Smoking About You

Chapter Thirty

Steve took steps towards the grandfather clock, as he did the bottom of his shoe made contact with broken glass

Eleven followed behind him looking up at the clock realized it was broken, once she noticed everyone else did

Dustin rustled around in his pockets, "Wait I think I have something."

He lifted out a petite key attached to a chain for a necklace, "Dustin, what are you doing with that?" Max question.

"It's the school counselor's."

"I know, it was laying on her desk. I thought it would be important!"

She motioned towards the clock, "Well, what do you think it does?"

Dustin stood in front of the clock seeing the key hole in the middle, where the hands were connected

He raised the key pushing it into the keyhole, "Does- does it work?" Will asked

Dustin turned with a smile, he twisted it, everyone inside of the room heard the click.

"Go on...open it." Nancy eased, he opened the panel and a demo-bat flew out, he ducked covering his head.

Steve heaved his bat above him hitting the demogorgon bat to the ground, it stopped moving for a second

"Steve, it's moving again!" Max pointed, he went to strike the animal again but Billy had stomped on it, black blood splattered on the cuff of his jeans

"Anything in there Henderson?" He went from checking down at the bat to looking up at Dustin

He peeked into the comb-web covered area, he put his hand in touching around, "I got something- Ouch- shit."

Dustin took his hand out having a cut across his hand, with his other he grabbed the jagged dagger from inside

He passed it to Nancy, she then wiped the small amount of blood with the bottom of her shirt, Max looked over, "Ew, you got your blood on it."

Dustin rolled his eyes then walked towards Steve showing the cut wound, Steve patted him on the back, "You'll be fine."

Billy had a reoccurring thought in his head, it kept telling him, 𝘤𝘶𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘥...𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘥𝘰 𝘪𝘵 𝘢𝘭𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘺.

"Wheeler let me see it." He held his hand out, Nancy put the knife in his hand, "What are you going to do?"

He swallowed before taking the edge of the knife across the palm of his hand, Steve took it from him, "Hey, what the hell."

"Yeah Billy, what the hell are you doing?" Max stood in front of him with the look of concern, Billy glanced up at her to reply

"Holy shit look." Mike pointed, black veins started to run through Billy's palm, he twisted his hand around watching the rest of his arm become covered.

"Wait! Will could you try?" Mike asked, Will was shaken by the veins on Billy's hand, "I could, but why?"

"Well, he has powers and so do you. Yeah?"

Mike grabbed the dagger giving it to Will, Lucas stood next to Max when he noticed, "Hey..hey! What's that?"

Eddie saw, "Hargrove, what's in there?" Billy stared down at his arm watching something from beneath his skin move

"It looks like what was in El's leg. When we were in the mall." Jonathan glanced towards her, "It does, and it's heading towards your cut."

Everyone paused focusing, the lump eventually got to the palm of his hand, it tried to crawl itself out, Billy's hand tensed up