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Chapter Twenty-One: Monster

It's hiding in the dark, it's teeth are razor sharp, There's no escape for me, it wants my soul, it wants my heart, No one can hear me scream, maybe it's just a dream, Maybe it's inside of me, stop this monster, I feel it deep within, it's just beneath the skin, I must confess that I feel like a monster, I hate what I've become, the nightmare's just begun, I must confess that I feel like a monster!
- Monster By: Skillet

"She was so close!" Freddy slammed his fist into the TV screen after watching Kali being dragged back into the facility. He began punching and slicing at the wall and kicking anything in his path. He didn't care if Wesley was completely sober he wanted to kill something.

Jumping into Wes he could taste the booze he was drinking and was knocking furiously on someone's front door. "Mrs. Rankin let me in. I'm so sorry it's all my fault!" He screamed and Freddy realized he was at Kali's house. Wesley was planning on telling Kali's Mom what he had done. This infuriated him even more and he heard a car pulling up in the driveway behind him. He forced Wes around to see it was Angela and Jeremy. They had followed him there.

"What the hell are you doing you're going to ruin everything!" Freddy screamed at him.

"There is nothing to ruin! Everything is already screwed! Kali is losing her mind and there is no getting her out! This is all your fault! If you would have just left her alone she never would have ended up in that place!" Wes screamed back at him as he continued to knock on the door. Freddy threw him against the wall and he was fighting to stay in control.

"You can't win!" Freddy rasped and yelling could be heard behind him. He quickly turned around to see Jeremy and Angela coming towards him.

"Get away from me he'll kill you!" Wesley warned them as he still fought for control over himself and stumbled backwards into the door that Kali's Mom had opened.

"Wes what are you doing here?" She asked staring at him then to Angela and Jeremy.

"Wesley we already know! Kali told us!" Jeremy yelled and Kali's Mom's eyes teared up.

"You've talked to Kali where is she?" She asked sadly. Freddy was furious. They all knew too much and Angela even knew about Sam. They all needed to die. He was so angry he was seeing red. Wes continued to fight him for control but he easily over powered him and left him fully alert to everything he was doing. Grabbing Kali's Mom he quickly snapped her neck and threw her back inside followed by a shriek of fear from Angela and Wesley.

"No! No, no, no!" Wes screamed over and over again as Freddy held him still and stared at Angela and Jeremy with pure hatred as he absorbed Kali's Mom's soul. "Get out of here! He's too strong!" Wesley warned them and they both took off for their car. Freddy ran after them and caught Angela by the arm making her scream as his flesh burned into hers and twisted her around to face him.

"Kali warned you but you just never listen do you?!" He rasped gripping her other shoulder and burned her other arm making her shriek in pain. His anger powered the searing heat within him making her skin turn red and the sleeves of her shirt caught on fire. Wesley was screaming in horror feeling completely helpless and unable to help his friends.

Freddy heard Jeremy coming up behind him and quickly threw Angela to the ground grabbing him by the throat. Jeremy squirmed and kicked him hard in the chest barely fazing him.

"You really think you can hurt me?" Freddy laughed and Wesley cried out, "I'm sorry."

He tightened his grip on Jeremy's throat and his skin began to bubble and his whole body lit on fire. After dropping him to the ground he watched him twitch a few times before he fell still and his soul flew into him. Wesley was screaming and crying still attempting to gain control. There was a fierce scream behind him and he turned to see Angela running at him with a tire iron and hit him hard in the head making Wes scream in pain.

Freddy laughed darkly as she took a few steps back and pulled a knife from her pocket. He stood and watched in amusement as she stabbed him in the shoulder then in the ribs. Laughing he ran his hand over each of his stab wounds making them disappear. She dropped the knife in horror and stared back at him with fear and sorrow in her eyes.

"I'm sorry Wes…" She stared into his eyes and he let his eyes show making her glare at him. "You know Kali will be mad at you when she finds out you killed us. She'll know it was you! Then she won't help you and she'll be locked up in that place forever, and so will Sam!" She screamed turning and running for her car.

As Angela reached for her car door Freddy had somehow caught up with her and grabbed her hard by the hair and slammed her face through the car window. He was infuriated she even said Sam's name out loud and Kali being mad at him? Would she even care? She didn't even trust Angela anymore, but her Mom…

He didn't want to think about it and continued to smash Angela's face into the car until her soul flew into him then he continued to bash her face in until he had turned her entire head into bloody chunks on the side of the now badly dented car. Throwing her to the ground he left Wesley standing in the middle of his massacre a crying mess and returned to his world.

Kali woke up in her room with her feet and hands bandaged up. She sat up in her bed and stared at the door for a few moments before breaking out into a fit of screaming and crying. She was so close to being free from there and it was all taken away. As much as her feet hurt she ignored the pain and dragged herself over to the door while pulling the bandages off of her hands with her teeth. Falling to her knees at the door she looked at all the cuts and lacerations on her hands.

"You were so close…" She heard Freddy rasp in front of her but she didn't look up at him. "I'm sorry…" She looked up at him with tears in her eyes and he reached out to her.

"No!" She screamed pulling away from him. "You're not real! Don't touch me! This is all your fault!" She swung at him only hitting the door and she screamed in anger and continued to punch away at the metal door ignoring the pain in her knuckles as they cracked and bled.

After a few minutes white gas filled the room and the darkness took her. When she woke up she was strapped down to a table with fresh bandages on her hands. Zerset sat in a chair beside her.

"You're awake. Kali I'm sorry we had to strap you down, but we can't have you hurting yourself anymore than you already have." He explained and Wesley's Mom came into her view.

"I wouldn't hurt myself if you'd just let me go!" Kali screamed and attempted to pull on her restraints finding herself feeling rather weak. "What did you do to me?!" She demanded.

"You're on a few pain killers and antibiotics they might make you feel a little loopy." Wesley's Mom explained.

"Yeah that's just what I need to feel loopy in top of my stupid hallucinations!" She screamed wiggling as much as she could in her tight restraints.

"I don't think telling them about me is such a good idea." Freddy said standing at her feet. She lifted her head to glare at him.

"I told you to leave me alone! You're not real!" She yelled making her voice crack and he disappeared.

"Who are you talking to?" Zerset asked and she looked at him and closed her eyes.

"No one." She retorted. "It doesn't matter he's not real." She turned her head away from him.

"Was it him?" Wesley's Mom asked leaning in close to her. Zerset put his hands on her shoulders and moved her a few steps away.

"Helen don't pressure her." He asked nicely and she looked away from him sadly.

"I'm sorry. It's just she still hasn't told us anything and I'm getting worried about her. She's been hallucinating since we took her dreams away and…"

"You do know I can hear you right?" Kali said nonchalantly interrupting her.

"I'm sorry. But can't you tell us something, anything?" She begged.

"At least tell us who you've been seeing." Zerset pleaded.

"Who do you think? It's Freddy, but it doesn't matter he's not real… it's not really him…" She trailed off not wanting to let them know anything else.

"You sound disappointed, would you rather it really be him?" Helen asked her full attention now on Kali.

"Of course… then I could watch him kill all of you." She replied darkly.

"So is that his plan to come and kill all of us?" Zerset asked eyeing her closely.

"I wish… it'd at least give me something to look forward to." She looked away from him loving how disappointed they both looked.

"Wesley said you and Krueger had a sort of relationship. Did he… did he rape you or was it con…"

"That's none of your fucking business!" Kali yelled at Helen making her flinch away from her in fear. "Now go away or let me go back to my room!"

"Kali we can't unstrap you until you stop hurting yourself." Zerset explained.

"Then put me in the damn strait jacket." Kali suggested.

"You have still found ways to hurt yourself with it on before. We can't risk it.

"And why not? Why do you care if I get hurt or not?" She spat at him.

"Kali you're the only person who's ever helped Krueger willingly. You have to know something that could help us." Helen explained.

"So that's it then? You're only keeping me alive in the hope that I'll eventually tell you something that'll help you get the upper hand on him? Well have fun waiting, I'm never helping you." Kali laid her head back down on the table and stared at the ceiling. The two doctors began whispering to each other.

"Kali we didn't want to have to tell you this until you were more stable. But you leave us no choice." Zerset stepped forward. "Your friends Angela and Jeremy and your Mom… they're all dead. They were found yesterday morning they were all brutally murdered. It had to be him."

"You're lying, you just want me to tell you what I know. Well it's not going to work." She turned away from them. There was a noise behind her and she slowly turned to see Helen holding out a copied newspaper for her to see. 'The bloody massacre adds three more to its list' The headline read and there was a picture of Angela's bloodied car parked in her driveway.

"No…" A tear streamed down her face. "Ang… why didn't you listen to me…" She began to tug fiercely at her wrist restraints as the two doctors watched the emotions play across her face.

"You warned them? What did you warn them about? You know who he's using don't you?" Zerset asked as she continued to pull on her restraints. She could feel them begin to cut into her flesh but she didn't care. Helen took notice and tightened them and added a few extra straps up her arm and legs.

"Kali we know this is hard for you. But you need to tell us who it is or else more are going to die." Helen explained. "Aren't you mad at him for killing your friends? Your Mom?"

"He had to of had a good reason for killing them." She turned her tear streaked face away from her. "Can you go away now."

"Come on Helen let's leave her be for now." She heard Zerset say as they room closing the door behind them. Once they were gone Kali sobbed loudly. After a few minutes her sobs turned into screams.

Freddy glared at the TV as he watched them gas Kali to sleep again as her screams got louder. It had been a week she was strapped down in that room. Everyday they'd come in and question her and she still refused to them anything. All they knew is she knew who he was using and wouldn't tell them anything more than that.

Helen had no worry or thought that it might be Wesley. Every time they called the house Wes was usually too drunk to answer the phone so he'd answer it for him and make it seem like everything was ok.

Wesley was drinking a lot more after he watched him kill his friends. Freddy was determined to kill the other two remaining friends him and Kali had that knew about him, Andy and Monica. The TV switched over to Wesley. He was sitting in his room with a large bottle of Vodka that was half empty he was on the brink of passing out. Wesley took another big gulp from the bottle. He struggled to keep it down and took another drink. He closed his eyes and Freddy pulled him into his world and jumped into Wes not wanting to hear his crying and whining about everything that's been happening.

He did his best to ignore the putrid smell of vomit and booze that Wes was drenched in and couldn't stand it much longer. Wes hadn't showered in a few days so Freddy actually showered him before doing anything else. Once all that was out of the way he searched through Wesley's things until he found what he was looking for. He paced the kitchen impatiently as he listened to the ringing on the other line of the phone.

Andy finally answered and Freddy convinced him that he needed to come over and bring Monica with him so they could talk about Kali and the murders that were going on. Less than twenty minutes later he heard them pull up in the driveway and he slipped Kali's glove on. He let them in and instantly grabbed Monica by the hair and slammed her face into the wall and pulled Andy inside slamming the door and locking it behind him.

"Wesley what the hell?!" Andy screamed before Freddy shoved his blades into his stomach. Andy's eyes met with his filled with pain and fear. He pushed harder with his blades and his blades burst through the other side of him. The life left Andy's eyes and his soul drifted into Freddy. Monica screamed as he dropped Andy's body to the floor. She quickly got to her feet and backed herself into the corner blood dripped down her forehead.

"What did you do?! Get away from me!" She shrieked as he closed in on her. He laughed as she attempted to kick him and he grabbed her by the leg and pulled her towards him. She lost her balance and the back of her head met with the floor. Her struggling stopped and she fell still as her soul floated into Freddy.

"Well that was kind of disappointing." He rasped as he grabbed both their bodies by the foot and dragged them out to their car. After disposing of them and their car he went through the annoying process of cleaning up his bloody mess. As much as he hated Wes he couldn't afford for him to get caught. Once he was finished he returned to his world and pushed Wes back into his body before he could say anything to him.

A month went by and every other day Wesley would pass out and he'd get himself one or two more victims depending on where he was, most of the time he passed out at home making it difficult to get to new victims.

Kali was only getting worse. Once her hands and feet were healed up enough they began putting her in a straight jacket again only now they had leather cuffs around her ankles so she couldn't try and escape. They originally had metal shackles on her ankles but she'd sit there and purposely move her feet around in them until her ankles bled.

She screamed at her hallucinations more often even occasionally having a conversation with them. He knew it had to be him she was seeing. She'd argue saying she was stupid for even thinking he cared for her. It hurt to watch her as each day passed. Even Sam was getting more and more worried for her.

"Just one more." He told himself for the twentieth time after returning from Wesley. He had to be strong enough by now but he was still afraid it wasn't enough. Sitting in his living room he watched as they gassed Kali to sleep again her cries fading into nothing. His entire world flickered making him suddenly alert. He stood from the couch and sensed that someone had come into his world. The one person he never wanted to be in his world.

"Sam?" He asked out loud and she appeared in front of him.