Ooh I have one for the title! “Different Person, same old mistakes” I just like the saying.
Oh fun! I am so happy to see you joining in on this Laila. How aboutttt for youuuu- OOO! Billy Loomis! (With a side of Stu because DUH!)
Here me out here. We are talking older, AU where he makes it out alive at the end of Scream and got away with it. He still thinks about those events for years and years, and then he can’t help himself. One day the oppertunity presents it’s self to him and he just can’t stop himself-
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It was a bad idea.
He knew it even as he was doing it.
A horrible, terrible idea.
He didn’t have the same name, lived halfway across the country. He had made a good life and had gotten away from all that shit and he just ruined it-
And for what?
A few minutes of-admittedly, amazing, catatharic, deeply satisying, bloody, carnage-
Okay he was having an insanely difficult time bringing himself to regret it even now.
Standing above the mess of viscera and tissue, torn fabric and pulp and red. So much red. It soaked into his shirt and shoes and was just everywhere. He ran a far too bloody hand through his hair with a sigh, he dropped the knife and strode to the table.
He wasn’t sure why but his first instinct was to call him. They still talked on the phone at least once a month but it was mostly perfunctory. He still trusted him, what happened back then bonded them. This would be different. He was sure of it.
He nearly dropped his phone, hand still slick with the evidence of his mistake and, smuges of red on the phone screen and he called, the phone brought up to his ear and after two rings he answered.
He still called him that old name that no one else did,
“Hey Billy-What’s up man?”
And Billy spilled his guts the same way he had just done to this stranger and Stu couldn’t hold back his laugh. Billy bristled at that, wondering-
“What is so fuckin’ funny Stu?”
“Nothing man. Just us. Makes me think of that saying-”
Billy laughed now, already knowing where he was going. Agreeing, finishing the thought at the same time, both vocalizing it-
“Different person. Same old mistakes.”
And just like that it was like they were back in high school. In this together and Stu jumping at the chance to help his old friend cover this up.
Guess they never really grew up after all.
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Hope you liked it Laila! Thanks again for sending one in!
