Chapter 14
Proof Dream Deep
Alice was at home with her father. They sat next to each other playing cards and laughing at the general situation. They had the radio on in the back ground, only for noise while they played. Alice was barely paying attention even to the radio announcements and weather reports. It was then she heard her cell phone ring. "Give me a sec, I told the sitter to call me if Jacob needed anything." She said put her cards down and going to her purse in the other room.
"Tell Jake I said hi!" he called after her. Alice smiled happily and picked up the phone.
"Hello?" she asked.
"Alice?" a voice answered.
"Yes, who is this?" she asked.
"It's Melissa Keller, you met me today."
It was then Alice registered who se was speaking to, and also heard the radio in the next room. "Search continues for the patient who disappeared from the Springwood hospital. 18 year old Melissa Keller, who was admitted late last night for sever fever and unexplained illness was missing from her room around 7pm this evening. Police ask if you see ms Keller you contact the emergency room as soon as possible for she is a very sick young girl..in other news the forecast for Halloween this year promises to be clear with minimal overcast. Parents are suggest however to keep their kids bundled up warm case the temperature is scheduled to get down in to the low 50's. That is all for now thank you for listening to KRGR, you local Springwood Radio." Then the music started again.
"Melissa!" Alice whispered. "Where are you?"
"I'm at my house.and I have some news." She said. "I need you to get here, it's 2419 Farley Lane." And then she hung up. Alice's breath stuck in her throat. Her blood seemed to still and she felt a fear she hadn't felt in years. She hung up the phone and put a smile on her face.
"Hi dad, I've got to step out for a minute." She said.
"Old friend from school call?" he asked.
"Yeah." She lied. "I'll just be a little while. Don't peak at my cards and we will pick up when I get back." He nodded.
"I'll just go catch the end of the game on TV." He suggested. Alice smiled and kissed her dad briefly on the cheek before taking her keys from the counter, her purse in hand and left out the door.
She drove quickly down the street until she got to the street Melissa had mentioned. She pulled up in the drive way and looked at the house. It seemed dark, but for a lamp light in the living room. She got out and walked up to the door, her hands trembling. She heard the door unlock and open. Melissa stood there, behind her Alice could see the rain of papers and the broken case. Melissa took her hand and led her inside. "Pardon the mess." She said absently. Alice took Melissa's hands in hers. Her wounds had opened again and the bandages were saturated with blood.
"Your hands!"
"It's okay, I'm fine." She insisted. "I just need your help."
"What's happened?" Alice followed Melissa in to the living room where her mother sat clutching the photo. "Alice, this is my mother." She said. "Mother, this is Alice Johnson." Dr Keller looked up and recognized Alice.
"You, You did this!" She cried. "You told her, didn't you? See Melissa! It's just like I said. It's not real, just pre-suggestion! I saw you in her hospital room. You could have told her anything in that fevered state."
"NO MOM!" Melissa cried. "This happened before the fever." She said calmly.
"What's going on?" Alice asked.
"I found out my mom is hiding more then she's letting on." She pointed to the scatted papers on the floor. Alice walked over to them and looked. "It seems my mother is one of the parents who killed Fred Krueger 30 years ago."
Alice picked up the clipping and recognized the people in the pictures from Melissa's dream. "You were one of the parents who killed him?" Alice asked.
"The son of a bitch deserved it!" she cried.
"They killed him in his sleep." Melissa explained. "I need you to help me prove to her this is true."
Alice nodded. Melissa walked over to her mother. She looked like a broken woman, like the energy had been drained from her body when Melissa found all her secrets. She stretched out her hand and held a packet of sleeping pills she had taken from a medication cart at the hospital. "Take them."
"No!" she said. "This is ridiculous. None of it is real, honey you have to believe me!"
"Believe me first!" she countered thrusting the pills in her hand. Melissa left the room and came back with a glass of water. "Take them and believe me." She said and handed her the glass. Dr Keller put the pills in her mouth and swallowed them.
"Now what?" she asked.
"Now we wait."
Alice took Melissa in the dining room where she assisted her in patching her cuts. They glanced in at Dr Keller who sat on the couch in the living room. Melissa flinched as Alice removed the bloody bandages. "You know you're not supposed to lift things or do any heavy activity after taking one of those out, right?" Alice explained cleaning her hands. Melissa nodded. "Then why did you?"
"The walls are breaking in there. I had to escape." She explained.
"What?" Alice asked urgently. "He's in there and you're sending you mom in! Are you crazy?"
"I might as well be!" Melissa countered. "I have to prove it to her."
"I'm not going in there!" Alice said sternly and pushed a clean bandage on the tiny hole on her hand.
"Well." Melissa said, her breathing becoming faster. "I guess I'm going in with or without you." Melissa's eyes rolled back in her head and she collapsed against the table and fell to the floor. Alice ran from her seat and rolled the unconscious girl on her back. Dr. Keller ran from the couch and to her daughter. She felt her cheeks and opened her eyes, glancing at watch.
"She never should have left the hospital. This fever has corrupted her judgment." She explained taking her pulse. "Her heart beat is erratic; we need to call an ambulance."
"Shut up!" Alice exclaimed. "She is not crazy, and we can't get her to the hospital in time. I'm going in after her." Alice walked in the living room and lay on the couch. "If you see either of us struggle wake me up." She said.
"No way! I'm not letting my daughter sit here and die while you take a nap."
"Just do it!" she screamed. Alice closed her eyes and tried to ignore the sound of Dr Keller's pacing in the dining room. But as hard as she tried she was not sleeping. 'He keeping me out!' she thought. In frustration she ran to Melissa's body and hunted her pockets. Sure enough a small packet of pills still lay in the bottom. She tore open the packet and swallowed the pills. However the pills were not fast acting, and Melissa's time was running out. Alice watched as sweat poured from the girls face, and her breathing sputtered. "Leave her alone!" she screamed. Melissa's body convulsed and her eyes opened. "Alice!" a voice cried from her throat. Dr Keller backed away.
"Oh my God!" she cried. "She's possessed!"
"She isn't possessed." Alice said annoyed. Alice searched her memory to place the voice coming from Melissa's mouth. "Joey?" she asked. Suddenly Melissa reached up and grabbed Alice by her collar. Alice looked in to her blood shot eyes and knew something else had taken hold of her. "Come and get her, bitch." Came growling from her. Alice instinctively punched Melissa hard in the face. She fell limp to the floor. From behind her Dr. Keller fell to her knees and then collapsed next to her daughter. Alice reached over to Dr Keller and felt her throat. She too had fallen asleep, only she knew she was entering her own dream, away from Melissa and Melissa was helpless alone. Alice screamed in frustration and smacked Melissa across the face. "Wake up!" she cried, but she lay still. Alice willed herself to sleep, but it didn't take much, the pill she took began to take effect. She stood sluggishly and walked in to the living room collapsing in a nearby chair. "Oh God" she muttered. Fear overwhelming her, her heart beat quicker increasing the speed of the medication in her. She fell asleep. 'Think of Dr. Keller' she thought. "I'm coming" she whispered and was gone. She faded in to the black. It would take a few minutes for the dream to truly begin.
The fog around her lifted. She was standing outside the burnt power plant. Beside her stood Dr. Keller. "Oh God!" she whimpered.
"This is where it happened." Dr Keller said hearing her behind her. "I've not thought of this place in years, until now. And I probably would never have if you hadn't brought all this out in my daughter." She accused.
"It wasn't me." Alice replied. "This is real, Dr Keller."
"It's Gina for God's sake." She said. "And if this wasn't you, then how is it Melissa knows all she does?"
"In the end, we all seem to find out more then were care to know." Alice replied.
"So, what do we do?" she asked.
"I guess we go in." Alice said walking passed her up the stairs to the lobby. Gina followed close behind. As they stepped through the doorway the door slammed behind them. They both flinched and turned as the lock clicked. "Shit!" Alice swore. From all around them they could hear a deep chuckle.
"Wanna play?" the voice said. It sent shivers up Alice's spine. Gina looked over at her. It was a familiar voice, deep and scared from the fire the voice of Fred Krueger called again. "Tricky tricky!"
"We can't stay here." Alice said grabbing hold of Gina's hand. "Come on!" they ran down the hall but as they turned the corner the hard floor made way to carpeted halls. "Oh no!" she gasped.
"Your it." The voice said. "One two.. Freddy's coming for you."
"RUN!" Alice called. Gina stopped a moment and removed her heels tossing them to the side and ran after Alice as she darted down the hall. Alice stopped at ever door and pulled on the handle.
"Three four..better lock your door."
From behind the door she could hear other screaming. Blood poured from beneath it and soaked the carpet. Gina ran past her and tried another door, but it too was locked.
"Five six..grab your crucifix."
Alice ran down to another hall and tried the nearest door, blissfully it opened and she and Gina ran in to it. Alice slammed the door as she heard Gina scream. When she looked back they were in a hall of frames and broken glass. A wedge of glass had stuck in Gina's foot and it was now bleeding freely. "Where the hell are we?" Gina asked as she removed her white coat and tore a sleeve off with a wedge of broken glass and bound her foot.
"I don't know, I've never been in here." The hall was old and aged with years of dust. An echoing scream came out. From the voice she could recognize it. "Joey?" she whispered.
"Sever eight..better stay up late" she heard again.
"We have to run." She pleaded with her. "Come on." She said and pulled her behind her as they carefully walked down the hall of broken glass and to another door. Alice pushed it open and looked down at the skeletal remains lying on the floor. Gina held back at the doorway as Alice slowly walked towards them.
"Don't touch them!" Gina called. Alice ignored her and slowly turned to body over. In a moment body became flesh and Alice saw the body of Nancy Thompson lying in front of her. Alice had never meet Nancy but knew her from pictures. She looked older, as though her soul aged though she remained trapped. A grey streak still in her dark brown hair from the last time she faced Freddy. From behind her Gina too saw the body and flinched. "Oh my God!" she cried, "She's real!" suddenly from behind her the door shut on Gina, leaving Alice with Nancy's body and Gina alone in the hall way.
"Gina!" Alice screamed running to the door.
"Alice!" Gina called back.
Proof Dream Deep
Alice was at home with her father. They sat next to each other playing cards and laughing at the general situation. They had the radio on in the back ground, only for noise while they played. Alice was barely paying attention even to the radio announcements and weather reports. It was then she heard her cell phone ring. "Give me a sec, I told the sitter to call me if Jacob needed anything." She said put her cards down and going to her purse in the other room.
"Tell Jake I said hi!" he called after her. Alice smiled happily and picked up the phone.
"Hello?" she asked.
"Alice?" a voice answered.
"Yes, who is this?" she asked.
"It's Melissa Keller, you met me today."
It was then Alice registered who se was speaking to, and also heard the radio in the next room. "Search continues for the patient who disappeared from the Springwood hospital. 18 year old Melissa Keller, who was admitted late last night for sever fever and unexplained illness was missing from her room around 7pm this evening. Police ask if you see ms Keller you contact the emergency room as soon as possible for she is a very sick young girl..in other news the forecast for Halloween this year promises to be clear with minimal overcast. Parents are suggest however to keep their kids bundled up warm case the temperature is scheduled to get down in to the low 50's. That is all for now thank you for listening to KRGR, you local Springwood Radio." Then the music started again.
"Melissa!" Alice whispered. "Where are you?"
"I'm at my house.and I have some news." She said. "I need you to get here, it's 2419 Farley Lane." And then she hung up. Alice's breath stuck in her throat. Her blood seemed to still and she felt a fear she hadn't felt in years. She hung up the phone and put a smile on her face.
"Hi dad, I've got to step out for a minute." She said.
"Old friend from school call?" he asked.
"Yeah." She lied. "I'll just be a little while. Don't peak at my cards and we will pick up when I get back." He nodded.
"I'll just go catch the end of the game on TV." He suggested. Alice smiled and kissed her dad briefly on the cheek before taking her keys from the counter, her purse in hand and left out the door.
She drove quickly down the street until she got to the street Melissa had mentioned. She pulled up in the drive way and looked at the house. It seemed dark, but for a lamp light in the living room. She got out and walked up to the door, her hands trembling. She heard the door unlock and open. Melissa stood there, behind her Alice could see the rain of papers and the broken case. Melissa took her hand and led her inside. "Pardon the mess." She said absently. Alice took Melissa's hands in hers. Her wounds had opened again and the bandages were saturated with blood.
"Your hands!"
"It's okay, I'm fine." She insisted. "I just need your help."
"What's happened?" Alice followed Melissa in to the living room where her mother sat clutching the photo. "Alice, this is my mother." She said. "Mother, this is Alice Johnson." Dr Keller looked up and recognized Alice.
"You, You did this!" She cried. "You told her, didn't you? See Melissa! It's just like I said. It's not real, just pre-suggestion! I saw you in her hospital room. You could have told her anything in that fevered state."
"NO MOM!" Melissa cried. "This happened before the fever." She said calmly.
"What's going on?" Alice asked.
"I found out my mom is hiding more then she's letting on." She pointed to the scatted papers on the floor. Alice walked over to them and looked. "It seems my mother is one of the parents who killed Fred Krueger 30 years ago."
Alice picked up the clipping and recognized the people in the pictures from Melissa's dream. "You were one of the parents who killed him?" Alice asked.
"The son of a bitch deserved it!" she cried.
"They killed him in his sleep." Melissa explained. "I need you to help me prove to her this is true."
Alice nodded. Melissa walked over to her mother. She looked like a broken woman, like the energy had been drained from her body when Melissa found all her secrets. She stretched out her hand and held a packet of sleeping pills she had taken from a medication cart at the hospital. "Take them."
"No!" she said. "This is ridiculous. None of it is real, honey you have to believe me!"
"Believe me first!" she countered thrusting the pills in her hand. Melissa left the room and came back with a glass of water. "Take them and believe me." She said and handed her the glass. Dr Keller put the pills in her mouth and swallowed them.
"Now what?" she asked.
"Now we wait."
Alice took Melissa in the dining room where she assisted her in patching her cuts. They glanced in at Dr Keller who sat on the couch in the living room. Melissa flinched as Alice removed the bloody bandages. "You know you're not supposed to lift things or do any heavy activity after taking one of those out, right?" Alice explained cleaning her hands. Melissa nodded. "Then why did you?"
"The walls are breaking in there. I had to escape." She explained.
"What?" Alice asked urgently. "He's in there and you're sending you mom in! Are you crazy?"
"I might as well be!" Melissa countered. "I have to prove it to her."
"I'm not going in there!" Alice said sternly and pushed a clean bandage on the tiny hole on her hand.
"Well." Melissa said, her breathing becoming faster. "I guess I'm going in with or without you." Melissa's eyes rolled back in her head and she collapsed against the table and fell to the floor. Alice ran from her seat and rolled the unconscious girl on her back. Dr. Keller ran from the couch and to her daughter. She felt her cheeks and opened her eyes, glancing at watch.
"She never should have left the hospital. This fever has corrupted her judgment." She explained taking her pulse. "Her heart beat is erratic; we need to call an ambulance."
"Shut up!" Alice exclaimed. "She is not crazy, and we can't get her to the hospital in time. I'm going in after her." Alice walked in the living room and lay on the couch. "If you see either of us struggle wake me up." She said.
"No way! I'm not letting my daughter sit here and die while you take a nap."
"Just do it!" she screamed. Alice closed her eyes and tried to ignore the sound of Dr Keller's pacing in the dining room. But as hard as she tried she was not sleeping. 'He keeping me out!' she thought. In frustration she ran to Melissa's body and hunted her pockets. Sure enough a small packet of pills still lay in the bottom. She tore open the packet and swallowed the pills. However the pills were not fast acting, and Melissa's time was running out. Alice watched as sweat poured from the girls face, and her breathing sputtered. "Leave her alone!" she screamed. Melissa's body convulsed and her eyes opened. "Alice!" a voice cried from her throat. Dr Keller backed away.
"Oh my God!" she cried. "She's possessed!"
"She isn't possessed." Alice said annoyed. Alice searched her memory to place the voice coming from Melissa's mouth. "Joey?" she asked. Suddenly Melissa reached up and grabbed Alice by her collar. Alice looked in to her blood shot eyes and knew something else had taken hold of her. "Come and get her, bitch." Came growling from her. Alice instinctively punched Melissa hard in the face. She fell limp to the floor. From behind her Dr. Keller fell to her knees and then collapsed next to her daughter. Alice reached over to Dr Keller and felt her throat. She too had fallen asleep, only she knew she was entering her own dream, away from Melissa and Melissa was helpless alone. Alice screamed in frustration and smacked Melissa across the face. "Wake up!" she cried, but she lay still. Alice willed herself to sleep, but it didn't take much, the pill she took began to take effect. She stood sluggishly and walked in to the living room collapsing in a nearby chair. "Oh God" she muttered. Fear overwhelming her, her heart beat quicker increasing the speed of the medication in her. She fell asleep. 'Think of Dr. Keller' she thought. "I'm coming" she whispered and was gone. She faded in to the black. It would take a few minutes for the dream to truly begin.
The fog around her lifted. She was standing outside the burnt power plant. Beside her stood Dr. Keller. "Oh God!" she whimpered.
"This is where it happened." Dr Keller said hearing her behind her. "I've not thought of this place in years, until now. And I probably would never have if you hadn't brought all this out in my daughter." She accused.
"It wasn't me." Alice replied. "This is real, Dr Keller."
"It's Gina for God's sake." She said. "And if this wasn't you, then how is it Melissa knows all she does?"
"In the end, we all seem to find out more then were care to know." Alice replied.
"So, what do we do?" she asked.
"I guess we go in." Alice said walking passed her up the stairs to the lobby. Gina followed close behind. As they stepped through the doorway the door slammed behind them. They both flinched and turned as the lock clicked. "Shit!" Alice swore. From all around them they could hear a deep chuckle.
"Wanna play?" the voice said. It sent shivers up Alice's spine. Gina looked over at her. It was a familiar voice, deep and scared from the fire the voice of Fred Krueger called again. "Tricky tricky!"
"We can't stay here." Alice said grabbing hold of Gina's hand. "Come on!" they ran down the hall but as they turned the corner the hard floor made way to carpeted halls. "Oh no!" she gasped.
"Your it." The voice said. "One two.. Freddy's coming for you."
"RUN!" Alice called. Gina stopped a moment and removed her heels tossing them to the side and ran after Alice as she darted down the hall. Alice stopped at ever door and pulled on the handle.
"Three four..better lock your door."
From behind the door she could hear other screaming. Blood poured from beneath it and soaked the carpet. Gina ran past her and tried another door, but it too was locked.
"Five six..grab your crucifix."
Alice ran down to another hall and tried the nearest door, blissfully it opened and she and Gina ran in to it. Alice slammed the door as she heard Gina scream. When she looked back they were in a hall of frames and broken glass. A wedge of glass had stuck in Gina's foot and it was now bleeding freely. "Where the hell are we?" Gina asked as she removed her white coat and tore a sleeve off with a wedge of broken glass and bound her foot.
"I don't know, I've never been in here." The hall was old and aged with years of dust. An echoing scream came out. From the voice she could recognize it. "Joey?" she whispered.
"Sever eight..better stay up late" she heard again.
"We have to run." She pleaded with her. "Come on." She said and pulled her behind her as they carefully walked down the hall of broken glass and to another door. Alice pushed it open and looked down at the skeletal remains lying on the floor. Gina held back at the doorway as Alice slowly walked towards them.
"Don't touch them!" Gina called. Alice ignored her and slowly turned to body over. In a moment body became flesh and Alice saw the body of Nancy Thompson lying in front of her. Alice had never meet Nancy but knew her from pictures. She looked older, as though her soul aged though she remained trapped. A grey streak still in her dark brown hair from the last time she faced Freddy. From behind her Gina too saw the body and flinched. "Oh my God!" she cried, "She's real!" suddenly from behind her the door shut on Gina, leaving Alice with Nancy's body and Gina alone in the hall way.
"Gina!" Alice screamed running to the door.
"Alice!" Gina called back.
