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Full Summary: Sidney has been moved from asylum to asylum for the past seven years. Now she's being transferred to a place named Westin Hills Psychiatric Hospital. After seeing someone being attacked in their sleep on her first day there she soon begins to see a demonic man in her dreams they call Freddy. Her best friend since she was committed is a ghost, Gregory, and she loves how real her dreams have become with him in Freddy's dream world and they can finally be together as if he was alive. He protects her from Freddy but they soon realize that he's too strong to be trifled with.
Author's Note: So please let me know what you think of this one! It's a plot idea I've had for quite awhile. Trying to stick with more of the history with the originals on this one with a bit of my own twist of course. Please review!
Chapter One: Too Good To Be True
Sidney's light blue eyes stared through the boy sitting in front of her as the van hit another bump making the pencil holding her dirty blonde hair up fall to the floor. She huffed and ran her hand through her hair to move it out of her face before continuing to glare at the boy.
"I can't stand it when you look right through me as if I'm not even here. I know you're upset. But I couldn't help myself. Please forgive me?" His sweet voice pleaded.
"Gregory they're flying me to another state this time! Were you not paying attention?! We're on the way to the airport for a three hour flight!" She yelled. Gregory looked up at her with his faded green eyes and frowned.
"I really am sorry. I should've known Zac would take it too far." He apologized.
"It's ok, at least you got to have some fun." She forgave him, making him smile at her as she found her fallen pencil and used it to put her hair back up in its messy bun.
"I wish I was able to move things as he does. Then again I'm glad I'm not him. I couldn't stand being stuck haunting one place forever. I'm just glad that I'll always be stuck following you." He said thoughtfully.
"Me too." She smiled. "I'm just glad you're not an angry spirit like he is."
"Yeah the only upside to that is being able to interact with your world. But I was never an angry person. I'm not even mad at my Grandma for what she did to me." He explained as his wild brown hair fell into his eyes covering the strange bloody symbol that was carved into his forehead.
Gregory was a spirit that Sidney had accidentally released when she was fifteen. Along with the strange symbol on his forehead he had several other strange designs carved into his arms with a large hole in his chest where his heart should be. His Grandmother was a part of a cult or a witch coven of some sort and she ended up using him as a human sacrifice.
It was 1902 and he was only ten when his parents decided to leave him with his Grandma in Washington and went to Alaska in hopes of getting rich from the gold mining that was going on at the time. His parents ended up doing a bunch of traveling following the gold mining craze and he stayed with his Grandma the rest of his life. He would catch her going out and doing strange things once a week and he always wondered what it was. She always refused to tell him what she was up to up until a few days after his eighteenth birthday she had asked him to join her at a special event and he went happily, not knowing what he was in for.
"I wonder what loony bin they're taking you to now. I never heard the driver or any of the docs mention where. I guess we'll find out when we get to the airplane boarding station." He said sounding hopeful.
"Knowing my luck we won't even enter the airport and they'll have a private plane for me and all the other crazies." She said sounding rather un-amused. The rest of the ride there they made small talk pointing out the pros and cons of the hospital that was now their ex-home.
Sidney had been moved around several asylums and mental hospitals since she was fifteen. She just turned twenty-two three months ago. When she was fifteen she came home one day to find that her older brother Nick had died of an asthma attack. They figured out that he had dropped his inhaler under the couch and induced the attack by getting over anxious and excited when he opened his acceptance letter into the college he hoped to attend.
Nick and Sidney were very close and her mother and father were devastated by his death. She was desperate to get him back and turned to dark magic. In an attempt to bring his soul back into the world she had to make a few animal and blood sacrifices and in the middle of her ritual was found by her parents. They didn't know what to think when she attempted to explain herself and they had her committed.
When her ritual was interrupted she somehow freed Gregory's soul and since then he's always been with her. They both theorized that Gregory was somehow bound to her from the ritual since he could never wander far without re-appearing near her. As for Gregory he was glad that Sidney was the only one that could see him considering he looked the way he did when he died.
Since Sidney had freed him from the spirit world they were best friends. He was her only friend and all she really had. Two years after she was first committed she still refused to take any medicine that the doctors offered her and her parents finally gave up. Luckily they had agreed that they wouldn't force anything on her and even wrote up a contract keeping any doctors from forcing any medicine on her. They wanted her to get better on her own and finally gave up hope when she turned eighteen. Her Grandma was the only one that would send her care packages up until two years ago when she passed away. She was sure that she had left her some things in her will but knew that her parents probably decided to keep it for themselves since she was unstable.
Unfortunately when she was first committed she made the mistake of telling them about Gregory and they diagnosed her with seeing and interacting with her hallucinations. It didn't help that they always caught her talking to him out loud and eventually gave up on trying to explain him to her doctors and therapists.
Sidney was let out of the back of the van only to be greeted by several escorts who led her through the airport. Gregory was enjoying being out of the hospital as much as she was and he kept taunting her to make a run for it. As much as she wanted to she knew it was no use. Last time she tried to get away they kept her in solitary for a week and on top of that she had nowhere to run to and no one that she could trust. She let them drag her through the airport and begged them to buy her some food while they waited and they finally gave in.
"So we're going to Ohio…" Gregory said oddly after figuring out how to read the flight board. Sidney tugged on the bottom of her green tank top nervously and gave him a confused look.
"Ohio? What the hell is in Ohio?!" She said a little too loudly making one of her escorts stare at her.
"You're going to a special psychiatric hospital. Now come on the plane is boarding." The burly man said sounding rather annoyed. Only two escorts joined her on the plane ride and they were seated first class in their own private area. Once the plane took off Sidney got comfortable and tried not to laugh at Gregory as he mused looking out the window at how cool everything looked from up there.
Sidney decided to take a nap and her and Gregory enjoyed running around in the dream world until she was woken up by one of her escorts to put her seat belt back on.
Sidney loved dreaming, it was all she really had to escape the boring reality of being stuck in asylums over the past seven years. Gregory could join her in her dreams as well and loved being able to interact with her in them. She always loved to show him the things that he didn't understand since he was one hundred years behind her time.
Luckily finding her bag wasn't difficult with Gregory's help making their time in the airport rather short. Gregory enjoyed taking in the sights on their way and was thankful that they were nice enough to buy Sidney lunch before going to the new asylum.
"Westin Hills Psychiatric Hospital." Gregory said staring ahead of them making Sidney sigh loudly knowing that this place would be even more annoying than the last. Once she was inside the escorts left and the doctors took over.
The inside of the place looked rather nice compared to all the other ones she'd been to. Gregory ran ahead of her and through all the rooms for a quick look and found himself extremely uneasy there and quickly returned to Sidney's side. She noticed a worried look on his face and looked at him questionably. The seven years they were together Gregory had mastered reading Sidney's facial expressions so she wouldn't have to talk to him out loud in front of others so she wouldn't raise suspicion and deal with being pestered to take pills for hallucinating and talking to herself.
"I don't like this place. I can feel many people have died here, but there is no lingering spirits. It doesn't make any sense." He explained and Sidney just stared at him hoping he was joking as she wheeled her bag behind her. The doctor's hand on her shoulder snapped her out of her gaze.
"Hi, Sidney right?" The woman asked and she nodded. "I'm doctor Debois. I'll be one of the doctors taking care of you from here on out." She introduced herself. She was in a long white lab coat with blue scrubs and her shoulder length brunette hair was beginning to grey in some spots. Sidney began following her through several doors and into a long corridor. "I hope you like it here at Westin Hills. From what your file says you've never taken any medication offered to you. We won't determine if you need to take any medication until we've evaluated you."
"Evaluation… what fun!" Gregory said sarcastically. Sidney rolled her eyes at him and followed Debois through the hospital as she gave her the tour of the place.
There were two large activity rooms. One was full of board games and things for arts and crafts and the other had several TVs and every gaming console you can think of with hundreds of games and movies as well. Only the patients in this wing were allowed in these rooms and she was lucky enough to be staying in the same wing and she suddenly decided she liked the place a lot more.
"You better go play in there so I can watch! You keep telling me about that Nintendo thing you used to play all the time and it sounds neat!" Gregory pleaded and Sidney did her best not to laugh at him as he sat there and began reading all the game and movie titles so he could choose which ones he wanted her to play later. They even had a nice lunch room with a normal kitchen that she was allowed to use.
"Here is your room. I'll let you get settled in. Meet me in my office in an hour, it's across the hall from the activity room." Debois said before leaving closing the door behind her.
Sidney threw her bag on the large bed in front of her. The room was twice the size of any of the cells she'd been in before and actually had a real bed. There was even a closet with a dresser in it and at the foot of her bed was a small trunk filled with spare blankets, sheets, and pillows. On the wall opposite to her bed was a small desk and chair as well.
"Gee whiz is this a hotel? This place is killer! They have five different Nintendo thingamajigs! They even have a tiny little one! Forget what I said before. This place is far better than any we've been to before. You even have a real bed!" Gregory smiled standing through the middle of it.
"I know I know. It's so weird… but you said you sensed a lot of deaths here? What about that? I wonder what other kinds of patients are here. It seems like they pretty much get free range of this place. There has got to be something up with this place it's too good to be true." Sidney explained suspiciously as she opened up her suitcase.
"I'm sure you're right, but at least try to enjoy it here." Gregory pleaded as she unpacked her clothes into the dresser in the closet. She frowned as she counted how many shirts and pants she had left.
"I'll try. Ugh I only have four pairs of pants and five shirts left… would it kill my parents to send me clothes now that Gammy Tammy is gone? I wonder if they even remember I exist…" She sighed sadly.
"You never know the doc here might let you phone home." He said with hope. "So… looking forward to your evaluation?"
"Hell no. They sit there and pretty much just jot down how crazy they think you are then categorize you into a group of other crazies and you get stuck dealing with them all the time in stupid group therapy." She said as she put a framed picture of her brother on the nightstand by her bed.
"I can't stand group therapy…" Gregory sighed.
"Me either. I wonder what kind of patients they have here. Especially if they've had so many die here like you said." She said with a worried expression as she sat on the bed with a book from her bag.
"Yep something is off about that. I'll attempt to do some snooping later. But for now, Gaston Leroux's Phantom of the Opera!" He said excitedly. It was his favorite book of hers. She began reading out loud from where they last left off knowing he hated to read over her shoulder since she read a lot faster than he did and would often turn the page before he was done.
An hour had gone by and Sidney reluctantly marked her place in the book and shut it setting it on the nightstand.
"Oh I don't wanna." She whined.
"Me neither. Afterwards can we watch a movie? I found Phantom of the Opera on one of those movie disks!" He said excitedly.
"Really? I never got to see the movie. I only saw the play when I was younger with Grammy. I hope the movie isn't like the play. The play kind of pissed me off." She said making her way out into the large corridor.
"Why?" Gregory asked confused.
"They make Raoul seem smart and heroic." She replied shaking her head.
"Oh… why? He's an imbecile. If it wasn't for the Persian he'd be dead!" He laughed.
"Oh and the Persian isn't even in it." She said dryly.
"What in the world were they thinking?" He asked making a disgusted face. "Maybe I don't want to watch it now."
"Well too bad because I do." She laughed and Dr. Debois came around the corner with a worried look on her face making Sidney stop in her tracks.
"Oh crap I think she heard you talking to me." Gregory said wide eyed.
"Who were you talking to just now?" She inquired staring into her.
"Um… just… my friend…" She stuttered knowing that she was in for it now, her first day there and already getting caught talking to Gregory out loud.
"Why don't you join me in my office and tell me more about your friend." She said calmly and Sidney followed her.
"I'm sorry Sid. I forgot. I was so used to being at the other hospital. We'll be more careful. I won't forget to remind you to not talk to me out loud I promise. Crap crap crap…" He went on blaming himself. The last place they were at they were there for two years and Sid had given up on attempting to convince them that she was no longer seeing things. Having a vengeful ghost, Zac, there as well made it too difficult to not talk to them out loud all the time.
She followed Debois into her office and sat in a chair in front of her desk. Just as the Doctor sat in her chair they heard a blood curdling scream coming from down the hall. Debois instantly sprang from her seat and out the door past Sidney as if she wasn't even there. She followed wondering what in the world could be going on and what kind of other patients they had there.
The screaming continued and two other doctors came running in the same direction paying no attention to Sidney as she stood in the doorway to a patient's room watching in awe and horror. The three doctors stood around a bed that had blood streaked across the pillow. Gregory gasped and pointed to the ceiling and a girl no younger than fifteen was held to the ceiling by an unseen force with four slash marks across her face. The two other doctors jumped onto the bed and grabbed the girl as Debois readied a needle she pulled from her lab coat.
It irked Sidney to see how they acted as if it was part of their daily routine as they attempted to pull the girl down and she wouldn't budge.
The girl kept screaming over and over. "Wake me up!"
While the other two doctors held the girl in mid air just a few feet off the bed Debois uncapped the needle and reached under the girl stabbing it into her chest. The girl's eyes snapped open and Debois quickly yanked the needle out of her chest as the other two doctors caught her so she didn't fall face first into the bed and the girl took in quick short breaths and hugged onto one of the doctors sobbing loudly.
"What in the fuck just happened?" Sidney demanded and all three doctors turned and looked at her with a look of remorse.
"Did you see him?" Gregory said with a look of terror in his eyes unable to look away from the crying girl.
Sidney looked at him in confusion. "See who?"