Josh x Kate

Josh x Kate is the het ship between Josh Johnson and Kate Schmidt from the Fear Street fandom.

Canon
Both Deena and Simon were residents of the town of Shadyside, where in every few years, a seemingly normal citizen would suddenly "snap" and become a murderer. They both attended Shadyside High School. Kate was Josh's sister Deena's close friend. Sometime prior to the trilogy, Josh developed a crush on Kate. The next day, a fully-costumed figure began stalking Deena, Kate and Deena's other close friend Simon Kalivoda. They decided to head to the local hospital with Deena's brother Josh to visit Sam, believing the figure to be Peter. Josh, Kate and Simon waited by a vending machine while Deena confronted Sam. Josh unsuccessfully attempted to impress Kate by getting her something from the vending machine. However, Sam and Deena soon ran past them, followed after by the figure, was was now wielding a knife. The figure ignored Kate, Simon and Josh, who began screaming.

Later, Simon was attacked by a girl with a razor. Before she could stab him, Deena appeared with Sam, Kate and Josh and shot the girl with a gun she had stolen from Officer Kapinski. After this, the left for Deena and Josh's house. When Josh heard Simon's description of the girl, he realised that she was Ruby Lane, a Shadyside killer from 1965. He then told them about the previous killers of Shadyside's past, as well as the legend of Sarah Fier. Sam then told the group that after the car crash, she had visions of Fier. The group then went to the site of the crash, where they found Fier's body. They then attempted to rid themselves of the curse by giving Fier a reburial. However, more revived killers appeared and attacked the group, forcing them to flee.

As they fled in an ambulance, they realised that the killers were targeting Sam. Kate and Simon were attacked as they had Sam's blood on their clothes. They then went to the school, where they changed their clothes and cleaned themselves of Sam's blood. Before Josh could enter a bathroom to change, Kate asked him to join her in a bathroom, telling him that she didn't want to go in alone. They eventually began to make out. While at the school, they used Sam's blood to lure all of the killers to the bathroom, where they would burn them. The killers then regenerated their incinerated bodies as the group escaped to a classroom. Just as the group was about to sacrifice Sam, Josh learned through a newspaper clipping that in a previous massacre, there was a survivor who had seen the witch, just as Sam had. They realised that Berman had died, but was brought back to life through CPR, thereby freeing her from the curse. After learning about Berman, they unsuccessfully tried to contact her through a wall-mounted phone.

The group then travelled in the ambulance to the supermarket pharmacy where Simon worked. There, they gathered various pills for Sam to overdose on. Simon then explained what effect each and every pill would have. After Sam overdosed, they would revive her with adrenaline. As a distraction, Simon, Kate and Josh would run around the supermarket smeared with Sam's blood. Before they left to distract the killers, Josh and Kate kissed. However, Sam vomited out several pills, ruining the plan just as Torres attacked them. Kate was then killed by Ryan Torres, who ran her head through a bread slicer. After Kate's death, Simon and Josh discovered her body, just as an axed was lodged in Simon's head.

Fanon
The ship is the second most written romantic ship for Josh and Kate on AO3. This is largely due to how the ship is canon. However, it does not have the same level of support as other canon Fear Street ships. This may be due to how Josh is introduced as Deena's annoying younger brother and Kate is introduced as Deena's best friend. Another factor may be how Josh has already moved onto someone else at the end of the third film. The ship currently has 14+ written works on AO3.

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