Chapter Four:
The band quietly arrived at Michelle's funeral..The sky was grey and cloudy, fitting everyone's mood. Katie sat with her parents and a heavily distraught Freddy...Since Michelle's death, three days before he had been experiencing the same dream..He was strapped to a chair and Krueger was telling him to kill his friends...He had started to believe that this guy was really real.
"Are you okay?" Katie asked, black tears running down her face
"Yeah" Freddy said, quietly
"I miss her so much" Katie said, starting to cry harder
"Me too..We all do" Freddy said, hugging Katie
The ceremony began. Weeping was all anyone could hear. But, Katie didn't hear anything. Her ears were blocking over, her eyes becoming to heavy for sight, he head feeling like a bag of bricks. And she feel asleep, the last thing she wanted to do. Time seemed to be frozen after that. Katie was still in the church. Everyone was in the same position she had last seen them in, Freddy's arms were around her neck. She threw them off her and stood up. Something seemed very off there..Really off balance. Walking over to Michelle's coffin she saw what was wrong.
The blonde's body was missing and in it's place was a living, breathing woman. She had long, curly light brown hair and was beginning to sit up. Her eyelids opened, revealing beautiful hazel eyes. The woman smiled and got out of the coffin.
"Katie...It's Nancy" Nancy said, hugging Katie
"Nancy?" Katie asked, confused
"Don't you...They didn't tell you about me..Did they?" Nancy asked
"They? What are you talking about?" Katie asked
"Okay..I'm Nancy Thompson..You're Mother's cousin" Nancy said
"Cousin? I don't know anyone named Nancy" Katie said
"You wouldn't honey...I'm not living on earth anymore" Nancy said, smiling
"Wha-..Do you mean you're dead?" Katie asked
"Yes" Nancy said, nodding
"When did you die? Why didn't my mom tell me about you?" Katie asked
"Because she thought I was crazy..Along with all my other family members..Your mom and I were first cousin and as close as anyone could be...But, when I told her..Well, she changed her view on myself" Nancy said, sitting on the ground
"Why would my mom think you were crazy?" Katie asked, knowing she had been asking a lot
"Well...I don't know how to tell you this without scaring you, but..I have too. When I was about fifteen, my best friend Tina was killed..She had been sleeping in the same room as her boyfriend, Rob..I had been sleeping in her and my boyfriend, Glen in the next..Well, she was murdered by someone in her sleep. They thought Rod had did it and put him in jail, he then was also killed..They thought he had committed suicide...I then started having horrible dreams about a man named Freddy Krueger" Nancy said
"I'm sorry" Katie said
"Don't be..It's just..Well, he was real..My parents had killed him when I was only a child..It was because he had been molesting and then killing their kids...He came back that night, killing Tina, then Rod and my boyfriend. He also killed my mother..Your mom's aunt. I stopped him and my family was ruined after that, My father thought I was seriously damaged in the brain and we just went our separate ways..Six years later, I started working at the Westin Hills Psychiatric ...The teens there were being haunted by Krueger..He killed two of them before they realized what was happening..We went into a dream together to stop him and in the end..Well, two more teens were gone..My father and I also..I've been trying to warn other teens but it never works..I needed to tell you" Nancy said, crossing her legs
"Why me?" Katie asked
"Because..He's after you and you're friends, Katie..Because you're my cousin..He has already gotten one of your friend already too" Nancy said, nodding towards the coffin
"No..It was.." Katie said, being cut off
"Suicide..They always say that..But, how could she have slit her wrist with nothing sharp around her..And if she had left the fort you were in..Why wasn't there a trail of blood from where she was?" Nancy asked
"How did you know?" Katie asked, her eyes going wide
"I saw it happen...The looks on your faces..The terror and tears" Nancy said, putting a hand on Katie's shoulder "I'm sorry"
"It's okay" Katie said, her eyes filling with tears
"I know..But..I have to go..You do too. The funeral is almost over. I'll visit you again soon" Nancy said, standing up and wiping her skirt off
"Okay..Bye" Katie said, hugging her "Thanks for telling me everything"
"Your welcome, sweetie" Nancy said, hugging her back "So you don't think this was just a worthless dream"
"What?" Katie asked
"This" Nancy said, taking out a small razor and cutting Katie's arm
"Ow! Why did you just..." Katie said, being cut off
"Sh..You'll know when you wake up..Just remember everything I told you and tell your friends when the time is right" Nancy said "Also...Whatever you do..Don't..Fall Asleep"
Nancy disappeared into thin air and all of a sudden Katie shot back to where she was sitting before..He eyes opened and she saw people carrying out Michelle's coffin for burial. Katie looked down at her arm and saw the cut..Her head shot from side to side and finally to Freddy..He was still distraught looking.
"Freddy?" Katie asked
"What?" Freddy asked, looking straight into her eyes
"I know what your going through...I know about Krueger" Katie said
Freddy looked at her, his eyes filled with fear. He gulped and starting wondering how Katie knew..He grabbed her hand tightly.
"How do you know about him?" Freddy asked
"I had a dream...Nancy, my cousin..She's dead..She told me about him" Katie said
"How can you talk to your dead cousin?" Freddy asked, whispering
"I have no idea..But, she cut my arm in the dream..Look at this" Katie said, showing Freddy the small cut on her arm
"How'd...That wasn't there earlier" Freddy said
"How would you know?" Katie asked, tilting her head
"That part of your arm did not have a cut when you sat down" Freddy said
"Whatever..But, she said that he is after me because I am related to her..And he is after the band" Katie said
"T-the band?" Freddy asked, her face paling
"Yeah" Katie said
"We need to figure this all out" Freddy said "Let's go to my house, like now" Freddy said, getting up
"Okay" Katie said, standing up next to him
The two walked out of the church, told Katie's parents and got into his families limo..Not letting go of each other's hand the whole time...As if one of they would slip in fall away if they did.
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Freddy paced impatiently around his room...He had found something on a Freddy Krueger from a town called Springwood...He had been let out of jail on parole, because of some kind of technicality at his court trial. Katie sat on his bed, her knees up to her chest, rocking back in forth in a little ball.
"I can't believe they would just let someone like him out of jail like that" Freddy said, getting angry
"It was over twenty years ago, Freddy...The court system was way different back then" Katie said "And what about the sixth amendment?"
"The sixth amendment? Right to a speedy and public trial? Screw the constitution..It is way out of date anyway's...I say that he should of never gotten any rights...Everyone probably knew he did all that shit. But, oh no..They had to let him free" Freddy said
"Calm down, we'll figure this out somehow" Katie said
"Katie..Do you want to know another thing? I looked up obituaries for that shit hole town and guess what I found? The obituaries went all the way back to January of 1980...And way over fifty of those were...Well, most of them said 'Suicide" or "Accident"...A lot of them were on the same night..And actually..A couple names were blacked out..Babe, there is something seriously wrong with that town" Freddy said, slamming his body down onto his computer chair
"I don't know where all that knowledge is coming from..But, there is something really wrong about that place..I sat..We tell the rest of the band tomorrow and go to this Springwood" Katie said
"Not Dewey though...How would we get there anyway's?" Freddy asked, getting up and sitting next to her
"Hello? I've run away many times before and know the roots around her..There alway's a greyhound bus or train" Katie said, putting her hand on Freddy's shoulder
"You're right" Freddy said
He leaned close to Katie. His body heat radiating off her skin. Katie laid her head on his shoulder, starting to cry. Her soft skin rubbing against his bare shoulder. Katie hated for people to see her cry, she had always had such a tough girl reputation, but she couldn't take it anymore. She was slowly breaking. Michelle's death had been the first crack and meeting Nancy in her dream had made the first piece fall off. This was making he break even more.
She had broken up with Freddy for a good reason...She had caught him drunkenly making out with the slutty head cheerleader, Megan...It had broken her heart, she had loved Freddy so much..That must of actually starting her breaking..She just realized that..But, she wanted Freddy to hold her so much...Kiss her and tell that everything would be okay..But, she knew it wouldn't.
"I'm sorry for hurting you" Freddy whispered in her ear, gently pulling a stand away from her face
"Don't..Don't do this to me now" Katie said
"I can't help it..I love you so much" Freddy said, tears welling up in his eyes
"I do too, but..Please" Katie said, starting to cry also
"I'm sorry" Freddy said, Katie threw her arms around his neck
She moved closer to him, connecting her lips with his. She couldn't help herself...Passionately they kissed. Tears amd salty saliva mixing, Katie's eye's releasing more and more tear uncontrollably..She had just lost her game of trying to forget Freddy..She had been fooling herself in a hurtful way..She needed him to get through. Freddy pulled away, raising his hand to wipe Katie's tears away.
"Here..Let me play our song" Freddy said, getting up
He walked over to his surround sound stereo and grabbed a CD sitting near it. It was his "The Punisher" soundtrack. He flipped it to a certain track and a song start to play that Katie knew very well.
I wanted you to know
That I love the way you laugh
I wanna hold you high and steal your pain away
I keep your photograph and I know it serves me well
I wanna hold you high and steal your pain
Freddy sat behind Katie, letting her fall into his arms. He laid back while Katie got in front of him, letting Freddy wrap his arms around her small body. His lips blew on her raven-colored hair, his eyes locked on the wall in front of him. Pulling Katie in tighter they laid until the end of the song, not wanted to let go ever.
"We'll keep everyone safe..Won't we?" Katie asked
"Yeah..We will..I promise" Freddy said, kissing her head
"Will you keep me safe?" Katie asked, her eyes filling with tears again
"I always will" Freddy said
"Forever and ever" Katie asked
"Till death do us part" Freddy said
But, what they didn't know is that someone was looking down at them from the dreamworld...He as snickering and smirking at the same times...Thinking to himself: "Those little piggys will never have any time of day to love each other or at least get time to screw"...He laughed at what he ahd just said and continued to watch.
A/N: How did you like it? The last part was a little fluffy..But, how could I resist? I loved writing this chapter! I hope you like this story so far! R&R, please?