I decided to write this one day while watching the original NOES movie. The story works like this: it's from Kelly's view until she reads the diary and then after a few lines of Evelyn's writing it will switch timelines and be through Evelyn's view. The rating will remain T up until chapter 3 or 4 when the first murder occurs. After than I plan on getting pretty graphic and digging into Evelyn's subconcious. As well as I can having created her anyway. Please read and enjoy. Feel free to leave me any comments of what you liked or didn't like I welcome both.
Chapter One
Kelly Black stood perfectly still as she watched them lower her mother into the ground. She would never forget how peaceful her mother looked before they slid the casket lid over top of her lifeless body. The forty-eight year-old woman was lying nestled in a cushion of soft white silk and dressed in a sleek black dress. It fell across her creamy white chest in a sweet heart neckline and trailed down until it graced her ankles and revealed small feet in delicate black slippers. Her luscious brunette hair had been spilled behind her head in gentle waves that rolled down over her shoulders and framed her delicately pale and thin face. Her eyes were closed hiding the blue and grey orbs that Kelly knew were there. Kelly had always believed that her mother was a beautiful woman and even in death she thought she was glowing. However she knew it was not the same beauty without her radiant smile to complete it. She also knew she would never see that face smiling at her ever again. Kelly was so lost in her own thoughts she never heard any of the words that were being uttered to wish her mother a peaceful journey into the afterlife or the praise for who she was.
Kelly didn't need too as she knew who her mother was without any help from people who barely knew her face. She was Evelyn Black. Evelyn had given birth to Kelly sometime after she had graduated from university at age twenty-six. Evelyn had been a woman filled with kindness until she seemed to radiate it. She had always been the kind of person who would stand up for others before she would stand up for herself; she had told Kelly that this was because when she was growing up she had always hoped someone would have her back. Kelly had never been told much of her mother's past or of her father; all she had been told was that Evelyn had never gotten married to her father and he was gone the moment he found out that Evelyn was pregnant. Evelyn had never once shown to Uncle Alfred or to Kelly that this had upset her and continued on with her life. She had passed away two days ago peacefully in her sleep leaving twenty-two year-old Kelly by herself. Kelly had questioned how someone of her mother's age could die in her sleep but the doctors explained there were many medical mysteries and not every death could be explained. There wasn't much to do aside from accept that as her answer.
Before she had even realised it the sermon had ended and people came to offer her their apologies. She smiled and thanked them for their kind words and for attending though she barely noted their faces or names. She attempted to make her way back to the car so she could go back home but was instantly cut off by her grandparents Anna and Robert Black. She had never liked them and from what Uncle Alfred had told her Evelyn had never gotten along with them either.
"Oh darling this must be so terrible for you, what are you planning to do?" As her Grandmother cooed over her Kelly felt her eyes harden into a glare. She had always been told that she was the spitting image of her mother; her eyes however, had always been her father's. They were a pale green that many swore became a dark chocolate in the darkness. Grandmother had always hated her eyes.
"I'll be going to Michigan State University in September just like I had planned," she replied firmly. "My mother always said that an education is the most important thing a person can have because it's the only thing no one can ever take from you. I won't disappoint her and give that up."
"Oh but darling you're not thinking clearly," Anna scolded gently. "What about that house? We lived in there, we raised your mother in there, and she raised you there. Surely you can't afford to keep the house and go to school at the same time. We already have decided that we'll come and stay with you in the house so that you can manage it. Surely you need someone there with you during such a dark time."
"I won't be alone," Kelly told her a little more coolly than she intended. "Uncle Alfred will be staying with me until I leave for school and then I'll sign the deed to the house over to him."
Her grandmother's face contorted in a look of pure fury while Robert continued to stand patiently off to the side knowing it was best for him to keep his words to himself. "And what makes you so sure the house will be yours!" Her cries began to draw unwanted attention. "You are indeed your mother's child; just as arrogant as she was and just as selfish. There is no doubt the house would be willed to us, it was ours first. To give it back would only be right."
"You guys were the ones that left it in the first place you have no right to it," Kelly snapped. Her mother had told her the story; that she had returned from university only to find that her parents had moved to a different house without notice and a 'for sale' sign erect in the yard. She had said that her house was what made her and had bought it from her own parents without their knowledge as the real-estate agent had taken care of everything.
"The house is legally Kelly's, mother," chimed a vibrant man as he walked up beside Kelly and placed a hand on her petite shoulder.
Kelly turned to look at him and smiled. "Uncle Alfred."
He smiled down at her before looked back at his foster parents with glint of triumph in his vivid blue eyes. "As the executor of Evelyn's will I know exactly what Kelly here is entitled to; Evelyn left Kelly all of her worldly possessions including the deed to the house. We went over it yesterday."
Grandmother Anna gasped is horror. "And we were not involved?"
Alfred shrugged. "You weren't written in her will anywhere so I saw no need to bother you."
Her grandmother released what could only be described as a growl of rage before turning on her heels and storming away dragging her grandfather with her. For people in their eighties her grandparents were still very lively and capable. Unfortunately this meant that they didn't need to rely on anyone else and that they still felt that every member of the family should obey them. Grandfather didn't speak all that often but when he did his voice commanded attention.
"Sorry you had to see them so soon kiddo," he said as he brushed Kelly's soft brunette bangs out of her face. He let out a huge sigh and ran a hand through his own tousled blonde locks. "They should've left you alone."
"No... it's alright. I've gotten used to them." Kelly looked up at him and offered him the sweetest smile she could muster. "Thank you though."
"No problem kiddo." For as long as Kelly could remember Alfred Black had been the closest family member she had known. He had been adopted into the family when he was only five and Evelyn had been seven. Due to his blonde hair, blue eyes, and natural intelligence Evelyn's parents had always preferred him to their own natural born daughter. That was until he came out. He was twenty-three when he had finally told his parents; Evelyn had known for six years about him and his boyfriend. For siblings they were incredibly close and had shared all their secrets and they had always accepted one another without question.
He looked at her sceptically for a moment. "You know...for someone who just lost their mother you can still manage a pretty good smile."
"Whenever I would comment on Mom being sad or lonely she would always just smile at me and say 'you have no idea what I had to go through to get here, if I gave up now then none of it would be worth it'. I think she'd be happier if I didn't cry for her; if I just kept moving forward with my life. And besides...mom always said that the most beautiful thing about me was my smile."
Alfred grinned. "And she'd be furious if we took that away because of her. Come on Kelly, Peter already has our car started you can drive home with him and I'll take your car. I'll ask Peter to make his special spaghetti sauce tonight and you can even invite that Derek of yours over. How does that sound?"
She smiled up at him and gently took his hand. "That sounds wonderful. Let's go home."
Alfred and his significant other Peter had agreed to move into Evelyn's home with Kelly right away. They hadn't wanted her to be left alone with her memories. Her boyfriend Derek had offered but Kelly had politely refused him feeling that it almost would have been inappropriate. He hadn't attended the funeral due to the fact that he was scheduled to work and both Alfred and Kelly had told them that Evelyn was the kind of person who would have been mad at him for missing work for her. Evelyn would have told him that his thoughts were enough. Of course, Derek already knew that. The red head had practically been part of their family as Evelyn had always opened her heart and her home to him if things weren't quite right with his own family.
The months until September passed without much notice and before Kelly realised it the time for her to leave for school had arrived. Peter and Alfred had helped her pack most of her things and now Derek had packed them all into the back of his truck. She stood on the porch and wrapped her arms tightly around Peter who hugged her back as tightly as his could with his large tree trunk arms.
"You take care now Kelly. I don't want to see anything on the news. "
She pulled away and grinned at the black haired man with his twinkling brown eyes. "I promise I'll keep all my mischief off the television and out of the newspaper."
He let out a hearty laugh. "That's my girl."
She looked over at Alfred who smiled at her as best he could while trying to hold back his tears. "My god it's like seeing Evelyn go off to university all over again." He pulled her into a hug that could've strangled an elephant. "You take care of yourself kiddo and don't you ever hesitate to call us. We'll be here for whatever you need us for." She nodded her head against the crook of his neck and after a few more moments Alfred finally released her. "Now I've got something for you and I want you to take really good care of it." He ran back into the house and emerged with a small box shaped bundle wrapped in brown paper. "It was Evelyn's. I found it under the mattress when I was cleaning her room out. It's her diary...I think that if anyone were to read it she would want it to be you."
Kelly hesitated as she took what she now knew to be a book wrapped in a paper bag from her Uncle's large hands. Her thank you was small and whispered as she gripped the book tightly in her own hands. It was essentially a piece of her mother that she held; perhaps the last living piece in existence. She would read it once she was moved into her new dorms.
"Alfred...thank you. Thank you so much." She held onto her own tears as she clutched the parcel to her chest.
Alfred watched her face as she stared at the package and he ruffled her hair with a sad smile on his face. "Better take her away now Derek my boy or I'll take her back."
Derek smiled and nodded at the man, his thick red hair swinging around his pale face. "Sure thing Alfred, I'll see you around!"
Kelly finally snapped out of her trance in time to wave good bye to her uncle's as Derek led her down the path towards his idling black truck. She smiled to herself as got into the passenger side she looked out the window and watched the houses start to drift behind her as Alfred and Peter waved their good-byes.
"Better make yourself comfortable Kelly, it's a long drive to Michigan," Derek told her as he reached over to give her hand a reassuring squeeze before putting it back on the wheel. She watched her home's street sign fly past as they continued on their way. "Good-bye Elm Street," she whispered sweetly as she pressed a hand to the window.
"We're going out for some groceries did you want to come with us?" The high octave voice called out to Kelly from the bedroom beside her own.
"No," she called back quietly. "I've got something I need to take care of, you guys leave without me."
"Alright," the blonde called back.
It didn't take long before Kelly heard them leave the front door and make it into the hallway. She sat down on the cream colored bed sheets clad in only her black silk bathrobe as she stared at the package on her desk. She had been in university for just over a week now and hadn't yet opened the diary. She decided this morning that she needed to read it for her own piece of mind. She had no idea what she would read but she secretively hoped that somewhere in the age old pages there would be written details of her father. She didn't quite need the man but she wanted to know him. Finally snatching the package off the desk she pulled away the wrapping to finally free her mother's thoughts from their prison. The cover was a faded chocolate brown leather that looked like there had once been a design engraved upon it but was now completely worn off. The book was thick and the pages slightly wrinkled with age and water marks. The lock that once held it tightly shut was long gone and the strap that once needed it hung uselessly from the side. Kelly flipped open the pages eagerly and found delight at seeing her mother's familiar scrawl on every page. Curiously Kelly flipped through the pages looking for a certain day in time. Her birthday. She wanted to know what her mother had thought the day Kelly had been born. Her face curled into a frown. There was no entry on her birthday. There was a two year gap between the entries surrounding her birthday though there was no evidence that any pages had been torn out. She looked to the entry written most recently after her birth curious if there would be any mention of her at all.
I have not seen him for years and I wonder if I should be worried. I look for his face everywhere I go but never see it. I am writing today because for a moment I thought I saw him in the mirror this morning when I cleared it of the steam my shower had created. He had been standing behind me with that same grin I had seen him wearing years ago but when I turned to face him he was not there anymore. Once again I wondered if I was still dreaming. If everything had always been a dream. I wonder if I had ever really fallen in love with that monster or if it was just something he made me dream because it made things so much easier for him. I do believe he has that kind of power. I dare not ask him; it would mean summoning him back into my life again and I would rather not think of what that would cost me.
Each day when I awake I, for a moment, wonder if when I open my eyes I won't be here anymore. Wake up and realise that none of this has ever happened and I dreamed it all. Wake up back at the beginning when it all started. But I never do. I am fine with that though because it means I get to wake up every day and see my daughter. I get to see Kelly. I love her so. But I look in her eyes and I know they are his. They say eyes are the window to the soul. None of this could possibly be a dream or even a nightmare. Her eyes are far too real for that. She couldn't, even if I wanted her to, be anyone but Freddy's daughter...
IMPORTANT STORY NOTICE
Okay clearing up a couple of things from the first two reviews I got on this chapter for people reading this for the first time. ONE Kelly is not Freddy's LONG LOST daughter. This is 2010 meaning she would have been born late 1988. Her mother Evelyn was born in 1962 making her 26 when Kelly was concieved. There is no possible way for her to be long lost as she was created AFTER Freddy's burning. Movie timeline which will be referenced; Evelyn was in university during the years just after Nancy's events of NOES 1 in 1981. Evelyn graduates university in 1985 and Kelly is born a year after the events of NOES3: Dream Warriors and a little before NOES4 Dream Master. All of these events take place during the time that Freddy was unaccounted for in the movies. There were five years after he drove Nancy into the psyc ward where you never hear from him. And NO this is not a Freddy/Kelly romance. EW! I don't know if I would put it past Freddy but still just ew. This is between Freddy and Evelyn. So I REALLY hope that this clears a lot of things up.