Nightmares

She chucked her gun to her bed and ruffled her already messy brown hair "DAMNIT!!" she yelled out as she laid back. The former stressed from graduating and exams student that she used to be is gone now. Now she was stressed, scared, and excessively worried all the time for Cole and the survival of the others. "why'd she have to sacrifice herself so we could escape, this is all messed up, damn it… Mom…where did it all go wrong". Rae closed her eyes and hugged her pillow..

Trying to dream of something sweet she began to reminisce of the past before it all began, before this nightmare started, but nothing came to mind, as if she had forgotten it all, and eventually she had fallen asleep. When she opened her eyes she was in her room again, but her pistol was gone, her normally dead alarm clock beside her was blaring like crazy, and the sky outside her window was bright instead of covered with dark clouds. "what… ?" she muttered as she got up and put on her housecoat. Walking out the door into the hallway. "I thought I locked the door..." she muttered as she could hear someone in the kitchen cooking "ah, Cayden is that you? I swear I thought I told you to stop attempting to cook, you suck at it. Also did you see the skies? They're blue, it's so bright outside! How long has it been since it's been that clean in the--'' she suddenly stopped as she had entered the kitchen, what she had seen made the tears she didn't think she could even produce anymore fall like the rain from her eyes. "Mom… I-is that you??" she bit her lip and looked away, shaking in fear as she started hyperventilating from a panic attack. "No, this is a dream, there's no way it's real, I- I have to wake up now" she stuttered as she shook her head and pinched herself, but nothing happened.

The woman approached Rae and hugged her from behind as she smiled "Rae my darling daughter, I've missed you so much. I was terrified when you fell into a coma and it's only been a week since you woke up, you can't run in the street again, okay? Promise me?" Rae was shocked to hear that. It had been 5 years since that happened, she looked over at the calendar on the wall, the dated were blurred and crossed out. "mom, I…. Sorry I must've had a bad dream…" she responded as she glanced at the mirror on the kitchen wall, her moms face was pitch black other than the gaping hole where her mouth should have been. Rae quickly escaped from the hug to look at her mother but saw just a happy version of what she had grown accustomed to being gone. "So.. Where's Cole?" she asked nervously, knowing her mother would never leave him alone.

Her mother sighed and rubbed her eyes "he's not here at the moment, he's somewhere safe." Her mother replied as she patted Rae's head and turned around, Rae looked at her confused. "safe? What's not safe?" She reached out behind her to grab a knife off the counter when suddenly everything around her faded out into black, and another scenario appeared in front of her. It was the beginning of the end, the day her mom left to sacrifice herself, the room was crowded full of Monsters that approached and smiled creepily at her. All she had at hand was a kitchen knife and Cole right behind her in the closet. She started stressing, unsure how to react to this nightmare day. She held the knife out at the monsters "FUCK- BACK OFF, YOU CANT HURT HIM!" she screamed as suddenly she had blacked out again.

Waking up seconds later on the balcony, everything was different, like it was before she started with the group "Its 2037 again… what the hell is happening" She stood up and opened the door to the hallway, it was full of people filled with fear, as she opened the door to the neighbors and grabbed the pistol she would usually use "what the hell is going on…" she quickly walked back into the hallway and headed towards the area everyone was running from "time to end this ordeal" she said to herself as she suddenly started hyperventilating like the air was disappearing from her lungs; her mind getting hazy the closer she got to the source "What the hell is–" her words cut out as she fell to her knees from loss of oxygen, she was filled with confusion and pain as she pushed herself to her feet to rush down the hall.

Every 3 seconds she would wake up and be back in the bed she fell asleep in. In front of her was a monster that looked just like the mother she saw in the mirror, its Acidic ooze dripping from its eyes onto Raes face.. It was excessively choking her, trying to kill her, it would quietly mutter in a demonic creepy voice "Cole…. My baby.. Cole… YOU STOLE MY BABY!!!" The creature yelled out. After another 3 seconds she'd go back to the dream world, rushing herself down the hallway towards the cause of the commotion, hoping it could wake her up.

She had soon realized she wouldn't be able to make it as every step she took the longer the hallway got, she growled as she shot her leg to wake herself up with the pain, quickly pushing herself towards the source while on the verge of passing out. She screamed out in pain both in reality and dream, the second she reached the apartment people were running from she held out her pistol and shot the person inside in the shoulder. After she did so she woke up in reality, back on her bed, the monster who was once choking her was out cold, she didn't kill it but did knock it out. She was covered in the black blood from the creature, she held her neck while hyperventilating again as she quickly ran and unlocked her door and ran out to Cayden and Donovan. Her leg still bleeding from when she shot it, she was confused and in pain once again, but this time she was self-aware.