Scream For Me

Bonus

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"I know what I'm doing Fred, I wouldn't change anything about this." Conner says slowly.

"Fuck you know me." He looks over at his pseudo-father. "There's always a plan, I might not be able to see the whole map, but I'll follow the three of you down to Hell before I give up trying to navigate it."

The demon gives him a soft chuckle as the rain comes down slowly. The forest has long since gone quiet and the smell of it tries to cut through the toxin they're breathing into the air.

"You sound just like your dad." He murmurs around the cigarette and the younger man pauses a moment, blinks, and wonders if he'd heard the Nightmare right.

"What?"

Freddy closes his eyes and puts out his smoke on the rail and Conner straightens tensely.

"I'm not going to apologize because you needed to choose your own path before I got involved, but I lied when I said that I didn't know your parents."

The blonde haired boy can't hide the shock that falls over him at the quiet declaration. Then the anger begins to set in, and it blazes through him so quickly he's half startled by the intensity.

"You knew my father and you never told me!? What gave you the right?! They were my family Krueger!" His hands are shaking and he lashes out almost instantaneously, but the demon has always been faster than him.

So he skitters across the splintering wood and hits the opposite railing, but Freddy is powerful enough to nail his feet in place. The pain hardly fazes him as he tries to get at the older man, to wrap his hands around his throat and squeeze out every last secret the demon has before tearing him to shreds.

"Calm the hell down, kid!" is the snarled response.

"You knew him and he just left me with you? sick fuck! Who does that to a kid?! I was an infant! If you knew him and he still left me here with you then he was a selfish bastard and I'm better for not knowing him!"

"Don't you dare disgrace your father's name! He loved you and your mother more than anything in the world and he would be disappointed to see what a fool you're making of yourself right now!" Freddy shouts back and that smothers the rage and Conner feels small again.

He feels like a child again.

Freddy hadn't yelled at him like that in years. The demon's words catch up with him a moment later and he realizes that he's had clawed hand raised and poised to strike. He lowers it slowly and runs his other over his face with an exasperated sigh.

In a few seconds he has a fresh cigarette raised to his lips. "Your father was a good man."

And Freddy always said he hated good men, and Conner can't form any response.

"And your mother was one of the sweetest women that I've ever known, and she was tough as nails to boot." There's a smile that is shining far in the recesses of the demon's eyes.

"Then why did they leave me?" His voice is slow and raw because this isn't the truth that he wanted.

"They didn't leave you kiddo," There's only been one time that he's ever seen Krueger's eyes look so disheartened and that was when he had found the journal of Nancy Thompson, it makes his throat go tight and any more of his screaming or smartass comments are trapped.

"They meet in Woodsboro during the last massacre before you took up the knife, and yes, they fell in love."

"There were no survivors." No one who had been in contact with Alyssa Sterling survived, "and the killer was never found."