The Dream Team and the Battle For Salvation
Characters: Nancy Thompson, Neil Gordon, Kristen Parker, Roland Kincaid, Joey Peterson, Donald Thompson, Elaine Parker, Alice Johnson, Rick Johnson, Dan Jordon, Debbie Stevens, Sheila Kopecky, Max Johnson and Freddy Krueger, special appearances: Elizabeth Simms and Eric Carver
Time-line: It's two years after the events of Dream Warriors, the trio is back in school, and Neil and Nancy are engaged and are getting married the following summer. Their parents are back together and their family is in one piece, while the trio has created a new gang and they are healed from what happened at the hospital at the time. Their parents' friends also know the truth and have pulled their group back together, and Neil has adopted Kristen as his daughter. So this is taking place in the opening scenes of the Dream Master.
Summary: It's been two years since the events of the Dream Warriors and Kristen is having premonitions of something on the rise that is going to go after the rest of their group, after a dream that causes him to come back for real, a death and a injury, will they be able to stop him or is that it for the dream warriors, their friends, and the entire town's junior population.
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 be put into five pieces now, since the first three cover their plans of emotional therapy and the last covers the return of Fred Krueger as the story starts heating up from here now. From here they start dealing with getting their friends involved as the situations start changing directions, before the town meeting.
But Freddy will be entering the story at the start of the fifth portion and is going to be in the story throughout the rest of the story, as they work at fixing the town and keeping him contained from here on in.
Chapter 38: Explanations, Reveals and Funny Memories
"I take it they were shocked when you told them?" she asked and they nodded as Kristen answered that question. "Yeah, evidently Max had a friend whose son was one of the victims, after making the connection between Krueger and the town's name for him, he was beyond furious when he got the truth, especially once he heard the reason my sisters and I kept freaking out when Simms tried to sedate us. Jeff lost his best friend to the bastard and Walter, his nephew, but after learning everything they decided to get involved and are going to testify to the amount of malpractice Simms was and still is doing over there." she said and Alice nodded as Rick asked the next question.
"How close a bond did you have with them?" Rick asked and she smiled. "Our bond was a parental one, though they were taking care of me in the same way dad was, and I wasn't going to have them charged because nothing they did resulted in putting me into that condition, so they're off the hook now, but Simms and Carver aren't when dad hears this information, though in the case of Jeff he became an older brother to us and if things start again tonight, you'll be meeting him when we go to the hospital tomorrow." she said and he nodded in agreement to that as he hid a smile at that statement.
"Dad?" Elliot repeated and she nodded. "His father, our relationship is verging on soul-mates now and when his father hears this he's going to want me to call him that now, and we found out the side effect of that today as well." she said and Donald looked at her at that statement. "What's the side effect?" he asked and Rick answered that. "We've got the same connection between us that Nancy and Dr. Gordon do now mentally, and ended up finding this out in school today after she told me, Dan and the girls what was going on." he said and Donald nodded as he looked at Neil and Nancy who looked at each other at that statement.
"Information overload here, change of subject." Kincaid said and Kristen started laughing at that. "Alright we're not going into that again Kin." she said and the trio started laughing at that. "Am I missing something here?" Dan asked and she explained. "We had that statement come up twice before our fooling around started getting out of control." she said and he nodded as the entire group started laughing as Jared changed the subject with a chuckle.
"How do you think Peter, Derek and John will take this when they hear this?" Jared asked and she sighed as she went into that. "When they see those records and hear it first hand from me and dad, they're going to be pissed at it, because it was way too close that night in the case of the four of us." she said and he nodded as James changed the subject again as he looked at the quartet who had a look of fury on their faces at the information as he got things started.
"Guys, at this point before we go for the issue of over doing it we have to figure where this is going to lead and head off his attempt of going for both the kids, Nancy and anyone else he thinks he can get to, so we have to strategize here." James said to the other four fathers of the trio's old gang and they all nodded as Jack looked at Donald on that after what went on the last two years. "I don't believe this, how many times do we have to deal with this guy before he stays dead exactly?" James asked and Jared looked at him. "Well at this point there is no way I'm letting him near her, the boys or Nancy, because she's still healing up from what happened at the hospital." he said and James, Elaine and Donald nodded in agreement to that.
"Neil does Max know that this meeting was planned for tonight?" Donald asked and he nodded. "Yeah I told him at work today, and he, Walter and Jeff are still pissed at what happened over there at the time." he said and Kristen looked at him. "I really hope they don't try to get involved if he does come back, Walter's beyond pissed at what happened there and if he tries to fight it out with him, he's going to get killed, let alone Eric as well at the time." she said and he nodded in agreement to that as she shifted position so she could be closer to her father as they went into this. "Does Adams know about this as well?" she asked and he nodded.
"I hope she made a copy of what you wrote down, because when Mr. Johnson sees it he's going to be pissed." she said and he nodded in agreement to that as Donald looked at her. "What's he do for a living anyway?" he asked and Alice answered that. "Dad's a lawyer, and with the fact that if we got involved in this, than our parents will and when they hear this they're going to be pissed at this, especially once he reads what you wrote down in her records for that month." she said and he nodded as Neil started laughing at that.
"Well that just gave a perfect blow to Carver, because she did warn him that if this happened again in the ward she was getting the entire family involved in it and if you two got involved so would your father and with what you just said this is going to give him a shock and a scare when he hears it." he said and she smiled as Jack changed the subject as he looked at them.
"Is Darrel one as well guys?" he asked and Dan nodded. "Yeah, they've been working together on occasion at times and if they hear about this and see what you put in her records when she was at the hospital they are going to be pissed and so will the Lantzes, Lanes and Greys when they get the truth of what the heck has been going on over the last eight years." he said and Neil nodded. "Anyone know where they moved to in town, because with the fact that things started again they need to know this information?" he asked and Donald shook his head.
"I haven't heard from Peter, Sarah and John in seven years since he killed the kids, but when they get the truth, they're going to kill Krueger for this, because when it came to the girls they really got overly protective." he said and Neil nodded."So what do they do for a living?" Kincaid asked and Donald smiled. "Peter works at a hardware store as a loading technician, John as an executive and he sometimes got called out of town, so Rod sometimes stayed with me or Peter and Derek as a gym teacher, though when he hears this he's going to kill him a second time, because he's going to be pissed when he gets the truth of what killed her that night." he said and Kincaid nodded as Jack turned to him to go into that, knowing this would lead to a few jokes as well, in the case of the boys and his niece was going to find it funny.
"In this case every action has a reaction to it, so I think we better figure this out and quick." Jack said and the five turned to him. "Out of curiosity what do you guys do for a living?" Rick asked and he smiled. "Donald is a homicide detective, Jared an EMT, Rob and James are both fireman, Damian is a retired army ranger, Elliot is a S.W.A.T. team officer and I'm a construction worker, while her father is a teenage psychiatrist, but our jobs get dangerous at times and we take it seriously, though our families mean even more to us." he said and Rick nodded gently.
"I take it you took physics for that job?" he asked and he nodded as he started laughing. "Yes, working in a construction area covers knowing the amount of weight of any object and knowing if something you're working with could collapse or explode, and I work with the dangerous equipment, which leads to the occasional injury on the job for the new members and I've been doing this for twenty three years and know what I'm doing." he said and Rick nodded with a smile at that as Kristen looked at him with a warning look on her face at the question.
"Rick if you go into this, you are in big trouble, because there is no way I'm losing you to a piece of machinery on the job." Kristen said to him and he nodded with a blush at that as her parents started laughing at that. "To repeat that last statement you guys get hurt on the job and you're dead meat got it?" she said to all four boys. "Got it Kris." they said together and the adults started laughing at that as Jack looked at his brother than.
"Did you ever have to deal with this with the other parasites you caught over the years Donald?" Jack asked him and he looked at his friend. "No, but then they didn't strike a deal with the devil and start haunting their victims to the point to where they are ready to crack after dealing with them one too many times." he said and James looked at him and Jared. "Rick, what are you and the rest of your gang doing here?" Elaine asked and he looked at her. "She filled me in at lunch, and I decided I was getting involved in this, because I'm not letting him get away with hurting her like that." he said and she nodded. "Son, he could kill you, and after what happened then I'm not taking the chance, of her having to deal with another relapse because of it." Donald said and they looked at each other.
"I know that, but at this point I don't have choice here, because if he goes for them, he's going to come for me and the rest of our gang afterwards and my sister is the only one who could deal with those powers and she wouldn't be able to control it and it could turn into a bloodbath, so rather than taking that chance, we're getting involved now rather than later." he said and Donald and Neil both nodded with a sigh. "Alright, just stay out of range of those knives and whatever you do don't jump right into it, because that's what nearly killed me after I got the whole story and it nearly killed me in the process and I'm not taking that chance with you, so be careful." Donald said sternly and Rick, Dan and the girls all nodded as they got what he was telling them.
"Jesus, first we set him on fire once, and five years later he comes back and we do it a second time and then again five years later after the Walshes move to town and then bury him, how many times do we have to deal with him before he stays dead?" Damian asked and James looked at him.
"At this point I'm ready to use dynamite for this, because I'm getting sick of this bastard." James said and Nancy looked at her uncle. "Trust me you are not the only thinking that right now, in fact I'm ready to throw a stick of dynamite down his throat and pull the trigger." she said and the trio were looking at each other at that statement, as Kincaid whispered in Kristen's ear, "I think this is going to head into one of those cartoon murder conversations here sis." he said and she tried to keep from laughing at that as they listened to their parents go over this.
"Do any of you get the feeling he did this on purpose though?" Nancy asked and Erin looked at her at that. "What do you mean?" she asked and James answered that. "Because we've dealt with him four times in the last thirteen years alone and he won't stay dead and I'm getting sick of dealing with this bastard." he said and Nancy felt her anger reaching the breaking point.
"I've just about had it with this guy, I'm ready to use dynamite for this because I'm getting sick of killing him and he won't stay dead." she said and Neil gave a nod of agreement to that as he looked at her. "Nancy you said you pulled him into our reality, well now we have to get into his head to do that and see what makes him tick, before we put an end to him for good, and the only option on that one is death by a thousand cuts." he said and she nodded to that.
"You feel like we're dealing with some cartoon monster here, because we've killed him four times in thirteen years and he won't stay dead." James said and they all looked at him at that as Neil answered that statement as he looked at her and tried to keep from laughing at what James just said as the kids were trying to keep from laughing at that themselves.
"At this point we reached the military issue of dealing with a serious case of over kill and psychotic tendencies and I'm getting just as sick of dealing with him as you are honey." he said and James looked at Jared. "Jared I hope you kept your camping and hunting equipment, because I'm ready to turn him into a barbecue at this point." he said and the teenagers were holding in their laughter at this conversation. "Are you kidding me, I mean being set on fire three times is not enough and neither is being buried, time to throw the entire arsenal at him." Damian said, since he was retired army ranger.
"Oh come on, this is like dealing with that scene in Roger Rabbit with the amount of damage in the kitchen and warehouse and we're dealing with a menace who won't stay dead and frankly I'm ready to use the entire thing on him, fire, explosives and multiple knives as well as a crow bar and a stick of dynamite in the chest to put an end to him." Elliot said to him as the kids, who were listening to this, tried to keep from laughing at what they were hearing as the trio looked at each other to go over it.
"I feel like we're dealing with that scene of Clue where he keeps getting hit in the head and won't stay down." Joey said and the three of them started laughing at that as Kincaid answered his brothers' statement as he looked at them. "You remember how many beatings it took to keep him from killing you in this, well it's time to put an end to it." Kristen said to him and he nodded in agreement to that. "Considering that you're a gymnast and a black-belt, you, Rick, and Dan could easily take him down before we took care of the rest." he said and she smiled. "Not before I use the crow bar on him to take his head off." she said and he started laughing at that. "Yeah well at this point we've done fire, earth and the next ones are water and air and if this keeps up we're using the candle-stick, rope, gun, and the lead pipe next." he said and she started laughing at that one as Kincaid responded to that statement.
"I hope we go for the use of the wrench here, since multiple concussions ought to work and so will a case of lead poisoning, strangulation and multiple stab wounds." Jack said, over hearing that and Kristen tried to hold in her laughter at that statement as she looked at her brother on that as Kincaid said what she was thinking with a smile.
"Guys I think our family reached the point of morbid board game jokes here, because this is getting ridiculous." Kincaid said to his brother and sister and they started laughing at that. "What are you talking about Kincaid?" Alice asked and Joey answered that one. "Have you ever seen the movie 'Clue'?" he asked she and nodded.
"Well that's what we mean, we reached the point of over kill with this and it's getting out of control, which explains our families statement right now." he said and she nodded as their parents ended their conversation and looked back at them and smiled as they saw that their discussion caused them to break down laughing over all of this.
"Guys I think we better change the subject, because the kids look like they are about to die laughing here." Anna said with a smile as the kids started laughing at this. "Anna I think we needed it to lighten things up and they oughtta have a chance to laugh at this." Neil said with a slight smile and knew it was his statement that triggered this as the kids tried to get their laughter under control and Donald looked at the other members of his quartet then. "Does this feel like a military situation to you though guys?" he asked James and Jared who both nodded as Elaine looked at her best friend and adoptive brother. "What are you talking about boys?" she asked and he looked at her.
"Because at this point we've reached the point of over-kill with the amount of times we've had to deal with him and it's getting out of control, the last thing we need is a repeat performance of what happened at the hospital." he said and she nodded as Jack looked at the five of them. "Well the best way would be a stick of dynamite followed by the anvil." he said and that triggered another round of laughter from their kids as Erin stepped in. "Alright you guys change the subject, because they're ready to die laughing here." she said as she watched as Kristen leaned against Kincaid from laughing so much and they all dropped the wise cracks and got serious as they narrowed things down, as Kincaid turned to his mother to ask about why they didn't tell them.
"Mom, why didn't you tell us that we had grown up together, let alone the fact that our bond was that strong when we had gotten back together?" he asked and James answered that. "Because we didn't want you to have to grow up with that knowledge of what had happened on our block, you all were to young to remember each other, even though your bond was still there. The other parents, your mother and I had been friends since we were in junior high school, he had his own family here, but he turned into a psychopath when he killed his wife and his daughter was removed and put in the orphanage and that is when the trouble started in our part of the town."
"Donald was a sergeant by the time the kids in our neighborhood were being killed and rather than taking the chance of him getting to all of you, we decided to end it ourselves." he said and Nancy turned to him, with a gentle look at their parents as Kincaid moved closer to Kristen and they were feeling that uneasiness.
"Wait, junior high?" Rick repeated and Donald nodded. "James, Jared and I have been friends since we were five years old after we started the six grade we met the others and our own gang was born and we've been friends ever since, which is the reason for why the kids were raised together, because we wanted them to have the same childhood we did, before he destroyed that." Donald told him and he nodded as he looked at the trio and Nancy who had looks of hatred on their faces of what Krueger had done to them and their family and childhood.
"Well that explains you three, but what about Mrs. Parker?" he asked and Elaine answered that one. "After two years he became my best friend and my older brother, and we became a quartet after that, after I had Kristen I named him her godfather, and we raised the four of them and the rest of their gang, Tina and the boys together, before he moved onto the block." she said and he nodded as the younger quartet smiled as they went into this and he looked at the twenty of them.
"How many of you are there?" he asked and James answered that one. "There's twenty two of us as a group, and our gang had tripled in size since we were kids. After we took him out Richard and Elaine divorced and he left town about five years ago and Marge was killed when he went after their brothers and sister, so that left the rest of us and with that we're determined to keep our family together this time around, the kids were eleven in number in the beginning though before the debacle on the street."
"And at the hospital, and he destroyed our family with what happened back than, and now we are going to make sure he never gets near our family ever again." he said and the other five teenagers nodded as Jacob started, but before he could into that Sheila asked about Neil then. "How did Dr. Gordon get involved in this?"she asked and Kristen answered that one.
"He was already looking after the other members of our gang before Krueger landed me in the hospital and after our brother and sister were killed Nancy told him the truth and he decided to get involved in getting rid of him, and not long after that he and Nancy got together and he became my father right before we came home from the hospital." she said and the five nodded as they got it. "I saw a photo sitting on the mantle." Alice said and he nodded.
"Yeah the kids made that for me after she joined the group, over the last couple years I ended up with several photos of the trio together and kept them there." he said and she nodded. "So you took over as her father?" she asked and he nodded as Kristen answered that question. "Yeah, he was beginning to fill in the holes after becoming my therapist, and then took over completely just before we got released." she said and Alice nodded as Rick thought it over and then felt his temper rising at that.
"Let me guess Richard took off on you, he destroyed your life and took off on you, doing the same damage to you that he did to your mother is that it?" Rick said with a growl and she nodded. "He's so dead when I get through with him, he comes back and I'm making it clear, he's been replaced, he touches you and I'm breaking his neck." he growled and Elaine hid a smile. "I've already made my choice Ricky, you're the one and he's lost me to you and the sextet, he's not getting me back now, which is the reason they rearranged custody here."
"Mom, and Uncle Donald were beyond pissed when I explained everything to Uncle Donald and when the team heard exactly what I was framed for they're all ready to kill him now, because at the time I was dealing with the loss of our brother and sisters and my real father made it even worse by leaving, so dad took his place and it healed up that damage over the last eight-teen months, but I swear if he does comes back I'm not taking him back at all." she said and he nodded.
"You made your choice and we're it, I'm your future, no use fighting it now when he realizes he's been replaced, so with that domino effect you and your sister just mentioned, let me guess here he's one of them if he calls at a time like this, right?" he asked and she nodded as she explained that to him as the quartet listened quietly.
"Yeah the last resulted in making two busts in one night, while this one just got started, since I gave the alarm last night, mom told the others and you and the quartet got involved with the fact you want to know everything and if it keeps, he's the last if he chooses to call or come here when I'm in the middle of the recovery and that means when I'm dealing with or just finishing that ro-test with the entire familial gang." she said and he nodded as she leaned against Neil who wrapped his arms around her as he, Elaine and Donald exchanged furious looks at that statement. 'Richard to repeat that statement you come here, and you're being arrested and committed if you come back drunk.' Donald said with a mental growl in his voice.
As he was thinking that Jack leaned over to Erin at that to go into it as he felt his anger at that statement rising, his protective feeling had grown even stronger since their family had been reunited and he was determined to protect her from anything that did her harm, and he wasn't letting Richard Parker near her since he hurt her already after leaving.
"If Rick comes back, he is going to get his ass kicked for taking off on her, he made things even worse, and I can tell that with this starting again she is beginning to feel the pain of that loss right now." he said and she nodded. "Elaine we need to talk about this." Erin said and she nodded as they went to the other side of the room. "He made it even worse didn't he?" she asked and Elaine nodded. "Yeah he took off and it did just as much damage to her as it did to me, without you guys, we were both cut adrift, I was relieved you guys called me that night."
"Donald, James and Jared decided that if Rick did come back to see her, they were going to bar him from seeing her, because she already sees Neil as her father, and he has already healed up that damage, and none of us are taking the chance of another relapse because of this, besides she prefers Neil to Rick right now anyway and with Donald as well as all of you back in her life, she's healed up from the damage that bastard inflicted on her after what happened at the hospital, and I'll fill you, Jack and Rob in on that later." she said and Erin nodded. "They grew really close after he got her hospitalized didn't they?" she asked and Elaine nodded with a smile as she went into that looking at her friend and daughter.
"Yeah, barely a week together and the bond reached the point to where she saw him as her father, after Simms got him and Nancy fired she went off on her for that, and he was the only one who could calm her down after Philip had been killed. She loves him so much, and doesn't want to lose him if that bastard does come back, she is scared to death that with him coming back she is not only going to lose him, but Donald, Nancy and the boys, and I'm not sure here, but if her relationship with Rick is what I think it is, if he gets killed it could kill her in the process." she said and Erin thought that one over before she realized what she meant.
"You think they're soul-mates?" she asked and Elaine nodded. "Every time they are together, I can see it in her eyes that he is the only one for her and it's the same for him, and sooner or later he is going to become my son-in-law, and Neil already thinks the same here, and we're going to do whatever it takes to keep our family in one piece this time and that bastard is not getting anywhere near her ever again." she said and Erin nodded in agreement to that one as they ended that conversation and joined them. "Jack, Rob, Elliot Damian, I need to talk to you guys here." she said and the four got up and joined them as Wendy, Claire and Mary moved over to them as well. "What is it Elaine?" Rob asked her and she went into it.
"What she said about Rick was true, she's not going to take him back at this point, after he left her feelings of abandonment reached the point to where she came close to getting into a few fights at school when the bastard came back and by that point her feelings were going from anger to hate, after he landed her in the hospital this was the reason for why Simms and Carver thought she tried to kill herself and Neil had to make it clear he wasn't going to leave her then and she started calling him dad right after he buried the bastard." she said and the seven nodded feeling their anger rising at that.
"Did her memories of us come back by that point?" Damian asked and she nodded. "Yeah she started having dreams about all of you and they kept up every night before he came back on to the scene, and at the current moment with the family back in one piece she's happy now and doesn't want to have anything to do with him now any more." she said and the four nodded. "If he tries to call or come see her, I'm barring him, she needs time to heal up from this, especially with a repeat about to happen and I can tell we need to get this out of her before she blows up a second time." Jack said firmly.
"How close are she and Neil anyway, because we never got the full details, though we're fine with their bonds?" Elliot asked and she went into that. "It took barely three days for their bond to fall into place and she was just beginning to heal up and he had to make it clear he wasn't going to leave her, and she prefers him to Rick now, with the fact he was there for her when Rick wasn't and this is going to be the consequence of his taking off on her, so if he calls I want you guys on stand by." she said and they all nodded as they ended that.
"Alright you said that this was revenge for us taking him out right Nancy?" Jack asked and she nodded. "Yeah, he saw that it was you who did it, and figured out that we were your biggest weak-spot and is now determined to take out the entire group now, and like Kris said he became a paranormal psychotic at this point, I don't know how he remembered who was who, but he did and with the fact that he now knows what the four of us look like as teenagers and adults it just got a lot more dangerous."
"As to why it's because it caused you to wind up in the cross fire and it almost killed dad, Neil and Max that week, Max winding up in the wrong place at the wrong time, because he nearly walked into the room that night, so with that, whatever you do stay out of range of those knives and that goes for you, the five of you, as well guys." she said and they all nodded as there was a slight tension in the room till something exploded and they all jumped and looked at Kincaid who had a plastic bag full of chips in his hand.
"Sorry, my fault." he said and they started laughing at that as Rob got things started as he looked at the quartet. "I take it you left something out for the kids to eat Neil?" Donald asked him with a smile and he nodded. "I just forgot to open that bag before he did that, and in this case I should have left something out in case anyone got hungry during this meeting." he said and the others nodded as they refocused on what they were talking about as it started.
"If I run that Ro-test with the entire adult gang, and I mean if we find the sextet and add their parents to this, the only job you guys have is protecting me, but don't jump feet first into it, and honey, the same goes double for you and Dan, you haven't seen what the guys and I have, so whatever phobia you have when we do this get it under control, before we do it." Kristen added and they all nodded to that as Debbie thought it over and then looked at her.
"I hate cockroaches, are you saying he'd use that for the punchline here, turn me into one and I die by being stuck inside of my own version of a roach motel?" she asked and the quartet all nodded. "Yeah that's exactly what she's saying Debs, he uses our future plans or our worst fears as the punchlines for our kills, like say one of our future gang was an anorexic and stuck having to diet so she can become a model, the bastard would kill her by feeding her too much and she'd die by choking on it, he nearly killed me by using my future plans and I wound up over a chasm straight into the infernal regions or a volcano, but that's the punchline here." Joey said and she nodded as she looked at him at the nickname he gave her then.
"I'm what you're looking for in a girlfriend aren't I?" she asked and he smiled as Jared hid a smile. "I was actually waiting for you to figure that out Debs, strong, smart, kind, athletic, you're exactly what I want, if you'll have me." he said and she wrapped her arms around him. "Always, so with this I'm now apart of your life and I learn what really happened to you guys, through this, alright, trauma or not I'm not letting go, let me have it I want to know everything." she said and Rick and Sheila both nodded to be that.
"The same goes for me Kris, I'm not losing you without a fight here." Rick said and Sheila looked at Kincaid. "Kin..." she started to say and he smiled. "You don't have to say it, I've already seen you're exactly who I want, you're my everything and I'm not losing you or anyone else." he said and they smiled at that.
'So that's all three of them now dad, well we better get to work, if the duo are the boys girlfriends and are exact match, we have to make sure they and Rick stay alive at all costs, and vice versa here, as of now, if he's ready to resurface tonight.' Nancy said and Donald nodded in agreement to that. "Before you see this guy, I'm making it clear here, do not, I repeat, do not give into your anger at him for what he did to us, we may have lost the quartet, but for ours, it's the big one and you're their mates, if one of you gets killed it'll kill both of you out of heartbreak, so don't try anything stupid when you see him face to face." she said to them sternly then.
Before turning to the quintet who was closest to her sister then. "Dad the same goes for the adult male quintet, she's closest to you guys, don't rise to the bait, keep your guard up and most of all stay out of range of that glove, he's a skilled fighter in there, and it's like you're sparring with a multitude of switchblades in the case of a homicidal maniac, so stay smart and focus. This is only a Ro-test, so you can see him face to face, but don't push it any further than an interrogation is that clear?" she growled sternly and they all nodded as Rob shifted it.
"Yes well everything that happened then is coming back to haunt us at the current moment, I'm still pissed at what he did to my daughter, but I'm not losing my second or making her worse, just tell us what you need to do and we'll do it." Robert Caulfield said to her and they looked at each other as Nancy went with that, but before she could say anything Debbie looked at them.
"What is this indicator song you guys are talking about, and who is this lunatic, if you treat him like this guys?" she asked and Kristen answered that the first question as Donald decided to take the other one, but before Kristen answered that she had to get the date of when that town legend started and how it got started in the first place as she looked at her mother and uncle.
"Mom when did the murders start exactly?" she asked and Elaine answered that. "They started when you guys were 18 months old and ended when you were four." she said and Nancy thought it over. "So fifteen years give or take right?" she asked and Elaine and Donald both nodded as Kristen shifted back to Debbie to answer question as Kincaid, Joey and Nancy sat next to her, and Neil was sitting on her right in case of trouble as they explained this to them.
"Due to the murders sixteen years ago, the kids in town, I mean the ones raised here, created a jump rope song about him and it's the indicator before he shows up, if you hear it in your sleep, get as far out of range as you can, another indication is the sound of nails on a chalkboard with his razors against anything made of metal or against a brick-wall, it's part of the legend I told you about actually." she said and Debbie nodded as she went over that then..
"Local town legend and the song is the indicator, before an attack, I got to get used to that, with the fact we're dealing with it again." she said to her and she nodded as Rick looked at her. "Is there a reason for why he keeps landing you guys in a boiler room in these nightmares, if he's trying to scare the delights out of you here?" Rick asked and she went into that.
"He was an engineer in a power plant during his reign of terror back then and decided to use that as a way to scare the hell out of us, in these nightmares, though in my case I keep winding up in front of his house in every dream, since he started coming after us over the last three years." she said and he nodded and Donald took over from there as he remembered what it had done to his family, but before he could say anything Sheila looked at her best friend in confusion as Alice thought it over, before looking at her at that.
"I'm going on a hunch here, but I think that's your dreamscape Kris, if you keep winding up in front of it right now." Alice said to her. "It is, but I hate that house now, the Thompsons lived in it, before but I've never gone near it since my brothers, sister and aunt were murdered that week." she said and Alice nodded."Why the hell does he keep putting you in front of that house, because it's wreck and is scary as hell, let alone the origins of the asshole who lived in that house?" Sheila asked her and she explained that to her as Rick leaned forward to hear this.
"I'm the sister of his biggest antagonist, and he is trying to get back at her for showing him up eight years ago and with the fact my power is bringing people in with me, he is determined to take me out and use that power to get to the rest of the kids in town and you and none of us are taking chances with that either." she said and the five nodded as Nancy wrapped an arm around her protectively as Donald went into the back story of what this was before things got started in town and their family had gotten torn apart because of the guy, but before he could the other four parents who didn't know about the conversation at the hospital looked her in confusion at that as Rob decided to be the one to ask her about it.
"What do you mean by your power Kristen?" Rob asked her and she explained that to him. "I have the ability to pull people into my dreams, and the only one besides me who can do that is Alice and if he takes me out, my power will go into her and it will turn into a minefield as a result, because she wouldn't be able to control it too easily and to keep it from getting worse is by making sure she and everyone in the school took that dream suppressant to head it off." she said and he nodded as he got what she was telling him. "I'd like to know why he has to keep antagonizing the kids before things get dangerous?" Elliot asked and Nancy answered that as she looked at her uncle.
"In the case of his traps, he tries to provoke us so we can't think straight before the battle, I was keeping it under control before I set up those booby traps in the house, and worked out which direction he was going to go in before I set him on fire a second time, the other reason is he somehow figured out that Kristen is the one I'm closest to out of the three of them and knows that if there was ever a way to take me down emotionally it would be with her and vice versa, after he stabbed me he was about to do her next
"Before I used his own glove on him and stabbed him in the stomach before Neil took care of the rest. With the fact that our bonds are back in place, he knows that we are determined to keep from losing each other and if we get separated we have to find each other again." she said and Rick asked the next question as he remembered what Kincaid told him.
"What caused her that much pain when you lost you them?" he asked and she motioned him against the wall. "Their bond is an empathy link now, and if one of them gets killed it causes the others to shut down and with the loss of four of them it hit her so hard she came close to real suicide at the time and that is the reason for why we are trying to end this and get rid of him for good." she said and he nodded as Donald took it from there.
"Fred Krueger is a child molester and killer who lived in the neighborhood our families lived in, at the time he went by the name of the "Springwood Slasher', after his wife made the mistake of going into his basement and found his stash of murder weapons and other things she confronted him and he killed her, when that happened the town government had taken his daughter from him and he started killing the kids in our neighborhood, and a lot of them were kids of a few friends of ours and others made were the kids of our brothers and sisters, which made the situation more personal for everyone in this room and it kept getting worse too." he said and took a deep breath as he continued on with it, before he did Rick looked at him gently.
"Do you think our parents know about him as well?" he asked and Kristen looked at him. "How long have you lived here in town Rick, guys?" she asked him and he explained that to her. "My family moved here about ten years ago." Rick said and she nodded as Debbie told her the truth. "My family's lived here for years since my sister was five, so I'm guessing my parents dealt with the rampages back then, Sheila moved to town twelve years ago, and Dan moved here last year." she said and Elaine nodded as she thought it over then.
"Eric and Holly have lived here all their lives actually, they're part of our graduating class, you're a local aren't you?" she asked and Debbie nodded and Erin answered that one. "Alright, Debbie you and your family know about him, were they at the trial if they knew about this?" she asked and Debbie thought it over. "I'm not sure, but I know dad was beyond pissed when they learned my cousin was murdered here." She said and they nodded.
"What's your cousins name exactly?" Kristen asked and she felt a jolt of anger as she answered her. "Andy Stevenson, he was probably in Danny's age group, and my parents were furious at it, but they'd never kill someone I don't think." she said and she sighed. "My age group actually, he and Danny are my age group, as was Kimmy, so that's five from mine and fifteen from preschooler to twelve year olds." Nancy said and Donald nodded to confirm that as Kristen sighed. "None of them wanted to take a life, if they're all like my parental gang at the time." she said and Elaine summed it up for her.
"Alright I can understand that, but the rest of you arrived right after we ended this back then, and I'm guessing Kristen told you the cliff-notes version before the meeting while you were in school this morning right?" she asked and they all nodded to that gently.
"None of you knew this stuff because we and the other parents in town kept him quiet, because we didn't need anyone causing a panic in town and we all forgot about him till he went after Nancy and their brothers and sister eight years ago, after one battle then he went after Jesse Walsh who moved here three years ago, and then again when the kids met up with each other, but we'll explain the rest of this as we go on here." she said and the five all nodded as Donald took over.
"Right before we found out it was him I started a car pooling program for the eleven of them to protect them in case they ran into him in the middle of the school day, and we were all on full defense mode, after one year of murders every parent in town were on edge and we all started keeping together to protect the kids and then, after several weeks of not knowing who it was, someone let it out and we ran an investigation and found him and the boiler room he took these kids and learned something else." he said as he tried to keep his temper under control.
"What is that exactly?" Dan asked and James answered that one to give his best friend time to cool down. "The power that the town was running on was from the furnace and he had been throwing their bodies into it, to destroy the evidence, after we figured this out we were ready to kill him when we learned this and everyone in town wanted him dead." he said and Donald took over from there as he explained what happened before he came back and when they had their family torn apart because of this.
"Some friends of mine in the department and I were the ones who caught him and brought him in, but some idiot in the DA didn't sign the search warrant in the right place and the offer iced for the other homicide team did it out of order and he was released on a technicality, when that happened everyone in this room decided we were going to deal with it, but we went over it first to go into the best solution, since Elliot, Elaine and I did both sides of the law here, we decided that we were going to burn the equipment, and when he tried it again, we were going to make sure he got the electric chair for killing twenty kids in the neighborhood, two being family."
"We found him at an old boiler room that looked like it hadn't been used in years, after figuring out how to do it, we poured gas around the room while he was asleep, threw several fuel cocktails through the window and lit it up, at the time we thought we ended it before he came back when my daughter was fifteen and our issue of dealing with him as a dream demon started." he explained and the five nodded as they read through that as Dan looked at the three trios, Nancy and Neil who had pissed off looks on their faces after what happened in school that day and wanted more information.
"What happened when he came back?" he asked and Nancy took that one over. "The four of us were in high school when the situation started again, Tina had a nightmare about him before she had been killed, after Aunt Sarah said she was going out of town for a few days, she asked me over for the night and we were planning on a sleepover, before the guys got involved in that as well." she said and Donald looked at her at that.
"It's one thing when you are seven or eight honey, but it's another when you are teenagers and that's why I was so ticked off that night when I heard what had happened." he said and Elaine hid a smile at that as she went into her brother's statement as she looked at her friends as she tried to keep from laughing at that.
"I'm glad the kids never tried that yet, otherwise I'm sure things would have gotten out of hand." she said and everyone started laughing at that. "Yeah well, you think sleepovers like that are bad, try getting caught in the middle of a pillow fight and not getting hit when you are trying to get out of the room and I nearly got hit when they went at it during that pillow fight." Neil said and she started laughing as she looked at her friend and her daughter's father, knowing he was as determined as she was to protect her with everything they had in them.
"Guys, I think we better get on with that." Jared said laughing as he looked at them and Nancy nodded. "I'd like to know why he keeps coming after the kids when they are fifteen years old here?" Damian asked and Kristen decided to answer that one. "I think he decided to wait five years in her case because he didn't have the strength to wait longer and then waited for us to hit fifteen because he knew we were going to have the same reaction she did when it came up, and the problem with that."
"And that's because our fears also gave him power, so he started using our phobias against us and it lead to things getting out of control before the battles, as for the others, if one of us starts panicking it gets to the point to where it takes time to get it under control, which explains my panic attack last night before I called them in." she told him and he nodded as Nancy went on.
"After the usual minor argument between Rod and Tina, he dropped by that night while we were listening to the radio." she said and Donald looked at her. "Whose bright idea was it to leave the radio going while Glen was on the phone?" he asked and she tried to keep from laughing as she answered him. "It was his and the noises Aunt Amy heard were from a sound effects tape he had borrowed from Rod, which explains the drag racing and gun explosions she heard and he started playing around with the settings till he turned it off before he finished that phone call." she said and they started laughing at that as he looked at the eight teenagers with a gentle, but stern look.
"Alright, girls don't try that when you are having a sleepover, and guys if this goes in the same direction as it did last time, keep it together otherwise someone is going to be winding up in a permanent time out." he said and the eight teenagers nodded as they started laughing at the way he put that and the trio's parents started to as well as Neil looked at the couple, but before he could say it, Claire looked at him then. "Was that really necessary Donald?" Wendy asked him and he looked at her gently.
"I've dealt with this once already and I'm not taking chances here, Amy said that it sounded like he wound up in a shootout when he made that phone call and with the fact that it's about to start again, I'm not taking chances if the kids try any stupid stunts like a prank phone call or something." he said and she nodded as Neil looked at his daughter and son-in-law, before he could James and Damian looked at him on that statement as Damian asked it.
"Prank phone calls?" James and Damian repeated and Donald nodded. "That phone call was trying to cover up the fact that he was spending the night with the girls, since Amy's sister lived out by the airport and she said he was spending the night there, but the background noise on the phone call made it sound like he was directly in the middle of the flight lanes, and then in the middle of a drag race and it went through several things before someone turned off the tape player." he said and he nodded as the kids started laughing at that as Neil looked at Kristen and Rick with a gentle, but stern look on that, since his daughter was still too young for going into that area and if it did he was going to kill his son-in-law for taking advantage of her like that.
"Guys if that happens with you two I'm not going to be happy here, so if there is a get together like that I want an adult to supervise things." he said to them and she nodded as she got what her father was telling her as her mother smiled as Nancy continued on with it. "What do you mean it sounded like he wound up in a shootout?" Jack asked him.
"Whoever left the radio going left it on full blast and it sounded like he wound up in a car chase and shootout, and afterwards Amy told me that she thought he had been shot when that happened and I was furious with the kids for that and Marge, John, Peter and I had the crap scared out of us when that happened after he killed Tina and I'm not chancing that happening a second time here." he explained and they all nodded as the quartet looked at the eight teenagers sternly at that after what happened to Nancy's quartet.
"You guys try that and you are going to be in big trouble, we'll take normal get-togethers, but if someone tries this you are all going to be grounded indefinitely, understand?" Jack said to their trio and their friends and they all nodded, "I get the feeling our parents are going to agree with them on that when they hear this later." Dan said to the other four members of their gang who nodded in agreement to that opinion after what they just heard and Neil heard him on that one.
"Yeah well like I said, get-togethers like that are not tolerated buster, and I'm not chancing losing anyone else in this family, so if you get together to hang out at each others houses, I want an adult to supervise things here alright." Neil said to him sternly as he saw the look on Kristen's face and knew she was remembering how close she came to losing him and the others when that happened after the week of hell that went on during that month for them, and motioned her over to him and she leaned against him as he wrapped his arms around her and felt her burrow deeper into them.
He knew what her main fear was since the week of hell they had and he was determined to make sure he wasn't taken from her as well after losing most of her gang and he wrapped his arms around her gently as she laid her head on his shoulder, and the rest the adult quartet could see the same thing and were determined to head it off this time, to keep their family in one piece.
After that talk was over they got back to it and Nancy started her part of the story again, but before she could Donald stepped in. "Guys, we need to talk here now." he said to the other seven fathers and the boys and they all got up and moved into the corner. "What is it Donald?" Jack asked him and he went into it. "I don't suppose you caught the look on her face just now when he said that right?" he asked and the six all nodded. "We did, but what the heck is this situation doing to her?" Rob asked him and he told them the truth.
"With the fact that Krueger killed half of their gang and nearly killed me, Nancy and Neil, she is scared to death that she could lose us as well, and if this goes in that direction again, make sure you stay out of range of those knives otherwise you could get killed and it could kill her in the process, it was way too close the last time and neither Neil or I are risking a relapse because of this, so be careful if we have to do battle for a third time here." he said to them and they all nodded.
"Wait a minute, what do you mean it could kill her in the process?" Dan asked and Kincaid answered that one. "Our bond is an empathy link, and in the case of Nancy, Joey and me, we are connected by our bond as brothers and sisters, but in the case of Dr. Gordon, Uncle Donald and the rest of the family it's a parental/familial bond and if one of us gets hurt or worse it could incapacitate, she collapsed in that dream the night we lost our brother and sister, he goes for the parts that hurt the most."
"And that translates meaning the people that you care about the most, and with the five of you added to it and the fact that Rick is now her everything, if he as well as the rest of us get it, it could kill her emotionally and there would be no healing from it a second time and we would lose her for good." he said to him in a tense whisper and Dan nodded as he looked at Rick who nodded with a furious look on his face as the older men nodded with the same look on their faces at that.
"We got it Roland, everyone whatever you do stay out of range of those knives and stick together, Jack with the fact that the out of the ten of us she is closest to the five of us, and the girls we have to make sure no one else gets it. As for Simms and Carver I'm taking them down for this, because this is dredging up those memories and it's getting worse by the minute." James said with a growl and the seven of them nodded in agreement to that opinion as they ended that conference, and headed back to the couches as Nancy looked at her father who gave a nod to keep going.
"Don't take this the wrong way, but how is it you can give orders in the case of our group trio anyway?" Dan asked and Donald answered that one. "I'm her godfather, James is Joey's and vice versa and the guys and I took their safety seriously, so it turned into a joint parenting program here, in our case we acted surrogate parents for each of them, and in the case of the trio, I'm her secondary guardian, and its the same for the boys, and we've been doing that for years since they were all babies, and the five of us are the ones she's closest to." he explained and Dan nodded as Kristen smiled as she looked at her uncles.
"So if something happened to her parents she'd go to you, and it's the same for the guys." Debbie said and he nodded and then Dan thought over the second statement and looked them in confusion as he asked about it. "Wait what do you mean the five of you?" Dan asked and Jack smiled as he went into that. "James, Donald, Jared, Rob and me, we were the ones she was closest to as a toddler and preschooler, Elliot, and Damian were right behind us and Derek, Peter and John were just as protective as we are of her and if the boys were still alive they, Glen and Rod would really be over protective, especially in the case of Glen and Rod, because if anyone messed with the girls when they were toddlers and preschoolers they would have taken them apart." he said and Rick hid a smile.
"Trust me I can understand that, ever since we started seeing each other, if someone messes with her they are in big trouble with me, and at the moment I'm dealing with a jock who doesn't know when to quit with Sheila and we're all getting ticked at him, and if this keeps up someone is going to get his head taken off." he said and Donald hid a smile. "What are we looking at here in terms of this jock boys?" he asked and Kincaid answered that.