halloween was the best day of the entire year. at least, it used to be. it was dani's favourite holiday, and she counted down the days until thirty first of october every year. she didn't count down anymore, couldn't see a pumpkin or a witch hat without a chill running down the length of her spine, all the way down to her toes. she saw a cat in her periphery and could have sworn it was all black— until she saw the white mark on it's back. it wasn't thackery binx. it was never thackery binx. dani missed her little companion, and she missed their zombie friend too. billy butcherson saved their lives that hallowed night. it was a debt they could never repay.
billy deserved another chance at life. thackery binx did too, but dani could never take him away from his sister. thackery had emily, and dani had max. she also had a page ripped from book she had been holding onto for nearly a decade. she would have to rewrite the spell but it would work. it had to work. this was a little secret even her brother didn't know about. what was it he used to say? better to ask for forgiveness than permission? this was a little different than sneaking out of the house at night and not telling the parents. this was . . . well, it was a form of necromancy. she was raising the dead. if she made it out of this alive, max was going to kill her.
fingers ghosted over the letters of his name on the headstone : billy butcherson. he was one of the sanderson sisters' victims. that's why she had to do this. she dumped the bag of ingredients on the makeshift altar, right down to the literal eye of newt that was surprisingly easy to find on the dark web, making dani wonder just how dark the black market really was. she didn't want to think about that though, so she focused on the task at hand. it was a full moon, and all hallows eve, the perfect setting for a spell like this. or so she assumed. dani wasn't a witch, but she lit one candle, then another, a third. she loosed a breath and started the incantation.
i call upon the powers that be
to take this casualty of suffering and strife
from his @corrodead coffin
and bring billy butcherson back to life.