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Drag me to my grave (By Atenea_Black and Valeriiia_RG in A03): Chapter 2

After some technical malfunctions in the Season 12 Reunion set happen and delay filming, Jaida, Gigi, Jackie, Crystal, Heidi, Nicky and Jan stay in the building while the other queens go outside to grab a coffee and explore the city. But, unfortunately, that ends up being the worst decision of their lives when an attacker starts trying to hunt them down one by one. Will they be able to survive this massacre?

Well, it all depends on the choice you make! After every chapter readers will have to vote for two options that can save or condemn one of the queens lives.

So, what are you going to choose?

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Link for chapter 1: https://www.tumblr.com/ateneablack21/719940793182388224/drag-me-to-my-grave-by-ateneablack-and?source=share

You can also search for it in the #drag me to my grave

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Chapter 2: Voting closed

Summary:

Jan’s decision plays out. The queens divide themselves into groups and separate.

Notes:

Hii! And welcome to the second chapter! Now we will reveal the combined votes we’ve received here and in Archive of our own (where we are also posting the story).

And the winner, 1 to 0 is…

Option 1: Jan crawls away from the attacker.

Good luck with your choice 😈.

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The attacker raised his arm, preparing to deliver a fatal stab in Jan's back...

Seeing this Jan screamed again, the terror clearer than ever in her voice. In fear and not knowing what to do to avoid death, the queen began to crawl away from her attacker in an attempt to prevent the stab from reaching her. This worked, the knife striking her left calf instead of its intended target.

A guttural scream left her mouth as she felt an agonizing pain in her leg, the stab breaking skin, muscle and even nerves. The pain was so horrible that Jan even blacked out for a few seconds, coming back to another extremely terrifying picture: The attacker was right in top of her, he having turned her around while she was out, his mouth open in a sickly grin as she looked at her with amusement.

“You see? I told you. There’s nothing you can do anymore to stop me. Unfortunately for you, this is where we part ways. But rest assured, honey, all your friends will receive the exact same treatment as you.”

And after those bloodcurdling words, the man raised his knife again, bringing it down hard and plunging it into Jan's chest.

(…)

As all the queens ran to where Jan's screams were coming from Jackie thought that this was the most horrifying moment of her life, but, she was wrong: the most terrifying moment of her life was when her friend's screams suddenly stopped. Where before she was wishing her friend's desperate screams would stop, now she found herself praying that they would continue again, as it meant that she was still alive.

It wasn’t long before a terrifying and gruesome image appeared in front of them all. Jan was covered in blood, her own blood, eyes open and chest not moving, stabs in various parts of her body. Jan was… Dead.

For a brief moment, nothing happened, all of them too shocked by what they were seeing, but, this didn’t last long, as after approximately 20 seconds, chaos ensued. Nicky started shouting things that no one could understand in French, Crystal and Gigi started crying and hugging each other, and Jaida and Heidi fell to the ground looking at their friend's body in horror. And Jackie? She did nothing of the sort, simply staring at the body, before something in her snapped and caused her to move towards Jan, kneeling beside her and bringing her hands to the wound on her chest, applying force to it to get the blood to stop flowing out.

“Come on, you can’t leave us. You-You can’t leave me!” Cox exclaimed, tears starting to fall down her face as she continued applying increasingly more force to the wound “Don’t die on me, please… I-I need you to sta-stay with me, okay?”

Deciding that she needed to be the one that stayed focused so they could get out of there alive, Jaida slowly stood up, looking around in order to assess the situation. Looking around briefly she realised that all eyes were on Jan's body, but not directly on her, but on Cox, who was beside her. Hall stood up and went to her as it was obvious to her that the one who needed her support the most was Jackie, who had begun CPR on Jan's limp body, almost as if she was unaware (or subconsciously choosing to be unaware) that her friend was clearly dead.

“Jackie… You need to stop.” Hall said, the older one continuing as sobs started to wrack her body “I know it hurts, okay? But we need to go. We need to get out of here.”

“I can’t leave her here, Jaida! I can’t, I simply can’t!”

“I know baby, I know. But we need to get ourselves to safety. You are not disappointing Jan if you leave, you know? I’m sure she wouldn’t want us to… Be gone too.”

"She is not gone. I can still save her, I know I can.” Jackie said, shaking her head at Hall's words and giving Jan two rescue breaths before continuing with the chest compressions “You need to call an ambulance, so that when they arrive they can treat her wounds and everything will be fine.”

"Ok, I'll call." Heidi informed, hoping it would help reassure the Persian queen.

She knew there was nothing that could save Jan, but, she was also aware that they had to call 911 before whoever had done that to her friend returned to the scene. But, of course, Jan’s killer wasn’t dumb, and, when Heidi pressed the call button, it didn’t work, her phone (all the phones) not being able to connect with the phone number she was calling to.

“It doesn’t work…”

“What do you mean it doesn’t work?” Nicky questioned, her French accent clearer due to the fear she was feeling.

“I mean that my fucking phone isn’t calling anyone!”

“Then try it again!”

“Guys, calm down.” Gigi started “Nothing is going to improve if we fight.”

"Nothing is going to improve. Period." Doll said, panic filling her mind "There's a killer on the loose out here and none of our phones are working! We're going to die in here."

"Don't say that, Nicky. We just need to get to the exit, get the hell out of here and get someone to call the police for us. We'll be fine, you'll see." Jaida reasoned, still trying to separate Jackie from Jan by gently tugging on Cox’s shoulders.

“If the fucking killer was smart enough to cut our phone’s service, then don’t you think they haven’t thought about locking us inside?!”

“Nicky is right… We are going to die here.” Crystal whispered, her eyes locked in on Jan’s dead body.

“Jackie, I hate to do this, but if you don’t move I’m going to force you to move.” Hall said, anxious about staying there much more time “And you two, we are not going to die, okay? If we work together to get out of here we’ll be just fine.”

"I'm going to go and check the front door." Gigi informed, itching to do something and wanting to check that they weren't actually trapped on the set.

"Are you crazy?! You can't go alone, there's a killer on the loose!” Crystal exclaimed, looking at Goode as if she had lost her mind “We all have to go together, so we have a better chance of living, haven't you seen any horror movies?”

“If we wait until everyone can go, which looking at Jackie it could take at least thirty minutes, the killer can find and kill us before we even check that the doors are closed.”

“It doesn’t matter if we check the doors Gigi, we don’t need to check them to know that we are locked inside!” Nicky started “If we heard Jan scream from the other side of the building, then I’m pretty sure someone outside heard it. And if nobody has come in to check what’s going on, then I don’t think someone in general can even get in!”

"Let's get out of here, lock ourselves in a room and then we'll see what we're going to do, ok?” Jaida said, finally having been able to separate Jackie from Jan, even if she was fighting to go back.

"Jaida let me go! Jaida, come on, please, we have to help her!” Cox screamed as she saw that she was being separated from her friend's body.

With nothing else to do and fearful of what might happen if they stayed at the scene of the crime any longer, the queens began to leave the scene, but not before Crystal approached Jan's corpse and closed her eyes, saying a small goodbye and apology to her.

As the queens walked towards the room where they had been earlier they couldn’t help think the worst possible scenarios that could happen. Were they all really going to die here? Was there any way to stop their fate from happening? There was only one way to know the answer to those questions and that was living it themselves, which of course, wasn’t something they wanted to experience soon.

The set was in complete silence, the only noises they could hear being Jackie’s sobs and Jaida’s soft words of reassurance. A couple of minutes passed like that, with all the queens simply trying to process what had just happened.

"We have to do something, anything. I can't stay here doing nothing much longer.” Gigi said, having been pacing around the room since they arrived.

“I guess we do have a couple of things to do…” Hall started “Before you say anything hear me out, okay? I think we should separate- ”

“What?! Are you crazy?”

“I know Crystal, horror movies or whatever, but we wouldn’t be totally alone. We could go in teams of two. 2 of us go to see if there’s any exit we could use to get out of here, another group goes to fix the lights - ‘cause if we can’t leave the set at least we could be able to see something - and someone stays here with Jackie, because I don’t think she can really do something right now.” Jaida continued, her voice showing a confidence she didn't really feel. She knew the plan she had made was the best she could come up with at the moment, but, still, it could go wrong in a thousand different ways. Crystal was right, splitting up was risky, but it was also the best thing to do if they wanted to get out of there fast.

Gigi, impatient to get out of there, sighed, nodding before saying:

“I… Actually agree with the plan. I know splitting up doesn’t seem appealing, and of course it isn’t, but we need to check the doors so we can leave and if we can’t, it would be super helpful to have the lights on instead of these stupid emergency lights that don’t even work properly.”

“Let’s do it, I guess.” Heidi reluctantly agreed.

“I can fix the lights, I’ve always been the one to do it in my family anyways.” Nicky offered, tapping her long, sharp nails against a table in an attempt to let her frustration out.

"I can go with you.” Gigi said, walking over to where the French queen was and standing next to her.

“Perfect, then I can go and check the doors, while one of you two stays here with Jackie and the other one comes with me." Essence Hall concluded, motioning to Crystal and Heidi as she spoke.

“I’ll go with you, Jai” Closet spoke, the two queens starting to walk towards the exit but, suddenly, when Jaida tried to move her hand away from Jackie’s, Cox grabbed it again, eyes teary as she looked at the other queen.

“Please… Don’t go, don’t leave me alone.”

“You aren’t going to be alone, Crystal is staying with you, right Crys?” Hall said.

"Yeah, I'm staying with you, Jackie. We're not going to leave you alone, ok? The others are only going to be gone for a little while and then they'll be back, I promise." Methyd reassured, her voice soft, sitting down next to the Persian queen and grabbing her free hand.

Even after Crystal's words, Jackie did not let go of Jaida's hand, standing up with some difficulty and clinging tightly to the other queen's arm to prevent her from leaving.

“Hey, I’ll be right back, I promise. I’ll be here again before you even notice I was gone.”

“Ple-Please Jaida, don’t go.”

“I’m sorry, but I have to-“

“You stay, I can go with Heidi instead. Just… Help Jackie feel more like herself I guess.” Crystal offered.

The other queen sighed and nodded in agreement, at least this way she could help her friend. After a few seconds of silence and with the Persian queen clearly much more calm, Hall said:

"Good luck, be careful".

And after those words the two groups left the room, saying their goodbyes and going off to complete their respective missions.

(…)

After watching the others leave, Jaida sat down next to Jackie, who was still in shock but now completely unresponsive, zoned out as her gaze stayed locked at her bloody hands.

It had been… Easier than Hall thought it would be, saying goodbye to Jan earlier, but she knew she was just in denial, trying to be the one person in their group that could think clearly so they could get out of there together. She knew sooner or later it would all catch up on her, but as for now, she forced herself to focus on everything else but the situation they were in, the first step to do that being helping the friend sitting beside her.

Jackie was trembling, her breathing slow and shallow, tears quickly streaming down her face. Jaida didn't know the best way to help her, but she was going to try her best. She carefully helped her lie down, putting her feet up. She faintly remembered being in a health class back in high school, where they had explained what to do if someone was in a state of emotional shock. Unfortunately, the only thing she remembered to do was to lay her down and put her feet in the air.

The two queens stayed like that for a couple minutes, Jaida speaking to the older one in an effort to get her to come back to reality, but to no avail. Considering Cox had been staring at her hands earlier, she grabbed a packet of makeup wipes, opening it up and starting to get rid of the blood.

“Jackie? Can you hear me?” She asked, voice laced with concern as she carefully, but methodically, cleaned her bloody hands. “I don’t know if you can but… If you do hear me, just know that you are not alone. I’m here and I will always will, okay?”

The other queen gave no sign of having heard anything, but, Jaida kept talking, this continuing the five minutes it took Hall to wipe all of Jan's blood from Jackie's hands. When she finished the future winner carefully grabbed her sister's hands, bringing them close to the Persian queen's face and saying:

"Look, they're already clean. Is there anything else you need me to do for you?” she questioned, not expecting an answer, but being clearly surprised and relieved when she saw Jackie slightly shake her head no “Okay, that’s okay. Do you want to stay here or do you want me to help you sit down?”

“He-Here…” she whispered, her newly cleaned left hand slowing grabbing the other queen’s right forearm.

“Ok, ok, we will stay here. We won’t move until you feel ready to.”

The two queens stayed in silence for a couple minutes, Jaida alert to their surroundings, her eyes looking at the door, in case the others returned or, in the worst case scenario, the killer found them.

“Thank you… For sta-staying with me.” Jackie suddenly said, clearly more present now.

“Of course baby, it was nothing.”

After those words, the room was once again flooded with a comfortable silence, only to be broken by the sound of footsteps in the corridor outside the room. Carefully Jaida started walking towards the door, Jackie following close behind, the first peering out and seeing with relief that it was only Crystal and Heidi returning.

(…)

After leaving the room, Heidi and Crystal began to walk towards the front door, both keeping an eye out for any strange movements or sounds around them. The second tried to strike up a conversation, but N Closet was uncooperative, her mind far from the place.

Methyd sighed as she saw this, sad to see her friend suffering, grabbing the other’s hand and stopping walking, thus forcing her friend to do the same.

”Hey, Heidi.” She called gently, voice and eyes soft as she tried to bring the other queen back to reality “I need you to react, ok? I can't do this alone, please.”

After Heidi had been quiet for a couple of minutes, ignoring the other queen, Crystal sighed again, about to start walking when N Closet finally spoke:

"It's my fault.”

“What?”

“Jan’s… De-Death. It’s my fault. I could have stopped it.”

“Heidi… Come on, you know that’s not true” Crystal said, a few tears threatening to fall down her eyes as she spoke “We did the best we could to stop it.”

“You guys did, but not me… I heard something weird before the lights when out. If I had checked it out then maybe none of this would have happened.”

Crystal hugged Heidi tightly, noticing how she began to cry. It hurt her to see her sister like this, crying and full of guilt, when she was normally one of the kindest and funniest people she knew. Tears also began to well up in her eyes, the injustice of what they were experiencing hitting her hard. None of them deserved all this. Jan didn't deserve it... The two stayed in each other's arms for a couple of minutes, Methyd making sure to keep an eye out for the killer. Not wanting to be away from the others too much time, the two queens separated, starting to check, one by one, any windows or doors that could let them escape that place. Unfortunately for them, the killer had organised everything really well, all the exits shut down and the windows covered with metal so they couldn’t punch their way out.

After a while they both decided to start walking back to the room where Jaida and Jackie were, a little nervous about breaking the bad news that there was no escape to their two friends.

On their way there, almost on the verge of arriving, they saw Jaida and Jackie waiting for them at the door. Heidi and Crystal smiled slightly at them, as at least, even if they were in this horrible situation, they weren’t alone.

(…)

After saying goodbye, Gigi and Nicky left the room and started walking through the corridors of the studio, entering every room that had its door open to see if the light controls were there. After ten minutes of silence between the two queens, the French queen broke it, fear clear in her voice:

“What are we going to do if we run into the person who did this to Jan?”

“Honestly? I don’t know…” Gigi sighed, both queens stopping to try an open another door and see if it was the electricity room, which, as always, wasn’t the one they were searching for “I guess the best thing we can do right now is be vigilant. And just, don’t be alone I suppose.”

“Yeah… What I don’t understand is why this is happening? What have we done to that person to make them hate us this much?”

“Sometimes people don’t need a reason to do something bad.” Gigi said, her own fear causing her voice to tremble slightly “But, if it comes to it, I will protect you, I promise.”

The French queen smiled at her friend, who smiled back at her. Goode was terrified, but she was trying to remain calm and not show it, in order to reassure her sisters and calm their nerves.

“I will too.” Nicky simply whispered, squeezing her friend’s hand in a sign of support before stopping in front of one of the last doors in the hallway “Let’s hope this is it.”

And, to their surprise, it was, the door opening to show them the room they had been looking for for nearly 20 minutes. The room, as the rest of the building, only had the emergency lights on, some of the cabinets open and exposing the different switches that had been turned down in order to take out the lights.

"Mon Dieu, this will take a while to fix.” Nicky said, entering the room and approaching the switches and seeing that there were more than a hundred.

"Yeah... There are a lot of these." Gigi agreed, joining the other queen's side and seeing how none of them had labels with the names or functions for each switch “I think we should have someone keeping watch at the door, just in case the killer comes.”

“Yeah, it is the most prudent thing we can do after all. Do you want to stay here or do you want to stay at the door?”

“To be honest, I would prefer to stay here but I would get frustrated too quickly with all of switches and cables and all that shit, so… I guess I’ll be standing on the door.”

“Be careful” Doll told her.

“I will. And you be fast, please. The sooner we can get back to the others the better.”

After those words Gigi left the room, standing in the doorway and turning her back to Nicky to look down the hallway, the other queen beginning to fiddle with the switches to see which ones solved the problem of the lights.

For the youngest one, time passed in slow motion, each second stretching into a vast amount of time. Every shadow or slightest sound made her heart leap in terror, her mind screaming at her to flee the place, but she knew she couldn’t run away, not until Nicky had finished and they both could leave together. There was no way she was leaving her friend alone, specially not after what had happened to Jan… Her desperate screams were still playing out in her head, and she wondered if she could have done anything different to avoid what had happened. It hurt her to think that, unfortunately, there wasn’t.

“How are you doing Nicky?” She asked, loud enough for the other queen to hear but still being careful not to draw any attention to themselves.

“C'est impossible! There’s too many switches and cords and I have no idea what to do with them!” Nicky replied, the frustration she was feeling clear in her voice.

”Do you want to switch positions with me so I can try and figure it out?” Gigi asked, a little lower than before, her panicked mind telling her to lower her voice in case Jan's attacker was nearby.

The French queen did not answer her season 12 sister's question, probably too focused on was she was doing to hear her, so, desperately wanting to get out of there as soon as possible, Gigi entered the room again, not before looking at both sides of the hallway in search of the attacker. Besides, with a person wandering around the set with a desire to kill, it didn't hurt to check that her friend was safe and sound (she wouldn’t forgive herself if she wasn’t).

“Nick?” she asked as she kneeled down next to said queen.

“What? Wait, what are you doing here? Shouldn’t you be outside?”

"I just... I asked you if you wanted to change places and when you didn't answer I came to make sure you were okay." "Sorry, I didn't hear you. But, if you still want to stay while I'm at the door, we can do that." Doll suggested while looking at the other queen, standing up when she saw Goode nod “Okey then, I’ll be- GIGI, WATCH OUT!”

It was at that moment that the younger turned around, not having time to do more as, as soon as she turned and saw the menacing man standing behind her, he lifted his knife, hitting her in the head with the handle and sending her almost unconscious to the ground. Nicky could see a small river of blood begin to trickle down her friend's face, staining the floor red.

The man raised his arm to stab Goode through the head when, suddenly, the French queen threw herself on top of him, pushing the attacker away from the younger queen. He grunted with rage as he shoved her off of him, grabbing her by the shoulders and throwing her against one of the electrical panels.

Nicky quickly got up, her eyes instinctively moving towards Gigi, which was still laying on the floor, obviously unconscious now. The man smiled as he approached her, the queen quickly looking around for anything she could use to defend herself, which, there was, but unfortunately for her, it was in the other side of the room, where Goode was. There was no way to get there without having to walk past the man with the knife and she knew that if she did, she, and consequently Gigi, were gonna die.

The queen tried to think of her next move, but, she had no time, the attacker moving his knife to slash her throat. Fortunately, Doll moved in time and managed to avoid having her throat cut open, albeit she did receive a gash on her right arm from the attack. Before she could scream though, he punched her in the diaphragm, leaving her without air. With a laugh, the killer brought a hand to her neck, stamping her against the concrete wall behind her and lifting her of the ground.

Nicky gasped as she felt the oxygen quickly leave her body, her mind starting to get hazy as she scratched the hand constricting her neck, which, even though it brought out some blood, it wasn’t enough to make the killer release her. She could feel her life slipping through her fingers and knew she only had time to make one decision that could save her life...

Option 1: Nicky brings her fingers to his eyes and jabs them with her nails.

Option 2: Nicky punches the killer in the stomach.

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Final notes:

Heyyy! We hope you enjoyed this new chapter! Remember to vote for your favorite option in the comments!

See you soon!

Pd: Don’t make us kill Nicky please 🥲

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