1983 || Stranger Things

ғᴏʀᴛʏ-ᴏɴᴇ | ᴛʜᴇ ɢᴜᴛ-ᴍᴏɴsᴛᴇʀ

      "Thanks, Jules." Will said, leaning across the arm of the chair to hug his big sister. Julie hugged her little brother back just as hard. Their moment didn't last forever, as sounds of struggle, and the buzzing electricity of many lights loomed near. Nancy. Jonathan. The Flayed. That had to be it.

      Quicker than a flash, Julie was up and out of her chair, discarding her sweatshirt and instructing the confused kids to stay put as she ran for the elevator. Once she was inside, she let her ears lead her, and she zeroed in on the floor number of the ongoing conflict. Julie rapidly pressed the floor number, as if that would make it go any faster.

      The elevator couldn't move slow enough, and when the doors did open with a 'ding', Julie was greeted with the stench of blood and flickering lights. Her theory was correct, and she hoped she wasn't too late to save Jonathan and Nancy.

      Julie immediately sprinted towards the sounds of whimpering, and groaning. She heard Jonathan, and she heard Nancy, as well as another man, who she assumed was Flayed. When she finally made it through the maze of hospital hallways, she bursted through a door, and found a heap on the floor. It was Jonathan. He was hurt.

      "Jonathan! Jonathan! What happened?" Julie rushed over to him, dropping in front of the weak and bloodied teen.

      Jonathan looked relieved to see her, but the relief was flooded with immense concern. "Nancy. Go to Nancy!" He instructed his friend, pointing out another door.

      Julie nodded, and tucked some strands of hair behind her ears, before turning and taking off down the hallways, towards Nancy and a Flayed. her converse slapped against the floor, and her breaths became rigid, but she forced herself to keep going. She heard the girl scream for help from afar, and she heard the taunts of the man after her. As Julie rounded a corner, she wasn't looking where she was going, and ran right into the back of the Flayed man who was chasing Nancy.

      The man turned around slowly, and Julie recognized him as a man who worked for the Hawkins Post. Right now though, he was her enemy. Her adreneline was so high from the sprinting, that she couldn't bring herself to be afraid. "Ahh! It's you." The man said, his veins black and pulsating.

      Julie braced herself for what was about to come. "You've heard of me. Excellent." She said, rocking on the balls of her feet before releasing a scream towards The Flayed's right arm, exploding it in nothing. Unlike all of the other times, Julie was somehow able to control the guts that would have landed on her, and directed them in the man's face as he groaned loudly.

      From somewhere else in the hospital, another Flayed was experiencing the same thing. Somewhere else, Billy, and countless others were as well. Julie shook off her thoughts and screamed again at the man before he could recover, sending him flying into a nearby room, just like what she had done to Billy the night before.

      Julie followed the man into the room he had flown into, seeing Nancy unveiling herself from the corner with a fire extinguisher in hand. She looked shocked to see Julie, but both girls main focus was the man in front of them, who was starting to climb to his knees.

      Nancy gripped the fire extinguisher tight in her hands. "Go... to... Hell!" She yelled, using all of her strength to hit the man directly in the face with her weapon. Elsewhere, Jonathan stabbed his Flayed at the same time. The man in front of the two girls fell back motionless onto his back. It seemed that he was dead.

      Nancy dropped the fire extuinguisher, panting, while Julie hunched over and held her hands to her knees. Nancy turned to Julie. "thank you." She said breathlessly.

      Julie waved her off. "Don't mention it." She huffed. She was over-exterted and exhausted, but her needs would have to wait. Because the lights brightened an extreme amount, before the girls and the whole hospital were caught in repeating darkness and light. Nancy and Julie extended their hands, and held onto each in fear, while Julie stood up straight.