The New Nightmare of Springwood – Chapter 4

Paul and Laurie sit in her parent's bedroom getting high. Paul has his arm around Laurie and passes her the roach. "This is some good shit. Sorry you can't smoke it with us, Curtis. We'll miss you man."

Laurie reluctantly takes it and smokes. "It's ok, but this stuff always makes me so sleepy."

She passes it back to him and Paul takes a hit. "Don't worry, baby. I'll keep you up. All night long."

He leans in and kisses her. They fall back on the bed and begin to take each others clothes off.

Chris is driving his car through the night and Valerie sits in the front seat screaming at him. "Hurry! He's going to kill them!"

"Valerie, I'm going as fast as I can. But what are you talking about?"

"Wesley. He is going to kill them."

"What? Wesley is dead, Val. You're losing it."

"No. I'm not! Didn't you hear what he said? Wesley's mom is that Freddy guy's daughter. That makes Wes his grandson. I don't know how, but he got Freddy's powers and is killing people in their dreams. First his mom, then Curtis and now he is going to come after us. And then probably every other kid in that school who picked on him."

"Wait. You're gonna believe that wackjob from the library? For all we know he's lying. Freddy is just some ghost story, Val. He's not real."

"Well tell that to Ms. Burroughs and Curtis. Just get to Laurie's house."

"Ok. I'm going. But I think this is horseshit."

Paul and Laurie are having sex in Laurie's parent's bed with Laurie lying on her back. She looks up in pleasure and then sees a shadow run across the ceiling. She startles a little but assumes she is seeing things because of the drugs and keeps on having sex with Paul.

She looks to the window and sees blood drip down over it. She screams but Paul keeps going. "Yeah, baby. Scream for me."

She closes her eyes and then opens them up only to see Wesley on top of her. He puts his glove hand over her mouth. "What's wrong, Laurie. Am I too much for you to handle?"

She squirms and wiggles but Paul simple flips over so she is on top. "Come on, baby. Ride me."

He closes his eyes as Laurie begins to ride him but she does it slowly and looks around the room in fear. She glances at the floor and notices millions of cockroaches swarming towards the bed while blood spreads across the ceiling.

She breathes hard and squirms harder while Paul moans and smiles. Right away she gets off him, buries her head in his side and shuts her eyes tight. He puts his arm around her. "Woah, baby. I wanna cuddle too but gimme a sec, ok?"

She trembles next to his body. "Just hold me."

"Ok. Ok. Relax."

He wraps his arms around her and they fall asleep.

Chris parks the car and Valerie immediately gets outs and runs up the pathway. "Laurie! Paul!"

Chris gets out slowly. "He's probably nailing her. I'm sure they are fine."

Laurie runs in the house and the door somehow slams behind her. Then, before Chris's very eyes, the house molds and morphs into something different and wicked. The house is worn down and beat up like it was recently burnt by a fire. Then Chris gasps as a mailbox shoots out of the ground with the name "Krueger" painted on the side. "Oh shit. Valerie!"

He runs up the pathway and opens the door. Valerie runs in from the living room and meets Chris at the base of the stairs. "They're not down here. They must be upstairs. Laurie!"

They run up the stairs together and look down the hallway. At the end of the hall they see through the doorway Laurie and Chris sleeping in bed. Valerie runs down towards them screaming. "Laurie! Wake up!"

Her screams wake Paul. He slowly sits up and sees Valerie running down the hallway. "Val? What's wrong?"

Just before Valerie gets to the door it slams shut and locks. She tries to open it but it won't budge. "Laurie, wake up! Paul, open the door! Now!"

Inside the room Paul looks around confused. "What's going on? Laurie?"

He looks down and rolls her over. She is shaking rapidly and blood shoots out from her stomach and mouth hitting Paul in the face. "What the fuck?!"

Laurie's body is dragged off the bed and is slammed onto the wall by an invisible force. Paul sits on the bed in shock. "Oh my God! What the fuck is going on!? Laurie!"

Chris bangs on the door. "Paul, open up!"

Laurie is still alive and lets out a scream as her body is dragged up the wall and into the corner of the ceiling leaving a trail of blood in its path. Chris breaks the door down and he and Valerie witness Laurie's body thrown around the ceiling like a rag doll. A tear runs down Valerie's face as she helplessly watches her friend being slaughtered. "Laurie…no."

Laurie's body eventually stays still on the ceiling for a second and then drops to the floor. Chris then throws Paul his boxers. "Put those on. We got to get out of here."

"What the fuck is going on, man?! Laurie, what the fuck just happened to my girlfriend?!"

"We'll tell you in the car but we gotta leave. Now!"

They all run out of the house, into Chris's car and drive off.

Chris speeds down the road as fast as he can. "Paul, reach underneath the back seat. There're some clothes there."

Paul reaches underneath and starts to put them on. "Ok. What the fuck just happened?!"

Valerie turns around. "It's Wesley. He's come back and is somehow killing people in their dreams."

"What? That's retarded."

"I'm serious. I don't know how but it's happening. He killed his mom, then Curtis, and now Laurie."

"No. No way."

"Listen to me, Paul! He is not going to stop. We need to do something. We need to stop him."

Chris pulls over once he feels he is far enough away from the house. "So what do you suggest?"

Valerie leans back in the seat and looks at the bottle of sleeping pills. Paul looks around to make sure no one is near the car. "I don't know about this, Val. I mean, this sounds pretty stupid to me but let's say you're right. What if that little bastard is killing us in our dreams, why do you want to go to sleep?"

"The old man said Maggie Burroughs killed Freddy by pulling him out of the dream world into reality. The same thing should work on Wes."

Chris tries to talk her out of it. "This is suicide."

"We have to stop him. Now I don't know what's going to happen, but I'm going to set the alarm on my phone for ten minutes. After that you have to wake me up and be ready for him. Ok?"

Paul and Chris look at each other in doubt. "Got it?"

She takes the pills and closes her eyes.

Valerie looks around the dark night in a familiar Springwood community. She looks up and sees a sign that reads "Elm Street." She walks down the road a bit and notices something out of place. It's an old, run down, dilapidated house with a mailbox that says "Krueger."

She walks down the pathway into the house and on the sidewalk are three girls playing jump rope as they sing. "Five, six grab your crucifix. Seven, eight better stay up late."

Valerie keeps walking and as she gets right inside the door she looks back at the girls. The three of them stare right at Valerie as they say the last part of the rhyme:."Nine, ten never sleep again."

The door slams shut and Valerie turns back forward. The house is in horrible condition, burnt and beat up. Valerie assumes Wesley is listening. "Ok, Wes. Is this what you want? Is this how you want it?"

Wes casually walks down the stairs. He places his glove on the banister to the right of him. "This was his house, you know. He lived here and they killed him here. The children, they called him the son of a hundred maniacs. I had it easy compared to him."

"Who? Freddy?"

"He gave me this glove. Gave me the demons' gifts. He wants to help me."

"He's using you, Wesley. He just wants you to kill children for him."

"It's funny you say that. Because last time I remember you were the one that was the child killer."

"Wesley, you know I didn't want that. Paul even said he couldn't control himself. For all we know, Freddy was controlling him. He was making them kill you so you could be sent to him."

"I don't care anymore. All that matters is that I'm going to make you pay. Make you all pay."

He smiles and Valerie turns to run out of the house but the door is magically gone. She turns back around to try and run down the hallway next to the stairs but Wes jumps over the banister and lands in front of her. He grabs her mouth with his glove and then puts a finger to his lips. "Shhhh. Screaming is just going to make it harder on yourself."

She kicks him in the groin and Wes drops to his knees. Valerie runs past him and dives out a window in the kitchen. She lands in a bush outside and continues running through the backyard.

While she is running, Wes's glove punches up through the ground and grabs her foot causing her to fall. She tries to pull her leg free but the glove pulls her down and into the ground.

After being pulled through the ground she enters open space. Val falls for what seems like an eternity before suddenly hitting a steel grate. She looks around and notices she is in a giant boiler area of a factory plantation.

Wes walks towards her sliding the knives of the glove on the railing next to him. Sparks fly from the knives and the screeching rattles Valerie's eardrums. She ignores it but then hears the alarm of her phone go off above the noise. She quickly runs at Wes and tackles him to the grate. As they are face to face she smiles. "Time to wake up, Wes."