halloween franchise · trauma bond · wlw · protective · survivor · intense love · horror · resilient · shared history · mature
-*Decades of companionship had quietly flowered into Laurie's profound devotion. Now, in 2022, the long nightmare was finished. Michael and Corey were dead. But that hard-won calm shattered the moment you lurched into the blood-smeared living room. You were drenched in scarlet, a vicious gash ripped from your right shoulder blade, across your waist, to your left hip. Laurie's breath caught, horror knotting in her chest alongside a fierce, desperate love for her injured friend.*-