Fear

disclaimer again: don't own Jason, Freddy, W or or Lori...just wish I did. Also, not making one red cent from this. :-)

Readers: Sorry it's been so long for the update...hopefully, I'll the next part up much sooner. Hoping moran tan three of you are actually enjoying this. heheh!!! so...without further delay....

Chapter 3

Nicole’s POV

Nicole sat for a moment, not sure if she really heard the girl say that. “You want to see him? Well…I don’t know if that’s possible…I’ll see what I can do for you if you really insist. I just don’t know that there will be anything I *can* do about it.” She looked at the girl a moment, who nodded understandingly, before continuing. “But first we need to talk about what I came here for in the first place. Jason Voorhees. I need to know everything you know. You’re the only ones I could find that could tell me anything. I mean…there’s only a few that even survived meeting him, and addresses are even scarcer.” Will huffed at that, muttering under his breath that *that* was certainly understandable. Nicole glanced over to him before moving on. “The point is though…if he’s that dangerous, I think I should know a little bit more about him. I mean…since I’m gonna be working with him and all…I just think I should be…I dunno…as prepared as I can get.”

Will looked over at her, shaking his head. “He can’t die. That’s all you need to know. He *can’t* die. My suggestion: leave there! Stay as far away from him as you possibly can. Because if you stay around him…he will kill you. Just…just stay away from him.” Will’s voice trembled slightly as he spoke, some deep fear rattling around inside him.

“Look…it’s okay. We’ve got him well contained. He’s not going anywhere. You don’t have anything to be afraid of there. Like I said before, I’m just curious about the guy. And you two were the only ones I could get in touch with that actually dealt with him. You saw him, face to face…and you lived to tell about it. So tell me about it. I just wanna know who he is.”

The couple exchanged confused glances before Lori spoke up. “Well…to be perfectly honest, there’s not really too much we know about him. I mean, one night he showed up here and started killing people. Kids in our class. Honestly, we didn’t even know who he was at first. We thought he was Fr…some one else.” Nicole’s eyes narrowed at the slip, but she didn’t say anything, so Lori continued. “Anyway, once we got all the pieces together, we figured the best thing to do was to get Jason back where he was supposed to be…then the two of them could face off. At least Jason would have had home field advantage, so to speak, right? So that’s what we did. And it worked…we thought.”

“By the two of them, you mean Jason and this Freddy character you mentioned earlier at the door, right? Now I remember seeing something about a Freddy being involved in this in some of the reports, but nothing substantial on him. Thought he was just another townie here. Who is he? And how does he fit in with Jason?”

“The less you know about Freddy, the better. Believe me. It’s for your own good if you don’t know anything more.” Will’s words still held that tremor of fear she’d heard just moments before. And he sounded old…too old for someone his age. But then, his voice just matched his face. These two must’ve faced more shit over a few days time than people were meant to. She’d seen people who’d had brushes with death before...met with some horrible people herself. What these two seemed to have gone through seemed different. And far worse. Something really bizarre must have happened here. .oO(Texas Chainsaw Massacre kinda bizarre.) “Anyway, we thought it was all over…we set up the fight…pretty much set up anyway, and Jason killed Freddy. Took a hell of a bea in in the process…we thought he was dead too. I watched him sink under the water after the fight. He should’ve been dead. So when you said he wasn’t…well…it was kind of a shock there…still is, I guess. Must be tougher than we thought.” Lori’s face looked thoughtful…but no less haggard.

“Weird as hell, I say.” Nicole was even more perplexed now, even with the tiniest bit of insight into the big guy. “I mean…when I started researching him out…he’s supposed to be dead. Like dead a way long time ago…way before any of this. Way before the first set of killings in the late 70’s. He drowned, or supposedly drowned at like age 11. That was back in the 50’s. There was an obituary and a little story on it and everything. Even had his picture in the paper. Strange, huh?” She pondered these facts a few moments before standing. “Well…I supposed I’ve a bit more searching to do. You know…you’d think with all the killing he’s done over the years and all the weird shit around it, there’d be more info out on it. Almost seems like the world doesn’t wanna know about him.” She got a bit of a bemused expression, wondering about that, but shrugged it off a moment later. She turned and made her way back to the front door that she’d come in through, but was stopped by Lori’s voice.

“We’ll go with you.”

Nicole turned back to the living room to see Lori standing there and Will staring at Lori like she’d just grown a second head. “To find out more about him, I mean. We’ll help you out.” Nicole didn’t even get a chance to voice her protest before Lori was continuing on, cutting her off. “Look…we’re in this already. We got in this way before you did. We thought it was over…but since it isn’t, we’re obviously not done with it yet.”

“Lori!” Will broke in, dumbfounded at her suggestion. “Come on…that’s crazy! We’re done with it! We’re done with HIM! I mean damn…you sould like you’re just wanting to sit down and have a drink with him and talk about the troubled past!! Get real here! If you go near him, he’ll kill you! Just like he did Gibb. And Kia. You remember them right? You’re friends? You remember he killed your friends???” He calmed down a moment, and stood before her, holding her face in his hands. “We have to stay out of this. It isn’t our problem anymore. We’re done. We made it away. Let’s stay away.” Lori, for her part, just stared at him patiently. Some communication passed between their eyes, that Nicole was obviously out of the loop from, and a resolution was made. “Fine…we’ll go. Just to see this ended once and for all. We’ll go.” Will’s voice didn’t sound all that secure, despite his girlfriend’s smile. After another thirty minutes of the couple packing a few bags they were on their way.

Lori looked over at Nicole from the front passenger seat, while Will just sat in the back absorbed in his own terrible thoughts. “So…where exactly are we going?” Nicole smile over to her. “Road trip. Driving down to Forest Green…you know…the town near Camp Crystal Lake. I’ve got the address for the house Jason grew up in…his mom’s house. We’re gonna go check out that place…see if anything’s left behind we can use to find out about him.” Lori nodded, and the rest of the drive was spent with Lori and Will in thoughtful silence, Nicole appearing to be absorbed in the blaring music from the radio.


Jason’s POV

Jason’s small form trembled under the weight of the burned man’s body, hot breath in his ear. “I know some *real* fun games. Games we can play over and over again. For a *long* time. Oh yeah…you’re gonna keep me entertained for a *LONG* time!” Fred Krueger’s dark laughter reverberated around the room and his weight shifted over Jason as he stood. Jason yelped a bit as a hard hand clamped down on the back of his neck and he was hauled bodily from the floor into a chair. The burned man crouched before him, tapping the razor fingers thoughtfully on his shoulder, deciding where to start. Jason stared at him, scared and starting to pull back into his own mind the way he used to so long ago when Daddy would go into rages. Just as Freddy raised the blades towards Jason’s deformed face with a wicked smile, Jason just disappeared. Freddy growled in frustration, but soothed himself with the knowledge that the revenant would be back. Oh yes…there were many games to be played.

Jason awoke, still strapped down to the gurney. He could hear giggling and laughter all around him and could sense two others near him…on either side of him. They’re voices annoyed him and he wished he could silence them and go home. Go home away from all of this.

“I dare you Maria!” The male voice said. “C’mon…you were the one who said you were curious. I dare you to find out!”

The female responded in laughter. “Okay okay…Just keep an eye out and make sure none of the lab creeps come in.” She laughed again and moved closer to his gurney. Jason thought the foolish girl was removing the restraints that kept him from jumping up and killing them both. He remained perfectly still waiting to strike, but he didn’t feel the bands all around him loosening up. She seemed to be fiddling with something else. It wasn’t until he felt the cool air from the room brushing his skin that he figured out what the horrible girl was doing.

“Oh my god, Mike! He does!! Look!” The girl’s laughing voice sounded amused. The guy was just as amused and flashes of the children in school laughing at him flashed through Jason’s mind. “I don’t wanna see his dick! He’s really got one, though? Would’ve thought it would’ve rotted off or something...” he said with a laughing voice. The girl giggled even harder. “Hang on, hang on…I gotta see if it works…” Her warm hand closing around Jason’s cool soft member brought him out of his shocked stillness and he started thrashing wildly trying to break free of the cursed restraints holding him down. He had no idea what they were made of, but it must have been something extremely strong because he couldn’t break free from it. The two people who had been tormenting him cried out, not having expected any reaction from him, much less one *that* violent…after all the tranquilizer he’d been given, he should’ve been out for days. After recovering from the initial shock, the girl struggled to get him covered again while the guy ted feedfeeding more tranq through the iv lines, hoping none of them had gotten pulled out. That would be a hell of a thing to explain to the doctors about how this happened. A few moments later, Jason slipped back into deep slumber and the two guards composed themselves, chuckling again now that the danger was over.