I'll take care of you

The next victim(s)

-DUSTIN
'There you guys are. Jesus Christ that took long.'
Max opens the door for us and we walk in. 'So, why the code red?' I ask. 'Yeah, sit down.' Lucas points to the sofa. 'So..' Max starts talking. 'So, as you know, before Vecna attacks it's victims, the victims get a vision. Right?' Steve and I nod. 'I had the visions. I'm gonna die in like 24 hours.' Max laughs sarcastically. 'I don't understand.' Steve whispers in my ear. 'Jesus Christ, Steve. But, can't we kill Vecna or something?' I ask. 'Nope, nothing we can do. We just gotta let it happen.' Max walks to a desk and starts writing something. 'What is the doing?' Steve whispers. 'I don't know. Maybe she's just writing about the experience.' I say. 'I'm writing letters, dumbasses.' Max says. 'Wh-huh. How did she hear us?' Steve whispers. 'You're extremely loud, dumbass.' Max sighs. 'Here, here and here.' She hands out letters. Steve starts to open it. 'Don't open it now! Jesus! It's for when things haven't worked out.' Steve sighs. 'Give these to El, Will and Mike.' She gives letters to Lucas. 'Now I have to give these to mom and, uh, Billy. Let's go.' We walk to the car.

'Turn left here.' We're at the trailer park where Max lives. 'Make it quick.' Steve yells. Max goes inside.
'Okay, now the cemetery. Drive faster. I think I'm almost out of time.' Max puts her seatbelt on. 'GO!'

'Hurry up, please.' Steve yells again. Max walks up the hill and sits down at Billy's grave. Steve is stressing her out. After 5 minutes, Steve is done with the waiting. 'Alright, I've waited long enough.'
'Steve, give her some time!' Lucas yells.
'Enough time, Sinclair, come on!' We walk up the hill. 'Max, come on.' Steve says. 'Max? MAX!'
'Shit, it's happening.' Max's eyes turned white and she's staring ahead. 'MAX! Nonono, MAX!' Lucas cries out. 'HENDERSON, GET THE WALKIE TALKIE AND TALK TO NANCY, NOW!' Steve pushes me off the hill and I run to the car. 'CODE RED! CODE RED!' I yell. 'Dustin, what's wrong?!' Nancy yells on the other side. 'Vecna has got Max, WHAT DO WE DO?' I yell. 'What's her favorite song? WHAT'S HER FAVORITE SONG?' Nancy yells back. I look around in the car. Max's songs are laying right there. I just take them all and run up the hill.
'LUCAS, WHAT'S HER FAVORITE SONG?!' I yell.
'RUNNING UP THAT HILL!' He yells back. 'Shit, where is it?' Steve asks. 'Right here, GO, GO!'
I put on the headphones and play "running up that hill." But it's too late. Max starts floating in the air.
'Hell no.' Steve backs up. Lucas cries out Max's name. I don't know what to do.

'LUCAS, WATCH OUT!' Max drops from the sky, right into his arms. 'Holy shit, you're alive.' Lucas hugs Max and closes his eyes. 'Yeah, yeah, I'm here.' Max says out of breath. Steve looks at me. 'They're so cute.' I whisper. 'Yeah.' Steve answers.

'Nancy? We're back.' Steve knocks on the door. 'Jesus, are you guys okay?' Nancy looks at us.
'Yeah, fine.' We all nod. 'Get some sleep.'
'Dustin, you have to watch Max.' Steve says.
'Seriously?' I look at Steve. He lays down and closes his eyes. After 5 minutes he's snoring. This is gonna be a long night.

'DUSTIN?!' Nancy yells. 'Jesus Christ Dustin, you had to watch Max.' I look around. Shit. 'I swear, I just dozed of for like, 10 minutes.' They can't know I fell asleep right after Steve. 'It's been a long day.'
Steve wakes up. 'What- what happened?'
'Dustin fell asleep.' Nancy looks mad. Steve laughs at me. 'Dumbass.' I stand up and walk to the kitchen. 'Jesus Christ, Nancy. She's over here.' Max is drawing with Holly. I walk back to the couch and close my eyes.

'Dustin. Dustin! It's 5am, come on!' I wake up again. 'We know where Eddie is, LETS GO!' Max yells.
Steve pulls me up and pushes me to the door. What the hell is going on? Steve and I get in the back, because we always have to sit in the back when we're with too much people. 'We're going back to the shed. Cops or no cops.' Nancy starts the car.
'There we are.' Nancy parks the car and we all step out. 'Eddie?' Lucas knocks on the door and opens it.
'Oh. My. God. I THOUGHT YOU GUYS WERE DEAD?!' Eddie jumps out of an old box he was hiding in. 'Hey, Eddie, I think we're on the news. Do you have a TV?' Max looks around for a TV. 'Yeah, here's the remote.' Eddie throws a remote to Max.

'We're sure Eddie killed Chrissy and Fred, but we think his friends: Dustin Henderson, Max Mayfield and Lucas Sinclair helped him. We're starting a hunt in an hour. Stay inside please.

'Let's just stay here and wait for what's gonna happen.' Steve says. 'We're gonna be fine.'
'They have guns. They shoot what they see.' Steve says. 'We have to be careful.'

-STEVE
'Shit, shit, shit, there they are. Get low!' Dustin whispers loudly. We all get low. The flashlights are shining trough the window. 'Nothing, try to get in.' We hear the cops say. 'Alright, on my sign, you guys climb trough the window.' Eddie says. We all nod.
'3,2,1, go go go go!' We all climb trough the window and run into the woods. I can't see where I'm going. I'm just following Dustin. I hear the cops yell. 'THERE, THERE THEY ARE!' I hear gunshots. Dustin slows down. I hear a shot. I grab Dustin, but it's too late. The bullet hits his arm. I grab him and carry him to a quiet place. 'Dustin, Dustin, shit. Are you okay?' Dustin cries softly, buries his head in my sweater, trying to make less noise. I hold him as tight as I can. 'It's okay, it's okay.' I look around. No one's near us. 'Dustin? DUSTIN!' His eyes turn white. Shit. Vecna.

-DUSTIN
I bite on my lip. Steve holds me tight. 'Steve, please, let me go.' Steve squeezes me. 'Steve.' I try to get out of his arms, but it doesn't work. 'What- Steve!' I scream crying. I look at his face. He looks like a zombie. Oh my god, Vecna got me.
'You're a worthless little pig, Dustin.'
'Mom.'
'The party was better off without you.'
'Mike? Lucas...'
'Get out of my house, man.'
'Steve?'
'Dustin. It is time for you to SUFFER.'
I grab my arm and run for my life. I'm gonna die.

-STEVE
'MAX? LUCAS!' I yell. I see them trough the trees. 'Over here!' They come running. 'Jesus, what happened?' They say out of breath. 'Shit. Not Dustin...' Max looks around. 'Dustin... he isn't much of a music guy.' She says. 'No. No, I know... we're gonna do the same thing as we did with Will, just follow my example.' I say. I start talking:
'Dustin. When I first saw you I was gonna bring flowers to Nancy, because I had to make it up with her. But you needed help with some crazy demo-dog shit. I didn't even hesitate. I don't know, I just helped you. Since then you're the only person that makes me happy. Remember when we were in some sort of big tunnel? That was our first death experience: a whole group of demo-dogs were approaching us. You almost fell into the group, but I grabbed you just on time. And the Russians, you saved us. Please, safe yourself now.' I sigh and sit on the ground. 'Shit.' Dustin starts floating in the air. 'Hurry up guys, Max, you go now.'

-DUSTIN
I'm in so much pain. Vecna caught me, I'm hanging on his little pole. His snake arm-things hanging around my neck... But Steve made everything better. I heard his little speech and some sort of portal opened. I pick up all my strength, pull the side of Vecna's face off and run. 'Not again...' Vecna growls.
'Go to hell.' I yell while running.
'Dustin, if you managed to escape, he's not done. Watch out and please run for your life.' I hear Max say. I look at them. Lucas sitting on the ground with Steve. Steve looks at his arm. His sweater was yellow, now it's red.

-STEVE
I look at my sweater. It turned red from Dustin's blood. 'Nothing helps.' Max sits down and sighs.
I look at Dustin and yell: 'Guys? GUYS! I think Dustin's coming back! His eyes aren't white anymo-'
Dustin drops out of the sky, back in my arms. 'Holy shit, holy shit.' He says out of breath. 'Oh my god, you're alive.' I close my eyes. I thought he was dead.