Jeff the Killer: Jeffx(M/F)Reader, Nightwatch

We'd been sitting in this bare spot of the woods for an hour now, waiting for Jeff.  I was beginning to think- to hope- that he wouldn't come.  Just the image of his face in my nightmares was enough to get my heart racing.  After school, on our way here, I'd had to slow down repeatedly because my breathing was too ragged.  Destri didn't complain or sigh like he normally would.  That's how I know he's really concentrating on something.  And this time I know what that "something" is.

But we went into the woods and waited for EVER, and he didn't show up.  I picked at some leaves in the dirt, sitting cross legged watching as Destri paced back and forth, agitated and nervous.  I felt kind of sorry for dragging him into this.  Jeff didn't say he had to come.  He could've stayed home or gone with Rick again, and just left me.  But I was really really reallllly glad he didn't.

"Maybe he forgot?" I suggest in a hopeful tone.  I noted that Destri's shoes had a ton of dried dirt on them.  Probably because he's out here with me in this muddy forest waiting for a disfigured, scarred kid instead of at home doing homework.  I'll have to clean them sometime...

Destri almost snapped the words at me, "He didn't seem like the kind of person to forget, Alex."  I dropped my gaze down to the ground again, still picking at the dead leaves.  Destri kept pacing.  And we kept waiting.  Until finally it was too dark to really see anything, and Destri mumbled on continuously under his breath about stupid kids playing stupid pranks and how stupid fools like myself had to get mixed into stupid jokes like these.  "It's all your fault we're out here in the first place," he muttered, pulling me up by one wrist.

"Ow," I winced automatically, rubbing the sore spot with my fingers.  I could feel him glare at me, so I didn't look up.  Those super dark eyes just can't mess with me right now.  Hitching my bag higher on my back, I walked past him without meeting his intense gaze.  "Let's just leave...  He's obviously not coming."

"Hey."  I stopped, but didn't turn around.  One wrong move, he could beat me up real bad.  And I would let him because I don't care and this is the relationship right now.  It's friendship somewhere in there.  I don't know what kind of friendship, but I can feel it.  It's there.  He walked up behind me and just stood there, I think.  "I'm sorry I'm being an ass right now," he mumbled.  "Everything's really frustrating... and I don't really know how to deal with it."

I sighed heavily, staring into the dark forest.  I can't see anything.  I wish I couldn't hear anything.  The silence is made more prominent by his words shattering it.  What... what is that white...

I gasped and stepped back quickly, bumping into Destri.  "He's here," I frantically whisper.  "That's him..."

And then Jeff comes fully out of the darkness.  I can't tell where his hair begins or ends, because it blends so perfectly with the black of night.  The ripped smile covered in cracked scabs still leers at me as it does in my dreams...  And the eyes.  Those are the worst part.  They never leave me.

"You brought a friend," he rasps to me.  I nod and reintroduce them.  "You remember him, right?" I manage, coughing slightly.  "From yesterday?  When we had to leave-"

"I remember," he interrupts.  I gulp and my breaths comes in ragged drags again.  Each breath costs me so much effort.  The noise has stopped.  All of it.  The only sounds I can hear are my breaths and his.  "You were nice to him even though he stole from you-"

"Temporarily," Destri whispers.  His breath flies over my neck.

"-and chased you here and beat you up."  Jeff didn't even acknowledge Destri's word.  "You're like a loyal pet.  You could be my loyal pet.  We'd have much more fun than you ever would with him."

...What is this guy talking about?  Pet?  The shock catches me for a moment, before I stutter out, "H-he's not my 'owner', he's a friend.  I can't be anyone's 'pet'."  People aren't pets to anyone anymore!  That's basically like a form of slavery!

He tilts his head at me and instantly any objective thought I had vanished, replaced by fear and terror.  "What is it then that we could share?" he asks innocently.

"Um...  We could be friends too I guess."  Does he not get it or something?  I can feel nervousness erupting from Destri, but this is kind of getting on my nerves that this person doesn't understand.

But Jeff suddenly whines in a very childlike manner that doesn't suit his looks at all.  It chills me to the bone.  Destri behind me gasps at the sound, grabbing my wrist again.  Ouch.  But the pain feels good now, pulling me back to reality.  "But I don't know how to do that," he whines to me.  Is he pleading?  Is that hope I see in his eyes?

"Well, I guess... you'll learn in time, with me and Destri," I continued.  Get out.  Get out of here.  Leave.  "It's rather dark Jeff.  Friends usually bond in daylight.  Can I come back in two days?  When school next starts?"

Jeff nods slowly, but his lidless brown eyes have a faraway look, as though we aren't there.  "Yes," he whispers...

And then vanishes.

"Let's get out of here," Destri says, yanking me along by the wrist again.  Ow.  Jeff seemed calm but emotional this time.  I don't want to see him again.  This weekend is going to be torture waiting for it to happen.

I snatch my wrist back from his rough hands, breath still shaking.  Partially from speedwalking through the forest, partially from tripping over all the roots in my path, mostly due to fear and nervousness...  "Stop doing that," I mumble at him, but let him lead.

The eyes.  They'll haunt my nightmares forever.