46 | The Battle of Starcourt

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EL'S SCREAMS of pain filled the air around them, wiggling in Levi's hold as the boy held her from behind, Five stopping El whenever she tried touching her leg to relieve pain

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EL'S SCREAMS of pain filled the air around them, wiggling in Levi's hold as the boy held her from behind, Five stopping El whenever she tried touching her leg to relieve pain.

"Keep her awake!" Jonathan shouted before running off towards one of the many restaurants.

"You know, it's actually not that bad," Robin said, causing Levi to look at her confused as the older girl nervously rambled. "The goalie on my soccer team, Beth Wildefire, this other girl slid into her leg and the bone came out of her knee. Six inches or something, it was insane."

"Robin?" Levi smiled sweetly.

"Yeah?" She swallowed, looking at the boy she barely knew.

"You're not helping," Steve stated, looking between the two.

"S-sorry."

"All right, El." Jonathan came back, with rubber gloves on and a wooden spoon and a knife. "This is gonna hurt like hell, okay? Levi, heat this."

Twelve hesitantly glanced at the boy but complied, heating up the knife until it glowed orange.

"Okay, I need you to stay really still. Here, you're gonna want to bite down on this, okay?" Jonathan held the wooden spoon in front of her mouth letting her clamp her teeth onto it with a whimper.

"Jesus Christ." Dustin shook his head, rubbing the scared Levi's back while everyone watched nervously.

Jonathan inhaled deeply, holding the large kitchen knife over Eleven's leg, looking down in disgust as something slithers inside. He hesitates, glancing at Mike who was sitting next to Five, holding El's hand for comfort.

"Do it," Mike said.

Everyone grimaced, letting out sounds of uncomfortableness and disgust as Jonathan slowly stabbed the knife into El's leg.

Levi briefly looked at Dustin, when the boy started exaggeratedly gagging while staring at the girl's leg.

But Levi couldn't blame him, since right when the knife broke the skin, puss and blood bubbled from the wound, the sounds of squelching made the boy sick to his stomach.

El's screams drowned the group's groans as Jonathan finished the incision, looking like he was ready to pass out at the amount of blood, that and the smell wasn't pleasing either.

Jonathan closed his eyes, gulping, slowly sticking his glove covered fingers into the wound making Eleven shout in pain, trying to wiggle out of Levi's and Five's hold.

Everyone exclaimed as Jonathan moved his fingers around in her leg, trying to grab onto the thing inside when Eleven spit out the spoon crying out.

"Stop! Stop!"

Jonathan quickly pulled back, looking at the girl with wide eyes as El continued to sob, slowly sitting up in Levi's embrace. "I can do it."

The group silently watched as Eleven put her hand above her leg, her whimpering getting louder and louder as they watched the thing under her skin slither around frantically.

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