𝙘𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙧𝙮 𝙥𝙤𝙥! 𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙫𝙚 𝙝𝙖𝙧𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙜𝙩𝙤𝙣

SCENE TWENTY SEVEN. into piper's mind

el lifting the cool glass to her lips gulping in the cold water as she tried to regain her normality, well. she had been spying on what they believed to be the mind flayer victims, but all of them came to dead static. a blunt end. minus billy, who was sitting in his room, just staring at the wall mumbling a name she couldn't quite catch.

"and that's not normal, right?"

"billy staying in his room on the fourth of july? no, that's not normal."

"he wants us to find him."

"yeah, that's what i'm afraid of. if we go to billy, then the rest of the flayed know where we are."

"it's a trap, i agree. we'll be ambushed."

"we won't be surprised. we'll know that they're coming and we will kick their flayed butts."

"you mean el will kick their butts."

"killing the flayed won't stop the mind flayer, think of piper. we know nothing about what's going on, nor where she is. we have to find out where it's spreading. we have to find the source."

"billy knows it. billy's been there. to the source. but so has she. he took her there. piper."

"but-"

"it's a trap, i know. we can't go to either of them, but i think there is another way."

"a way for me to see where she's been, and where she is." and they all nodded, agreeing it would be easier to get into piper's mind compared to billy. billy knew she would be watching him, he would be controlling what she sees. but piper didn't. and max motioned el to join her in front of the tv as mike turned it on, the static hissing out into the room straight away.

"el, i know you think you have to do this. but you don't. it's just you've only done this before once. and your mum, she loved you and wanted you to know what happened. and this piper's mind is sick, diseases. controlled. the mind flayer could be in her."

"she can't hurt me, not in there."

"i know piper, she wouldn't hurt me. mike, i need you to trust me."

"yeah, just be careful." he murmured, looking back at max who merely smirked at him as he lifted back into the chair. leaving el in front of the tv. lifting the fabric to her eyes. and she was surrounded in darkness once more. hearing the water under her feet as she began walking into the unknown. piper sat in some kind of chair, arms strapped at her sides. shirt ripped showing the black veins along her sickness. travelling down to her hip. el walking up the bed, joining at her side. she had never seen someone look so ill. she reached forward, grasping the girl's hand. and she didn't even flinch, she wasn't moving. it was as if she were dead. but she wasn't because she was able to penetrate her mind.

"piper." she mumbled, looking down at the girl in the bed like a chair. she was deadly pale.

"can you hear me?" el asked again but the girl was unresponsive once more.

"i want to see, i want to see what happened. please piper, help us." el mumbled taking another step closer to the bed. going to wipe the blood on the girl's cheek when her hand reached out to grab el's. eyes flashing open. the restraints on her arm had been torn.

"something's wrong.” mike commented watching as el's shoulders bagan to violently shake as she let out crazed breaths.

"help me." the girl cried, el looked into her eyes. but the girl wasn't there. it was if there was no one there, just the shell of piper. and piper pushed the girl backwards. the girl falling into nothingness. visions flashing across her mind. piper

and the girl laid on her bed. radio playing softly in the background. hearing the tv from the living room. when she heard it. almost a whisper. but she heard it.

"piper." it called again and she sat up from the bed, looking around her room to find where the noise had come from. but there was no sign of life.

"piper." it called again, looking towards the door. swearing it came from that direction as she lifted from the bed. thankful she was wearing socks or her feet would be cold due to the hard floor. her door slightly ajar, which was definitely not open before.

"follow me." whatever it was whispered, and like it was some kind of order she did.stepping into the empty house to find it well empt, her mother snoring on the sofa with the tv still playing. when it suddenly glitched to static, the lights flickered lightly. confusion etched on her features as she spotted a shadow standing at the window, running off once she noticed it. and she was done, running back to her room in fear. hoping hermum was smart enough to lock the doors before she had fallen asleep. slamming her door shut behind her. pressed against it listening into the house. she was scared. no. she was terrified. till she felt it, the cold late night gust of wind blowing into her room. the smell of cigarettes was much stronger but there was another smell. rotting. a rotting smell. turning to find a boy sitting on her bed. a cigarette loose in his lips as he grinned. he was rather attractive but he was strange and in her house. and the smell, it made her want to gag.

"i don't know who are you are, but get the fuck out of my house." she ordered, still pressed against the door as he began to stand. flicking his cigarette onto the floor at his feet.

"i know who you are though, piper parker." he grinned one more time, her eyebrows furrowed slightly in confusion. who the fuck was this person? he wore some kind of life gaurd uniform, that was splattered in a weird thick bubbling substance.

"i'll call the cops, get out." she ordered me to pull something from her pocket. face crumbling as she realised it was only a lighter.

"oh piper, little white insults. how about we go for a ride, princess?" he smiled taking another step, reaching for her and she ducked under him, kicking the back of his leg as she passed. so now he fell into the door and she stood at her bed.

"i would rather die, get out of my house." she ordered pointing at the window once more time. she was so fucking scared but she wouldn't let him know that.

"well if you're offering and harrington's princess. the name's billy, remember it. you'll be screaming." and that grin split wider over his face, turning into some kind of monster. the girl not even reacting to his comments as black liquid spilling over his lips filling his eyes and he charged at her. feeling his hand rip into the skin of her hip as it faded to nothing.

and then billy stood over a body, piper's body. the skin of her hip ripped open and turning black as some kind of creature stepped into the light. the mind flayer.