I know it's not that good yet, but it will get better, I promise. (: Anyway, for now here's the latest chapter. They will be getting longer, I'm just introducing the characters.
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When Alice returned to her appartment she was feeling surprisingly light-headed. Part of her knew that she probably wouldn't be seeing Jesse Walsh again, but another part of her ignored this and didn't care. She had liked what she saw in him, and..
Alice, you don't even know him, an annoying voice said inside her head, he could be a jerk for all you know.
"Well, he seemed all right to me.." Alice said dreamily, ignoring it completely. She quickly made herself a cup of coffee before retiring to the living room to go through some paperwork. At the same time she wondered why Jacob wasn't home yet, but disregarded it when she remembered he had told her that he wouldn't be home untill nine o'clock that night. Alice felt that some of her friends didn't think she was worthy of being a mother but Alice knew that Jacob was a good kid and that he would never get mixed up anything stupid.
The sky darkened outside. Alice had been going over lesson plans for the next day in her head but found that her mind was wandering to something else. Jesse Walsh. Someone Alice couldn't stop herself from thinking about him. He would have proposed to his girlfriend by now, probably, and the two of them would now be enjoying a bottle of champagne or something. Or going out on their engagement night. Alice sighed and thought about the possibility of getting married. She didn't find herself really attractive but had heard from her friends that some men did. This had come as quite a shock to Alice, but she had been flattered nonetheless.
Alice Walsh. It had a ring to it, Alice though. Then she shook her head vigourously. "You don't know him," She said, thinking aloud, "For all you know he could be some loser who likes hitting on women he meets on the street."
Then the thought suddenly occured to Alice: had he been hitting on her? He had certainly sounded interested in what she had been telling him. He had never been able to take his eyes off her, infact. So, maybe then..
No. He was engaged. Well, he would be, if he wasn't already. Alice set aside the paperwork she had been busy with and lounged on the sofa, thoughts turning over in her mind. Not thoughts of Jesse Walsh, however, Alice had decided that he was taken and hadn't been interested in her at all. Her thoughts were now on her son Jacob.
Jacob had grown up to be a very handsome young man, and though he was only sixteen, he was very mature for his age. Sometimes Alice liked to think that Jacob was the one taking care of her, and she had mentioned this to him many times. Alice had been alone for the past twelve years. Well, not alone. Obviously she had been on some dates, slept with some guys, and maybe - maybe, she had felt fireworks with some of the men she had been with, but Alice was beginning to realise it now - she had never been in a serious relationship.
Besides Dan. Oh, yes. Dan, Dan, Dan.. Alice missed him. He had been her first love, and she had lost him to -
No. Don't think about it.
Goddamnit don't think about it.
But Alice was thinking about it. She couldn't really not think about it. Jacob might not have survived if it weren't for her. Alice treasured Jacob above everything else, if she lost him she wouldn't know what to do with herself. He was everything to her.
But he was growing up, and Alice understood that. She couldn't hold onto him for comfort forever, because he would leave eventually.. he would graduate highschool, maybe go to college, get a job, get married, have kids.. all of these possibilities thrilled Alice but she still couldn't bear to see him go. Just two more years..
Two more years.
Alice was beginning to feel sleepy; her hair was resting against the arm of the couch. Her eyes drooped, and eventually closed. She felt sleep overcoming her, and all thoughts of Jacob and Jesse Walsh were washed away..
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Alice opened her eyes.
She was standing alone in a forest of some kind. She shuddered, even though it was only a dream it was still freezing cold. Alice trudged forwards, through the forest untill she finally came to an abandoned dilpilated house. Alice looked up at the old house and felt a chill down her spine. She knew exactly where she was. 1428 Elm Street.
You're only here because you were thinking about Dan, Alice told herself inside her head, That's why you're here. Freddy's gone. You dealt with him a long time ago, Alice.
Nevertheless, Alice was overwhelmed by a strange feeling of curiousty and without thinking she went up to the house, glancing around uncertainly as she did so. For some time Alice had revisited 1428 Elm Street in her dreams but had found nothing there. She had woken up feeling stupid about searching for something in her dream but still felt a little bit curious after each and every dream.
Alice tensed herself before opening the door, which creaked violently as it swung open. As usual, the house was just ruins. Nothing there, nothing but..
Jacob?
It was like Alice had opened the door to the past. She was standing there, glued to the spot, staring at her son Jacob in horror. It was like a de ja vu, only Jacob wasn't small as he had been all those years ago. He was older. This same thing had happened sixteen years ago, but it couldn't mean anything, could it?
"Jacob?" Alice said, her voice wavering in shock, "Jacob, what are you doing here?"
Jacob turned to look at her, and Alice saw that he was trembling uncontrollably. He face was contorted into one of fear, and he looked on the verge of tears. "M - Mom?" He said shakily, and Alice saw the tears burning in his eyes, "W - What are y - you - ?"
Before he could finish there was a loud crashing sound, then silence. Alice looked around and then looked back at Jacob. Her heart was racing. Jacob didn't say anything else, so Alice went over to him and pulled him close to her for a hug. "Jacob.. what the hell are you doing here?" She whispered, letting go of him.
"I - I don't know," Jacob said shakily, "I - I was just a - asleep, and I - I was here."
Alice didn't know what to say to that. He had been asleep? Where?
"Where were you? I know you weren't at home," Alice shot him a severe look and Jacob looked away from her. "Okay, we'll do this later. Jacob, have you been having nightmares again? Please, tell me." Her hands were on his shoulders, she felt like shaking him but didn't.
"I don't know how I got here, okay?" Jacob snapped, pulling away from her, "And I haven't been having nightmares. That stopped a long time ago." His eyes were burning and a part of Alice thought it was best to leave it but another part of her needed to find out why they were there.
"Jacob, I -"
That loud crashing noise happened again. Alice jumped and stumbled backwards but kept her balance. Jacob was barely aware that she was there, he was looking as though he would rather sink through the floorboards and never be seen by the human eye again.
A horrible though suddenly came to Alice and her heart sank. She turned to Jacob, "Jacob, he's not back, is he?" She enquired, hoping for his sake and hers that he hadn't returned.
Jacob bit his lip but didn't reply. Before either of them could say anything else, however, the ceiling came crashing down from above them. Alice screamed and grabbed Jacob, throwing the both of them out of the way. Something hard had fallen on her legs and she was paralysed.
After a few minutes, Alice looked up and saw that Jacob had hit his head. He was glancing at her bleary eyed. Alice glanced around desperatedly, and froze. She found she couldn't breath, all the air had vanished from her lungs, she was falling with no hope of..
"Hi, Alice."
Alice looked up at him again, feeling nauseated. It was Krueger. He was there, she wasn't seeing things. But she had beaten him, she had defeated him, she'd shut him out for good..
"Not gonna say hello to your good old friend from the past, Alice?" Freddy Krueger said, and laughed. "It's been a while." He added, with a malicious look.
"Yeah, too long," Alice growled, wriggling around trying to free her legs, "I thought that you'd come back sooner."
"Well, I've been busy," Freddy said darkly, "But, then I remembered how much Jacob -" He sneered at Jacob, who was barely even aware of his surroundings, "- helped me to get more of those delicious souls from the children." He licked his lips, "And now, he's going to do the same for me all over again. But that's all right with you, isn't it, Alice?"
Alice hated him. She would have attempted to claw his eyes out if she hadn't been stuck. "You bastard. Why couldn't you just leave us alone? After everything you put us through.. you just couldn't let it rest, could you?"
Freddy laughed out loud at this, "No, I suppose I couldn't. But don't worry, I won't kill you - yet. I may have uses for you in the near future," His face split in a malevolent grin, "I've learned that some of those who have defeated me in the past are here and I'll make sure they don't get away this time," He laughed again and raised his claw, waving the blades at her, mocking her.
"You mean, other survivors?" Alice replied, her right leg free.
"Yes, other survivors," Freddy mumbled, glancing down at her in disdain, "Lori, that stupid girl got in the way of everything.. and Maggie, oh, my own daughter.. how could she do it? And Jesse.."
"What?" Alice suddenly abandoned trying to free her other leg, "Jesse?"
Freddy didn't answer. He was looking at Jacob, Alice knew that he hated him. After he had used them both to kill these 'survivors' he would kill them. Alice looked over at Jacob and saw that he was now unconcious. He was fading away, he was waking up..
"Well, that settles things for now," Freddy concluded, "For now, Alice."
Alice saw the hateful look in his eyes and that malicious grin before she woke with a start, sitting bolt upright. She glanced down at both her legs and saw a large cut on her left leg. Cursing, Alice went to put a bandage on it, then remembered what Freddy had told her before.
"Jesse.." She said to herself, "Jesse. That's it." Of course. She had been supposed to bump into Jesse that day. He was one of the survivors.
Jacob arrived home a few minutes later and he and Alice tried to make sense of what had just happened to them. But all the time, Alice kept thinking of Jesse, and how she needed to warn him of what was to come.
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