Crawling Out Of My Grave, And I've Been Doing Just Fine

by lb1412

Summary:

Cleo was killed. They're quite pissed about it.

Notes:

• In response to a prompt by rufescentmoon in the MCYT Drabble Fest collection.

This was written for the MCYT Drabble Fest! The prompt was "Stereotypical High School Yandere AU! Scott and Cleo are QPPs. But, unfortunately for Cleo, Pearl had a crush on their boyfriend, and wasn't happy about them being in a relationship with her self-declared 'soulmate' and 'senpai'. Pearl kills her 'romantic rival', burying Cleo's body six feet underground in the dead of then night far from civilisation, leaving them to rot.... And yet, how was Pearl supposed to guess the girl she'd murdered, left dead and buried, would return as a vengeful corpse, with a QPP to save and a score to settle against their lovesick murderer?"
The image of Cleo as a horror movie final girl was just too good to resist, hehe.

“Wh– You’re dead! I killed you!” Pearl shrieked out, pressing herself against the wall to avoid the blow.

Cleo sneered, pulling their arm – and the axe it was holding – back. “Oh, you did. Didn’t last long, though. You wouldn’t believe what’s possible through the power of spite.”

She swung again. Another miss. But she was getting better .

Pearl’s lips stretched into a manic grin, eyes blown wide and unsteady. “You’re too late. I won’t let you take Scott away from me a second time. Not when I finally have him in the palm of my hand.”

“Aww, you poor thing.” Cleo’s gaze hardened, her grip tightening on the handle of her axe. “This stopped being about Scott the moment you took my life. You and I have a score to settle.”

Pearl’s finger ran over the blade of the knife she’d kept hidden behind her back. The same knife she’d killed Cleo with. “I’m starting to think I liked you better when you were dead.

A shadow ran across Cleo’s face. “Then come and try to kill me again, bitch.”

They lunged.

After all, there was still an open tomb outside, waiting for a body.

And it wouldn’t be Cleo’s.