!!Usual Suspects!!

Part 5

"Matty! Help me!" Danny screamed at him as Matt found him trapped in a swirling pool of clouds. "Danny!" Matt screamed and tried to catch hold of Danny's hands which were outstretched towards him but as soon as he was able to touch him, Danny disappeared. In his place was a large shadow that was laughing quietly. Matt didn't know what the hell it was but all he knew was that it was terrifying and it has Danny. "Bring him back! What have you done to him?!" Matt screamed at the shadow and all that happened in response was the laughing getting louder.

Soon the laughing was blocking all hopes of other sounds and the black shadow was growing. It grew to where it filled up half of the room itself and yet Matt could see that that was all that it was. A shadow along the walls, roof, and floor, it had no actual presence. And yet Matt feared for his own life as the shadow continued to grow larger and closer to him. "Your friend is now mine and you have no way of taking him back. He is mine and always will be!" The shadow screamed at him and Matt just screamed at it. "Danny is owned by no one, let him go!" Matt screamed and the shadow just started laughing again and Matt saw it as the shadow produced a clawed hand, still as a shadow, and struck at him with it. The clawed hand actually came into contact with Matt and he let out a high pitched scream as he felt the claws rip his skin open.............

The only thing that George was aware of, as he suddenly jolted up in bed, was that a huge scream ripped him out of his sleep, and he soon figured out that it came from Matt's room. He then crawled out of his bed and ran out the door to his and Jordan's bedroom. "Matt!" George cried as he rushed into the room. "I'm so...so sorry, i...it was ju...just a night..ma..mare" Matt stuttered out and hid his face in his pillow. George rushed up to the bed and pulled the pillow away from Matt's face, slightly thankful that nothing had actually happened and that it was all just a nightmare.

"Don't worry, I understand, and to be honest, it's not surprising you were having a nightmare, considering everything that's happened" George pointed out and Matt just stared at him in despair. George could see that Matt was just completely lost on the inside. Broken and lost. He no longer knew what to do with himself. His entire purpose has been taken away from him so now he's just left feeling numb.

"George, it was Danny." Matt told him and George nodded his head, not at all surprised by it. "He was trapped in that house, some ghost or poltergeist had him. It was so real" Matt muttered and went back to hugging his pillow. "But George, what if it was real? What if Danny's ghost is still trapped there?" Matt questioned him and George started to become worried for Matt. "Matt, ghosts aren't real, and even if they were, why would they trap Danny?" George questioned him and Matt just started crying noisily as his hopes got smashed.

"No, it was real, it was Danny! He was trying to get to me, he wants me to go save him, i swear he does!" Matt told him loudly and tried to crawl out of bed. George caught him by his left wrist and held him back from crawling out of bed.

"Matt! It's not real. You're just seriously tired and all the stress is getting to your head. Please just try and go back to sleep, you'll feel better in the morning" George told him but Matt kept shaking his head whilst tears were pouring down his face, constantly trying to rip his wrist out of George's grip. "No Danny needs me, George. Please believe me?" Matt begged him, giving up trying to get out of George's grip and actually moved closer to where he was sitting and caught George's arm in a tight grip, with his free hand, as George went to back away. George couldn't believe it, Matt was losing his mind and George didn't know how to help him.

"Matt, please? I don't know what to do" George threw back at him hastily and Matt could see that George was scared and worried for him. Matt let go of George's arm, George in turn releasing his own grip on Matt's other wrist, and backed away from him,and kept backing away until he ended up leaving his bed completely, his bed sheets being left in a wreck, and was leaning against the far wall. "Just leave me, ignore everything i have ever said. I'm just delirious, I'm nobody" Matt muttered, his mood gone from crazed to flat within seconds and that scared George more than anything.

"Matt, that isn't going to happen and you are not nobody. Please get back into bed and try to go back to sleep, We'll talk about this in the morning and if you still feel like this then we'll try to figure out what to do, does that sound like a plan?" George questioned quietly, silently praying that this solution might actually work, and Matt didn't respond and George could see why. Matt's shoulders were shaking and his head was buried in his knees. George then crawled off the bed and over to Matt and put his hands on Matt's, where they were on his head, slightly wrapped in his hair. He then pulled Matt's hands away from there and Matt looked up at him, tears falling down his cheeks in a rapid pace yet once again.

"I'm so sorry, I just miss him so much, it hurts so much" Matt whispered as George pulled him into a tight, but comforting, hug. "I know, and we'll get to the bottom of all this, i promise" George whispered in Matt's ear as Matt cried his heart out into George's chest.

After a while, Matt's tears slowed down and he started to fall asleep against George. "Come on, let's get you back into bed" George whispered and stood up with the younger man in his arms. He put Matt back on his bed and pulled the duvet over him. Just as George was about to walk away, Matt reached out with his hand and caught George by the wrist in a really tired grip. "Can you stay with me, please? I don't want that nightmare again" Matt whispered as his eyes drooped shut but he forced them open again to see George's response.

"Of course I will" George said quietly and then climbed into bed next to him and allowed Matt to cuddle up to him. Matt was soon to fall asleep and George just lay there awake thinking. He knew why Matt had acted the way he did but he must admit that it scared him slightly. He didn't know how to help the poor man but thankfully it blew over and Matt was now calm and asleep. He just hopes it doesn't happen again.

George soon fell asleep as he was imagining what if Danny was actually trapped in that house of his just like in Matt's dream.