Jude Voorhees | KINKTOBER

When the email landed in Jude’s inbox and the $9,000 transfer cleared, he knew rent was handled for the next three months. The encrypted payment link guided him through the dark web, straight to his newest request on XXX.

Killer-for-hire. One night of terror, ties, and a not-so-happy ending.

That was how Jude Voorhees marketed himself these days. Gone were the years of lurking in alleys with a work order in his pocket, hoping for the correct idiot to stumble by. The Internet had changed everything—streamlined the process, professionalised it. His father’s generation had to rely on luck and bad lighting; Jude just needed Wi-Fi.

Because if he was going to indulge, why not make a buck while doing it? Someone always needed someone gone.

Once upon a time, his old man picked a summer camp crawling with hormone-drunk teens and waited for them to come to him. Jude preferred the city because it was filled with the least morals and the most money.

He didn’t kill because he wanted to—at least, not in the usual sense. It was more that he’d accepted what he was good at. Still, he couldn’t pretend the first scream of the night didn’t send that familiar shiver crawling up his spine.

Some inherit money. Others, charm. Jude inherited the abnormality of sadism.

He sank into the leather chair, the mouse clicks a metronome in the hush of his home office. The job sounded simple on paper: break in, take, make the victim vanish. No poetry—only bullets points and the transfer. He didn’t even need to know their name.

The attached photo was grainy, taken from across a campus quad. She cradled textbooks to her chest, her back hunched against the weight of them. Close enough to guess her age, too distant to read the titles. For a sliver of a second, curiousity crossed Jude’s scarred features, feeling the faintest ripple of something almost like recognition before he smothered it. He never indulged the questions: what had she done, who would pay so much to erase her.

He’d learnt over the years that the most innocent looking always had something to hide.

Under the image, a single line in cruel type: Make her suffer.

Jude let the words sit like a lead weight. His lip twisted into something worse than a sneer.

Think you can make the demands, huh?

No one told him what to do. Jude did things his way.

He wound the old rope around his forearm, tugging the end until the fibres bit just enough to leave a thin red stripe against the tattoos on his wrist. The friction was familiar—comforting, almost. Rope work was a delicate craft. Better than zip ties, which only ever handled wrists or ankles.

Rope gave him control.

Nooses, box ties (he always liked those, the way they made people strain and twist against themselves), even a simple column tie—that was enough. The sight of someone bound at the wrists, thrashing and kicking as he dragged them through their own home, never failed to make his pulse quicken.

Winding the rope into a precise infinity loop, he tied it off and dropped it into the black duffel bag. The space around him was dim, lit only by the dying gold of the evening sun spilling through the cracked window behind him. His shadow stretched long across the workbench, jagged and distorted.

Jude kept his supplies in the old shack behind his house, which was left just decrepit enough that his landlady never dared to peek inside. The weeds, the cobwebs, the smell of rot—she called it cursed and kept her distance.

He preferred it that way. Ignorance was a gift.

His gloves were already on; he never risked fingerprints. The leather creaked as he flexed his hands, reaching for the final piece: a worn hockey mask.

Most people he’d loomed over saw a cheap imitation—the ghost of a man who’d rotted away in a cell 20 years ago.

But Jude knew better. He was much, much worse, because he killed with reason. He wasn’t a fake, he was a reincarnation.

The scar that cut across his lips seemed to burn as his car came to a stop at the beginning of a long driveway.

Huh. This couldn’t be any more fucking cliche.

He was used to completing jobs with quiet precision, the density of the city never allowing him to truly indulge in his redder impulses.

But this one... this one was interesting.

The pin he’d received had sent him to the outskirts of the city, miles past the last populated town. He’d been driving for hours, the night particularly muted by the lack of moonlight breaking through the low veil of clouds in the sky. He had stopped at a rural property with fences that stretched for what seemed like eons.

The property was registered solely in her name. The screenshot he’d pulled from XXX—a grainy live feed of her topping off her car at the petrol station ten miles back—told him everything he needed to know.

She was out here alone.

Jude cut his headlights, letting the car idle down the last stretch of the gravel drive, the low hum of the electric engine barely audible. He’d bought it for that reason alone—silence was always its own weapon.

The property ahead was quaint, in that perfect victim sort of way. If he had to describe it, he’d say she was practically begging to become a cliché.

The old farmhouse rose beneath a canopy of dead branches, its weatherboard exterior long since surrendered to decay and peeling paint. The porch sagged in the middle, boards warped and splintered with age. A single rocking chair leaned at an odd angle beside the door, moving faintly in the wind. The windows were dim, curtains drawn, but the faint glow of a lamp flickered through one, just enough to confirm she was home and hopefully sleeping.

He cut the engine, gaze fixed on the house.

That familiar urge stirred beneath his skin as the hockey mask slipped into place. The fingers of his left hand twitched once, a small, involuntary tell of his—before he pushed open the door and stepped out into the night, duffel slung casually over his shoulder.

The country air was cooler than the city’s humid weight, cleaner too. He drew in a slow breath, letting it settle in his lungs.

He wondered, briefly, if his old man had ever stalked someone through a farm before—or if he’d be the first to add that little footnote to the family legacy.

Jude circled the farmhouse before even considering a way inside. Her carelessness was almost insulting; every sensor light he passed was dead, each one a testament to her trust in the middle of nowhere.

He found a wonky window on the side of the house, its frame soft with age. His fingers slipped beneath the sill, testing the give. The shadows cloaked him well enough that even if she peeked from an upstairs window, she’d see nothing but darkness and trees.

The machete strapped to his thigh came free with a quiet rasp just before his boots met the kitchen floor.

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When the email landed in Jude’s inbox and the $9,000 transfer cleared, he knew rent was handled for the next three months. The encrypted payment link guided him through the dark web, straight to his newest request on XXX.

Halloween Scare. One night of terror, ties, and a not-so-happy ending.

That was how Jude Voorhees marketed himself these days. Gone were the years of lurking in alleys with a work order in his pocket, hoping for the correct idiot to stumble by. The Internet had changed everything—streamlined the process, professionalised it. His father’s generation had to rely on luck and bad lighting; Jude just needed Wi-Fi.

Because if he was going to indulge, why not make a buck while doing it? Someone always needed someone gone.

Once upon a time, his old man picked a summer camp crawling with hormone-drunk teens and waited for them to come to him. Jude preferred the city because it was filled with the least morals and the most money.

He didn’t kill because he wanted to—at least, not in the usual sense. It was more that he’d accepted what he was good at. Still, he couldn’t pretend the first scream of the night didn’t send that familiar shiver crawling up his spine.

Some inherit money. Others, charm. Jude inherited the abnormality of sadism.

He sank into the leather chair, the mouse clicks a metronome in the hush of his home office. The job sounded simple on paper: break in, take, make the victim vanish. No poetry—only bullets points and the transfer. He didn’t even need to know their name.

The attached photo was grainy, taken from across a campus quad. She cradled textbooks to her chest, her back hunched against the weight of them. Close enough to guess her age, too distant to read the titles. For a sliver of a second, curiousity crossed Jude’s scarred features, feeling the faintest ripple of something almost like recognition before he smothered it. He never indulged the questions: what had she done, who would pay so much to erase her.

He’d learnt over the years that the most innocent looking always had something to hide.

Under the image, a single line in cruel type: Make her suffer.

Jude let the words sit like a lead weight. His lip twisted into something worse than a sneer.

Think you can make the demands, huh?

No one told him what to do. Jude did things his way.

Jude’s scuffed boots met the dirt and gravel of the farmhouse driveway with barely a sound. The ping had led him here—miles from the nearest town, miles from anyone who might hear a scream.

He already knew she lived alone. The grainy CCTV he’d pulled from XXX still on his phone showed her at a gas station ten miles back, head down, filling her tank and oblivious to the world.

The isolation, the overgrown fields, the silence of it all... it was practically begging for something bad to happen.

Some people just made themselves into victims.

The hockey mask, once resting haphazardly on his head, was now pulled down to conceal his face, leaving only his hazel eyes visible beneath the edge. Strands of black and grey hair fell messily across the mask’s rounded rim, softening the menace it framed. The leather gloves were already warm on his hands.

His first step toward the house was met with silence—his footfalls ghostlike, betraying none of the weight he carried. There was a predatory grace in his movements, a quiet strength that felt deliberate. Slung over his shoulder was the duffel bag that came with him everywhere, packed with his preferred tools: a well-worn machete, lengths of rope, and a gag.

The old farmhouse rose beneath a canopy of dead branches, its weatherboard exterior long since surrendered to decay and peeling paint. The porch sagged in the middle, boards warped and splintered with age. A single rocking chair leaned at an odd angle beside the door, moving faintly in the wind. The windows were dim, curtains drawn, but the faint glow of a lamp flickered through one, just enough to confirm she was home and hopefully sleeping.

Jude circled the house, keeping to the shadows—which were plentiful on a night like this, the sky devoid of moonlight beneath a low veil of clouds. The air carried the faint, earthy tang of an approaching storm.

The place had no security to speak of. No cameras, no motion lights—nothing. The realisation made the corner of his lip twitch. Sliding his fingers beneath the edge of a warped old window, its frame caked in generations of white paint, he lifted. The wood resisted, groaning softly against rusted rails before yielding when he found the right angle. Jude’s movements remained eerily silent, though the window’s creak fractured the stillness.

The shadows continued to cloak him as he braced his palms on the sill and hauled himself through. His shoulders barely cleared the frame, the movement smooth with only the smallest adjustment.

When his boots touched the tiled kitchen floor, they made no sound. His breath rasped faintly behind the mask as he straightened to his full height, a dark shape standing motionless in the heart of her unlit kitchen.

His eyes, long adjusted to darkness after years of living off fires made from tinder and stone, swept over the quaint little space. A dented white refrigerator hummed loyally in the corner, the gas stove looked hastily wiped down, and on top sat an old crockpot—he could still catch the faint, homey scent of soup or stew. Domestic. Almost cute.

He scanned for more traces of her. The cluttered fridge caught his eye—magnets shaped like fruits and cartoon animals holding up recipes, notes, and grocery lists. He drifted toward it, curiosity winning over caution.

There was no rush. There never was. If she was asleep, it’d be over in seconds—a flick of his wrist and he wouldn’t even break a sweat. But for now? He could afford to admire her questionable taste in kitchen décor.

But then his eyes caught on something left out on the counter. Blue packaging, torn cleanly along the seam—Oreos. Jude’s head tilted, curiosity flickering across his face as instinct took over. He reached out and plucked up the packet, the crinkle of foil sounding loud in the still kitchen.

Double stuffed?

He gave a quiet, approving grunt. A cream-filled biscuit disappeared beneath the mask without hesitation.

“You’ve got taste,” he muttered dryly, the rasp of his voice muffled by the crunch. A beat passed. “Didn’t take you for the type.”

He glanced toward the hallway, a smear of white cream still on his gloved thumb, and shrugged. Murder could wait another bite.

Soon enough, the tall pantry creaked open, revealing a motherlode of decadence. Shelves upon shelves of brightly coloured wrappers glimmered in the faint spill of moonlight from the window. Jolly Ranchers. Twizzlers—more Oreos. The woman clearly had a sweet tooth—one that Jude, oddly enough, shared.

He huffed in something akin to amusement, the sound rasping behind the mask as he stuffed a few handfuls into his jacket pocket. “Christ,” he muttered under his breath, “she planning for Halloween or the apocalypse?”

A few wrappers crinkled as he reached deeper, uncovering an unopened family-sized bag of M&Ms. Jackpot.

Then—

Click.

A flashlight beam cut through the dark, slicing straight across the kitchen and hitting the glossy curve of his mask. For one surreal heartbeat, Jude froze mid-theft, caught like a raccoon in tactical gear.

Time seemed to slow. The air thickened, the hum of the fridge suddenly deafening. His brain barely registered the figure in the kitchen doorway—the girl, in an oversized T-shirt, flashlight beam pointed at him like a weapon.

They both blinked.

Then Jude, in an attempt to turn on her too fast, smacked his forehead on the open pantry door, the edge of his mask biting into his skin with force that jolted his body back on instinct, but the world tilted with him. Packaging scattered in every direction—Skittles bouncing across the tiles like fleeing insects—as the man himself stumbled backward and went down hard.

Flat on his back, mask slightly askew, Oreos and Jolly Ranchers clutched protectively to his chest, Jude actually groaned.

“Fuck—”

When the email landed in Jude’s inbox and the $9,000 transfer cleared, he knew rent was handled for the next three months. The encrypted payment link guided him through the dark web, straight to his newest request on XXX.

Halloween Scare. One night of terror, ties, and a not-so-happy ending.

That was how Jude Voorhees marketed himself these days. Gone were the years of lurking in alleys with a work order in his pocket, hoping for the correct idiot to stumble by. The Internet had changed everything—streamlined the process, professionalised it. His father’s generation had to rely on luck and bad lighting; Jude just needed Wi-Fi.

Because if he was going to indulge, why not make a buck while doing it? Someone always needed someone gone.

Once upon a time, his old man picked a summer camp crawling with hormone-drunk teens and waited for them to come to him. Jude preferred the city because it was filled with the least morals and the most money.

He didn’t kill because he wanted to—at least, not in the usual sense. It was more that he’d accepted what he was good at. Still, he couldn’t pretend the first scream of the night didn’t send that familiar shiver crawling up his spine.

Some inherit money. Others, charm. Jude inherited the abnormality of sadism.

He sank into the leather chair, the mouse clicks a metronome in the hush of his home office. The job sounded simple on paper: break in, take, make the victim vanish. No poetry—only bullets points and the transfer. He didn’t even need to know their name.

The attached photo was grainy, taken from across a campus quad. They cradled textbooks to their chest, back hunched against the weight of them. Close enough to guess their age, too distant to read the titles. For a sliver of a second, curiousity crossed Jude’s scarred features, feeling the faintest ripple of something almost like recognition before he smothered it. He never indulged the questions: what had they done, who would pay so much to erase them.

He’d learnt over the years that the most innocent looking always had something to hide.

Under the image, a single line in cruel type: Make them suffer.

Jude let the words sit like a lead weight. His lip twisted into something worse than a sneer.

Think you can make the demands, huh?

No one told him what to do. Jude did things his way.

Jude’s scuffed boots met the dirt and gravel of the farmhouse driveway with barely a sound. The ping had led him here—miles from the nearest town, miles from anyone who might hear a scream.

He already knew they lived alone. The grainy CCTV he’d pulled from XXX still on his phone showed them at a gas station ten miles back, head down, filling their tank and oblivious to the world.

The isolation, the overgrown fields, the silence of it all... it was practically begging for something bad to happen.

Some people just made themselves into victims.

The hockey mask, once resting haphazardly on his head, was now pulled down to conceal his face, leaving only his hazel eyes visible beneath the edge. Strands of black and grey hair fell messily across the mask’s rounded rim, softening the menace it framed. The leather gloves were already warm on his hands.

His first step toward the house was met with silence—his footfalls ghostlike, betraying none of the weight he carried. There was a predatory grace in his movements, a quiet strength that felt deliberate. Slung over his shoulder was the duffel bag that came with him everywhere, packed with his preferred tools: a well-worn machete, lengths of rope, and a gag.

The old farmhouse rose beneath a canopy of dead branches, its weatherboard exterior long since surrendered to decay and peeling paint. The porch sagged in the middle, boards warped and splintered with age. A single rocking chair leaned at an odd angle beside the door, moving faintly in the wind. The windows were dim, curtains drawn, but the faint glow of a lamp flickered through one, just enough to confirm they were home and hopefully sleeping.

Jude circled the house, keeping to the shadows—which were plentiful on a night like this, the sky devoid of moonlight beneath a low veil of clouds. The air carried the faint, earthy tang of an approaching storm.

The place had no security to speak of. No cameras, no motion lights—nothing. The realisation made the corner of his lip twitch. Sliding his fingers beneath the edge of a warped old window, its frame caked in generations of white paint, he lifted. The wood resisted, groaning softly against rusted rails before yielding when he found the right angle. Jude’s movements remained eerily silent, though the window’s creak fractured the stillness.

The shadows continued to cloak him as he braced his palms on the sill and hauled himself through. His shoulders barely cleared the frame, the movement smooth with only the smallest adjustment.

When his boots touched the tiled kitchen floor, they made no sound. His breath rasped faintly behind the mask as he straightened to his full height, a dark shape standing motionless in the heart of their unlit kitchen.

His eyes, long adjusted to darkness after years of living off fires made from tinder and stone, swept over the quaint little space. A dented white refrigerator hummed in the corner, the gas stove looked hastily wiped down, and on top sat an old crockpot—he could still catch the faint, homey scent of soup or stew. Domestic. Almost cute.

He scanned for more traces of them. The cluttered fridge caught his eye—magnets shaped like fruits and cartoon animals holding up recipes, notes, and grocery lists. He drifted toward it, curiosity winning over caution.

There was no rush. There never was. If they were asleep, it’d be over in seconds—a flick of his wrist and he wouldn’t even break a sweat. But for now? He could afford to admire their questionable taste in kitchen décor.

But then his eyes caught on something left out on the counter. Blue packaging, torn cleanly along the seam—Oreos. Jude’s head tilted, curiosity flickering across his face as instinct took over. He reached out and plucked up the packet, the crinkle of foil sounding loud in the still kitchen.

Double stuffed?

He gave a quiet, approving grunt. A cream-filled biscuit disappeared beneath the mask without hesitation.

“You’ve got taste,” he muttered dryly, the rasp of his voice muffled by the crunch. A beat passed. “Didn’t take you for the type.”

He glanced toward the hallway, a smear of white cream still on his gloved thumb, and shrugged. Murder could wait another bite.

Soon enough, the tall pantry creaked open, revealing a motherlode of decadence. Shelves upon shelves of brightly coloured wrappers glimmered in the faint spill of moonlight from the window. Jolly Ranchers. Twizzlers—more Oreos. They clearly had a sweet tooth—one that Jude, oddly enough, shared.

He huffed in something akin to amusement, the sound rasping behind the mask as he stuffed a few handfuls into his jacket pocket. “Christ,” he muttered under his breath, “they planning for Halloween or the apocalypse?”

A few wrappers crinkled as he reached deeper, uncovering an unopened family-sized bag of M&Ms. Jackpot.

Then—

Click.

A flashlight beam cut through the dark, slicing straight across the kitchen and hitting the glossy curve of his mask. For one surreal heartbeat, Jude froze mid-theft, caught like a raccoon in tactical gear.

Time seemed to slow. The air thickened, the hum of the fridge suddenly deafening. His brain barely registered the figure in the kitchen doorway—there they stood, in an oversized T-shirt, flashlight beam pointed at him like a weapon.

They both blinked.

Then Jude, in an attempt to turn on them too fast, smacked his forehead on the open pantry door, the edge of his mask biting into his skin with force that jolted his body back on instinct, but the world tilted with him. Packaging scattered in every direction—Skittles bouncing across the tiles like fleeing insects—as the man himself stumbled backward and went down hard.

Flat on his back, mask slightly askew, Oreos and Jolly Ranchers clutched protectively to his chest, Jude actually groaned.

“Fuck—”

When the email landed in Jude’s inbox and the $9,000 transfer cleared, he knew rent was handled for the next three months. The encrypted payment link guided him through the dark web, straight to his newest request on XXX.

Killer-for-hire. One night of terror, ties, and a not-so-happy ending.

That was how Jude Voorhees marketed himself these days. Gone were the years of lurking in alleys with a work order in his pocket, hoping for the correct idiot to stumble by. The Internet had changed everything—streamlined the process, professionalised it. His father’s generation had to rely on luck and bad lighting; Jude just needed Wi-Fi.

Because if he was going to indulge, why not make a buck while doing it? Someone always needed someone gone.

Once upon a time, his old man picked a summer camp crawling with hormone-drunk teens and waited for them to come to him. Jude preferred the city because it was filled with the least morals and the most money.

He didn’t kill because he wanted to—at least, not in the usual sense. It was more that he’d accepted what he was good at. Still, he couldn’t pretend the first scream of the night didn’t send that familiar shiver crawling up his spine.

Some inherit money. Others, charm. Jude inherited the abnormality of sadism.

He sank into the leather chair, the mouse clicks a metronome in the hush of his home office. The job sounded simple on paper: break in, take, make the victim vanish. No poetry—only bullets points and the transfer. He didn’t even need to know their name.

The attached photo was grainy, taken from across a campus quad. They cradled textbooks to their chest, back hunched against the weight of them. Close enough to guess their age, too distant to read the titles. For a sliver of a second, curiousity crossed Jude’s scarred features, feeling the faintest ripple of something almost like recognition before he smothered it. He never indulged the questions: what had they done, who would pay so much to erase them.

He’d learnt over the years that the most innocent looking always had something to hide.

Under the image, a single line in cruel type: Make them suffer.

Jude let the words sit like a lead weight. His lip twisted into something worse than a sneer.

Think you can make the demands, huh?

No one told him what to do. Jude did things his way.

He wound the old rope around his forearm, tugging the end until the fibres bit just enough to leave a thin red stripe against the tattoos on his wrist. The friction was familiar—comforting, almost. Rope work was a delicate craft. Better than zip ties, which only ever handled wrists or ankles.

Rope gave him control.

Nooses, box ties (he always liked those, the way they made people strain and twist against themselves), even a simple column tie—that was enough. The sight of someone bound at the wrists, thrashing and kicking as he dragged them through their own home, never failed to make his pulse quicken.

Winding the rope into a precise infinity loop, he tied it off and dropped it into the black duffel bag. The space around him was dim, lit only by the dying gold of the evening sun spilling through the cracked window behind him. His shadow stretched long across the workbench, jagged and distorted.

Jude kept his supplies in the old shack behind his house, which was left just decrepit enough that his landlady never dared to peek inside. The weeds, the cobwebs, the smell of rot—she called it cursed and kept her distance.

He preferred it that way. Ignorance was a gift.

His gloves were already on; he never risked fingerprints. The leather creaked as he flexed his hands, reaching for the final piece: a worn hockey mask.

Most people he’d loomed over saw a cheap imitation—the ghost of a man who’d rotted away in a cell 20 years ago.

But Jude knew better. He was much, much worse, because he killed with reason. He wasn’t a fake, he was a reincarnation.

The scar that cut across his lips seemed to burn as his car came to a stop at the beginning of a long driveway.

Huh. This couldn’t be any more fucking cliche.

He was used to completing jobs with quiet precision, the density of the city never allowing him to truly indulge in his redder impulses.

But this one... this one was interesting.

The pin he’d received had sent him to the outskirts of the city, miles past the last populated town. He’d been driving for hours, the night particularly muted by the lack of moonlight breaking through the low veil of clouds in the sky. He had stopped at a rural property with fences that stretched for what seemed like eons.

The property was registered solely in their name. The screenshot he’d pulled from XXX—a grainy live feed of them topping off their car at the petrol station ten miles back—told him everything he needed to know.

They were out here alone.

Jude cut his headlights, letting the car idle down the last stretch of the gravel drive, the low hum of the electric engine barely audible. He’d bought it for that reason alone—silence was always its own weapon.

The property ahead was quaint, in that perfect victim sort of way. If he had to describe it, he’d say they were practically begging to become a cliché.

The old farmhouse rose beneath a canopy of dead branches, its weatherboard exterior long since surrendered to decay and peeling paint. The porch sagged in the middle, boards warped and splintered with age. A single rocking chair leaned at an odd angle beside the door, moving faintly in the wind. The windows were dim, curtains drawn, but the faint glow of a lamp flickered through one, just enough to confirm they were home and hopefully sleeping.

He cut the engine, gaze fixed on the house.

That familiar urge stirred beneath his skin as the hockey mask slipped into place. The fingers of his left hand twitched once, a small, involuntary tell of his—before he pushed open the door and stepped out into the night, duffel slung casually over his shoulder.

The country air was cooler than the city’s humid weight, cleaner too. He drew in a slow breath, letting it settle in his lungs.

He wondered, briefly, if his old man had ever stalked someone through a farm before—or if he’d be the first to add that little footnote to the family legacy.

Jude circled the farmhouse before even considering a way inside. Their carelessness was almost insulting; every sensor light he passed was dead, each one a testament to their trust in the middle of nowhere.

He found a wonky window on the side of the house, its frame soft with age. His fingers slipped beneath the sill, testing the give. The shadows cloaked him well enough that even if they peeked from an upstairs window, they’d see nothing but darkness and trees.

The machete strapped to his thigh came free with a quiet rasp just before his boots met the kitchen floor.