Chambers Cabin

The **Chambers Cabin** is a residence in the woods outside Chatham that is used by the Chambers family when they want to getaway from their lives either alone, with a significant other, or for overnight parties. It is owned by Steve Chambers.

## History

### Summer, 1999

On July 19th, Luke hosts his yearly overnight at the cabin. Luke and his guy friends play horseshoes at the cabin when one teases that Luke's girlfriend is there. Isabella and Megan pull up in the latter's car, and Luke greets Isabella with a hug. His friends mock them from the game, and Luke assures Isabella that his friends will get used to having a girl around, then sends a “no offense” to Megan, who is getting the bags out of the car. Isabella assures him that Megan already warned her, and he's surprised Isabella still came. She doesn't scare that easily. Megan asks where Jeff is, and Luke finds him approaching them with a camera through a hockey mask while breathing creepily. Isabella playfully shrieks and curls into Luke, asking him to protect her from the killer. They tease Jeff and then walk off, so he helps Megan carry some of the bags. He brought a ton of scary movies - even Halloween, which excites her, and he knows it's one of her favorites. She notices Isabella and Luke hanging off one another as they walk into the cabin.

Brent walks into the **cabin** with Parker. He's carrying firewood while joking if anyone wants his wood. Parker jabs that 1989 called and wants their joke back. His presence annoys Luke, but Brent insists that their dad asked him to bring firewood because he didn't want Luke stealing any of Ned's. Luke would catch a bullet in the ass if Ned saw him, adding that the guy gets trigger-happy over anything. Luke tells him he can leave now, and Brent has no intention of staying too long. But he and Parker are going to stay for a beer.

Megan is making a sandwich when Brent comes into the cabin, assuming it's for him. She smacks his hand away and calls him penis breath, which he approves of. She waves the knife around as she mentions learning from the best. He asks if Luke is going to close the deal with the import. She tells him not to call her that, then mentions that the “bros gone wild” act is getting old. She misses the semi-decent guy she used to know. He's just saying that if she wants Isabella gone, he's got her back. She appreciates it but has it handled. She hands him half the sandwich, telling him to get lost so they can have their lame overnight to themselves. He heads out of the cabin, shouting for Parker to get ready to leave.

Everyone sits around the fireplace and Isabella starts a game of two truths a lie so she can get dirt in case she ever needs to blackmail any of them. Luke decides to start: his mom was going to name him Xerxes but his dad said no, he's had a pen pal in San Diego since the third grade, and he's been to three of the seven wonders of the world. Megan tells him LegoLand doesn't count, and Megan asks if Xerxes is true, which it is. Jeff goes next; raw chicken legs freak him out, he dislocated his shoulder once and if he tries really hard he can do it again, and he was in a commercial as a kid. Isabella asks if the chicken legs are true, and Luke is sure the commercial is bogus because he would have mentioned it already. Megan can't believe he can dislocate his shoulder. Isabella decides to go next; she saw NSYNC at a tiny club in Brussels right before they got famous, she broke her leg in three places while skiing in the Swiss alps, and she has severe somnambulism - she sleepwalks like crazy. She does weird stuff, as a couple nights ago, Debbie found her in the backyard practically naked. She looks to Megan to back up her story, and Megan pauses and then supports it. Isabella winks at Megan from her chair.

Jeff talks about the *Blair Witch Project* that he's going to see, and Freddy calls him a freak. Megan calls him out for having eaten a bowl of dog food on a dare. It starts to rain so everyone hurries inside except for Megan, who looks up at the sky as the drops fall. Isabella joins her and thanks her for the assistance on the sleepwalking story. The rain doesn't bother her, as she and Lisa once spent the night in the ocean during a storm. She and Megan both love the sound of rain underwater. Isabella comments on Jeff's hard crush on Megan, but she doesn't believe the guys see her like that. Isabella calls her smart, fun, and hot, which is the crush trifecta. She was once one of the guys, but those days are over. The girls stand in the rain together in silence. When they head to the window, the see the boys goofing around immaturely and decide to go home instead.

### Winter, 1999

Around December 15th, Megan and Luke make out in the Chambers cabin and then fall onto the bed. He can't believe they're going to different colleges. She giggles as they'll only be an hour apart and will see each other every weekend. He doesn't know if he can wait that long, kissing her again. A gunshot scares both of them. They head outside to find a man shooting off his gun at a flock of birds. The freak was employee number 12 at Apple, basically coder royalty worth millions. Luke heard him going on at the hardware store about how the world is going to end on Y2K, wondering what he'll do when it comes and nothing happens. He wants to go back inside, but Megan lingers to stare at the shooter before heading inside.

### Summer, 2000

On July 16th, Megan hurriedly drives through the woods to the Chambers cabin. As she gets out of the car, she drops a California driver's license with Isabella's picture on it, but a new name is attached - Pat Highsmith. She tosses the license in the car and then hurries inside. She begins scrubbing blood off the wooden floors using a rag and bleach. She startles when the wind opens the door, then goes back to furiously scrubbing.

On July 19th, a reporter releases a story about how benzos were found in Luke's system at the time of his death, leading authorities to suspect foul play. A search in the Chambers cabin found a stray bullet in the wall, leading investigators to believe he died, or was attacked, at the cabin. That night, Steve visits Debbie to tell her that the police went to the cabin to find it had been recently cleaned. Neither he or Brent had been up there in months, and he asks if she knows who might have gone there. Debbie doesn't, though Megan eavesdrops from her bedroom.

The next day, Sherriff Myer talks to Isabella and Megan separately once again. They explain their fingerprints being on the gun that killed Luke - they had all gone shooting last summer and used it. Myers questions Isabella about not being in the cabin since last summer, which she claims is the truth. He leaves the room and then returns with a backpack. He asks her to explain why they found her bag stashed in a crawl space at the cabin, the scene of Luke's murder. He opens the bag and removes a wad of fifty-dollar bills. He asks what all the money is for.

On July 23rd, Tom asks Megan where she went when she allegedly took Luke home. They just drove around for a while and then ended up at the cabin, which is the murder site. It would've been nice for him to know that. Tom reminds Megan this is real life and not fiction. It doesn't look good for her and asks when the last time she saw Luke was. It was early that Saturday morning but claimed she hasn't been back to the cabin since then.

Debbie confronts Megan about the event, and Megan admits that Luke showed her his running away letter while they were at the cabin. She was supposed to put it in Steve's mailbox after she dropped him off at the train station. When she got back to the cabin after work, he wasn't there.

During an interrogation with Sherriff Myer, he accuses Megan of telling Luke she was pregnant when they went to the cabin. Myer believes Luke rejected the baby so Megan killed him.

## Visitors

**1999 summer overnight**

* Megan Landry
* Isabella LaRue
* Parker Tanaka
* Jeff Pope
* Several of Luke's friends

**December 15th, 1999**

* Megan Landry

**July 16th, 2000**

* Megan Landry

## Trivia

* In the Winter of 1999, Luke claimed that Brent took a lot of girls up to the cabin.
* Luke and Megan's sex tape was filmed in the cabin, by a hidden recorder posed by Luke.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 2.03 - "Bloody Knuckles"
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.01 - "Welcome to Chatham"
3. ↑ 2.04 - "Springing a Leak"
4. ↑ 2.02 - "Ride or Die"