I'm not the only one in my reflection.

Part twenty-two

Katherine shoos Stu away and returns to Samantha and Tara. She just smiles reassuringly when the two girls ask if she's okay after noticing her pale face.

— Let's go. I'm starting to feel uncomfortable here. — Muttering, but then smiling when Sam takes her hand.

The three of them hurry out, keeping close together. They can't be stopped even by the numerous paparazzi visible through the glass doors, with their flashes from video cameras and photo lenses.

— Here come the bloodsuckers. — Sidney's niece continued to mutter under her breath. She uncrossed her and the elder Carpenter's previously joined palms and stepped forward, exiting the building first.

The brunette knew how much her girlfriend and best friend despised journalists, their provocative questions, and the subsequent articles with screaming headlines. However, she didn't really care what the paparazzi were writing about her online or what she had done to her mother in 2022.

No one could shame Leslie's daughter for what she had done more than she shamed herself.

Katherine rolled her eyes as the flashes flashed furiously and questions were thrown at her from all sides by men and women who wanted to get her emotional and, most importantly, capture it on camera so they could post it on the internet.

— I'm not going to tell any of you a damn thing. — Macher grumbled in the face of a particularly persistent man as the journalist pushed his way forward, literally pushing a shorter man and a woman out of his way to get to her.

She turned back, watching Samantha and Tara coming down the stairs, and pushed one arrogant woman away from them, who started pointing a microphone right in the younger girl's face, asking if she was afraid of her older sister.

They had almost reached the taxi that the elder Carpenter had called earlier when a familiar female voice rang out from behind them.

The voice belonged to a woman, the only one who managed to send shivers down the spine of Roman's daughter.

— Gale Weathers, Channel 4. — Gale Weathers appeared in front of the three girls in a blue pantsuit, with her cameraman standing behind her and a microphone in her hand.

Stu's niece flinched again before daring to turn around to face the journalist. While the two Carpenter sisters were annoyed and angry with Weathers, the third girl was terrified.

Looking into the eyes of her aunt Prescott's friend, the brunette recalls the fateful moment when she felt destroyed and her heart was broken.

Silence reigned after the bullet hit Dewey's body and he fell to the floor, wheezing and clutching his chest, only to stop moving and breathing after a few seconds.

Gale looked up with watery eyes at Katherine, weakened and covered in blood, who was looking dazedly from Riley's dead body to Freeman's equally lifeless body.

The girl blinked quickly, banishing this image, this memory. The last thing she saw that night, before she lost consciousness, was Sidney Prescott and Tatum Riley stepping aside at the same time, making way for a frantic Gale Weathers, who had a knife in her hand, to approach her, dying on the floor.

Samantha put her hand on Katherine's lower back, finally pulling her out of the captivity of painful memories. She looked at her beloved with gratitude and focused on the journalist in front of her, pushing away the memories and the pain they caused.

When the elder Carpenter swings at Weathers and tries to hit her, Macher shakes her head and immediately pulls her girlfriend back by the shoulder to prevent her from trying to hit the woman again. She knows that by the end of the day, she will have found dozens of articles about how Carpenter tried to attack the journalist.