Welcome To Your Nightmares
@fullofdisgrace
“No!” The scream broke out of his throat as he watched the woman--the t h i n g--advance towards him. He remembered it very well, had seen its face before. He had watched that face vanish from sight as Lorraine sent it back to Hell, as it erupted into a spit of fire and left without a trace. All signs of activity ceased and fell to the floor while he still struggled to keep Janet from toppling onto the broken tree trunk below. He felt Lorraine pull them back inside, pull them to safety, and he never clung to her harder than he had that night. It was over, Valak was in Hell.
Only it wasn’t.
The woman before him began as a nun and slowly transformed into the demon that was supposedly dead, gone and out of their lives and never able to hurt another living soul again...or even a dead one for that matter. But the older woman’s face slowly transformed, changed from the evilly smiling face of a nun into the monstrous demon that had tried to end their lives not even a year ago. He had seen it in his nightmares before, but never like that, never changing from a human to a monster. It was something he never even considered, that it could take human form and hide amongst people.
And now this thing had Lorraine, was making her scream. And beg. And cry. Screaming screaming screaming... His name, prayers to a god that wasn’t listening, for their daughter who lay dead on the floor. He watched in horror as life poured out of her eyes, watched as the screaming slowly stopped, as the blood pooled around her feet more than it did in her veins.
“No! NO! Lorraine, no! You get away from her! Don’t touch her, bring her back! You’re dead, you’re supposed to stay gone! Get away!” All it did was laugh and laugh and laugh, coming closer and closer to him--
He woke up in the middle of a scream, sweat pouring off his face and the sheets twisted around him in a damp mess. He could hear his wife and daughter talking in the other room and luckily he didn’t startle them. Running a hand down his face, he shook his head and tried to shake away the feeling of impending doom. Because it made no sense, Valak couldn’t be back, it was sent to Hell, he saw it. It couldn’t hurt anybody, not his family, not him, not anyone. Taking a deep breath, he swiped his face again, and detangled himself from the sheets to get around for his day. They had a meeting with a priest about a new case in Massachusetts at a place called Briarcliff.
“It was just a nightmare,” he muttered, shaking his head as he went towards the bathroom. “Shake it off, it was just a nightmare. Nothing will happen.”











