Title: Circa 1666 ~ a grim history of the Shadyside & Sunnyvale killers~
Pairing: Nick Goode/Ziggy Berman
Word Count: 925
Rating: SFW(ish)
Image Credits: Banner made by me with the help of PicsArt and Google Images
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@anyfandomgoesbingo: Custom Card- Zicky Ship- I3- "I can't tell you the secret, because I don't know the secret."
@anyfandomkinkbingo: N1- "You don't have to be gentle with me, I don't break easily."
@mfbingo: I4-First...
@fandombingo: I4- "I was never meant to survive that."
"I was never meant to survive that." Ziggy rasped, her voice rough from the nightmares the nurses said she had been having late at night. Of what? Nightwing, her sister, or Tommy Slater, I didn't know.
But I wished I could kiss them away. I cleared my throat. Stop it...stop being a creep.
"But you pulled me back," She sat up in her bed, her wounds woven deep into her skin, peeking her hospital gown--and I had to look away. I thought she never looked more beautiful.
"How?" She asked, pulling me from my thoughts and back onto the moment at hand. How had he saved Ziggy Berman. Sheer force of will? Some mysterious power? Love?
I shrugged. I only gave her CPR.
Ziggy scowled.
Some of the stitches on her face from Harry Rooker pulled with her frown and threatened to split open again. "You don't have to be gentle with me," she hissed with that familiar fire I had gotten used to seeing from her all summer long. "I don't break easily."
"I can't tell you the secret, because I don't know the secret." I glared back at her. "I only gave you CPR."
I only gave her CPR.
Imagine this:
What if Nick hadn't lived his whole childhood being told that he was the heir apparent to a dark secret? Or at least, not in the way this story originally goes.
No, Nick was given a book on his fifteenth birthday, the same year his father would later commit suicide after passing on the Goode legacy...
Nick would learn that year that neither his family nor Sarah Fier are responsible for carrying on a dark secret that has gripped Shadyside... and Sunnyvale... as a whole, for the last few centuries.
Solomon Goode never sold his soul to the devil or famed Sarah Fier, but instead he and Sarah fought side by side to save the union from a much darker force... but ultimately had failed.
Leaving a foul curse behind, that every first born Goode has tried to stop since. To put an end to the selling of poor souls to feed a predator. To finally defeat the thing that grows and feeds on their small town, a horror that spreads. It's not man-made by some witch and warlock, but by something as old as time that's become rooted deep into the fabric of their community... and has always been hungry for both Shadysiders and Sunnyvaler blood, alike.
Because in Shadyside and Sunnyvale, sometimes the kids and the adults; the downtrodden and the rich, they all equally have been known to randomly snap.
There's no avoiding it, you can only push misfortune...or boredom... on someone for so long before that person breaks beyond repair is what has always been said, or at least in the news, that's dubbed them as Murder Capital USA.
In 1666, it was Cyrus Miller and the eyeless children.
In 1904, a simple minded grifter come to town and one day just drowned and gutted women.
1922, Billy Barker murdered his siblings with a baseball bat.
1935, The Humpty Dumpty Killer collected his victim's skin like jigsaw pieces and put them back together again.
1953, Harry Rooker was named Sunnyvale's first serial killer, whose lust for the blood of the young and attractive housewives of Sunnyvale knew no bounds.
1965, Ruby Lane went into a deep depression and seemingly decided to kill all her friends at a slumber party before taking her own life.
And then in 1978, the newest town killer hit Nick Goode's life a little too close to home. He knew Thomas Slater, worked with him during the summers at Camp Nightwing, hung out with him, Cindy, and Alice by the lake and smoked weed and drank beers after all of the campers had gone to sleep.
Nick knew Thomas Slater. He would never just snap... not like he did. Murdering some many camp counselors and children. That wasn't the Tommy that Nick knew him to be.
But no one else is to blame for the murders Nick witnessed at Camp Nightwing, or who had induced the terror that will stay with him forever-- but what haunts him, isn't only the butchered children but the lifeless bodies of the Berman sisters.
Both the one he couldn't save, and the one he did...
He didn't know Ziggy Berman, at least not like he always wanted to. He'd only ever saw her from afar. Always a ball of anger and fire, a red beacon in his dull and meaningless world. He's always had a crush on her...
But he thought he'd truly never get to know Ziggy Berman. Not like he's gotten to over the last sixteen years of their friendship.
He guessed when trying to recount the entire history of the Shadyside and Sunnyvale and its killers and stop a curse at the same time, you end up getting to know someone real well.
And it's not like he minds...
Besides, it's not just him and Ziggy forever, trying to figure out what grips their small slice of the world...
After the latest masked killer terrorizes their local mall, a group of teens that are affected by the tragedy come to them with their own evidence to figure out the purpose of the curse and how to stop it once and for all...
And really, with two emotionally constipated adults and a group of feisty teens, what could possibly go wrong?
They may even finally crack the origins of the curse wide open and end it.
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My favorite sitcoms always have a couple with so much chemistry from the moment they meet and you can't help but fall in love with them
1) Amy and Jonah, Superstore
2) Jess and Nick, New Girl
3) Jake and Amy, B99
4) Chidi and Eleanor, The Good Place
5) Monica and Chandler, FRIENDS
6) Jim and Pam, The Office
7) Janine and Gregory, Abott Elementary
8) Cory and Topanga, Boy meets World
9) Dan and Mindy, The Mindy Project
10) Ben and Devi, Never have I ever
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