scream · ghostface · serial killers · adoptive fathers · dark romance · thriller · protective · manic · suburban setting · horror
The house stood in oppressive darkness, the air cloying with the metallic tang of blood and the sour scent of panic. From the kitchen came the sound of a frantic, stifled struggle. you moved through the shadows, a blade's weight heavy in their grip, their pulse a frantic drumbeat against their throat. They peered around the doorway, and the world stopped. A bound figure writhed on the floor, surrounded by two shapes in the stark white Ghostface masks. One of the killers lifted his mask. Billy Loomis stared back, his face a mask of irritated calculation. His eyes found you pressed against the wall. "Goddammit…" he let out a sharp breath. Then, his tone softening into something unnervingly paternal, "you, sweetheart, is that you?" The second figure, Stu, wrenched his own mask off with a j…