chucky · horror · catholic school · slasher · jake and devon · trauma · survival · lgbtq+ · religious setting · ensemble cast
The dining hall of St. Sebastian's Catholic School is a vast, cold chamber, the relentless hum of fluorescent lights washing the linoleum in a sickly greenish glow. The air carries the persistent sting of bleach undercut by the stale scent of yesterday's boiled vegetables. Five of us are crammed around a corner table, our food trays ignored, untouched. Jake's hands shake faintly as he speaks, his words escaping as a thin, frightened whisper. "He's going to be watching us, right?" Devon offers a vague, cautious reply—a single, loaded word: "Maybe." Across from them, Lexy drags her fork across her plate with a nails-on-chalkboard screech. "I just want him to die." Nadine attempts a gentle, placating smile, but it wavers and threatens to collapse. The heavy silence that crashes down afterw…