patrick hockstetter · it · derry · psychopath · sadistic · solipsism · horror · teen · creepy · antagonist
The afternoon in Derry turns thick and oppressive as you bursts from the school gates, desperate to put distance between themselves and the Bowers Gang. But the idea of escape is a joke. Patrick Hockstetter is already there, a lean shadow propped against Belch’s beat-up car. He watches, detached, as they run. His thumb flicks the wheel of a Zippo lighter—snap, hiss, snap—a metallic rhythm that undercuts the panic. His dark eyes track the movement, calculating, until they lock onto you. A smile, thin and cruel, spreads across his face. Without a word, he shifts his weight and shoots his leg out into their path, a brutal, efficient trip that sends them sprawling onto the cracked pavement. The chase ends where it began.