HAVEN - stranger things.

viii. VICTIMS.

viii. she knows!

wendy felt uneasy as they walked around hawkins high school in the dark. max had stolen the counselor's office keys and wanted to break in to look at chrissy cunningham's files.

wendy shakily held her flashlight as she overheard dustin communicating with robin over the walkie talkie. robin was informing on how vecna's first victims were cursed back in 1959. wendy was in shock that this vecna had been working for nearly thirty years, she wondered if this was a constant thing or if he had taken a break.

dustin henderson revealed to robin and nancy that they had broken into the school, and he insisted that they hurry up to rejoin the group. wendy followed behind max and steve and dustin were close behind wendy.

"it's like a mini-watergate or something," dustin stated. "hawkinsgate." dustin continued. wendy couldn't help but to smile at his comment—she loved historical puns.

"didn't those guys get caught?" steve pointed out.

"holy shit." max mayfield commented.
"what is it?" wendy stepped forward, leaning on the side of the filing cabinet.

"you found it?" steve asked, inching closer. he wanted to talk to wendy about the nancy allegation, but they hadn't had a chance to. he didn't think that wendy was upset about it, but he still wanted to reassure her.

"yeah, and not just chrissy's file. fred was seeing miss kelley too." max announced.

wendy stood up straight, realizing just how much more serious this made the situation.
"okay this just got a hell of a lot scarier." wendy could feel her skin crawl.

max laid down chrissy cunningham's file, looking through it. something peaked her interest, because she turned to steve harrington and wendy carmichael.
"can i see fred's file?" she asked.

"yeah." steve agreed and handed her the folder. she laid it down on the table and steve turned to examine it with her.

wendy stood next to steve, looking down at the files as well but she couldn't read them as clearly from her angle. wendy moved to where she was standing in between dustin and max, she could finally read some of the symptoms.

severe headaches, nosebleeds, constant nightmares, past trauma.

wendy's eyes widened as she felt her heart sink. she looked down to see max zone out. max was experiencing these symptoms too.
"max? what is it?" steve asked.
"max? max!" dustin called out.

wendy was in shock—the thought of vecna getting to max was enough to break her heart.
"m-max?" wendy laid her hand on the girl's shoulder.

then, realization set in for wendy. the night that she had slept over steve's house, she had another nightmare for the fourth night in a row. but that one had been different, she had woken up screaming. that was nothing out of the ordinary, but the night that they found eddie munson, she had started to get a headache. she had just suspected that it was something different. yet in that moment, she knew.

vecna wasn't just coming for max, he was coming for wendy too.

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