Nightmare

Jan. 15th, 2011 02:41 am
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“NO!” screamed Janie, at three A.M., waking Lynn from a sound sleep. She jumped up, running to her Mother who was in bed, screaming, and fighting an invisible assailant. The little girl could only watch as Janie screamed and struggled, fighting against something the young girl could neither see or feel.

“Mommy?” she asked quietly, when her Mother was reduced to tears.

“I won't. You can't- AAAh!” the screaming and fighting started again, and Lynn didn't know what to do. No one else was around, no one that could help and all that was left was for The Beast to take over.

The entity in her head only came forward enough to realize that nothing was physically wrong with the woman, but at the urging of it's host, it probed in to the mind of Janie.

It sent to Lynn visions of a hotel, Phoenix, and her mother smiling and happy. There were presents and everyone looked so different. Then, it asked her if she wanted it to continue, which the little girl almost said no to, right before her Mother screamed again, shouting that it wasn't really happening and that someone was a loser.

More images of the hotel, but now of a lobby where people scattered, and then the lower levels where a bomb nearly went off. Again, it asked if Lynn wanted to see more and she nearly declined- before she heard her mother begging. That was something that never happened, not as long as she could remember.

The next images were of a dark room, and one of the most horrific things the girl ever saw. Her Mother was being attacked mercilessly, by a face she knew. The beast kept the images in the little girl's mind, and she knew what was happening. A nightmare, a year later, of a horrible time in her Mother's life.

Lynn asked The Beast to make it better, make her Mother forget, and it agreed.

But it had to show her why it happened first, that it was because of Phoenix. Once the entity knew that Lynn would blame her father for the pain her mother went through, it calmed Janie's mind, and let her rest peacefully. The memory was there but would be buried deep.



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