𝐇𝐈𝐓𝐒 𝐃𝐈𝐅𝐅𝐄𝐑𝐄𝐍𝐓 - 𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐯𝐞 𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐭𝐨𝐧

34. papa

Aubrey watched Brenner tattoo "001" onto Henry, "All done. Not so bad was it?" he asked Henry, "See. There's nothing to be afraid of. Is there, Aubrey?" he looked up at her.

Her eyes widened as his went pure blue,"Why don't you take a seat?" his voice distorted.

She quickly ran out the door, met with a pure massacre. Kids in white gowns, all covered in blood. They were dead.

She turned around and ran the other way as the lights flickered above her.

"Aubrey! Stay with me!" Steve held her face, "Whatever you guys are doing, hurry up!" he yelled up at Erica. She ran back into Eddie's room where everyone else was.

"Steve says you need to hurry!" she yelled at them.

"Yeah? No shit!" Dustin yelled back.

"We're trying. We can't find anything!" Max yelled.

"Seriously, what is all this shit?!" Robin held a dozen cassettes.

"I mean, what are you even looking for?!" Eddie yelled back at her, holding another box of tapes.

"Stevie Knicks? Fleetwood Mac? Stevie Knicks, we need Stevie Knicks! We need music!" Robin screamed at him.

"This is music!!" he screamed back at her.

"How do you not have any Stevie Knicks?!?" Nick yelled at him, "Even I have Stevie Knicks!"

"I don't listen to her!" Eddie yelled back, "If I had known an alleged Stevie Knicks super-fan would be getting cursed in my trailer I would've gotten some!" he screamed.

"You are so uncultured! It's shameful!" Beatrice yelled at him.

Aubrey ran down the bloody halls of the laboratory, being met with a set of doors boarded up by wooden planks, again. She began to try and tear them down, "Son of a..." she ripped one off.

"Aubrey." Vecna's voice rung in her ears from behind her. She turned around as he walked towards her, "What are you doing? It's not time for you to leave."

She gasped, turning around and trying to pull more planks off. She finally got one off and another, "Now that you've seen where I've been... I would like very much to show you where I am going."

She finally broke off enough for her to run through the doors, just to run right back into the same one she came from. "Take a seat, Aubrey." Vecna's distorted voice spoke out of Brenner.

Then all of the lights turned off, leaving her in the darkness. When the lights came back on, she was tied into the chair Henry was once in. But she was strapped in by vines from the Upside Down. She cried in fear as they squeezed her limbs, making her unable to move. When she looked up she was met with Vecna, who slowly walked towards her. She couldn't do anything, she couldn't escape. This was it, she thought. She was dying.

"I want you to tell Eleven... I want you to tell her everything you see." he said as he opened his hand in front of her face.

"No!" she screamed as he showed her everything. She saw as lines of the Upside Down split through Hawkins, her very home being destroyed, along with everything and everyone she ever loved and cared for.

"Tell her... everything."

"No!" she screamed and then suddenly, woke up, falling backwards.

"It's okay. It's okay. It's okay." Steve held her, tears brimming his own eyes as she tried to catch her breath, "It's okay, I'm here. I'm right here." he ran his hand through her hair, "I've got you. You're okay."