"Well after a long hiatus, Kilik: PI is back on the air boys and girls! Huzzah! School ended and I don't have an internet equipped computer so the story was put on hold. And now, on with the show!"

Chapter 5: Sleepover at Kiliks

I launched the pillow at nightmares head as the complaints once again arose.

"But this couch isn't soft." Nightmare whined, stretching himself to full length and managing to break one of my armrests in the process.

"Listen, I don't want to hear it," I yelled at him stalking towards my room "You'll just have to deal with it or the floor."

A whining moan followed me into my bedroom and I cut it off by slamming my door. I hit the lights and proceeded to the nightstand next to my bed. Pulling out one of the drawers, I deposited my newly acquired Luger pistol. This foreign gun was the only thing I could get this quickly. Checking to make sure the safety was on I slid the drawer back and reached for the phone. Picking up the receiver I laid back onto my bed, laying the carriage next to me. I dialed the number of the only real espionage contact I knew. The phone rang once before a cold female voice picked up the other line.

"The hell you want?" The voice spat into the phone.

"Hey Taki, it's me Kilik, what's happening?" I began.

"Don't you talk like that to me you piece of shit."

"Oh come on your not still mad about that whole bounty thing are you?"

"You cost me hundreds of dollars by taking out my target." She was yelling now.

"Listen what if I could make it up to you?" I asked

"What the hell can you do that would make up for it?"

"I've got a job for you"

"I told you I'm not gonna take no more shit jobs like that last one"

"I promise this ones a good one, no bears involved."

"It better be cause you know how allergic I am, also I want double"

I almost choked on my tongue "Double?"

"Yes and you better not try to short me, or it's your balls"

"Okay, okay, double it is, meet me at my place tomorrow morning."

"Fine whatever" she said and slammed the phone down on her end.

I was about to do the same when the lights in my room went out and the phone went dead. On instinct I reached for my new German pistol and clicked the safety off. My door slowly began to creak open letting me catch a small glimpse into the darkened living room. (Damnit! Where the hell is nightmare when you need him?) I feigned sleep as a dark shape shuffled towards me on the floor. Reaching out with my pistol I slowly put pressure on the trigger. Suddenly a large demonic hand shot up next to my bed, I panicked and my finger twitched on the trigger. The shot went wide skewering a diploma on my wall. As my heart started the long descent from my throat a small whispering voice came from the darkness at the side of my bed.

"Kilik…I don't like the dark." The voice trembled with fear.

"What tha… NIGHTMARE?"

"Shh…" he whispered. I was appalled to find that as he talked that horrendous hand flapped open and close in time with his words. "The lights went out and it scared me."

I stood in awe at the grotesque talking hand puppet next to me.

"I don't have time for this shit Nightmare."

"Can I sleep in here tonight?" Pleaded the childlike voice.

"No the fuck you can not!" The mere thought sent shivers down my spine.

"Please Kilik just until the power comes back on?"

"Listen Nightmare that is out of the question." I shivered again.

"Well will you sing me a song then if I go back to sleep on the couch?"

A thousand curses passed through my head yet somehow I knew that this wouldn't end until I had comforted him somehow. Grasping that horrible hand that had been mouthing words to me, I lead Nightmare back to the couch and tucked him in.

"Okay what song do you wanna hear? I asked with a sigh

"I wanna hear My little angel'

"Uhh… I've never heard that one." I feared the worst.

"Okay then I'll sing it to you" I groaned with the expected pain.

With a childlike clearing of his throat Nightmare let out a high pitched soprano voice and began to sing:

"GOOO TO SLEEP

MY LITTLE AAANGEL

REST YOUR HEAD

ON THE PILOOOOOOOOOOOOW!

GOOO TO SLEEP

MY LITTLE ANGEL

AND…DREAM…OF…CAK…E"

As the ringing in my ears finally subsided, I noticed that Nightmare had sung himself to sleep. Cursing my life and everything around it I stalked back into my room and laid my head on the pillooo… aww shit, I've got that song in my head!

"Will our hero ever get to sleep? Will he be able to stop the dreaded "company"? Where did Nightmare learn that horrible song? Those answers and more, next time on Kilik: P.I.