The Dream Team and the Battle For Salvation
Disclaimers: I own nothing of the Nightmare on Elm Street series or the characters, they belong to Wes Craven and New Line Cinema. The story belongs to me everything else belong to the director and the movie company.
Warnings: for this chapter there's going to be two references to the night Nancy told Gordon the truth. And the added reveal that the quintet caught Lorenzo, before it switches to her preparations to acting as intern therapist for Gordon's patients before she starts work there, but the next two to three chapters. Now, are the preparations and the murders that were in the movie.
As the deaths on the movie are simulated for the trio and it's the same for Sheila and Rick. Before the duo that carry their initials are killed, before they get to last member of their gang. And we hit the climax of the movie, the following month. But this one focuses on half the fourth movie and the other half the preparations for the new town regime, leading into their senior year.
The Trial and several real arrivals into town, including the psychiatrist in Freddy's Dead, Wes Craven, his producer and Stephen Kin. During the trial and then during a town meeting as the town spends that summer rebuilding their suburbs and begins building on to the town after.
Chapter 10: Witness Protection, Added Truths And The First Murder
"I'm just quoting what Philip said, but at the time she arrived, everyone was under the assumption that our dreams were a symptom of group psychosis. Mass hysteria, and the fact we were all dreaming about him, before we got back together. It didn't seem to impress anyone in that, and we were going in circles: making minimal progress with maximum effort, but the dreams were not the symptom, but the cause of our problems."
"But you want someone to blame regarding all the problems we had, from anorexia, to supposed suicide attempts, even the accidental bladder problems. Then you can blame Krueger for that, because that's wasn't bed wetting, we got caught in the rain in there. A few times or accidentally ended up in the damn pool and soaked from the waist down as a result." Kincaid said and they all nodded as Kristen added on to that remark.
"But here's a question for you if someone had a waterbed, and I know Joey does, but I'm making it clear if any teenage boy has a picture of the playboy sports magazine. Just hanging on the wall of their rooms with this month's model dressed in a swimming suit and sitting on an animal fur rug. And then the following morning you find said teenage boy inside the bed itself, and it's clear he drowned, and possibly was stabbed as well."
"But here's a rational question for you guys: but how could someone end up inside the damn thing. If the dreams didn't turn into reality and the lunatic drowned them in their own bed by turning the damn thing into a swimming pool. And dragging them to the depths of it, until their lungs burst and you find four stab wounds directly to the stomach?" she asked and the group nodded as they got it as Henderson answered her.
"Simple, they can't unless he hijacked your dreams and then killed you, but no psychotic can do these things without getting caught by the parents or the orderlies at the hospital. But no psychotic has this ability unless they were turned into a dream demon themselves and turned your nightmares into reality." he said and she nodded. "Yes that's exactly my point, we can't do this ourselves, because you'd heard the crash or scream."
"Come running and head it off before we could make it worse or try it, but you're lucky you woke me up or he'd have done both wrists, mom. I'm serious, I was already at the danger zone before he put me in the hospital that week. You guys got a good look at me, but that's what the altered reality in the movie universe is going to react to. And until after movie six, which is when we have the cops, adults and your department, dad."
"Deciding to take charge regarding this, but he doesn't realize, that is the doctor, never decided to test the pills before giving them to the future patients of your department. And the results are he's doing everything that Simms is doing, but he's Simms in reverse, regarding not using the pills. But excessive use of the pills, lockdown on communications and so on." she said and they all nodded as Neil answered her firmly.
"So the stupid fool using it on the kids so much it would take months of neutralizer just to pull them out of a coma. God I swear to god that the idiot medical psychiatrist in my department that tries this. And he's ending up in Westin Hills himself for attempted murder." Neil said with a low growl then and she nodded. "You know what you're doing, but look at me now, two nights and a afternoon uninterrupted sleep for once now."
"Special diet and I'm just taking it easy for a while, until my thigh and arm heal at the moment. But you see the difference, what I look like now, to what I looked like after I first ended up under your guardianship?" she asked and he nodded. "Yeah and I'm relieved you're beginning to look better then you did when we found each other again, baby." Lorenzo said to her and she nodded as she answered him with a slight smile.
"I can't say I blame you for that remark after learning you found me again, that was enough to tick you off and we saw the evidence after you told them the truth. Said truth that was you reached your limit in regarding killing children." she said and McCallister looked at her at that. "Alright I need to see your conversation with him, and leading into when he told them you busted them finally for us." he said and she nodded to him.
"Mayor, before you see this, I was trying to trigger the secondary memories, Natalie, I was trying to get her to remember when Rod and Glen knocked me into the locker. When I was working at your middle school as a janitor at the time. So the boys could change my appearance back, Taryn gave her my surname, and bingo, game over, so here's the truth now." Lorenzo said and the group nodded as they replayed the tape then.
Before they could do it, the cat smacked him in the head and he nodded. "Yeah I know I deserve that, but thanks for keeping the claws in." he said in response and looked at the trio who were trying to keep from laughing. "Not that I blame him for that response, but be thankful that wasn't Cocoa or Jason, or you would get the claws, Adam." Natalie said as she started laughing and he nodded with a slight smile as he answered her.
"I take your parents told you that my fiancé got her and Aunt Elaine a couple of cats to speed up the emotional healing, huh?" Nancy asked and she nodded. "Yeah and at the moment, I'm just thankful that wasn't Smokey or Cocoa. Or he would have used the claws on him, Tiger is no older then 11 years old. And in human years, and Smokey was an adult in human years acting like a father." Natalie said and she nodded to her then.
"After the incident 18 months ago, I told my parents what the heck happened and not revealing till now that our copy killer was a poltergeist, said poltergeist. The Springwood Slasher and I told them this last night at the time, after your broadcast. Now knowing why I was getting involved in decisions they were ready to kill when they heard this. And after I told them that the current administration in the ward crossed so many lines."
"That is Carver and Simm's, while you and Neil were innocent of all charges, but every Springwood born parent in town. Once they read that book, was going to have their heads on a platter when they heard this." Jeff told her and she nodded. "I really don't blame you for that, you may have been in high school. And during our last encounter with Adam, but the acts took hold completely when Kris told you she remembered you."
"To you this meant acting as Glen and Rod did with her and I think they wanted you to act like her big brother and mine after we got reunited with each other." Nancy said, before they heard a second soft thump and saw the cat had knocked the pen into his lap and he nodded with a bemused smile. "Yeah I get the point, but it's not happening again, she's safe with me okay." he said and the kitten gave a firm mew to him at that.
As Nancy, Judy and Kristen started laughing at the response the cat just gave him as he answered her remark as their parents exchanged bemused looks at the irritated look on the kitten's face as he answered her remark. "Alright laugh it up ladies." he said to them with a bemused smile on his face as he saw the cat move to Kristen and left his paws across her arm in response and they hid a smile at that as he curled up in her arms.
"What the heck was that about exactly?" James asked her and she hid a chuckle. "If he was human, that's Rod after the trial ended, and he smacked him a second time. Just for getting too close to her, before dad picked her up. Just before she was getting into conversation with the guys, the trio and me, but I think he decided to do Rod's response by smacking him across the head today." she said and they nodded, bemused at that.
"Now normally, he's in a good mood, but if he was human, that's a teenage boy's prerogative in regarding their mother. After they meet the man that was messing with his mother and if he was human, I think he's channeling Rod right now. Because Rod wanted to smack him for a third time after he got way to close to her." Nancy added with a slight smile and they nodded, bemused as they switched subjects at the remark.
"Tiger chill, we got it under control, you don't need to use the claws, you little fluffball, he's innocent, he never hurt her, but that was just simulated. Just to get us to expose this conspiracy in the ward open, but you don't need to knock some sense into him, literally, so cool down little guy, take it easy." Joey said to him gently and he gave him a mew to answer him as they refocused and watched the tape a second time then.
"When was this exactly anyway?" Anderson asked and Lorenzo explained that. "Wednesday night was so I could get her attention, Thursday was so I could trigger her memories of the Addam's Trial, because that was my third and final chance. I decided to go under General Crusel's custody after this, but this was so I could get your attention finally." he said and the senior Elm Street gang nodded as they watched it carefully.
"Hey beautiful, how goes it.' he said and they watched her back away from him at that. "Whatever you want, just get the hell away from me." she said and he started backing him into the wall. "What makes you think anyone will listen to you?" he said with a smirk as he started reaching for her shirt, as she started moving against the wall and him acting like a predator as he moved closer.
As his hand was positioned by herhead and the other about to go under her shirt, they heard a sudden shout out at that. "Get the hell away from her!" Kincaid shouted as he and Joey came running over and rushed him and slammed him into the wall as the side of his head collided with the lock of the bathroom door as Kincaid grabbed him and shoved him against the wall so hard they could tell he nearly broke his wrist then.
"Try that again, and I'll make you wish Max had killed you before I get through with you." Kincaid snapped at him and shoved him away from him as he moved in front of her with Joey next to her as he took her hand as Kin looked at him with a dangerous look on his face. "I'm only saying this once you asshole, you try that again with any girl I care about or come near my sisters again and I'm killing you myself."
"Before turning you into the cops and your boss, stay the hell away from her." he growled and then turned to her "Sis you okay?' he asked her and she gave a nod as he pulled her into a hug after what just happened and she was shaking from it as well. "Never mind coming to my room guys, we're here." Taryn said as she and Will moved over to them and Natalie nodded as she said it then to her.
"Yeah I remember that remark, Rod said the very same thing to him after he tried it on me, Adam. What's the deal, were you deliberately trying to jog her memory by re-enacting the situation. Regarding me, because at this age, the guys are Glen and Rod as teenagers at the time, eight year difference but so what. I think they were channeling the guys when he gave you that warning?" she asked and he nodded to her gently then.
"Try it again and we're telling Max and the doc what's going on." Will said and he smirked and answered that. "What makes you think they'll believe you?" he asked and she smiled. "Yeah okay this is how I wanted the conversation to go then, I wasn't sure whether or not, she had my records then, but if she did. That was my ticket to ending the conspiracy in the hospital." Lorenzo said to them and the group nodded.
"They might if they hear there is a parasite working here, do you even know your boss and Dr. Gordon, the minute they hear they got a criminal working here, especially one who is threat to their girl patients, they'll just call the department and do it themselves, so you never got a background check well that makes it more simple." Kristen told him and turned to Taryn then at that.
As she smiled at her statement as they got started on it. "Taryn what's his surname exactly, because his face looks familiar to me, and I need to know that?" she asked and she looked at him coldly. "Rodriguez." she said and she smiled coldly. "Seeing that look on her face I knew she realized that she found me finally after all this time, Counselor, your honor." he said and they nodded to him gently at that remark
"Rodriguez, as in Adam Rodriguez?" Kristen asked and the quartet all nodded as she looked back at him in shocked disbelief at that information as she said it to him in disbelief. "Lorenzo Rodriguez, or, his whole name, Lorenzo Adam Rodriguez, he was arrested when Nancy was 14, spent three years in prison. And was released when we were 11, and we haven't seen hide or hair of him since now."
"But my mother has been trying to find him ever since he got released from prison, well that did it, if you wanted to jog my memories you just did it now. I don't believe this, Lorenzo, are you trying to get yourself killed. And by my mother right now, who of the quintet of us girls were at your trial?" she asked and he looked at her in amazement at that, before James saw a look of hope in his eyes.
"I, I remember a blond haired girl with blue eyes, a young brown headed girl with green and a little 7 to 8 year old with blond hair and blue eyes." he said and she nodded to him as she answered him gently. "The brown headed, green eyed teenage girl was Nancy, Tina was the blond haired, blue eyed girl next to her. Rod was black hair and blue eyes and Glen was brown and brown eyes."
"As for the little girl, that was me Adam, it's been a long time now, were you hoping to be found by our parents if you exposed yourself to me finally." She said and he nodded and she nodded with a sigh as she explained it to the quartet then at that. "Guys relax, this was a way to expose himself to me is finally, as to why you weren't at his trial Taryn, and neither was Jenny, but the ones who were."
"Were me, Nancy and Tina, along with Jeff and his little sister and Nattie Addams, but in five years, no one, no teenage girl here was at the trial. Adam, why now, why did you choose now to expose yourself at the moment, to me, to Nancy, Taryn, Jeff, even Walter and the medical doctor duo, why. Is just to get us out of the hospital, or get them, Carver and Simms thrown in jail."
"What exactly, if you waited till now to do this, did you want me to find you all this time, Adam, L.A.R.. Lorenzo Adam Rodriguez, you have no twin brother Adam, but if that's true right now." she asked looking at him and he sighed in relief and closed his eyes as he answered her. "To save you guys and end the attacks I decided to get you out of here, to protect you, I was searching for a way now."
"For redemption of my past deeds and I found it, in you, but this was so I could end this now save you and your friends and by ending the lock out. On your medication, how much do you remember of the last trial Kristen. Your maternal family, that's what I need to know, to know I have the right one, the right teenage girl?" he asked and she gently answered him at the question then.
"My grandfather is William Anderson, or to you criminals, William 'Dragon' Anderson, my mother is Elaine 'Firebird' Anderson Parker. Damian 'Hardball' Anderson, Philip's my cousin." she said and he nodded in relief. "Finally, after five years of searching I found you, alright Kris, I think you know what I'm trying to say, but you find me, you tell Nancy." he started to say and she nodded to him.
"Nancy tells Dr. Gordon, he tells her father, and the quartet, they call our parents and the bad apples are screwed after that. Yes I understand what you're telling me, but why the hell try the duo, they weren't at your trial. So with that the ones who were, were me, Nancy and Tina, along with Jeff. The duo were purposely directed hits, as are myself, Taryn, and Nancy now."
"Then you been searching every patient group for a girl that remembered you at your last arraignment. Yeah okay, guys, the parents that had him convicted for his last offense were my mother, yours Taryn, the Caulfields, the Thompsons, Greys, Lanes and Lantzes. So with that in mind nice timing here, one piece of my memory was coming forward when I found you guys."
"And now this happened my entire memory is back and thanks for jogging my memory right now." She said to him and he nodded to her and she sighed as she looked at him firmly as she said it to him."If Nancy told you who she was, than you were hoping to find someone in the recent patient groups. And since you got released from prison, which was when we were 11, a year after the murders.".
"And one girl connected to your trial weren't you, and someone who remembers your appearance as it was when Glen and Rod beat the crap out of you. Well your search just ended, I'm that little 7 to 8 year old girl, thanks guys for jogging my memory. But this is what he looked like then after Rod and Glen knocked him into the locker, he was working at the middle school as a janitor."
"Tried this with Nattie Addams and they jumped him and he hit his head against the locker, nasty cut too. What you just told him was exactly what Rod said to him, before Nancy called the cops. And her father and two members of his team arrested him, bur that's the last time I saw the trio. Just before they died, were murdered or whatever at the time right now and with that in mind now."
"Well, Lorenzo, or should I call you Adam been a long time, I should have known that sixth sense I had when you put your hands on me like that. It was because I'd seen you before, only in a different outfit and a black eye at the time." she said to him and he looked at her in shock at that. "Somehow it doesn't surprise me that you remembered what I said at the trial that day, Kris."
"But putting the exact sequence down for the quartet is enough to convince the criminal turned medical guard that he just found the exact teenage girl he was looking for. And with it the fact you named us by our characteristics to our adult counterparts is another factor as well. As the name surname shoved our faces forward an added 8 years and you were 8 years old when the attack happened anyway." Nancy said to her gently at that.
"That was my thought when I saw the realization hit her at the name Nancy, 8 years to the day of the trial when we see each other again. And I was looking for the 8 year old girl, the one who'd been at my trial, and I finally found who I was searching for. After all this time, and said 8 year old was our latest arrival now and with that. Hearing her say that and the exact sequence to when and where, that was enough to to tell me then."
"That she remembered who I was and the trio, Jeff and Walter at the time, but knowing I found exactly who I was looking for finally. I had to make sure then and went to the next question at that." Lorenzo said and Anderson nodded as he listened to her next remark. "Do you recall Nancy's conversation to Aunt Erin, let alone Walter's to her, total recall?" She asked him and he looked at me in shock at that as he answered her.
"Total, total recall, you're not, you can't be!" he said in shock and she nodded. "I am, that seven to eight year old girl that Sergeant Daredevil Thompson was holding after the trial ended was me. So just add the eight years to your features, exchange these clothes for a set of convict coveralls. And the damage to your forehead that Rod and Glen did in the locker room, at the time."
"And I just found you a second time Adam, long time, no see, Adam why the heck were you trying to expose yourself. And to me of all people do you have a death wish right now. I mean think it over unless..., yeah I get the idea. So you expose yourself to me, I tell Nancy, she's tells Dr. Gordon. They tell Dr. Jenkins, he calls our parents and they're screwed here as a result once it got exposed."
"You were looking for the patient, a girl, who remembered you back then, but nobody in the last five years did at the time. Until our dream menace, whoever the hell he is, lands me in here next and I find my friends, my Toddler gang, then I find you." She said to him and he sighed in relief as he said it."Five years searching for a girl connected to my last arraignment and I end up finding it."
"And in our latest arrival and with you, Thompson, I remember your godfather kiddo, but I had to get you to catch me. So you could tell her and it starts bouncing from member to member of your crime ring. You're that little girl I saw eight years ago, and their parents, Nancy and Grey. Because I also saw a brunette with green eyes, another with blonde and brown eyes, and they..."
"And they looked like Taryn and Jennifer as adults?" he said and she nodded. "The duo you saw were their mothers, but we're matched to our adult version, aside from Nancy. So added the thirty years to my looks, I'm 16, so add the thirty years to me now." she said and he looked at her and backed into the wall in shock and she nodded as Elaine gave nod as she said it then at the response he just gave her.
"You see me at the previous arraignment, right" She asked and he nodded as Kristen repeated that. "You see my mother don't you?" she asked and he nodded to her quickly as he sighed as he said it."How, how do you know my name exactly?" he asked and she smiled as she answered him then. "You recall your conversation with Nancy on Monday, you were asking her those questions to gauge who she was."
"And just before she woke me up?" she asked him and he nodded as she explained that. "When I was a baby, a side effect of an emotional bond with an adult is it creates a telepathic link to them, I had a link to my godfather when I was a baby, he replaced my biological father then. And, unfortunately for you, Dr. Gordon replaced him now, I heard that entire conversation, through him."
"That you were having with Nancy that day, only to realize I just found my big sister that day, and with her, my gang. But with what you just did, you just exposed yourself completely now, you've been found by the person you least expected: the god-daughter of the cop who arrested you eight years ago. Or you just wanted to expose whatever this is to me finally,mbut either way."
"Alright, Adam listen to me, our parents are the best of friends and that's the last good memory I have of the quartet. Just before the trio died, or were killed, I don't know which. But what I do know is that he's been leaving me clues to his identity here. So why were you waiting for me exactly after all this time, why not turn yourself in?" she asked him gently and he sighed as he answered her.
"I'm in a damned if you do, damned if you don't with Reynolds." he said and she nodded with a sigh to that. "We should seen that one coming, you can't turn yourself in without it killing both you and Angie." Elliot said and Elaine and Donald nodded in agreement. "Should have seen that coming right now, before you guys ask he's a loan shark with a demeanor like that guy on the second season of Macgyver."
"The one who conned his friend and 30 others out of their live savings, but he's into drug dealing, money laundering, loansharking and a few dozen other things. If mom finds out you're here though and you're in serious trouble here, but their, the guys fathers, would beat the crap out of you for this, but Billy's father is a high school wrestling champion, the duo football players."
"As is my uncle, Damian Anderson, so unless you want to explain this, why, of eleven, five are dead and four of those five were at the trial so what the hell is this unless..." she started to say and closed her eyes. "What's wrong?" Taryn asked and she explained that. "Reynolds had and has had it out for us, since our parents threw Adam in jail eight years ago, I just uncovered the reason why now."
"But Taryn, the reason is that Rod was the one who found him and arrested him the last time, but Rod Lane, Tina Grey and Glen Lantz were killed first. Philip and Jenny were next, all that's left of our crime prevention ring is you, me, Nancy, Nattie Adams and the Breckers, Jeff and his young sister Judy. But they're in college right now at the moment, and with that right now."
"Adam were you waiting for me to blow the whistle on you, so I could get my mother and their parents up here. Is that what you were trying to do, get me to remember, I turn you into Dr. Gordon, Jenkins and Adams. They call our parents, who then call Uncle Donald and his team and while we're free, the duo are toast?" She asked and he nodded to her and she gave a nod as she said it to him.
"So you found a way to end the corruption in the hospital and it was by exposing yourself to me, Taryn and Nancy. As our parents were all at the trial at the time, if I'm reading this right, it was three fold situation now. And it turns into a domino effect, you save us by exposing the truth. And said truth of your true identity and I want the truth right at the moment as well here now.
"But have you touched the girls, I mean all the girls that ended up in the ward since you started working here, at all since you been working here?" she asked and he shook his head. "The only thing I'm guilty of this time is masquerading as an orderly Kristen. But I'm not responsible for the added charges to my former identity, in fact, I'm being framed, it was another brewer at the time."
"That mass produced the serum that drug was based off of, but if you need further evidence go to cooks in the cafeteria and ask them they can vouch for me. And I was going legit, before you found me finally, but if you have my records, and it's the updated one from my last trial. That's all that's needed to get your mother and their parents here, with the fact you found me now."
"I'm resigning and you can turn me into your parents and Dr. Jenkins, but he's being framed, for drug dealing and stealing as is Adams." he told her the group saw a furious look on her face as she nodded to him. "The duo are friends of my mother, and they're being framed for selling narcotic's to these drug dealers?" She repeated and he nodded and she gave a nod as he turned away from her sadly.
"Was that drug the reason he broke my shoulder when I was ten, Dean's father was the sergeant he nearly killed at the disturbance at the restaurant?" she asked and he nodded to her quickly at the remark. "Yes it is, and seeing the injury on your shoulder, I was pissed at that, because seeing that was enough. And I wanted to beat the shit out of whoever did it and whoever sold him the pills."
"I don't know who did it and who sold him the pills, but I was in jail at the time of the riot at the restaurant. But you don't have to tell me, but if that's the added reason for why I saw that line in your shoulder X-ray. It's enough I'm going to kill who caused it, you're my one chance, but I was trying to expose myself to you guys." he said and she nodded as he pushed away from the wall.
"You were in jail from the time I was eight to eleven years old, so four years in jail and five years on the lam. Yeah alright, so you arrived here, trying to catch a way to end things and you were looking for someone who was connected to you trial. And in each of Dr. Gordon's patient groups, that had girls and suddenly you get your wish when Nancy arrives and with her, me, on Monday."
"Monday was the day of your previous arraignment, alright I get it, if you give me everything I need. I can get you by on a light sentence, community service, working on the base my uncle works at, I don't care. But to get that chance you have to tell me everything you know about. In why we lost 90 more patients in 12 year, but that's it, that's my offer." she said and he nodded to her as he left then.
"Wait a minute, Adam stop." she told him and he looked at her. "If you're not his Brewer anymore, than where did dad get it from exactly at the time?" she asked and he looked at her. "Who's your father exactly, because this may be my only chance to survive the beating your father's, guys, Taryn, are going to give me later for those, if I realize who caused that to your shoulder kid."
"And who sold him the bloody pills as well at the time?" he asked and she quickly answered him. "Richard Allen Parker, Adam, to reduce the severity and magnitude of the sentence turn yourself in now. With the fact I just busted you, you know what you have to do, I can ensure you get off lightly. Though still life inprisonment, but you're better off now, just turn yourself into the cops."
"And my mother and the guys fathers, you have our addresses, but if you're planning on implication if they're also involved in this. But our parents are the best of friends with only six left, you have to tell ours, our adult versions, the Whites are Elliot and Claire White. Or to get get more formal, Sergeant and Nurse White, Will's mother and Aunt Claire working at county general."
"Will's father is contractor and architect, James is a firman, and Jared a paramedic, but the six of them together. That includes Lieutenant Donald Thompson, is your only chance of making it out of this alive you have to tell them the truth. My mother's been looking for you for five years, it's time to stop running and face the music now." she said and he nodded to her and left at that.
"Wait, wait, Adam hold it." Taryn said and he turned back to her at that. "Adam our only chance for you to get us out, it's time for the direct approach. I was studying to be a narc, so we pull a sting operation." she said and he nodded. "Hold it, you had this planned out the night before and the bad apples weren't paying attention to the cameras?" Kopecky said in shock and they nodded to him gently at the question.
"Tolito twist is and was our only chance and once they incriminate themselves we drop the act with each other. If she's suffers anything else tomorrow night after you pull us out of it at the time, but the six of us decided on a sting operation. They just got caught with their hands in the teel by attempting to kill the daughter and grand daughter of two government officials that night." Joey explained and they nodded as they watched it.
"We may have lost two more, but to save every child in town, I was acting as a double agent, but I was your undercover agent, Bill. But I'm sorry Elliot, Jack, I tried, but I couldnt save your children, because I was already too late. They were killed in the separation when they were trying to track each other down that night in the dream." he said and the duo nodded as they heard her say it with a sigh then at that.
"Guys, with what just happened, I don't want to be on my own at the moment." she told them and they nodded as they played a couple of games and Max came to check on them. "It was coming up on lights out and I was bringing them the first dose for the night Counselor, not knowing she just caught him red headed. At the time here, but she told me the following night and gave me his record." Max said and they nodded to him.
"Alright here's the next clip, but this is when I decided to implicate the bad apples so they could have enough rope to hang themselves, your honor. I decided my first good deed was by getting them ready to expose themselves and then tell Neil. In how to neutralize the narcotic and the sedatives they drugged her with the following night." Lorenzo added and the medical and council of the town both nodded to him.
Watching him as he walked into the lounge he found the trio standing there as he said it to the five of them and the dietician as well firmly. "We got a problem here, Kristen knows who I am." Lorenzo said to Carver and Simms and she quickly answered. "What, but how did she figure it out?" she asked and he explained that. "She finally got my surname is how, she's got my record, her mother is Anderson."
"Her mother is the jury leader and Taryn's father is a cop, if she tells Thompson, we're completely screwed here. Thompson was double checking on who I was after the panic attack, she hears why and I'm dead. And it's because her father is Daredevil Thompson, the last time I saw him was eight years ago. So you had a right to be worried here, their parents have been friends for years."
"But here's the bad news: her uncles are the older versions of the duo who jailed me. The duo who were murdered six years ago, her other aunt is the adult version of the girl who was with Thompson. While Parker's grandfather is the county judge and I saw only the five members of their gang at the trial, two women who look like older versions of the duo." he said and she nodded to him.
"We don't have a choice here, we've got to destroy the evidence or we're all ending up in jail when their parents hear this. I've been pushing her condition to a relapse the last three days so we could fire him." she said and he nodded as Carver answered her, his eyes worried but determined then. "Do whatever you have to, but get the loose ends tied up, because Gordon is getting too close now."
"And I mean right now to figuring out the truth, anything goes wrong this week, and that's our ticket right there, to get rid of both him and Thompson." Carver and they nodded in agreement to that . "Whatever happens tomorrow is our ticket to burn and bury the evidence here, if this boogeyman is as dangerous as they claim him to be, I'm finishing off in draining what's left of her strength."
"Lorenzo use that stuff on her and spike her drinks with it, whatever anger she's holding in at Parker. That is perfect for this, we use that and double it through that drug you cooked up. We're orchestrating the fight in the hall, whatever anger she's holding in is the key here, so I'm giving the release. And you do the rest and we let Max be the one to take the fall for this."
"His remarks regarding the kids is enough of an alibi, but we nailed six of seven of the crime ring, we have to get them all." she said and he nodded to her. "She doesn't know I ran into her father six years ago and gave it to him. But whatever anger she has at him is going to get doubled if she figures out what caused their separation." he said and she nodded to that as Carver answered him.
"Max takes the fall, by giving her the dose, double it, and with her strength like it is, they're trapped in there. And we let this, whatever it is kill her and them with her and we can bury all the evidence all at once that way. And we get off scott free here, alright we do it that night, if anything goes wrong. I'm not bothering to listen to whatever Thompson or Gordon have to say."
"And I'm firing them whether it was for following medical orders or not, you do the rest." Carver said and they nodded to that. "Whoa, whoa, that wasn't in the tape we viewed yesterday?!" Kincaid snapped and a message was written out. "That's because this is the real tape, they didn't realize I was monitoring from another camera, baby brother, Kin, it's me, Tina." Nancy read out and they all nodded to that news.
"In other words, he altered the words so we'd realize that he was implicating them, he wasn't the Brewer that gave Rick the blasted narcotic's. It was Derek Wallace, but he had to make it sound like he was the one so they'd reveal their plan to him. And then he'd turn them into us, once he was neutralized the drugs and sedatives in her system, before he turned himself into me." Donald said and Lorenzo nodded to him then at that.
Looking at them in shock, they heard Lorenzo's remark to his statement. "Are you crazy I can't do that, she tells them the truth and you're screwed Carver, I'm a rapist, but I'm not killing a teenage girl, just to plug the leak. We've lost three in three months, because you're not getting them that medication. You go with this plan I'm not getting involved in it, I've already got enough dirt on me."
"Just to have me convicted for a third time, but if I kill a child I wind up in the electric chair. or I'm sentenced to life in prison for killing the daughter of the jury leader, I've done other illegal things in my life. But I draw the line at drugging a patient just to commit a murder here. In fact I hand myself over to them now, and the risk is less right now, at the moment me Gordon finds out."
"Than what you just sentenced yourselves to because of Reynolds right now. Their parents arrested me once already and I'm not killing their daughters just to cover a leak, they want me they can have me. I've had enough of this crap, you've been in over your heads ever since this started. She's right too, you do this, and this is going to get you killed when their parents find out about it."
"And for all I know this could cause a massacre in town, because this entity whoever it is, is really killing our patients and you're helping him by doing this. I'm a criminal, it's true, but I'd never kill a child, you and Walters, Grant and Bhear cross that line there's no going back. I'm not the one bribing you for this Reynolds is, you're scared he's going to kill you, you're in a damn if you do."
"And damned if you don't, you make these choices and other choices after those children are released and your records of being clean are nothing after that. She tells them, I'm accepting the consequences, but if you try to murder an innocent child. You're going to have their entire family and every parent in town asking for your blood, make your choice now." Lorenzo said and left the room.
"Thank you God right now, we have the real evidence right now at the moment here, like I decided, you came forward and we can get you by on a light sentence, Adam. So you just reveal the truth when grandpa gets to you, and ask those questions. I'm leading the charge and with my training, I'm using skills their lawyer will never beat me at, dad, mom, Uncle Darryl, I'm your assistant prosecutor." Kristen said and the trio nodded.
As looking at him, she gave him a hug and he tightened his arms around her. "As you said I'm your guardian angel, I did what I had to do, so you saved us. And I'm keeping my end of the bargain now, you reformed and went legit. But it's clear you're just like the narrator in the book and you did the right thing. So we finish the job, just ask those questions when I act like mother in the court room." she said and he smiled to her.
"I'd hate to be these fools right now, because once you get going they're turning into flame broiled barbecue later kiddo. Little you made an impression on me, but big you, it made such an impression, if I have to take another bullet to protect you, I will." Lorenzo said and she gave his hand a squeeze in response. As they watched the rest of the tape then as the council exchanged furious looks then as he said it to her at that.
As he headed for the staff lounge he stopped as he said it softly. "I can't do this any more, I have to turn myself in, I do that now and the sentence is going to be less. Than if they arrest me, I'm turning myself into Councilor Parker, guys give me a chance to explain this to Jenkins and Dr. Gordon. I can tell them who I am, you just give me a chance to change, I can prove I can change who I am."
"They're going to kill her I have to tell Max and fast, whatever happens tomorrow I had nothing to do with here. Dear god why the hell did I even come here exactly, if it wasn't for me sixty five kids would still be alive right now, and two adults would still be alive right now, they and Grant, you people are out of your god damn minds, you realize what this could do to you guys later on."
"And once every parent in town finds out, wait a minute Lane and Lantz... Aw shit, whatever this is killed her brothers and sisters. And their parents are going to kill me for this when they find out. Girls please, I'm telling your father kiddo, I know you prefer Neil Gordon, he's your adoptive father. I can see that, I have to tell you the truth kiddo, I'm not the one who baby, I swear it."
"I'm not the one turned your biological father into a junkie Kristen, it was someone else, I had nothing do with him, I was still in prison at the time. The cartel got their claws into him, let me explain that, give me a chance to help you. Just give me another chance to please, if you need proof that I had nothing to do with him, here's my confession now, Derek Wallace sold him the pills."
"But I was still in jail, I've been framed, repeatedly, by these people, your brothers and sisters. They killed them because your parents put me in jail, no matter what it takes I will avenge them. I swear it, like Angie, you're my biggest reason to live and get out from their blackmail, I will protect you with my life, I swear to god I will." he said softly as he leaned against the door.
"We know and we believe you now son, but just to make it stick, if they're gunning for my grand daughter, I'm allowing David to throw you a gun and you take them down." Anderson said and he nodded to the orders. "Don't worry, if it means taking a bullet for her, or the girls I'll do it." he said and he nodded and he smiled at her then. "Just why is he covering that arm right now like that?" Lorenzo asked and she sighed as she said it.
"I took a piece of shrapnel to this arm in addition to getting hit twice in the same place, remember when you pulled me out of it by hitting me with the neutralizer. After you, Max, Walter and Eric came to check on me the night it ended?" Kristen asked and he nodded. "Well I got hit a second time in the same place, before he killed Eric, to Tiger, he's getting concerned and he's trying to protect my paw from getting hurt even worse."
"Then it is already right now." she said and he nodded. "I take it he's the kitten version to the picture of the long furred black cat I saw hanging on the poster board in your room. Because like I said the night before the final attack I took a fast blood test, and I knew I had to get you guys out of the hospital, your parents up there. Or just get them to implicate themselves, because you were beginning to shift off the median that day."
"And you were on the edge of draining all of you strength, I had to save your life by only one chance?" he asked and she nodded. "Yeah I know, and to answer your question now that was my mother's cat Smokey, so dad got me a kitten version to him. To help me, but this is him, if he was a kitten, black fur and blue eyes." she said and he nodded and the cat looked at him. "Mew." he said and Lorenzo hid a chuckle as he answered him.
"Nice to meet you too Tiger." he said and he watched as the kitten pressed his back into her upper chest as he pressed his forehead to hers and he heard a gentle purring and hid a smile. "He got a little territorial with her, since Fred made his precense known last night after we arrested the group you gave us details on at the time. But he's like every other kid when it comes to his parents." Elaine and the cat meowed in agreement to her.
"We're probably better off making sure he doesn't start chasing our furry friends all over the place, because to cats and dogs they see something like this. And their fur starts standing up while their's ears flatten, while for rabbits, mice and hamsters it's a different story. So they're safe on the furniture, the counter tops that have an island where the kids can do their homework, or just the staircase." Erin said and Jesse covered his eyes.
"I don't suppose he's the reason for why one my parakeets killed the other and why the second blew up after he killed the first, is he. Because dad was worried that the stove was leaking gas?" he asked and Donald answered that one. "That was normal for that blasted stove, but it went through two previous owners at the time. And just before you bought the house son, but that stove was 15 years old and needed to be replaced."
"As did the wiring in the house, but as the house was haunted at the time, your mother, if she gave it 15 minutes. And the monoxide stench you were smelling would have worn off, but the bird flew right through the vapor, but Ken. Do you smoke by any chance?" he asked and Walsh nodded. "Then you're lucky you didn't blow up the house, Fred was screwing around with the air conditioner, but one spark with the gas in the house."
"And you could have killed yourselves if you tried to do it yourself, because in the town the word paranormal takes in a whole new meaning. But that explains why the house was over heating, if you lit up a match in that house. And with the gas stench you were picking up on that night right after that, it would have destroyed it. But you found my daughter's diary, her room was your room, son." he said and the Walshes all nodded.
"Why the hell would your wife put up those bars on the Windows exactly, Donald?" Walsh asked and he sighed. "Because she, like me, thought we had a copy cat killer running loose in town at the time, two days of hell. Starting with the fact my niece was murdered first, followed by a kid I loved like my own son. I didn't realize our supposedly dead child killer was killing the kids in their sleep." he said and Walsh nodded to him firmly then.
"But he was getting ready to kill all of you, but in regarding the rumors, you should have taken them more seriously. As to why, though it seemed like a scary story, it wasn't it, half of it was true, but the kids were dreaming about Fred. Before he started up in his reign of terror, but to answer your unasked question kids, regarding Fred. Though we considered it, we're not the ones who did the deed, but we all share the guilt in it."
"At one point after Nancy told me he was back, I was speaking for the entire born in town adult population. Regarding this, that we all lost too much over this already, and we were ready to be through with it. Before I learned he targeted my entire block, as it hit me like a Mach truck, but kill the entire block and the rest of you are open season. But that's why he targeted Jesse, before he possessed Jesse, two years ago now."
"But it was close when he nearly killed my daughter, she did what you did Lisa, regarding him, but he's epitome of evil, and love over rides hate. But the stories in town, regarding her, the trio, Marge and me, were half true. Nancy never saw Glen being killed, but she and he had soulmate connection, as for Marge. He killed her by setting her on fire and she died in her sleep at the time." he said and the newcomers nodded to him gently.
"So why she'd end up in the hospital exactly?" Lisa asked and he sighed. "Like my god daughter, she was suffering the very same thing, she was in stage two. In regarding her mother and the trio, till she tore her room apart and I was all she had left now. She was scared out of her mind that she was going to lose me next. But Krueger reversed the damage he did to us by targeting the rest of the block." he said and the group nodded.
"You're getting the truth to those rumors from me after I finish this one, the next comes out in June, number two before school starts. And this term, now, it comes out in January, but everyone we're making it clear, health class, ancient history and legends class and Movie theory are non negotiable starting next term, clear. Because the next 6 months it's testing runs on the new health regime and the health department."
"Just to make it clear, regarding getting the correct results in this situation, and guys we're serious, who in here is a stay at home parent, exactly?" Kristen asked and fifty members lifted their hands. "Alright starting from the second the school day ends after the group is back under your eye again. We need you to monitor the transition carefully in regarding the come down, get the schedule worked out to a normal routine."
"Because like my guardians have decided on the same in my case, as for the first ten days it's Aunt Erin is checking in on me at a certain time. As she and Dr. Jenkins monitors the come down, for the first ten she's got it and then the following month. And 16 under their care, as they monitor me and what I looked like then. To how we look like on the hypnocil, after two months of dream deprivation, special diet and no caffeine."
"It's by writing down the results of every day on it, but the right diet, on the dream suppressant, less sugar and next to no caffeine. And plenty of exercise to burn off the caffeine, so half your department is by recovery of sleep deprivation and the other training in dream skills, dad." Kristen said and he nodded. "Not a bad idea, I'm the lead psychiatrist now and Nancy just made it to full herself and Dr. Harris is our boss now."
"So I'm taking Simm's place, Nancy's got mine and Harris took Carver's, but the only difference, it's level D, borderline C, in the department, and the Cubs. They're, instead of quiet room, getting a time out for loss of their tempers starting now in there. Alright kids, with Nancy and me being the ones that trained the trio. In regarding their dream powers, 18 months ago, that including use of hypnosis as well just to unlock them."
"I'm doing the same thing for you guys as, next to her, I'm the world's leading expert on pattern nightmares so with that, it's dream deprivation at night. And use of dream powers in group therapy, starting now, but this should work now. And as to why now, it's why we have the sessions going in circles, making little progress with maximum effort. Well now it's maximum progress with little effort as we train you to fight in there."
"2) we block him out by dream deprivation, the right diet, and drain your restless nerves by getting you toys and sports equipment to play with. In between class now, so that's where this is going to come in handy now." Neil said and they nodded. "That's actually the problem leading into when Kris arrived, little progress with maximum effort. And then suddenly the progress got out of hand now that we were back together that week."
"But I'd say group therapy took on a whole new meaning once you had our entire gang as patients Doc." Kincaid said and he started laughing at that. "Yeah that's an understatement, I've never seen you guys like this before. But the final piece to your childhood gang arrives and suddenly you're all suffering from the very same power burst. And the screwing around starts getting out of hand as well, but you got our attention."
"And the amount of noise on the floor had every medic and orderly wondering what all the racket was about on our floor that day. Because Daniel told me they could hear you from upstairs and as could every adult patient and orderly." he said and she smiled. "I take it the patients on the floor were all finding this funny. Since they never heard this much noise coming from the Adolescant Ward before?" she asked and Williams nodded.
"Yeah, and the leader of a group of patients, they were you guys as adults, asked me what the heck was going on downstairs and I told him I didn't know. Before Daniel said he'd go and check, before an hour later he reported in and told me. That you guys were going at it, and and the sextet all started laughing at that. Before he said that's one way to get rid of the cabin fever response, by hearing this day and day out in there."
"But I'm lucky these seven weren't you guys as adults, because with you its one thing, with a group of seven adults it's just asking for trouble." Adams said to her and she nodded with a chuckle. "What the heck were they in for exactly?" Joey asked and she sighed. "Same reason you guys were, therapy, but it was two women and five men, and the quintet acted like you guys around the trio." Jenkins said to him and he nodded.
"But to get back to this though, Neil, how much are we putting to fix things before we double it, I mean we have three months until the money comes back?" Williams asked and Nancy explained that to him gently. "$5,000,000 now for our department at the hospital, and that's covering the first of the three wings on the floor later on and another $7,000,000 to block off the spots that are off limits to the kids in town or there."
"Another $10,000,000 for supplies and the rest of the stuff needed and finally we do repairs on the town, in our side of it. But block off the cut off between the main drag and downtown, because we also need to fix my high school. And before before the current grades switch locations next term." she said and he nodded as Kristen looked at her as she said it for the eight gently at that remark as they and their friends looked her then.
"All I can say is thank god you survived the last rampage or we'd be finished by last night, sis. But now that we got a second chance at it, let's put it to use and we, the first, second, third and fourth generations are the ones protecting the fifth now. But from here on out its dealing with every section needed to now. But the Adolescant department at the hospital is now the emergency medical ward for our medical plan for us kids."
"But we're putting it into three distinct categories, but: 1) therapy, 2) is severe health problems, I mean about the ones that have been suffering from eating disorders. Or in this case what looks like injuries from suicide attempts that aren't and it's a result of dream deprivation that you have to deal with. And 3) is substance abuse and recovery, as we have everything we need to heal and though in the hospital at the time."
"We stay caught up because we have our own group of teachers there at the hospital, want a chance to pretend you're at the movies. And on the drag at eating out for the night, bookstore, library, a date night, no problem, hallway number three. That gives the patients their own version of the drag and life in the dormitory is the recreation wing." Kristen said and the group all nodded to her as the medical council switched it then.
"Hey dad, after day ten, you better let me help you, if Damian is a younger version of me, I think he's got my abilities. So with that, with my strength coming back, I spend an hour helping you helping in therapy, the rest of the day in school. And a two hour break for nap, as we arrested the bad apples now, they got me to train with. And as a big sister now as well." she added and they nodded as Nancy smiled at that remark and idea.
"Not a bad idea, with you at that stage we've been practicing at getting our skills up and running, but if Damian is just like you, you can help him in training, he's a beginner. You're an intermediate, and we have you to help us train the bringers. While the dream masters get their skills under control and we got a nice sized army out of this. But our family gang are the dream warriors and we're back." she said and Neil nodded to him.
"She's right, with you out of school for 8 weeks to 10, 9 of those 10 weeks, this could be used as your preparing to join my team at work. As you're helping me train my patients in a ro-test now, and in between hours. Then you're the beginning for the high school department in the hospital, but this is preparation for our new regime. And you and my current patients are just the beginning now, baby." he said and Derek chuckled at that.
"Yeah and with the kids entering the eighth grade next year, a added Phys. ED teacher as well now, but she's got me involved, ten days after the stitches have healed. But half elementary school level, half high school and preparing to enter the work force. By a few add ons, but 1) she's acting as intern therapist, 2) she's helping you to prepare for the new regime and 3) we have the duo coming with to help you prepare for it."
"But we spend the months leading into their summer break, working on the town, making repairs, extensions to hospital, blocking off the areas that are out of bounds. And so on, but the first step is dealing with who the next possible casualties are, the trial and the town meeting." Derek said and Elaine nodded. "Yeah and at the moment, it's also added group therapy for us adults now as well." she said and Erin nodded in agreement.
"Those of us who suffered the most need group therapy, extending anywhere from therapy itself, substance abuse, marriage counseling and so on. Like the kids we need this just as much, so we can prepare for the latest addition to our families. If anyone of us women in here are pregnant with their latest child." she said and the medical council nodded in agreement as Frasier and Haris exchanged looks at get remark then.
"Who in here, is pregnant with their latest child?" Frasier asked and thirty parents lifted their hands and he and Harris nodded. "My daughter's right, like the third generation, you kids need this just as much as they, our grandchildren, do. You all been affected by what he did these last twenty years now, so for the next 18 months. And leading into when baby number 2 or 3 are being born, you need to heal yourselves now, kids."
"But now the time has come to heal here now, Krueger has done enough damage to the town this time so we repair the damage, physically, mentally and emotionally now. Charlie and I are covering you guys in the adult department, Neil and Daniel have your children, so for the adults. It's county general, for the kids, it's Westin Hills, pediatric to young adult 9 to 30 years old clear." Frasier called out and they all nodded to him then.
"You better go it 2nd grade to 3rd year college grandpa, at Westin Hills, Dr. Jenkins can handle us in both ways, as can Dr. Adams, and dad and Nancy are psychiatry. Shei', she's going into being an M.D., and for me, psychiatry and my added specialty is into the mind of a paranormal homicidal maniac. So that's your ace in the hole to prevent an outbreak if this turns into Clash of the Titans." Kristen said and the quartet nodded.
"And at the moment you're right baby, with the fact that we pulled it off the other night, with my being your psychiatrist. And it's now the fact that the exhilaration of never having nightmares again and you can live normal lives is now getting contagious in the group at the moment." Neil said with a smile and his patients nodded as he saw his young quintet gather into a circle smiling as she answered him at that with a smile.
"We're all that's left of your original ten 18 months ago Doctor, so to you, like our parents, you're wanting the same vengeance for us. That they do, had it not been for Adam implicating them and telling you how to neutralize the sedatives. We'd be finished, but like her, it's you saved us, we owe you just as much as we owe Nancy, Lieutenant Thompson and Adam, we owe you everything." Jesse said and Kristen nodded to that.
"Like I said, we owe you and Nancy big, dad, you listened to us, you helped us and we're free of him now. You didn't lose your entire patient group, we're still with you, you did the best you could for the others. But what happened wasn't your fault, Reynolds had it out for us ever since our parents threw Adam in jail. Consider this payback, to both of them, that you're making sure he ends up behind bars and he never takes another life."
"We're your patients, your kids, you're doing this justice in only one way and it's by doing it legally and protecting us by getting us the medication to protect us for life till we're adults ourselves now." she said and he nodded as he pulled her into a hug and she tightened her arms around him. "I'm not losing you baby, I'm not giving you up now. He wants you, either of them, they're getting to you over my dead body, and I mean that."
"You six are all that matter to me now, I'm protecting you with my life now." he said to her softly. "I love you too dad." she said and buried her head into his shoulder and he hold her gently. Watching them softly, Elane hid a smile at the bond between them, 'Just one year together and the bond is so strong, she's never letting go now.' she thought smiling gently as she watched her nephew turn to their principal then.
"Mr. Shaye, can change our school mascot to the warriors in this case. Because with the fact that was the inspiration taken and the added dream skills class we're taking. It just took on an entirely whole new meaning right now. But dream skills and a new mascot for the school sports teams. Our lives are just beginning now and we're free of him for good, so he's just started something in the school." Kincaid said and he chuckled as he said it.
"No kidding, all of you kids are wired from the exhilaration of being free of the nightmares finally, but this is getting ridiculous. Our original mascot was the Spartans if you want to change it to the Indian warriors, I'm fine with that. But you kids get it together, next school year is the first full year of those classes being taken. And they're non negotiable either, so you don't take it, than you don't graduate."
"And I'm setting up some new rules here regarding health when on campus." he said and the teenagers nodded. "I'd say they're more than wired from not having him haunt their nightmares now that we got the medication at the moment needed to prevent him from getting them anymore. But the fact that they just saved every kid in town is the added reason for this now." Derek said smiling as he looked at his young trio gently.
"We may not be leaving the town anymore, but that doesn't mean we have other things to do that a kid can see as fun, because our lives have changed for the better. We're seventeen and our lives are just beginning, it's time we really live it up. We got our whole lives ahead of us now by taking our medication and never breaking the rules." Joey said and their parents all nodded in understanding to that remark gently.
As Donald looked at his daughter gently and nodded to him as he answered him as he looked at their young trio. "Alright all of you pull yourselves together, I know you're relieved you're not being haunted by him anymore. I understand that but there's no reason to start getting reckless right now, but until the trial and town meeting. The curfew is at 8 p.m., if Elliot, our units and I catch you on the drag or anywhere else."
"On a school night for the next three months and you're in big trouble, and starting now, gets togethers of more then three teenagers are going supervised. And again, I have another slumber party that results in another prank phone call and you kids are in big trouble, got it." Donald said and they nodded to the orders. "Was that what happened before the murder that night?" Henderson asked and he nodded in aggravation.