If I Only Could- Lumax

every ending has a beginning

A possible Volume 2 scene based on the lovely Lumax picture that Netflix gave us. (wrote this before volume 2) This is what I want to happen, even though I have no idea what will happen in the next two episodes, and i really hope everyone is safe (even though that sadly won't be the case). So sorry it took me extra long to update, I went on vacation to a Stranger Things convention. "a heart-to-heart? ..what's that" brownie points if u get the ref🫶🏻
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When she escaped that eerie red dimension, full of evil, despair and power, she thought she was safe. Or at least, safe from Vecna and his pathologically twisted ways of getting in people's heads. But things never seemed to go Max's way, did it?

It was going to happen again. And this time, Vecna wasn't letting her go.

Max walked briskly across the dark hallway into an empty 50's-esque bedroom, still in shock at what had just happened, Lucas trailing behind her with a bloody hand and a migraine.

"Lucas, what the hell? What the fuck just happened back there?" Max exclaimed.

"He was saying shit about you. You think I'd just sit there and let him talk like that?" Lucas said, still fuming at what that bitch Jason had done. "Why'd you just sit there?" He asked, still confused as to why Max didn't react (instead just sitting on the floor with the cassette still playing on loop) when Jason burst through the door of the Creel house, demanding answers from Lucas until it turned into him insulting Max, and Lucas throwing the first punch right to his face. Jason was able to get a couple good hits in, but Lucas managed to knock him out out of pure anger, resulting in an unconscious Jason and a shocked Lucas.

Max tensed up at the question, eyes clouded with fear. He looked at her expectantly as they sat across from each other in the dimly illuminated room with a blue glow. "It...it happened again." She said, looking to the side. "What happened again?" He asked, fearing the worst and hoping for the best, because right now all the Party could do was hope. "I had another vision. V-vecna, he's back." She said quietly as Lucas felt the blood flow out of his face.

"Wh-what do you mean? I thought you escaped." He said, shaking his head in confusion. Max looked at him, full of uncertainty. "Me, too. But apparently he's not done with me, because that's just how life works for me. It's like I'm cursed or something." She said, just tired of the world turning its back on her. He sighed, wishing that life's storm would just settle for the girl he loved. "Max, don't say that. Please." He begged her, praying to God that she wouldn't become another victim, like Patrick.

She fell silent, looking down and trying not to let the water in her eyes fall down her face.  "What should I do?" He heard her whisper. He looked across at her, debating on whether or not he should sit next to her and comfort her. "I-I don't know. The music's lost its effect and Vecna...We need someone to stop him, because I know he's not giving up this time. I just have this feeling...I don't know. I feel like something's going to go wrong. That not everyone's going to make it. We...we need El." Max felt her heart constrict at the mention of her best friend who was currently busy with exploding government vehicles and gaining her powerful abilities back. "Yeah, I...I miss her." She murmured. "Me, too. W-we all do." The boy across the room said, missing the way things used to be, the blissful moments when everyone was all together and happy.

"How do I make it stop?" She said, messing with the ends of her braid. "Vecna?" He furrowed his eyebrows. "Everything." She stood up suddenly. "I just want everything to come to a screeching halt. Like, why can't things ever just slow down? My whole life has been this huge fucking game purely based on luck and circumstances and I'm just done." She said, throwing her hands in exasperation. Lucas sadly looks up at her, letting her vent because it's the words she's been dying to say for a long time.