brutal ━ mike wheeler

seven. all around the clock

SEVEN━━━━
ALL AROUND THE CLOCK

stranger things;
season 4 ep 3

TICK. TICK. TICK. TICK.

Tick. Tick. Tick.

Tick. Tick.

Tick.

The air was suffocating. Adrian was alone now.

It was weird the way Max seemed to just fade out of existence, leaving him alone in this weird vision.

His head pounded as he continued to look at the clock in front of him, the hands of the clock starting to move too quickly for Adrian to even understand.

What. . . was going on?

What was this?

Adrian. . .

He snapped his head in the direction that he heard the menacing voice, his hands shaking as he lifted his flashlight. He swallowed thickly and opted for staying right where he was.

The hallway behind him was dark, but very subtly illuminated by a red haze. It took his eyes a couple of moments to adjust to realize that the red haze was actually a group of people.

They looked like they were all related. There was a woman, a man, and two children, all of them dressed in what looked like 60's attire. The little girl that stood in front of the man looked dead at him, and Adrian felt his breath get caught in his chest.

She had no eyes.

His eyes darted to the woman. The same. Then to the man. The same. None of them had eyes.

He finally looked at the last person, the young boy who stood to the left of the girl. However, this time, he did have eyes. But he was staring straight at him, a dark glare over his face. "Time is running out."

What?

He turned to look at the clock once more, looking at the hands as the chimes grew louder and more frequent. He screwed his eyes shut as he tried to not freak out, pulling in jagged breathes.

When he opened his eyes again. . .

The wall returned to normal. As if the clock hadn't ever been there in the first place. When Adrian closed his eyes and opened them once more, he found himself back in the office, everyone looking between both him and Max with worry written all over their faces.

Max had been looking at him with an intensity that no one else had.

At that point in time, Robin and Nancy had arrived at the school. Adrian had no idea when they had gotten there, but he found himself too shaken up to even care. He swallowed thickly as he turned to look at Max, and she was already looking at him. "Hello? What was that??" Dustin questioned, flailing his arms out.

"Yeah, you guys just went completely still. Like you were spaced out. Are you okay?" Mike walked toward Adrian, who slowly nodded his head once he realized what the two of them had just seen wasn't real. "Uh—I don't. . . I don't know." Max quickly got up and grabbed her flashlight, walking out into the hallway.