AN: As I said I would, I added a longer summary, as well as a prologue. Hope you like!!!

Summary

Max is having nightmares. Terrible, horrific, disgusting night terrors of the Flock being murdered brutally by a shadow; a monster. But when the dreams go to far, leading her to harm her own family, Max realizes that her sanity is not the only thing on the line; her soul. Dancing on a knife's edge, Max has to team together with her worst enemy to stop the dreams before they finally become reality, and this lethal balancing act takes a dangerous turn for the worst. FAX, Rated T-M (Based on the song Disturbia by Rihanna)

Prologue

Sometimes, when I'm alone, and none of the Flock are nearby, I wonder.

What would it be like to die? What would it be like after? Was it quick? Did you really see the light?

Living in my world, death was too common, and those who didn't do anything wrong except exist paid the price of adult's mistakes with their lives. In my world, the ones who died were the children who were born to live a decade or so in fear and pain.

In my world, the ones who died were a scientist's sick experiment.

But was it better in the real world? People still died. Old age, illness, accidents… It still had the same result.

Still, what happened after? Was there really a paradise? On the other hand, did we just… cease to exist?

We never could know. We weren't aloud to.

I always hoped we could just… watch, I guess. That there was a place where we could still take care of our families, our friends, even though we were dead. Let them know we really were watching over them.

I thought that until I died.

That was when I learned the truth.

There was no 'Paradise'. No place to watch. I still existed.

I was stuck in my corpse, drowning, eternally trapped in the inky dark of death.

Silently screaming for the help that I knew would never come.

AN: Jeez, just writing that creeped me out. Actually, I'm not going to tell you what the Hell this means until much, much later on in the story. As you might have noticed already, this is a VERY creepy, and scary, story. If you don't like horror stuff, or have a weak stomach added with a vivid imagination, leave now.

You have been warned.