Title: "The List"

Elliot Gray was a quiet boy. The kind who sat alone at lunch, answered questions in class too quickly, and wore the same sneakers until they practically dissolved. The kids at Westbrook Middle School noticed. And like sharks scenting blood, they circled.

They tripped him in hallways, whispered cruel nicknames, and laughed behind his back — or worse, right to his face. The worst of them had names Elliot would never forget: Corey, Vanessa, Mike, Devon, Tyler, and Jenna. Their cruelty wasn’t unique — but it was constant. Teachers ignored it, parents brushed it off.

Elliot learned how to disappear. He stopped speaking unless spoken to. He walked with his eyes on the floor. He made himself forget how much it hurt.

But he never forgot them.

Twenty years passed.

Elliot worked a quiet IT job in the same town. His co-workers called him “Creepy Gray,” a nickname whispered behind cubicle walls. Even now, the same types of people bullied him — louder, shinier adults who reminded him too much of the kids from Westbrook. One day, while trying to eat lunch alone in the breakroom, someone poured coffee on his sandwich and laughed.

Something in Elliot snapped.

He went home and pulled out an old notebook. A black-and-red spiral-bound one he hadn't opened in two decades. On the first page were six names, written in careful block letters.

The List.

He sharpened a pencil. Then crossed out the first name.

Corey Jamison.

Corey, now a used car salesman, was found dead in his showroom after hours — strangled with jumper cables, the words "DO YOU REMEMBER ME?" scrawled on the whiteboard behind him.

Detectives called it a robbery gone wrong. Elliot watched the news with cold eyes.

Next was Vanessa Mayfield, a lifestyle influencer. She was found in her apartment, suffocated by a ring light cord, her social media filled with comments wondering who would want her dead. Elliot smiled grimly.

Each kill brought Elliot a dark peace. Each name crossed off made his nights a little quieter. He planned meticulously, left no trace. He wasn’t angry anymore. Just… methodical.

By the time the third body dropped — Mike Daniels, an ex-military tough guy found stabbed in his home gym — local police realized they had a serial killer on their hands.

The media named him The Avenger.

But Jenna, the last name on the list, had changed.

She was now a school counselor. When Elliot approached her under a false name, intending to end it, something stopped him. Jenna apologized — not knowing who he was — for the pain she'd caused “kids like you.” She cried for a boy she barely remembered, for all the ones she hadn’t helped.

For the first time, Elliot hesitated.

But the thing about monsters is that once they're let out of the cage, they don't go back quietly.

The story ends in ambiguity: Elliot walking out of Jenna’s office, the final page of his notebook torn out and folded in his jacket. He disappears from the news. The killings stop.

But somewhere, in some town, another bully laughs at someone too quiet, too soft.

And maybe — just maybe — Elliot is listening.

Let me know if you'd like a sequel, a deeper psychological breakdown, or this turned into a screenplay.

CHAPTER 2 where he gains senses to know when someone is being bullied and when they are, he comes and.... you know what he will do

CHAPTER 2: "The Signal"

Elliot Gray hadn’t spoken aloud in weeks.

After Jenna — after the last name on The List — something in him shifted. He didn’t feel done. He felt… rewired.

At first, it started as a hum. Barely noticeable. A static-like pressure behind his ears whenever someone nearby was suffering, being mocked, humiliated. A strange warmth in his chest, like his heart was vibrating. He thought it was a panic attack. Maybe guilt.

But then he heard the whispers.

Not in words, not quite. More like echoes of pain. A teenager