The Bound Fedora

Chapter 4: Useless Information

Luckily Delvin didn't question her and Gregory's relationship and he took her to the room that Gregory had described to her. There was a faint lingering metallic smell of blood in the room when they entered and the air was unpleasantly cold. The lights flickered on and Sidney slowly approached the bloodied bed in the middle of the room.

"So what happened in here?" She asked as Delvin gathered some papers off the dusty desk.

"Six years ago we got a patient who had the capability to pull others into her dreams. She was the one that came up with the whole idea in the first place. Her name was Stacey. Before she came to us she had already mastered the dream world and unfortunately was exposed after seeing her best friend murdered in front of her by Krueger. Her friend was related to one of the parents that killed him. She taught several of the patients that were willing to learn how to defend themselves in the dream world. Beth was among one of them. But once he caught on to what we were doing he pulled Stacey into a coma during one of our sessions so she couldn't wake up and he killed her so we shut this wing down. We were only at it for a few months but we learned a lot from her. The rest involved other than Beth had to be transferred to the south wing and have been killed off since then." Delvin explained sadly as he gathered all the papers off the desk and Sidney helped him carry the rest of the notebooks out of the room.

"So can Freddy only invade one person's dream at a time?" She asked as he closed the door behind them.

"Yes. He can jump from dream to dream. The only way to get to multiple people at once is to pull them all into one dream. He didn't like it when they started to all gang up on him with new knowledge about his world. And you have your spirit friend linked to you so you're lucky in a way. Plus he's already dead." He explained as they made their way down the corridor.

"Not in the dream world." Gregory added with a smile.

"Is it strange that Gregory feels like he's alive again when he's in the dream world since we've been here?" Sid asked as they set all the papers and notebooks on the desk in her room.

"Not really, once you're exposed to him your dreams will always be real. Even if he isn't in your dream at the time you could accidentally hurt yourself in the dream such as hit your head and you'll wake up to find the bump is still there... Well you have fun going through this mess. I know you have Gregory to protect you in your dreams but please be careful." He warned and left the room closing the door behind him.

"Looks like it might take awhile to go through all of this." Gregory frowned.

"Yeah, but that's ok it'll give me something to do until I feel comfortable enough to fall asleep again." She said and began to go through all the papers.

Her and Gregory started to read through all of it. Luckily Gregory was getting so good at interacting that he could flip the pages himself now making it a lot easier. A few hours went by and there was a light knock on her door.

"Come in." She replied and Niki walked in carrying two plates of food making Sidney's stomach rumble making her realize she hadn't eaten in quite awhile.

"Haven't seen you in awhile and I figured you'd be hungry. I made us some salad and alfredo. So what is all of this?" She asked motioning to the stacks of notebooks.

"Doing some dream research. Delvin let me have the notes from when they were doing training on how to fight back in your dreams." Sidney explained as she sat on the bed next to Niki and dug into her food.

"Oh yeah Beth mentioned it a few times. I'd never be brave enough to do something like that. I'm so afraid of seeing Freddy that I take my Hypnocil two days before it's supposed to wear off." Niki admitted stabbing her fork into her salad.