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Sleepless_Dreamer.Reunion_Un.tex

  1\chapauth{Sleepless Dreamer}
  2\chapter[Reunion]{Reunion Under a Blood Red Moon}
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  6The man stared at the figure wrapped in black sitting on the bench
  7in the middle of town at 3 in the morning. It was late, but he felt
  8it was his duty to talk to the lonely person who had seen better
  9days. After exchanging meaningless talk, the man in green asked the
 10man in black what placed him in this situation.
 11
 12``It all started when that Bavarius kid moved in the 3 story
 13house by the cemetery. That kid, Luke, was a curious little punk,
 14but he just turned the whole neighbourhood around with his
 15investigations. That little jerk was probably too smart for his own
 16good, and brighter than any of the people around him, including his
 17parents. That kid fancied himself a detective, and he was quite
 18good at his ``detecting'' work, especially for a 13 year
 19old boy who listened to no one but himself. He was smart, he was
 20the first one to see right through the facade that suburban life
 21provided, he knew how fake everything was.''
 22
 23The man in green asked: ``so he spotted his mother cheating on
 24his father or something?''
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 26The dark person replied: ``no, he had been aware of that for
 27quite a while, he simply realized what was happening in the
 28graveyard at night. The most of the neighbourhood would gather
 29around a specific grave, late at night, around this hour, and they
 30would chant horrible songs of death and despair. A black magic
 31ceremony of the darkest kind, celebrating horrors man should not
 32know. Luke was a kid, but he knew what was happening there
 33wasn't right. His parents wouldn't believe him, and his
 34older brother, Frank, just said Luke probably had imagined
 35everything. His brother didn't care; he was 16 and had
 36started dating a slutty girl. He was more concerned about that then
 37the darkness that surrounded their house.''
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 39The man in green smiled and said: ``it sounds like Luke was
 40just in need of attention; he was probably a bit jealous his
 41brother had started dating. I've seen that a lot in my line
 42of work.''
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 44The brooding figure replied: ``Luke didn't need these
 45easy girls to be happy, and he did not invent anything because he
 46needed attention. He was right. The whole street would gather,
 47planning human sacrifices. One night, Luke snuck out of his
 48bedroom, into the graveyard, and observed what was happening. There
 49was more people than usual, and on a grave that served as an altar,
 50a girl was bound and gagged{\ldots} Frank's girlfriend. The
 51ceremony started, and Luke tried to get under the altar to untie
 52the poor girl. That's when a familiar voice caught his
 53attention. He could not quite figure out who it was, the voice was
 54transformed by dark magics. That's when he heard a sound that
 55will be burned in his memory forever: the sound of the girl's
 56throat being sliced open. Blood dripped at first, but it eventually
 57pour over Luke, the blood of this poor girl sacrificed to a dark
 58god. Luke waited for an hour, and then snuck away from the mass and
 59washed himself before going back home. The next day, he asked his
 60brother about his girlfriend, but was told that they had broken up
 61the night before.''
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 63The man in green said: ``that's quite a story
 64you've got there, do you need a place to spend the night, I
 65know a shelter, and I could start seeing you as a patient, you see,
 66I'm a psychiatrist.''
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 68The man in black looked up and said in a grave voice: ``I know
 69what you are Frank. I know what you've become. You feed on
 70men and women's souls and masquerade as a psychiatrist.
 71I'm here to stop you. I've known it for years, but
 72I'm not a kid anymore, people listen.''
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 74The man in green snarled: ``Who do you think you are? Luke? I
 75killed you years ago, I sliced you up like a pig on that altar. You
 76bleed and cried, you pissed your pants when the knife when through
 77you.''
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 79The figure in black rose, the street lights revealing his pale
 80complexion, his emaciated figure, and the darkness in his eyes. He
 81said: ``you killed me, but you failed to make sure I was
 82dead.'' Luke grabbed frank by the throat and crushed his
 83airways. ``You are going to hell, where you will be devoured
 84slowly by the people you have killed, until all that is left of you
 85is blood, tears and pains. And it will start over for
 86eternity.'' The dying Frank let out one last airless shout as
 87his soul went to hell.
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 89Luke smiled and said to himself: ``Another job well done, and
 90now I can wear his skin to seem more human. I finally have a life
 91back.'' He looked up and saw Sandy, the girl his brother had
 92killed, waiting for him back to un-life like him. Things were
 93getting better.
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 95\section*{Alternate Ending}
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 97Luke said to himself: ``They always fall for the zombie
 98make-up.'' He looked up and saw the ghost of his mother, who
 99asked: ``Are you sure that was Frank?'' Luke replied:
100``Yes mother, thank you for guiding me to him, and for saving
101my life when Frank tried to kill me.'' ``Don't
102thank me, she replied, I've been with you ever since I died,
103thank you for not taking these pills that make me
104disappear.''
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106Luke smiled and said to no one in particular: ``Psychiatrists,
107what do they know?''
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