Love Made Me Crazy {STRANGER THINGS}

{032} Papa

"No, no. You're lying. It can't be. Stop lying! Why are you lying?!" Ziggy exclaims, and out of anger walks towards him. "Answer me!"

"You act on your anger, little one"

"Stop changing the subject, you prev! I ain't that stupid, asshat!" Ziggy snaps. "Tell me what you want from me! Why do you want me to...join you?" she mocks him.

He tiles his head, walking towards her. "I'm glad you aren't anything like your aunt, grandfather or grandmother. I was afraid you'd be like them"

"Wait, who? What are you talking about?" Ziggy questions, calming down as the anger replaces with confusion.

"Your friends lied to you, not me. My old friend Victor told them about you, and your family. Included me. But they never intended to tell you. Did you not see your birth certificate?"

"Yeah, I did. Christine- Christine Creel..." Ziggy feels paralyzes as she didn't realize it when she read it. She got distracted by Max and all the feelings in the moment.

"Henry Creel" Ziggy breathes out. "Creel"

"It took you longer than I'd think. But I guess I have to give you some credit"

"Why don't you leave me and my friends alone?!" Ziggy screams.

"I told your friend Nancy Wheeler the truth about me. Do you wanna see it, daughter? Or do you wanna see the moments before and after your birth?"

"Stop playing games with me, Vec-Creep" Ziggy sasses angrily.

Meanwhile, Max, Lucas and Eddie try to wake Ziggy up. The others help Steve with Nancy who just woke up. Nancy and the others come outside, also trying to help wake up the blonde.

"I can hear your friends begging and pleasing for you to wake up"

"Then let me" Ziggy snaps coldly. The blonde closes her eyes and suddenly she falls from mid air with a loud gasp. She lands in Eddie's arms and he holds his arms around her smaller body tightly.

"Oh, thank God. I thought I lost you, Z" Eddie hugs her even tighter.

Ziggy places her hand on his arm. "You won't lose me, Eddie. I promise"

***

Ziggy sits on Eddie's lap as Nancy explains what Vecna showed her.

"He showed me things that haven't happened yet" Nancy speaks. Everyone stands or sit around her. "The most awful things. I saw...a dark cloud spreading over Hawkins. Downtown on fire. Dead soldiers. And this...giant creature with....a gaping mouth. And this creature wasn't alone. There were so many monsters. An army. And they were coming into Hawkins. Into our neighborhoods. Our homes. And then...." Nancy pauses. "He showed me my mom. And Holly. Mike. And they....They were all...." the elder Wheeler couldn't continue her sentence.

"Okay, but....he's just trying to scare you, Nance" Steve says carefully. "Right? I mean....I mean, it's not real"

"Not yet" Nancy whispers. "But there....there was something else. He showed me gates. Four gates. Spreading across Hawkins. And these gates, they looked like the one outside of Eddie's trailer, but....they didn't stop growing. And this wasn't the Upside Down Hawkins. This was our Hawkins. Our home"