"Aimee, slow down. I can barely see you!" Kevin quietly calls out. A dim outline of Aimee's body slowly drifts out of sight, leaving nothing but a desolate hallway clouded by darkness.
"AIMEE!", Kevin shouts, as he tries to catch up.
A flicker of light flashes right next to him, followed by a hand. "What the..", he stutters.
Kevin gets yanked backwards, straight into a tiny cupboard, sliding against an old wooden floor. He flashes his light upwards, to see Aimee towering over him with her eyes completely rolled back, only showing a blood shot white ball.
"Woh, Aimee! Are you alright?", Kevin askes, gingerly.
Her voice suddenly bellows out in a deep and ominous screech,
"WHY DO YOU DISS OBEY ME! WHY CAN'T YOU LEAVE THE TRUTH ALONE!" Her hair stands on ends, flaring and drifting effortlessly.
"Aimee..", Kevin whispers, reaching out towards her hand as her body starts to levitate off the ground!
"WHAT THE HELL!! Aimee!! Snap out of it!���, Kevin screams at her!
Her voice shrieks out again, "DO NOT TOY WITH THE TRUTH! IT WILL REVEAL NOTHING BUT PAIN!".
Kevin falls silent as Aimee's body suddenly shudders, she falls limp and motionless but stays levitating in mid-air. Her eyes flash back to her dazzling brown irises; however, she starts frantically glancing around until noticing Kevin laying stunned, with his mouth gaping open. She goes to speak, but only a gurgling noise spills from her mouth! She quickly grabs her neck in agony, clinching it in desperation!!
Kevin's eyes flash open, he instantly leaps up to her, gently grabbing her hands. Slowly peeling them away from her neck he pulls their faces together, looking deep into her eyes, then starts to speak with an angelic grace,
"Aimee, listen to my voice. Don't panic or worry, just try to relax.", he says, gently placing her hands on his heart, letting his calm beat steady her movements.
"Fears and foes may haunt you,
but tears and woes won't support you.
Pain and power may guide you,
but neither will be the one beside you.
Regret and disappointment may consume you,
but with a positive mind, none of that will confuse you.
Always open your eyes to see you,
As you are the only one who can break through!"
*GAAAASP*, Aimee swallows a gigantic gulp of air, then plummets to the floor. Kevin catch's her in his arms,
"Aimee! Are you okay?!" He desperately askes.
*cough, cough*, "What the bloody hell was that!! It was like I was drowning!" She replies, panting rapidly.
"What? drowning? You started to float and had this weird evil voice thing? It was like you was possessed or something?" Kevin replies, concerned.
"Seriously? Did I hurt you?", She says, quickly standing to her feet and checking his body.
"No, no, I'm fine? But this voice told me to stop toying with the truth or something? It's already such a blur?!" he replies, spooked.
"What? did I?" She says, gazing at him? "Well I don't remember that, but your words. They were beautiful and so true! How did you know that would help me?" She adds, confused?
"Really? You don't remember? This is weirder than I thought?", Kevin says to himself, "But anyway, as long as you're okay? that's all that matters?", he instantly adds.
"Yes yes, I'm fine. But the words you said? Why did they work?" She asks, seriously!
"What? Ermm, I don't know. When Lukz and I was younger, my mum use to say that poem to him while he was having night terrors? It calmed him down every time, so I guess I just remembered it?" He says, turning away timidly.
"Hey, don't be embarrassed. Those words were strong and empowering? Maybe that's why she use to say them to him? To remind him that it was his night terror, and no one or thing was more powerful than him?", Aimee says, smiling.
"Hmmm, I guess? Ow well. How far are we?" Kevin askes, intently.
Aimee nods, then quickly peaks around the cupboard door. "Not far, It's just over there." She says, pointing towards a glass pained office, "I saw something moving, that's why I dragged us in here?", She squints her eye's, trying to notice any small flicker of movement.
"But it seems like were clear? Let's go.", she says, yanking him out the door and quickly pulling them both into a smoked glass box, labelled with, Officer Bible on its door.
She quickly slips behind a large desk, which is littered with paperwork and all sorts of files. Sliding open a small draw, it reveals a couple of note pads and a Police ID card with Aimee's face on it.
She gently picks it up, following her gaze with a small smirk which sends a slight quiver of pain through her heart, but also an overflow of love, causing her eyes to start filling with tears.
Kevin glances over, "Aimee, what's wrong?" He asks, soothingly.
"Dad... *cough, cough*... Don, made me this. I thought I lost it years ago!" She says, sucking back her tears while sliding it into her back pocket.
Kevin smiles gently towards her.
She briefly looks at him, then quickly glances back down at the draw,
"Ahah, here we go!", She chants!
Kevin, glimpses her pulling out Don's laptop.
"Sweet, you found it! Right, now all we need to do is find any reports or files associated with the abnormal deaths Lukz and I have been a part of, then hopefully those people's personal files may have information on what Lukz is going through or how we can stop these demons?", he says, unsure.
"Okay, that sounds about right? But, where do we start?" She replies, baffled.
"Here, let me have a look." Kevin says, sliding the laptop to face him. "password", he adds, looking up towards her.
She intently stares back, then speaks softly, "Cali Thead."
Kevin's eyes flash open, "mum!", He replies, shocked.
Amiee softly nods.
"What, his password is my mums name? Why couldn't you have just told me that!? Instead of coming with me and endangering yourself!" He says, raising his voice.
"Hey! This is now as much a part of my business, as it is yours! Your mum was killed by the same thing, or something like the demon that killed my dad! So, stop you wining and get on with it? We can't have much longer before this place gets raided?", She says, walking around the room, quickly closing its blinds.
"Hmm, fair enough. Okay, were logged on.", He says.
The screen reveals a photocopied version of the same picture Lukz gave Aimee, printed across Don's background, all five of them smiling and laughing while enjoying a day on the beach. Kevin quickly turns his head away, holding back his emotions.
"Seriously.. all this sh*t is making me so angry!", He shouts.
"Calm down, Kevin." Aimee whispers, gently placing her hand on his.
He turns, staring into her rich brown eyes.
"Sorry. This is just so hard! I'm going to search Don's files for anything under Lukz." He says, painfully glancing back at the picture, grasping onto Aimee's fingers.
He types in, Lukz, causing a series of files all dated and labelled with individual names to immediately flash up on the screen. Each one is perfectly logged by date and in alphabetical order. Kevin clicks on the first file name, "A1. Reece Stuart - 31/01/03 - DOA - (Abnormal)", He reads, out loud.
"Holy crap. This was Lukz's first kill! Plus, the most recent attack after my mother's death!" Kevin says, astonished.
"Really? but 2003? Lukz must have been like... 7 or 8? How did he kill something at that age!?" Aimee says, shocked.
Kevin gazes at her, "well, quite simply, he said he acted out of pure aggression?"
She tilts her head, confused.
"Basically, we were stuck in the care system straight after our mum's death, so one night we snuck downstairs to raid the fridge for some food, when a clattering sound came from the kitchen. Lukz being Lukz, ran inside to supposedly see a small black creature, no bigger than a cat, ravishing this poor boy's body! So, he got a knife and butchered it?" Kevin explains.
"Well, that does sound believable. But, A child!", She screams out.
Kevin nods his head, then continues, "Look, here is the forensic report. age 9, young male, Long blonde hair."
"HOLY SHIT!" Kevin shouts out, flinging his hands in the air!
"What!" Aimee says, startled.
"This boy! His physical description is pretty much the same as Lukz's!", Kevin says in oar.
"Oooooo. Wait! Your saying this thing Lukz saw, was actually after him? Not this poor Reece kid?", Aimee adds, shocked.
Kevin turns back towards the screen, "Yeah! It looks like, from the start these things were trying to kill him and everyone else was collateral damage?!", He says, astonished.
"But wait? Lukz may have killed all these demon things, but he wasn't always the target, we already know these things somehow learnt Lukz could kill them? So, who was the first victim which died from knowing about Lukz, but was not actually with or near him when they died?" She adds, insightfully.
Kevin scratches his head, "Yeah, you're right? I completely forgot about that! But, I'm not sure?".
Aimee turns the laptop towards herself, "Hold on, my dad had loads of these murders pinned up on his wall in the pub, but only the ones where Lukz wasn't an intended target? He said something about one of them being his psychologist? What was her name?" She asks.
Kevin glimpses down at Aimee's protruding breasts, but quickly turns back to look at the screen,
"Ermmm, Masey Lane.. I think?" He replies, unsure.
Aimee types in, Masey Lane, causing her file to instantly spring up. "Yeah! Your right! Let's look at her background file."
Kevin clicks on it, revealing a folder labelled, "Birth of Terrors.", he reads aloud, "What's this!", he adds.
*Click*
It opens to show a folder labelled, "My First Novel.",
*Click*
Inside that, are more documents.
"Title Options, Character names, illustrations, Birth of Terrors first draft.", Kevin reads out loud.
He presses on the, Birth of Terrors first draft file, it pops up, so he continues reading its first few paragraphs.
"According to this, she kept quite a detailed log on every nightmare or terror, as they're stated here, on a person called, ex.1?" Kevin says, turning his head, Aimee leans closer to the screen causing Kevin to get another eyeful of her bulging breasts.
She slowly leans back, staring at him with a sharp glare. Kevin smiles intently, then quickly turns back towards the screen.
"Apparently, ex.1 could literally feel everything in their dreams, from the type of weather, to surrounding objects? Look here…", Kevin says, pointing halfway down the third paragraph,
"According to this, they could even feel, pain!!?" He adds, confused.
"Wait, so this woman wrote about someone who had night terrors and was mentally scared by them or Physically?" Aimee says, rubbing her head.
"Well, both I guess? But this can't be right! She was Lukz's therapist and this file was only created 1 month after he started seeing her!"
Kevin quickly highlights the first save date, 30/02/03, then turns towards Aimee, "That's right, Lukz use to scream in his sleep! Not in fear, but pain and agony! I would have to wake him up 3 or 4 times a night? We all just thought this was from the pain of mum dying... but obviously something was actually physically hurting him!!" Kevin says, desperately.
"That's just horrible! So, she was writing a book about his pain and suffering!! How disgusting!" Aimee says, spitting on the floor.
"Yeah, what a bi**h! I'm sort of glad she had her head slowly twisted backwards until it snapped of her neck!" Kevin adds, pulling an evil grin.
Aimee cringes, imagining the woman's head popping off her shoulders.
He then turns back to the screen.
"Here is the weirdest thing, though.", Kevin says, pointing to the next paragraph, "She started to wright about how in one of her and ex.1's therapy sessions, which we can suppose is Lukz, that he actually saw a small cat like demon, which had clean red eyes, no hands or paws, just razor sharp nails, with some fur like spines as dark as a shadow-less pit, in his head first.... then in real life?".
Kevin's jaw drops! "THAT'S REECE'S!" He screams out.
Aimee stumbles backwards, startled by Kevin, "What's Reece's?", she replies, confused.
Kevin smashes his hands down, then stares towards her,
"That demon Lukz told her about, was the same one which killed Reece!! Lukz's first kill!!" Kevin says, almost breathless from shock!
"Wait, so basically this story she was writing, and you, are saying Lukz defiantly saw these things in his night terrors.... before they came to life?" Aimee says, grabbing Kevin's hand.
"Yeah? This confirms it, Lukz is defiantly creating the demons! I thought fought Needle was a one off, but obviously he just didn't remember most of them?".
"Sh*t, but how could he forget something like that?" She demands.
Kevin pulls an unamused expression, "Come on, this is Lukz! He wouldn't even remember my birthday if it wasn't the same day as his? Plus, I don't know anyone which can recall every single one of their dreams? They always seem to slip away, just as you wake up?" He replies.
Aimee nods, "Yeah, I guess you're right. Anyway, did she ever get to the part on how he can stop them?" she asks, impatiently scrolling downwards.
Kevin briskly reads each word as Aimee scrolls through, until it stops on an unfinished sentence.
"Dahm it." Kevin wails.
She glances towards him, "What?".
"Nothing. She just goes on about how scared she felt. Plus, some rubbish to do with referring him to a sleep therapist?".
"Wait, Lukz did have a sleep therapist which was murdered? Ermmm… Dave Stewards, maybe we can check his file?" Aimee says in a chirpy tone.
Kevin raises his eyebrows, "Wow, don't sound too excited." He says, sarcastically.
"Ow, shut up." She replies, sticking her tongue out at him.
A flicker of light quickly flashes through the closed blinds. They both pause out of shock, then immediately fumble behind Don's desk.