LORI'S NIGHTMARE

Freddy Krueger was pissed.
He had tried for nearly two weeks to pull his little whore into his realm and she still eluded him. Not to mention, that fucking hockey puck was still killing people on his way back to his town. HIS TURF! And once he got back, he would be causing the fear of the children, not him. He clicked his blades in irritation, trying to think of something to finally kill Jason. He couldn’t get him in the dream world again, for the asshole never slept. He couldn’t control someone to go after him again like he did that little dick at the hospital, for the adults had hand fed their special little pills to the kiddies.
Fuckers….
He had some luck come to him lately though…
He had been plotting for another attack when he had been interrupted about two nights ago, hearing something he should not have been hearing. He felt through his realm and came across the thoughts of a child, a young girl from Springwood?
Yes, it was. But how?
Not giving it another thought, he moved quickly. He found her and she was dead in minutes. Nothing like seeing fresh entrails fall to the floor and the splatter of blood on the walls to cheer you up!
“Fresh Meat…” he said to the corpse, now leaving to return back dead to the world. He didn’t even have to try with that one. But, it made him wonder if some fear had spread. The first one that walked into his realm little over a week ago he actually did not kill. This was one of the kids that had overheard his whore talking about him the day before Jason went on a hacking spree. She was a little younger but far easier to fuck with. He had invaded her dreams for well over three nights before he was barred access by drugs. What made it so easy for her to come through too? This puzzled him and not many things did. Maybe she was a straggler, someone that had heard about him before they tried to forget him again. Or maybe…
He searched out Jason again, still able to see what he was up to after having invaded his head before. He may not be able to get at him, but at least he could still see.
Jason was walking slowly through forest terrain, his machete in hand. Freddy recognized it as the outskirts of the county before Springwood. He was still on his mission, still heading for Elm Street. Anger flared through him. He needed someone to bring children to him before Jason took it all away. He would become the bigger threat if he showed his ugly face in his town.
“Stupid single minded dick.”
Then something occurred to him…
Maybe this could work. Maybe Jason going back COULD work to his advantage….
He chuckled as a demonic plan formed in the bowels of his mind….

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Life seems to move quickly when you can sleep again. That is what Will thought as he sat in the office with Dr. Campbell. After leaving the hospital in the custody of the two officers that had arrested him, he was taken to the county’s office. He was interrogated for almost two days before Dr. Campbell took him back to the hospital to collect Lori. She was able to leave, once Dr. Peterson had cleared her, and was ready to away from the place. Will was not given the opportunity to be alone with her since the incident, and he noticed the changes in her almost immediately. The way she got into the car, the way her hair was dull and her eyes were cast downward. His beloved was scarred physically, but this scarring was just superficial. The real painful scars were within, and this pained him as well. He had tried to forget his own nightmare, when Freddy had made him watch what he did to her.
He would never tell her, of course. The very thought that he had witnessed this invasion of her dreams sent chills up his spine.
“You alright Will?”
Will turned to Dr. Campbell. “Hmm? Oh, yes. I was just thinking about something. What did you ask me?”
Dr. Campbell sighed. “Will, we need to make sure these incidents of night terrors do not occur again. We already have police from three counties looking for the Voorhees copycat killer that attacked you and the others. You have not had a nightmare since the hospital, is that still correct Will? Will?”
Will nodded, still distracted. Of course he hadn’t, not with the large amounts of Hypnocil he was taking daily. His new found respect for this medication made it difficult not to want to take it.
Dr. Campbell looked irritated. “And you are absolutely sure Lori has told you that as well? She seems to really only open up to you since the hospital. With me she is very closed off. I already know what he did, that monster that is now stalking away as Jason Voorhees.”
Will looked down at his hands. So, that was the story….
Jason had stalked them, that was true, but he never touched her. But how can you explain to someone a man in your nightmares had raped you? Tortured you to the point of madness and death?
Will knew he was already considered committed and Lori had voluntarily came to Westin Hills for treatment to be close to him. Though, things had gotten better because of it. He was no longer in the main section where all the patients were kept, but in a quiet closed off section, more private for him and Lori while the investigation and the manhunt continued for Jason. Or what they assumed was a copycat killer as the real Jason had been dead for decades.
Dr. Campbell closed his notebook with a snap. “I have already shown my gratitude to you Mr. Rollins for saving my daughter. I have allowed this, “he waved his hand around the room, “arrangement to exist with you and her. You have a corridor to yourselves, security twenty-four hours a day and extended hours of visitation, more than all my patients have. But, I am growing tired of this silence from both of you. You know something you are not telling me about my daughter. You ran out of here, came to her with stories of a man that’s been dead for years and now she is having nightmares as well. Don’t you think it’s convenient for a patient to escape, then suddenly my daughter and her friends were butchered?”
Will was now on his feet. “What are you getting at, doc? Are you saying I caused this!?! That fucking psycho was killing before I even left this damn place. Need I remind you that I lost friends too, you fucking asshole?!!? Remember Mark?!! The one whose brother ‘committed suicide’ due to grief and not his nightmares?!!”
Dr. Campbell flushed, his fists clenched. “Listen, you little punk. I only put up with you because of Lori. Without you she would be dead, but as soon as she snaps back from this, I am taking her back home and you are going back to the ward. So I suggest unless you want to be in the isolation room for the next year of your pathetic life, you start working with me on this!”
Will was now face to face with him. “You don’t get it, do you? Lori is the ONLY reason I am here. I want this over just as much as you do. I want to get this fucker just as much as you. I…I want to know Mark and the others didn’t die in vain. But like I said before, I don’t know anything more than you do.”
They stared at one another for a long moment. Finally, Dr. Campbell turned away. “Our session is over Mr. Rollins.”
“Damn right it is.”
“You may visit Lori in about an hour. Make sure you talk to her thoroughly,” he stated pointedly as he gathered his things and stepped out, slamming the door behind him.
Will punched the wall with such force he heard his knuckles pop. He knew it would be sore, but he didn’t care. He had had enough of that pompous ass for a lifetime.
Over the past three weeks he had been to therapy sessions, private sessions with Dr. Campbell and interrogations from the police. Although he was allowed to see Lori, his time with her was very limited, and not without a hidden purpose. Since he was not getting anywhere with his own daughter, he was forcing Will to badger her every chance he got. If she didn’t crack from the trauma of the past events, then she was going to crack under the pressure of her father.
“Asshole,” Will muttered to himself as went down the hall.
Truth was, these past weeks had been murder on him because he was trapped here. He knew that Jason Voorhees was still out there, that problem was still loose. But that was the whole of his problem.
The real problem was there had been more admissions of teens to the hospital. He had watched not only yesterday a girl being brought in screaming “He’s getting stronger! He’s going to cut me!”
Will did not know who she was but he knew where she had come from; Springwood. They had all come from Springwood. The fear that him and Mark had set into motion from the frantic visit to the high school to see Lori and then everyone dying just within days of it had placed Freddy into a new ballgame. They had not stopped him; they had fed him more helpless souls to make him stronger. But why hadn’t he killed them like the others? Why had the only reported killings had been from Jason?
Will glanced at the newspaper clipping on his wall as he entered his room….

THREE DEATHS IN CLARKS COUNTY

Local authorities are still in pursuit for a suspect connected to
three deaths in Clarks County. Sheriff David P. Tarel committed
on the deaths. “We have a few leads in regards to these three
Homicides and their possible links to the homicides in
Springwood, Ohio. The patterns are the same and a known
suspect has been spotted moving in this area. We will have
more as it develops.”
Sheriff Tarel is part of a tri-county manhunt for a man
described as 6” 7’ approx 320 pounds. He was last seen
wearing a dark jumpsuit and a hockey mask. He is considered
armed and extremely dangerous.

He glanced down at the plea for any information and a hotline number at the end of the article. The picture was of a the heavy set officer known as David P. Tarel next to a large section of forest that was blocked off by police tape. Three teens had entered there, and three teens were now dead. All dead by Jason Voorhees.
Clarks County, which was just two counties over from Westin Hills and one county from Springwood. He was coming back…..
But, why!
Hadn’t they taken him back home? Sent him back to the place where he should have been laid to rest? Was Freddy still pulling the strings?
Fact was, Will thought once Freddy had unleashed Jason, there was no stopping him. He only had one mission; Kill the children of Springwood. They should have just let Freddy kill him when he was tranquilized, just set the body on fire after he drowned in his dreams. At least now those people would still be alive…
Will read the other articles he had pinned to the wall, all with similar headlines but with much separated dates. He had been allowed access to old town newspapers, thanks to the officer he was working with in regards to the incidents, and was trying to find something. Something to stop Freddy Krueger.
He was the key, he knew it. And if Freddy was destroyed, Jason would stop. It just made sense. Will knew if he could just get Jason knocked out again, and maybe try what Lori did, he may succeed. Monster to kill a Monster.
Well, it was his only plan, anyway. If Lori could pull out Freddy, then he could too. But, since he wasn’t in any shape to take on this battle just yet, he couldn’t just sit there and do nothing. So he used his new friendship in Officer Daniel Rogers, one of the officers that had found Lori and himself that night on the side of the road. He had volunteered to be the liaison between the counties that were affected by Jason and worked directly with the state as well. He remembered their first meeting at the hospital…
“Will Rollins?” said the young, blond officer as he knocked on the door in the room he was detained in. They had just taken him from a sobbing, disoriented Lori and brought him here to wait for the police. He was shocked to see that the person who would be questioning him was the same officer that had been so gentle to his girlfriend when taking her to the hospital.
Daniel walked into the room and set himself down in front of Will, looking directly at Will’s face. He actually saw the officer grimace slightly at the bruises he knew were now formed and visible.
“Sorry,” he answered, as if Will had asked him a question. But Will knew that he was actually addressing the fact that he was one of the officers that gave him those bruises when they arrested him.
“No problem,” he replied back, still waiting for the questions to start. They actually were quiet for a long minute before Daniel opened the folder he had carried into the room with him and started flipping through papers. He did this for another minute before pulling out a yellow paper. Will remained silent.
“Look, can you give us a minute alone Carl?” Daniel addressed to the other officer whom Will just noticed lingering at the door of the room. The other officer scowled and slowly moved out of the room, shutting the door. Daniel turned back to Will.
“Look, Will. Uh, do you mind if I call you Will?”
Will shook his head, waiting.
“Well, look Will. I went to Springwood after we took you in to investigate the other murders and the bodies we found out at the old campsite you a mentioned in your previous statement. Fact is, I am convinced that we are looking for the same man. And until tonight, I thought it was you.”
Will scowled at him, but didn’t say anything. He was not going to condemn himself by a slip of the tongue.
Daniel continued. “Then, I dug a little deeper. I have been given access to all the old town records that were sealed from public view. That name you mentioned, Fred? Well, it was mentioned quite a bit, back in the 70’s. But the man was killed a long time ago. Then in the 80’s there were a lot of teenage unexplained deaths, like the ones we had in Crystal Lake years back. I think no one has ever put these together before because of the years difference and the sporadic patterns, not to mention the urban legends connected with them. Killers back from the dead and monsters that haunt dreams? This horror movie stuff has tainted the facts for so long that whoever knew about these could have easily have copied them. I think we do have a serial killer, but this man would have had access to information and old files that have been sealed for years. Had to have studied this for a long time to get the patterns right. And since you have been locked up here in Westin Hills for almost four years now, well, the chances of this killer being you are very little.”
“Then why are you keeping me here, then? Why aren’t you out there, looking for him?”
Daniel closed the folder. “The point I am trying to make here is I believe you. I believe that this madman is after you and I want to know why. Why were you out at Crystal Lake where the old Jason Voorhees legends originated? Why were you visiting Lori Campbell who lived in the exact house where Fred Krueger was known to have attacked a young girl and her mother? Why are you and that girl being targeted? How do you tie into to all this?”
Will shrugged. “The man you are looking for killed my friend, his brother, my girlfriend’s mother and almost everyone she has ever cared for. I care more about Lori than any other person in the world, and I will do ANYTHING to get this guy. Even get myself locked away again for another four years for insanity. You won’t believe me. You won’t believe the real story even if hundreds of people tell you the same thing. This is way before our time, and has been covered up so thoroughly for so many years that people before our time will stop at nothing to contain it. The reason you have so much assistance from the Springwood police and Westin Hills is because they want it back to normal. They want this disturbance over and if locking away a few innocent crazy teens are what it takes, then that is what they will do.”
Daniel looked wide eyes at him. “What do you know Will?”
“I know that this guy…is…real. Actually, both of them are real.”
“Both?!”
Will stared intently at the officer. “Look, if I tell you all this, you must promise me something. You must promise me that no matter what, if you think I am crazy or if you believe me, that you will protect Lori. I don’t care what happens to me as long as she continues to take this drug,” Will handed him the pill bottle the nurse had left with a dose remaining in it for tonight. Daniel took the bottle and read the label. “Hypnocil?”
“Yes. It is the only thing that will keep her sane and safe until I figure out how to help her. How to stop him from….raping her again.”
Daniel flinched. “I know. Do you know she was the first rape victim I had ever scene? I mean, that I have seen in person. I…I will never forget that look on her face when she came out of it…” he trailed off, lost in thought.
Will broke the silence. “Do I have your word?”
Daniel sighed, and then raised his hand to Will. Will took the outstretched hand and shook it, accepting the officer’s word.

And that started a partnership that even Will was surprised about. Daniel had become not only a great asset to finding out more information on what had happened in Springwood, but also on Crystal Lake. He had visited Will almost every day to review over the new information he had collected while Dr. Campbell thought it was just for interrogation. Little did the good doctor know that everything he had tried to cover up, all the blacked out public records and the lock-ups of the people here at Westin Hills, was being infiltrated by one cop and one crazy teen.
Will actually smiled at that thought. He was digging a hole into the very foundation that Dr. Campbell and his quacks had built to keep him a prisoner here at this place. He was finally going to be able to prove that he was not crazy.
There was a quiet knock at his door. “Mr. Rollins, you have a visitor. Officer Daniel Rogers,” announced a nurse as she opened the door and let Daniel in. Will turned and waived at him. He wasn’t expecting Daniel today, but anytime he had found something really big, he always made special trips. That was the way it had been over the past weeks. Daniel nodded and waited till the nurse left before he spoke. “There has been another death in Springwood.”
Will’s smile melted and his heart sank. “Freddy or Jason?”
Daniel looked grave. “They died in their sleep.”
Will slammed his fist against the wall again. “DAMN IT! It’s getting worse. He’s getting stronger every fucking day! Soon, nothing will stop him. Not to mention Jason is still out there.”
Daniel looked even grimmer. “And there was a sighting of a man fitting Jason’s description just on the outside the county lines. He is almost there. Still on the same path he was before you and Lori intervened.”
Will knew time was running out. “I can’t wait anymore. I need to get out of here and find Jason, tranquilize him, then pull out Freddy. I need to finish what Lori and I started before more people die because of Freddy.”
“Will, I still have not got it cleared by the state or the board of directors here at the hospital to have you released into my custody, even for a day. Just give me a little –“
“We don’t have time, Daniel! I can’t wait from some diplomatic assholes to let me out on a supervised day trip! I need to break out, I and need your help to do it.”
Daniel tensed. “That is not possible. You know that!”
“People are dying!”
“Don’t you think I know that! What am I supposed to do, tell the state that I need you to leave so you can go to sleep and pull out a nightmare?! Come on, WILL! Now, listen to me! I found something today that may help us.”
He ripped out a paper from the binder he carried with him and thrusted it toward Will. “Take it.” Will unfolded his arms and took the little piece of paper, staring at it. “Who is this chick?”
Daniel smiled broadly. “The only known person from all the myths, letters, and documents I have read to have supposedly fought Freddy, and survived.”
Will looked again at the name, stunned. “Are you certain?”
Daniel nodded, now pulling out another paper from his binder. “And, I found her new address. She is living in Wisconsin. If you can stay here for just a few more days, maybe I can find her and convince her to help us.”
Will thought about this, the thought about Lori. “Alright. One more week, Daniel. Find this chick and see if she will have anything to do with us. That is all that I am waiting. I am going to take Lori and get out of here next Saturday if you don’t make it back. That I promise you.”
Daniel sighed but nodded in agreement. Will turned and looked out the window, thinking of only one thing, the one thing that had kept him going this long.

Lori…..


Whew! That one was a long one. Well, I have a surprise for you!! DUEL UPDATES! Two chapters! And now, on to the next. This one will be in the first person view. Enjoy and please review!