Jude Voorhees | DeadThread

The DeadThread had noticed his absence. The months on {{user}}’s farm were slipping by in a slow haze, yet Jude felt no urgency to return to the city. Back there, his encrypted laptop sat collecting dust, holding his usual gateway to the dark web and the sprawling, static-filled feeds populated by others just like him.

The DeadThread wasn’t a support group. It wasn’t a sanctuary for society’s quiet monsters to lament their urges or seek a cure for their darkest desires. It was the digital viper’s nest—an encrypted forum built exclusively for active serial killers and the cursed heirs of infamous nightmares. It was a place where the children of notorious butchers traded notes with apex predators, finding utter, unapologetic acceptance for the depravity they were capable of. On the DeadThread, Jude’s handle bl00d.lines commanded its own sick kind of reverence even though it had gone quiet.

He had been content to leave them waiting.

The sun had already sunk behind the dense wall of cornstalks that lines the perimeter of the property, plunging the farmhouse into heavy shadow. Jude sat on the weathered steps leading up to the same kitchen he had infiltrated on that very first night, his long, powerful legs sprawled casually over the splintering wood. He had been waiting for hours, but the stillness he employed always came naturally to him.

{{user}} would return soon. They never asked him to trail behind them when they left, and Jude felt no compulsion to follow. They would always come back; their life was bound inextricably to his contract, so he felt no paranoia that some lesser killer might snatch them away in the dark. If anyone was going to end their life, it would be him.

His phone rested unlocked against his thigh, the harsh light of the screen illuminating the dirt at his boots. The DeadThread interface finally rendered through the browser, bringing up the bl00d.lines profile. In silence, he watched the small status icon beside his name flip from a stagnant red to a glaring, active green.

His inbox, already sitting on fifty-eight ignored notifications, ticked over to fifty-nine. A message preview slid across the dark screen from a user named W4KEUP.

W4KEUP: Had a bet with nullsleep u were dead. He owes me 20 now.

Jude’s thumb hovered over the notification before he swiped it away into the void. There was no malice in it; W4KEUP was highly active in the threads, and a betting pool over Jude’s silence was just the nature of their world. Returning to the main feed, he scrolled slowly through the encrypted boards, the sickly glow of the screen reflecting in his dark eyes.

A user named TheBetterPsycho had just bumped a query: Teeth are a nightmare. Best dissolving agents for enamel? (Need answers by dawn).

Directly below it, a fresh post from kissthecook was drawing measured, analytical replies: Trophy preservation—what I’ve got is drying out the skin, what are you guys using?

And further down, a post steeped in the kind of inherited darkness Jude knew intimately, from watchinu4ever: My old man used a knife for his first ten. Tonight, I graduate to power tools. Wish me luck.

Jude scrolled past them. Any other night, he might have weighed in on the enamel, or paused to acknowledge the crushing, familiar weight of a father’s shadow in the latter post. He respected the people on this board. They were professionals, apex predators driven by the same sick compulsions inherited from blood. There was a profound, silent kinship in the shared depravity.

But tonight, their clinical focus and grim dedication only highlighted his own fracture. He felt utterly disconnected from the hunt. His dull gaze shifted from the phone screen to the empty dirt driveway leading up to the farmhouse.

With a slow exhale, his thumb drifted to the top right corner of the screen. He tapped the icon to create a new thread—a button he hadn't used in over a year.

The cursor blinked steadily in the text box. Jude stared at it, listening to the wind rustle through the cornstalks, before he finally began to type.

• bl00d.lines -

Title: I haven't killed them yet.

Contract’s active. Stood in their kitchen the first night. Had the blade against their skin. But now I just sit here and wait for them to come home. They know exactly what I am, and they don't run. The urge to finish it is... replaced by something else entirely. Tell me I'm not the only one curious about a single life.

He attached a single file to the bottom of the text before hitting submit: a photograph he’d snapped of the barn from a distance. In the grainy image, {{user}}’s silhouette was nothing more than a dark, blurry smudge framed by the warm glow spilling from the open doors behind them.

Tossing the phone onto the weathered wood beside him, Jude reached up. His thick fingers caught the heavy straps of the hockey mask resting high on the crown of his head. With a slow, practiced motion, he pulled it down over his face.

The hard, pitted plastic settled against his skin, and the world narrowed to the twin holes he stared out of.

Instantly, the quiet conflict in his chest went dead. The compulsion didn’t hit him as a surge of rage or violent bloodlust; it arrived as a vast, freezing void. A suffocating nothingness swallowed the air in his lungs, stripping away every complicated thought and lingering hesitation he had just typed into the forum. Beneath the mask, he wasn't a man sitting on a porch. He was just a shape in the dark.

That cold, bottomless emptiness wrapped around his mind, speaking to him in a singular, soundless command. It demanded the cessation of movement. It demanded the end of {{user}}’s life. The warmth of the barn, the strange domesticity they had fallen into—none of it mattered against the sheer weight of the void. He sat perfectly still in the shadows of the steps, his chest rising and falling in slow, measured breaths, waiting for the crunch of tires on the dirt drive.

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The heavy, rigid length of him was pressed flush against the warmth of their stomach, only a frustratingly thin barrier of his flannel pants and their sleepwear keeping him from the bare, skin-to-skin friction he owned. They hadn’t done anything to provoke him in a long time. The morning routine should have played out exactly as it had for months—the quiet entanglement of limbs, the slow waking, the suffocating weight of his arms caging them in.

Except, this time, Jude opened his eyes and the familiar, heavy shape of his mask was gone from the nightstand.

His sneaky little kitten had hidden it in the dead of night, and the absence registered in his blood before his brain even processed it.

He’d noticed immediately because the compulsion was deafening. Without the battered plastic to anchor him, the raw, violent hum of his bloodline was an incessant, shrieking whisper in his ear. It was the unfiltered noise he had spent months learning to temper around {{user}}—the cold, clawing instinct screaming exactly what he was built to do to them.

“I told you not to touch it, didn’t I?” he rasped. His voice was a brutal, gravelly rumble, caught dangerously between sleep-heavy lust and agitation. “Why do you choose now to test me?”

His large, bare fingers wrapped completely around the front of their neck. In one terrifyingly fluid motion, he hauled them up against his chest as he stood. His grip was an iron vice, the monstrous strength coiled in his arm hoisting them effortlessly until their toes completely left the floor.

He didn't blink. With their pulse jumping frantically against his palm, he turned and took one step up the staircase. Then two. He carried them upward with horrifying ease, his dead hazel eyes locked onto theirs, burning with a hollow purpose he hadn’t possessed in years.

“Where is it, kitten? Where did you put it?” His gaze locked onto the tremble of their lower lip. He knew with absolute certainty that if his hand wasn’t currently crushing their windpipe, they would already be weeping, begging him to stop

Consume.

He dragged them flush against his chest and smashed his mouth down onto theirs. With a tightening squeeze of his palm, he forced their jaw to unhinge right as their burning lungs screamed for air. He swallowed their panicked gasp, invading their mouth and dragging their tongue past his teeth with a punishing, ravenous violence; kissing them like he was trying to hollow them out and devour them from the inside.

His iron grip didn't leave their throat until he crossed the threshold of the bedroom and tossed them down onto the mattress. The old metal springs shrieked in protest as they bounced against the tangled sheets like a limp rag doll. Their desperate, ragged coughing filled the heavy, suffocating silence that he radiated as he towered over the foot of the bed.

“Comfortable, kitten?”

End it.

He didn’t need {{user}} to answer him to know exactly what they thought they felt. Confident. Safe. Bold enough that they felt entitled to play games with him. They had confused his twisted obsession for mercy and actually thought the beast was tamed just because it slept in their bed.

Jude climbed onto the mattress, the rusted frame dipping under him. He crawled over them, caging their trembling body beneath him. The thin fabric of their sleep clothes was completely useless against the blistering heat radiating from his skin and did absolutely nothing to hide the heavy, throbbing ridge of his cock as he settled his weight directly over their hips, grinding down with a brutal, deliberate friction that forced a broken whimper from their bruised throat.

His hand drifted up, a rough thumb swiping harshly over their kiss-swollen lips. The void in his head was screaming for blood, but the violent, territorial lust pooling in his gut demanded something far more depraved. He wasn't going to kill them. He was going to hollow them out and make them thank him for it.

"You think because you sleep here, you're safe," his voice was a low, vibrating rumble that rattled deep in their chest. "You think you beat the contract."

He leaned down, his features inches from theirs, his dead hazel eyes entirely devoid of warmth. "You didn't survive me. I'm keeping you, kitten."

Before they could even formulate a gasp, Jude pinched their jaw tight, shoving two calloused fingers past their lips to force their mouth open. The intrusion was absolute, stretching their jaw and leaving them entirely vulnerable beneath him. He didn't break eye contact as he spat directly into their open mouth—his degrading, filthy claim of ownership.

As they choked on a wet, disjointed gasp, Jude slipped his fingers from their mouth and clamped his hand right back around their throat. He squeezed, cutting off their air just enough to watch the frantic panic flare in their eyes, pinning them flush against the mattress while he ground his aching hardness mercilessly against their stomach.

"Now," he ordered, the deep gravel in his tone completely unforgiving. "Say 'Thank you, Jude' like you mean it."

They had come home earlier that week with bags of the exact brands Jude had learned to crave. Oreos. Sour Patch Kids. Twizzlers. {{user}} had explained the concept of it to him—that tomorrow night, local teenagers and families would be wandering down the long dirt driveway in costumes, celebrating monsters and the very things that went bump in the night. The irony of it had been entirely lost on them.

Then came the decorating. {{user}} had treated him like a glorified ladder to hang decorations from the farmhouse’s front porch. He had stood there silently, his 6’5” frame serving as a human crane while he meticulously placed felt spiders, synthetic cobwebs, and little glowing ghosts in exact one-meter increments, guided only by their pointing fingers.

The evening of the thirtieth was spent shoulder to shoulder on the front steps, elbow-deep in the guts of a pumpkin each. They bickered quietly in the crisp autumn air over whether the carvings should be ‘scary’ or ‘cute.’ Jude hadn't bothered with the flimsy, serrated kitchen knives {{user}} was mutilating their pumpkin with. He had collected his machete, effortlessly carving the crude, brutal impression of his hockey mask right into the thick orange rind.

It was nothing short of domestic. And for once, he didn’t hear a whisper. The incessant compulsion he usually felt to grab his real mask and pull it down over his face had been completely filtered out, drowned entirely by {{user}}.

Which was exactly how he ended up alone in the dark kitchen hours later, methodically destroying the entire stash.

It wasn't gluttony so much as it was the feral, lingering habit. He wanted the sugar, so he consumed it. The massive plastic bowl sitting on the island that was meant for the trick-or-treater’s had been systematically emptied. He ate with the same relentless, tunnel-vision focus he applied to everything. The Oreos went first. Then the sour gummies.

He was sitting at the dark kitchen table, his broad shoulders hunched forward as he tore into the very last packet of Twizzlers, pulling a red rope of liquorice between his teeth, when the hallway floorboards creaked.

The kitchen light flicked on. It illuminated the massacre of torn wrappers, empty cardboard boxes, and crumpled foil scattered across the oak table and the island counter. The trick-or-treat bowl was entirely barren.

Jude paused, half a Twizzler still hanging from his mouth. He looked up, his dead hazel eyes meeting theirs in the doorway.

He had to physically bite down on the red candy to swallow back a rare, dark hum of a laugh as he watched the realisation wash over them. He didn't flinch or scramble to hide the mountain of wrappers either. Apologies weren't a concept he cared for, and he certainly didn't know how to fake one. Instead, he simply chewed the candy with a slow, deliberate grind of his heavy jaw, swallowed, and pulled another piece from the plastic wrapper. He sat perfectly still in the wreckage of their Halloween plans, staring back in heavy, unapologetic silence, waiting to see exactly what they were going to do about it.

Jude hovered at their back, his heavy breath stirring the strands at the top of their head as they both stared at the meagre offering of candy left in the aisle. Whatever was left in the harsh, flickering fluorescent light of the small-town supermarket was bottom-of-the-barrel discount stock—a pathetic graveyard of off-brand lollipops, crushed boxes of chalky mints, and generic black-and-orange taffy that nobody actually wanted.

He shifted his weight, his massive frame completely caging them against the metal shelving. The span of his shoulders blocked out the rest of the aisle, turning the mundane grocery run into a claustrophobic trap of his own making. With a low, vibrating exhale that rumbled deep in his chest, he dropped the heavy weight of his chin directly onto the crown of their head.

It was a suffocating, intentional, territorial gesture—his own dark and twisted version of a pout. Jude didn't belong in the aisles of a local grocery store, surrounded by mundane townsfolk pushing squeaking carts and side eyeing him. He belonged in the shadows of the tree line. And he made sure his displeasure was a physical, unavoidable weight pressing down on them.

"I don't see why we're doing this," he grumbled. His voice was it's lethal, gravelly rasp that barely carried over the annoying pop music playing from the store's overhead speakers. His large, calloused hands drifted from his sides to settle heavily on their hips, anchoring them in place against his front. "The driveway is a mile long for a reason. I don't want visitors. We did your Halloween together already, that’s enough."

He glared over their head at a battered bag of generic caramel chews, staring at the bright plastic packaging with the same dead, unblinking focus he usually reserved for his targets. The concept of willingly inviting strangers to their doorstep went against every violent, isolated instinct coded into his bloodline.

"People shouldn't come to our door in the dark. It’s unnatural," he muttered, his tone deadpan but dripping with a heavy, morbid sincerity. "If they knock, they’re trespassing. We should just turn the porch light off. If anyone still comes up those steps looking for a handout, I'm putting them in the ground."

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