Nightmare On Elm Street: The Nightmare Child

Chapter Seven: Wretched + Divine

I kinda stayed up, but I had to make it look like that I was sleeping, Alice is a morning bird, so she was cooking Breakfast for us,”Morning Samantha” I said the same thing to her,”Want Bacon?”
“No, I’m a vegetarian” Alice dropped the pan on the stove, I can tell she didn’t approve,”Really? I’ve always wanted to try to be a vegetarian, but I love meat so much” Not in the same way she loves meat,”How did you and my mom get along?”
“She was too old for him, but she must've told him to lie to me, they ran off and that was the last time I ever heard or seen of him. So I never did like her because of her age and the fact that ” She was looking out the window, I was tapping one of my silverware,”So did you get any sleep last night?” She turned around with a cup of coffee,”Hm? Yeah” I didn’t need to tell her, she must’ve known it was a lie,”I know that feeling, what was it about?”
“I remember that I was walking in this hallway with door with locks on them, then this boy was walking like as if he was a puppet, I looked closely and he wasn't sleep walking, Freddy was manipulating him into jumping off a roof, after that, I couldn't sleep because of the look on that boy's face, he tried to wake up, but-” I felt his pain, I felt his struggle, I felt every emotion he went through before he fell to his death,”But what?”
“Its hard to explain, it's just too much” She nodded and went back to cooking,”Did ever you feel someone's pain before they died? If you know what I'm trying to say here”
“I did as a matter of fact, you see, before my best friend Kristen died, she gave me her power and I changed it into something different: Empathy”
“I wish I know my power now”
“It takes time, later on you'll know, I don't even know it yet, but I'm sure it'll be good and it'll protect as many as you can” She assured me,”Go wake the others” I woke up all of them,”So Alice, when do you plan on going to Sam's place?”
“Perhaps around the late afternoon” On the inside I was going crazy, I mean, this is really real, most of my questions have been answered,”Why is Freddy doing this?” One of them asked her, she was standing there just frozen, she didn't budge a muscle,”I was 17 when this began for me, Kristen was 16 when it started for her. Freddy was born in an asylum, his mother was raped by 100 hundred maniacs” Then it all came back to me

-Nightmare Flashback-
“Son of hundred maniacs, son of a hundred maniacs” Repeatedly then showed a teenage boy sitting in a basement alone in the dark with a lantern,”Freddy, time for your whupping” A drunken man with a belt,”I told your mother to kill you, but no, she thought you was gonna be good, was she wrong about this” Freddy turned around,”Wanna know the secret of pain?” He blocked his hit and then it wasn't a pretty picture after that. I was in this hallway,”I'm telling you guys, he's coming back” These 3 kids, arguing, “How do you explain this?” This blonde girl rolled up her sleeve
“That don't mean dick, that boy is just like me, gets pulled into your crazy dream, he gets buck wild” I looked down at my arm,”Kristen” I said her name and she turned around facing me, from behind her hair was feather layered, but her face was burnt like Freddy’s, then those 2 boys were dead looking, I looked at the one who's chest was stabbed, another boy whose hair was wet but stabbed in the stomach,”The last one” It was repeating until it got louder as they were getting closer to me and I curled into a ball, then when I looked all over, all I ever saw was myself in my reflections, “1,2 Freddy’s coming for you. 3,4 better lock your door” I needed to run to avoid, but then the floor was like quick sand,”9,10, never sleep again” His razors showed up and I woke up from that nightmare
-End of the Nightmare Flashback-

“Samantha, are you okay?” I nodded, “Yeah, I just had a flashback on what you said, son of a hundred maniacs” She asked me what I saw, I told her and she was shocked,”Kristen, Kincaid and Joey, the last of the elm street children”
“The last? Why are there new ones then?”
“Of course what I said before about her having that ability to pull someone into her dream, she gave me her power before she died, maybe he couldn't get to the new kids unless there was someone who can bring them to him” Liliana,”Okay, gotta get ready” I nodded and went to go change, I walked in and accidentally saw Joey changing,”Oh shit sorry” I shut the door quick and covered my mouth, I messed my hair up and went into a different room. After I got done changing, I went downstairs,”Ready to go?” I took a deep breath, knowing that my grandmother and my mother are gonna be face to face all because of this. We went to my house, she parked the car on the side of the street,”Samantha, she's not going to believe us and she won't let you”
“Who said I need her permission to save Lili? I don't need her help on this one, I need yours. This is just a heads up you know in case if I don't make it" I was completely honest with her on that,”Okay, let's do this” I went up to my door and opened the door,”Mom, mom” She was on the couch with a glass of wine,”Do you have any idea how worried I was?”
“I told you mom, I was at Taylor's place and I told you what time I was gonna be back, but there's something I need to know and I don't want you to sugar coat it” She cleared her throat and put her glass on the coffee table,”Alice?” She walked in and my mom got up,”What is she doing here? Get out of my house you psychopath” I guarded her,”Mom, I haven't been sleeping, because of him, it was never the movies. This has been going on for 4 years, few of my friends died because of him, she's all I have and I trust her more than you since you have been trying to get me into a mental hospital”
“Alice, you did this to her, you got all that nonsense into her head? I'm sure both of you will be best room mates at the Mental Hospital”
“No, you did this, I know what you and Jacob went through, this is why you brought her to another place so she can stay away from this” I was confused,"Mom? What is she talking about?" Alice and I knew she'd be lying, we just needed her to admit because I need to hear it from her,"You didn't tell her?”
“Mom, we are in danger, Lili is in danger, you gotta believe me!”
“Samantha, this is all in your mind, what happened in Springwood is in the past, Freddy isn't coming for you” I backed up from her,”I never mentioned Springwood ever or did I even mention his name” She gave me that look that she just gave it away,”You went through this”
“And all this time, your daughter has been dying slowly while her friends are getting picked off one by one, stop running away from it, tell her the truth” Alice demanded for me,”Fine, sit down” We sat down and she started telling the story