"Billy is dead!" Lucas said in a matter of fact tone, absolutely sure of it.
"I-I saw him" El stammered trying to explain for the fifth time what she had seen.
"and he had a woman with him what did you say her name was again? Vane?"
"Vine" El looked in Hoppers direction to answer his question.
"and you said shes like Vecna and you?" Nancy interjected
"no more powerful"
"how more powerful?" Hopper asked for what felt like the third time wanting to be sure of what they were dealing with.
"too powerful" El didn't know how else to answer it.
"its Vecnas trick" Lucas concluded "hes just trying to trick El so he can find out where we are!"
"no i felt Billy it was Billy and the woman didn't feel like Vecna at all, she felt different, I saw her memories, shes different "
"but how can it be Billy.. Billys dead? .. maybe the mindflayer can control dead people? it turned people turned to goo maybe it can do this too" Dustin suggested
"no its impossible!" Steve disbelieved
"well not entirely" Robin joined the discussion "our world connecting with another world should be impossible, El having powers, and monsters should be impossible but it is possible"
"yeah but someone coming back from the dead COME ON!" Steve exclaimed
"you said this woman ..Vine.. showed you her memories and you said she wanted to make a deal with you she helps us get rid of Vecna and you help her close the upside down?" Joyce questioned El
"closing the gate it doesn't work someone always tries to open it" Erica chimed in
"Vine knows how to close it forever i have to close each gate this side and Vine has to close each gate in the upside down" El informs
"creating a double lock" Dustin realizes
"i-I think so" El nods
"but vine wants to be left in the upside down with her brother? cos her brothers what again?" Hopper checks
"sick.. her brothers sick , she can't fix him"
"you said her brother been changed into a monster so she wants to take him to the upside down to help him... to keep him there ... to protect our world?" Joyce checks hoping to get her question actually answered by El this time.
"yes she wants to take him there, to keep him from our world and stay there with him" El responds to Joyce
"I don't trust it" Hopper shakes his head "nah don't trust it"
Checking the time on the watch on his wrist he looks towards the door of the basement of the hospital listening for roars or screeches.
"what if he already knows where we are?" Dustin shudders following Hoppers gaze in fear.
Nancy picks up the shotgun checking its loaded.
Erica looks to her brother who's now sitting next to Max's hospital bed.
"i bet he used Billy cos he knows Els looking for Max"
"you need to stop looking for a few days" Mike turns to El looking concerned realizing there might be some truth to what Lucas just said "just till we can be sure its safe"
"it wasn't Vecna Mike .. I'm sure it wasn't you believe me don't you?"
The rest of the group looked to Mike adding pressure.
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Vine Blood (Stranger Things Fanfic)
FanfictionPlot - Billy Hargrove has secretly been dug up from his grave and brought back to life. Waking up in an underground experiment lab underground, he struggles to adjust to this reality, will he ever learn to cope and is there someone he can trust? Whi...
