Insane in the membrane-Stranger things

Chapter 46

Jess clapped a hand to her mouth when she saw the dead corpse of Barb, a slug crawling out from her mouth and all her skin pale and covered in goo. As Jess looked around she saw the pool starting to fill up with blood, and she felt like she was going to be sick so she did what anybody would do, she climbed up the swimming pool steps, putting one foot in front of the other and slowly managing to use all her body strength and willpower to get herself up. When she had finally gotten out, things started to flash in front of her and she saw things she thought she would never have to relive, she saw all those times her dad abused her, slapping and punching her, she saw those times when had dad sexually touched her. Jess threw herself down onto the ground, shaking her head frantically. ''This isn't real! This isn't real! You're just showing me this to scare me, to frighten me none of it is real,'' Jess yelled, screaming and crying.

''Oh, but it is real. I see you've been looking for me Jessica, you were so close, so close to the full truth. Your dumb friends are so pathetic going to see old, blind, dumb Victor. I bet he missed me. I've been meaning to check back in, but I've been busy. So very busy,'' Vecna exclaimed.

Jess was now somehow back in the Creel House, reliving it from a different point of view, she saw little Alice Creel smiley and all happy as if she was living the dream. ''This is amazing, it looks like a fairy tale, a dream,'' the little girl exclaimed. Jess noticed how young Vecna or Henry Creel as he was known back then was standing all alone, looking misunderstood by his family.

''I didn't fit in with the other children, something was wrong with me. All the teachers and the doctors said I was...broken, they said. My parents thought a change of scenery, a fresh start in Hawkins, might just cure me. It was absurd as if the world would be any different here. But then...to my surprise, our new home provided a discovery and a new found sense of purpose. I found a nest of black widows living inside a vent,'' Vecna explained as he showed Jess around the house, showing her what younger him was doing. ''Most people fear spiders. They detest them. And yet, I found them endlessly fascinating. More than that, I found a great comfort in them. A kinship. Like me they are solitary creatures and deeply misunderstood. They are gods of our world. The most important of all predators. They immobilise and feed on the weak, bringing balance and order to an unstable ecosystem. But the human world was disrupting this harmony.''

Jess didn't know why Vecna was showing her all of this but at least she was getting somewhere now, as Vecna continued to show her more things, she saw how young Vecna or Henry Creel had used his so called telekinetic abilities to kill a rabbit. Jess wanted nothing more than to wake up from this godforsaken nightmare, she was shown everything from how Henry Creel had used his powers to snap his mother's bones and suck back her eyes, it was truly gruesome and Jess found herself looking away, it was all unbelievable to her just how one little boy could do something just as cruel, just as sinister, just as fucked up as this. This little boy wasn't broken, he was mental, evil, twisted and all kinds of wrong. Jess now realised that it wasn't a demon cursing The Creels it was this little son of a bitch, this whole time and that's what Jess found to be so disgusting, she felt sorry for the family, not Vecna of course but Victor, Virginia and Alice.

The next thing Jess knew she was in the Hawkins lab, she watched as Dr Brenner tattooed 001 onto Henry Creel's arm. ''See, there's nothing to be afraid of is there, Jessica?'' Brenner said, looking directly at her with cold piercing blue eyes.

Jess screamed and ran off, she searched around for any exit, her eyes danced around looking for it and that's when she caught the sight of a door that was boarded up with planks of wood, she pulled at them but they wouldn't budge, she pulled with all her strength and willpower.

Outside of her mind, Steve was still singing but no matter how much he tried it didn't seem to work. ''Jessie bear, please I can't lose you, Jess, Jessie bear. I love you, okay? Just remember that, I love you, I love you so, so much,'' Steve said, still shaking his girlfriend's shoulders. ''Whatever you fuckwits are doing up there, hurry the hell up before Jess starts floating into the air,'' Steve now shouted.

The next thing Jess knew she was in an operating chair, she wriggled around, trying to break free as vines wrapped around her wrists and ankles, stopping her from moving. ''Why don't you take a seat, Jessica? It's not time for you to leave,'' Vecna now said, the piercing blue eyes staring directly at her.

''No, fuck you!'' Jess screamed.

''Now, that's not very nice, Jessica,'' Vecna said, stroking a long finger down her cheek. Jess cringed and instantly pulled her face away. ''I would very much like to show you where I'm going.''

Vecna placed his fingers to Jess's face, outside of her mind Jess started to float into the air.

''Holy shit, no, please, god no, Jessie bear,'' Steve screamed, tears beginning to roll down his face as he watched his girlfriend about to die right in front of him.

''I want you to tell eleven. I want you to tell her everything you see,'' Vecna exclaimed as his fingers shot upwards allowing Jess to see things that she didn't want to see.

''No, no,'' she screamed, struggling in her seat. ''I will never tell her.''

''Tell her,'' Vecna shouted. ''Tell her everything or I will have to kill you.''

''No!''

Suddenly Jess was out of her trance, she dropped to the floor and into Steve's arms, Steve wrapped himself around her, squeezing his girlfriend tightly as she panted like crazy and tears beginning to fall from her eyes. ''It's okay, Jessie bear, I'm right here, I'm right here, it's okay, you're safe,'' Steve said as Jess sobbed into his bare chest. Jess would have said something back but she was too frightened, too worried, too scared to even speak.

Steve helped his girlfriend to climb up the rope, as she braced for a landing, she squeezed her eyes shut hoping that she wouldn't fall through the abyss again. Her stomach started doing back flips as it churned upside down and she felt like she was going to vomit and she landed on the mattress. ''Oh, thank god,'' Jess exclaimed, feeling Dustin's embrace around her.

''I thought I'd lost you there for a minute, Jess,'' Dustin said as he squeezed his older sister so tightly.

''We thought you were a goner for sure,'' Steve said, pulling himself up the rope.

''Yeah me too, I thought I would be gone...just like that but Vecna let me go, he's so disgusting, hideous and vile,'' Jess said.