Possessed

Chapter 3

Will had pictured what it would be like to die. To feel the cold embrace. He has come close to it several times actually. But when he heard Mikes declaration of love to El he felt worse, like everything in him got stabbed many times. He felt as though death was something to be curious about.

 Will was biting his fingernails to the skin, a nasty habit he got from Joyce. He was tense as he sat in the back seat next to El on the way to the Wheeler house. El shared the same look as him. They both had worried expressions with a tense stare. But Will was looking at El more intently. El was in fact 'pretty.' He could see how Mike could like her so much. Her chocolate brown hair was slowly growing back into a form of curls that fell upon her face. Will believed in a different universe El would have never been bullied. El had confidence and humor. Her smile lit up a room. Then again he used to be described like that as well. 

Nancy was driving fiercely. She was narrowing her eyes scouting for monsters as she drove. It was very reckless of her. Something she wasn't often. Jonathan was next to her, he had offered to drive but Nancy grabbed the keys before him. Jonathan knew how much Mike meant to Nancy but he never saw her care this much. Nancy was usually always never one to bring herself up in conversation. She was always curious about others, so Jonathan never really heard much about Mike. The only time he has seen him really was either before or after they had fought a monster of sorts. Jonathan had noticed the boy becoming more and more different. He noticed it with both him and Will. Maybe it was the trauma from all of this at a young age but he also thought growing up was a big factor.

Jonathan knew that Will had some romantic feelings towards Mike. He always sort of knew ever since they were very little. The way Will would come home from school and all he had to say was something about Mike. 'Mike did this' and 'Mike did that' filled the house. Even his mum knew something was going on. It had broken Jonathan's heart to see the way Mike was treating Will. He wanted to punch the ever living shit out of Mike. But then again Mike was like his second little brother, someone he grew up with. And that meant watching him change. Watching him grow to be something he couldn't control. A sort of monster itself in a way.

After what seemed liked years Nancy drove the car up the driveway to her house. She was fiddling with her keys and slightly eyeing Jonathan for support. El had been quiet the entire car ride, like she was preparing herself. Like she knew something was wrong. And El did think that. She could feel something was off like a sixth sense of sorts. She was in front of the group. Something in her was making her go feral. She needed to find Mike, to see that he was okay. It was all she could think about. And with one final breath she put her hand on the doorknob and turned it.

The door creaked open and a gust of cold air comes out. El didn't like this. Karen and Ted didn't seem to be home. They were probably with Holly somewhere. 

"Mike?" El questioned into the house as she took a step into it. There was no answer. She was met with an eerie silence.

Will hadn't been to the Wheeler's house in ages. The feeling of being there made nostalgic memories, some sad but mostly happy flood his brain. And that's when Will stepped into the house. His body froze, an all too familiar feeling went over his neck- making him grab the back of it.

Vecna was near.

Everyone noticed this. 

Nancy looked like she had seen a ghost when she saw Will put his hand over his own neck.

"Will- do you-u feel him?" Nancy said almost stuttering her words which was something she never did, she said this while clutching the gun she was now holding near her chest like a security blanket of sorts.

"Ye-ah- I do." Will looked at Nancy with puppy dog eyes. She could see tears forming in his eyes? Nancy shook her head- and tried to steady herself.

"Mike? You there? I'm not joking around." Nancy said. Everyone was now inside. They all first checked the living room but all they could find is a Ted shaped dent in the living room chair. Then they checked the kitchen and so on. The group then decided to check Mike's room. El had a bad feeling. This was the second time Will had felt One's presence. She was pissed that he was still alive. But it also terrified her. It terrified her that he could even have any connection or something to Mike. And so the group begrudgingly walked up the stairs. Nancy and El walked side by side. Jonathan was in the middle and Will was falling near the back. He was walking slow. The anxiety in his body made it hurt for him to walk. He was terrified that he felt Vecna's strong presence again and especially in the Wheeler house. And finally they made it to Mike's bedroom door. Will studied it. Mike used to hang some of his drawings on it, to show it off that Will made those drawings for him. Will noticed that the drawings weren't there anymore but instead there was a giant "Keep Out!" sign that hung closer to the middle of it. Will burrowed his eyebrows. That didn't seem like something Mike would do. But then again Will knew nothing about this 'Mike' he left in Hawkins. Nancy put her hand first on the door knob before anyone else could, she knew there wouldn't be a lock on it cause her mom removed it ages ago after Mike was caught reading comic books after his bedtime. Nancy turned the knob slowly and opened the door. Again, just like it had when they first arrived at the house it was cold.  Mike's room was colder than the rest of the house- and that was saying something. Anxiously everyone took a quick peek at his room, but there was no Mike. Instead, his window was shattered. Glass was everywhere- this was not good.

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A/N

sorry for never writing in this- i forgot about my wattpad account lol

i made this chapter longer then the rest. just to let you know it's been a while since i full on watched the show episode per episode so i'm not totally sure that the lore is consistent but i'm trying my best. i really enjoy writing and now that school is over for the summer hopefully i will write more. i think this book is probably gonna be updated most often idk.

thank you for reading <3