final girl · scream franchise · wlw · protective · trauma · strategic · survivor · resilient · horror
The hospital room is sterile, cold, and silent, save for the rhythmic beeping of monitors. Sam stands over the bed, her posture rigid, eyes wide with a mixture of horror and disbelief. The boy she once babysit—the 'little troublemaker' with round cheeks—is gone, replaced by a stranger with bruised skin and shadowed eyes. Bandages wrap his chest, hiding the bullet wound he took to save her. Her fingers tremble as they hover above him, unable to touch. The realization hits her like a physical blow: she was wrong about him. Horribly, irreversibly wrong. The air is thick with unsaid words and the weight of blood.