Author's Note: Here's the sequel I promised. This story is dedicated to my friend LuMezenga and Ma Corrêa who had the main idea for the plot and to Stefanie for giving me Stefan's name.Again I do not own anything, all those rights go straight to Joseph Delaney. Hope you like it. Read and review it.

Chapter 8: Nightmare

I was in a front hall of a house. I didn't recognize the place. There were 3 doors, one to left, one to right and one in front of me. A well dressed man appeared from the right door holding a candle.

"Come with me, Miss," he said and headed to the left door.

I followed him. He led me to a dark living room. The fireplace was on and as I approached, I felt the warm smoke coming from it. There was someone sitting in a chair in front of the fireplace, but I couldn't see who it was because it had its back turned to me. The man stopped near the chair and announced me.

"She is here, ma'am."

"Thank you, Chester," a woman spoke and Chester left the room.

I knew that voice, but I couldn't relate it to anybody I knew.

"Come, Alice, sit here and make me some company," the woman pointed to the couch next to her chair.

"I'm fine here, thank you," I said.

"Stubborn, just like your father," the woman continued with her back turned to me.

"Who are you?"I asked carefully.

"What a silly question, dear. You know who I am."

Suddenly, a door near the fireplace opened and another man came out. He stepped closer, but the room was dark so I couldn't see his face.

"Good evening, darling," he said to the woman.

"Look who is here, love" the woman got up and stood beside him.

"Alice! You're out of your room! That's great," the man said.

"Who are you? How do you know my name?" I stepped back.

"She's getting worse," the woman whispered in the man's ear.

"Alice, don't you remember anything?" the man spoke getting closer, but I still couldn't see his face.

I shook my head and took a step back.

"Who are you?" I asked again.

"We are your parents," they both said in unison and finally stepped further into the light so I could see their faces .

Bony Lizzie and Fiend stood there looking at me. I got scared and tried to run, but the door where I came in was locked.

"Let me go. I want to get out," I screamed punching the door.

"Dear, please leave us alone. I'll talk to her," Fiend said.

Bony Lizzie left and I got stuck with Fiend.

"Alice, I need to talk to you," he said like he was the best dad ever.

"Stay away from me," I screamed.

"Come meet me today at 6 pm in the haunted house. We need to stop your brother before he starts doing stupid things. Bring your friend too. He might help us," he said.

"What are talking about?" I asked even though I was scared,

"I'm talking about Stefan. Your brother. Now that you helped him to escape there isn't much we can do. I know you told Tom to ask for my help and I'm offering it to you. Meet me today at 6 pm in Little Wismming's haunted house. Ask Mary, she'll tell you where you can find it," he told me.

"What exactly do you want?" I asked.

"I want to help you. But now your mother will take care of you," he said.

Fiend left and Bony Lizzie entered again.

"Come Alice, it's time for your classes. You need to learn those potions. You're too slow. You have to dedicate more. You'll never be a good witch. You're incredibly useless," Bony Lizzie said getting closer to me and making me remember my childhood with her.

I tried to get away from her, but she was faster. She grabbed my arm and stuck her nails into my skin. I felt my arm burning. I had never felt so much pain, so I screamed.

I woke up screaming. Tom was besides me. I could see he was worried. I was lying in the bed all sweaty. My heart was beating fast and I was scared. I already had had dreams before, but never like that. I never had troubles with my parents. I've always accepted the fact that they never wanted me. Since I was a little child I understood I was alone and that nobody cared about me. Tom was the only one who actually loved me.

I sat on the bed and hugged Tom. I started to cry and he hugged me back.

"Hey, it's okay. What happened?" he said.

"I just had an awful dream," I said into sobs.

"Did I die again?" he smiled at me.

"No. It was something worse. I was in a room with Bony Lizzie and Fiend. They were acting like they were my parents, like they cared about me, but I was locked up with them. Bony Lizzie hurt me, she wanted to take me to her classes like she used to do when I lived with her," I said.

"Anything else?" he asked.

"At one moment, I stayed in the room alone with Fiend. He said to meet him in a haunted house, here in Little Wismming. He also said that I should ask Mary the location of the house because she would know. I'm supposed to meet him there at 6 pm. You should come too. It was like he knew I wanted to ask for his help."

"Maybe he has some kind of connection with you, after all he is your father," Tom said. "But you shouldn't go. It could be dangerous and we have other things to worry about."

"It's worth a try. In this case, we have a common enemy. Don't you remember that Fiend was the one who locked Stefan in the church's graveyard?" I said getting up.

"Are you sure you are okay? If you aren't feeling well, I don't think we should go," he said.

"Come on, aren't you the spook? I thought you weren't afraid of anything," I challenged him.

"I'm not, but this is risky. We can't go to a haunted house because of your dream."

"Bring your bag. If there is anything in the house we can defeat it. If there isn't, we just wasted a five minute walk to a stupid house. Please, Tom, come with me," I begged him.

"Fine, but do you have any idea of where this house is?"

"Fiend told me to ask Mary," I replied.

Tom got his bag and we left our room to find Mary.