❛❛ it's always darkest before dawn. ❜❜
𝐈𝐍 𝐖𝐇𝐈𝐂𝐇 not all princesses are saved by their
princes, sometimes they want to do
some saving of their own.
AURORA BRIAR WAS NO PRINCESS, but she wa...
( darkest before dawn / act three) episode six | stranger things
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❛ SHE KNOWS ❜
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AURORA WATCHED AS STEVE and Robin were escorted from the room in handcuffs. The guns they had pointed at her two friends were extremely large and there were too many people for Aurora to feel confident in her powers.
She felt a small amount of relief when the final amount of guards lefts the room, without Dustin or Erica in the grasp. She held her breath as the guards began to speak in hushed tones around her, so quiet that she couldn't even understand. She didn't move from her spot until a good ten minutes after the last guard passed her, then she hurried over to the room they had escorted Steve and Robin from.
"Dustin? Erica?" Her voice was wobbly as she spoke, searching for her two other friends. There weren't many hiding spots that they could be — but Aurora checked every single one of them before he hands started shaking. "Shit, shit, shit."
Aurora was almost running in circles at this point, checking every spot over and over again until she was red in the face, tears building in her eyes. Her head was pounding — and she was almost certain that the coolness she felt on her forehead was blood.
Aurora was truly alone. A month ago, she would have begged to just be alone for a day, but she knew that she would always have someone to find once that day was up. She knew that no matter what, she would have someone — that she wasn't really alone. But now, she had no one.
Dustin and Erica had disappeared. Steve and Robin had been taken. And she didn't know what to do. She pretended she did half the time, but she always had someone by her side to guide her in the right direction.
For the first time in what felt like forever, Aurora was utterly alone. And so, she sat on the steps and began to cry. Not caring that any Russian could come and get her — and most likely kill her. Aurora didn't care about one single thing. She just wanted to cry.
And she did. Until she felt lightheaded and out of breath, her eyes tinted red. She needed to find her friends. She needed to apologize to Hopper. She needed to apologize to Mike. She needed to save the world — as Dustin would call it. She had her time to wallow in her pity, now she needed to suck it up.
So, Aurora stood from her place on the steps and glanced around the room again, looking for anything she would've missed. It took her two looks until she noticed the air-duct connected to the floor. Rushing over to it, the lip popped off easily and Aurora glanced around one more time making sure that she hadn't missed something else before lowering herself into the vent and securing the covering over her.
