Two weeks passed since Jake's death. Jeremy didn't have to worry about his family finding out, as Jake had no family who was ever at home.

Sadly, he hadn't had any new victims in those two weeks, which might've eased the suspicion that he was acting stranger than usual during the few weeks he'd been killing people.

Which was good.

It let Michael ease up a bit on the medicine, as Jeremy didn't need to keep him intoxicated all the time now because people were staying away from them, but of course, Jeremy was still a deadly predator.

And he just so happened to spot Michael talking to Christine's cousin...Nick.

He knew Nick was a lot like himself and Michael, the embodiment of geek, well Nick was more of a nerd but still.

Jeremy wasn't going to have somebody steal his boyfriend. So he abused the privilege of having Michael's phone that night, texting Nick under Michael's name, and tricking him into meeting at that old abandoned building he called home.

This would be probably one of the funnest victims Jeremy had had in a long time.

***

"Hello? Michael?" Nick held his jacket tightly around himself as he called out for his friend, not seeing him and sighing. "Guess he's not coming..." He muttered before he heard footsteps from inside the house, and walked in, closing the door behind him and pulling his phone out as a flashlight. "Michael?"

"Michael isn't here right now Nick...but I am...." Nick froze at the creepy laughter echoing the room before he felt a needle inject into his arm, and soon his world went black.

***

When Nick woke up, he was bound to the wall, shirtless, and struggling.

"Oh good you're awake." He turned to see Jeremy standing near a tray of...weapons...and his breath got quicker already. "Aww Nick is already scared. That's cute."

"J-Jeremy? Is there a prank? Because if s-so, you guys got me... Michael planned this didn't he?" Nick was trying to act like he wasn't scared and Jeremy got closer, holding hooks tied to strings in his hand.

"Mikey had nothing to do with this. And this isn't a prank. This is reality...and it's gonna be a lot of fun." Jeremy smiled as he took the first hook and pushed it into Nick's bottom lip, getting a scream out of him.

He put three hooks on the bottom, three on top, and Nick could taste the blood. Jeremy smiled as he uncovered where the strings were attached. Six levers.

"My newest addition, what do you think about it?" Nick didn't answer, and Jeremy huffed as he went to tje first lever. "Alright Nick, we're gonna play a game, you like games so I figured this would be fun for you. I'm gonna ask questions, and you have ten seconds to answer. Failure to answer or answering wrong will result in me pulling this lever and a hook being ripped from your lips. Understand?"

"Mmhm...." Nick whimpered and Jeremy clapped, getting behind the first lever.

"Alright then! Question one, why did I break up with your cousin?"

"Y-You liked Michael."

"And?"

"She fell in l-love with Jenna?"

"Good. Alrighty question two." Jeremy gripped the lever, as if he knew Nick wouldn't answer right. "Who all has went missing so far? And in order."

"U-Umm....Dustin...Evan and Connor...Jared...Rich...and Jake..." Jeremy yanked the lever back and Nick howled, practiclly, at the pain that he endured.

"So close. You forgot yourself." Nick began shaking harder as Jeremy moved on to lever number two. "Okay, who does Michael love?"

"Y-Y-You?"

"Correct. Too easy but still, you're correct. Alrighty, next question, why did Dustin Kropp go missing?" Jeremy had malicious smile on his face and Nick was trying to think of the answer as fast as he could. "Three....Two....One.... time's up." Jeremy pulled the lever and got another scream from Nick. "Wow you suck at this."

"Jeremy w-what the hell are y-you doing this for? What did I-I do?"

"You got too close to MY Michael. That's what you did." Jeremy's voice was dark as he went to the next level. "Let's continue shall we? Why did I see you hugging Michael yesterdayy?"

"He-He was upset? I don't know why but he was crying and s-so I wanted to help him." Jeremy rolled his eyes and pulled back the lever. "I didn't l-lie!"

"Michael only comes to me for comfort. He knows that." Nick was starting to learn Jeremy's motives, and honestly, it terrified him.

The two continued this way, until Jeremy had successfully ripped every single hook from Nick's lips.

"Okay...hmm...what should I do now, your mouth is in pain....why don't I start working on your torso? Unless you wanna die now."

"Y-You sicko..." Nick splattered out, blood staining his mouth and dripping to his torso. "I don't know if M-Michael knows about this but if he doesn't he'll be pissed as hell when he does."

"Aww Nick that's cute. Of course he knows." Jeremy patted Nick's head, ignoring the fact that all he seen in those eyes was his ex girlfriend...and that made him stop for a second before shaking his head and went to find proper tools for willing Nick soon.

"He probably hates i-it....he....he probably hates you...I mean, I-I know I would...you killed his friends..."

"But they tried to turn him against me." Jeremy found a scalpel and a bucket and came back,, pulling needles out of his pocket and injecting then into Nick's arm. "I wasn't gonna have that."

Nick's body numbed and he stared in horror as Jeremy made the surgical cut on his chest and abdomen, and began to gently pull his organs out, one by one, cutting when needed.

"Jeremy you can hurt me...you know I don't give a shit...but I swear to GOD if you hurt Christine...I will fucking come back and haunt your nightmares."

"Okay sure." Jeremy giggled as he grabbed Nick's heart and gently began pulling it out. "Now you get to play dead...oh wait, you are dead." Nick's eyes closed as he watched Jeremy wave goodbye to him with bloody hands.

***

Jeremy closed the door to his house and was surprised Michael wasn't on the couch. He was probably in their room then.

He went up to their shared room and seen Michael huddled into blankets, fast asleep on the bed.

"Aww Micha got sleepy. Guess you got tired of waiting for me to get back...well, guess that's what happens when love is as strong as ours." Jereny cooed as he changed into pajamas and curled up next to Michael, that same sickening grin on his face from when he killed Nick...