Keep me Closer - Billy Hargrove - Stranger Things

38: Panic

I panicked as El screamed on the floor in desperate need to help.

She cried and we all stood around waiting for someone to have an idea. She wailed and gasped for air. She struggled to breathe. The thing in her leg was moving. I nearly fainted just seeing it. Couldn't imagine El's current pain.

I felt like I could feel it. My leg felt weak watching her.

"What is that?!" Erica asked in disgust.

"There's something in there." Mike said over Elevens screams.

"Jesus Christ." Dustin cringed.

All the sudden a cringe of realization came over Jonathan's face.

"Keep talking. Keep her awake! Okay?" Jonathan commanded. "Quinn come with me." He said and we both ran as fast as we could. I followed him not really knowing where he was leading us.

He hopped over a counter and dug threw the drawers looking for something. He pulled out a huge knife and I swear I felt it in my leg. I know it's just my brain. But seeing that knife almost made me throw up.

We ran back to El. "Quinn hear this up! Hurry!" He yelled.

I panicked. I didn't want to use my powers like that. I was scared. But I closed my eyes and manipulated the energy around the knife to heat up. Jonathan put gloves on. Before he put the knife in I have to look away or I guarantee I would have passed out.

He gave El a wooden spoon to bite down on. And I gave El my hand to squeeze.

"Okay El, this is gonna hurt like hell okay?"

She cried "Okay."

"Need you to stay very still."

As soon as I gave her my hand she immediately started squeezing my hand. I looked away but El's screams told me everything I needed to know. She sobbed and right when I looked back I saw Jonathan's hand move inside her leg and I got so nauseous. That was one of the most disgusting things I had ever seen. My eyes fluttered but I managed to keep myself awake. El's hand squeezing mine helped me to stay awake.

"NO STOP!" She screamed with the spoon in her mouth. She spat it out. " STOP IT STOP IT!!" She screamed at the top of her lungs.

"Stop stop!!" Nancy pulled Jonathan's arm back.

El sobbed a few times. "I can do it." She whimpered. "I can do it."

"El." I said and she frustratedly swatted my hand away.

"I can do it."

"I can help." I said and she just looked at me exhaustedly.

She put her hand over her wound. I heated the sides of her legs so it couldn't move.

She screamed in pain and it struggled trying to stay in her leg so I helped eleven pull it out faster. But it was so stubborn it didn't want to leave. Her wound ripped open further causing her ever more pain. She kept screaming and the glass shattered behind us. I used my other hand to manipulate the glass to not hurt anyone and keep it away from us. The combination of both our telekinetic powers got it out faster. Like a bandaid the faster it's out the faster the pain goes away. She screamed in anger and pain and threw it as far away from her as possible. It started to crawl away and someone stepped on it. We all looked up to see Hopper, my mom, and some other guy.

Me and El were so exhausted we could barley hold our heads up. My powers were tearing my body apart. Screaming at my body to be used. I wasn't even using my powers anymore but my nose continued to bleed. But it bled black. I looked around me and no one seemed to notice. I smiled at my mom and even though I could barley lift my head I stood up and went to her. My mom meant everything to me. I just fell into her arms and cried. She held me. She didn't say anything she just let me cry on her shoulder until I couldn't breathe. I took a deep breath. She pulled herself back and looked at me with a worried face. She caressed the scar on my forehead and saw another one under my eye. The longer she looked at me actually the more she noticed things wrong. Her eyes filled with tears. She put her hand over her mouth.