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Once Beth's switch was flicked, Billy knew. He hadn't been activated when he found out, so he felt every bone in his body break and bend with sorrow and horror. That's the one thing he asked of him, begged, to not happen. He'd pleaded with him to not take Beth and the baby, but he didn't listen.
Though, they did make a deal.
Billy had been pleading for so long, even offering his undivided help, if he just left Beth alone. And in return, he made sure that Billy would be his main source of energy; his main host. Beth wouldn't be under full control, and she would rarely ever be activated. She would only be needed when Billy was scoping out more possible targets.
Billy agreed, but that didn't mean he wouldn't loathe the mere thought of his love and his baby being under the control of that monster that swallowed people's minds and souls quicker than a man dying of thirst when given water.
Billy realized that Beth had been taken some other way, and he wanted to know how because if she wasn't directly involved, she could be saved. And since the baby was a whole different human, he couldn't have possibly taken it over too. There wasn't a way to get to the baby, which soothed Billy briefly.
"Beth." Billy choked out, seeing her dash from her house and to her car. Her engine revved up, her hair flying around, her face cold from the sight of her open windows and Billy's eyes basically glued to her.
Without his mind cooperating with the mind flayer's, he could think on his own and get what he wanted to say out, but with her darting off, he couldn't help her. If she wasn't activated, he couldn't tell what she was thinking or where she was going.
He stood up, ready to walk out of the door when his mind forced him to sit back down on his bed. He couldn't move an inch now.
Stay.
He was told, and he knew that he was no longer in control. The mind flayer needed him, and Billy had to do whatever it asked.
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"Beth?" Max asked worriedly as she stormed into Beth's room. Beth wasn't there. El looked around, trying to find something, anything, that could point them to the direction of where she was. She was the only person who was close to Heather that they knew of, and she would definitely know where she was.
The rain slammed against Beth's window, the candle she had in her room still burning, the hot wax pooling inside the glass chamber. A lavender scent lingered through the air, the smell soothing as the tense girls looked around.
"El," Max said, grabbing a picture of Beth and Billy at the Snow Ball last year. "Can you find her?"
El nodded, grabbing the picture from Max and tugging a pillowcase over her eyes. Max placed Beth's radio in front of El and put it on an abandoned channel, letting the static ring out in the room.
Blood trickled down from El's nose, the crimson staining her skin. She flew into a black state of mind, water touching her feet with every step she made, her eyes wildly looking around, trying to find the girl who helped her through her first year as a normal teenage girl.
"I found her." El spoke, her eyes finally landing on Beth who stood with her back facing her. El ran towards her, trying to decipher what Beth was doing.
"Where is she?" Max asked, concerned at El's silence.
"A road, it's empty." El said. "She's not moving."
"What?" Max mumbled, trying to figure out where Beth could be and what she was doing.
El saw her holding her arm out in front of her, her fingers bending, almost like she was forcing something towards her. A trail of blood was dripping down from Beth's nostril, her eyes squinted in concentration.
That's when it hit El. "No." El whimpered as Beth's head snapped towards her, her hand swinging quick to the right, El's body going flying to the side. She landed hard onto the water, a groan of pain leaving her lips.
Suddenly, Beth's arm dropped and a look of pain and fear washed over her face. She dropped to her knees, sobbing and gasping for air. "HELP!" she wailed, her body slowly being dragged down as she fell further into the water, her mouth still open as screams ripped through her.
"ELEVEN!" Beth sobbed, El reaching for her and sobbing as she tried to get a hold of Beth as she fell further and further into oblivion.
El ripped the pillowcase from her face, her body shaking and tears escaping every time she let another shaken breath out.
"El, what happened? What did you see?" Max asked, holding onto El's shoulders in comfort and trying to find out what happened while she was in there.
"It was Beth." El sobbed, wiping the blood from her nose and jumping to her feet. "She had the same power that I have. She was pulling something towards her, a-and I couldn't see what it was. She was hurt, crying. She slipped away before I could get to her."
Max began to feel the worry crawl through her stomach, the fear of what was next burning a hole in the pit of her stomach.
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Beth stood in an empty backroad, her thoughts running wild, hitting the corners of her brain and sending a rippling headache throughout her head while her body remained still and locked in place. A tear slipped from her eye as she remembered what he made her do.
It forced her to bring someone into the Steelworks building so it could fester inside of them, too. Only the person wasn't willing to go. She had to use something that he forced unto her to get the poor old woman down there. The old lady was crying and screaming, and in Beth's mind, she was fighting and pleading hard for it to let her go, but it didn't listen. It forced her to turn that poor lady into a monster.
Beth wasn't under his full control, though. She couldn't be, and that's why he forced her into gaining some sort of mental power, all because he loathed the fact that he couldn't use her to create a bigger army. Due to her holding another human, another mind, inside of her, she couldn't be under full control. It couldn't reach the baby's mind through Beth, and though its mind wasn't fully developed, Beth could use the energy to break off from his hold every now and then; if she tried hard enough.
She knew that no matter what, her baby was safe where it was, and that's all that mattered to her. But she wanted to get out, she felt like she was trapped in a room, the walls coming closer and closer, suffocating her. And she had no escape.
But she was working up to it.
And when she got all the way there, she knew she would destroy every fiber of the monster that invaded her, Billy and so many other people's minds.
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i feel like this is so crappy and it makes no sense i'm sorry if it sucks or is cringey :( let me know how you feel about it and if you would like me to change it or keep it going like this!
