Chapter 5: The Painful Truth

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"Sid wake up yourself up!" Gregory's voice echoed all around her. Ignoring the pain shooting through her back she mustered up the strength she had left and kicked Freddy away from her and concentrated on waking herself up. She took in a deep breath as she opened her eyes to find herself still sitting up in her chair unnoticed by everyone else at the table.

"Gregory?" She said with alarm afraid to move from the position she was sitting in knowing it would only make the pain shooting through her back worse.

"I'm fine." He said standing next to her. "He trapped me somewhere and I couldn't get out. He's too strong. I tried to teleport to you but he blocked me somehow. Are you ok?" He asked looking her over.

"My back..." She said her voice tinged with pain.

"What happened?" Niki said rushing to her.

"I fell asleep for just a few seconds... he slammed me on the ground." She explained still refusing to move from the position she was sitting in.

"Can you move?" Darrien asked suddenly appearing at her side.

"Yes but it hurts." She whined and before she knew it Darrien was picking her up in his arms as she cried out in pain. He ignored her cries and carried her down the hall.

"Brent open the door." He instructed and Brent ran ahead of them and held the door open for them. Everyone followed and Darrien set Sidney down on what looked like a patient bed.

"Sid they have syringes filled with who knows what." Gregory said with alarm.

"What are you giving me?! I don't want any fucking Hypnocil!"Sidney screamed.

"Sid its fine it's just muscle relaxers so we can fix your back. Niki, Beth can you go and find Debois for me." Darrien asked and the two girls ran off as he injected the drugs into Sidney's arm. In just a few seconds she could feel all her muscles beginning to relax as the pain lessened.

"Doesn't hurt as bad now." She thanked him and Gregory let out a sigh of relief.

"And this..." Darrien said prepping another syringe with a clear liquid. "...will be our little secret." He smiled and Brent nodded.

"What is it?" She asked as she began to feel really tired.

"Just a light dose of adrenaline to help you stay awake until we can get you all fixed up." He explained.

"Niki told us... well Darrien, that you were looking into possibly fighting back in your dreams. And just so you know we totally support you on that. I know Niki hates to even think about someone not taking their Hypnocil, but if we could we'd start up their dream training again." Brent explained.

"Yeah too bad no one knows how to pull others into their dreams though. We could start our own little secret group. We could even patch ourselves up in here so no one would even know." Darrien added.

"Darrien has this insane theory that you might be able to pull us into your dreams with you but I tried to explain why your ghost friend is in your dreams but he just won't listen to me." Brent said giving Darrien a glare as he injected Sidney with the Adrenaline. It took affect instantly making her heart race. She wanted to get up and move around with the sudden energy burst, but was afraid to move too much and hurt her back even more.

"I don't like the idea of them being in our dreams with us..." Gregory frowned and Sidney gave him a look to let him know that she agreed.

"It's not like I want to fight back. It's more of I want to learn to avoid Freddy so I can enjoy my own dreams again." Sidney pointed out.

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