Getting Away With Murder

Part 2

Quatre, Sven and Cathrine went downtown. To their surprise everything was busy.

"Quatre do you think anyone knows that Jason and Freddy are real?" Cathrine asked, seeing many people in the stores and walking on the sidewalks. Apparently no one knew there was danger.

"I don't know Cathrine," Quatre replied, "We could ask them."

"Good idea Quatre." Sven said.

"Miss?" Cathrine asked a woman who had just walked out of a store.

"Yes?" the woman replied.

"I know this must sound inane, but I was wondering, do you have any idea who might have opened the portal between reality and fantasy?" Cathrine blushed as the woman looked at her.

"Why are you asking such a strange question my dear? There is no such thing as a portal like that." The woman left. The three looked at each other and blinked.

"I think we might have a problem." Quatre said as he looked at the other two. They both nodded. "I'll call Heero and tell him. I have an idea that we're the only ones being attacked because the demon wolves vanished also." He finished pulling out his cell.

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Meanwhile as Relena and Hildi searched for Jason,

"I can't see a thing Lena." Hildi complained as she followed the blond deeper into the woods. "Quit complaining, that's my job." Relena said. "We have to find Jason so we can all get some sleep."

"You're right." Hildi replied. Suddenly a dark cloud covered the moon and the two girls could hear a crackling sound of branches breaking. Relena looked beside her and screamed. Hildi turned and screamed also seeing Jason with his machete raised. The two girls started to run back in the direction they had been coming. Jason followed them. "Relena we can lead him back to the safe house, then we can stop him"

"Call Heero and tell him." Relena said as she handed her phone to her.

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Heero looked at the other two boys. Duo was sitting in the recliner chair while Trowa was on the couch. "Well how exactly are we going to find Freddy?" Duo asked breaking the silence.

"What kind of stupid question is that? Its easy, one or two of us falls asleep and then when we face Freddy we grab him. Then the one who's still awake wakes the others up." Heero said.

Trowa sat up. "Who's going to face Freddy?" he asked looking at them. Heero shrugged.

"I don't know." The three boys sat there in silence.

Trowa tried not to yawn. "It won't be easy to get Freddy out of the portal with out getting killed." He said looking at Duo who also yawned. "And we can't guarantee that if two of us sleep, that we'll end up fighting Freddy at the same time." Trowa continued.

"You're right." Heero said looking at him. "How should we pick the one whose going to sleep?" He asked turning to Duo.

"We could um…." Duo paused for a moment. "We could take turns?"

"And how are we going to do that?" Trowa asked looking at Duo.

"We take fifteen minute turns. One of us sleeps for fifteen minutes, if they don't get Freddy out the next one goes, and then if they don't, the last one goes." Duo explained.

"Sounds easy enough." Trowa nodded looking at Heero.

"Who goes first then?" Heero asked.

"I will." Trowa volunteered. Duo set the stove timer for fifteen minutes.

"You want a sleeping pill?" Duo asked handing a pill to Trowa.

"Might help." He answered, swallowing the pill.

"Ready?" Heero asked, walking over to where Trowa was laying on the couch.

"Ready as I'll ever be." Trowa replied looking up at the ceiling. Heero looked over at Duo. Duo nodded signaling that he was ready to start the timer. Heero sighed. He didn't want to do this, to see his friend die because someone made up the character as some dream demon in a horror movie. Trowa fell asleep as Duo started the timer.

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Sven and Cathrine decided to go into another store to keep questioning people to see what information they could get. Quatre nodded at them sitting down in one of the chairs outside the Caribou Coffee. Cathrine went in to the nearest store, which happened to be an American Eagle, while Sven went in to a Big & Tall store.

"Can I help you miss?" asked a preppy store clerk.

"Yes." Cathrine said looking at her. "I was wondering if you had this in pink." She held up an orange t-shirt, temporarily forgetting her 'mission'. The store clerk nodded. Cathrine impetuously bought two pink shirts, two pairs of pants and a white vest. She paid then left walking back to where Quatre was sitting.

Meanwhile Sven hadn't forgotten about what they were out here for. He went straight to the Customer Service desk and asked the man who was sitting there, "Sir, do you have any clue as to how Jason and that mysterious Freddy Kruger got in to the real world?"

The man looked at him surprised. "You got them to cross over the line eh, Sven?" He was aware of what Sven was planning. The Evee in his lap stirred sleepily. His voice went low. "Has anyone you know seen either of them?" Sven nodded.

"Only nine teenagers and myself. That's all."

"I'm sorry sir, but this is your own fault. I can't give you a refund." The man said quickly, seeing a customer look at the two. Sven left the store rejoining with Cathrine and Quatre. Quatre looked up as the two walked back. He noticed that Cathrine was holding a couple of shopping bags.

"Did you two get any info as to who could have opened the portal?" Quatre asked them.

"The only thing I got was that no one has seen the two of them except our group." Sven said. The two of them looked at Cathrine. They both pouted seeing the shopping bags.

"What?" Cathrine asked looking at them. "I haven't gone shopping for a week! I couldn't help it. Cant I be myself all the time?" Cathrine berated them getting defensive.

"Not at a time like this." Quatre replied. "And I'm guessing that you didn't get any information either." He continued.

"Opps…" she giggled out as she shrugged.

"Quatre," Sven started, suddenly panicked. "Call Heero and make sure that they haven't tried to get Freddy out. Make sure that all three are still awake." Quatre nodded and dialed Heero's cell to warn him.

Hildi tried to call Heero, but she couldn't get thru. She then tried Duo's and Trowa's cells, but that also failed. "Relena, I can't get thru to any of them." Hildi said looking horrified at her best friend. "What should we do? I don't know the number to the safe house."

Relena looked at her. "Well we should just head over there then." She replied.

"But what about Jason?" Hildi asked looking around.

"We wait here to see if he comes back. Then we lead him back with us." Relena said as calmly as she could.

Jason suddenly appeared. "Run Relena!" Hildi cried as she tried to dodge Jason's machete.

Relena ran as fast as she could after she heard Hildi scream, then it was quiet. Jason had killed her in an attempt to kill them both. Her heart pounded in her chest as she continued to run thru the woods. ' I'm so sorry Hildi.' She thought.

Jason looked away from the dead teens body and into the direction Relena was running. Jason took off following the blond. Relena didn't care if she had scratches from the branches that tore at her face, legs and arms. All she cared about was getting back to Heero and the rest of the gang.

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