𝙘𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙧𝙮 𝙥𝙤𝙥! 𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙫𝙚 𝙝𝙖𝙧𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙜𝙩𝙤𝙣

SCENE NINE. turnbow trap

IN EDITING!!!

"she's in." steve speaks over the radio phone. after dustin confirms.

"sinclair, come in. do you copy?" dustin questions. piper handing the radio over to him.

"yep, this is sinclair. copy. go ahead."

"sinclair, i'm confused. i thought your sister said that tina was mean."

"oh, no no. she's not mean. she's a villain. like kill the puppies for a fur coat kind of villain trust me."

"how long before the drugs kick in." joyce questions and everyobe starts spitting out answers. 'how much they eat? what else they've eaten? caffeine intake?'

"what could go wrong, right?" robin questions with small smile. piper laughs a litte, always could count on robin to make light of a situation. and less then half an hour of thumb wars between piper, mike and lucas. erica is signalling for the van to pull up. steve opens the garage door as the van rolls slowly backwards into the driveway. and the set up begins. booby traping doors with strings and nails. drawing cutouts under carpets. nancy hands piper an axe with a smile on her face as everyone circles around the drawn markings on the floor. ready to break a hole for the pan when steve walks in holding a chainsaw. he smiles at her as he revs it. that's hot. she take a mental image of this. steve and a chainsaw. yum. and the floor falls through into the cellar. bottles of wine crashing from the shelves. her face twisted as she clenched her teeth. that was a lot of money that was just wasted. piper moves to the kitchen as nancy and jonathan begin trapping the hole. before they staple the rug back into place. everyone starts filtering into their places for the trap. a soft tapping forces her to spin around. steve stands in the doorway. a small smile on his face. he's worried. there's that wrinkle in his forehead.

"it's going to work. everything is going to be okay." he confirms to her, as if telling her. but it seems more like he's manifesting it for himself.

"just don't go all powers on us okay. if you hear his voice, these go on. you know what do to." he tells her as his finger taps on the headphones around her neck. she nods softly. her own finger looping around the wire of the headphones which was connected to the walkman cassette clipped to her jeans. it was the playlist steve made for her during his hours at the radio shack.

"i'm going to be okay steve. you don't have to worry about me."

"i'll always worry about you piper. it's my job." he smiled, kissing her gently before dustin rolls his eyes and nudged him towards the door way. steve nods, motioning to piper that he has to follow him. she nods, blowing a kiss as she turns back to the carpeted floor. a few more minutes pass as everyone waits. the time seeming to drag. when the radios finally spark up.

"south down arlington. t minus 30 seconds. status check. taggers?" steve voice filters through.

"in position and set. launcher?" nancy's voice comes next.

"set. catcher?" lucas.

"set. failsafe?" see hears mike voice twice. once from the room next door to hers and the through the radio.

"im in position and ready to play." she speaks back. her finger still wrapping around the headphones wire nervously. as the lamp beside her flickers. followed by the kitchen light. the temperature in the room seems to drop. goosebumps growing on the back of her skin as the cold sweat waters her palms. they watch as the lights flicker up the stairs. followed by the low grumbling noise. and within seconds the tension increases as she hears the low clicking of the demogorgon which was quickly replaced with sharp cries as lucas smashed water balloons at it. she takes a sharp intake of breath as the demogorgon follows lucas down the stairs. shrieking as it snarls at him. he sprints past her the demogorgon quickly behind him, knocking over the dinner table as they go. she stays pressed tightly against the wall as instructed. and lucas jumps. the demogorgon slashing the long talons out as if hoping to grasp him as it runs onto the carpeted floor. it shrieking in surprise as it falls through the flooring. nails scraping into the wood as it tries to stand. and mike jumps into action. slamming his weapon down on the thing head. forcing it to fall through into the barbed wire. the sound of a shotgun follows. then the flames rise through the gap in the floor. tge smell of a burning flesh and fabric lifts up. as the demogorgon cries out in pain. wailing almost. and it crawls back up. it's eyes. eye? face? whatever. it's eyes finally noticed piper in the kitchen. it made another click noise. almost intrigued. the flames still burning it's skin. it lunged at her and she screamed. diving out of the way as planned. her fingers grasping the knife she had hidden and wasted no time at slashing at the creature. the kitchen blade grasped rightly in her hand as it cries. she panicked. diving forward slightly to make sure she hurt it better. when it groaned in pain. slashing back at piper who falls straight to the floor. and the creature screamed at her. baring it's rows of teeth. but mike was fast. smashing his weapon into the creatures chest. it fell back in the kitchen counter. screaming at them before spilting the counters. the red glow filtering into the room as he opened a gateway. crawling inside. one of it fingers lay twitching on the floor surrounded by a small of thick blackish red blood.

"it flipped! it flipped!" mike screamed. deciding not to mention the lump of the girl crumbled in blankets. they needed steve to focus right now. and telling him piper might be hurt definitely wasn't a good idea. she lifts her head. noticing the lights stopped flickering. and she's up. both boys horror stricken as her jumper was ripped at her arm. the red staining quickly, the flesh torn open. but she doesn't pay no attention. instead races for the doors. screams at the two to follow her. they need to stick to the plan.