I'm in the Rainbow Room, a smaller one, and I'm with Eleven. And I know what days this was, it was the last day we were together. A woman with bright blonde hair just like Eleven's, runs into the room and says something, but it's not clear.
Then some other people come in and take the woman away, and everything becomes blurry again. I find myself in another memory, and it's older.
This is the day I was taken. It is dark and I'm walking. I look up and I see Brenner holding my hand. I close my eyes tight and when I open them the memory has changed.
I'm in a house and it's familiar. A woman who must be my mother sits next to me and tells me, "You don't have to worry. We'll be there right when they let you out."
And then I look over to a man who must be my father, my real father, who says, "Its just school Kali. You will see, it's a little longer then pre-school, but we won't forgot to come get you."
Suddenly another memory takes over, and I'm in a playground. I watch as a black car pulls up outside and Brenner steps out of it. I feel like screaming, but I don't. I just think about screaming. I scream in my mind. I project the thought outwards, everywhere, into every mind near to me.
"AHHHHH!" screams the man who attacked me. This isn't a memory. I stand up and watch the man back away from me. I'm angry with myself, as I know that Brenner and Caroll would have heard the scream.
I run. I run as fast as I can away from the man. They chase after me, but I make it to a door that brings me to a stairwell. I keep going. I go down, down, down, and then I hear the man stop. I look up and see them standing at the top of a stairway, beginning to say something in their radio.
I have to stop the man from telling the others where I am, if I want any chance of escaping. I project something in their mind behind them, something they might fear. I project a voice, "Watch your step," and the man turns around to see Brenner standing right in front of them.
The man takes a step back and misses the step behind him, and they fall down, down, down until they get to the bottom of the stairway. It wasn't right; I'm not going to pretend that it was. I run.
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Kali (K8LI) : A STRANGER THINGS Story
Mystery / ThrillerKali Prasad was abducted when she was a child, but now she is grown and so have her gifts. Journey back to the time when Kali was referred to as Subject Eight, in this one shot story about the horrors of Hawkins National Laboratory.
