In The Stars / Steve Harrington 3

Chapter 33

3rd person pov

Several vines wrap around Eleven as she is pinned up against the door of the Creel house in Vecna's mind layer. El observes the unfamiliar area around her. She sees the many pieces of the Creel house, the grandfather clock, and Chrissy's body. El looks down as she watches Vecna, with an unconscious Bella thrown over his shoulder, walk towards one of the many pieces of the broken Creel house. Vecna drops Bella onto the ground as El gasps in shock and horror.

Several vines wrap around Bella and pull her up onto the wall of the broken house. "Papa is dead." Eleven says to try and stop Vecna from killing Bella. Vecna slowly turns around to look at Eleven. "I know what he did to you." Eleven says as tears stream down her face in pitty for Henry. Vecna tilts his head and slowly walks towards Eleven. "You were different like me." El says to try and appeal to Vecna's humanity. "And he hurt you. He made you into this. He is the monster Henry not you. Not you." Eleven says as tears pour down her cheeks.

"You're right. You and I we are different. Papa did hurt me but he was no monster. He was just a man. An ordinary, mediocre man. That is why he sought greatness in other people. In you and me." Vecna says to Eleven as he places a knarled finger under her chin. "But in the end he could not control us. He could not shape us. He could not change us. Do you not see Eleven? He did not make me into this, you did." Vecna says and Eleven's eyes widen remembering what happened in the lab when she thought she killed Henry.

"At first I believe you had sent me to my death, to purgatory, but I was wrong I was somewhere new." Vecna says remembering when he wad first transported to the upside down. "I became an explorer. An explorer of a realm unspoilt by mankind. I saw so many things, and one day I found the most extraordinary thing of all. Something that would change everything. I saw a means to realize my potential. To transcend my human form. To become the predator I was always born to be." Vecna explains to El as she listens in horror realizing that everything that has happened to her and her friends is because of him. "It was-it was you. Always you." El says as tears stream down her cheeks.

"All I needed was someone to open the door and you did that for me without even realizing it." Vecna says as he tilts his head to the side. "And when you did realize you chose to resist. So I sought a means to open my own doors. I sought your power. So don't you see, once again you have freed me." Vecna says as he caresses El's face. "You don't have to do this. You can still stop this." Eleven trys to reason with Henry. "It is over Eleven your friends have lost." Vecna says as El let's out a sob.

"There is nothing, nothing you can do to stop this now." Vecna says to Eleven. "Hawkins will burn and fall then the rest of this senseless, broken world. And I will be there, I will be there to pick up the pieces when it does and remake it into something beautiful. There was a time when I had hoped to have you by my side but now I just want you to watch." Vecna says as he let's go of Eleven's face and walks towards Bella. A vine wraps around Eleven's throat as she wimpers.

Bella slowly regains consciousness as Vecna stalks towards her. Bella crys as Vecna caresses her face with his clawed hand. "Don't be afraid. Try and stay very still. It will all be over soon." Vecna says as Bella sobs. Vecna lifts his clawed hand in front of Bella's face and Eleven screams Bella's name as Bella gasps in pain.

Steve's pov

I look over Jason's shoulder as he chokes me. My eyes widen as I see Bella start to lift into the air. I scream as I grab Jason and slam his head into the boarded up window beside us. I punch him several times in the face and eventually knock him out.

I quickly turn around and look up at Bella. I gasp as her bones start to break and blood runs down from her eyes. "BELLA!" I scream as tears stream down my cheeks. I gasp as she falls. I quickly catch her in my arms and sit her down on the ground.

Corey's pov

I gasp for air as the vines continue to tighten around me. Suddenly my axe that I dropped cuts through a vine and then all of the vines release their hold on Robin, Nancy, and I. I quickly look up to see a boy I thought I would ever see again. Billy Hargrove.

Authors Note
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Y'all didn't think I was really gonna kill my man off did you ;)