Finding El •Stranger Things • ( ON HOLD)

The World Went Upside Down

Feb 3, 1984 7:01 pm
( IM SO SORRY I haven't posted in a while! I started high school this year and it's biting me in the butt rn 🙄)
KAREN'S P.O.V
"I still don't know why you made me come with you just to get salt and carrots." Ted says. "Never mind Ted, at least we're back home." I walk to the kitchen and start opening the salt packaging.'"I want us to have a very calm, family dinner, especially for Mike. You know how he's been lately."
"Mhm." Ted says, obviously not caring. I sprinkle some salt into the soup and start chopping some bell peppers. Wait. Mike hates bell pepper. Maybe he can tolerate them tonight. I look at the clock. He should be home by now. I go to the basement door, open it, and stick my head Inside. "Mike sweetie, I know you hate bell pepper but do you think you can tolerate just for one night?" I waited a second. No response. Confused, I started walking down the steps. "Mike?" I look around. He's not here. I look at elevens fort. Is that... wood? I approach the fort and crawl inside. I pick up a piece of wood. What the hell? I then notice where it came from. I lift the wood up next to the wall. It's the same. How? There was no sign that the wall had been touched at all. I put my hand up to my mouth. What happened? Worried, I run back up the stairs. "Ted, Mike's not here and I found THIS in elevens fort." I showed him the piece of wood. "Listen, he's probably still with his friends. He's a teenager for christs sake, he's gonna do stupid stuff like that."
"What about the wood?" He stared at me blankly, saying nothing.
"Exactly."
"Listen-"
"No YOU listen, Ted! Like you haven't been doing! You act like you don't care about your own son!"
"Of course i care!"
"If you cared, you would stop making excuses about him!"
"I'm not making excuses! I'm telling the truth!"
"The truth? We don't know the truth Ted! We just found out there was another dimension!" I stare at the wood. Shit.
"There is no other world Karen! That's all make believe!"
"What happened to that boy is NOT make believe! That boy was stuck in another world with a MONSTER! that could be where Mike is right now and you don't give a shit!"
"I can't believe you're feeding into bedtime stories."
"Are you saying you don't believe me!"
"That's EXACTLY what I'm saying!"
"Well if you don't believe in your own wife, then I don't want you staying here!"
"Fine, then I'll just leave!"
"FINE!" "Momma?" I turn around and see Holly standing in the kitchen rubbing her eyes.
I hear Ted grabbing his coat. "You're gonna regret this!" He says before slamming the door. The thud scared Holly and she started crying. I picked her up. "Shh shh, it's okay baby girl, everything's okay." I sit down on the couch and hold her tightly in my arms. Then, I started crying myself. Maybe I am going crazy.

WILL'S P.O.V
Feb 4, 1984                     12:00 am
I open my eyes and look around. For a second I forgot where I was. I was expecting to see sunshine, my bed. I expected to feel the morning grogginess for having to wake up for school. I was EXPECTING to see and feel those things. But I did neither. Instead I opened my eyes to the same misty darkness. I sat up. 12 was still next to me, staring. Her staring startled me. "Jesus 12, can you at least keep your eyes to yourself!" I hear the roughness in the tone of my voice. I'm angry. I'm angry because even though I knew this wasn't a dream, I wanted it to be. I wanted to wake up in my bed and go in my kitchen, sketching and telling my mom about this crazy nightmare I had. That I had passed out in the forest and was trapped in my mind with a nature bender. But the thing is, this was no nightmare. This was all truth. I turn around and look at her. I was desperate. I grabbed her shoulders. "Please... get me the fuck out of here."
"I....can't."
"WHY NOT!" I say and shake her shoulders. My hands were trembling. I let go of her shoulders and clenched my fists. She scooted back a bit. "Why?"
"Because....I-I don't know how."
I stare at her blankly and stood up. "Great.. just great." I paced around and sighed. "I'm going crazy. That's it. I'm insane."
"Will.." but I didn't stop. I started babbling to myself. "This is all just a hallucination. All make believe."
"Will."
"I can't believe I actually thought this was REAL!"
"WILL!" that's when I turned her direction. But it was already too late. 12's eyes started looking upwards. A low, growling noise emerged from behind me. I was frozen still, eyes wide. I slowly turn around. A wave of nostalgia hit me like a brick. And not the good kind. A creature, with a flower shaped head that had ragged teeth on each petal was my nostalgia. And it stood here in front of me again. It took me a second to realize what stood before me. By then the Demogorgon let out a screech. I thought it was dead. Mike said el killed it. "AHHHHHH" I turn around and start running. It let out a deafening screech and started lunging towards me. I start running into the woods. I look back. The demogorgon stood 3 feet away. 12 was running in the opposite direction. I run past trees and sticks, the only thing being on my mind was not dying. I had some ground on it, but I could still feel it's breathing behind me. It let out little screeches as It slapped down branches and weeds. I don't know where I was going, but I just wanted to get as far away from it as possible. I continue running straight for 2 minutes, losing breath. My side hurts so bad. I haven't looked back, but I can tell it's still there. And not by its noises. By the smell. The smell of rotten fish and a bad infection swam through the air. I was starting to lose hope. But that's when I saw it. I didn't know what it was at first, because all I saw was the shadow of a structure. And as I became closer, I saw it was poorly made out of wood. And then I saw the sign. And then I realized. It was Castle Byers. My safe haven. All I was concentrating on was the fort. If there was a God out there, he would get me there. I stared straight ahead. And just as I was getting close, close to taste the nostalgia, something stopped my foot from running. A tree stump was place directly in front of me, and I was too busy staring straight ahead to notice it. I flailed my arms in the air and collapsed to the ground. My head was pounding and I could feel a warm trickle of blood fall down my forehead. I could feel it's heartbeat now. It slammed a shrub down. That's when I turned around on my back and started scooting backwards, hoping to scoot in my fort. That was the only thing left I could do. It was right in front of me now, its drool dripping on my shoes "SCREEEEECH!" It slowly starts walking towards me. "St-stay back." I say, my voice trembling. But that didn't stop it. The Demogorgon bent down and grabbed my foot. "AGHH!" I tried kicking it, but its grasp was too tight. It slowly started lifting me off the ground. I tried grabbing on to trees and branches, but there was nothing sturdy in my reach to hold on to. Slower and slower it lifted me up to his face, the world turning upside down. It opened its face up, it's pointy teeth ready to chew me up. I close my eyes. This is it. The end of Will Byers, the boy who should've died a while ago. I inched closer and closer to its mouth. "WHACK!" A screech emerged from its mouth. I opened my eyes. "Whack!" A tree the size of my carving tree was whacking The Demogorgon in the side of its head. How is this possible? How is anything possible? It only took one more whack for it to drop me and turn around. "Shit.." I say. My head was pounding harder then ever. I look at what's in front of the Demogorgon. It's 12! Her nose and ears was bleeding and now she crawled backwards, being in the same position I was a minute ago. She saved me. I can't let it take her. But right as I thought that the Demogorgon snatched her by her stomach and lifted her up. She sat there, staring at it, crying. I have to do something. I look around. A branch lay 5 feet beside me. As silently as possible, I crawl and grab the stick. I lift it up. It's sure sharp enough to do some damage. "Come here you son of a bitch!" I exclaim. The Demogorgon turned and let out a roar. It was pissed. I held the stick in my hand like a sword. It came towards me. "ARGH" I say and I run behind him and hit him in the back. "Screech!" He grabs towards me but misses. "AHH!" I say and hit him in the face. It startled it and and it stumbled backwards. But it was mad. It ran at me, 12 still In it's hand, and pulls me up, stick still in my hand. I take it and try stabbing it. It seemed to do nothing. Instead the Demogorgon leaned forwards and ate the stick whole, wood particles flying in my face. "AHHHHHHHHH" me and 12 exclaim. It pulled us closer to its mouth, teeth sharp and yellow, gunk in strings across the roof of his mouth, waiting for us. I close my eyes and grab 12's hand. We go in its mouth and it closes it. "AHHHHH!" I open my eyes. Jonathan and Joyce sit on both sides of me, startled and groggy. "WILL!" My mom says. But I stick my hand up, as saying to stand back. Confused, my mom still came in to hug me anyways. But I didn't want to be touched, i was too startled, too afraid, it took the warmth of her body to do it. The world went blurry. I got goosebumps, my skin crawled, my stomach churned. "BLAGH" 7 slugs flew out of my mouth.

END OF CHAPTER: again I would like to apologize for the late update. I hate school. But this was my first fighting scene! I hope you enjoyed 💕

QOTD: Favorite song from the ST soundtrack?

A: Kids Two 💓

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