Stranger Things What Ifs

Chapter Two

What if...Jason didn't come into the Creel house and the plan succeeded? (Fluff and light Angst)

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Words

Harsh

Words.

Lucas stands to the side while Max talks to Vecna, trying to bait herself into his mind that way Nancy Steve and Robin can take him down. He doesn't like the plan one bit but truth be told he couldn't think of anything else...

Besides trying to put someone else unknown to them in the same position.

He knew it sounded selfish when he was saying it in the RV to Max and how she shut him down with the idea, he knew it was wrong. In the moment it didn't sound wrong at all, in fact it sounded just right, because at least with that plan she wouldn't have to worry about baiting herself.

But here they are, Max sitting down and talking and Lucas having to stay quiet while she does, not even able to say anything. The words they...

They hurt.

She talks about how she wanted something to happen to her, why would she want that? Lucas doesn't understand, he doesn't know why she would ever want that. It was nothing she could have done that night to stop the mind-flayer from killing Billy, there is nothing she could have done when it came to the aftermath of things, and yet she still blames herself for his death. He gets the missing him part of it a little, yes he was an asshole but he was still her brother, Lucas even gets the fact that she wished something happened to him while he was driving or something, he gets that, but blaming herself and because of it that he doesn't get.

He doesn't know when it all went so wrong, he doesn't know when it all just happened and how her behavior changed it just...happened. He wished he noticed her behavior sooner, maybe they wouldn't be in this situation now if he did, he really doesn't know, just truth be told he doesn't like it.

His eyebrows furrow a little, no longer hearing Max talking. He goes to turn around, seeing Max just looking dead ahead of her while her hands are on her lap. "Max?" He questions, feeling his heart beginning to beat more faster and faster, his palms becoming more sweaty and a uneasy look going to set on his face. "Max?" He says again, his eyes widening and his heart thumping more harder in panic when she sees her eyes rolled in the back of her head. "Max?!" He questions again more louder and full of fear, waving his hand in front of her face.

Eleven looks at the scene with a determined expression. "He's got her." Mike Will Johnathan and Argyle both look at each other, them going to nod their heads and them hope for the best. Nancy Steve and Robin make their way out of the woods, seeing the large creel house right in front of them. They all glance at each other, them nodding their heads before they begin to make their way to the house. Erica sits watch at the small little playground by the Creel house, her having a flashlight in her hand.

"Max, Max I'm here." Lucas feels tears prickle in his eyes, him going to start over the loop on her tape player, going to put her headphones on her ears. "Just please stay strong, please make it out of there! Please!"

Max lightly trips as she runs, her running with all of her might while looking behind her, seeing Vecna slowly beginning to walk towards her.

"You cannot run from me Max."

"You cannot escape."

Max sees the doors straight ahead of her, her trying to open them but she can't. She goes to turn around, going to close her eyes and try to relax her body, relax her breathing, her letting her mind think about her happy time, the time and the place where she was happiest, the time and the place where she smiled her hard smiles, laughed her hardest laughs, thought her happy thoughts. When she opens her eyes she sees herself there, all of the different snowball decorations around her, the chairs and the tables around the room and the stage, her looking around at it in awe.