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.
Warning: This chapter is going to get into the dream test when Joey gets captured, and he gets Thompson involved, as things started shifting directions for the finale of the movie, sorry for the added delay, but I'm trying to add on to the suspense as it reaches his first true encounter with Freddy...
Chapter 11: Ro-Tests, Plan Changes and a New Family Member
As Kincaid changed the subject again with a determined look on his face, and I knew he was determined to protect the girls, since I could see in his eyes how he thought of the duo, and knew he loved them as sisters and knew they thought the same thing about him as their big brother. "Girls, at the moment the only chance to save ourselves is knowing how to deal with him and with that in mind, what's your here plan sis?"
"So what do we do about this creep?" he asked and I understood the reason as what she had told me the night before made more sense as far as Kristen was concerned, since, somehow, she had the ability to bring others into her dream and with her connections to the six of us, it worked in connecting us permanently. "Kristen is the key, she has a very special power, a gift." she said and Kristen was trying to keep her from putting too much pressure on her. "Nancy with my strength like it is this could backfire for two reasons."
"And I haven't been able to do that since I was a little girl." she told us and Nancy gave a gentle smile. "You did it the other night though." she said and Kristen sighed as she answered her. "But that was different." she said and Nancy told them the truth. "You never lose a gift like that, you just forget how to use it, how about it will you try?" she asked and I saw her think about before giving a nod as she turned to the others.
"All of you have this inner strength, some special power that you had in your most power dreams, together we can work at using that power if we tried." she said and I smiled at the way she put that. "You sound like Peter Pan." I said with a chuckle and she smiled as she answered that. "Remember open mind." she said and I nodded as I got ready to start the next portion of our learning to control these abilities.
"Okay, Taryn will you pull the shades down please, we're going to try a little group hypnosis now." I told them and we started getting ready as I decided on a new strategy in getting them to reactivate their powers. "I want you all to follow this pendulum, with your eyes." I said and tilted it slightly to get it to start rocking. "Take us there Kristen." Nancy said to her softly, as I used this technique, I wasn't expecting to fall asleep myself when I did it, and the brief haze wore off three minutes into it. "Sorry." Kristen said and Nancy gave a gentle smile as she answered her.
"That's okay we'll try again." she said and I sighed as I told them to take a break. "Everybody take five." I said and she moved to my side then. "I was willing to go through with this, for the kids peace of mind and yours, but you're going to have to face reality here." I whispered to her. "Neil it's harder on her, she's just reactivated it, we need to give her time." she said and I nodded as I listened to their conversation, as I fiddled with one of the instruments on the desk as Nancy turned to me.
"Neil, why don't we just try one more time, if it doesn't work I promise I'll..." she started to say before the next jolt on the ball bearing line suddenly caused them to start flying off of it and start floating around the room then and Will's remark was enough to confuse me then. "We're here." he said Taryn looked at him. "Where here, none of us really go in these days?" she asked and Kristen answered that. "We're in the dream." she said and I felt my shock go through me as I answered her then.
"Well no we're not, we're still here in the group." I said and to my shock Will suddenly got out of his chair on his own. "In my dreams I can walk, my legs are strong, and in my dreams I am the wizard master." he said as he grabbed one of the spheres and turned it into a butterfly. "Whoa nice touch man." Kincaid to him with a grin as Nancy to turned Kristen with a smile. "Try something Kristen, what can you do in your dreams?" she asked her and I watched as she backed the the chair up and then did several back flips, before stopping in the other corner then and they cheered her test run then.
"A perfect score, the crowd goes wild." Will said and she bumped his shoulder with hers as Kincaid went next. " Everybody dig this." he said and his ability turned out to be superhuman strength, as I watched the look on her face as he did this I decided to end it then."Kincaid please, that's very un-nerving." I told him and he nodded, before looking up at Taryn and smiled. "Hey check out Taryn." he said and she was dressed in rebel outfit. "In my dreams I'm beautiful" She said and I smiled at that. "And bad." she said pulling two switchblades out as Nancy changed the subject then.
"Alright that's all of us, but we got to get your abilities under control, before you break something." Nancy said, before his attempt to put the chair down resulted in completely breaking it. "Ease back on your strength, because if everything is real in here, they're going to wonder why there's a hole in the floor in here, and with your temper, they're going to think you had another temper tantrum." I added and he nodded to me.
"When I first started getting used to this, I wound up finding holes in the wall the next morning and my father was getting aggravated by it, because he thought I was doing the exercises to close to the wall at the time." he told me and I nodded. "Alright to repeat whatever it was he told you, ease back on your strength, and when you're honing your strength in here, stay away from the wall, because I think you wound up with Hercules's strength in here, you put too much power into it you're going to break something next, with the fact you just broke the chair here." I told him and he nodded as Nancy switched it up then as she looked at Kristen then.
"Alright what's the side effect of this exactly?" Nancy asked and Kristen told her that. "It just enhanced our bonds as family guys, I can hear you telepathically and vice versa." she said and we nodded as she thought it over then as she looked at me. "Alright, so with this ro-test we're connected to each other now, and as for our injuries, we're not the ones who did it, the bastard was the one who slit my wrist the other night." Kristen said to the five of us as I looked at her.
"I already figured that one out, and he is going to pay for hurting you guys." I said to her as we were going over things after the demonstration of their powers, but after a minute sI thought over something else and felt my heart start pounding as I turned to her to ask that question. "Was there anything else he did to you during those nightmares?" I asked her in a whisper and she gave a shake of her head in answer to that and I nodded in relief at that, it may have been a week, but I cared too much about her not to ask that question, and gently squeezed her shoulder as I moved closer.
I had only grown more protective since the week started and with what I knew now I was going to protect her no matter what happened at this point as she turned to me about that one and gave it to me, already knowing I wasn't going to like was she was about to tell me."That was the reason for the scream you heard when I was resting that day, and you woke me up in time to head it off and is also the reason for how you found those bruises on my shoulder." she said to me in a whisper and I nodded as I felt my fury rising at that, if I ever saw this bastard for real I was going to kill him for hurting her, even as that went through I thought that to him.
'You asshole, touch her and I'm killing you a second time here.' I thought, though as I thought this she moved closer to me and I knew she was trying to get it out of her mind than and I gently rubbed her back, it was obvious she needed me and I would do whatever I could to take care of and protect her. 'It's okay baby, I'll protect you.' I thought softly as I looked at her then, as I thought it over then.
Our bond had grown so strong that she now considered me her father and she didn't want to let me go because of that, and with that I was going to make sure I was always there for her now. 'I'm not losing you baby, I'm going to make sure I get rid of this bastard to protect you and your brothers and sisters.' I thought to myself as I looked at her, I felt something in me change and I saw her as my daughter now and I was determined to protect her no matter what happened now here and knew when her mother heard what I was doing she was going to relieved that I was the one who was taking care of her over the last few days.
As I thought that one over, I then turned to Taryn about that. "Taryn, come here." I said and she moved over to us. "I need to know something, was there anything else he tried to do with you in those nightmares?" I asked her softly and she sighed as she nodded. "It's the same issue that she had to deal with, the final dream I had about that was right before he landed me in here, he was also the one who had pumped that much into my system." she said and I nodded as I felt my anger rising at that information.
"Did he do the same to Jennifer as well?" I asked and they both nodded and I felt my anger reach the breaking point with that information. "Well that is coming to an end right now, I'm not having you put as risk any more, because she don't know when not to get passed accepting the truth here, don't worry we're ending this right now." I said to them and they both nodded as Kristen moved closer to me and I knew she was afraid to lose me as well as the rest of our group, after losing two members of their gang already, as this was going through my mind, I shifted my attention to what they were talking about.
"So this is the reason for why there is a connection between us?" Will asked Nancy and she nodded as we shifted our attention over to them as they went into this. "Yes, the five of you and I are the only ones left who lived on the street, so we are the ones who are marked. As for the other one, I'm still trying to get that one figured out, but I'm going to have to talk to your parents or my father so I can get whole story here." Nancy said to him and he nodded as Kincaid looked at Kristen playfully then.
"Well looks like that solved our current mystery, so what now Kris?" he asked her. "I think we better get used to working together, before this goes any further, and before you start making jokes we have to get used to our powers again, because mine has been dormant for eleven years and I have to get it adjusted to working again." she said to him when the lights went out, the door slammed, and the lamps suddenly blew, and the jolt of nerves nearly made me jump out of my skin when the lamps behind me blew out.
"What's happening!?" I said over the noise, and caught the look on her face as she froze and tried to focus. "He's close." she said and Nancy moved over to her. "Who Freddy?" she asked quickly. "He's heavy in the halls." Kristen told us and I looked around counting and realized that we were missing one. "Where's Joey?!" I asked her. "Freddy's got him." she told me and I headed over to the door when it turned burning hot and scorched my hand. "Ahh!" I growled in pain and she quickly pulled me away from the door.
"Are you alright?" she asked and I nodded as she stayed next to me. "Quiet everyone, listen." Nancy said and we froze as we heard sizzling noises. "The room is changing!" Will told me as we started moving closer together. "He turned the room into a furnace!" Kristen shouted over the noise and we moved closer together as I called out to them. "Stay away from the walls." I said as we tried to keep from getting burned before it started getting worse then, as the walls shifted and started moving in on us.
As they crowded around I could tell they the quartet were about to start panicking as I quickly called out. "Don't panic, quiet down." I called and then I heard the door handle shift and shouted out a second time."Quiet the door!" I said as when the door opened and Simms was standing there. "What's going on here?" she asked and walked over as I pulled myself out the the hypnosis induced fog I was in as it wore off. "What's wrong with Joey?" she asked and I saw him lying unconscious on the floor.
"Joey?" she said and she looked at me. "Code blue!" she said and I felt a jolt of fear go through me. "Oh my god." I thought as I left to get Adams and her team in there as I realized what this meant now, my patient had been captured by the maniac, and we had to go in after him now. After getting the diagnosis from Adams after three hours, I knew this was going to cause a problem. "He's in a deep coma, there's nothing we can do for him." she said and I felt my heart start pounding at that as Carver looked at me. "This is inexcusable." he snapped at me as she gave him her part of it.
"The session was completely unauthorized, it was purposely conducted without my knowledge." she said and I tried to get him to listen to my side of it, because if I wasn't here, I was going to do whatever it took to take care of my patients here. "Unusual steps were needed for this, Dr. Carver." I said to him and he looked at me. "Is that what should tell that boy's parents?" he asked with a ticked off look on his face, as I saw something else in his eyes, that looked like relief, and whatever it was had to do with my conversation with the girls then. "I understand you prescribed a high experimental drug." he said and I felt my temper rising, as I looked at Simms for this.
"Dr. Carver he's not in a coma because of that." Nancy said and he cut her off at that. "Young lady, your opinion is of no interest to me, further more Dr. Simms feels you are creating a panic with the patients." he said and I could not believe this, my patients had grown close to her and she was the one who holding things together for the entire group. "That's not true." I said with a firm look on my face as he interrupted me again.
"Dr. Gordon, in the last four days we've had two suicides and now that young man is in a coma, I think it's safe to say your approach has failed entirely, you're both relieved of duty, I want you out of here today." he said and left as I felt my heart wrench at that. "I'm sorry Neil, but I'm afraid you brought on yourself." Simms said and I turned to look at her with an ice cold look on my face. "For gods sake Elizabeth please, will you please just try to help the kids, will you listen to them." I said to her and she nodded.
"Of course I will." she said and she left, but before she did I looked at her. "I'm not kidding this is no longer a matter of lies or not, if she has that relapse, I'm holding you responsible for that." I said to her with a stern tone in my voice and she nodded as she left as I looked at the boy who was like my son. "What are we going to do?" Nancy asked and I sighed and as I answered that. "There's nothing we can do now, it's out of our hands." I said and tried to keep it together as I left the room.
After the argument with Carver and Simms, I felt the anger of what she had done to the group and I was beyond pissed by that point, because my favorite patient was now on her own, with only the other three members left of our group, and she was going to have a relapse from this sooner or later because when she found out it was going to hit her hard.
Simms decided with what just happened to get him down here and make it easier to have him listen to her and to make sure Nancy got kicked out and I lost my job of taking care of those kids who I loved like my own children and if something happened because of this, I was going to make sure that she was the one who got fired, especially if he went after the girl who was like my daughter now.
Kristen was at half strength at the time and when she lost it finally, and it was just a question of when now, because with us gone she only had Max and the other members of the group and her pain of the others was growing and with Joey captured it was going to come out violently especially if she found out that we were gone, and if something happened to finally trigger it, I knew her mother was going to kill Simms for this as well as Carver.
I loved Kristen like she was my own daughter, and I hated having to leave her and the rest of the kids, but with the fact he had made his final decision, I had no choice, but my next thoughts were of finding another way to get rid of this guy. I was also sick of this and enough was enough. "Alright that's it you just broke the law, the mind games are over now and I'm going to Thompson for this." I thought angrily as I headed to my office.
After we were relieved, I was beginning to pack up, and suddenly saw the nun I had seen several times that week as I went upstairs to the tower, after slamming a rock into the door, I was able to break through the rusted latch and I went upstairs and found a room with a dungeon style area in the middle of it and found her lighting a wick, and the room looked like something out of a horror movie.
"This is where it began." she said and I was trying to process everything. "This facility has been closed for years, what was this place." I asked and she looked around with a disgusted look on her face. "Purgatory, fashioned by the hands of men, twisted, lonely souls, the worst of the criminally insane were locked up in here like animals." she said and I tried to figure out the reason for why it had been shut down.
"This facility was shut down in the 40's, wasn't it, some sort of scandal." I asked and she nodded, before she started the reason for why it had been shut down in the first place. "A lone girl among the staff was accidently locked in here over the holidays, the inmates kept her hidden for days, she was raped hundreds of times. When they found her she was barely alive, and with child, that girl was Amanda Krueger, her child." she said and I felt my heart stop as I gained that information.
"Freddy!" I whispered in shock and she nodded. "The bastard son of a hundred maniacs, some say he died, but no body was ever found." she said and I nodded, after a minute what she told me the day before made more sense. "You said something before, about laying him to rest." I said and she gave another nod. "You must find the remains and bury him in hollow ground." she said and I thought that over as it went through me.
'Hollowed ground, but where exactly, where'd they hide him, that's it, bury him where they hid him at?' I thought, before asking that out loud. "Hollowed ground Sister?" I repeated and she gave one last piece of advice and a warning. "If you're only faith is science doctor, it may be you who is laid to rest." she said and left the room. 'Dear god, I've been an atheist for five years I need to get back into my original faith, before I lose everything I care about.' I thought and quickly called out to stop her then.
"Wait Sister." I said and and quickly went after her, but when I got upstairs, there was no one in the hall, and this was beginning to bother me, first Krueger and now her, the kids, Nancy and I were being haunted by ghosts in this situation, after getting downstairs I met up with Nancy who told me that she had seen Krueger slice words into Joey's chest, after getting into the car we went over our next plan.
"We need to pull him out, if he's stuck there only option is getting him out, he's the bait." she said and I shook my head. "It's a trap, he got the eight of you together so he could destroy the entire block all at once, I've got another plan here, but this mean we need to get the cops involved, they just broke the law here, and I'm not losing anyone else." I said and she sighed. "Whatever connection snapped into place is causing that reaction we lose him and it's only to hit them harder."
"We've got to go in, we don't have a choice here." she said while I was driving the car. "But getting yourself killed won't help the kids at all, especially Kristen and I know she loves you, and besides we do have a choice." I said and she was getting irritated over this after what we have had to deal with that week as I told her my concern over her surrogate sister and what her condition was right now.
"You get a good look at her this afternoon, because she's getting worse and if this happens now, she's going to have that relapse, and if Simms does something to trigger it, I'm going to kill her for it, Adams said not to say or do anything to trigger that panic attack and she is breaking it with every decision she and Carver have made, do you have any friends in the department here, because I've had enough of this crap." I said to her and she nodded in answer to that question.
"I don't need her to say it out loud she is getting worse again, her complexion has taken on that pale look she had when she arrived and if this gets worse, we're looking at a relapse, and Simms may have just lit the fuse to trigger it." I said and she nodded. "If she gets sick I'm getting my father involved in this, because she has it even worse than you think." she said and I went into that.
"What you mean?" I asked and she went into it with a furious look on her face. "After the argument in the hall, she had a case of nausea and I barely managed to keep her from making another run for it, it took five minutes for me and Joey to calm her down, because she was on the edge of another fight or flight response in there, and it took me a few minutes to calm her down." she said and I nodded angrily at that.
"Simms has broken several laws in the last three days alone and she broke orders, and now has Carver doing the same thing here, they've both broken our oath and it has killed two members of the group, and now it has Joey in a coma, because we didn't have them on that suppressant sooner, we need to put an end to this, before it kills all of you." I said and she nodded in agreement to that as that dragged it back it our original conversation as I went into that.
"After what happened today, if you get killed it could probably kill her in the process, and going by what I know here, our only option is getting him buried here as well." I said and she sighed at that. "Assuming your mysterious nun is right." she said and I was mentally and emotionally exhausted from all of this. "I've heard weirder things this week." I told her and she gave. "Alright, whoever she is, she seems to know more about Freddy than I do." she said and I was trying to figure where to go.
"The question is what happened to his body?" I asked her and I could tell she didn't want to go into this, but she told me anyway. "They burned him to death in his boiler room and they hid the remains." she said and I nodded. "Who would know where their hidden?" I asked and she thought it over before answering me and her voice turned to steel. "Only one man knows, and it's time for him to talk." she said and whoever that person was she was furious with him, I could tell that without needing to ask and she directed me to a bar on the far side of town and led me to one of the tables in the back of the room.
"Hi daddy." she said and I felt my heart start pounding as I suddenly realized why she never wanted to mention him when he was like this, but only like when he was on duty, as what she told me earlier that week made more sense, and it was because her father had turned into a drunk because of the death of her mother. As he looked up at that I saw a smile in his eyes then as he saw her.
"Well if it isn't my little girl, my baby come to see her daddy?" he asked and she smiled gave him a hug then. "It's been a long time." she said and he looked at him me for a minute, before turning back to her. "What did I do to get so lucky, I thought you were trying to forget me." he said and she shook her head."That's not true, you were the one who was always trying to forget." she said and, dropping the small talk, she told him the reason for why we were there to see him.
"I need your help dad, Krueger's back." she said and I could tell he was trying to deny it. "Fred Krueger is dead, you always had a problem with trying to understand that sweetheart." he said and she sat down as I took the chair next to her and moved closer to her. "You know what he did, and he's doing it again." she said as I leaned forward. "She is telling you the truth." I said and he looked at me firmly at that then.
"I don't believe we met yet and I don't think this is any of your goddamn business." he said and I had to hold back what I wanted to say in response to that. "I think we can stop him this time, stop him for good, but we need to know where his bones are buried." she said and he looked at her with a look of failure on his face. "I've lost too much over this already, I'm through with it." he said and she was pissed at that, since, in the time she had met me and found the seven, her bond with them was strong and they thought of her as a sister as she said the words she had to forcefully then
"This situation started because of Parker, if you want to cut the cord the bastard has on you, we need your help, it's time to face up to that decision and the only way to do that is seeing and facing that decision, you want salvation and forgiveness it's the only way. We still have people dying after all this time, stop running away from that, you owe me." she said to him and he looked at her. "How can I, it destroyed our lives, your mother would still be alive if we hadn't done that." he said and she quickly told him then.
"Dad you don't understand 'we' found each other." she said and he looked at her. "What do you mean baby?" he asked and she sighed. "The kids targeted are our family, we got targeted on purpose, we need to end this, because we lost five of eleven in the last seven years, we can avenge them if you help me." she said and I saw his eyes tear up.
"Dad listen to me, I found, the seven, we got reunited on Monday, this has gone past us and right to a junior population genocide. He's trying to wipe out the block to get to the rest of the town. I need you to snap out of it, I need you back dad, please, come back to me, you want to make it up to me, get our family back together, the Parkers, Kincaids, Petersons, our familial quartet, this is your chance to do that." she said to him gently.
"I lost a lot because of that bastard, I can't take any more." he said and she said it forcefully. "You're a cop, you're job is to protect and serve, its time to do that now. Dad listen to me, if you don't do it now you're going to regret it for the rest of your life, the kids hospitalized are members of our gang, two are dead, I'm going in to get my brother out, just get him to wherever you hid the remains and bury the bastard."
"You don't do this now you're going to condemn the entire junior population in our to death, we have to end this, you have to face that memory and live up to it. I'm a psychiatrist, you want to make it up to me, get back our relationship as we once had it, this is the way dad, please, you owe me this, face that memory and bury it for good." she said, but I could tell he wasn't as he ended it then.
"It was nice seeing you princess, next time don't stay away so long." he said to end it and she got up and headed for the door before I managed to catch her. "Nancy." I said to her gently and she stopped after a minute as she said it. "I'll be okay, just give me a minute, I lost Glen and then four brothers and sisters, I can't lose the quintet too." she told me and I nodded.
I couldn't believe he would try to ignore this, as I stood there looking at her, I realized that I had met my exact match, she was everything to me and I would do what ever it took to make sure I would never lose her or the kids. Barely five minutes later my beeper went off and I pulled it off my belt and saw the number and felt my heart start speeding up.
"That's the hospital, something must have happened." I said and saw her face pale as she realized what had happened, and what Simms had done this time and this was coming back to haunt both of us that night."Damn it, Kristen must have just found out that we've been fired." she said to me and I grabbed the phone and dialed the number to the tv room and Taryn picked it up. "Dr. Gordon?" she asked and I responded.
"Taryn what's wrong?" I asked her and I could tell she was in the verge of a panic attack. "You've got to come right away, it's Kristen, she finally lost it when she found out that you've been fired, Simms doped her up and put her in the quiet room." she told me and I whispered to Nancy, as I felt my heart start pounding at that information, and knew I was going to have to end it before it killed both her and Joey.
"Simms put Kristen into the quiet room for the night and they sedated her, they're going to kill her this way." I said to her and she nodded in fear. "Oh no" she said as Taryn finished filling me in. "She won't be able to stay awake for long and she is all alone in there, Freddy could get to her, if you found her father, we need you now." she said and I tried to calm her down as I came to a decision. "Alright none of you panic, stay cool, help is on the way." I said and she quickly told me to hurry it up.
"Just hurry" she told me and I nodded as I made my decision and went to putting an end to things before it killed the girl I thought of as my daughter and her brother, who I thought of as my son, as I felt my anger rising every minute because of this. "Alright hang on." I said and put the phone up as we turned to each other. "We've got to get there now." she said and I pulled my keys and handed them to her. "You go, I'm going after the remains and ending this." I told her and she tried to talk me out of it.
"No, you see how he is." she said and I gave a firm notion. "I'll talk to him, you just get to the hospital and make Simms understand." I told her and she shook her head. "She'll never understand, she's lost her mind, but I have to find a way to get to Kristen some how, I'm going to have to go in with her to get our brother out." she said and I looked at her with a caring look. "Nancy be careful." I said and gave her a go-ahead nod before I looked at Donald and walked over to the table.
"I'm Neil Gordon, pleased to meet you, there now that we met." I snapped at him as I overturned the table and shoved him against the wall. "Now listen to me, I don't know if you care if Nancy lives or dies, but I do." I said and he pushed my hands off of his jacket. "You and I are going on a scavenger hunt." I said and he nodded in resignation, as we got into his truck and I pointed at the church ahead of us first then.
As he looked at me at that as we made our first stop at the church I chose. "What the hell are we doing here?" he asked and I quickly grabbed the keys then. "Hey, hey." he exclaimed after I grabbed the liquor canteen bottle. " I won't be long." I told him as I got out of the car and dumped the alcohol out of it and went inside to get a few things.
The church I chose happened to be from my faith, and I was neutralizing Krueger by use use of my Faith's last rights system as I saw the bowl covering the stone fountain and walked over and lifted the cover and then started filling it up then, before going into an area that was next to the confession box and grabbed the crucifix hanging there, and was putting it in my jacket pocked, before I felt something grab my shoulder.
"What are you doing?" he asked and I tried to answer that. "I'm sorry, I really to borrow, I'll reimburse you, here you can take my driver's license, I'll bring it back." I said and left the room. "Alright let's go." I said and he gave him the keys. "What the hell is going on here?" he asked and I explained it to him. "I just solved your suicide outbreak for you, Krueger is the reason for al the suicides and he's targeted every kid in town, but the ones getting hit hardest are my latest patients." I told him and he looked at me at the word.
"Patients, you're a psychiatrist?" he asked and I nodded. "Yeah I am, nine of the seventy five murders so far wound up in my custody, but seven of them are the kids she told you about at the bar." I said and he went to the next question at that then."Who is getting victimized this time if you brought that up and why did she say brother when she said that one of the victims is the reason for this now?" he asked me as he drove the car.
"To put this bluntly, Erin ordered me to get you if I suspected foul play and found your felon for you I did both, but here's the bad news she translated this entire situation to what you and Elaine taught her. It's every psychotic M.O. their backhistory as for the kids themselves, the seven she mean was the rest of your gang, your entire gang ended up as my patients this time, exact nightmares, symptoms word for word."
"The rest of the kids that were living on your block when you killed him, they are my patients, one of them is in a coma because he was captured in our sleep and the girl who has been sedated has only fifteen minutes before she and the others, including Nancy go in, we lost two this week right after Nancy showed up." I said and he nodded. "I need more information of what's been going on the last seven years." he said and I nodded.
"The bastard figured out a way to get back at you by killing the kids of everyone on the block, that's what happened to Nancy and her friends six years ago, and the others wound up in my care, and is the reason for all the suicide attempts going on right now, but that's what this about, I'm going to put an end to him and save Nancy and the others." I said and he nodded as I saw the way his hand had tensed on the steering wheel and I knew he was going to be furious with what I was about to tell him next.
"Who are the kids, and what are their sur-names, she said they found each who does she mean by 'they' exactly?" he asked me and I dropped the bomb on him knowing he'd kill at hearing this information then, since if what Kristen told me was anything to it was going to snap him out of it automatically then.
"The one that started this, her name is Kristen and her last name is Parker, Joey Peterson, Jennifer Caulfield, Philip Anderson, Roland Kincaid, Will Stanton, Jesse Walsh and Taryn White." I told him and he nodded as I saw his eyes widen and I knew he knew who the kids were and the next question was how he knew them and what their bond with him and Nancy was and just how strong it was as well.
"That is everyone that lived on our block, the other four were my family, the Lantzes, Lanes and Greys." he said and I nodded. "I've already taken a guess that you guys were connected, because they connected automatically when she got there." I told him and he nodded as he answered that. "The kids entire gang is in the hospital now, who was the final piece to the puzzle if she's determined to protect them by burying him?" he asked and I explained that to him then.
"Kristen arrived at the hospital on Monday at the same time Nancy did, while the sextet were there for six months, she meant it's localized to your block, he's targeting you first for killing him, that's what killed the trio and your wife Lieutenant, it's revenge for killing him, he's seeing it as an eye for an eye, you take his kid and he takes your's, but Kristen gave some added information you're not going to like." I said and he nodded firmly.
"Their parents are going to get a shock when they hear that they found each other again." he said and I nodded. "You know who they are right?" I asked and he nodded as he sighed. "The gang's parents and I have been friends for years, after it ended twelve years ago, we cut contact with each other, but the only ones who were staying touch with each other for a few years before the kids were in their teen years were the members of my quartet and the Lantzes, Lanes and Greys." he said and I nodded.
"Who is in your quartet, because with the way the trio are around each made it clear they're pretty close?" I asked and he smiled slightly as he answered that. "Elaine, the Kincaid's, and Peterson's have been my best friends since we were kids, if he's targeting Kristen and my daughter, he knows I lose both of them and it's going to destroy me, as to why it hit me hard when I lost the trio and Marge, but if I lose the girls and their brothers and Kristen's mother it's going to kill me and the bastard is going after the trio and the rest of their gang?" he asked and I nodded as I explained it to him then.
"Yes we lost two members of their gang, because of this and it's getting worse by the minute here, Kristen lost control of her temper for two reasons tonight, one being Simms got us fired and secondly because she determined to keep from losing Joey as well, because, she's furious enough and it's localized at her father now, and why is that exactly, how close are the kids exactly if she's that angry." I said and he nodded as he responded to that as he looked at me before looking out the window to concentrate.
"Their parents and I raised them as a single group, Nancy was actually the one she was closest to and that's the reason she lost control when she found out you guys were fired and as for Joey he was practically her twin brother when they were babies, Jennifer was her best friend and she thought of Philip as a brother, if the others get killed it's going to be worse." he explained and I nodded as I felt my anger at what Simms did rising even more as I asked the next question as I looked at him and I knew he was furious.
"Nancy gave me some of the details about what went on six years ago to you and Marge, but she didn't tell me everything, but what the hell happened when she was fifteen when this started, because she's determined to put an end to this, and she's letting her anger go." I asked him and he sighed as he went into that and I could tell this was killing him to talk about it, since this was obviously a very sore subject for both of them and I knew losing two of their brothers and sisters was making it even worse as well too.
"The starting point was the night Tina was killed, she looked like she had gotten shish ke-bobbed, we got a good look at it, but there was no way any human could do that since it wound up going up the wall, and we thought it was Rod at first, but the next night he wound up dead, but Nancy told me there was no way he would have done that to her or kill himself, she also gave me Krueger's description at the funerals.
"Then during the sleep testing she pulled his hat out of her dream, and that told me that he had something to do with this, that night Glen wound up dead and it looked like he wound up in a blender before getting thrown around the room, after that happened she managed to set him on fire a second time after pulling him into our reality, but he killed her mother, and I don't know what happened after that." he told me and I nodded.
"When Kristen came into my care, she told me that the rest of the kids that lived on the block were all dreaming about him. The next night Philip wound up dead when Freddy made it look like he sleep-walked out of the ward and threw himself off the tower, the next night Jennifer fell asleep and he shoved her head through the Tv, Nancy started working with me and we started working with the kids into how to get their powers working together, and he got his hands on Joey and Joey is in a coma because of this."
"And as for the sudden reason for this at the moment its because Kristen just found that Nancy and I were fired and she freaked out, she sees us as family and trusts us, and they sedated her because she finally lost her temper, the kids know the whole story now, and the others are having a panic attack over this." I told him and he nodded.
"The kids grew pretty close since they started therapy, but Kristen said it felt like they already knew each other, and Nancy is just as confused as I am over this, because her memories are faded slightly." I added and he nodded. " I can understand why, she hasn't seen them and they haven't seen each other in eleven years, who is Kristen closest to now that they are back together anyway?" he asked and I went into that.
"She's grown really close to Kincaid and Joey now, and her bond with Nancy has grown just as strong, but I'm not sure why yet." I said and I watched his face and knew the reason now. "Her mother, their fathers and I have been a quartet for years, and the four of them were always together if we were hanging out for a get together, the trio's group were never separated either." he said and I nodded as he went into what went on before they separated, and I figured this explained why Nancy was beyond furious.
"The entire situation started when he killed his wife, because she found the souvenirs of the first six kids he killed at the time, it was after doing that-that the town government took his daughter from him and put her in foster care at the town orphanage and the rampage started reaching the point to where we were on defensive mode for close to two and a half years and we didn't know who was doing the killing till someone let it out and we arrested him, but one of my guys did it, before I could get a search warrant set up, but that lead to another problem at the time."
"Because some idiot in the D.A. didn't sign the search warrant in the right place, and the officer who arrested who him did it out of order and he was released on a technicality and we were all pissed at that and decided to put an end to it, and went over the plans of how to deal with it, since at that point he knew that with the fact he'd been released, he couldn't be tried twice and we weren't taking that chance of this continuing on, and we weren't risking him touching our kids either at the time."
"My original plan was to torch his equipment and when he tried it again, my team would be the one to arrest him, but her father deciding on torching him and separating, without giving us a chance to talk about it first, the girls were furious at that choice as well, it's neither self defense or justified, the damn idiot is a lawyer no less, and this was against the law, but I had no idea that decision was going to result in his bloodbath at the time."
"Anyway that happened we all wanted to get him and take him down, found him in a boiler room which looked like it hadn't been used it years, and used gasoline to burn him alive after tossing fuel cocktails threw the window and lit it up. After we did that, our families decided to cut contact with each other and the seven of them moved off the block while mine, Tina's, Glen's, and Rod's stayed put, and my quartet were keeping in touch for a few years before we lost contact with each other, which I think was after I came to see her godmother was one time after 'he' broke her shoulder."
"If the quintet figure this out they're going to be pissed, once they see the evidence, but with this it looks like the family is about to get back together and their parents are going to be relieved about that and so am I, because this is getting out of control right now, if it means protection by legal means we're doing it to protect them and every kid in town now." he said and I went into that as I went over that as I tried to figure out an estimate then for the slaughter going on around town then.
"How many kids have been killed because of this bastard?" I asked and he went into that with a furious look on his face on that. "Including Jennifer, Philip, and the trio we've had fifty-five suicides, which I'm guessing are the murders he's been doing right now, and I've been working on it, but I haven't figured things out here yet." he said and I nodded as he went on.
"Elaine is not going to take it well when she finds out, she and Richard divorced when Kristen was five, as for the Caulfields, Andersons and Petersons, they are going to be pissed when they find out this information, because we all thought that he was gone for good and now we get this information, and Roland's, Will's and Taryn's parents are going to be even more pissed at this as well." he told me and I nodded in agreement to that.
With what I knew and what the girls told me about their parents so far, I knew their parents were not going to take it well at all when the truth came out, which meant that there was going to be a serious confrontation when they got back together, on top of the fact that they were going to kill Simms and Carver for killing their kids, and to get them out of leadership of the hospital which was what I planned on.
"Nancy said you were going to kill them when you heard this." I said and he nodded in agreement to that. "She had it right, we will, as to why if this means we end the isolation between us we're doing it, because whoever they're helping is causing this psychosis and Erin and I would have killed them for disrupting her recovery and with that in mind here, who was treating Kristen after she got there?" he asked and I went into that.
"Jane Adams, Erin turned her care over to Jane when I took over as her psychiatrist, she also said that if there was interference in her recovery to call them and I plan to do that, because they may have just caused her condition to hit the danger point, because her energy levels had taken several drops, and at the current moment she's either at fifty or Simms just cut in half tonight." I told him and he nodded with a furious look at that information as he answered my statement.
"Who is the doctor who fired you and my daughter, and the one who got you fired, because they are going to be the ones who are going to get it when the kids parents find out about this, if the entire group are killed along with her, they die and the old fools are getting sued by the entire gang for it?" he asked me and I nodded as I answered him.
"Dr. Eric Carver and Elizabeth Simms, Nancy suggested a change in protocol to keep the kids alive, and that was giving them hypnocil which is the dream suppressant she has been on for the last four years, and when she told me the truth she and I were beginning to teach the kids how to control their dream powers, when the bastard got Joey away from us and captured him, it put him into a coma, though I'm not entire sure how."
"After Carver fired us, Kristen found out and it caused her to lose it tonight, Simms sedated her and it'll take about fifteen minutes before she falls asleep, but Nancy and the rest of the kids are going in with her to get Joey and keep him busy while we do this, but that's why we had to find you and bring you in." I said and he nodded as he got what I was telling him as his hands tightened on the steering wheel.
"Kristen's memory of you is back completely now Lieutenant, as well as your friends, she remembers everything now." I told him and he nodded in shock. "I didn't want to leave her, but Rick didn't give me any choice, I saw her twice after we separated, one being the trial and the second after 'he' broke her shoulder and I'll explain it later if that memory is back as well, but I'm coming to the hospital to deal with those fools." he said.
"Daniel told me about that, and said you were ready to kill him for touching her like that." I said and he nodded as his eyes flashed. "He's right I would have, she's my youngest, but the rest of my quintet hear this and they're going to kill him, she's closest to me, James, Jared, Rob and Jack, the reason being our families were the ones chosen out of ten to be her adoptive guardians." he said and I nodded as I asked about that.
"How strong a friendship did you and the others have anyway?" I asked him and he smiled slightly. "Our families got together for block parties and a few other things, but I think the reason for why the kids don't know this or that they knew each other already is because they haven't seen each other in eleven years, after we killed him the others moved off the block, and the only ones left that were still living there was my family, the Lantzes, the Lanes and the Greys, if Kristen told my daughter that cracked the void finally, her memories of the seven started fading by the time she was fifteen."
"Marge and I divorced when Nancy was twelve, though we were on good terms in that area and we were all trying to get past the fact that it had been years, but now that we know he came back more than once, we are getting everything back together, and I'm telling the others that we are dealing with this bastard, and the fact our kids know the truth and are back together. Why the hell did he wait till our kids were in their teen-years before he came back." he asked and I nodded at that as I answered that question, since I was still processing what he had just told me there.
"Going by what Nancy told me last night, he had to wait till they were old enough to strike and apparently their fear is the reason for why he was strong enough to go at both you and the kids, as for the gym teacher who wound up dead last year, I think he possessed Jesse and killed him." I told him and he nodded as he went to the next one.
"What about Jesse Walsh, what happened to him before Kristen took his place in group?" he asked me and I sighed. " The situation got started right after he arrived at the hospital they were diagnosed with severe sleep disorder and in trying to keep himself awake, he cut off his eye-lids to keep himself awake." I said and he nodded as he read through that one before he told me what she had been doing at the time.
"Nancy was taking caffeine pills to stay awake, and was awake for the whole week before she finally took him down. Alright me get this straight: he comes after my daughter and her friends and kills three of them and my wife, and she sends him back to hell, so five years later Jesse moved into my house, and he is possessed by Krueger, and kills a few people at the pool party and kills fourteen people, including another adult and Jesse's girl-friend who also lives on our block takes him down and sends him back to hell a second time, but this causes a total minefield in the high school over a ten month basis here in the process, and it starts getting out of control as a result."
"He then causes fifty five unexplainable deaths, and we're coming up with everything, but the fact the town menace has now targeted every kid in town, as he's now the nightmare version of his alias and then he comes after the rest of our kids and Philip and Jennifer are dead, Joey is in a coma and Kristen is in danger because these doctors wouldn't listen to them." he said summing it up and I nodded and he sighed as his anger started taking hold and I understood that as I felt the same way over this. "What happened the day Kristen got there?" he asked and I went into that as well.
"I had checked on the others when the alarm went off and said that I was needed in the exam room, after getting up there I realized that Kristen was panicking because she didn't want to be sedated after some of the stitches in her wrist tore, after a stand-off Nancy took over and calmed her down, after I filled her in, she and the kids started connecting automatically, and their bond had strengthened, but what was their real connection before everyone left your street?" I asked and he looked at me a minute before looking out the window again as his tone shifted to paternal then.
"The kids had been raised together from the time they were babies, before we found out it was him, I started a car-pooling program to get them to and from school so they didn't run into him and after we torched him we separated and their families moved off the block, but with the fact that he landed them in the hospital, their bond kick-started again and reinserted itself when she joined the group, as for Nancy and the others, they treated the kids like they were their own brothers and sisters, and our families had been friends since we were in our own teenage years, but we've been friends since we were twelve, I watched them grow up." he explained and I nodded as I got it now.
This answered every question we needed to explain their connection and everything that came with it as I felt my anger rising at that, my youngest had lost her brother and sister, her twin was in a coma and with what they and we were about to do we could lose a few more members of their gang and if that happened it would do a lot of damage to her in her current condition and it could cause her to relapse if I didn't do something and I had to tell him now before Simms made her condition even worse and get him and their parents involved before she triggered a relapse or worse and do it fast.
"Nancy told you I'm a cop, but with the fact that he was the bastard killing everyone in our neighborhood we were determined to protect them, and I was furious when she told me what had happened the night it started again, Rod wound up dead, because we thought he did it at first, and Glen parents disconnected the phone line the night he died and she tried to wake him up, when I said that he looked like he had fallen into a blender, that wasn't an exaggeration, I don't know how the bastard did that, but his parents as well as the others are going to want to take him down again for this, with the kids now in danger because of him, enough is enough, I'll do whatever it takes to protect them and their parents will do the same." he said as we went past the train tracks.
"They're keeping him busy while we do this, but she needs to see you." I said and he nodded. "I'm not losing my daughters, if this is the only option I'll do it. So Philip and Jennifer are dead and Joey is in a coma, alright, I'm not losing the others or my younger quartet, who's left of the seven?" he asked and I sighed as I explained that to him. "Kristen Roland, Joey, Will and Taryn." I said and he nodded to that as his eyes gentled.
"If she's that determined to be with me again, her memory of me either just came back or the idiot went too far here now, what was her reaction when she figured it out exactly?" he asked and I explained that to him. "She's thrown him out of her life and chose us, by that I mean you, me and your friends, as well as her godmother, whoever she maybe." I said and he nodded to that as he answered me at that.
"Kincaid said it did just as much damage to her mother as it did to her, all she wants is her mother back to normal and you and your friends back." I added and he nodded as his eyes firmed up. "She wants us back to normal, well she's getting her wish I've had enough of this, I want my friends back in my life, if Claire hears her memories are back and realizes she knows and remembers her and Wendy as the fifteen year old versions of her sisters, the entire adult quintet are going to choose to put the gang back in one piece, especially Erin, if you, Erin, Daniel and Jane took over her care in both areas."
"And with that in mind, did Erin give you or Nancy any orders if you came to get me?" he asked and I nodded to answer that. "Yeah and I think I found your missing felon for you, but I need to see him face to face with the team in viewing and hearing range of that entire conversation, because Walter and Jeff are both working at the hospital, they do what she suggested and they're all screwed. Erin said to get you in case of trouble and this would be considered that." I said and he nodded in agreement to that.
"That's an understatement son, you got two problems at once, and one happens to be my missing felon and now you're doing my investigating for me right now, if this results in another injury for both of us or worse and they do anything to her, call my entire gang and get them to the ward, but the ones that need to know this the most are the Kincaids, Petersons, Elaine, the Stantons and the Whites, and report this to Jane and Daniel, and drop why you had to bring me into it." he said and then sighed gently.
"I'm going to have to open that vein to Daniel, I've had that guilt for years since we did it, this was neither self defense or a jury trial, we did it to protect our kids and every kid in town, what the hell turned him into that, and who the hell gave the key to turn him into that, I've been trying to figure this out ever since Marge was murdered." he said and I sighed. "You better hear this from her, she knows this stuff better than I do."
"Whatever her mother taught her she applied a few things the department never considered at all and explained it to me, but I'm the only psychiatrist open minded enough to really handle this and when the team hears this and everything she's got to tell them, Adams and Jenkins they're all going to kill the hold out for it." I said and his tone shifted then, his tone taking on the tone of a father with a cop edge to it.
"How much are you like me if my daughter and you are getting that close right now?" he asked and I swallowed at hearing the protective father tone. "Enough that whatever connection you had with Kristen attached itself to me as well, but she turned to me and my friends and it was helping her so far, but this just drove a wedge into her progress." I said and he nodded to that. "With the fact you're probably the right one in her case I'll let that go, just don't push it right now okay." he said and I nodded to that in relief.
"But she's still not ready for that yet, so if that relationship is heading where I think, you got three to five years to wait, understood." he said and I nodded to that order. "Yeah well I'm not the type of man to actually push it till they're ready for it and with that, you can trust me, she means a lot to me, and I'll never hurt her in that way, I promise." I said and he gave a nod to that, as he changed the subject then.
And that is Chapter 11, the next one covers the rest of their conversation as they get to the junkyard and deal with burying Krueger, before the fallout begins and he winds up finding the parasite and makes that bust as well.