Blood
everywhere. Can't escape. Running, always
running. Pain. Horrible burning pain. Must
not stop. Must try to escape. It's a dead
end. He is trapped. They are rite behind him;
he can see their distorted smiles and their gleaming eyes. One has a
hammer; he raises it and starts swinging it. Everything
starts fading and going dark...
Darek
woke from his dream in a cold sweat. For a moment he just
lay there breathing in hard and sharp. "Damn it,
that's every day this week. What in all of hell is wrong
with me." he whispered harshly into the dark recesses of the
hellish void that, for now, was his room.
Silently
he sat up and looked at his clock. It was 4:30. He
had only slept for a few hours, but now he felt like he had never
really slept at all.
Slowly
he shifted his weight on his already cooling bed so that his ear was
directed toward the door that was only a few feet from where he was
sitting. He looked as if he were frozen in time until he
gently swung his legs from the bed and placed his feet on the cold
floor. He shivered involuntarily as he took the blanket
from his shoulders and exposed his skin to the
cold.
He
walked over to his window where the drapes were still drawn against
the soon to be rising sun. He then sat down directly below
the window where the nearest vent was, and listened quietly, barely
moving. He knew that something besides his dream had woken
him.
For
a moment he could hear nothing but his own shallow breathing, and
then he heard a sound coming from the kitchen or living room. Some
one was trying to open the doors silently, but none of their hinges
had been oiled in a long time so they all gave a silent groan of
protest to the unexpected jarring.
'I
wonder what their looking for' Darek thought to himself with a
frown. Then there was silence, and a door opened close by,
it sounded like it was coming from Sarah's room...
