Vine Blood (Stranger Things Fanfic)

Chapter Six - Beach

Vine was playing in the ocean of his memories. 

Running up and down the beach as the waves came in and out. 

Trying to avoid the water getting in her shoes. 

Laughing. 

Billy felt like she was mocking him. 

There was nothing real about this place. 

Yet she made it feel real to him. 

She was tainting a really good memory. 

There was nothing to smile or laugh bout here. 

Yet he couldn't take his eyes off her. 

She was beautiful, enchanting. 

The perfect type he would go for. 

Even though his interest on women never stayed for long. 

He felt like it would with her, there was something about her. 

This only made him hate her and distrust her even more. 

Skipping over to him she gave him a wink "do you want to build a sandcastle with me?"

All he really wanted was a cigarette. 

"here" 

Holding out her hand Vine had a cigarette in her hand. 

She offered it to him with a lighter. 

"i want a real one" Billy muttered. 

"what's not real about it?" she lit the end of the cigarette, put it to her lip, drew in a breath then let out a billow of smoke. 

Rolling his eyes he stood up and took it from her. 

He put it to his lips to prove a point. 

But the point he was going to prove failed. 

The cigarette smelt and tasted real. 

Drawing in a breath, he did the same as her. 

And felt immediate relief. 

"how do you do that?" he asked "how do you make it all look, smell, feel, real?"

"I'm not doing anything" she answered "the human brain is powerful when it creates memory the memory can remember smell, taste, sight, sounds, i can enter it with you and bring you to those memories, but all those other sense well that's down to you"

Chucking the cigarette to the sand he had a question he needed to ask "but your not part of the memory so how do i feel you?"

"you felt El , you felt him, its normal the brain makes it real"

"i hate that" Billy grimaced 

"i know I'm sorry"

"when you told me about yourself you told me your a distant relative of number one, is that true?"

"yes my death has been faked he doesn't know of my existence I've been trying to keep it quiet for as long as possible till i can figure out how to destroy him for good"

"and have you? found a way?"

"Yes we need to cut him off completely from the upside down, close the gate for good so neither he or El or any machine can open it again then El will have a good chance at defeating him but it needs to be on this side so he will have no back up plans"

"how do we cut him off?" 

" we need to keep him over here and then the gates needs to be closed from both sides one by one like a double lock one person closes it here and the other closes it in the upside down" Vine continued to inform him 

"once the last gate is closed how will the person on the other side get back to here?" Billy asked "will they open another gate, wont that just start all of this again?"

" no and no and thats not something you need to concern yourself with" she looked away 

This worried Billy what if she intended to trick El into staying on the other side. 

"once we helped you defeat him what next? what will you do? you got powers too how do we know you won't-"

"kill you all" Vine interrupted 

Billy nodded. 

"I'm going to die in six years there would be no point"