coffee cup and saying they should give it to Heather. Becoming slightly worried that JD is serious, Veronica suggests that they get her a cup of coffee and spit in it instead. JD agrees, but switches the cups behind Veronica’s back and takes the poison with them to Heather’s house.
At the Chandler’s place, Veronica fakes an apology to Heather and gives her the cup. Heather drinks it, and promptly dies. Veronica panics, horrified that she just killed her, while JD plays innocent and claims that she accidently mixed up the cups. JD helps Veronica write a fake suicide note and then goes to Mrs. Chandler, lying about how they had found her daughter dead on the floor.
At the funeral, JD tries to cheer Veronica up by telling her that, while it was okay for her to be upset, Heather kinda deserved what she got. Veronica tries to agree, but still feels horrible for what she did.
Westerburg institutes a anti-suicide program to help the students deal with her death, but the people running it are too uninformed to actually help the students at all. Heather Duke ends up using the other students’ grief to gain more popularity and, now that Heather Chandler is gone, pushes Heather Mac away. Duke drags Veronica around like a puppet, because she was the person who found Heather, to tell the story to everyone who asks.
Veronica, haunted by guilt over Chandler, becomes more and more dependent on JD. She ignores JD’s lack of grief, or any emotion at all, and how manipulative she’s becoming, because she still thinks JD’s the only person who wants her around.
Meanwhile, Heather Mac feels really guilty about her friend’s death, thinking that she may have killed herself because of a silly fight they had earlier that day. As she self reflects, she realizes that she has been a shitty person to almost everyone. Wanting to make up for it, she signs up for the school Key Club and works up the courage to call Veronica and apologize.
Against JD’s wishes, Veronica forgives her and they start becoming friends. She also starts to realize that Heather Duke is using her, and slowly begins pushing her away.
JD, jealous of the fact that Veronica hangs around Heather Mac so much, decides to get revenge on her by killing her step brother, Kurt. When she tries to get close to Kurt’s best friend and secret boyfriend, Ram, to find the best way to kill Kurt, he actually spills that Heather recently discovered that she was bi and she had a crush on Veronica. In spite, JD resolves to kill Ram as well.
JD tells Veronica that she plans on pranking Kurt and Ram after football practice by shooting them with what she calls pellet bullets, which she claims are harmless. Veronica agrees.
After shooting Kurt and Ram in the woods, JD makes Veronica go back to the car, claiming that she had a second part to the prank that only she was able to do. When Veronica leaves, JD leaves a fake suicide note and the guns next to the bodies.
Upon learning that she killed them the next day, Veronica freaks out and runs to JD, who claims the deaths were like Chandler’s, accidental, but well deserved. She doesn’t quite believe her, but she chooses to pretend to, so that JD would stick around with her.
Worried about how Heather Mac was putting up with with Kurt’s death, Veronica goes off to find her. She finds her in the bathroom, sobbing and debating swallowing a bottle of pills and saying that Heather Duke told her go die. Veronica manages to talk her out of it and tells her to ditch school to recover a little. Heather convinces Veronica to ditch with her and the two leave.
Heather and Veronica end up talking about what was going on, and Heather tells her that she’s bi and Veronica confesses that she doesn’t trust JD, but is too scared to leave her.
As time goes on, Veronica tries to distance herself from JD, beginning to realize that she is being used. She and Heather grow closer, and Veronica finds herself falling for her. JD grows jealous again, and hatches another revenge plan.
One night, while Veronica and Heather are hanging out, they find Marty sitting on the edge of a bridge. They talk to him, and he tells them that Heather Duke told him to jump off it, but he was too scared to do it. They comfort him and he tells them that he was gonna die anyway, because he heard that JD was going to blow up the school.
Veronica goes to find JD to try to talk her out of it, while Heather takes Marty home to his mom. When Veronica gets to JD’s house, she finds her parents there, talking to JD’s dad. Her parents tell her that JD was worried that she was going to try to kill herself, so she called them over. Veronica ignores them and finds JD making a bomb in her room, but, before she can talk to her, her parents drag her home and take away her phone.
The next day, Veronica finds out there is an anti-suicide rally in the afternoon, and realizes that that’s when JD is probably gonna blow up the school. She tells Heather and Marty to find a teacher to help, and she runs off to find JD.
Veronica finds her in the basement, setting up the bomb on the boiler. When JD notices her, she threatens to shoot her if she tries to stop her. Meanwhile, Heather and Marty run around, trying to convince the teachers that JD plans to bomb everyone, but the teachers either ignore them or don’t believe them.
Veronica, still in the basement, tries to fight JD once she puts the gun she’s holding down. She ends grabbing the undiffused bomb and running, but accidently turns on the countdown in the process. JD chases after her, right into the parking lot. She tackles Veronica, wrestles it out of her hands, and shoves her away. Triumphant, she runs back toward the school. However, she was unaware of the fact that Veronica accidentally activated the bomb, and noticed that it was ticking too late.
Once it explodes, the rest of the school runs outside to see what was going on. Veronica, beat up beyond belief, runs inside, only to find Heather Duke playing the victim to everyone about the deaths. Veronica tells her off, exposing that she told Heather Mac and Marty to kill themselves and that she wasn’t sorry about Heather Chandler’s death. Then, she walks away, leaving her behind in the dust, to find her friends.
