No Choice | Peter Ballard x Reader

Epilogue【2/2】

Nancy looks around to find herself in the Creel household. It's heavily dismantled and pieces are floating in air. There's constant screaming in every direction. She's shaking, terrified, and traumatized by the corpse of her best friend. She never truly got to see Barb's body, so deep in her mind, she hoped that she was still somehow alive like Will.

However, that wasn't the case as Vecna revealed the poor girl's fate to her.

Nancy looks around as she hears the grandfather clock. It's just beneath her on the base floor. She hesitantly walks down the steps.

"I see that you've been looking for me, Nancy."

She nervously stumbles onto the next step.

"You were so close."

Another step.

"So close to the truth."

Nancy looks around, trying to figure out where the voice is coming from.

"How was old, dumb, blind Victor? Did he miss me?"

She makes it to the end of the stairway. She's about to start crying. This is all too much, but she just has to keep going.

The grandfather clock chimes again, and Nancy carefully trudges toward it.

"I've been meaning to check back in, but I've been busy."

She suddenly has an inclination to look to the left of her, and surprise, there's Fred's twisted, eyeless body hung on display. She finds it harder to breathe, quickly looking away from the corpse. 

Nancy then glances at the door. It's the same stained glass door that Max drew.

All at once, her surroundings are completely replaced with Vecna's memories. He narrates his childhood and explains his reasons for killing his family—well, everyone except for his father.

She looks even further to discover a steel door. It's completely white, contrasting to any other door in the house. She walks towards it and pushes the door open.

Once again, her scenery flashes into a very familiar place. It's the Hawkins Laboratory. She remembers this from when her and Jonathan were taken to it.

"Peter!"

Nancy slowly turns around to find you.

Your giving the person across from you a gentle smile as you excitedly wave.

Nancy turns to the person you're looking at, and she's guessing that it's Vecna before everything happens. His posture is proper; hair is dirty blonde. She notices how you both are wearing white uniforms. Huh, she guesses that you two are both employees, judging from the clothes and the attached name tags.

Speaking of which, she easily figures out your name as she glances at the card that clearly displayed 'Y/n'.

She watches as you run to Peter. Your arm automatically links into his.

"Are you ready to get some food? I'm starving!" you say.

Nancy notices the softness in the man's eyes as he stares directly into yours. She recognizes that look all too well. 

Red.

Everything's red again.

"I tried to save her."

Nancy apprehensively checks around her, trying to find Vecna.

The grandfather clock chimes again. It's directly across from her, and she walks even closer to it.

Her eyes are scanning it. It's the same one as the one in the Creel household—the same one that Henry tested his powers on, yet there was something inside. A body that's curled up on its right side with its arms and legs drawn up, head bowed forward.

"It made a promise with me, but it doesn't seem as though it was completely telling the truth."

Her eyes look at the bottom of the clock, and it has the same name tag she saw from the vision earlier. However, it's obviously decayed and the corners are burnt off.

"With every life I've taken, I was hoping it would restore her—bring her back to life, but it's no use."

Nancy suddenly hears the voice get closer and closer.

"My dove is far from saving."