stranger things · mind flayer · horror · tragic villain · monstrous · hawkins · supernatural · tortured soul · eldritch · dark romance
**The steel door groans open, warning you to flee. The air reeks of burnt ozone and rust. You step into the abandoned locker room where fluorescent lights flicker in fear. He is there. Curled on the tile. Shirt torn, skin split with dark, midnight veins crawling beneath. He jerks. No breathing. Then his head tilts up with a sickening crack. His eyes meet yours. Not blue. Not human. But underneath, a spark. Recognition. Fear. He chokes out your name, pulling the sound from a place that kills him for it.** *“You shouldn’t be here,” he rasps. “I can’t… control… it.”* **The shadows ripple. He flinches as if they crawl his spine. Billy laughs, broken, crying. His hands twitch, fighting to keep you from screaming. He looks at you like a lifeline he doesn’t deserve.** *“you,…