Nightmare

Chapter 37: Confrontation  HER   Looking through the window, I saw one of my worst nightmares come true: the monster, I had been hunting for more years than I wanted to remember, was in the same room as my love....  Chapter 38: Awakening  HER  Healing from my grueling ordeal at my love’s house a week ago, I watched the news, waiting for the ruling on his death.... 

Chapter 34: Anticipation   HIM  I arrived at my home in the woods with gleeful anticipation.  About a half hour into my trip, I had received a call from my man informing me they had lost her somewhere in town....   Chapter 35: Determination   HER   Driving along the dirt road toward the house, I turned on the car’s GPS in order to figure out how close I was to it....     Chapter 36: Interruption   HIM  Sharp blade in my hand, I cut into the doctor’s leg yet again.   I heard his cry of pain....  

Chapter 32: Capture   HIM   Don’t ask me why, but for some reason I thought getting hold of her would be the easiest part of the whole plan....   Chapter 33: The Message   HER   Going through the money that was in my wallet, I saw that I only had about fifty dollars....   

Part Three: Him and Her   Chapter 30: Quiet Time   HER  As I finally began to map out how he chose his victims, I learned exactly what kind of mastermind he actually was.  His choices were not random....     Chapter 31: Escape   HER   Driving late at night down a fairly empty road on my way to the detective agency, I didn’t notice the cars until they’d been following me for quite a few blocks....   

Chapter 28: An Appointment With Death  The second I entered the room I noticed how bright it was. That made me smile again. My men had carried out my orders to the tee. I had wanted it nice and bright as I conversed with her. I knew it would confuse and disorient her....   Chapter 29: Twist in the Plan   It took me a while to finish my torture session with her, but I finally did....  

Chapter 26: The Transitional Period   I watched her closely after the fire. I was curious to see what exactly her actions would be....   Chapter 27: Preparations   After she got back into town, I watched the abrupt change in her manner toward me....  

Chapter 25: Knowledge Put Into Action  From my wedding day onward, my life became more exciting.  I now knew who it was that had figured out my little secret and my new goal was to learn everything I could about her.... 

Chapter 24: Acquiring Knowledge   As these many years passed, I had gotten into a good rhythm in my life. I finally joined a practice with a team of psychologists....  

Chapter 21: Failure and Its Price   As you have seen so far, I am a fairly tolerant person....  Chapter 22: Graduation   Graduation. This had to have been the best word ever created. So much meaning was able to be packed in such a small word....  Chapter 23: Training   The summer after graduation was one of my happiest times of my life. I relaxed, did absolutely nothing, and hung out with my followers and my girlfriend....  

Chapter 19: The Unfortunate Death   January left me with a heart broken in two....    Chapter 20: The First Murder  At the approach of summer, I suddenly realized that most of my followers would be leaving town....  

Part Two: Him   Chapter 18: Before   Life before my best friend’s death was wonderfully normal. Wait, did I say wonderfully? I meant to say mind-numbing normal. After his death, though, life became exciting.... 

Chapter 16: In Sheltering Arms   I don’t remember anything about my first night at the doctor’s house.  After my day of torture and the day of walking, I had nothing left in me.  I had given everything I had to get to safety....   Chapter 17: The Eureka Moment   Newly spurred on to find the key that would allow me to awaken from this endless nightmare, I redoubled my search for a mistake....  

Chapter 15: Walking to Civilization   The small break allotted to me made the subsequent pain worse than before.  I could tell he gloried in my agony. He wanted every ounce of satisfaction out of this confrontation as humanly possible.... 

Chapter 14: An Appointment With Death   Peacefulness. That’s the first thing I remember feeling.  A profound sense of peace and rightness with the world. Here there were no killers, no minions, no unending hunt....  

Chapter 13: The Search   The weeks of silently daring him ended one dark summer night.  I’ll start off by admitting that I got careless.  Well, maybe careless isn’t the right word....   

Chapter 10: Rebuilding   It took me the next six months to recover from the fire....    Chapter 11: Increase in Heat   While the time immediately after the fire was peaceful, I was not suckered into thinking that the abuse at his hands was over....    Chapter 12: Enmity  Like all good things, my vacation had to end sometime.  I couldn’t stay on the sea forever, even though sometimes I wanted to....   

Chapter 8: Knowledge Put Into Action   I left that wedding as fast as humanly possible.  I drove home, making sure I wasn’t followed, but I knew that that wouldn’t stop him and his henchmen....    Chapter 9: Slowed  I stayed outside on the sidewalk in front of my burned house until one of my fellow PI’s came and dragged me away.  I had no home, no possessions....  

Chapter 5: Graduation   The end of our senior year was a happy and scary time all wrapped into one big ceremony....   Chapter 6: Training   During that summer after graduation, except for one event, I didn’t hear a word about him....     Chapter 7: Acquiring Knowledge   More time passed.  I learned how to be a better PI and gradually took on cases that were more difficult....  

Part One: Her  Chapter 1: Before   I started noticing something was wrong when his best friend died....   Chapter 2: The Trigger  That February night I don’t know what I was doing.  Probably what I did every night: homework, family time, sleep.  Nothing real exciting....     Chapter 3: The First Death   Up to this point, I haven’t properly explained why he and his eyes bothered me so much....     Chapter 4: Failure and Its Price   I know, I know, you think up until now that I’ve been making things up or reading into the situation way too much....