Reconnection: A The Quarry chatfic

by HecticUnicorn91

Summary:

A The Quarry chatfic to help me fight writers block.

Mild plot. Mostly gags. Light angst.

If you are into all that, then enjoy!

Notes:

Emma creates the groupchat at an ungodly hour, several people complain, Dylan is high and semi existential.

Fun times am I right?

Chapter 1: The Start

Emma created a group chat

Emma added 8 people

 

 

 

Emma: So nobody has reached out since camp

Emma: And I didn’t want to let that slide

Emma: Don’t all thank me at once.

 

Kaitlyn: Emma, stfu, its 3 in the morning. Some of us have classes

Laura: Why are me and Max here?

Emma: Because you were a big part of that night. Also you talked about max a lot

Ryan: Can confirm. Laura was doing everything for him.

Emma: Are we the only ones awake?

Kaitlyn: Most likely.

Ryan: Give it a minute. I am pretty sure Dylan is still awake.

Laura: Why would he still be awake? I am barely awakwern

Laura: awake rn

Kaitlyn: awakwern

Emma: awakwern

Dylan: awakwern

Ryan: There he is.

Laura: Oh wow. He really is awake. Why?

Dylan: shower thoughts

Laura: Care to share?

Ryan: Please don’t.

Kaitlyn: ^

Emma: ^

Laura: It cant be THAT bad.

Ryan: It is.

Nick:^^

Nick: He gave me a headache having to explain to Jacob that, yes Australia is real, yes, I am from there, no, I am not a demon.

Laura:...what?

Emma: omfg he is STILL typing.

Kaitlyn: This is either going to be ridiculous, or very concerning/mental breakdown inducing.

Dylan: Do you ever think about how alone people really are in this world? most people already struggle with feelings of isolation on a day to day basis, and thats without the struggle of trying to keep a life altering secret from everyone around them because they dont know how to reach the only other people who know and even if they did do they know these people well enough to actually gain relief from venting? Also, like how many blowtorches would it take to set a werewolf on fire? how flammable are they

Ryan: Wow. Grammar please Dyl.

Dylan: You try typing with one hand

Laura: Thats…wow. Are you okay Dylan?

Kaitlyn: How sober are you rn? Last we talked you get more existential when youre high.

Dylan: I had like- a handflu of gummies

Dylan: *handful

Laura: handflu

Dylan: stfu its very hard to type with one hand.

Nick: handflu

Dylan: Of course the australian demon goes along with her.

Nick: I am going to bed.

 

Dylan: Also, is it just me or does anyone else have why’d you only call me when youre high stuck in their head?

Emma: Well NOW I do. Thanks dylan

Laura: I don’t think I've heard it??

Kaitlyn: Well consider yourself lucky. Dylan played it ON LOOP during camp.

 

 

Dylan changed their name to DJ

 

 

 

Dylan DJ Dylan: I am gonna go now. my cat is demanding my attention.

Ryan: GO TO BED DYLAN.

Kaitlyn: Ryan using all caps? This must be serious. Go to sleep Dylan.

Emma: Go to sleep you little insomniac.

Emma: Stop getting high instead of sleeping.

Laura: I am probably gonna go to bed too now.

Kaitlyn: Sammeee

Ryan: ^

Chapter 2: Names part 1

Summary:

Dylan changes some names, a few things are recounted, and foundations are started

foundations for what you might ask? Plot and Angst! what that is...is yet to be revealed

 

 

 

Jacob: Wtf happened last night???

Abigail: I just finished reading it.

Jacob: Summary please

 

Abigail: Emma made the groupchat, Laura, Ryan, and Kaitlyn were complaining about how early it was, Dylan said one of his shower thoughts while high, Nick was there, Dylan changed his nickname in the chat, everyone yelled at him to go to bed.

Jacob: Wow

Jacob Thanks abi

Abigail: No problem!

 

 

DJ Dylan changed Abigail’s name to Abi <3

 

 

Abi <3: Awww that’s so sweet of you Dylan.

Jacob: Fitting

Nick: ^

Emma: Can’t believe im saying this, but I agree with Jacob

Kaitlyn: Yeah… Agreeing with Jakey Boy is odd. It can happen, but it’s weird when it does.

 

 

DJ Dylan changed Jacob’s name to Jakey Boy

 

 

Jakey Boy: Whyyyy

DJ Dylan: I could do so much worse and you know it <3

Jakey Boy: Emma didnt you stsrt the groupchat????

Jakey Boy: Cant you make him stop????

Emma: I could, but I am curious what he is gonna do.

Emma: Also stsrt

DJ Dylan: stsrt

Kaitlyn: stsrt

Nick: stsrt

Abi <3: strst

Jakey boy: ABI???

Jakey Boy: NOt you too

 

 

DJ Dylan changed Nick’s name to Resident Australian

 

 

Resident Australian: Not the worst thing you could pick.

 

 

DJ Dylan changed Emma’s name to Influencer/pos

 

 

Influencer/pos: Nice.

Influencer/pos: There is def better, but this is nice.

 

 

DJ Dylan changed Kaitlyn’s name to BAMF

 

 

BAMF: Oh, didn’t realise you think so highly of me Dyl.

DJ Dylan: Well when you literally save my life several times in a night i think being called a badass motherfucker is due

Jakey Boy: Whatd she do??

Jakey Boy: Not saying she isnt badass

Jakey Boy: Just wondering what she did

DJ Dylan: She did a great job of watching my back in the scrapyard and lodge

DJ Dylan: she also gave me the rest of the painkillers we had in the nurses office which was fun

BAMF: Well if thats all it takes to be called a BAMF…

 

 

BAMF changed their name to BAMF with a Shotgun

BAMF with a Shotgun changed DJ Dylan’s name to BAMF with a Blowtorch

 

 

BAMF with a Blowtorch: Awwww <3

BAMF with a Blowtorch: We matchhh

Abi <3: Dylan, what is your obsession with blowtorches?

BAMF with a Shotgun: He torched a werewolf a few hours after getting his hand amputated, then dropped a car on another one.

Jakey Boy: He DId wHAT

Resident Austrailian: Damn dude, you really deserve that nickname then.

Abi <3: You really do Dylan! I don’t think I could ever do something like that!

Laura: I just got on, but I agree with them.

Influencer/pos: Is that why he asked how flammable werewolves are last night?

Laura: Probably.

 

 

BAMF with a Blowtorch changed Laura’s name to Girlboss

 

 

Girlboss: Ooh Nice!

Max: I just got here, I have no clue what is going on, but I am excited to find out!

Notes:

Max is in for a wild ride!

Kudos and comments are my lifeblood
See you next chapter!
-Hectic

Chapter 3: Max gets answers part 1

Summary:

Max asks what happened that night.

Luckily, Dylan is awake!
Unfortunately for Max, he is the only one who is online.

Max changed the group chat’s name to Please explain things to Max <3

 

BAMF with a Blowtorch: So do you want the full explanation or the cliff notes

Max: Cliff notes work! I can just ask for further explanation on things after.

BAMF with a Blowtorch: Nice

BAMF with a Blowtorch: So full moon, the van wouldn’t start, mr h FREAKEd, i suggested a bonfire party, almost everyone agreed, we played truth or dare, ~drama~, abi and jacob went into the woods, nick looked for abi, emma looked for jacob, abi screamed and told us nick was in trouble, ryan went for nick, stuff ryan forgot to explain happened, ryan brought nick back to the fire pit. you keeping up?

Max: wow… Yeah keep going. Also don’t worry about the stuff you don’t know! The others can fill in! :D

BAMF with a Blowtorch: Gotcha.

BAMF with a Blowtorch: Ryan almost shot jacob, jacob found a body in the lake??? idk

BAMF with a Blowtorch: Ryan and jacob fought for the gun, it hit jacob in the face, he tried to hit ryan and failed, they both got yelled at by kaitlyn, jacob ran off to find emma. i didn’t see him for the rest of the night 

BAMF with a Blowtorch: Nick got bandaged, me and ryan split off to call 911, the phone line was cut, i grabbed mr h’s gun, the power was cut, ryan said it was the weather, then he said it was the bears, i suggested going to the radio hut to send out a message for help, we left a gun with kaitlyn and she lost it somehow???

Max: You guys didn’t really talk much about that night huh?

BAMF with a Blowtorch: No not really. everyone was too focused on injuries or getting our story straight

Max: ahh that makes sense. Continue please.

BAMF with a Blowtorch: So me and ryan went to the radio hut, i sent out a message that told the hacketts exactly where we were, ryan forgot to tell me about the werewolf near the shack, it jumped onto the ceiling, we saw kait, abi, and nick coming up the path, ryan used the PA to tell them to hide, i came up with the idea of using a high-pitched frequency feedback loop to scare it off, which i am very proud of

Max: You should be! Most people wouldn’t be able to think clearly in that situation!

BAMF with a Blowtorch: the wolf pulled an important wire, i tried to grab it, it bit me on my hand, i told ryan to cut my hand off, he grabbed a chainsaw and did it, i told ryan how to finish the feedback loop, the plan worked and we met up with the others

Max: Wow… that is…

Max: And you didn’t pass out? From the pain?

BAMF with a Blowtorch: No? it hurt a lot but i didnt sleep until we got to the station

Max: That is…you have a very high pain tolerance.

BAMF with a Blowtorch: eh, its whatever

BAMF with a Blowtorch: Anyway, we went to the pool house after we heard gunshots, and saw the aftermath of your girlfriends mistake

Max: I am so so sorry about that. I do know about Kaylee’s death.

BAMF with a Blowtorch: oh nice. okay so we freaked because we still didnt know it was werewolves, and nick started acting weird because he had been bitten, abi pushed him into the pool when he started acting creepy, we brought him inside and he talked with abi, then threw her across the room, she shot him, he turned and fled. we met laura shortly after

Max: Oh wow… I think I know most of the story from here. At least-Laura and Ryan’s trip to the Hackett house.

BAMF with a Blowtorch: Okay cool, so we went to check out the van, emma was inside and sprayed me in the face with air freshener, we caught her up to speed, and kait told me she needed me to go to the scrapyard with her. her words not mine <3

Max: Awwww. Sorry about the air freshener, that's gotta hurt.

BAMF with a Blowtorch: It did

BAMF with a Blowtorch: So we went to the scrapyard and i got to operate a crane, but we got attacked, and i earned my current nickname

Max: Oh. Yeah you guys were talking about that this morning. Why are you even awake right now?

BAMF with a Blowtorch: Insomnia

Max: Oh…

BAMF with a Blowtorch: we left after and headed to the lodge, we snooped around and found the trail cam footage tape, we got attacked by a wolf while there, and kait earned her current nickname.

Max: What a night.

BAMF with a Blowtorch: Ikr???

BAMF with a Blowtorch: wait why are you up?

Max: Laura thinks she is being haunted. She is reading this over my shoulder.

Max: She says you should try to go to bed.

BAMF with a Blowtorch: Finnneeee

Notes:

Advice for chatfics welcome :D

Kudos and comments are my lifeblood
See you next chapter!
-Hectic

Chapter 4: Names pt 2

Summary:

More names!

 

 

 

Girlboss: Okay, only two of us are missing nicknames, so we have to fix this.

Influencer/pos: Definitely. I also think Kaitlyn and Dylans names are too similar.

Ryan: Yeah, they are.

 

 

Ryan changed BAMF with a Blowtorch’s name to Blasé-Dylan

 

 

Girlboss: Why that?

Ryan: I don’t think it’s my story to tell.

 

 

Ryan changed their name to Ryan-Ryan

 

 

Influecer/pos: I think I get Dylans name, but yours is confusing Ryan.

Ryan-Ryan: It’s part of the same conversation.

 

 

Girlboss changed Max’s name to Malewife <3

 

 

Influencer/pos: Pffttttt hold on-

 

 

Influencer/pos changed BAMF with a Shotgun’s name to Shorty

 

 

Malewife <3:????

Malewife <3:Why is my name malewife? Why is Kaitlyn called shorty?

Influence/pos: Kaitlyn is super short. I think she is only slightly taller than Abi.

Girlboss: Max why did you share my paranoia with the group last night?

Malewife <3: Because I also thought we were being haunted.

Ryan-Ryan: Do I wanna know?

Malewife <3: No

Girlboss: No

Influencer/pos: okayy then

Notes:

Is that a hint of plot in one of my stories? It's more likely than you think

Sorry this chapter is so short, but this was started for me to fight writers block so...

Kudos and Comments are my lifeblood!
See you next chapter!
-Hectic

Chapter 5: Hide

Summary:

Emma gets threatened, Dylan and Kaitlyn scheme, and Max loves cats.

 

Shorty: Emma I am going to kill you.

Blasé-Dylan: @influencer/pos Emma help she is scary

Ryan-Ryan: Dylan what?

Blasé-Dylan: She found my apartment.

Shorty: I am going to be staying here for the foreseeable future, or until I find where Emma lives.

 

 

 

Bitch and ~Whore~

 

~Whore~: Are we gonna pretend like you moving in wasn’t planned?

Bitch: Are we going to keep pretending you aren’t a genius nerd?

~Whore~: Touche

Bitch: So….Yeah?

~Whore~: Fuck yeah.

 

 

 

 

 

Please explain things to Max <3

Shorty: I am going to be staying here for the foreseeable future, or until I find where Emma lives.

Ryan-Ryan: How did you find where Dylan lives?

Malewife <3: ^

Abi <3: Should I be worried for Dylan and Emma?

Blasé-Dylan: Idk man i just got up an hour ago bc her arrival pissed off my cat.

Malewife <3: YOU HAVE A CAT????

Malewife <3: CAN I SEE THEM????

Malewife <3: WHATS THEIR NAME???

Blasé-Dylan: Wow, Max is actually using all caps. Huh.

Ryan-Ryan: Wow, Dylan is actually following grammar rules. Huh.

Blasé-Dylan: Wow okay, rude. max lets take this to dms, maybe you and laura can come over?

Malewife <3: YEssss!!!! I will gladly help set this up!!1

Shorty: Someones excited to meet the little bastards.

Malewife <3: YOu HAVE 2 cATs????

Ryan-Ryan: That’s new.

Blasé-Dylan: Got her a week ago.

Abi <3: Aww that's so sweet! What's her name?

Blasé-Dylan: Haven’t yet decided. Im in between two ideas.

Abi <3: Well let us know when you do!

 

Notes:

I will draw a picture of Schrodinger and the other cat for the next chapter!

Kudos and Comments are my lifeblood!
-Hectic

Chapter 6: Dylan's Apartment Stories pt 1

Summary:

Laura tells a small tidbit about going to Dylan's apartment.

Notes:

Feb 17, 2025-So for some reason, AO3 can't handle the image. If you know how to fix it-please tell me. For now, I will keep working on it.

 

Girlboss: So we ended up going to Dylan’s apartment.

Influencer/pos: Oh? Do tell

Abi <3:^

Resident Australian:^

Jakey Boy: I thought he lived with his mom?

Shorty: No? Where were you for the entirety of summer?

Shorty: Also, remember rule 3; What happens in the apartment…

Girlboss:...stays in the apartment until all parties are fine talking about it.

Shorty: You can talk about the cats though.

Influencer/pos:?????

Jakey Boy: Wtf happens in Dylan's apartment????

Shorty: Not much, but Dyl is weirdly secretive about some things. Nothing bad or illegal happened tho 

Abi <3: Not to be rude, but I do wanna hear about the cats.

Girlboss: Oh! Yeah so we arrived at his shitty apartment building, no clue how you guys live there btw

Shorty: Rent is stupid cheap.

Girlboss: Makes sense

Girlboss: Anyway-

Girlboss: I text Kaitlyn, because Max is too busy ranting about cats, and we head up to his door.

Girlboss: Kaitlyn opened the door, and led us to Dylan’s room, and I kid you not, we opened the door to a sleep deprived Dylan holding his cats like babies.

Abi <3: Awwwwww

Resident Australian: Thats in character.

Influencer/pos: Do you have a picture?

Girlboss: Of course! Can I send it?

Shorty: Yeah, he won’t mind.

Jakey Boy: Why aren’t Dylan or Max online?

Shorty: They are too busy playing with the cats.

Girlboss: 1 image attached

 

Abi <3: Awwwwww

Resident Australian: Is that a picture of a cat next to his door?

Shorty: He has pictures of his cat all over the apartment. He took a few down recently and replaced them with camp photos.

Influecer/pos: We should all get together! I have like-no photos because Mr. H took our phones

Jakey Boy: How did he get pictures?

Shorty: He didn’t hand in his phone until Mr H. caught him charging it in the radio hut.

Girlboss: Sounds like camp was very chaotic

Abi <3: It was, but in a fun way!

Resident Australian: ^

Jakey Boy: ^

Shorty: ^

Influencer/pos: ^

Notes:

Any advice on drawing cats is welcome.

I genuinely can't decide on the second cat's name. It's between Chekov and Occam.
Comment which one you prefer! Also, the orange kitty is Shrodinger

Kudos and Comments are my lifeblood!
-Hectic

Chapter 7: A short one

Summary:

Didn't feel like writing this today. So it's not very long.
But! Another thing in the works has a little over 3,000 words! It's gonna be a wild ride once that releases!

 

 

 

Malewife <3: WHO WAS GOING TO TELL ME DYLAN’S CATS WERE SO SWEET????

Ryan-Ryan: Dude none of us knew.

Jakey Boy: Most of us thought he was playing it up.

Girlboss: No, but like, I’m serious, Dylan has the sweetest cats I’ve ever met.

Jakey Boy: Is this chat just going to be about Dylan’s cats?

Malewife <3: Yes

Girlboss: Yes

Jakey Boy: Can’t you guys talk about them privately?

Girlboss: We could do that…

Jakey Boy: Please do that.

Girlboss: Or we could do something else

Ryan-Ryan: The way you worded that just gave me flashbacks.

Girlboss: Shit! Sorry!

Malewife <3: Is that how Dylan brought up the bonfire party idea?

Ryan-Ryan: Yeah, it is.

Malewife <3: Oh.

Notes:

Comments and Kudos are my lifeblood!
-Hectic

Chapter 8: Kaitlyn's Tale

Summary:

Kaitlyn explains her parts of the night from hell.

Notes:

You guys: We want another chapter soon! Pleasseeee
Me: Uh, uh Here?

So I am alive!!! And this isn't for writers block right now, instead to help me get back into writing these characters! My passion project is about 7400 words so far! Once I finish writing chapter 3, I will release it! I plan to release a certain amount of the story at a time, so updates for it will be VERY inconsistant. But if you like this, I think youll like it!

Anyways, enjoy the chapter!

 

 

 

 

Shorty: So, I realised that we never fully explained things to max.

Malewife <3: It’s okay! It was one heck of a night for all of you.

Shorty: Nah its fine, just give me a sec to reread what Dylan told you.

Malewife <3: Take your time!

 

Shorty: Okay, so after Dylan and Ryan left, I went to check on Nick again when we heard footsteps. So, I go upstairs with the gun to check it out right?

Malewife <3: That makes sense. You had an injured person to look out for.

Shorty: Aww thanks. Anyway, it was some big dude, think his name was Bobby? He was talking to the other dude over the radio, looking for us. He turned on the stairs and I tried to book it.

Malewife <3: Tried? Did he catch you?

Shorty: HE wishes he caught me. No, I ran into the banister because I panicked. He noticed and threw some like, blood on me. Which in hindsight, was probably a good thing.

Malewife <3: Yeah…the blood probably helped, or at least, didn’t hurt.

Shorty: No, but the glass did. That shit hurt. Anyway, he threw the blood, I aimed the gun, but he picked up a fucking table, so I couldnt get a good shot. So, I dropped the gun and ran to get Nick and Abi outta there.

Malewife <3: You did good! I would imagine that getting glass thrown at you would hurt.

Shorty: Man I wish you guys got to go to camp. You and Laura would've been so cool. Anyway, we tried to sneak outta there, but Abi thought it was a good idea to hide instead ansd got caught.

Shorty: *and

Malewife <3: Was she okay? I know that she is now, but at the time?

Shorty: Oh, she was just freaked out. Nick got hit in the head by the guy trying to protect her. I guess he was kinda far gone already, because he got right back up and choked the guy out. Thats when he started acting weird.

Malewife <3: Oh okay. I’m glad they were okay.

Shorty: So we went towards the radio hut, hid in one of the cabins when Ryan used the PA, got concerned hearing a chainsaw, and I freaked out seeing Dylan missing his left hand. 

Malewife <3: I can imagine. That sounds very traumatising.

Shorty: It lowkey was. You already know how most of it went from there.

Malewife: Yep! Though I am curious how you got the “BAMF with a Shotgun” Title.

Shorty: I got chased by a werewolf Caleb, locked in a freezer with him, and we both lived to see the light of day.

Malewife <3: How did you survive being in the freezer with a eolf?Dylan didn’t mention you got infected…

Shorty: I think he still feels guilty about it. I got bit when the car didn’t drop right away. He still saved my life tho.

Malewife <3: Oh…It doesn’t sound like his fault.

Shorty: It wasn’t. If he says different ignore him. Also, he was the one to open the freezer. It couldnt open from the inside. 

Malewife <3: Got it!

Resident Australian:Ansd

Resident Australian:Eolf

Resident Australian: I am just now realising how much I missed. I don’t remember anything after Abi left to get me a snack. 

 

 

Malewife <3 changed the group chat’s name to Please explain things to Max and Nick! <3

 

 

Resident Australian: Aww thx mate!

Malewife <3: No problem!

Notes:

Comments and Kudos are my lifeblood!

Any advice or constructive critism welcome!

See you next chapter!
-Hectic

Notes:

This is my first chatfic- so any advice would be nice!

Plot won't be for a few chapters, but I have quite a few headcannons that will be littered throughout this. Keep an eye out for them in my next The Quarry fic!

Kudos and comments are my lifeblood
See you next chapter!
-Hectic