𝑻𝑯𝑬 𝑶𝑻𝑯𝑬𝑹 𝑺𝑷𝒀 - Dustin Henderson

024. Papa

    "ALL DONE. NOT SO BAD, WAS IT?" The man said to the boy, wiping at the tattoo, "see? There's nothing to be afraid of. Is there?" The man turned to Cindy and Nancy, his eyes turning blue. "Why don't you take a seat?" Vecna's voice then spoke through him.

Cindy gasped and Nancy grabbed Cindy's hand as she seemed to not budge on her own. They ran out and straight into a hallway filled with dead bodies, blood smeared across the walls and distant screams of children. Cindy let out sharp, staticy breaths and continued to follow Nancy, ignoring everything around her. "It'll be okay, we'll get out of here," they then arrived at a door, which was boarded off with wood planks.

They had no choice but to try and take them off. Nancy began ripping them off the door while Cindy turned around and watched. They took a while to get off but eventually they peeled off and fell to the floor.

"What are you two doing? It's not time for you to leave," Vecna spoke. Cindy turned around slowly, that's when she saw him again, walking towards her. She hadn't seen him in years and it terrified her watching him walk towards her.

"Nancy, please hurry," Cindy pleaded. Nancy tugged on the boards harder, her hands shaking as she watched him step closer.

Cindy outstretched her hands to Vecna, her hands encasing in flames. She shot a beam directed at his chest, but before it could hit him, he outstretched his arm, using his powers to stop it mid air.

Her eyes widened as he turned the flame into ash. She shuddered slowly slinking back, there was no stopping him.

"Now that you've seen where I've been... I would very much like to show you where I am going." That's when it hit her, that boy, the son of Victor Creel, is Vecna as a child.

Nancy finally pulled the last board off, and grabbed Cindy's hand, pushed open the door and stepped into a room they had already been in.

They looked around frantically, spotting the same man from before, standing beside the chair. "Take a seat, Nancy." The man spoke in Vecna's voice.

The lights flickered off and when they switched back on, Nancy found herself tied to a chair by vines. She gasped, attempting to wriggle out. Cindy ran over, placing her hand over vines, burning them off one by one, they screeched in return, wriggling away, only for new ones to return.

Nancy kept moving in the chair to hopefully free any parts of her body, but the more she moved the tighter the vines wrapped around her.

A groan stopped the two in their tracks and Cindy turned on her heel to the corner of the room, seeing Vecna stepping closer. Cindy stepped in front of Nancy, "please don't hurt her. Kill me instead, leave her alone," Cindy begged.

"I have no use in killing either of you, I would just like to show you something."

He outstretched his shorter hand to Cindy and she felt her body lift up into the air, he moved her over to a wall, suspending her in the air with vines. She squirmed in its hold, as Vecna walked closer, "I can't have you going anywhere. You need to see something as well, the truth. But for now..." He trailed off, looking at her hands and using his powers to close her fists, circling more vines around them so she can't use her powers.

"Dumbass, I don't just need my hands to use my powers," She said, trying to sound threatening, but truthfully she knew it was a lie.

He smirked, stepping closer. "We both know you haven't learnt how to do that," she gulped and he walked back over to Nancy.

He leaned over her and Cindy could practically feel the fear radiating off of Nancy. She turned away and Vecna outstretched his larger hand over her face. Tears rolled down Cindy's cheeks, knowing there was nothing she could do. She wriggled and squirmed but nothing, she tried to uncurl her hands, but the vines were strong.