Vine Blood (Stranger Things Fanfic)

Chapter Nine - Haunted Regret

The room Billy was led to was a large white tiled room like the other cells. 

But it had a silver table in the middle with metal boxes on it. 

Vine led Billy over to the table. 

He leaned against it. 

He was starting to feel a bit better. 

His body was starting to heal. 

"you will heal faster soon it just takes time to work, the experiments they do" she told him as she searched for something. 

Checking each tile on the wall. 

She knocked on each one listening. 

"are there others like you here?" he felt he had to ask. 

"like me?" she checked, wondering if he meant the monsters. 

"like you" he pointed at her. 

"not like me, no"

Continuing to knock he wondered what she was looking for. 

Alll the sounds the tiles made when she knocked on them sounded the same. 

But she continued and when she reached the fourth one down from the ceiling on the eight row  from the opposite wall the knock she made echoed back at her. 

"there you are" 

Grinning pleased with herself she pulled the tile off the wall. 

Reaching her hand in she pulled out a key. 

Billy wondered what it was for. 

She skipped over to the boxes on the table pushing the key into each box she opened them one by one. 

When they were all opened she left the key on the table. 

Billy peered into the boxes. 

There was food, medicines, tissues, bottles of water, soap, clean hospital gowns. 

She flung a bottle of water at him "catch!"

Startled,  it hit Billy on the side of the arm, then bounced off. 

Rolling her eyes. 

She picked it up for him. 

Knowing he wouldn't trust her she took off the lid, poured it into her mouth before handing it back to him. 

"Billy just drink!" she saw him hesitate. 

Feeling uneasy he put it to his lips taking a small sip. 

Nothing happened. 

It tasted like water. 

Cold refreshing water. 

He swallowed down faster. 

"there you go" she patted his arm. 

His eyes frowned at her. 

She was too friendly for his liking. 

Grabbing an empty box at the far end of the table she began to fill it with food, medicine and other supplies. 

But the box was much smaller than the rest. 

"why don't you just take all of it?" he wiped his mouth as he walked over to the bigger boxes. 

"its not aloud, nothing but the small box can leave this room its the rules" 

He wondered why she followed the rules when she was clearly powerful.