Catrina POV

"Arthur it's not what it looks like." My mother replied.

"Really? Because it looks to me like your abusing my daughter!" Daddy growled as he rushed to my side and pulled me into a protective embrace. I winced and he looked down surveying the welts upon my bruised body in concern.

"Go ahead, tell your Step father why I was punishing you!" My mother growled at me. As she advanced towards me I shrunk back from her my whole body trembling with fear and I began to whimper.

"Shhh. Your safe now. Daddy's got you." He whispered stroking my hair. Turning to my mother his gaze darkened. "Get out!" He practically snarled. Mom gulped.

"Arthur please let me explain." My mother begged.

"No. I don't want to hear your excuses. I warned you that I wouldn't tolerate you hurting my Princess. Now Pack your bags and get out of my house. I never want to see your face again. But before you go tell me, how many times Crystal?"

"I don't understand..."

"How many times have you beaten her like this?" He hissed at her.

"This isn't my fault. We had an argument earlier and she run away. When one of your men finally brought her home several hours later something inside me just snapped. I was furious that she'd do something so stupid. I didn't mean to take it this far." Mom replied starting to approach us.

"You stay away from her! I'm placing a restraining order against you. I'm taking my daughter to the hospital. Once she has been cleared to be discharged we will be leaving Springwood. You will never lay a hand on her again. In fact, you'll never see her again. Goodbye Crystal."

"You can't do this! She's my daughter!"

"Not anymore." My Step Father replied with a snarl as he cradled me in his arms. I began to whimper from the pain and he started stroking my hair once more. "Shhh. Your safe now little one."

"Want daddy." I groaned.

"Daddy's here baby."

I shook my head. "Want Fweddy." I replied before closing my eyes starting to drift off to sleep.

Suddenly, I felt myself being gently shaken awake. "You've got stay awake baby. Just for a little while. Can you do that for daddy?"

"Me sweepy." I replied with a slight yawn.

"I know baby but you need to stay awake. I don't want I loose you."

At this, I looked at him in confusion "woose me?"

"Yes little one. If you fall asleep right now you might never wake up again."

Freddy POV

I watched as my daughter started to drift in and out of a state of unconsciousness. "Hell will freeze over before I will ever allow him to take my daughter away from me! I lost my little KitKat I'm not about to loose my little kitten too." I replied smashing a nearby pipe with my hand.

Several hours later Crystal finally fell asleep only to find herself in My boiler room. "Well, well, well, what do we have here?"

"Looks like a piglet that needs slaughtering to me." One of the dream demons replied.

"It's a pity that Catrina isn't here to save you this time." Freddy replied with a smile.

"Why are you doing this to me?"

"Come on Crystal your a smart woman. Do I really need to explain things to you?" Freddy replied with a scoff.

"I'm sorry." Crystal whimpered backing away from Freddy.

"Do you really think a simple apology is going to make up for everything that you've done?" Freddy sneered

"I never meant to hurt you Freddy."

"Oh really? We could have lived happily ever after but you never gave us a chance. Tell me Crystal, when your father's men "rescued" you from me why didn't you ever try to escape? Why did you marry that spoiled brat?"

"You know that I didn't have a choice. Even if my father was abusive I still loved him. He could have lost everything if I didn't do as Maurice wanted. I had no choice."

"There is always a choice. You chose to stay with him. You chose to allow him to abuse our daughter."

"Maurice didn't abuse Catrina, you did. Your the one who almost killed her."

"Yeah and who's fault is that? You lied to me Crystal. You tried to keep her identity from me but I knew better. Those scars on her back didn't come from me they came from Your husband's belt."

"No. That's not true, your just trying to confuse me. Your a monster."

"Yes I am. I'm a monster you and the other parents of this town created. Now I am  the stuff of true nightmares. I can not be killed and I can not be stopped. My reign of terror will have no end. I am going to get revenge on the parents of Springwood for murdering me and then work my way down to the brats who bullied me when I was a child."

"However, that's not what this is about. This is about Catrina. Tell me something, do you love our daughter?"

"She's not your daughter." My mom replied with a growl.

"Still telling those lies?" Freddy wagged his index knife in the air back and forth in a shame on you manor. "We both know that she's mine. She always has been and she always will be. However, if you keep insisting that she's not my daughter then so be it I'll just add her to my list of teenagers to kill." Freddy replied with an evil smile as I appeared in the room.

"You can't!" My mom sobbed and I began to tremble as he walked over to me.

"Catrina is such a sweet little thing. It seems a shame to have to cut up such a pretty little face." Freddy said stroking my cheek with the back side of his glove as he had done my mother only moments before.

"Please, don't do this." Crystal begged as tears welled up in her eyes.

"Why should you care if I kill her? You are always telling her that you wished that she'd never been born. You practically beat her to death. But don't worry Crystal , I'm not going to hurt Catrina, at least not yet. As always, I'm going to save the best for last." He replied with an evil smile and with that he disappeared.

"Freddy!" Crystal screamed after him but it was too late he had already disappeared.

Catrina POV

A few days later, I ran into Nancy who told me that Freddy was haunting her dreams once again. "It's like he delights in tormenting me. He's constantly daring me to try and rescue whom ever he plans on killing next. He says that's he's leaving the two of us for last because we have always been his favorite. Why is he doing this?"

I sighed and frowned slightly "he's doing this because you all told your parents that he hurt you."

"He did hurt us." Nancy replied.

"Yes well, that's not what the court decided now was it? He was released and our parents should have let the matter drop but they didn't. Instead took justice into their own hands they murdered him in cold blood. In a way, it's their fault for what's happening. Your mom and dad, Quinton's dad..." I paused "perhaps the most guilty of all, my own mother and step father." I replied with a frown.

"I can't believe it, your defending him. He killed our friends in cold blood and your defending him!" Nancy replied angrily.

"I'm not saying that what he is doing is right all I'm saying is that if they hadn't killed him none of this would be happening right now. Brandy, Quinton, everyone, they'd all still be alive." I replied.

"You don't know that. If he had lived who knows how many more innocent children would have suffered at his hands? Our parents did what they thought was best." Nancy replied.

"True, they thought that by killing him they were protecting us but the truth is, by killing him they made him far more powerful then they could have ever imagined. He is more dangerous now then when he ever was alive. There is no way to stop him he can't be killed he is immortal. However, there might be a way that I can stop him from killing everyone else."

"What could you do to stop him?" Nancy asked.

"I could go with him. I could willingly go with him into the dream world. I can accept who he really is and choose to stay with him forever. In doing so, I will protect the rest of you. If he has someone to torcher for eternity then perhaps he will leave the rest of you alone." I replied sadly.

"Catrina No. You can't. Don't give into him! Don't give him what he wants! He wants you to give up. He wants you to give up hope.  We will find some way to stop him." Nancy replied.

I shook my head "there is no other way. Goodbye Nancy." I replied then closing my eyes I whispered his name. "Freddy."

"You called Princess?" Freddy asked with a smile.