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Chapter Twelve: What Can We Do?

Kali caught a brief glimpse of Freddy leaning over her before she woke to Wesley shaking her. She stared questioningly up at him before sitting up in bed and quickly examining herself. There was no damage she could feel but she definitely felt warmer than normal.

"Are you ok?" Wesley felt her forehead. "You're really warm. He didn't do anything to you did he?"

"I don't know! I don't remember anything from my dream! He made me blackout! Did I get up or do anything after I fell asleep?" Kali asked frightened.

"No… I don't think so…" Wesley's eyes wandered away from her.

"What do you mean you don't think so? You said you were going to stay up and watch me!" She glared back at him.

"I'm sorry I fell asleep!" Wesley reached after her as she jumped out of the bed and rushed to the bathroom. She inspected herself in the mirror. Luckily she saw her own reflection in the mirror. She sighed in relief and leaned on Wesley who was now standing behind her. "Are you mad at me?"

"No its ok it's not your fault. But I wish I knew what happened. I don't feel sore or have any cuts or bruises. But I think he used my body to do something. I just don't know what…" Kali explained running her fingers through her messy hair. Wesley wrapped his arms around her.

"Want some breakfast to help take your mind off of things?" He asked kissing her on the cheek.

"Yes please." She smiled and rested her head on his shoulder and he led her up the stairs and into the kitchen. Wesley grabbed a can of Dr. Pepper out of the fridge and offered one to Kali as she sat at the table.

"Ew gross who drinks soda this early? And Dr. Pepper is icky." Kali made a face at him and he laughed and then poured her a glass of milk instead.

"It's my favorite… so how about pancakes… and bacon?" He asked pulling the bacon from the freezer. Kali nodded her head in agreement and smiled back at him.

She greedily ate the delicious breakfast that Wesley had made them. They got dressed and spent the rest of the day over at Angela's watching movies and playing video games with Angela and Jeremy.

"So where's Andy?" Wesley asked watching Kali and Angela play Final Fantasy.

"We didn't invite him so he didn't have to feel like the fifth wheel again." Jeremy replied licking the cheese off of his fingers from eating a whole bag of cheetos.

"Aw you guys should invite him anyways. He doesn't get out much." Kali paused the game and crawled over to the phone and began dialing. Not even an hour later Andy arrived bringing Chinese takeout for everyone.

"So did anything happen last night?" Angela asked bringing up the much avoided subject of the day.

"I don't know… I blacked out. I think he did something… I just don't know what. I'm pretty sure he possessed me and used my body. I wouldn't have been that warm when I woke up if he didn't…" Kali sighed wishing she knew what the hell he was up to.

"What if he was trying to find the Elm Street kid?" Angela suggested.

"Hopefully he'll find whoever it is and leave you alone." Andy said angrily.

"Hey would you rather him use Kali someone who knows what the hell is going on, or some random person who has no idea what's happening to them giving him complete free range?" Andy glared at Angela from across the room.

"He still needs to leave her alone…" He remarked eating another bite of his orange chicken.

"But if he gets this Elm Street person then can't he just use them to come after all of us?" Jeremy asked making everyone stop what they were doing.

Kali's eyes widened. "Yes… then he'll probably just kill me…" she slumped into Wesley's lap and he wrapped her arms around her.

"Oh…" Andy looked down. "Sorry I didn't think of it that way."

"We need to find out who this person is before he does and make sure he won't be able to get to them then." Wesley suggested.

"I don't know… because if we know who it is then he'll know too." Kali pointed out.

"Well then what the hell are we supposed to do?" Andy huffed.

"I'm not sure. We need to research the Hypnocil more and find something we can use to bargain with. Maybe freeing his daughter or getting rid of the Hypnocil." Kali explained as Wesley began rubbing her shoulders.

"It's so hard to find information on anything other than what I've already found. I was actually thinking of experimenting with the Hypnocil and seeing what its limits are." Angela admitted.

"How would you do that?" Andy asked becoming interested.

"Well I was thinking that I could have Jeremy take some then see if I could still pull him in. And I think you can still dream when you're on it I was going to try and pull someone else in if you can still dream on it. I think it might only block Freddy out instead of ceasing all dream activity. Because I'm sure that Grovesburg would have noticed by now if no one was dreaming in the entire town." Angela explained looking rather proud of herself. "But I need the Hypnocil you bought. I would go and buy some myself, but I think that they might be monitoring how much people buy and if it starts getting bought more they'll investigate and I don't want them to come and take any of us away."

"This is like a whole government conspiracy thing isn't it?" Jeremy asked pulling her into his lap.

"Basically." Angela shrugged.

"Well then I'll bring you the Hypnocil later. I think I'll just sleep at home tonight. I don't want anything to happen if he takes over my body while I'm asleep again." Kali turned and kissed Wesley.

"Just stay at my place again, I swear I won't fall asleep this time." Wesley begged.

"You should stay over at his place." Andy said firmly.

"Ok fine. But I still need to go by my house first. I know my mom won't care that I'm gone I just need to grab a few things." Kali explained.

"We'll go with so we can get the Hypnocil." Angela added hugging onto Jeremy's arm.

After giving the Hypnocil to Angela and packing another overnight bag Kali was back in Wesley's room with him.

"You know despite everything that's been going on I still can't believe that we graduate in a few days." Wesley said as he sat on top of the covers next to Kali.

"I know… I still don't know what I want to even do with myself… At least I'll have a job waiting for me after my little family vacation." She sighed leaning her head on Wesley's chest. He ran his fingers through her hair.

"That's good. I don't really know what I want to do either. Maybe just start taking my general classes at the community college and go from there. Hey since tomorrow is our last day we get our yearbooks." He said happily and Kali shuddered. "What's wrong?"

"Oh it's nothing… it's just I've been using our old yearbooks to choose… well you know, since he wants to keep it within the school…" Kali looked down hiding her face from him. He took her chin in his hand and turned her head to face him.

"Hey it's not your fault. We'll figure out a way to beat him." He reassured her and kissed her lightly on the lips. She smiled back at him and snuggled up against him.

"Promise you won't fall asleep this time?" She asked looking up at him already half asleep.

"Trust me…" He reached over her and shook his espresso shots and energy drink in front of her. "There is no way I'm sleeping now." He smiled and took a long drink of his Dr. Pepper before picking up his video game controller.

"Ok just don't scream at your game too loud." She joked and wrapped her arms around his waist before letting sleep take her.

Kali opened her eyes to darkness. Her arms were still wrapped around Wesley's waist, or at least she thought it was Wesley until she noticed how warm he was. As she took in a breath she could smell Freddy's burnt flesh and quickly released her arms from around his waist.

"Aww don't you want to cuddle with me?" She heard him rasp as he grabbed her by the hair and pulled her up to his unseen face. She winced as she felt his hot breath on her face. Suddenly the boiler room lit ablaze around them illuminating the angered look on his face. "So you think you can bargain with me? Well think again princess you're stuck with me." He put his lips to her ear. "And there's only one way out."

Kali's eyes grew wide as he ran the back of his blades down the side of her face trailing down her neck and slowly wrapped his fingers around her throat. He slammed her against the wall of hot pipes making her shriek in pain. "You die…" His demonic voice echoed throughout the boiler room and a silent tear streamed down Kali's cheek. "Oh don't worry… I still have use for you… for now." He smiled demonically back at her.

"What do you want from me?" Kali choked out trying her best to ignore the burning pain from the pipes at her back.

"I want Springwood back… they've shut me out for too long… but it won't be easy getting back in…" Freddy explained as he slowly released her taking in deep breaths looking deep in thought. For a second Kali could have swore she saw sadness flicker in his eyes but it was quickly gone and before she knew it he had her pinned to the wall again with his lips at her ear.

"Bring me someone to play with." He demanded and she quickly pulled someone in and flinched away from him. Growling at her movement he held her face in place kissing her harshly on the lips and forced his tongue into her mouth. She struggled beneath him gagging. There was an angry groan from him as she felt herself slipping away from the dream world.

She opened her eyes to Wesley standing above her. "Kali wake up!" She sucked in a breath of air before grabbing the glass of water on the nightstand beside her and drinking it down to get the burnt taste out of her mouth.

"Are you ok? Did he hurt you? You were choking and I panicked so I woke you up. What happened?" He sounded concerned and Kali wiped the saliva off her mouth with her sleeve.

"I'm fine…" She lied.

"Did he… kiss you?!" Wesley became angry as she slowly nodded. "That bastard! I'll cut his tongue off!" Kali put her hands on his shoulders and sat him beside her.

"Wes please promise me you won't try and go after him, please?" She asked leaning back against the headboard of the bed and he slumped beside her.

"I won't, don't worry. I just don't like this whole thing, I don't like having to let you put yourself in danger every time you fall asleep." He moved a strand of hair out of her eyes.

"I know but I think we might be able to get him to leave us alone. He said he wants Springwood back. All we'd have to do is get rid of the Hypnocil that they're supplying to the town and keep them out of commission. Then maybe he'll leave me alone." Kali explained slowly getting out of bed.

"Well is there anything else we could give him? What about his daughter? We can't just give him an entire town to slaughter." He asked following her into the bathroom helping her inspect herself in the mirror. Her back was red but luckily it wasn't burned like she thought it would be.

"I don't know. I'm sure he'd want her to be freed if she's still alive, but I know he doesn't want her to know about him." Kali explained.

"Wouldn't they have told her about him?" Wesley was curious.

"I don't know… its sad though… she's got to be at least thirty or so… never been able to live a real life. I think we should get her out either way. It's just wrong…" Kali slumped back into bed trying to imagine what she would look like.

Wesley pulled her close and kissed her on the forehead then on the lips. Kali pulled him into another kiss and he ended up getting pulled on top of her.

"It's only three…we have five hours until school…" Wesley smiled back at her and she pulled him into another kiss.

There were whispers of the recent deaths at school that day but were barely noticed and heard over the end of the year excitement and passing around yearbooks to be signed. Among the rotation of yearbooks were invitations to a graduation party.

"We should go to the party." Andy looked excited waving the flyer about.

"Why not." Angela shrugged as she finished filling a whole page in Kali's yearbook and handed it back to her.

"Yeah you guys should all go." Kali suggested as she swapped yearbooks with a girl standing behind her and signed it.

"You mean you're not going?" Andy asked confused.

"I don't think it'll be a good idea… with Freddy and everything." Kali avoided their concerned eyes.

"You should be fine so long as you don't fall asleep while you're there and we'll make sure he's not with you before we get there." Angela said with confidence.

"I don't know… I'll think about it." Kali said hearing Freddy's faint demonic laughter in the back of her mind.