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Chapter Eighteen: Asylum Welcome

"Does Wesley know?" Kali demanded as Wesley's Mom came at her with a needle making her suddenly stop.

"Of course not. He doesn't need to know. It'll only create problems and then we'll have to bring him here." She said as she took some of Kali's blood.

"But he knows about me, he's the reason you assholes found me!" Kali screamed and Wesley's Mom shook her head.

"Yes but he doesn't need to know. We've worked too hard to keep him free of that bastard. Besides we already had an eye on you once we heard what happened at that graduation party." She explained eyeing the F scar on her chest. "He gave you that didn't he?" She asked pointing to her fresh scar.

"I'm not telling you anything!" She screamed attempting to wiggle free of her restraints but it was no use. "How are you giving him his Hypnocil then?!"

"The same way we give it to the entire town. It's in some of our food at home especially in his Dr. Pepper since he drinks that the most. Now we're all done here would you like to shower before you get taken to you room?" She asked sweetly as if all of this was a daily routine. Kali glared at her before barely nodding and two large men unstrapped her and held onto her tight as she kicked and struggled to get away from them.

"He'll find out eventually!" Kali screamed back at the woman as the burly men dragged her down a hallway and threw her into a small bathroom locking the door behind her. She fell into a heap on the floor and slowly began to undress herself.

As she started the water in the shower she smelled herself. The faint smell of burnt flesh made a tear stream down her face. She was really here in this hell. There was no way Freddy would come after her even with how strong he was. He was too afraid of failing and letting Sam down. Would he even come for her? The things they shared, they did. Maybe he was only using her. She wished she could've heard everything he said to her before he faded away from the Hypnocil. There were a million things he could've said. He did sound upset about not being able to help her, but that could have only of been because he needed her to get to Sam. She sat in the shower letting the water run down her body as she sobbed loudly into her hands.

She was dragged to her room in nothing but a bath robe and the other patients in the hallway stared at her as she screamed and struggled to get away from the two men the whole way there. They threw her into her room with a fresh pair of clothes.

"Dr. Zerset will be here shortly so I suggest you get dressed." The shorter of the two said before locking the door behind them. She put on the clothes they had given her, a blue pair of pajama pants with a purple tank top.

Her room looked different from the rooms she saw when studying the lab for a way out in the dream world. In this one the vents were smaller and placed in the ceiling, walls, and floor. There was even a camera in every corner kept behind safety glass in the wall. Looking out the small barred window on her door she could see down the hallway. One hall went straight in front of her room and the other went on either side all lined with rooms making a large T. All the other rooms had their doors open and the patients were wandering freely.

Sitting on her bed she was surprised to find how comfortable it was. She laid down resting her head on the large overly fluffed pillow. Closing her eyes she attempted to bring herself to Freddy only to appear in the odd classroom where she had first seen him. Concentrating as hard as she could she tried to pull herself to him, then him to her only giving herself a strong headache. She sat up in bed holding her head in pain. Whatever kind of Hypnocil they had given her it prevented her from pulling him back to her.

"What were you just trying to do?" An older man in a lab coat asked locking the door behind him. He pulled a tissue out of the inside pocket of his lab coat and handed it to her. He was tanned and his brown hair was parted perfectly in the middle stopping just above his ears, his small round glasses magnified his light brown eyes. She glared at him until she felt a drop of blood on her hand. She wiped her nose with the tissue and held her head back.

"You really think I'm going to tell you anything?" Kali spat at him.

"Wesley already told us everything he knew. So let me guess… you were trying to go to Krueger weren't you?" Kali just glared at him, hating Wesley for telling them what he knew. At least they didn't know everything.

"I'll take that as a yes. You won't be able to get to him. Not with the Hypnocil we gave you." He smiled pushing his glasses up his nose. "I really hope we can be friends Kali. We've never had a patient like you. Anyone who's ever encounter Krueger and knows about us begs us to take them in, or at least provide them with a supply of Hypnocil. But you… for some reason you sympathize with him and want to help him. I'm sure working with him can't be all that pleasant and…"

"Will you shut the hell up already! I don't want to talk to you and I'm not telling any of you anything!" Kali screamed throwing her bloodied tissue at the doctor. He simply wrote a few notes on his clip board and put her tissue in his pocket. He let out a long sigh.

"Well I can see that you aren't willing to cooperate just yet, but if you promise not to harm or scare the other patients, or try and escape I'll let you roam freely like everyone else." He said leaning against the wall by her bed.

"Fine…" She agreed and he perked up and went and unlocked her door leaving it open.

"I bet you're hungry. Follow me and I'll give you the grand tour." He smiled gesturing with his hands. She stood from the bed her feet touching the cold ground.

"I'm cold…" Kali whined shivering from the gust of cold air let in from the hallway.

"I'm so sorry I forgot you're from that dreadfully hot Arizona, you're not used to the cold at all are you? Follow me." He took a left out her door and she followed wrapping her arms around herself. He stopped at a small closet and opened it handing her a pair of grey slippers and a blanket. "Here you are if you ever need any extra clothes or pillows or anything like that there are several of these closets in every hallway." He explained as she slipped her slippers on and wrapped the blanket around herself.

Kali tuned him out most of the time they walked through the place already knowing where everything was. She took note that all the other rooms in the facility weren't like hers. Hers was the only one with extra security. She had only agreed to play nice so she could try and find Sam.

Their tour ended at the cafeteria and Kali had yet to see Sam. The overly annoying doctor walked through the lunch line with her still afraid to leave her alone when she went to sit down she spotted an empty table in the far corner the one she always saw Sam sitting at. Everyone seemed to pass by it as if they were afraid to sit there so she sat at a table near it. She slowly ate as the Doctor went on about the kids and how they considered this place a safe haven and so on. She tuned him out as best she could and right as they were leaving the cafeteria Sam walked in right past her.

Kali couldn't believe it was really her. She had to fight the urge to call her name knowing that if the doctors knew she knew about her they might start doing tests on her again including herself. Sam didn't look at anyone but she turned her head to look at the clock on the wall which was right behind Kali and she made eye contact with her. She looked angry at first then her eyes set on Kali's scarred arm and then to the scar on her chest and she quickly looked away.

She just wanted to knock the doctor out and grab Sam and make a run for it, but she knew that it was impossible so she followed the doctor out of the cafeteria and into the activities room. The room was filled with chatter until Kali entered the room. They all stopped what they were doing and stared at her and the doctor. She tuned Zerset out as he introduced her and everyone slowly returned back to what they were doing.

Kali sat at an empty table and played solitaire as she looked around the room. It bothered her that everyone seemed so happy there. Zerset said that most were here by choice for therapy reasons, because they had nowhere else to go, or simply because they felt safer. Yet she was being held against her will. No one attempted to approach her. One boy almost did but she heard his friends talk him out if it.

It was hard for her to believe that this whole time Wesley was the son of an Elm Street survivor. She wasn't stupid, why else would his mom be working there? She hoped that Freddy could find a way to get to him and get her and Sam out assuming he would even bother with her. Deep down she also blamed herself for not putting up a better fight to get away from the doctors at her house. All she could do was panic, if she didn't panic she could have gotten away. A silent tear streamed down her face and she wiped it away before it could drop to the table.

Sam walked into the room carrying a notebook and she sat at the empty table in the corner behind Kali. She sat drawing and occasionally jotting down notes in her notebook. Kali watched her suddenly missing being able to watch her unnoticed from the TV in Freddy's living room. It made her wonder what he might be doing right now. Was he angry that she was caught? He almost sounded sad when he told her he couldn't help her, maybe he did really care.

Freddy shredded his bed for the thirtieth time that day screaming and cursing. He watched as Kali seemingly played along for the Doctors at the facility not looking at all enthused to be there. The TV went flying through the wall once more. He couldn't remember the last time he was this furious. Wesley was going to pay for what he had done. Luckily Wesley was already getting closer to his grasp.

Since he realized that he had turned Kali in a few days before all while he was trying to warn her of what he had done he had barely eaten and spent barley any time at home. He wasn't sure how long the Hypnocil they had been giving him lasted but at least he hadn't eaten or drank anything from there in a few days. The only thing he'd been drinking from home since Kali was taken was his parent's stash of untouched alcohol. There wasn't Hypnocil in that and he hoped Wesley would dehydrate himself with his constant drinking.

If he continued on the way he was Freddy could get to him in a matter of days. It would weaken him to burn the rest of the Hypnocil out of him once he could get to him but it might be worth it. He laughed when the people that took Kali did nothing but treat him as if he was any other kid. They really didn't want him to know. He was completely oblivious, and for some reason his parents trusted that he would be fine without them at home. From what he heard they wouldn't be home until they figured out what Kali knew, giving him plenty of time to possibly get strong enough to save Kali and Sam.

He sat back down on his couch his TV reappearing and watched Kali play cards with herself, Sam sitting only a table away. It was obvious Kali wanted to say something to her but she kept stopping herself. It was driving Freddy crazy that he couldn't hear Kali's thoughts now that she was on Hypnocil. He had gotten so used to hearing her all the time and being with her whenever he was sick of being in the dream world, which was all the time, now he had no escape.

As the next few days went on he watched Wesley continue to drink himself into a stupor and Kali attempt to blend in with the rest of the patients still refusing to tell them anything. Kali's Mom had come home to find Kali missing and despite how upset she was she still continued to work her insane hours as if nothing was wrong then come home and cry until she fell asleep. The police hardly even pretended to look for Kali after being paid off by Groveberg doctors to keep quiet and look no further into it. They put it out of their minds happy that the murders had magically stopped once she was gone.

Every night Angela contemplated trying to reach out to Kali in her dreams and each time she tried Kali hadn't been asleep. As each day went by Freddy began to realize that he did enjoy having Kali around. Before her it was nothing but quiet and watching Sam all day. He had even given up on making up women to play with. He almost contemplated making someone after a week had passed but stopped himself knowing it wouldn't be the same, it wouldn't be her.

It had been a week and Kali was pretty much left alone by the other patients. A few brave boys would sometimes attempt to sit with her and she'd ignore them until they left. She noticed that every once in awhile she'd catch Sam watching her out of the corner of her eye. A few boys and even a few girls started to stare at Kali whenever she walked the halls always eyeing her scarred arm and the F scar on her chest as if they were plotting something.

She had barely slept since she had gotten there only taking a few one hour naps a day. The Hypnocil didn't stop her from dreaming just like Angela had said, but dreaming just wasn't the same, it wasn't real anymore. Most of the time in her dreams she'd sit in the strange classroom where she first saw Freddy and just sit there. Sometimes she'd cry other times she'd sit in Freddy's living room and make the TV show her what she wanted to see. She knew it wouldn't show anything she didn't tell it to and some nights she'd break the TV and cry until she couldn't take it anymore and wake herself up.

Zerset entered her room with an upset look on his face. Kali noticed this becoming a bit alarmed when the happiest person in the entire facility looked sad.

"Kali I've tried my best to get information from you the nice way… but the other doctors aren't as patient as I am. If you don't give us anything in the next few days they are going to start asking the questions." He explained with saddened eyes. "So please give me something… anything…" He begged and Kali turned over in bed her back now facing him. She heard him shuffle heavily out of her room and down the hall.

She laid there staring at the wall watching the shadows made by the other patients walking by her opened door. They could do whatever they wanted to her. There was nothing they could do to make her tell them what she knew, what she had been through, what her and Freddy shared. Staring off into nothingness she eventually fell asleep. This time when she opened her eyes she was in Angela's room.

"Kali? Oh my god Kali!" Angela screamed and hugged her friend. Kali stared at her in shock and confusion.

"How…" She looked around the room and breathed in. "It's still not the same… I can't feel any of this." Kali looked to the floor sadly.

"What are you talking about?! You need…"

"Dreaming just isn't the same without him… it's so much brighter and real with him." Kali cut her off talking mostly to herself. Angela grabbed her and shook her making her focus on her.

"Kali snap out of it! Tell me the name of the Hypnocil place and I'll find it and get you out! Wesley… no one has heard from him since they took you! And your Mom all she does is work and cry and…" She was cut short when Kali grabbed her by the shoulders and looked her in the eye.

"You need to help Freddy! He is almost strong enough he needs the Elm Street Survivor's Kid! It's…"

Kali jolted awake when she felt a strong pain in her side.

"That's what you get for helping that bastard you stupid bitch!" Someone yelled in the darkness of her room then ran out into the brightly lit hallway leaving her door wide open. All she saw was the silhouette of a boy with a sock over his head. Her hands found a pen stabbed in her side and she ripped it out feeling her warm blood cover her hands and begin to soak into her shirt.

"I hope they forget to give you your precious Hypnocil!" Kali screamed after her attacker as she made her way into the hall clutching her side. She leaned on the wall for support as she made her way towards the room she always saw the doctors going into only to find that no one was there. She knew it was late so most of the patients were asleep and only half the lights were on. Whoever attacked her had already gotten away and hid in their room.

She figured that whoever it was must have over heard the doctors talking about her and decided to take matters into their own hands. The blood was starting to drip down her side the pain slowly spreading. There were faint footsteps behind her and she turned to see Sam walking towards her. Sam stared at her for a moment as she walked past her before stopping in her tracks. Kali was surprised that she even stopped and she reached out to her with a bloodied hand.

"Sam…" Her eyes went wide with shock when she said her name. "… please get Dr. Zerset." Kali pleaded before sliding to the floor. Sam eyed the F scar on her chest before running up to her and kneeling beside her.

"My dad told you about me didn't he?" She asked whispering in her ear with a sweet voice that sounded underused. Kali nodded and at that Sam ran into the room where the Doctors should have been and Kali watched as she slid a panel in the wall to reveal a phone. She picked up the line.

"Hello?" She asked her voice cracking with her increased volume. "It doesn't matter who this is! What matters is there is no doctors down here and Kali has been stabbed! Get Doctor Zerset down here now!" Sam screamed into the phone. "I don't care wake his lazy ass up!" She slammed the phone down on the receiver and slid the panel back into place. Kali was surprised at the anger in her voice and stared at her in awe.

"Just because I never talk doesn't mean I can't yell when I need to…" She kneeled down next to Kali and helped Kali put pressure on her wound. She was beginning to feel dizzy and closed her eyes for a moment.

"You know I'm not supposed to talk to you… he'll be so mad at me…" Kali rambled as her head began to feel heavy and it lolled to one side.

"Kali stay awake…" Sam shook her and she forced her eyes open.

"Shhh." Kali shushed her and put a bloody finger to Sam's lips. "Dream and we'll talk. It's not safe to talk here." She said quietly. A few moments later there was the sound of a door whooshing open.

"Took you long enough!" Sam spat at Zerset and the two of them lifted Kali to her feet.

"What happened?" He asked as they dragged her down the hallway.

"I got stabbed with a pen by some guy wearing a sock on his head." Kali laughed at how pathetic the attempt sounded out loud and the two picked up the pace.

"She's lost a lot of blood… she's getting hysterical." Zerset diagnosed as Kali heard the swipe of a card and looked up to see a door she didn't recognized.

"You think?" Sam retorted back at him. The door in front of them whooshed open filling Kali's nose with the smell of medical supplies and rubbing alcohol. Kali let her eyes close as they lifted her onto a table.

"Thank you. Now please go back you your room." He asked politely.

"Fine…" And she heard Sam walk off. Zerset was talking to Kali but she couldn't make out what he was saying. She felt the prick of a needle in her arm and everything went dark. Drifting in and out of consciousness she could hear some of the doctors talking.

"Sam's the one that found her and called me down here. We're lucky she knew about that phone or else she might be dead." She heard Zerset say above her.

"We need to get her to talk to us… there's no telling what she knows. Do you think she knows about Samantha?" A familiar female voice asked, Wesley's mother.

"I doubt he'd tell her. And even if he did it's not like either of them can escape anyways." He pointed out. "What about your son Wes is he ok? I know he sounded pretty shook up when he called in everything." He sounded concerned.

"Oh he's fine. He's been on Hypnocil for so long it's virtually impossible for Krueger to get to him. And luckily he doesn't have the faintest clue that he's involved in this whole dreadful thing." She went on and Kali drifted off again.

Freddy watched as Kali slept a dreamless sleep from the pain killers they had given her. She wanted to talk to Sam in her dream but the next few days she was kept in the infirmary under close watch only waking for an hour at a time.

Sam was getting anxious to talk to Kali and it made him uneasy knowing that Kali might tell her things he wasn't ready for her to know just yet. He glared at the TV as it switched over to Wesley.

He sat on his couch staring off into space at the TV with a half an empty bottle of Vodka in his hand. It had been two weeks since he ate or drank anything from home except his parents alcohol stash. He had been ordering pizza and soda to be delivered to the house when he was too drunk to drive somewhere.

The phone rang and he ignored it for the tenth time that day. Angela and Andy had been trying to get a hold of him the past few days getting worried about him. Freddy could feel him getting closer and closer, whatever kind of Hypnocil he was on only had a few days left until it wore off enough to get to him.

The TV switched back to Sam who sat in her room on her bed contemplating taking another nap in the hope that Kali would pull her into her dream this time. She fell asleep and found herself in the odd classroom that him and Kali first met in. Kali was sitting on top of a desk waiting for her.