Robert was dreaming.
He was in his home again, and had just come home from work. The hall was well lit and bright, and he smiled happily as he took off his boots and put his laptop bag on the table. Going upstairs, he walked into the bedroom, to find his wife smiling at him. Except, she wasn't smiling.
In fact, smiling seemed to be the least on her mind. No, she was eating. Eating a person. He froze, horrified, and tried to back out slowly, but she looked up. And it wasn't her eyes that looked at him, the eyes he had grown to love over the past ten years. No, they were the eyes of a monster.
He stumbled backwards as she dropped her feast and moved forwards, shambling towards him like some demented parody of the world he knew. He screamed, and ran from the room, looking for something to protect himself with. On the floor there was a lead pipe, and he grabbed it, and when she came out, he swung it at her head and-
Robert sat bolt upright, sweating and panting, and trying his best not to scream. It hadn't happened like that, but still...
He shook himself off, stood up (grabbing his pipe and pistol) and went to find out what he'd missed.