chapter eleven. flayed? [part two]

      PHOEBE'S POV

SOON THE GROUP arrived to their destination. We all excited the car and made our way up the steps of the house we arrived at. It was a very nice house. Big, nice open front yard, and it was tan and brown on the outside. I had no idea who house this was. 

"Where are we?" Lucas questions. Asking the question we were all wondering about. We all looked around the unknown house and awaited for a response from either Johnathan or Nancy. 

"This is Heather's house." Nancy replies as we got to the entrance. Nancy release a deep breath and rang the door bell. No answer. So she rang again and again. Still no answer. 

So everyone looked back at El and I. Before El could, I stopped her hand. She used her power's enough. "It's okay. I will do it." I said as I lifted my hand up and unlocked the door with my mind. The door swung open and we all entered inside. 

"Tom? Heather?" Nancy calls out. 

We alled walked inside and searched for anyone.

"Jesus, it's freezing." Max comments, which was so true. I mean it is summer, but it felt like Antarctica in here. 

We all turned the corner and walked down a hall that had many pictures hung up on the wall. I started at the photo and saw that it was the girl that worked with Billy at the community pool. In the mist of everything, I couldn't help but feel a bit jealous because before I knew that Heather did have a crush on Billy. 

I shook my head. This was NOT the time to be thinking about this. 

We all stopped in the living room and suddenly I started to smell something super strange and unusual. "Do you guys smell that?" I asked as we all stood in a circle in the living room. They all sniffed in and we made our way to where the source of the smell was coming from.

The kitchen we soon entered. "Oh, God." Nancy gasped as we walked into the kitchen more. "More chemicals." She adds as we made our way to the fridge that laid on the floor, completely destroyed. 

"You think they're guzzling this shit?" Johnathan asked as he held a bottle of AJAX in his hand.

"Yeah, either that or they just went on a hell of a cleaning spree." Nancy responds. 

"But last year, Will didn't eat chemicals." Max points out, "did you?" She asked him as she turned to look at him.

Will shakes his head, " no. This is something new." He states

"Mr. Clarke, fifth grade. Posit. What happens when you mix chemicals together?" Mike asked the boys.

"You create a new substance." Lucas and Will say at the same time. 

"What if they're making something?" Mike suggests.

Max furrows her brows. "In themselves? I mean, come on, if you drink this crap, it'll kill you." She said.

"I mean, if you're human." Lucas said.

Suddenly, I felt this chill going down my neck. As if something was wrong or calling for my attention to turn around and follow the whispers. I turned on my heel and began walking through a door way which lead to a dining room. There was still food on the table, untouched. Baked cookies and glasses full of wine or water.

With realization, I noticed everyone followed from behind. As I walked in more, I saw there was stain of blood on the carpet. I bent down and lightly touched it with my finger. It still felt a bit fresh, "blood." I told them.

"Yesterday, Tom had a bandage on his forehead." Nancy informed us. She then saw a empty bottle on wine on the floor and we saw the blood on it as if someone was hit in the head by it. Must have been Tom. "He was attacked." Nancy concluded. 

We all then began following the puzzle pieces that seemed to be putting what happened last night all together. They were dragging their bodies through out the whole house and into the garage which we were all in. Once we walked in more, we saw ropes on the floor. 

Johnathan bent down and picked them up, "They must have tied them." He spoke, "they must have taken them somewhere."

"Mrs. Driscoll." Nancy perks, "she kept saying 'I have to go back'. What if the flaying, it's taking place somewhere else? There must be a place where all of this started, right? A source." She put together, smartly. 

"Somewhere he didn't want me to see." El suddenly agree. 

"If we can find the source, then maybe we can stop him or at least stop it from spreading or doing whatever the hell he's doing with those chemicals." Nancy kept going.

"How do we find it?" Phoebe wondered. 

"Mrs. Driscoll. If she wants to go back so badly, we don't we let her?" Will said. 

We all looked at each other silently agree with Will's plan. It could work. 

"Then lets go." Phoebe order as she lead the way out of the house with the others quickly following her. 

As we all reached outside, we noticed it already became night time. We rushed inside the car and Nancy made the announcement that Driscoll was staying at the Hawkins hospital.  

Nancy car tires screeched as she parked her car and everyone quickly getting out. They all rushed inside of the hospital, "lets just sick together." Nancy said walking at a fast pace with all of us following behind her. 

"Whoa, whoa, whoa!" The reception woman yells, stopping us all and putting her phone down. "Excuse me! Where do you thin you're going?" She asked us. 

"Oh, um...I was just going to visit my grandma again. And--And this is my family." Nancy responds, lying so horribly. 

"Extended." Lucas said as the receptionist looked him down. 

"I don't care who they are." She shrugs, "you know the ruled. Two visitors at a time."

"Yeah, but..." Nancy began to protest.

"Two," the woman cut her off while holding up two fingers. The woman then went to pick up the phone, "this girl done lost her mind. She brought a whole zoo in here." She complains as she sits back down, holding the phone to her ear. 

I couldn't help but chuckle a little bit at her comment. 

We then decided, Nancy and Johnathan go. They knew the hospital well and also Nancy knew who Driscoll was. 

The rest of us made our way towards the waiting room and decided to relax a bit. Will sat down while Mike and Lucas brought some candy from the vending machine and Max read some magazines with El following behind her. 

"Come on, you piece of shit!" Mike complains as his candy stayed behind. Him and Lucas stared at the machine angrily when suddenly all of the candies busted out from their holding place. 

Mike looks over at El and sees her wiping her nose from the blood. It was her who helped him. "Thanks." He appreciates. 

I smiled a little at the two. Young love. So innocent and cute. The little petty fight they were having I knew would not last for long, but looking at the two and seeing their petty fights; made me miss when Billy and I were like that. In the beginning how we would jokingly have those small fights but never meant them because we knew we loved each other to much to leave the other. 

"Phoebe," a voice called interrupting my thoughts. I turned to see Will standing besides me. 

I smiled, "hey." 

"I got kicked out." He points out, eyeing towards a direction and when I looked I saw Mike and El talking. "I guess they're trying to rekindle." He said.  I chuckled softly at his small comment and turned back to look at him.

"I suppose they are. Their fight was nothing so serious to keep them apart. They obviously care for each other deeply." I say as I looked around the dim hospital waiting room. 

"How are doing?" Will suddenly asked, "you know, with the whole Billy issue and such. It must be so hard on you and I am sure that you miss him a lot." He continues as he fiddled with his hands that rest on his lap.

I sighed, sadly. "I mean, I do miss him and I wish this bastard didn't take him away from me." I began and I started to feel my eyes tear up, "but I feel more for him. I could only imagine what he is going through. I wonder how he is doing with having his body possessed by the mindflayer. I know he is still in there, but that night at the sauna, I am no longer sure. It's like it was Billy, but not at the same time. I always wondered if his cries from that night was real or not. Is he suffering? Will we be able to get him back fully? Even if we do, I could only imagine the PTSD he will be going through." I explained, getting flashbacks from that night at the sauna test and how insanely strong Billy was. 

Then I suddenly felt a hand on top of mine, "don't worry. Pheebs. If you guys got me back, we can get him back. Billy is still in there, in despite of what you saw that night." He reassures as he looked deeply into my eyes with a small smile. 

All of a sudden the lights in the hospital began to flicker and the two of us noticed. The rest sat in their chairs not realizing what Will and I were seeing. 

"Something's wrong." I stated.

The lights began to flicker even more and we all huddle together on the floor. Will placed his hand behind the neck as if he got the chills, "he's here."

"Let's go. Now!" I say and we sprinted towards the elevator.

"Hey! Two at a time." The receptionist yelled as we all walked past her. 

We ran towards the elevator and Mike began pushing the button aggressively and the doors wouldn't open. 

"Stairs." Mike suggests and we rush towards the. We slammed the doors open and quickly ran up the stairs. We entered the floor that seemed most suspicious. We went running through the halls and we saw Johnathan trying to break into a room.

"Move!" I yelled and fly the door open.

Once I did, we saw this large, gross monster hovering over Nancy. It looked back at us all and we saw its  disgusting face. It had rotten sharped teeth and it looked like a big gooey monster. 

"Jesus!" Mike spoke in shocked.

"What the fu-" Before Max could finish her statement, it roared at all of us, loudly and started charging towards us.

El quickly used her powers to smash the monster aggressively against all four walls of the room. She yells and the monster wailed in pain as El continue to attack it. 

I looked at El and saw her nose bleeding profusely. 

"El!" I yelled as she slouched a bit from tiredness of using her powers too much. The monster took its chance to charger at her quickly and I stopped it but throwing my arms forward and launching it out the window. 

I huffed heavily and help El stand to her two feet. I then looked at Johnathan and told him go to get Nancy. The rest of out rushed out of the room and hurried down the stairs, soon Nancy and Johnathan joined us. Once we reached outside we stopped and saw the disgusting thing squelching and going down a sewer drain. We all stared in absolute disgust. 

"What the fuck was that?" Lucas spazzed, in shocked to what the hell we all just witness.