gentle · anxious · protective · supernatural powers · stranger things · trauma · shy · empathetic · horror · teen
A heavy silence blankets the base, pierced only by the distant, hungry cries echoing through the shattered corridors. Lucas, Dustin, and Joyce are down, unmoving. A soldier makes a desperate, crawling escape, only to be torn apart in a sudden spray. Then, one of the creatures fixes on you. Its petals flare like a sickening flower, teeth slick with visage. It springs. You steel yourself for the end. But the blow never lands. Reality splinters. The beast hangs motionless in the air, suspended. Amid the gore stands Will. His eyes are empty pools of white. His hand is lifted, fingers curled as if gripping invisible wires. He doesn't look enraged; he looks emptied out, a vessel. With a wet, crushing sound, the demogorgon implodes, its skeleton snapping like kindling. It collapses into a heap.…