(3) Till Death Do Us Part (Max Mayfield/ (Fem) You)

-Chapter 20 (Ending A): Till Death Do Us Part-

I sit there, closing my eyes.

If I can't get back into Max's mind.....could I get into El's?

I focus on El. Her face, her expressions, her mind. At first, I feel nothing. No difference but the laboured breathing of Max and the silence of the room....until I feel the presence of something or someone else intrude my mind. I don't see anything even when I open my eyes, so instead I speak.

"El, if you can hear me....please help me. I want to try to get into Vecna's mind. His mind, not Max. There is a good chance I'll be able to distract him. Please see if there's anything you can do with the distraction. I can't lose Max. Not again." I say. I don't hear or feel a response, but I allow myself to leave, feeling the weight leave my mind as I now focus my mind on Vecna. "Wherever you are...I'll find you, bitch." I mutter as I feel my mind get heavier and heavier.

I open my eyes, seeing myself surrounded by red. I notice little scattered bits of what looked like coloured stained glass, but upon picking one up, I feel myself thrusted into what looks like a memory.

I see a tall, blonde guy standing among multiple dead bodies. He is bloodied, angry and holding his hand up as the guy in front of him dies, choking as blood runs down his eyes. "Holy shit." I say, looking around before seeing a little girl enter. She looks....she looks like El. They speak, but I can't hear anything. I see him speak to her, anger in his eyes as the girl listens, scared but also angry.

This looks like the lab.

That must be El.

Before I see anymore, I feel myself get pulled out of the memory before I fall to the floor and see not Vecna, but the blonde in front of me. Henry. One.

"What are you doing here?" He asks me, his eye piercing into mine. "Looking for you." I say, standing. "How did you get here?" He asks, stalking towards me as I take steps back. "I entered your mind, just like how you entered Max's." I say, watching him.

"You should not be here." He says, raising his hand. Before I know it, I'm knocked to the ground by an invisible force. "You should not be able to be here." He continues, pushing me down at every attempt I take to stand. I feel my feet slip under me, as if I was trying to stand on ice. "But I can, and I did." I say, still on the floor. "Yes...that is....unusual, I must admit." He mutters, stalking towards me. I finally find my footing, standing and turning to him only for him to grab me by the neck and slam me against some weird red pillar. That's when I look around to notice other bodies around on other pillars. "Did you think that you could defeat me in my own mind?" He asks, tilting his head slowly. His grip on my neck begins to burn and I whimper at the contact.

"You know so little of this world. Of these powers." He continues, smirking. "I know it all. So much. This world...was created by me." He says. I chuckle, shaking my head slightly. "You wouldn't even be back here....if El didn't accidently let you." I say. "All of this, all that you're doing, is because of her." I say, making him growl. "Without her, you'd be nothing." I add. At that, he lifts his free hand, making vines wrap around my whole body. "I promised I'd make you hurt. So I will." He says before turning, opening some sort of portal thing only for me to see Max. She's being held up by vines as well, still being held by Vecna. The full on viney Vecna, not the Henry I just saw.

"Max!" I shout, wrestling out of the vines. Henry chuckles, turning to me. "She can't hear you. In fact, at this moment, even with me talking to you....I'm killing her." He says. As he turns to walk through the portal, I chuckle loudly, shaking my head. He turns, eyeing me. "What's so funny, Y/N? Your love is about to die." He says. I just laugh louder. "It's funny that you think you've got all this leverage over us." I say. This makes him stop, squinting his eyes at me. I even see his Vecna self hesitate. At that, I see El escaping her vines and I smirk. "Oh yeah, it's like...you don't know what we can do." I say.