Abducted
By Berry's Ambitions and Elena Hurley
Chapter Twelve: Nightmares
A/N: Holy crap, I can't believe I have so many reviews now! O_O I did not expect this story to do well at all. In fact, I was expecting to get the crap bashed out of me for doing a story centering around this pairing. Maybe it's due to the fact that I got flamed once for simply stating that I shipped them together, but I'm not gonna go into that...
Back to the original topic, you have all made Elena (who is turning sixteen tomorrow, happy birthday!) and I so happy. Thank you.
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DISCLAIMER: I do not own The Hills Have Eyes.
WARNING: Disturbing content and offensive language.
Every time Brenda woke up, she felt weaker. She couldn't survive like this, and she knew it.
Change of plans: Lizard could kill her.
It's dark now. Completely dark.
Death?
There is only blackness. Empty blackness.
This sure feels like death.
Brenda inhales. The air is freezing. Stale. It tastes foul.
She feels lost, confused, and very afraid. So she starts walking forward... if this is forward. She isn't sure. It all looks the same. Just... darkness. And nothing else.
Is this what Lizard has been referring to? Brenda wonders if her emotions are appropriate. She would have expected to be angry... but she's not. Only scared. Desperately scared.
She thinks about how she took her life for granted. How foolish she's been. If only Brenda had known her future. She was a snobby bitch, and she regrets it now. Maybe it's karma, she figures. But she swears she never did something so terrible that she'd end up here.
Her parents...
If only she had treated them better.
Her poor mother and father. She'll never see them again, not ever. It hasn't really sunk in until now. They're gone. Vanished. Their lives have come to an end.
The same goes for Lynn. Oh, Lynn... it's not fair. She was only twenty-five. Her daughter is still only a baby... she's only been married for four years.
Her life is over as well, and it had only barely begun.
It's not fucking fair.
Brenda feels herself begin to cry. No. It can't end like this end this way for her, too! There are so many things she hasn't done yet! She doesn't want to die now! NO!
It feels as she is being strangled to death. She's suffocating. This endless blackness was filling up her lungs. Dying... or is she already dead? Brenda doesn't know. She longs to wake up as Lizard's captive.
Never thought I'd say that... she thinks scathingly, but it's the truth.
That's when she hears the laughter. The sinister laughter. It grows even colder.
Lizard.
He's followed her.
She knows he's right behind her. She can feel his hot breath at the back of her neck.
Brenda doesn't turn around. She knows she'll see something truly awful.
More awful than usual.
She simply cannot face him.
But curiosity got the best of her.
Brenda opened her mouth and screamed.
His eyes are bright red.
"How do you like me now, Blondie?" Lizard starts giggling- - -there was no other word for it- - -hysterically, stumbling towards her. "HOW DO YOU LIKE ME NOW?"
"I DON'T LIKE YOU!" Brenda sobs. She falls on her bottom and starts scooting away from him. "GET AWAY FROM ME, YOU FUCKING FREAK! LEAVE ME ALONE!"
He only moves closer.
Suddenly Lizard collapses on her, still laughing like a lunatic. She's never seen him like this before.
Brenda remains lying there, at loss of how to react.
"Things are changin', Blondie," Lizard manages to choke through his mad laughter.
SHUT UP! Brenda begged silently. PLEASE SHUT UP!
Then there's that strange sympathy again, the sympathy that he doesn't deserve. The sympathy that's been tugging painfully at her heartstrings ever since she found that photograph.
His body is pressed directly against hers. She can hear how feverish his breathing had become. And how a sensation was coming over her own body... an unwelcome sensation that she can't quite name, but doesn't particularly like.
It feels almost pleasant, and she resents it.
"You like it," Lizard cackles, as if he is aware of what's going on. Maybe he does. She wouldn't be surprised. "I knew it."
Brenda finally looks at his face again.
His eye sockets are now completely hollow.
Brenda screams. She screams and screams and screams.
All she could hear are her own sobs and Lizard's screeching laughter.
Hyperventilating, Brenda throws Lizard's body off of her. It lands with a sickening thud.
"I'm sorry!" she cries, covering her wet face with her hands.
"You're sorry..." Lizard is still grinning. "Good... good... sorry... you're sorry..."
Brenda kneels down beside the dying creature, her whole body shuddering.
"I'm so sorry..." She begins to weep again. "I couldn't do anything to help you."
Lizard stops moving altogether now. He is completely silent.
Dead.
He's gone, Brenda, a voice in her head whispers. You couldn't save him from himself.
Brenda begins to cry even harder than before, and at this point she has no idea why. None at all.
She's lost him. Forever.
No...
He's lost himself.
"DON'T LEAVE ME! PLEASE!"
Brenda awoke in tears.
"Nightmare, huh?" came the voice of an all-too-familiar mutant.
You would know, the tiny girl whispered internally, you are one.
A/N: Dream sequences have always been interesting to write. And, of course, a challenge... I worked extremely hard on this one.
But I'm quite pleased with how it turned out. It seems really bizarre and even OOC, but it's a dream, things aren't supposed to make sense; and let's face it, Brenda is appalled by Lizard and does hate him (though to a lesser extent than she did at the very beginning) but at the same time she wants him to redeem himself, even if she's not aware of that yet.
In a way, Brenda cares for him. I bet you're all wondering, "Does he even deserve it?" My response: "It's up to you to decide."
More will be revealed later on. Brenda brings out an intriguing side to Lizard, which will be explored more deeply soon enough.
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