Mr. Alucard was silent for several minutes. "My decision stands. You will obey me in this matter, or I will return you to the mental facility, and I will ensure that you will remain there permanently. Is that what you want Catherine?"

My eyes went wide with fear and quickly filled with tears and I shook my head and quietly whispered. "Please don't make me go back."

"Then you will take the hypnocil without argument won't you my dear?" Dracula demanded flashing me a smile his fangs glistening in the moonlight. I shrunk back into my seat and whimpered.

"Yes Mr. Alucard." I replied tearfully and Dracula smiled.

"I thought you'd see things my way. That's my good girl. As long as you do as your told, you will have nothing to fear." He replied his fangs glistening in the moonlight once more. Again I shivered quickly looking away from him.

Vincent didn't like this one bit and he knew that his best friend would be furious when he learned that his father had threatened me. "Don't don't do this to her. Don't force her to do something that she doesn't want to do." Vincent replied trying once again to reason with Dracula.

"This is the only way to ensure that Freddy doesn't hurt her again. I know that she doesn't want to take this medication, but it is for her own safety Vincent. She is will do as she's told, I don't need to tell you what the consequences of disobeying me are now do I Vincent?" Dracula replied.

Vincent frowned and let out a low growl as he looked back at me and then at his mentor. He didn't like his mentor's indication one bit. "You wouldn't dare."

"I will do what is nessicary to protect her, even if it means taking away her free will."

"No." Vincent whispered looking back at me in concern.

"Catherine I want you too look at me look deep into my eyes. Not above them, not around them but deep into them. I want you to count backward from ten to one. When you've reached one I will snap my fingers. Upon hearing the snap you will awaken as what you truly are a sweet, innocent toddler." With that, Mr. Alucard snapped his fingers and I awoke from the trance that I had been in. "You will take the hypnocil upon our return to the manor is that clear Catherine?"

"Nu. Me nu wanna take nasty medicine."

"Catherine you will do as you are told or I won't hesitate to punish you."

By the time we returned to Springwood, Vincent refused to speak or even look at Mr. Alucard. I could tell that I had somehow caused some tension between them. It was very late when we arrived at their house and I was barely able to keep my eyes open. When the car door opened and Mr. Alucard stood there to take my hand I shook my head no and backed away. "Please don't huwt me." I whimpered and Vincent shot his mentor a concerned look.

"Now, Catherine you know I'd never hurt you." Dracula replied a slight hint of irritation in his voice. "You know that I am doing this for your own good."

"Doing what?" Draco asked as he approached the car.

Dracula didn't reply instead he kept his gaze straight forward towards the path that lead to the house refusing to answer son. Vincent who was like a son to him, was already upset with him. The last thing he needed, was for Draco to be angry with him as well.

I whimpered and began to shiver "Me wanna go home." I replied trying to fight back tears.

"You are home Catherine." Dracula replied. "You promised that you'd behave yourself and wouldn't argue about taking your medicine. Are you breaking that promise?" Dracula asked his eyes flashing blood red. I shrunk back into the seat and I whimpered and shook my head no. "Good. Now come, it is late and it is time all good little girls like you were in bed." Again I shook my head refusing to get out of the car. "Catherine get out of that car this instant!" Dracula growled I sat in the car trembling.

"Father stop! Can't you see your scaring her?" Draco asked as he approached the car. "What's wrong with you? What have you done? Why is she afraid of us?" He demanded angrily as he watched me tremble in fear.

Vincent sighed "your Father has decided that Catherine must take the medication know as Hypnocil. He told her that if she refused to take it of her own free will, then he'd send her back to the institution where they'd force her to take it. He also told her that if he had to do that then he'd make sure that she remained a permanent resident. He also indicated that if she didn't do as he had told her too, then he would take away her free will. One way or another she would take the medication." Vincent replied frowning at Dracula.

Draco glared at his father a snarl curling his lips. "You threatened Catherine?" He growled his normally emerald green eyes flashing blood red in anger.

"That's not all he did." Vincent replies.

"Do I even want to know?" Draco asks pinching the bridge of his nose and closing his eyes as he sighs in frustration.

"He hypnotized her into believing that she's a toddler."

Draco frowned at his father as he leaned into the car and picked me up and held me close as if I were a small child and I snuggled into his embrace. As he held me I could no longer hold back the tears and I began to sob. Crying so much that I gave myself the hiccups. "Shhh. It's ok Catherine. It's ok. Please don't cry." He whispered soothingly.

"Me don't want my dweams taken away. But me nu wanna go back to the hospital eitha." I replied still hiccuping.

"Shhh. Hush now. You must be exhausted. Hush my little Cathrine, let your dreams take wing one day when your big and strong you will be a queen." Draco sang and I snuggled into his chest letting out a big yawn. As we headed into the house Draco glared angrily at his father.

"This conversation isn't over." I soon found myself in an enormous bed. "Goodnight my love, sweet dreams." Draco whispered as he kissed my forehead.

"Goodnight Dwaco." I replied with a yawn quickly falling asleep.

Meanwhile, in the dream world Freddy couldn't contain his anger as he slashed the pipes causing steam to fill the boiler room. A little while ago, he had a elm street brat in his grasp, but she had managed to wake herself up just as Freddy was about to claim her soul.

The dream demons watched him in concern. Perhaps, they had been to hasty in their choice to not allow me to visit Freddy. It was causing him to loose his edge. "Come on Freddy get your head back in the game." One of the dream demons hissed at him but Freddy ignored him choosing instead to look at an old scrap book which held dozen of pictures of me when I was younger. "We've got to do something." One of dream demons hissed and the others readily agreed. "I've got an idea."

"Do share." The other dream demon replied while the third looked concerned.

"Perhaps, what Freddy needs is some motivation to forget about the little brat. She allowed Draco to kiss her forehead tonight. Perhaps, if we were to change the footage and make it look like she allowed him to kiss her say, on the lips..."

The other dream demon nodded in understanding. "He will be furious and maybe it will finally push him to the edge and he will be willing to kill her. Let's do it!"

"Freddy."

"Leave me alone!" Freddy growled his eyes flashing in anger.

"Awe come on don't be that way old friend. We just want to talk." One of the dream demons replied. "We know Catherine's betrayal has left you very upset."

Freddy's face went blank for a moment before replying "Catherine hasn't betrayed my trust, I betrayed hers. I never should have hurt her."

"Why? She broke her promise, she deserved to be punished." The other dream demons replied.

"No. What I did wasn't a punishment it was just plain cruel. I almost killed her." Freddy replied with a sigh as the scene from the camp replayed in his head.

"You have got to move on Freddy. This is staring to affect your special work. If you're not killing those elm street brats they won't be afraid of you anymore. If they aren't afraid of you anymore you loose your powers and you can die. Is that what you want Kruger?"

"No." Freddy replied with a frown.

"Why don't you just kill the brat and be done with it?" Freddy shot the dream demon a deathly glare.

"Don't you dare call her that! Catherine is nothing like those elm street brats. She's my precious little princess. My sweet innocent little girl." Freddy replied with a growl.

"She doesn't look so sweet and innocent to me." One of the dream demons replied replaying the scene of my kissing Draco goodnight. Though they purposely changed where the kiss was located to make it look like I kissed him on the lips.

Freddy let out a low growl and balled his hand into a fist he had fire flashing out of his eyes. "That little Witch! I swear the next time I see her, I'm going to end this once and for all." He growled angrily. The two dream demons looked at each other knowingly. Their plan had worked.

"We shall leave you alone then. I'm sure you have a lot to think about." With that two of the dream demons disappeared.

"Freddy."

"What?" Freddy demanded angrily as he tossed the scrapbook of me into the fire.

"Cathrine didn't betray you. The video feed that you saw was altered. Just like the video of her kissing Jason was altered."

"What do you mean they were altered?" Freddy demanded.

"My brothers want Catherine's soul. They've wanted it ever since the day they laid eyes on her. They felt that you were getting too attached to Catherine. They know that as long as you care for her, you'd never let them touch her. Unlike my siblings, I don't want you to do something you'd regret later."

"Regardless of wether or not the video feed is fake Catherine did break her promise to me. Care to explain that?"

"Jason saved her from drowning. She felt that she should give him something in return."

"A simple thank you would have sufficed." Freddy grumbled.

"She never intended to give him a real kiss. She was quoting from Peter Pan. The kiss she gave him was a rock." At this, Freddy chuckled but then the smile disappeared from his face just as quickly as it had appeared.

"Ok so you've explained the situation with Jason. What of that kiss? That certainly didn't look innocent to me. That's a kiss you'd give a lover." Freddy replied pointing towards the screen with a frown.

"True, but I promise you nothing is as it seems. The relationship between Catherine and Draco isn't a romantic one. As I said, the video was altered. This is what really happened the dream demon replied. Instantly the video changed showing Draco give me a kiss on the forehead. "You see, she hasn't kissed anyone, and she isn't interested in dating."

Before Freddy could reply the other dream demons reappeared. "We knew it! We knew you'd interfere in our plan. Don't listen to him Freddy. The video speaks for itself. Catherine is letting that boy kiss her therefore, she's broken her promise."

"No. Catherine has never consciously broken her promise. There are different types of kisses. Catherine has kept her promise. None of these kisses were meant to be romantic. She has no desire for a boyfriend or girlfriend. Her only desire is to be your little girl." The dream demon with feelings replied.

"Don't listen to him. She's just like all the other elm street brats. She deserves to die. Kill her and then you will regain all the strength that she has taken from you." The dream demons replied.

When I fell asleep I was surprised to find that I wasn't in the boiler room or at Freddy's house.
I looked around puzzled. "Is there a problem child?" A floating fiery skull asked me.

"Where could he be? This might be the last time I can ever dream about him and he's not here." I replied tearfully. "Why isn't he here? Is he still angry with me?" I asked tearfully.

"Who?" The flying fiery skull asked although he already knew the answer.

"My daddy."

"Your Daddy?  You mean Freddy?" I nodded. "You want to dream about Freddy even after what he did to you?" The flaming skull asked in surprise.

"Me was bad somehow. He was wight to punish me. Me want to see him."

"Trust me, you don't want to see him right now. Not after what he did to you. If you did, you'd risk the possibility of him hurting you again." The floating fiery skull replied.

"Please. Please let me see him. Me want to see my daddy befowa they take him away fwom me fowaebas. Please." I replied my eyes filling with tears.

The flaming skull sighed "as you wish."

Suddenly I found myself in the boiler room. Mista Kwuga?" I called to him but I received no answer. "Mista Kwuga wheya is you?"

"What are you doing here? Your not supposed to be here. I don't want you here." Freddy stated as he appeared in front of me. He looked
as if he were really weak. Like he hadn't been killing and eating the souls of the elm street brats.

"Me wanted to see you again. To beg you fowagibness. Please let me call you daddy again, Please."

"No." Freddy replied walking away from me.

"You still mad at me?" I asked tearfully.

Freddy turned to me and replied "Of course I'm still mad. Jason and I are mortal enemies. That's not the only reason I'm still mad at you. Tell me Princess, have you forgotten already what you promised me?" Freddy asked his gaze causing me to shiver.

"Me pwomised to stay away fwom boys. To neba kiss...." I paused and groaned.

"Go on."

"Me did it again didn't Me?" I replied looking away from Freddy ashamed.

"Tell me what you promised me, all of what you promised me, and then tell me what you did wrong."

"Me powmised that Me no be intewested in a womantic welationship with any boy or giwl. That Me no eba date, owa agwee to date anyone and that Me neba.... oh no." I replied with a facepalm. "Me bwoke the last pawt of the pwomise."

"Which is??"

"To Neba allow a boy owa giwl to kiss me in any way, shape owa fowm."

"You seem to be forgetting your promise quite often lately. Could it be that your no longer that sweet innocent girl that I have grown to love?" Freddy replied clinking his glove on a nearby pipe awaiting my answer. "That instead your just like all the other girls I've killed?"

"Are you a little whore? Are you a little cock tease? Huh? How many times have I warned you that boys only care about one thing? It seems like the only way I can be certain that you will remain pure is for me to kill you. Is that what I have to do?" I shook my head no.

"They think I should. They think that it's only a matter of time before you break your promise to me and I'm inclined to believe them. If I kill you, then I can be assured that you will forever remain pure. Your soul will belong to me for eternity. While it's true, that your soul already belongs to me perhaps, I shouldn't wait to claim it after all."

"Your fear is so intoxicating it would sustain me for quite some time. In fact, it might just give me the power boost I need  to be reborn into your world. Where I could start my reign of terror all over again." Freddy replied stating at me.

I whimpered in reply and looked up at him in fear. The fiery skull dream demon floated next to me. "I told you that you'd regret wanting to see him. Do you want me to send you home? I can you know." I shook my head no but the dream demon knew that the answer really was yes.

Turning to Freddy I looked him directly in the eyes. "Me sowwy Mista K, me no meant to disobey you. Me lobe you and Me always will. Since you no want to be me daddy anymowa and no lobe anymowa me go now and Me won't come back." I replied tearfully. With that, I disappeared causing Freddy to swear.

A few seconds later, I awoke and began to sob. How could he call me those awful names? Upon hearing my soft sobs Draco dashed into my room. "Catherine what's wrong? Are you alright? Did you have another bad dream?"

"He hates me." I replied as tears streamed down my face.

"Shhhh. Who hates you?" Draco asked cradling me in his arms and stroking my hair.

"Fweddy. He said that I'm a..." I'm a..." I couldn't finish my sentence instead I began hyperventilating.

"Shhhh. You don't need to tell me. It's ok." Draco replied as he read my mind. As he, did he let out a low growl "don't listen to him Catherine, he wrong."

"How did you??" I asked looking up into Draco's eyes in confusion.

"It's a gift I have. I can read someone's thoughts if they're too afraid or shy to speak them." Draco replied with a slight smile.

"Oh. Can all of you do that?"

"Yes, although, we each have our own special abilities as well. I hate to say this, but perhaps my father was right. Perhaps you should take hypnocil." Draco replied looking concerned.

"Me don't want too."

"I know, but perhaps, given the circumstances and considering how Freddy feels about you right now, this might be the safest option for you. After all, He did threaten to kill you."

"He didn't mean it. Me know he didn't. He just angwy wifth me fowa being such a bad giwl." I replied tears streaming down my face once more.

"Now you listen to me, you are not a bad girl and Freddy is a fool to think your any of the things that he called you."