Is There Someone Else? | Stranger Things 4

XVI

Delilah
  I gasped in a panic, sitting up like I had just woken from a nightmare, the void surrounding me as 001 pulled me to my feet roughly. "Holy shit that bitch shot me!" I said gasping heavily and looking down to my torso frantically seeing the wound gone.

"They left you, to die, alone, and all because they were afraid of you 022." He growled, turning me to face him aggressively. I looked down at my hand seeing Eddie's ring on my finger. I smiled and felt a tear run down my face.

"Eddie didn't.. he didn't leave me right?" I said giving a hopeful smile. "Steve wouldn't either, or Robin, they wouldn't.." 001 gave me a sympathetic look.

"No dear, I'm afraid they all left you. On their way back home as we speak." He said apologetically, taking my hand and leading me through the void as hazy images appeared like mist.

The 4 of them were riding on bikes, pulling up to what looked like a trailer park, Eddie pedaling along a little uncoordinated but Steve speeding right ahead. "Where are they?"

"The gate to go back home to their Hawkins." He said simply, standing in a refined fashion, hands folded and shoulders pulled back.

"No, no they can't go without me, I'm alive still!" I said desperately. "Eddie! Eddie!" I screamed running to his side as he climbed off his bike. I could have sworn he looked at me for a moment but as I reached out to touch him his figure evaporated beneath my fingertips. "Fuck!" I screamed angrily.

"You know who to be angry with, the one who killed you in the first place." 001 said smiling. I turned to look at him intrigued.

"Wheeler," I said in realization. "In the forest, you told me I couldn't make her pay then, but what about now, I want to make her hurt," I said coldly, making 001 grin like I'd just told him he won the lottery.

Another image of them climbing into a gate appeared, Steve was offering Nancy to go up first and she gladly complied but right as she went climbing she appeared beside me in the void. She looked around and panicked before setting eyes on me and 001 and screaming.

  001 morphed into Vecna, making the both of us flinch away fearfully but Nancy only screamed harder and began to cry. "Only if you want her gone dear I will take care of it." He offered, sauntering towards Nancy.

  My gums throbbed making me wince and run my tongue along my teeth, I withdrew it quickly when I felt how sharp one of my teeth felt. "No, no I want to take care of her," I said smiling sadistically.

  Her eyes went wide as I stalked towards her, grabbing her in a headlock and sinking my teeth into her neck making her scream in pain as I sucked blood from her, feeling everything in my body come back to life.

  I dropped her weak body to the ground, watching her eyes roll back into her head as blood trickled down her neck, I turned towards the other misty image of them at the gate. Nancy's body floated up, Steve shaking her violently and panicking.

  001 rubbed my arms and laughed. "022 you've truly made me so proud, if papa saw you now, he would cower away from us, he was always scared. You were a monstrous little girl in his eyes, but this is no monstrosity, this is pure power."

  I licked the blood from my lips and laughed dryly. "I want to make them all pay, they all left me behind, turning their back on me to get home safe and sound. 001, are you telling the whole truth?"

  His face fell. "I'm afraid I've strayed a bit from the truth dear, but believe this, it was to protect you from the truth, but now that I know you want to end them, I feel you are strong enough to hear this, perhaps you can even use it as a reason to persevere."