The Dream Team and the Battle For Salvation
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 after the rest of their group, after a dream that causes him to come back for real, 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.
Chapter 55: Book Explanations and Recovery Plans
As the girl looked at her, Kristen felt like she felt familiar to her, like an old friend as the girl started talking to her. 'Hi what's your name?' the little girl asked her and she quickly answered her question. 'Kristen, what's yours?' she asks, but the girl only giggles, before she goes to a follow up question. 'What is this this place?' she asks, before hearing a sound that sends chills down her spine, the sound of metal on metal, like nails on a chalk board.
'God he's close.' she thought, before the girl turns her tricycle towards the door as it opens by itself. ' I got to go now.' she says and pedals into the house, Kristen quickly calls out to her at that. 'Wait, little girl, don't go in there!' she shouts and follows her in till she comes to the open door by the kitchen and staircase and slowly goes down the stairs. 'Little girl.' She says quietly and she pedals around the furnace.
'This is where he takes us.' she says and Kristen answers her at that 'Come on we're going.' She says, before a fire starts up and everything becomes orange lit as she sees the heads of several children in the furnace, before hearing footsteps upstairs. 'Freddy's home.' The girl says and she picks her up and tries to run, running into several walls, before realizing she's stuck in mud as she sees her tormentor at the other end of the hall and barely misses getting slashed, before rounding another corner and into a room and bumps into something and screams, before backing into something else and she tries to keep from throwing up as she sees what's in the room.
As she looks around she sees the bodies of every teenager that was killed, before her eyes land on a boy about the girls age with his chest slashed, before seeing three teenagers, one with blonde hair, her chest slashed and her clothes drenched in blood, a black, curly haired boy in a leather jacket and a brown headed boy wearing a jersey with his number on it that looks like his body was stitched back together, after being thrown in a blender, their faces feeling so familiar that she feels a jolt of pain shoot through her heart. Feeling her heart pounding she looks around the room at the carnage, each body with the same marks and other fatal injuries, feeling her nausea getting worse by the minute as she says her thoughts out loud.
'We're all suffering the exact same dreams, he's killed all of them, the bastard has killed them all, guys, please I can't remember, who are you.' she says holding it in as she looks at the trio. 'There's has to other survivors like me, but where are they, he's targeted us for a reason, but what exactly, God I wish my big sister was here she'd know." She says, before looking at them.
"Sister, you three I know but how, I'm dreaming about the house and the block, who are the other members if I'm seeing these three, who are you exactly and where's the rest of the block, if we're all connected?' she thought quickly looking at the trio, before looking at the others and feels a jolt of anger shoot through her as she sees her friends, before saying the names of her childhood quartet, three faces she missed more than she realized.
'Kin, Joey, Billy, if you're still alive where are you exactly, I need to know, please, if you're still around I have to know, if you're suffering my dreams I need to know that, please.' she thinks, before it hits her then. 'My dreams, my memories, I've been dreaming about this house every night, I know this house, but how..., wait I come in through the front door, kitchen on the left, basement on the right at the end of the hall door leads under the stairs and into it, open room in the living room, different sofa in the living room, a piano next to the window, and a picture of my godfather and his family, and...' She starts to think and it hits her then as she looks at the trio sadly as she says it. 'You guys, I know who you are, but I can't remember, I saw you a few years back, but when exactly, who are you?'
'My memories are these dreams, dear god, the first of several kills, he's a maniac, but who is he exactly, the town legend, who are the first twenty, where are they?' She asks, before seeing eighteen others hanging around another section and then sees fifteen more right next to them and her eyes landed on two she recognizes. 'Grady, Derek, you as well, he killed you too. Name, name, the song, dear god it's, it's true, the song is the clue breaker, he's the murderer, not suicides, but murders, my dreams weren't symptoms, Grant is wrong, they're my memories, my memories of my classmates, my toddlerhood, but who are the missing members, of these five are back, guys help me here, who is he for real, who is this bastard, he's supposed to be dead, who is he, guys I need you help me out.'
'God I know these people, my classmates, Derek, please, help me.' she thinks as her eyes land on a red headed boy hanging next to the quartet, feeling the pain in her heart getting worse as she looks at the trio, before she hears the girls voice. 'Put me down you're hurting me.' she hears and looks down and screams a second time as the girl has transformed into a corpse with her skeleton showing, before her scream wakes her up with a jolt.' she reads out and Neil stops her at that, his tone beyond furious as he says it.
"Alright enough, I've heard enough, that explains the panic attack the following morning, after seeing that once she didn't want to see it twice, I'm going to have to read the book myself, before I deal with them and her nightmares, because from the looks of when she arrived, any type of panic attack was enough to drain her further, and after seeing that once hearing the trigger was enough she lost total control." he said and she nodded to that as Max exchanged looks with Walter at that.
"If she's making more than one copy here, I'm finding out what happened when we weren't around, or during the next two nightmares, because she responded to both of us after the jolts of the dreams wore off each time." Walter said and he nodded as Joey fell into the chair he was sitting as Kincaid answered that with a furious growl. "Though separated I could hear her panic, when she was asking for answers, hearing her use our toddler nicknames was enough I knew she needed me then, even if we couldn't remember back then, but before I could call out to her, she woke up at the time, that explains the parts she didn't tell me, but this is sick, as if she's not traumatized enough this is the big one, to help her heal she's going to need further anger management therapy, should we just keep up what we've been doing lately?" Kincaid asked and Erin looked at him from the room gently as she answered him.
"Wait. Chapter three, she said she was listening to our conversation guys, Alice go to when we were having a meeting about her before she was admitted to the ward, I want to hear what she was thinking through what Neil could hear from her at the time, because evidently the ability only works if you got a really strong bond, because Neil said the connection chose him as her new father figure and attached itself to him. It works in three ways, that's one, the second is if she pulls you in, or an empathy bond like Will said, it's got to be one of those three if she realized she found not only me but the guys as well." Nancy said and she nodded to that and jumped two chapters and landed on the page as she looked at the conversation and smiled.
"I don't need a reminder of what went on in the exam room, if that's chapter two, because the alarm went off right after I was checking on Roland, before you arrived honey, because that's the most intense stand off I dealt with since the kids arrived, that stupid idiot, I'm going to kill him for triggering that with the girls every time here, but hers was the one that had me worried the most, the duo didn't suffer a hotflash in the middle of it nor did they collapse, her condition had me worried the most, because she was at the danger zone, before I told Jane what was going on." Neil told her and she nodded in agreement to that as Alice looked at the chapter.
"Yeah okay, I got it, Chapter two was The New Arrival and the Standoff and the third chapter covers her hearing your entire conversation." Alice said and he nodded as she read out the chapter and his a smile. "Chapter 3: Unexpected Information and the Attack. " She said and he nodded to her to go ahead and she nodded and got started as she thought through what her sister meant as she read the chapter.
'After getting her into another room she was asleep, but listening to the conversation between her new psychiatrist and the other members of his team then, hearing an argument break out, before she heard the voice of her older friend and then heard her tone turn stern as she shifted to the orderly who caused the panic attack then as she was listening quietly as she heard the girls tone turn firm with a warning in it.
'Wait, Lorenzo is it, if I find out you're hiding anything here, and by that I mean anything illegal and it's going straight to Henderson and my father, because deliberately causing a panic when the patient is in no condition for it is illegal and I will be looking into your record, just one warning here buster, screw with me and you and whoever your associates are-are in big trouble here clear?" she said with a warning look and he nodded quickly then as he asked the next question to her then, hearing that Kristen started thinking it over. 'Familiar, I've seen his face somewhere before, but when.'
'Wait a second he looks familiar to her, alright I need to figure that out, because whoever he is could be why I thought I recognized her, or the other three, god I hope she says who she is, because if I figure it out that's what mom needs right now, she's been looking for Rodriguez for five years, if he's hiding in plain sight, then who is he exactly.' she thought, before hearing the orderly answer her friend at that. "Who are you exactly?" he asked and she explained that to him. 'Uh oh, he's really made her angry.' She added to herself as she heard the girls tone turn dangerously firm.
"I'm Nancy Margery Thompson, daughter of Donald Eric Thompson, lieutenant and second in command of the police department and one of three officers who arrested the Nightingale and as I said, I find out anything and you're in big trouble so watch it." she said and he nodded to that as he asked the next one, as she heard his tone start turning nervous.
"Wait Thompson, who are your friends exactly?" he asked and she crossed her arms at that. " Aside from my lost quartet, I'm friends with Judy Brecker and Natalie Adams, she was attacked by Adam Rodriguez in the locker room on September after gymnastics practice." she said and hearing that Kristen heard an unspoken thought through the link, between her and Dr. Gordon then. 'Dear god no, it can't be, it's been eight years, alright next question.' he thought as he answered her. "Who are your lost quartet exactly?" he asked and her tone hardened as she answered that with an icy tone in her voice.
'My quartet are Rod Lane, Tina Gray and Glen Lantz our families have been friends for years and I think Stanton happens to be one of them if she called me that in there, anything else you'd like to know about me, because my father is not someone you want screw with when he's in a bad mood, because if you're who he and Councilor Parker are looking for."
"Than you've just been found by the person you weren't expecting to be found by, rule one when you're a criminal, you want to stay hidden, than stop drawing attention to yourself, especially when it comes to being around the daughters of the people who had you convicted for your previous offense, and you're looking at the older versions of those same daughters and with that fact in mind here screw with me or those girls and you're just going to piss off our parents, my father is a man you don't want to piss off at all."
"It's been eight years to the day of the trial, and I lost my friends thanks to certain parasites and frankly these kids don't need more traumas as this situation is the reason I got interned here, and with that I'm doing the investigating for our parents, if her mother is connected to me I'm making sure she and dad are getting the news I just found you. Whoever you are, I swear if you're who they're looking for I'm making sure you get the axe."
"As to why you got the raging Daredevil on your hands and with that in mind, why don't we focus on the matter at hand now shall we." she said and he answered her as his eyes widened on the term. 'Whoa, wait Daredevil, Daredevil Thompson, oh my god, she's his daughter, okay, I should know this, it's in my mother's year book photos, him and nine others, keep going Nancy, I need to make sure of this.' Kristen thought as she heard the next question as Lorenzo's tone shifted at the declaration of family then.
"Daredevil, as in Daredevil Thompson, you're, you're his daughter?" he asked, and hearing that, the next unspoken remark went from nervousness to full scale panic as she heard it through her psychiatrist then. 'Dear god no, of all the interns at the college why her, if she figures it out or the girls tell her, I'm dead, alright I need to confirm here, because if she's really who I think I'm finished.' as she heard the remark then out loud.
"Yeah I remember that statement and I meant every word I told him that morning I was furious at him for that. Dad, I knew if there was ever a chance to turn you back I had to find out who it was you were looking for and solve your homicide case for you, but she obviously knew that if she was listening to our conversation and I figured if she figured it out I was reporting what she told me, but hearing his inner thoughts through her."
"I'm starting to understand why this was scaring him now, because to have me in the ward and I'm the daughter of the man who arrested him and my giving off the names of my sextet, if that's not enough to scare a criminal than nothing is right now and as to why, being found by the daughters, or sons, of the people who put them behind bars once already is enough to scare the criminal if they wind up in the one place that has connections to those people and he did, with six in the building with him, while the last two ended up showing up that day." Nancy said and her father nodded in agreement to that as Alice continued as she hid a smile at that remark.
"Your block was infamous of several players, but Nancy Thompson, as in the Thompson family of 1428 Elm Street, Donald 'Daredevil' Thompson, star football player at the high school and head of the homicide team, the man who arrested Adam Rodriguez, and twenty other criminals, god daughter of 'Firebird' Parker and grand daughter of Eric 'the Flash' Thompson, that Thompson?" he started to ask and she nodded as she answered him firmly, as Kristen heard her tone turn deadly at that.
"God daughter, if that's who I really am to Elaine, than yes I am in fact, the last time I saw her and the girl's parents were at the trial, and it's eight years to the day of that as well and with that, if that doesn't make a point than this will, because if her memories come back all at once and she tells me who you really are, that's going straight to my dad, along with why these kids are being either killed or killing themselves, and if that song is part of it I'm looking it into it and I'm warning you now."
"If you're the reason why, it's getting you arrested by the man who did it before when he finds out Lorenzo, because the man in question happens to be my father. Because your face may have aged eight years, but that's not going to save you if she has a total recall if she gets your last name. Especially not if I'm her adoptive sister and these girls are the rest of my surrogate family along with the boys.' She said firmly to him as Kristen listening to that thought it over carefully.
'Thompson, Thompson, that name sounds familiar, wait a second the photograph on the wall at home, but if she's connected to me..., oh my god it can't be, I couldn't have just found her now. Alright say it Nancy I need to know who you really are, because those memories are coming back now, I've been dreaming about twenty other adults from my mother's gang, and ten from the younger gang before these nightmares of this lunatic started, but if four of them are you and your friends I need to know that now, because the trial was the last time I saw you, please, tell me who you are.' she thought quietly then as she heard Nancy describe things to him coldly then.
"Alright you want back history than fine, six years ago I lived on Elm Street, my parents are Donald and Margery Thompson, I'm the daughter of the cop who arrested the Nightingale eight years ago, I'm also the grand daughter of one of two commissioners working there and was living on the block that the multiple murders happened, including the riot at the pool party, and I lived in the house Walsh lived in, before that happened, so with that in mind, if that doesn't make a point here where these questions are concerned, and you're testing my patience here so watch it."
"Because I'm not going further here where my background is concerned with you, because it's private, but if this is connected to that and what happened in there, I'm doing further research and I suggest you don't test me right now after what happened in the exam room, is that clear." she said with a stern growl and she heard one last question from him at that.
"Lieutenant, what was his previous rank exactly?" he asked and her tone went stern as she answered him at that question. "His entire rank and name, eight years ago, was Sergeant Donald Eric Thompson, Lorenzo, now if that name sounds familiar to you, that's a warning, so just watch it, because I aged five years more than I meant to, but I'm the thirteen year old who called in the cops to get the Nightingale that day." she said and that did it as she started thinking over what she just heard then from Nancy, as she recalled the photos on her living room wall at her house.
'Sergeant Thompson, Donald Thompson, Donald, wait a second, mom called the man who was taking care of me that when I was little, hold it..., that was her name for my godfather, but if it's been eight years now and the last time I saw them both, oh boy, it can't be, Nancy Thompson, Margery Thompson, Aunt Marge, Sergeant Donald Thompson, Uncle Donald, alright that helps a bit now, alright think it through she said Lorenzo looks familiar to her, he's familiar to me to, for some reason, but why, alright one thing at a time here, aged five years faster than normal, and she's six years older than me, but looks like she's twelve years older for some reason.'
'Nightingale trial, trial, I was seven and there were several kids aside from me at that trial, and she just named herself as one of them, while Judy Brecker and Natalie Adams were there and her face is so familiar to me right now, but how, okay date backing is the only way to do this, go back to that day and move it forward now.' She thought softly to herself then.
'Her face is eight years older than it should be, alright back it up, seven year old me at a trial of a known criminal, mom is questioning a thirteen year old, and her name was Nancy Thompson, and her father was standing in front of me, an adult version of that blonde haired thirteen year old girl, another adult version of a black curly haired boy with blue eyes, and a brown headed/brown eyed man all watching her from the seats behind me, the boys looked at me with the look of an older brother and the girl looked at me with the eyes of a big sister, like I was their sister, like they knew me that way.'
'Okay, seven year old me, add eight years to Nancy's features that day and four more, if she grew up faster than normal and..., oh my god, I found her, I can't believe it I found my big sister now, okay names for the trio Rod Lane, Glen Lantz, Tina Grey, their parents Sarah Gray, adult version of Tina, John Lane, adult version of Rod, Peter Lantz, adult version of Glen, as for the quartet sitting behind them in the stands, guys, Tina, I miss you guys, that's four, I'm number five, five out of eleven of our family at the trial that takes it to the other six members, because there had to be two more.'
"Okay so that's the five of us, but how did she realize that she found the girls here exactly that day and the quartet, because we look like forty five year old versions of our children, and I was sitting next to her with Wendy and Claire right behind her in this situation, she couldn't have looked directly at Claire. How did she figure it out that fast?" Sarah asked and she read further then. "She didn't look at Claire, she looked at me, jeez I forgot, she was sitting right in front of me." Elliot said to her and she nodded.
'Okay there was another cop too, the two men sitting behind me, one of them with brown hair and blue eyes, and his wife was a brunette with green eyes, while the fireman was brown hair with blue eyes and his wife, blond with brown eyes.' she thought, before remembering the nurse standing next to Dr. Stanton that morning, as she focused on the quartet then as her thought started moving even faster as she thought of her uncles.
"Okay that's me and Wendy, who else exactly, because that makes seven, if she remembers the guys that's all eleven of us at the time, and none of us realized that our children were back together till Neil called us at the time, but if she's the first of the kids to figure it out, this must be the internal conversation he told us about the night the aftermath started." Claire said and she ran through descriptions then.
'Alright Uncle Damian, brown hair with brown eyes, a bit of a wise guy with mom, but kind, Uncle Jack, black hair with blue eyes, needed glasses, also a bit of a wise guy, but wasn't someone you wanted to tick off, Uncle James, dark skinned, black hair with brown eyes, a tough guy demeanor to him, but would never hurt anyone and when pissed better get out of his way, Uncle Jared, brown hair with brown eyes, kind, but quiet.'
'That's ten, and then my mother, blonde hair with brown eyes, kind, dedicated to protecting people from the parasites running around, it's been eleven years, the seven of us aged from our preschooler appearance, so if I remember what our parents looked like in the year book, hopefully that means we all look like our parents as teenagers here now.' she read out and Jack smiled as he said it as he exchanged smiles with the trio at that.
"Well she got us dead on, since the kids look just like us at that age, alright what's her reaction to realizing the boys are also in the ward with her?" he asked and she heard the eagerness as she read out the next few paragraphs. "You're going to love this, but this has her conversations with the guys and Taryn, as well as a bit of a tension breaker too." she said and they nodded to that as she read it out.
'If they're here, we'd have to look at each other's photos to know that, if it means knowing each other by sight now if we did find each other, and Nancy, it's been several years, but if she doesn't remember I guess I have to tell her I'm now the fifteen year old version of my mother, but if the fifteen year old versions of the women.
Sergeant White and Captain Caulfield's wives, they were surrounding me, but if they and the quartet are also here that helps I just have to work it out, especially if the boys are also here, but if they look like my mother's trio and the quartet too, it could mean I just found my toddler gang finally.' she thought as she quickly thought to the sextet, hoping they could hear her and called out their names one by one.
'Kin, Joey, Billy, Phil, Jenny, Tar', if you're really here, I have to know, we may have just found each other finally, but I have to see you, eleven years, we were preschoolers, but we're fifteen now, Nancy, that's all seven, alright, if this mean medical recovery I'm seeing them while I'm healing from that lunatic trying to kill me last night, alright focus here, she's now twenty one, and we're six years apart in age, and if this was meant to happen we were supposed to find each other, I'm guess I'm seeing them tonight finally, if we just found each other now.'
"She called out to us first again, that makes perfect sense here, we're a trio, when I heard her voice then Will decided to see what was up and I was waiting for my timeout to end at the point, so I could see her, our conversation resulted in doing to emotional healing you were hoping for Doc, my dreams, before Krueger started, were focused on her and me together, just hearing her voice was enough I realized that we found each other, because that link established itself the night before and if she called out my name then, I would have answered the call automatically." Kincaid said and he nodded to that as James smiled at that remark as he answered him.
"For us, our anchor happens to be the girls son, I was what you are like at this age, with her I'm a just a big teddy bear, though the results are what you guys are like when you start going at it. And it went from me and straight into you, when you heard her voice, your son is going to be the same way with her daughter if it keeps up like this, though if you all have more than one it means watch out things are going to get a bit out of hand in the baby trios later, if we both have more than one child here, because your children and your younger brothers and sisters will be the same age later." he said and Jenkins chuckled at that and Sheila blushed at that as Alice went further as she hid a smile at the wording.
'Alright she and I are here, and if the others are here as well it could mean this was a coincidence or completely intended if my toddler trio are here as well, why would I think that, if I'm dealing with this now, a forty five year old version of my toddler hood friends, two who look like the women surrounding me at the trial, while I'm watching her on the bench, while I change into who I am, and Nancy grew up faster than she needed for it, but why is that, oh good grief, alright, she's twenty one, but looks closer to twenty six, and her father looked at my mother with a look of brotherly love in his eyes at the time, but if he was looking at her like that, they were friends and..., he's either my adoptive uncle or my guar.., my godfather I found her finally.'
'Of course, he and mom were close friends, that explains the photos on the wall, him holding me, she was the girl always with me at that age, alright if we found each other now, who else is here, because there's six others in that photo with me and our parents, but who, well I'm finding out tonight hopefully, because if this means I found one member of my family I may have found the others, and maybe my toddler gang as well, I just have to see tonight.' she thought quickly, before hearing another voice respond to her voice at that.
'What did you just call me?'she heard a voice say to her and she quickly answered that. 'What's your name exactly, my name is Kristen Parker, if you heard the alarm go off an hour ago I'm the reason for that, the bastard just put me in the hospital, if you know who I mean if you were also admitted for it?" she asked and then she heard him think back to her at that, his voice gentle as he answered her.
'I'm Will Stanton, but my nickname when I was a kid was Billy, that's what my toddler gang used to call me, to answer your second question, yeah I was, in fact, my friends and I were all admitted for these nightmares of this guy, if he framed you as well you just finished off our group, but how do you know my nickname Kristen?' he asked her and she hid a sigh.
'You have any memories of your toddler and preschooler years Will, mine were focused on a sextet, one who went by your name, who else is here, aside from you, because my nicknames for the sextet, could mean the link between you and me, I haven't seen my toddler gang in years, but if you're one of them I was hoping you knew exactly what I was dreaming about, because I think he did this on purpose?' she asked and he answered her.
'The other five here with me are Philip Anderson, Jenny Caulfield, Roland Kincaid, Joseph Peterson and Taryn White. What were the nicknames you used to call your friends, aside from mine, because my old nickname for the seventh member of my toddler gang was Kris?' he asked her then and she explained that to him.
'Joseph went by Joey, Kincaid, if that's what you're calling him right now, went by Kin with me, Taryn we called Tar, Jennifer by Jenny, and Philip went by Phil, while the sextet called me Kris. If I'm also added to the group, we have to see each other face to face, but this could mean we just found each other Will, because those memories are breaking through the barrier, and if I'm able to talk to you like this it could mean whatever bond we had as toddlers just reactivated now, now that we're in proximity range of each other.' she said, before she heard another voice answer that as a new voice entered the conversation as he answered her.
'We're three floors below the medical floor here and we can feel that bond with you, so either it means we found each other or you're the missing piece to the puzzle now. I'm feeling that myself here Kristen, but if it means added messages here with you, we need to see each other face to face, later if you're joining us.' she heard Kincaid say to her and turned her thoughts to him then gently to answer his question then.
'Which one are you exactly?' she asked and he answered her gently with a smile in his tone. ' I'm Kincaid, I heard a call out last night, are you the one who did it last night, because I was slightly irritated this morning with Simms?' he asked and she quickly answered him at that. 'Yes, that was me, how could you hear that exactly, unless, oh my god, Will said you were also admitted and I was asking for help in my nightmare and now you told me you heard my thoughts, alright if this means we found each other I need to see you guys face to face, I've got my mother's year book, but I remember what my aunts and uncles look like too.' she said to him gently.
Before he could answer they suddenly heard a crash as she heard multiple thuds of something hitting the floor on the other end of the line at that, followed by a thud and an annoyed shout at that as she heard a girls voice with an irritated tone in it then, 'Uh oh, I better go check that out, it sounds like Philip hit one of the girls again, Kincaid.' Will said and he hid a smile. 'Yeah okay, just leave the line open, because she's going to enjoy hearing this next one.' he said and Will went to investigate as he headed for where it came from then, as he heard the voices of the other two members.
'Ow, dang it, Philip are you trying to break something in here, because that just threw the pillow at me when you did that, take it down a notch will you, before Eric comes to see what's going on down here?' she heard Jennifer say to him, and then heard several smacks and knew she'd grabbed his pillow and was hitting him with it, as he answered her at that.
'Ow alright I'm sorry Jenny, I'm sorry, it's not happening again, uncle, uncle.' she heard him shouting to her as she heard a secondary smack. 'Guys we need to take a break here, before we get our latest member in the group, so with that take it down a notch will you please, because the new one could be our missing piece to our puzzle if we're like this around each other.' she heard from Will, before she heard a pillow fight break out in there, and then heard a thud as a pillow was chucked at the person who started it.
'Alright all of you enough already I can hear the noise from my room so cool it already.' she heard and hid a smile as she turned her thoughts to Kincaid then gently as she commented on that. 'Are you guys always like this with each other, I heard that entire conversation between the quartet here?' she asked with a giggle and then heard a mental chuckle as Kincaid answered that.
'Yeah that happens a lot between us, but with it getting a bit out of hand at times down here, but if you're added to the gang, I get the feeling it's going to get worse, if this is what we were like as preschoolers they're going to get caught in the middle of it next, I can also feel something between us that is more than just friends, but if we're now back in one piece this is the break we all nodded to heal finally here, I hope you're joining us, we needed a new member for a while, because we lost three and we need a new gang member now.' he said softly then, before they heard Philip get in on their conversation.
'What's your name exactly?' Philip asked her and she answered that gently. "My name is Kristen Parker and you are?" she asked and he explained that. 'I'm Philip Anderson." he said and she felt her heart lift as she answered him at that. "My mother's maiden name is Anderson, what's your father do for a living, because my mother's brother was a army ranger when they were in their twenties, and my grandfather is a judge, in fact he's the highest ranking judge in the state here?' she asked and he quickly answered that in shock.
'My father's a retired army ranger, his sister went into government and law, she's the jury leader at work and their father was a judge, you don't think..., no it can't be, Kris is that really you, Kris, my Kris, it's been years, are you really that same girl?!' He asked her in shock and she quickly answered him at that. 'Philip, if it is and I am to you, I've spent years hoping I'd find you, but if we have now, than it means we have to see each other if I'm admitted, we need to talk tonight if that does happen, did you have a description of your aunt, because I'm blonde with blue eyes, what do you look like?' she asked and he quickly gave his description to her then.
'I've got brown hair and brown eyes, my aunt had blonde hair with brown eyes, and dad looks like a forty five year old version of me.' he said and I knew she nodded as she answered him. 'If I get added to the group we need to run through whatever photos you guys have of your parents, because this could mean more than one thing right now, but if it means we just found each other, our gang is back in one piece at last, just hang tight guys, because they're going over my blood work, but if that bastard keeps it up, I'm probably joining you in a bit so see you soon.'
'Alright test check, everyone can you hear me?' she called out and she heard five voices all call back to her then. 'Yeah no problem Kris, what's up?' they asked and I heard her shift courses then. 'Alright I'm probably getting added to the group, but right now, they're going over my blood work, I'm pretty sure this means I'm staying for a while and if it does, I'm seeing you tonight, so just stand by.' she said and and they gave an affirmative to that as she refocused on the conversation.
"Well that answers the question to why they got this comfortable with each other, because I heard that entire conversation at the time." Neil said and Kincaid nodded. "Once she realized you were on the other end of the line she decided to wait till that night to tell me, but this explains why she never wanted to talk about it, and why I said I'd tell the six of you later, because I knew you guys were going to kill him again for two near rapes and her seeing the others like that." he said and the two medical doctors, orderlies, Nancy and Neil all nodded to that explanation then.
"What are her thoughts to realizing that Adam is probably in the ward with them exactly, let alone my irritation to you not telling me till Nancy finally does it three days later, because Max reported some added information to me that night, before Philip was killed and she started losing her mind the next day?" Neil asked and she read out the rest of it then and her eyes turned deadly at this as she read it out then.
'You think it's bad now, be thankful you're not dealing with our nightmares Doc, and with that in mind, if our new intern is a piece of our past, only she knows what's really going on, just be patient, before you get the truth, because everything that you see in us, is the catalyst running around the town and killing our classmates, said catalyst not a delusion, but a monster we have no memory of why it's after us here at all.' Philip said with an irritated tone as he sighed and she answered that.
'I take it you been trapped here for a while, if you're getting this frustrated?' she asked and he sighed a second time as Kincaid answered that. 'Yeah, it's been close to seven months, our bonds started falling into place pretty fast, but I hate having to deal with Simms, she's the medical psychiatrist and a total cold hearted bitch, excuse me, but everything she thinks here, with the murders, is off completely, we're not the only ones getting targeted here, and our sessions are going in circles, and it's beginning to piss us off here too.'
'But why would you be the latest, what did he do to you, I heard your voice call out to me, what happened last night?' he asked and she sighed. 'If you've dealt with my symptoms I think you know the answer to that, I'd rather tell you what I saw when he's not on the other end of the line eavesdropping on our conversation here, because my nightmares are traumatizing enough, and this I'd rather tell a fellow patient, and probably a member of our gang, if we just found each other, okay.' she said and sighed as she thought that over.
'Whatever reason he's after us has to do with our past and our faded memories of each other, but whatever it is, mine are coming back, and if I know I've found you, all seven of you, it means he did this on purpose to take us all out at once, but for whatever reason I'm not exactly sure yet, but it's got to be exact dating if she and I arrived on the same day, because today is the day of the Nightingale trial, eight years to the day.'
'Thats not a coincidence either, but if the dates are compiling I'm looking at a major red flag here, and I'll explain it to you tonight guys.' she said and Kristen turned attention to her then. 'How do you know he's eaves dropping on us?' Taryn asked and she sighed. 'The link I had with my godfather, I think it attached itself to him now, but if that's the case, whatever I'm thinking he's going to hear, because it's been dormant since the separation.' she said and she nodded as she answered her.
'So Kris what do you look like exactly, because I've got a photo of a thirty four year old blonde with brown eyes holding me in her arms when we were little?' she asked and Kristenthen turned her thoughts to her. ' I'm blonde with blue eyes, but my mother is blonde with brown eyes, I'm going on a hunch here, but are you a brunette with green eyes by any chance, because your father was at the trial, if your surname is White?' she asked and Taryn's tone turned shocked as she answered that question.
'Yeah I am, my father is a S.W.A.T. team officer he was at the trial as was my mother, and she's an adult version of what I look like, Jenny's father was also at the trial and she's a blonde with blue eyes as well, alright so that's three and if it keeps I'm looking at a serious red flag here, if whoever the cops are looking is hiding in plain sight right now, and with that in mind we better talk tonight if you're joining us so I'll see you later, because Lorenzo is scaring us enough, but if he's who they're looking for, I've to find some way to get that to my parents and your mother Kris, because this is serious.' she said and then ended the conversation then at that as she focused on the conversation then gently.
"Well that sums it up here, she needed to explain her dreams to someone who shared that background and needed someone she could really open up to at the time, though I gave the paternal attention she wanted, she needed you guys. Alright there's only a few steps left in her recovery, just keep up what you've been doing, Derek he's been training her in martial arts you think you could do the rest here, once she's recovered." Neil asked and he nodded as Erin answered that gently.
'Yes well there's going to be a mild scar during the next two weeks, you better hold off on training her, Derek, that's another way to drain the nerves in the caffeine, but it's two weeks down the line here too, with the fact that the first two are the hardest, with how serious her recovery was when she came down with the stomach flu it took six weeks to heal from both, from what Daniel told me, before I took back her medical care at the time back then." Erin said and he nodded to that.
"We drained eighty percent of her anger, we're nearly there in her emotional recovery and yours, but with the family back together, that should be enough, alright, I took care of the hardest parts of it here, by getting you guys back together, and now the last of it is the rest of the textbook made plans here for the rest of this, so with that in mind, the only way left is blocking out the memories again and keeping them blocked out, though you kids just keep doing what you have been doing, we got a way to drain the excess energy by letting her drain it in the pool and a few other things, what's left is she's going to have to read this herself and face the memories, but she's got us with her and bingo that should do it." Neil said and she nodded in agreement as Jared answered that then.
"Yeah well at the moment I'm taking two weeks off for this first portion of it, so just leave the cocktail syringes in my bag, so I can take care of her, but once the rebound is finished, she's going to be sleeping as much as possible here, God I feel like we're dealing with a patient suffering from withdrawal from those other drugs here, Taryn was exposed to close to 250cc's of heroin, and that took two weeks to wear off when I brought her into the hospital here, and unlike the drugs, tobacco or alcohol, caffeine is one drug that's tolerable at the best of times, but abusing it that is another thing altogether and it's going to take a couple days for her to get it down to a manageable level." Jared said and Derek looked at her with a concerned look at that then.
"How serious do you think the crash is going to get when that comes up exactly Erin?" he asked and she sighed, feeling her concern growing by the minute, their youngest baby had been through hell and now she was pushing her body past the breaking point, because of the nightmares once again, and this was one portion they weren't looking forward to where she was concerned then, before it was thanks to the false attempt and this time she'd finally overdone it and was now in a serious need of detoxing from the amount of caffeine in her body then.
"Pretty bad, those pills take weeks to heal from, but between them, the coffee and the soda, it's going to be a week, before her body's able to go without it, but after the ten day mark the nerves end and she's back to normal from there, but she's still resting as much as possible here, if you're taking two weeks off you better check her room for the contraband, because she's under adult and medical supervision for two weeks here, Jared." She said and he nodded to her.
"One good thing is the little bastards are not screwing with her recovery here this time, so we can just get the food needed, and put everything that is not on the list in the cellar, though I'm sure the cats are going to be wondering why we swapped out foods and drinks in her case here. Let alone why she's home all day here now." Adam said and he nodded in agreement. "My cat thinks of her as a kitten and was kitten sitting on the kitchen counter yesterday, but once he gets territorial with one kitten, get ready the youngest kitten is being watched later on, so with that, expect them to be either standing in front of the crib or the playpen during the holidays later." she said and he nodded as Jared looked at her then.
"Recovering from weight loss and getting the right food in her, okay, I'm dialing up the heavy stuff, half the products needed here are in the European food, but her favorite foods are Italian here, everything she likes to eat is in certain areas of the five basic, I've just got to set it to her favorite food during lunch and breakfast, and Derek and I are setting a regular schedule while we're doing it." Jared said to her.
"What does she like to eat, that have all the five basic food groups in it, because I'm rotating it around the added sandwich and salad courses every week during her recovery, because peanut butter is a health food and so is everything that is covered under the five, I just got to set snacks and meals from seven to five?" Derek asked and Elaine, after writing up a list of her favorite foods, gave it to him, and he read through it and smiled as he said it out loud then.
"I see she's really into Italian style food here, okay that helps, I can just rotate her lunches between this stuff and salad and sandwiches, because all of this has the health requirements needed in a balanced diet here and with the added vitamins added to the list, is just going to speed it up and it really speeds it up."
"Okay, her favorite foods if she prefers some of the heavier stuff at lunch time, Mac and cheese and I'm making it with real cheeses and plenty of dairy products and putting ham and hot dogs into it that's three and I'm serving fruit juice and grapes and that covers all five right there Erin." Derek said to her and she nodded to that. "Alright between each meal, give her snacks of both or all three of the five of the food groups, I'm doubling the iron products to help her heal during the next cycle, but the vitamins are going to be after each meal and give her the lunch time dose with the vitamins, before she lays down." she said and he nodded to that.
"Seventeen years old and Rick turns her into a wreck, with needing us back in her life, alright let me get this straight of what he's done to her: he decides on killing Krueger, not caring his decision destroys her life, so long as Krueger is dead, tears us out of her life and she's clinging to me and the quintet not wanting to let go, six years later he breaks her arm out of an uncontrolled drunken outburst, and she winds up with repeated flashbacks thanks to that, and then takes off on her two years later, and she's lonely for real paternal attention till she meets Neil and he heals her up and then we bring our gang back together and she suffers another physical relapse, because the bastard is stirring up and then comes back last night."
"Alright I'll talk her during that week, but if she needs me in the room with her I'm staying there to head off a breakout attempt if she gets worse here." Derek said and she nodded. "Try to stay patient these recoveries make the victim extremely irrational, during the first few days." she said and he nodded to that. Before he could answer she shifted position and he rubbed her arm gently and she relaxed then, 'Just rest baby, we're here.' he said softly as the surgeon they called in to help Jenkins looked at them to get started then.
"Where'd she get hit exactly, because I'm going to have to see how bad it is, before I do anything?" Brandon Davidson asked them and Erin unwrapped the gauze around her arm and upper arm then. "Good grief, I thought that glove was out of use after all this time, Jane said our resident poltergeist was the Slasher, I can't believe we and every adult in town couldn't see this and it took a group of kids to simplify it for us, if she had to put the situation in terms we can understand here at the time?" he asked and they nodded as he looked at it carefully then, before he sighed as he looked at the duo then.
"I'm looking at seventy or eighty stitches here and a skin graft, if that patch dies, during the healing process, we'd have to remove it anyway, but her blood type is an even match for this, but we'd have to do another patch or a synthetic skin graft there, it's her mother's call here." he said and they nodded to that and he left the room to head into the booth then. "Daniel how bad is the damage on her arm?" Elaine asked him as she walked up to him and he sighed as he said it, knowing she wasn't going to like what he was about to say then.
"From the looks of this if we don't replace that skin patch the skin piece itself is going to die and we'd have to remove it anyway, so we're going to have to do a skin graft here. With the fact we've yanked her out of school to recover physically, she's going to have to take it easy to give her arm time to heal here, though the razor scars mean another twenty to forty stitches again here, we're going to have to take a small piece of skin to graft it to that spot and then stitch up the other, but both will take three weeks to heal completely, so what do you think?" he asked her. "Alright do it, she's home for the next month, I'm making sure she heals here." she said and he nodded to that then as he left the room then.
"Whatever diet you're putting her on the protein levels are the key one here, to help the muscles and skin fuse itself to the new layer, she needs as much protein and calcium as possible now, also it's going to be ten days, before she's allowed in your pool though for a full swim at the moment, but with the weather till slightly cold out there, my recommendation is turning on the thermal fixtures in it to take care of that, exactly what has she been doing if you're all this aggravated about it?" Davidson asked him over the radio and Erin explained that.
"We just found out last night she hasn't slept in nearly a month thanks to her nightmares about the slasher and has taken in way too much caffeine and sugar and she's lost ten pounds as a result of this, as her parental gang, we're keeping her home from school for the next month to recover from sleep deprivation and the caffeine withdrawal." she said and he nodded in shock at that as he answered her.
"Whatever reason she has for doing that, I want a copy of that book, so I know what the hell happened in this hospital, before the outbreak ended all at once at the time if you arrested those people Donald. Doctor Stanton once she's released later on today, I want you monitoring things on her arm, but if she starts losing control, you don't have a choice, but to use both medications, if you're putting her back on the dream suppressants during the withdrawal, because the last patient we had suffering from caffeine withdrawal got a bit violent." he said and they nodded to that.
" Don't worry I'm monitoring things for a while, but the bastard is in enough trouble as it is for killing our kids here, but this is a repeat performance of her recovery after the original aftermath and she's not getting any more caffeine till after we get the town meeting set up." she said and he nodded to that. "Recommendation here on that is decreasing it by increments because half the food products that are made have sugar in them, while the caffeine will be easy, cocao beans have caffeine, but if you get the milk chocolate candy, whatever she likes to eat."
"Or make her a cup of cocoa every morning and that'll take the edge off by decreasing, by substituting sugar for cinnamon and honey in the flavoring to make it less sweet as it decreases it in increments slowly as she's detoxing from the pills, and that takes care of the caffeine and sugar levels in her body right now, so my suggestion is whatever her favorite candy is, mix it with whatever your approved items are, but dial up the protein dose with it like peanuts, so that's ninety percent protein and fiber to ten percent sugar and caffeine, in that snack mix and ninety five percent calcium and vitamin D to five percent caffeine." he said and she nodded to that.
" They just came out with a new brand of peanuts that are honey roasted, I can buy that and mix it with the raisins and the milk chocolate M&M's, but the peanuts and raisins are overwhelming the candy in that situation, more granola bars, but I'm getting the ones with chocolate chips in them, so she's not completely deprived of sweets, but the underlying catch here is it's mostly fruit, protein and fiber in her snacks and regular meals in her diet starting today, till after she's fully recovered from all of this." Elaine said and he nodded to that in agreement.
"At lunch it's whole grain bread and fresh lunch meat, whatever she prefers in that, or chicken Caesar salad during lunch and that covers fiber as well as protein, but all together it's mostly protein, fiber, calcium and vitamins, the five big ones needed are A,B,C,D, E, zinc, K and Chronium here, if her cycle is next week or something she needs heavy doses of iron to heal from it so whatever her favorite fruits and vegetables are that's what she's getting, the same is said for the fruit juice. But you need to start dialing up the foods heavy in calories here, to get the weight back on her, like say added food from Europe, the big one being Italy, they make some of the heaviest foods that are loaded with everything the patient needs in their diet, but that and whatever you do when you have get togethers."
"But anything with a heavy protein and carbohydrate intake is needed to get the weight back on her for the next six weeks, though if she starts eating twice what she normally eats that's just going to put the weight back on her faster, so snacks four times a day and meals three times, that's going to cover eating and she's taking the vitamins once she's finished eating to add on to the recovery here, but between that and everything we're putting on that list should help her recover from this, but caffeine withdrawal is going to make her edgy for something with both caffeine and sugar, so if that happens it's only one candy bar or a cookie and that's it during her recovery, no soda, just give her a single serving candy bar and that is it."
"Whoever your housekeeper is, tell her to double the amount in all the basic food groups, but end the junk food till after she's fully recovered from the surgery and the sleep deprivation, and secondly the stuff doesn't expire too quick so it's six weeks till she's getting it back in that time, and her drinks are milk, fruit juice, lemonade or water, if she wants a cup of cocoa it's being made from milk and that cuts the caffeine flow to ten as well so that's her morning beverage when she's waking up, but the real stuff is being put on the top shelf, and from nine till her naptime she's drinking fruit juice, water and milk, double the protein, carbohydrates and the calcium."
"Cheese has tryptophan in it, so if she takes that with the sedative it's going to increase the effect of the dose, half the pill during lunch and then into bed before the rest of it and her medication, but that's my orders in terms of her surgical recovery here in terms of food here, and secondly if you got a jacuzzi at your house she's using that instead of the shower for the next two weeks till the stitches are completely set, but I'm using the absorbable wire so her skin's able to graft itself to the filaments in the wire and her skin accepts the graft." he said and they nodded to that then as Jenkins looked at him then as he went to join him then.
"Yeah I set her recovery like this when she was here, but the criminal trio, by that I mean Simms, Carver, and Walters, were screwing with her recovery, she found out a few things and reported it to us, before she had the release and she came down with the stomach flu at the time, till the second and third in command of the kitchen staff gave us Walters on a silver platter and I found out that the bastard was giving my patients the pills crushed and mixed into their food and spiking their drinks with alcohol, and spiked hers with them and she was suffering a trip in the middle of an attempt, and it took fifteen minutes for her to rest and another week for the side effects of the pills they were drugging her with to wear off at the time."
"After hearing this I decided that one of Neil's team was monitoring what the team was cooking and making sure the food and her fruit juice was clean after she was recovered enough from the stomach flu. At least this time, my youngest is at home in her recovery and she's not having her recovery plan screwed around with here, we're blocking her nightmares so she's able to sleep now as well too." he said and Davidson nodded in shocked disgust as Williams said it for him with a disgusted look on his face.
"That explains the frequent riots in the rehab department, and this has been going on for two and half years, since we arrested Adam, they were doing anything they could to keep our patients here longer than they should be, oh I'm really going to have their heads for this, I'm seeing this as an 'Aliens' style situation here, they threw out our codes for a percentage and if Bhear is in on it as well and I'm having him committed for it, whatever she gives us on Adam, I'll take it, but the quartet are getting the axe when we get through with them." Williams said to him and they nodded in agreement.
"I checked the tapes, Adam had nothing to do with the repeated hits on my daughter, he was going to turn himself into me, before we busted him that night, he's not the pusher that turned Rick into a drug addict or was an accessory to attempted murder where Dan Philips is concerned, so that's three out of four, but he is for drug dealing and stealing and sexual harassment, I'm making the sentence to whatever she tells me in this dream test, but we're getting the quartet out of the room first, before I do it, because he's going to be a year before an in the prison pardon or whatever she suggests to me, because our entire leadership is running this here and I'm making it so he's got a much better life than before, whatever she suggests to me, I'm seeing to it." Elaine said to him and he nodded to that as Jenkins looked at Davidson then.
"Wait get Hamilton in here and quick I want to talk to him." he said, meaning the pharmacist and Walter nodded as he finished off the blood sample and then left the room to get both in there after five minutes the pharmacist walked in the door. "What's going on Daniel?" he asked him and he explained that to him. "I'm setting a specific recovery plan for my patient here, I need ninety doses, each, of the following vitamins and two months in refills of each of them, the antibiotic penicillin and that's to stem off an infection from this surgery during her recovery and I'm setting sixty doses, each, of the dream suppressant at 30mgs and the Valium also at 30 and a pill cutter, so we can cut the sedatives in half." he said and the pharmacist nodded in shock then at that as Elaine looked at him sternly.
"Dr. Hamilton are you one of the clean members of this hospital, because I've gotten reports that five percent of the personnel working here are working for Reynolds, if you try anything that'll hurt my daughter and Bill and Donald are both arresting you for attempted murder, just as we're preparing for the trial." Elaine added to him and he quickly answered her. "No I'm not one of the rotten apples, though one of my guys are and I just caught him in the act, when you dragged in Redford last week Sergeant. It's Philips, he's tampering with the gel capsules, the ones that are like that new version of Tylenol that just came out the last eight months, and spiking the powder in them with that narcotic that Reynolds is selling, which explains that, but I'm working the medication you need correctly for your daughter Councilor, what vitamins do you need?" he asked her and Erin answered that question.
"Vitamins A, B, C, D, the doses in the C and D are 60mg's each and the other two are thirty each, iron, zinc, Chronium, and calcium also thirty each and as he said 20mg's of penicillin, and ninety doses, each, of the vitamins, sixty, each, of the dream suppressants, the Valium and the penicillin, I also need three, each, of the drug vial bottles for a drug and sleep cocktail, my niece is recovering from sleep deprivation and caffeine withdrawal, so this is just as a precaution, but thirty fresh syringes, and a pill cutter for the pill version of the Valium, okay." she said and he nodded as he got it. "No problem, I just need the prescription slips, but I'm dealing with the vitamins now, so I can get them for you, before you take her home." he said and she nodded.
"Now that we arrested the trio here, we get the heads of every department and have them working for us as a turn coat, because it's the only way to keep them out of jail here and as to why, if they're getting paid by a loan shark it's being honest and giving us the money or they face winding up in prison or in here, but I want the truth if Bhear's also working for Reynolds." Bill said, before there was a knock on the observation room door and went to get it and found fifteen people standing there.
