I suppose the scars I’m most proud of aren’t really scars at all. My badges of honor are my stretch marks, received when carrying my son. I’ve always been a smaller woman, and Jason was a very big baby, so those deep lines came no matter how much lotion my mother told me to rub on my stomach.
The most interesting scar is around my neck. One of those pretty foolish councilors tried to fight me, as so many have, and she won. My head separating from my neck was one of the most unusual things I have ever felt. There was a sharp pain, and then nothing. For years and years, nothing on earth and everything in hell. Then very suddenly, I could feel my body come back together, though who brought my head to my body I still don’t know. I came together from the inside out, with a thin line left around my neck.
Everything significant leaves it’s mark, doesn’t it?

Muse: Pamela Voorhees
Fandom: Friday the 13th
Word Count: 164
Current Topic: Tell the story of one of your scars

Of course. What mother wouldn’t?
Well, I suppose it’s one thing to say you would, but quite another to do it. For those that don’t know, my baby boy drowned. He was only 11, and not a very good swimmer. I should have taught him, living next to that lake, but…well. That’s the past, isn’t it? He was pushed into the water, and the councilors made love instead of helping them. Those councilors killed my baby, so I killed them. Doesn’t the Good Book say “an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth?”
When they tried to reopen the camp, I had to do whatever it took to keep in closed, which unfortunately ended with more deaths. They didn’t understand that they were putting children at risk again, and as a parent, I simply couldn’t let that happen.
If you don’t understand that…well, obviously you don’t have children.

((Mun note - that last line is something I hear from parents all the time. It drives me up the wall.))

Muse: Pamela Voorhees
Fandom: Friday the 13th
Word Count: 150
Current Topic: Would you kill another human being?

Dear Elias,
You gave me my son. You gave me my future. For that, I know I’m a bigger fan of yours than that little tramp Delores.
Love still,
Pamela

Dearest Jason,
My precious boy. What mother isn’t her son’s biggest fan?
You have overcome such great odds, my child. From a lost half-drowned boy in the woods, you’ve grown to be able to stalk silently, kill without worry, and cook (well, we’ll work on that part.) I only wish I could have been there to guide you more, but we can make up for lost time. That’s more than most men can say.
You also have the courage to stand up for what you believe in, even when people are telling you it’s wrong. You have the most unstoppable heart of anyone I’ve ever met, and who couldn’t admire such a thing?
Of course, there are other reasons that I love you more and more each day…but those are a bit more private.

Love always,
Mommy



Muse: Pamela Voorhees
Fandom: Friday the 13th
Word Count: 167
Current Topic: Write a fan letter

When I was a girl, perhaps in my early teens, I hated my parents. I wanted June Allison and Jim Reeves to get married and adopt me. June seemed like such a sweet, warm person, and to have Jim sing me to sleep at night would have been heaven. Plus, they were celebrities, and the children of celebrities could have anything they wanted. My parents hounded over grades, wouldn’t buy the dress I wanted for Homecoming because it was too expensive, and grounded me when they caught Elias leaning into the bedroom window for a goodnight kiss. June and Jim wouldn’t do anything like that, I was sure.
Then, at 16, I became a mother. I realized very quickly how hard it was, but also how much love it took. I had to put everything aside that I’d felt the year before and ask for advice to bring my son up to become a good person. And he really has - Jason makes me so proud every day. I finally understood that almost everything they did was for my own good, and it wasn’t always easy.
I still don’t understand the grounding, though. It didn’t stop a thing.

Muse: Pamela Voorhees
Fandom: Friday the 13th
Word Count: 198
Current Topic: If you could pick anyone in the world, alive or dead, to be your parents, who would it be and why?

I should have never trusted the councilors to watch my son. That’s the biggest mistake I’ve made in any relationship.
Most divorcees would say something about their what made their husbands leave when asked about mistakes, but the truth is that Elias simply gave in when another woman offered herself. It wasn't anything to do with me.
He claimed at the time that our son was part of it. An “unhealthy relationship," he said. Jealousy. I loved Jason, and Elias felt left out, so he went away when another woman came along. He didn’t understand that our son was special. It was more than just his looks; there was a certain intelligence in his eyes that no one else seemed to notice. In fact, all the doctors and teachers said Jason was not going to be as smart as the other children. I knew they were wrong. I always knew my baby boy would go on to do great things.
I should have watched him closer that day, every day, and that‘s where the mistake lies. Before Elias left us, before I had to take a job and leave my son with my mother, I hardly let him out of my sight. A few years later, when the position at Crystal Lake came, I was happy to be able to bring Jason to work with me. I knew he was safe with his grandmother, but it was comforting to have him close. I was sure that people who’s job it was to watch the children would keep an eye on him for the stretches of time that I couldn‘t. Then, as I made dinner one afternoon, they snuck off to make love and my son drowned. Allowing them to do that, unknowingly letting my precious child die…that was my biggest mistake.

Muse: Pamela Voorhees
Fandom: Friday the 13th
Word Count: 301
Current Topic: What is the biggest mistake you've made in a relationship?