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Chapter Nineteen: Revenge in a Dream
"Sorry it took so long, they had me on so many drugs that I wasn't having dreams." Kali apologized as Sam slowly approached her and sat on the desk next to her. Her skin was so pale and she looked like she could be no more than a few years older than Kali. But she knew she had to be at least thirty by now. It was as if that place stopped her from aging. Sam sat in silence staring back at her as if unsure of what to say. "Do they ever let you go outside?" Kali asked breaking the silence.
"Once a month they let me out. The other patients can go whenever they want. It's nice they have a swing set and basket ball and other areas for sports. Once a year they have sport tournaments that everyone gets to participate in. It's has a tall covered gate surrounding the area so no one can see in, but it's better than nothing." She smiled. "I don't think they'd let you out there though…" She looked down at her hands that were folded in her lap. Kali looked back at her thoughtfully and waited.
"Tell me how you met my dad and how you got in here, please I've only heard bits and pieces and I'd rather hear it from you. Why did he tell you about me? He's never told anyone before. No one here even knows he has a daughter except for the doctors… most of them are the original children of the parents who killed him." She took in a deep breath. "Sorry I'm not used to talking so much, I've never had anyone here to talk to before. I don't even really know what happened to my father except what I've heard from the doctors and the other patients." Sam went on making Kali smile.
Kali explained her obsession with him and the movies before she met him and then went through the whole story of how she ended up there. Sam sat and listened in silence. Kali left the more intimate details out but explained to her that they were involved. Using the past tense hurt for Kali and Sam could see it in her eyes.
"Are you ok? You don't have to talk about it if you don't want to." Sam put a comforting hand on her shoulder.
"I'm fine… I hate dreaming in this place… it just isn't the same anymore without him, it's not real anymore…" Kali attempted to change the subject but Sam urged her on with her pale blue eyes. "I know he wants to get you out… but I don't know if he'd even bother with me… he could have just been using me all this time…" Kali looked away from Sam a tear streaming down her face.
"Kali he wouldn't go through all the trouble to help you all those times if he didn't care about you. Despite what everyone else thinks I know that he is a loving person. You should have seen him and my Mom together…" Sam explained as Kali wiped the tear away.
"I'm going to wake up now I think they'll let me return to my room today. Did they ever find out who did it?" Kali asked.
"No they don't know." She sighed. "But I'm sure it'll be obvious once you get to walk around the halls a bit. I hope they don't try anything again. They threatened all the patients including the doctors but no one ever came forward… I'm sorry it happened. If they ever knew about me… they'd kill me for sure." Sam had fear in her eyes.
"I won't let them hurt you. We'll talk again later." Kali promised and someone shook her awake.
"Kali? Kali wake up you need to eat something." Wesley's Mom insisted above her. Kali opened her eyes to find herself in the same dimly lit room lying in a hospital bed. "If you eat this whole tray of food we'll let you go back to your room today after we put clean dressings on your stitches.
"Fine by me." Kali grumbled sitting up in bed. She glared at Wesley's Mom until she finally got the hint to leave. She greedily ate the turkey sandwich and Jell-O they had brought her and she gulped down her chocolate milk glad she finally had some solid food in her. They had kept her on liquids for a few days since she had to be on so many antibiotics. Whoever stabbed her made sure to break the pen before stabbing her almost giving her ink poisoning. Luckily for her they didn't get the pen deep enough to stab through anything major. She had seven stitches in her side from it.
Freddy sat and watched as they led Kali back to her room after they cleaned her stitches up. He was furious that they weren't taking any drastic measures to find the kid that had attacked Kali. Then again he knew that most of the doctors there wanted her dead in the first place regardless of how much she might know that could help them. He wanted to kill the brat himself.
He noticed that she was paying particular attention to everyone she passed in the halls they all gave her death glares. She stared right into the eyes of the boy who did it and Freddy could see it in her eyes that she knew. It was still so hard not knowing what she was thinking anymore.
Thinking back to Sam's reactions to everything that she's told her so far he realized that it didn't bother Sam who he was. She even seemed to accept the fact that him and Kali might actually be something together. The more he thought about it the more he realized that he needed to get them out of there as soon as possible. Wesley was so far gone he might even drink himself into a coma giving him a much needed advantage over him.
He laughed when Zerset asked Kali to give him anything to tell the other doctors so they wouldn't have to question her. She still refused to tell him anything.
Kali sat in the activities room at the table next to Sam's making a house out of cards ignoring all the other patients' angry stares. She knew that they all most likely knew by now that she was willingly helping Freddy before they caught her and brought her there. A girl walked by her tabled bumping it on purpose knocking her carefully placed cards over and she watched them flutter to the ground. She brushed all the cards to the floor and laid on her stomach beneath the table and began building a new house of cards.
All she was really doing was passing the time. As she carefully stacked her cards together she couldn't help but let her mind wander to Freddy wondering what he was doing. Then she remembered what Angela had said about Wesley. He hadn't been heard from since she was taken. Had Freddy already gotten to him? She hoped so.
Should she tell Angela about Wes? Would she find a way to help Freddy get to him or warn Wes? Everything was too confusing and she wasn't sure if she could still fully trust Angela no matter how eager she was to help her escape from Groveberg.
She finally made her way into the cafeteria and ate her food in silence as she stared at the boy she knew was the one who stabbed her as he looked away from her and whispered to his friends. When Kali was done eating she purposely walked past their table and the boy that she suspected had stabbed her grabbed her by the arm and stopped her.
"Where do you think you're going Krueger lover." He stood from his seat and turned to her, there was a faint scar running down his face that she didn't notice before. "You see this!" He pointed to the scar on his face. "He did that to me and killed my little sister!" Kali looked calmly up at him as the rest of the patients in the cafeteria turned their attention to them.
"So basically what you're saying is that you think I'm helping him so it justifies you stabbing me?" She asked not even flinching when he tightened his grip on her.
"Yes it does!" He screamed in her face, Kali was so tempted to get him back for stabbing her.
"What is going on in here?!" A male voice rang from behind the boy and Kali saw Wesley's dad coming towards them.
"Mr. Preston?" Kali asked suddenly remembering Wesley had mentioned that his parents worked together. So that meant that both of his parents were original Elm Street survivors. That would explain why Freddy would want to get to Wes the most, he was the product of two Elm survivors.
"Trevor let her go." He demanded and he released Kali and she glared at him. Trevor attempted to form words but came up with nothing in his panic.
"He admitted to attacking me. He's the one that stabbed me." Kali explained taking a step back from Mr. Preston and Trevor.
"Trevor is this true?" Mr. Preston asked as if you would a small child.
"Yeah and I'd gladly do it again!" He yelled picking up his spork wielding it like a weapon. Mr. Preston grabbed the boy by the arms and pulled him away. Kali couldn't help herself but laugh hysterically at his pathetic attempt. Everyone's sympathetic eyes quickly went from Trevor to her with a cold stare. She ignored them as she saw Sam enter the room with a scared look on her face when she noticed the stares everyone was giving her. Sam quickly averted her eyes and continued on getting herself some food as if the commotion didn't faze her.
"Security, a little help here would be nice!" Wesley's Dad yelled and the guards standing at the door finally intervened and dragged Trevor off down the hall. "You…" He pointed at Kali. "… come with me. You shouldn't be out of your room anymore. You've caused enough problems already."
"It's not my fault your patients hate Freddy so much that if they think someone is affiliated with him that they try and kill them. Maybe you need a better treatment plan for them. I know why don't you pump them even more full of your Hypnocil and bullshit?" Kali stood her ground even as she saw him reach into his coat for something. "Maybe you should stop lying to them. It'll never be safe for any of them. You can't beat him." She smiled as the faces around her slowly began to twist into looks of fear and worry. She thought she even heard someone whimper. Scanning the room she could have swore she saw Sam smiling over in the corner.
"How dare you speak his first name out loud around them!" Mr. Preston sounded beyond pissed and Kali knew that it was too late so she decided to go for it.
"It's just a name. Freddy, Freddy, Fred, Frederick, Freddy Krueger! F-R-E-D-D-Y-K-R…" Kali was cut short when Mr. Preston stabbed a needle into her neck making her cry out. The drug was quickly taking affect and she caught herself on the table. "…Fuck all of you and your Hypnocil tranquilizers… he'll get all of you… you'll…" And before she could finish she collapsed unconscious to the floor.
Kali found herself in the boiler room. She could hear the flames of the furnaces beneath her and the heat quickly encompassed her. It felt too good to be true. Looking around frantically she turned and saw Freddy standing at the end of the catwalk. She wanted to run to him, but looking at him even as far away as he was, she knew it wasn't him. Placing a hand on the railing of the catwalk she couldn't feel the heat of it in her hand. The only heat she could feel was coming at her from all sides but it wasn't real.
This had to be a trick of theirs. She couldn't smell the flames of the fire or the rust of the metal, she couldn't even feel the rough catwalk beneath her feet. All she could smell was the overly familiar smell of the facility. The fake Freddy scraped his blades along the railing as he came closer to her looking at her seductively. The screeching of his blades even sounded fake. He motioned to her to come closer with his blades and she played along.
"Kali… I've missed you…" He said in a badly faked voice. Kali had to stop herself from rolling her eyes. So this is how they were going to try and get information from her now? It was just pathetic. She couldn't stand to look at him anymore and walked right up to him.
"Get the fuck out of my dream you cheap impostor!" She hit him hard. "I wish this really was his world so I could kill you! You really thought you could trick me? I can't feel anything in here. All I feel is the heat you've obviously surrounded my body with in the waking world. He doesn't look, talk, or sound like that! I can't smell anything but the stink of aesthetic cleanliness that this entire place reeks of! Show me who you really are or get the hell out of my dream!" She demanded turning the boiler room into her room in the facility and sitting on her bed waiting patiently.
Freddy watched Kali with a proud smirk on his face. He was scared that she might be getting so desperate that she'd run to him and do things that only they should be doing together in confusion. But she seemed to be a lot stronger than he thought she would be in that place.
"You must have spent a lot of time with him in the dream world, didn't you?" The fake him laughed as he turned into Wesley's Dad. "You know I always knew there was something about you but I never would have thought you'd be here in our facility. Please tell me how did Krueger get to you in the first place?" He sounded rather intrigued. Kali just sat and stared at him in silence. "I'm sorry about earlier. I have a very short temper sometimes, especially when it comes to the safety of our patients."
"Do whatever you want to me, I'm not telling you anything." She replied firmly. "Now get the fuck out of my dream!" And he was gone. She actually managed to push him out of her dream. This made him smile. She really was powerful. He needed to get her out before she lost any of her power or her sanity.
He watched Kali sit deep in thought and it still killed him to not be able to hear what she was thinking. She looked up and smiled an evil smile like she had a plan. Standing from her bed she chanted the name of the boy that had stabbed her. He appeared in the doorway of the room. Once he realized where he was and who was in the room with him he started to spout random insults at her and he advanced on her.
Just before he got to her the entire room shifted into the boiler room and she shifted into him. Freddy couldn't believe what he just saw her do then soon caught onto what she was doing. Getting her revenge the only way she knew how, fear. The boy stopped dead in his tracks and turned and bolted the other way. She chased him around and swiped at him purposely missing. He screamed and cried and eventually curled into a little ball on the floor.
"Little Trevor still afraid of me." She said sounding just like him. "You couldn't save your sister from me, and now you're taking it out on Kali…" She began to circle him scraping her blades on the railing each time she passed it. "You better leave her alone…" She knelt down beside him and put her lips less than an inch off of his ear. "… or else I'll be visiting you again." She laughed loudly letting it echo all around him then pushed him out of the dream world. She turned back into herself and the room became her cell once again. She laid out on her bed and stared at the ceiling smiling.
After seeing that he wished he could touch her again and feel the softness of her skin on his. Thinking about it was making him hard and he kicked the TVs screen in frustration making it shatter. He stared at the broken screen for a moment then felt someone enter his realm. Wesley. There was only a tiny bit of Hypnocil left in his system but he was so intoxicated that he was brought into his world anyways. Freddy quickly appeared behind Wes and focused on getting rid of the Hypnocil. It only took a matter of minutes but it still weakened him a bit. Wesley screamed in pain and stumbled forward away from Freddy once he released him. He turned and faced him with a look of disbelief on his face.
"No… how did you get to me? Who brought me to you?" He asked in a panic as his back met with the wall behind him.
"You… you brought yourself here. Doesn't it make sense after all this time who you are?" He rasped basking in his growing fear.
"I don't know what the hell you're talking about. Who's helping you now? Is it Angela?" Wesley inched down the wall away from Freddy as he slowly advanced on him.
"Oh Wes you're still so illusioned. Why do you think I threatened Kali so much to stay away from you, hmm? Ever wonder why your parents seemed so well off? Ever wonder what they do whenever they go out of town on their little business trips together?" He had him cornered now and flexed his blades at his side.
"I don't know what you're talking about! I don't understand any of this dream crap!" Wesley was completely clueless as to what he was getting at.
"You feel so guilty for turning Kali in yet all this time it was you who was the Elm Street Brat she always feared I'd get to." He smiled wickedly revealing his sharp jagged teeth.
"No! You're lying! This is just a stupid fucking dream!" He turned his head away from Freddy and closed his eyes making Freddy laugh.
"It makes sense doesn't it? Both your parents are original Elm Brats… your grandparents burned me alive!" He grabbed Wes by the throat and threw him across the room. "It almost feels like it was fate. The girl who pulls me out of Springwood and into her dreams just so happened to be dating the kid of two Elm Street brats…" He appeared in front of Wes as he struggled to get to his feet wrapping his unbladed hand around his throat one finger at a time and raised him up with his feet dangling inches off the ground.
"What do you want from me?" Wes choked out trying to pry his hand off of him.
"You're the reason they took Kali away and all my plans got ruined." He pointed a blade at him less than an inch off of his face. "You're going to help me whether you like it or not, starting right now." And Wesley fell to the floor as Freddy vanished before his eyes.
Freddy opened his eyes to find himself in a chair in Wesley's backyard with an empty bottle of wine in his hand. Wesley had drank enough to pass out giving Freddy a few hours to do whatever he pleased with his body.
The first thing he did was find the glove that he had made Kali. It was locked up in a metal box beneath Wesley's bed. The glove was a tight fit on Wesley's hand since he had made it to fit Kali but it would do. He grabbed Wesley's car keys off of his dresser and drove off to find himself some new victims before Wesley regained consciousness.
Kali walked the halls the next morning surprised they didn't make her stay in her room like Wesley's dad had threatened. Trevor was nowhere to be seen. His friends glared at her in the activities room after breakfast. The only girl of their group came and sat at the table with her.
"Go away." Kali hissed at her as she continued painting the picture she was working on.
"What did you do to Trevor?" She demanded in a low voice and Kali ignored her. "I said what did you do to Trevor?" She asked again becoming angry.
"I didn't do anything. What could I do to him? He was locked up in his room all night and I was locked in mine." She replied never looking up from her painting.
"He's scared shitless to even say your name right now. If I find out you did anything to him I'll make you pay…" She quickly left the table and joined her friends.
Kali smiled to herself as she finished her painting and Sam peeked at it as she walked by her to the table behind her. She had painted the odd class room. The first place she met him the first place her and Sam got to talk. She put away her supplies and headed back to her room with her painting.
The week went on and she tortured each of Trevor's friends along with a few other patients. She had told Sam all about her father including what really happened to him. Sam laughed when Kali told her about what she was doing to the other patients.
"No wonder they've been in therapy so much lately." She giggled. "What did you do to them exactly?"
"I went to them as your Dad. Just made a few scary sounds and threatened them a bit. Nothing too harmful… well unless you're them." Kali laughed getting a warm feeling from being able to actually talk to someone about these things for once that wasn't going to judge her for what she was doing.
"Kali…" Sam looked at her sadly. "I… I want you to show me what my dad looks like." Kali's face turned to fear. "Please I've heard so many different things I need to know." She pleaded.
"I don't know if I can. He doesn't want you to see him the way he is now. I think he'd rather you remember him the way he was… I only know how he looks now. I don't even know what he used to look like…" Kali trailed off. "He'll be so mad at me… but you deserve to know. Close your eyes." Kali instructed and Sam obeyed.
Kali took a deep breath and morphed into Freddy. "You can open them now." She rasped in his voice. Sam opened her eyes and let out a small gasp before taking a step towards her. She walked around her examining her closely. Kali clinked his blades together making Sam look down at the glove. "Want me to change back?" She rasped.
"No… not yet. Can I put the glove on?" She asked eyeing it. Kali reluctantly took it off and handed it to her.
Freddy sat in his living room watching in complete awe as his daughter put his glove on and examined it at different angles in the light. As much as he wanted to be mad at Kali for showing Sam what he looked like he was glad that she wasn't scared of him.
He had gained his strength back from burning the remaining Hypnocil out of Wesley. That first night he took Wesley's car he found a small neighborhood and some young girls were having a slumber party with their parents out of town. He killed all four of them and Wes came to when he was halfway home sending him into a panic attack when he found himself covered in blood still wearing the glove. Luckily he was strong enough to still stay in control over Wes so he didn't crash the car and kill himself.
Freddy explained to him how his parents had been giving him Hypnocil on the way home. Wesley now hated his parents and as much as he didn't want Freddy near him he refused to eat or drink anything from home now. He was furious that his parents never told him. At least this way he could get back at them for never telling him and possibly help Kali at the same time.
The rest of the week Wesley continued to drink himself into a stupor giving Freddy the chance to take over and get more victims. Anyone he could find that was alone even adults every soul made him stronger and got him one step closer to Sam and Kali.
Staring at the screen Freddy was glad Sam was so calm about the way he looked. She even ran a finger over his marred face. Kali turned back into herself and stared off into space while Sam played with the glove. It was still driving him mad he couldn't hear what Kali was thinking.
"I'm sorry you can't really feel too much in here. I hate this place without him..." Kali kicked over a nearby desk.
"What're you talking about? This is fun. I've never really explored what you can do in the dream world before. You should teach me!" Sam said excitedly. "As much as I hate this place I'm glad it made it possible to meet you. I've never had a friend since they brought me here. No one to talk to…" she trailed off and looked to Kali.
"Well you have me now." She comforted her. "What do you want me to show you first?" Kali asked making Sam's face light up. She spent the rest of the night with Sam teaching her all the different things that you can do in the dream world and even had her pull one of the patients in and she watched Kali threaten them as Freddy.
The next morning Kali noticed the other doctors whispering to each other as she walked by them in the hall. She heard one of them say her name then mention something about Hypnocil. Zerset came and sat with her while she ate.
"Kali, we need to talk. I know you're probably mad at the other doctors for trying to trick you the other day in that dream. But we've been having problems with some of the patients lately…" He lowered his voice. "We really need to know what you know about Krueger. Some of the kids have been having nightmares about him again… we're not sure if it's really him or not. He hasn't hurt any of them, but we don't want to risk it." Kali looked up at him blankly trying so hard not to laugh at what he was saying.
"You really think I'll tell you something that would help you to keep him away from your precious patients? You're out of your mind. I only work for him." She laughed as she walked away.
He followed her out of the cafeteria and grabbed her by the shoulder and led her down the hallway and into her room closing the door behind him. "Kali there have been murders again, around where you live. Teenagers and adults all around your area, have been found slashed to death in the last week. Kali you need to tell me who else could be helping him." He pleaded.
"Well none of my friends would help him so I don't know what you want from me." She lied and smiled to herself as she sat on her bed. So he had already gotten to Wesley. She sat in silence as he went on and on about the safety of the patients. After a few minutes he reached over Kali and pulled one of her many paintings of the odd classroom she had hung on her wall.
"What is this place you keep drawing and painting? Is it a special place you go to in the dream world?" He asked and Kali snatched it away from him.
"It's none of your business." She snapped at him as she hung it back up on the wall.
"Kali I understand you don't want to help us, but if you don't start talking the other doctors won't hesitate to take drastic measures to get what they want." He warned her as he made his way to the door. "So please think about it. I don't want to have to hand you over to them." He said sadly before closing the door behind him.
Kali laid in bed and let herself drift to sleep even though she just ate breakfast she felt tired. She sat in a desk and stared at the high ceiling wondering how Wesley was handling everything then suddenly remembered Angela. She was going to tell her about Wesley but never had the chance. Reaching out she attempted to pull Angela in and was surprised to come face to face with Jeremy and Angela walking about frantically in Wesley's house.
"Kali?" Jeremy asked and Angela stopped pacing and ran to Kali.
"Kali we can't find Wesley anywhere. I can't even pull him into my dream. Could you try? We think something might have happened to him, and all the murders lately. It has to be Freddy. He must've found the Elm survivor like you said he would. And…" Kali hugged her friend cutting her off.
"Ang that's what I was trying to tell you before, Wesley, he is the one Freddy was talking about. Both his parents are original Elm Street survivors. They're both doctors where they're keeping me." Kali explained.
"What?! Then we have to go to him and help him!" Jeremy screamed.
"No! Don't go near him. The only reason I'm telling you is so you stay away from him, Freddy will kill you if you try and stop him." Kali explained as Angela looked at her in shock.
"So you don't care if Freddy uses Wesley? What is wrong with you?" Angela spat at her.
"The faster he gets stronger the better! I have people in here that want to kill me, I'm sure some of them are the doctors! Ang I need to get out of here and so does Sam!" She yelled back suddenly realizing what she had just said.
"Sam? You've seen Sam?" Angela asked surprised and Kali looked away from her. "Oh now I get it… so this whole time you've been helping Freddy so he could get Sam out? You know I could have helped you! We could have gotten her out together and saved all this bloodshed from happening! I don't care what you say we're going to help Wesley!" Angela shoved Kali out of her way.
"It's not just about Sam you know! There is so much you don't…"
"We've heard enough!" Jeremy shoved her to the ground and the two disappeared from the dream world. Kali sat there in complete disbelief. She screamed and Angela's bedroom shattered around her and turned into her room from home. Grabbing a pillow off of her bed she screamed into it while ripping it to shreds and screamed some more. She jolted awake in bed screaming to find Wesley's Mom shaking her awake.
"Kali it's ok. Did you have a nightmare about him too?" She asked concerned and Kali glared at her with pure hatred.
"I wish." She spat at her.
"If you keep talking like that I'm going to have to agree with the other doctors that it was you who's been terrifying the other patients in their dreams… Now I'm here to take your stitches out." She said holding up a pair of scissors. Kali didn't say a word and lifted her shirt letting her cut each of the stitches off and pull them out. "Oh, also time for your weekly dose." She smiled pulling a syringe out of her pocket. Kali knew what it was and quickly got out of bed.
"No! I don't want any of your dream poison!" She screamed and headed for the door only to find that it had been locked. Kali pulled at it frantically then fell to the floor crying. Wesley's Mom injected it into her arm and unlocked the door leaving Kali alone in her room sobbing into her hands.
Freddy punched the TV screen in as he watched Kali wrap herself up in a blanket and cry into her pillow. But that's not what upset him the most. Wesley's dad was making his way to Kali's room. He burst into her room carrying a large syringe.
"We know what you've been doing!" He boomed pulling the blanket off of her. She rolled away from him and screamed.
"It's so cold in here give me back my blanket!" She hissed and he threw it across the room. Kali looked at him in fear when she saw the syringe in his hand.
"We know it was you terrorizing the other patients. We aren't as dumb as you think we are!" He held her down on the bed and stabbed the giant needle into her chest emptying its contents. Kali gasped loudly and kicked him away from her and pulled the needle out.
"No! I don't want to stay awake!" Kali screamed and grabbed Mr. Preston by the collar lifting him to his feet. "Why?!" She demanded.
"We're not going to let you sleep until we can make you some Hypnocil that'll keep you from dreaming and tormenting anyone else." He growled at her and she slammed him into the wall and began pacing her cell unable to hold still from the adrenaline they had pumped into her.
Freddy screamed in anger and the room around him went up in a blaze of flames. He wanted to kill someone. He then instantly jumped to Wesley who was in the process of throwing all the food and drinks out of his house determined to get rid of anything that could potentially have Hypnocil in it.