❛❛ 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 eight | stranger things
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❛ MADE IT OUT ALIVE ❜
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AURORA WHEEZED, TRYING TO fill her lungs with air. Her chest burned as she slowly pushed her arms behind her, trying to sit up. The pain in her skull was blinding, and Aurora screamed as someone reached for her arm.
"Shit," an almost familiar voice shouted, "Rory, god it me. It's Max."
"Where...where are we?" Aurora mumbled, flexing her fingers in front of her eyes as they slowly came into focus.
"How much do you remember?"
Aurora glanced at Max, wincing at the blood that caked her hairline and the cut that fell across her cheek. "Me and Dustin and Erica were looking for...Steve and Robin. Why?"
Max glanced to the side, and Aurora found Mike watching her intently, "shit."
Mike stood up, and Aurora followed suit, stumbling over her legs to look at the blood on his head, "what happened?"
"Um, look," Aurora glanced back over to Max, "Eleven is in danger and we need your help. Okay, the Mind Flayer is here and—" Loud explosions sounded overhead, and Max looked around wildly for a moment, "we've got to go!"
Her memories and ideas were slowly coming back to her, Eleven, the Mind Flayer, Billy. "Let's go."
Mike held her hand tightly, leading the two girls through the yellow-lit halls. The turns seemed unfamiliar to Aurora but Max assured her they had come this way. Mike wasn't running but the two girls almost had to with the length of his strides. The loud booms sounded overhead, growing in volume as they headed back towards the center of the mall.
Mike turned left and the three found themselves in front of a final door. Mike turned back to them, "this leds up back to the Gap, we get El, and we get out."
"El and out," Aurora repeated softly, as Mike nodded and shoved the doors open and chaos surrounded them.
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FAUNA HAD THOUGHT THE boys plan wasn't going to work. Fireworks? It sounded insane, but almost everything that had occurred leading up to that moment sounded insane, and Fauna had to block out her negative thoughts.
She handed another lighter to Lucas before glancing at the scene below them. The creature—the Mind Flayer—as Lucas had called it, screeched, the blob growling as the fireworks hit it. Eleven was still lying on the ground unmoving as an older boy stood over her. Fauna dismissed herself, running around the top level before heading down through an employee entrance and making it to the main level. She was almost right in front of the creature, Eleven and the boy.
