Puppet Master (Jelsa)

Chapter 5: I'll Be Watching You

Chapter 5: I'll Be Watching You

It wasn't hard getting Elsa to my room as I put her on my bed and watched as she rolled over hugging the pillow close to her. I couldn't help but smile as I back out closing the door behind me. I felt a yawn escape my lips, I just needed a few hours of sleep and then I'll be back to figuring out this case. My mind went back to what Elsa said, do we really have a copycat on our hands? I sat on the couch putting my hands together thinking, how could that be? Connolly had powers like I had sight, there can't be another one like him... Can there?

I could feel a headache coming on as I lay down feeling my eyes get heavy. Suddenly, I felt the world disappeared.

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Cold... I was cold, freezing as I felt a shiver go up my spin. I looked around me to see countless scrawls on the walls. I honestly didn't know what they were even saying, it was almost like a two year old wrote them. I start to walk but it almost felt like my body was moving on it's own. That's when I felt my arm getting pulled to see a red stringed around my wrist. I looked at my other arm to see the same thing. "What's going on?" I say out loud making the strings pull me harder. "Don't worry about it Puppet." I hear, I knew that voice. "Connolly..." I say as I feel my feet almost trip over themselves. "Don't you want to see your marionette?" I hear Connolly say making me walk faster.

I tried to fight back but there was no way to break the strings so I stopped fighting and walked down the hallway. I looked at the walls to see the scrawls were going and now it was just pictures that looked like they were drawn by little kids. I didn't know where the strings were pulling me but I had a pit in my stomach telling me I wasn't going to like it. As if my body finally woke up, I felt the strings loosen up and I controlled my body again. But I keep walking into a room with a single light and a chair with someone in it. I took a deep breath as I kept walking to the chair.

The closer I got, the more I saw feature of a woman with her head down with red hair that was cut short. I feel my throat close, "Sally?" I whisper as I see her head shot up. The short pixie red hair, slowly grow longer as it went blonde. Where I thought Sally was, was slowly turning into Elsa and I see the strings wrapped around her throat. "Jackson." She whispers. I saw red flash in front of me from anger. "Connolly you bastard! Let her go!" I scream as I see the strings tighten around her throat making Elsa gasp.

"I would be nice my puppet, I control this marionette." I hear that voice say again but something seemed different about this voice, almost like there were two voices talking. "This is the version you like of this marionette right?" The voice said. I look at Elsa, tears staining her face. "What do you mean?" I ask taking a step trying to go slow. "I had many... Many marionettes in the past Dr. Dream. But this one... This one is my favorite. And she would be your favorite right?" I glare at the darkness trying to figure out where the voice was coming from. "This would be the second lover right? Or is it your first?" He ask. Whoever this was, it wasn't Connolly, just someone trying to be him. "I would answer the question." The voice says tighten the string and I could see blood starting to drip form Elsa's throat.

"Fuck stop! I'll tell you!" I scream seeing the string loosen up a little. "And your answer?" The voice ask. I take a deep breath, "I loved Elsa first. Even when I was with Sally, I loved Elsa. I still do." I answer. I don't know why me admitting that was going to do until I feel something sharp in my back. I hear Elsa scream as I look down to see blood start to go around my stomach. I look back up feeling someone's breath by my ear, "Wrong answer Jackson." I hear and I knew whose voice that was. "Sal... Sally?" I whisper before I feel another sharp pain before I hear Elsa screaming my name.