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Chapter 2

Her Fear

She was running, running as fast as she could down a dark hallway. Alexandra was quickly beginning to tire out but she knew what would happen if she slowed down. Looking behind her to see if it was still chasing her, she heard a monstrous roar.

Damn it why was it chasing her, what had she done to attract its attentions. Peaking over her shouldered once more she finally saw what little she could of the monster she was running from.

She wasn't able to get a truly good look at it but she knew for a fact that it was huge and it was inhumane with its glowing yellow eyes. What scared her most of the beast was what she saw when she glanced at its eyes. She saw a burning hunger in there, like what a predator would have when closing in on its prey. She needed to keep moving or she knew for certain that this monster was going to catch her devour her.

Finding her second wind she picked up a burst of speed, moving slightly faster than her chaser. Though that were nothing when it sprinted forward and grabbed her ankle. She immediately fell to the floor hitting her nose. Alexandra turned behind her as she saw the monster slowly bring her ankle closer and closer to it.

She tried to struggle but it proved useless against the monster mighty strength. Knowing what was going to happen next she shut her eyes wishing for a quick death. Alexandra felt the first few fangs pierce her ankle and being overcome with extreme exhaustion, she blacked out.

She bolted up straight in her bed finding her body covered in a cold sweat. It had been a week since her meet with that monster Killer Croc and every night she was visited by the same nightmare. It was always the same, she be running away from Killer Croc only to find herself in the end being caught and eaten by him.

She just didn't understand why she keep having the same nightmare over and over. It had been a week and she hadn't met that beast since he tried to grab her from the manhole. She had barely gotten any sleep the whole week and it was all that stupid psycho's fault. Sitting back on her bed she reflected on what had happen since she had met Killer Croc.

When she had gotten home that horrible day she had refused to leave her apartment again in fear of coming across him again. Alexandra, in her scared state had kept all entrance to her apartment locked. Whether it be a window or the door they were locked and she had even gone has far as to move furniture in front of them to block that way in. She keep a chair propped up against here front door to stop anyone getting in and started to sleep with her lights on. The only times when the chair was moved was for when she had to go to work at the hospital.

Even there she had kept a keen eye on her surroundings to make sure she didn't spot him. This had caused a huge worry about her from her coworkers who had noticed how jumpy she had begun to be. Anytime someone would walk up from behind her she'd jump a little and her face would pale. She also noticed that she had started to doze off at work when she was alone. Anytime one of her coworkers had asked her what was wrong she simply replied, "Oh, it's nothing you guys should be worried about" and then immediately dropped the conversation. When she would get home she'd re-position the chair against her door and wouldn't leave her house for the rest of the day.

Deciding that was enough remembering the past she slowly got out of her trenched bed. Suddenly she felt herself get extremely weak and was force to sit down again. Damn it all, her fatigued was acting up but she knew she would never fall asleep in fear of her nightmares. Forgoing her weakness she got out of her bed and slowly walked into the living room.

Walking over towards her couch, she grabbed the remote and switched on the television. Doing what she had done for the past week she turned it to the news. Another ritual she had gained from her meet with Killer Croc was to check the news and see if he was captured and maybe finally get some reassurance. When she had finally flipped to the news the report was giving a report and the words in it scared Alexandra to her core.

"Danica Willows a 23-year-old officer was reported missing from her home late last night. Sources have said that Danica had left her office late days ago to never be seen or heard from again. This is the three missing person's case to have come up a week after the riot at Arkham Asylum. No new information has been given at this time and GCPD is now conducting an investigation into the matter. One could only imagine where these people are or what they are going through."

Alexandra grabbed the remote and slammed the power button. She looked down at herself to find that she was trembling. A third missing person, and she already had a pretty good idea as to who was responsible for this disappearance. There would have been four missing people if she hadn't been lucky to escape from Killer Croc. She could only imagine the pain and suffering that Killer Croc has been inflicting into all of those poor people.

The agony of wondering what would have happen if she hadn't been so lucky were just too much for her to bear as she sat there. She quickly jumped off the couch and ran for the bathroom. Sprinting to the toiler she raised the seat and violently hurled up the rest of her dinner from yesterday. She didn't know how much more of this fear she could take and she certainly can't keep doing this every time she felt anxious about Killer Croc.

Flushing the contents of the toilet she rose from her kneeling position and walked back to the living room. She was sick of this, the fear, the agony, the nightmares she just wanted all of it too stop but she didn't know how. The next thing she knew she was crying, crying from the fear and agony she was enduring.

"NO! I refuse to cry over this. I need to be strong and find some way to get over this once and for all." she screamed at herself as she rubbed away her tears. She knew that all this was, was her fatigue amplifying her fear but it just wouldn't stop. The next she knew she'd slowly and painfully got up and had started to drag herself towards her bedroom. She knew that she needed some sleep, and at this moment she didn't care if she was going to have nightmare, all she could think of was getting some sleep.

The moment she reach reached her bedside she collapsed onto her bed. Shifting herself so that her head rested on her pillows, she closed her eyes and blacked out.

Alexandra opened her eyes to find herself exactly where she had found herself earlier. She was inside that damn hallway again. Trying to compose herself she looked around and heard a monstrous roar. Immediately she knew that it was Killer Croc coming for her.

Not needing another reason, she jumped up and sprinted down the opposite way of the roar. As she was running she heard heavy footsteps behind her and knew that Killer Croc had started his chase. Fueled by her fear, she managed to start gain some speed as she went down the hallway but she knew that it was going to be for nothing. Killer Croc would just speed up, catch her legs and then eat her just like it had happened every other time.

Then she felt a light bulb go off in her head. This was a fucking dream, none of this was happening so Killer Croc can't really hurt her. An idea then into Alexandra's head, maybe the only way to finally stop fearing him coming for her is to face him here. Then without realizing it, she felt herself starting to slow down until she eventually stopped moving all together.

She turned around, facing the direction the heavy footsteps where coming from and waited for Killer Croc to show up. Staring down into the hallway, she was surprise to find that the footsteps that were chasing her had slow down to and were slowly coming towards her. The seconds it took Killer Croc to finally face felt like hours and hours to Alexandra. And during that time she kept thinking to herself what the fuck is wrong with her, why wasn't she running the other way get away from this monster.

At one point she even tried to turn around and continue running, but she found that her body wasn't moving at all. It was like her body was refusing her every instinct to run and had stubbornly planted itself to where she stood. So she waited until she could finally saw the monster that was chasing her.

When she looked to see what he looked like, she was stun to find that there was nothing there but a giant black shadow with glowing yellow eyes. That was when it hit her, why the fuck was she so scare on him so much, she hadn't even seen what he looked like except for a brief glimpsed at his arm and eyes, with his eyes being what she had remembered the most of. If Killer Croc really had wanted to come and eat her, he would had done it at some point during the week when she refused to leave her house. She had heard of the stories about his inhumane strength and animals senses. She knew that he could easily track her down and more easily broken into her apartment to eat her. But she hadn't even meet him for the past week and she wouldn't, no couldn't get past her own fear to see this.

With this suddenly realization still spinning in her head, she looked up into the shadow's murderous eyes. "You are not real and I am not scared of you. Now leave me the fuck alone." When those words finally left her mouth she felt like a dozen rocks were lifted from her shoulders. Still looking into those eyes she realized that the shadow was slowly but surely disappearing. Once the shadow had completely dissipated, she took one long breath and closed her eyes. When she finally open her eyes again she found herself in her bed feeling like she just won the lottery.

Hey guys, I am proud to present my second chapter.

So I read the reviews and was so excited that you guys actually enjoyed it.

Also don't worry about that Alexandra hasn't had a real meet with Croc yet. I plan on that happening real soon so no worries.

Thanks again for checking out my first fan fiction ever.