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Chapter Fourteen: Slowly Falling Apart

Once Sidney had thrown her bloodied clothes away and was done washing the blood off of herself she just sat there in the shower letting the warm water run off of her skin. She was still processing what had just happened. Somehow Freddy was able to take control of her and save her from Anthony. The link had to be responsible for him to be able to do something like that. Then the sudden thought of what if Freddy wasn't there? What would have happened to her if he didn't save her? She let out a quiet sob realizing that she would have been raped if not killed by Anthony.

Finally forcing herself out of the shower once she realized how pruned her fingers had become from the water the horrible realization hit her. What exactly would Freddy do with her now that he could control her like that when she was still awake? Quickly gathering up her things she peeked out the bathroom door with a towel wrapped tightly around her scanning the hallway for anyone and checked to make sure there was no evidence that she was ever in Anthony's room checking the rug for bloodstains in the hall luckily finding none.

Dashing to her room she locked the door behind her and brushed her hair before putting fresh pajamas on. She wasn't going to wait any longer to talk to him and turned the light out and laid in bed closing her eyes. It didn't take but a few seconds before she opened her eyes to Freddy hovering over her who instantly wrapped his fingers around her wrist and let out a relieved sigh.

"It's gotten even worse." He rasped ignoring the questions she was throwing at him with her mind knowing he could hear them. "Stop worrying. I'm not going to use you to kill anyone else unless I have to. I can't risk them finding out about us or else we'll both be dead."

"What are we going to do now? As far as I know there is no way to reverse this and you just…"

"Saved you…" He cut her off. She stared back at him wishing she could just scream at him despite the fact that he was right, but she couldn't stop remembering how helpless she felt when he let her be in control of her like that.

"I know… thank you..." She said in defeat.

"If it wasn't for the link being so strong he would have had us both Sid. I don't know what I would've done if he got away with it, or if you would've even survived. It's not the first time he's done it either…" Freddy explained gravely.

"How many…"

"Two… the second one didn't survive…" He said making her eyes go wide and take hold of his hand in both of hers and rest her forehead on them. Shaking his head to clear it from Anthony's memories he noticed how she was holding his hand and he had to stop himself from ripping it away from her knowing it'd only cause the compulsion to worsen at the loss of her touch. He hated what he was becoming. The link needed to be severed and he needed to get rid of Sidney as soon as he could before things got even worse.

"We need to figure out how this works." Sidney said interrupting his thoughts as she released his hand and he instantly wrapped his fingers around her wrist again.

"We will in the morning… you need to get some sleep so they don't notice." He suggested as his mind wandered to the last time she slept and unknowingly began to stare into her making her eyes go wide and she yanked her wrist away from him getting to her feet beside the bed. Freddy instantly appeared behind her and wrapped his arms around her pulling her back down onto the bed with him.

"Let me go!" She demanded.

"I told you it keeps getting worse. I can't stop myself anymore! You're lucky I haven't accidentally pulled you into a coma yet!" He rasped pinning her down beneath him.

"Is it really that bad?" She asked with concern doing her best to ignore the fact that he was now laying completely on top of her.

"I wouldn't be surprised if you had problems waking up. It almost hurts to not touch you when you're in my world." He admitted resting his forehead on hers.

"Does it ever go away?" She asked hopeful.

"It used to when I touched you. Then it went away when…" He trailed off staring lustfully at her lips and shook his head stopping himself as Sidney stared back at him almost frozen with fear of him trying something. "But now touching you barely dulls it. Those few minutes I was with you in the waking world… it completely stopped."

"Then let me wake up and we'll figure out how to do it again." She suggested wishing there was a way to stop it permanently as she realized that this link was starting to slowly tear him apart.

"No, not yet." He pleaded and she stared back at him in confusion to see him as his human self staring back at her and she turned away from him afraid of what he was implying. "The sooner we try it again the sooner the link will get even worse. Just wait."

"Ok…" She gulped staring into him hearing the desperation in his voice. They began breathing heavily and eyeing each other's lips. Freddy slowly leaned more into Sidney and his lips were barely off of hers and she closed the rest of the gap their lips locking and their arms and legs entwining around one another. The compulsion Freddy felt lessened and he couldn't help but deepen the kiss when suddenly he felt someone enter his world.

He instantly released Sidney becoming himself again and rolled off of her and onto his feet making the compulsion return causing him a dull pain at the sudden loss of contact with her.

"What's wrong?" Sidney asked in confusion shaking herself as she sat up in bed.

"Darrien… you need to wake up." He said gravely. Sidney attempted with no avail.

"I can't." She said in a panic knowing how horrible things could become for her if Darrien saw them together.

"Fuck then go anywhere else. He can't see us together!" He ordered and she took herself to her old room. Freddy had to fight himself not to follow her but it worked and knew that she couldn't wake up because the compulsion wouldn't let him let her wake up.

"No… no, no, no!" He heard Darrien yell just down the hall. Appearing on the other end of the hall he screamed and ran in the other direction only to run right smack into Freddy making him laugh. "Leave me alone! Haven't you taken enough from me already?!"

"I'm not going to hurt you… today… just thought you should know I did you and all your little friends a favor. You might want to go check on your new buddy Anthony." He smiled evilly before shoving him out of his world. Freddy instantly went to Sidney who was sitting on her bed. With a worried expression on her face. Reading her thoughts he sat next to her.

"I didn't hurt him." He admitted making her relax a bit. "But, we really need to do something soon about this link. I can barely stay away from you when you're here. There's no telling what'll happen if Kenda really can pull others in with her."

"We need to keep searching my memories for that book." She suggested.

"We will later. I have a feeling they'll be waking you up soon. Hinted about Anthony to Darrien so I'm sure he'll be checking on him any minute now." He explained.

"Then I'll go back to sleep as soon as I can. We need to at least find out the name of the book from my memories. Maybe I could find another copy." Sidney said with hope.

"Stay awake for a while." He suggested even though he knew it would be unbearable.

"No, if I can sleep I'll sleep. We need to figure this out. It's tearing you apart. I hate to say this but…" Sidney was cut off when she was shook awake by Niki.

"Sidney wake up." Niki pleaded and she sat up in bed rubbing her face trying to shake the heavy feeling out of her head knowing it had to be Freddy attempting to keep her asleep. Shaking herself once more she felt his grip on her slowly release.

"What?" She whined turning to Niki.

"Anthony is dead. Freddy got him." She explained gravely.

"Oh…" She replied faking a horrified look and she threw the covers off of herself and followed Niki down the hall once she had her slippers on.

Freddy cursed himself wishing he wasn't the reason that Sidney was woken up so soon, but he couldn't just kill Darrien after killing Anthony the way he did. He was almost able to pull her back to sleep but Sidney was able to get out of his grasp. When she left his world it felt like a piece of him was missing. This link was tearing him apart and he knew it was worrying Sidney. Unfortunately he knew that soon he might actually unknowingly pull her into a coma if the compulsion got any worse. It drove him mad that this link didn't affect her at all. He would go for anything at this point, even if all they could do is lessen its grip on him just a little.

He couldn't help but sit and watch Sidney as she dragged herself down the hall and sat in the meeting room with everyone who was still in their pajamas. She was rather impatient as they all sat and speculated on why Anthony was killed off so soon. Thinking back to earlier he wished that they weren't interrupted by Darrien. He could have had her again. Despite the fact that he knew it would make the link and his compulsion towards her worse, he wanted to be with her again. The more he thought about it the more it drove him crazy realizing how much the link had skewed his perception of her. He was tempted to try and go to her again just so he could have some peace for a while, but stopped himself unsure if there were any noticeable changes it would make on Sidney that the others might notice.

Sidney stared off into space just wishing they'd let her go back to sleep. She knew that he was watching her and could feel his eyes on her almost wishing she could still talk to him while she was awake. The more she tried to think back to the spell she used the more blurred her memory of it seemed to be but one thing always stuck out to her, she never did get to finish the whole ritual. She was certain that there were several parts to it and she missed at least one or two of them. If only she could remember the name of the book.

They speculated that Freddy had purposely let Anthony get away only to kill him in Westin Hills as a warning of some sort that he was planning something big. If they only knew what was really going on they'd have a field day with Sidney and slowly torture them both to death. The thought of them finding out and what possible measures they might take on her made her extremely uneasy. Finally Delvin dismissed everyone reminding them all to remember to take their Hypnocil on time. It was the middle of the night so everyone returned to their rooms and Niki of course ended up following Sidney.

"Hey are you ok you seemed really quiet in there?" She asked catching up with Sidney's fast pace.

"Yeah I just wish we really knew what was going on." She lied.

"I know but there is really no way to know." Niki explained. "I'm just glad he didn't hurt Darrien. I feel horrible for making him miss is Hypnocil. I wonder why he didn't."

"Just be glad he's still here. He's really lucky." She said a bit envious of them.

"Yeah I feel bad for him though. He's going to be in therapy for a while… after seeing what he saw when he found Anthony." She said sadly.

"Just be there for him when he needs you I guess. I'm going to go back to sleep. See you in the morning." She said quickly disappearing into her room locking the door behind her.

Sitting on her bed she stared at the ceiling no longer feeling his eyes on her since her laptop was closed sitting on her desk. Turning out the light she had her eyes closed for less than a second and Freddy was instantly there in front of her as his human self and he pinned her to his bed and locked lips with her catching her off guard and she found herself surrendering to him. She wanted to stop him but her body wouldn't let her. He wouldn't even give her the chance to say anything against him.

Freddy wasn't going to let anything interrupt him this time and wasn't going to wait any longer to be in her again. He wanted to touch her, kiss her, never let go and be as close to her as he possibly could before letting himself be with her in the waking world again knowing it would only make his compulsion worse than it already was. At least when she was in his world he could touch her and he was going to take full advantage of that tonight.

Sidney tried to push away from him but she was pinned between him and the bed. When she put her hand on his hip to try and push him off of her, her hand met with his bare flesh sending a rush of heat through her as she realized her clothes were missing as well. The feel of his bare chest on hers sent shivers down her spine and she let herself drown in his kiss and was overwhelmed by the smell of his cologne. Finally he released her from their kiss and she let out a small whimper making Freddy let out a satisfied laugh as he sat on his knees and pulled her closer taking hold of her hips and thrust into her slowly.

They both let out satisfied moans and Freddy pulled Sidney up to him putting his legs beneath her and she was now sitting in his lap so they were face to face as she rode him. She stared into his blue eyes wrapping her legs around him and began slowly riding him the only sound heard was their deep breathing and their bodies entwining with one another. He enjoyed her slow pace as her hands rested on his shoulders to keep her balance he put his arms beneath hers pulling her so their chests were flush together and rested one hand on her shoulder from behind and used the other to push her into another kiss.

Completely entwined as they were was intoxicating for the both of them and even though it only dulled the compulsion Freddy could have stayed like that for hours. He was caught off guard when she suddenly began to thrust her hips into him faster and harder as she kissed him and he could feel how close she was to her release. Tightening his grip he held her still and she struggled in his grip and pulled away from the kiss and he attempted to stay lip locked with her sucking on her tongue as she pulled away sending shivers through both of them.

"Please." He begged finally speaking. "I want it to last." Sidney stared back at him and couldn't help but feel horrible remembering that this wasn't easy for him to keep control like this yet he wanted to prolong it because of what the link was doing to him and she obeyed as she saw the need in his eyes. He could hear everything she was thinking and feel everything she felt knowing she knew how weak this link was making him and hated the fact that she pitied him for it, yet he couldn't shove her off of him or just take what he wanted from her the compulsion the link caused wouldn't let him.

She obeyed his hands as they trailed from her shoulders stopping on her hips and slowly began to ride him again. He let out a satisfied moan into her ear and her hands went from his shoulders to the back of his neck pulling him into a kiss. Drowning in their kiss and the feel of her moving around him he did what he feared and completely lost control.

Sidney felt him change back to his normal self and felt his charred lips on hers making her eyes snap open only to look into his clouded bloodshot red eyes and was suddenly on her back beneath him as he held her down. Thrusting into her harder and harder he enjoyed the pain it caused them. She tried to stop him but he was so much stronger than her. Crying out she knew what she had to do to stop him and took a deep breath bracing herself before biting down as hard as she could on her own tongue.

Freddy groaned in pain and suddenly stopped as he realized what he was doing now that the pain had snapped him back in control. He healed Sidney before releasing her wrists and got to his feet. Turning away from her they were now both fully clothed and Sidney slid off the bed to her feet, but before her hand met with his shoulder he disappeared. She swallowed the metallic blood that remained in her mouth from biting her tongue and sat back on the bed staring blankly where Freddy had vanished. As much as she wanted to be mad at him she couldn't knowing that the link was starting to tear him apart.

It was hard to get away from Sidney but he had to. Sinking his blades into a young boy's skull and absorbing his soul did nothing to dull his compulsion and kicked the fallen boy's bedroom door open and walked into his basement sitting on his work bench. Watching the blood drip from his blades he thought back to when he lost control and stabbed his blades into the wooden table and left them there removing his glove. As always he could hear Sidney's thoughts. He did his best to ignore them but he couldn't help himself.

She wasn't even angry with him for what he did and he hated that she pitied him. There had to be something anything they could do to weaken what had been done to him. He wanted her to wake up so he could be with her in the waking world again knowing it would stop the compulsion but fought the urge to force her awake to do so and went to her.

Sidney didn't even flinch when he appeared beside her on the bed and wrapped his fingers around her wrist. Physical contact dulled the compulsion a bit but barely.

"We need to find that memory. Even if we just get the name of the book we could see if there is another one and find a way to reverse this if not weaken it." Sidney broke the silence.

"I know... I'm sor..."

"No don't say it. You'd never even think about saying it if it wasn't for this damn spell so don't. It's not you." Sidney cut him off before he could say sorry. He stared back at her in disbelief but unfortunately she was right. Even she knew how unlike himself he was becoming and it worried him to think that he might not ever return to his normal self even if it were reversed. The link was making it even more difficult for them to just simply figure out a way to reverse it because he was so busy trying to kill the need to be with her by further distracting himself with her.

"Then let's get started." He said sitting with his back against the headboard and Sidney obeyed sitting in his lap. Putting his hands on her either side of her head they began. The rest of the night they searched her memories with no luck. It seemed like her mind was tiptoeing around it showing everything just before and after she performed the ritual.

Freddy sighed in defeat knowing she needed to wake up and that he would end up with her in the waking world. At least he prolonged it for a night. He just hoped that the compulsion wouldn't get worse once he started to be with her in the waking world.

"I'm sorry we didn't find anything we'll have to try again tomorrow night." She apologized.

"Are you sure you want me with you? Things are going to get worse… I know it." He warned even though he knew it would stop the compulsion completely if he was with her.

"Yes you need a break from it or else who knows what'll happen." She said firmly remembering back to when he lost control earlier in the night making Freddy look away from her as he did his best to allow her to wake up.

Sidney opened her eyes and stared up at the ceiling for a few moments before forcing herself out of bed as she looked at the clock to see that it was nine in the morning. Before she could get to her feet she felt Freddy join her. The unquenchable compulsion to be near her vanished completely the second he was with her in the waking world.

It's gone... I don't feel it anymore. He said in her mind.

Good. Now to figure out if it's physically noticeable. She suggested and as she looked around the room Freddy noticed all the reflective surfaces had been covered or removed reminding him that she had done so, so he couldn't watch her in there. He attempted to walk to the dresser mirror to remove the sheet covering it with no avail realizing he could only control her if she let him. She didn't even notice the attempt but walked over to it and removed the sheet and she barely flinched as she saw Freddy staring back at her in the reflection.

Great you can see me. Now what? He asked annoyed.

Just because I can see you doesn't mean everyone else can. Remember I can see ghosts and other things on the astral plane. Hell in one of the old hospitals I was in I even saw a demon tormenting a boy. They might not be able to see you. It's not like I see you when I look down at myself. She explained.

And how in the fuck are we going to test that? If they see me then all hell will break loose. Freddy growled.

Then first things first can you leave me and go back to the dream world without me going back to sleep first? She asked glaring at him in the mirror. There was no response and Freddy fought himself not wanting to leave her and go back to feeling the compulsion. He let himself let her go and slip away and found himself in the dream world as the link took over again.

Sidney stared at her reflection as Freddy's image faded away and back into her. A few seconds later he faded back.

That wasn't easy. He confessed.

I know. But I'm going to go out there now and see if anyone notices anything. If they do you need to go back to your world. Can you do that? She asked.

I hope so. He replied practically holding his breath as she slipped her slippers on and slowly opened the door before making her way to the kitchen.