*After Note: I cleaned up my stories. If you want to know more, about why and how, read the top of my profile*

So apparently there was a Jekyll and Hyde musical or something?

I heard the song "Confrontation" ….I think.

And I had an idea and ran with it.

Meh.

-grungekitty

"YOU'RE NOT ME! YOU'RE JUST THAT FIRE!" I scream.

"NO! I'm a part of you! You'll just have to accept it!" He coos back.

"All you are is a mistake! Something I did wrong!" I call out to the darkness around me. "You can't hurt me!"

His cackling laugh froze my blood.

"Look deep down and accept it. I. AM. YOU." His voice cracked through the air like a whip.

"You're nothing but a feeling of guilt!" I reason, less sure of myself than before.

Damn! That's what he wanted! To chip away at my confidence until I believe him!

"You know what guilt feels like, is this it?" He spoke in a level voice.

"This….This is just a nightmare!" I shout, my legs shaking, ready to give into the fear and fail me "All you are is a monster in my head!"

"A nagging fear am I?" He chuckled softly

"You're not real!" I say more to myself than him. "You can't hurt me!"

"But I am real!" His voice booms from all directions. "I'm what you shove down to the bottom of your soul, unwilling to confront!"

"NO!" I scream.

"Now you've let me out once, you can't deny anymore!" He yelled back. "I'm a part of you that you can't control!"

"You only have the power I give you!" I desperately argue

"And what power I take for myself!" He laughed evilly.

"You…You can't…" my breath becomes panicked. "You're gone!"

"I'll never be gone!" He shouted triumphantly.

I was terrified. Hoping for someone to wake me up.

"Can you feel the burning?" He asked.

"No! No!" I plead.

"The flame consuming your mind? Red, hot, hate taking over?" He taunts me.

"I can fight you!" I threaten.

"You can only thrash in protest!" He shrieks

"I kicked you out once! I can do it again!" I scream, struggling against the blackness closing in.

"You pushed me back!" He corrected.

"You have to give up eventually!" I tried.

"I'll never stop." He snarled. "I've been out of my cage once, and I'll stop at nothing to get out again!"

"Leave me alone!" I screamed.

"It's only a matter of time before I win!" He said.

"I'll never let you!" I could feel tears.

"You won't have a choice!" He yelled "You're already losing control to me!"

"NEVER!" I refused.

"Face it, you can feel the fire burning in you, the flames lapping at your insides, burning and melt everything that tries to extinguish it! Just give in to it."

"NOOOOOO!"

My own scream woke me up from the nightmare.

Everything around me was sticky with cold sweat. I breathed heavily like my dream had been suffocating me. My eyes were open as wide as they could be, as if to remind myself it was all a dream and that I was awake now.

I tried to comfort myself, but all I could do is lay there, shaking in fear of what was surely somewhere deep down inside me.

How was that?

IDK.

Review? My confidence is under a rock…..in china.

-grungekitty