A World Turned Upside Down: A Will X Reader X Mike (ST)

Prologue

November 6th, 1983
Hawkins, Indiana

Hawkins National Laboratory
U.S. Department of Energy

The alarm blared.

Lights flickered.

An experiment gone wrong.

It was chasing me.

I knew it was.

I turned corners quickly and sloppily.

I ran for the elevator.

Open, open, open, open, open, open, open, open.

The door opened.

I stepped inside.

Close, close, close, close, close, close, close, close.

I watched the hallway.

I hoped with everything I had that it wouldn't be there.

The door closed.

I breathed a sigh of relief.

I knew I was safe.

Or thought.

And I also knew to always look everywhere.

Especially up.

Well, now I do.

But that doesn't help me now.

It was there.

It got me.