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Andrea held onto Robin as the vision of the Creel family's life flashed in and out of her mind. The girl truly freaked out by what she had seen... trying to keep herself from crying as she held onto Robin while the man continued to look at them. The tragedy of the Creel family was truly horrific.
Though, Andrea was skeptical of the son. Her suspicions flew around and following through with her other theories that he could be someone who had once been very dear to her. Someone who had turned out to be very bad.
The deaths of Virginia and Alice Creel had taken a toll on Victor Creel, as well as his sons. It was clear that he had truly never let them go. That he still held them very close to his heart even after everyone claimed he had killed them. After everyone claimed that he was a paranoid schizophrenic.
Victor Creel was just a man who had been injusiticed many years ago after undergoing so much grief.
But that wasn't what had just scared Andrea, it was the blue eyes of the little boy.
"Who was she?" The man began to hum a song, rocking back and forth as he hummed.
"Victor, Victor," Nancy spoke before the door opened.
"Is he everything you had hoped he would be? I just had a very interesting conversation with Professor Brantley, perhaps we should discuss in my office."
Despite the guards coming for them and the humming of Victor Creel, the man paused before looking to where Andrea held onto Robin, "She reminds me of my poor Henry..."
The girls stayed quiet as the owner of the Asylum spoke, "While we wait for the police."
Andrea followed the other girls while someone tried to grab Andrea, the girl flipping out as she shoved him off of her while Nancy and Andrea made their way out the doors with Robin, the woman catching up to speak to the two.
"Victor said the night of the attack, everything went on in the house, but he made specific mention of music. He said music was playing," Robin began to speak as he looked over at the two before back at the ground, "And then, when we asked him about the angel, he started to hum."
Andrea felt her stomach sink as her vision began to warp, the sight of the cars reappearing, but something was very wrong. The card that had fallen last moved over one spot in the stack now sitting in her hands.
"It's starting," Andrea whispered while Robin sang Victor's song, "Guys, we've gotta go. It's happening, Max's moved."
"Dream A Little Dream of Me," Nancy spoke before Robin added.
"Ella Fitzgerald," Robin looked at Robin before they looked at Andrea who stared at her hands.
"The voice of an angel," Nancy looked over at her friend.
"Yeah, Hatch said that music can reach parts of the brain that words can't. So maybe that's the key, a lifeline," Robin began to stutter out while Andrea shook her head as if saying hurry.
"A lifeline back to reality," Nancy looked at Robin as they began to speed up.
"It's worth a shot," Robin looked over at Nancy trying to get her on board.
Nancy looked back before saying, "I think we can beat them."
"What?" Robin questioned.
"To the car," Nancy added remaining discrete.
"Okay, I'm warning you right now, I have terrible coordination," Robin began to speak as she looked at Nancy, "It took me six months longer to walk than all the other babies."
"Just follow my lead," Nancy ordered as she grabbed Andrea's hand.
"No! Oh my god!" Robin exclaimed as she followed after the two.
The three girls began to run through the crowd while inmates yelled at them. Andrea ran trying to keep herself focusing on reality and not the forming vision. The girls slipped through the arch before reaching Nancy's car.
"GO! GO!" Robin yelled.
Andrea focused on the guards before throwing them back, her nose bleeding as her vision slipped.
"HOLY SHIT! HOLY SHIT!" Robin was obviously freaked out by the events.
"Robin, you really are a weird runner," Nancy still couldn't help but comment.
Andrea began to breathe heavily as she found herself somewhere dark, somewhere she did not recognize.
"Robin, where the hell are you? This is a code red. I repeat, a code red!" Dustin, where was he?
Right, he was with the others in the cemetery.
"MAX!" Andrea yelled as she caught sight of the red head standing in front of Billy, "RUN!"
Max's head turned quickly and the two began to run together trying to get away from Billy before a weird creature appeared.
"You can't run from me Maxine... Andrea can't protect you," Andrea grabbed the girl's hand as they continued to run.
"Dustin, it's Robin. We copy! Andrea is... she's back in the vision. It's Max isn't it? That's what she was saying before it grabbed her..."
"Holy shit! Finally, please, please tell me you guys have this figured out!"
Andrea ran through the vision with Max as the two looked obviously freaked out. Something grabbed Andrea and tugged her back causing Max to gasp which ended up echoing. Andrea let out a scream.
"LUCAS! DUSTIN! LUCAS, PLEASE HELP! DUSTIN!" Max began to yell as she turned around in circles before looking at Andrea who got free.
The world around them began to turn red, causing the two girls to slowly walk into the rumbling red mist while cards began to fall around Andrea. Tears clouded her vision as she followed after Max.
"Max..." Andrea shook her head as they heard creatures snarl.
Their feet began to sink into mush while lightning intensified around them. Everything was spikey and sharp, other worldly.
"My dear, dear, Andrea," Andrea followed after Max as she tried to keep herself settled, watching as a clock floated over her head.
"MAX!" Andrea yelled as the girl went deeper into the building.
"What are you doing in here, Max?" The creature snarled, the clock continuing to chime as spiders began to roam, "Come back to me."
Andrea gasped in horror at the bodies of Chrissy and Fred on display for everyone to see. Max began to breathe heavily as she backed up. Andrea felt as a hand was placed on her shoulder causing her to shriek.
"How do you like them, Max?" He was standing behind her.
Andrea looked at the cards that were placed on the bases of various areas. The ten rested with Chrissy, the Joker with Fred, while the other two rested in a blur. The fifth is nowhere to be seen.
Andrea tried to move but it threw her down, continuing to walk to Max, "Would you like to join them?"
Max began to run but it flicked something at her leg causing her to fall, before being dragged back, "NO!"
"LEAVE HER ALONE!" Andrea yelled as she watched the creature go around Max, the girl focusing as she made its grip let up before she was lifted into the air as her airway began to close.
The creature looked back at her before looking at Max as music began to play, "MAX!" Dustin yelled, "MAX, WAKE UP!"
Andrea somehow got the connection between the monster and her to snap, causing her to fall as she continued to lighten the grip up on Max, "MAX! WAKE UP! COME ON!" Steve was yelling.
"Max, we're right here!" Lucas was now yelling.
They all were. A portal had opened and Vecna tried to fight and hold the creature to Max but Andrea was overpowering him, "They can't help you, Max. There's a reason you hide from them..." He got closer to her.
"No? But I can," Andrea snapped as she threw him back from her friend.
"You belong here," Vecna yelled as he looked at Max from his spot on the ground, "With me. With Andrea."
"You're not really here," Max began to fight against the vines that Andrea was pushing off of her.
"Oh, but I am, Max," He snarled as he rose to his feet, Andrea shaking her head as she tried to get all of the vines off of her friend and hold him back.
"I am," Vecna snarled, Andrea let out a scream as she fell to her knees holding her head.
Andrea began to strain as she felt an overwhelming sense of pain. Listening to the screams of her friends before focusing on her most emotional memory. Rising to her feet as she began to wheeze.
"LET HER GO!" Andrea yelled as she began to use her abilities.
Andrea watched as Max dropped to the ground while Vecna tried to get her down, trying to get past Andrea's grip as Max ran through the redness of the Upside Down while their friends and family yelled. Andrea's vision tried to change but it was too late.
Max had gotten out.
Andrea felt the blood pouring down her face from her nose. She felt every bit of pain that came over her as she was now sitting in the Lab once again at that table.
"You know," Peter held a sinister grin as he stared at her, "I need you to realize what we need to do."
"We don't need to do shit," Andrea snapped as she tried to fight it, "You aren't taking her. You aren't taking my friend." Andrea glared at him, "I know who you are, Henry."
A laugh rippled from his throat, his blue eyes as sinister as ever, "But have you figured out who you are, dear Andrea?"
Andrea slowly began to shake her head as she felt nerves run through her, "I am Andrea. Seven. That's all I am..." She fell short on her words, just like she used to.
He let out a short laugh, "Silly. I always taught you to use your words."
Andrea felt her stutter from her childhood coming back, "If you know so much, who am I? Owens said something about family and..."
He let out a laugh, "We worked on this. Breathe through your words."
"JUST TELL ME DAMMIT!" Andrea screamed as she looked at him, "WHAT MORE DO YOU WANT FROM ME?!"
He just continued to smile at her as he pushed a card over to her, the girl slowly taking it from him as she flipped it over. A gasp left her lips as every theory she had come true.
"You are my only equal, my flesh and my blood," He began to speak as Andrea found herself horrified as she looked at the card which had been a full birth certificate, "My daughter."
Andrea shook her head, "No... No!" She refused.
He held that same damned grin, "Deny however you wish. We are alike. Soon you will understand what all of this is for - for us. Be glad I spared one for you..."
"Leave him out of this," Andrea shot as she shook her head, "I will end you."
"You're so much different with them," Henry, Peter, One, whoever the hell he was continued to speak as they sat in the rainbow room, "Not the same quiet and shy girl you once were."
"If you touch her again," Andrea pointed a shaky finger at him, "You won't know what's coming."
He just smiled at her and placed down his cards before everything disappeared.
Andrea gasped and continued to wheeze as she came back to reality. She was now sitting on the ground on the side of the road, one of Nancy's windows shattered as both women stood over her, Robin yelling through the walkie.
"GUYS! Something is happening, I repeat, something is happening. Andrea's..." Robin's words barely registered to her ears as Nancy sat over Andrea freaking out.
"Hey, hey, you're okay," Nancy moved a bit of Andrea's hair as she looked at the girl, "Just a bit of blood. You're okay."
"She was with Max, what did that bastard do to her?" Steve's voice came through the system while Andrea continued to breathe heavily.
Andrea continued to breathe heavily as her ears rang, "You know... you know that Hatch... he was posh... and snobby... snoshy," Andrea's stutter that had long been forgotten came back in full force.
"There she is," Nancy sighed as she continued to wipe the blood away with her jacket, "You went... it was insane."
"I'm pretty sure she did just get brain damage or something! She cracked the window from the force of hitting it!" Robin yelled through the walkie, "We'll be there in a minute, meet at the Wheeler's."
It would be more than a few minutes before they showed up, Nancy slowly helped Andrea sit up and the girl blinked as black dots clouded her vision.
"Hey, you're good," Nancy tried to keep her cool as she continued to dab away blood, "Do you know what happened?"
Andrea slowly shook her head, her mind racing a hundred miles per minute.
"When you were, well, in your mind, it was like someone threw you. You went into the door," Nancy explained as she looked back at the car.
Andrea looked freaked out. Robin now getting on the ground beside her as well as she shut off the radio.
"If it isn't my favorite Harrington!" Robin tried to lighten the mood, "You got a little... uh... scratched up."
Andrea let out a drowsy laugh, "If that's your way of telling me I have a scar, awesome."
The two women looked at each other before getting Andrea back into the vehicle.
"You stay in the back with her, keep her awake," Nancy ordered as she looked at Robin who nodded.
"Got it," The woman slid into the vehicle after Andrea as the girl slumped over.
"If she falls asleep, wake her up. You can't let someone who has head damage go to sleep until you know they're okay," and Nancy started the vehicle before taking off yet again.
Andrea's mind was one dark place at the moment.
Her mind replaying the fact that she had just found out that she was the daughter of the man-killing anyone. He expected her to join him in the end. He had gone after her friends and the people she cared about. He had survived this entire time and turned into whatever the hell he had turned into.
Andrea was the daughter of this creature that had been hurting all of her friends. She couldn't tell them that, what if they turned against her? But they wouldn't do that. They loved Andrea and they were her family.
They'd help her, right?
Andrea felt as if Robin kept poking the side of her arm to make sure that she stayed conscious on the way to the Wheeler home. The girl ignored it as her eyes stared straight forward, losing the light in them.
"Focus on Max," Andrea stuttered out as she silently cursed herself, placing her palms on her temple as his words rang through her mind.
"We can focus on both of you, besides, you helped Max," Nancy turned sharply into the driveway causing Robin to firmly grip her friend, "Sorry."
Andrea was the last one to get out of the car. Watching as the others stood outside of Steve's vehicle watching as they pulled in. Lucas held Max in his arms as they all shared a worried expression.
Andrea looked over at her friends, trying to bite back the tears she could feel coming. Stop being such a baby. Andrea took a deep breath as she focused on the people in front of her, the people who cared.
"Andrea?" Dustin ran over to his sister, making Steve wait, "What happened?"
Andrea looked back at Max, the sad ghost of a smile flashing over her face, her eyes dull, "This is all my fault."
"What? No, it isn't," Dustin shook his head while the others agreed.
"There's no way it can be," Steve shook his head, "I'm with Henderson."
"Yeah, besides, it isn't like your becoming Darth Vader," Lucas tried to make a joke to her before seeing her expression, "You aren't... right?"
Andrea shook her head as she held onto Dustin, "I'm so, so, sorry. I suspected something and with what the government had said to me I shouldn't have kept my mouth shut," Andrea's stutter began to get terrible.
"Breath," Nancy looked at her friend as she shook her head, "Things personal happen. We can't force you to say anything and you're too independent for your own good."
Max shook her head as she held onto Lucas, "You helped me," Her voice was weak.
Andrea let her head hang low, "I met my father."
Everyone paused as they took Andrea's words in. Questions filled the air as everyone looked at one another after her comment, she had met her father? It was an odd thing to be so upset over, so some became skeptical and up with theories.
Theories like Andrea's father had been a part of the Lab, which hadn't been far from the truth.
Nancy began to look at Andrea with slight confusion, "What?"
That's why Victor Creel had been so reminded of little Henry while in the presence of Andrea. The girl had been his daughter all along, even without knowing it.
She felt stupid now.
Stupid because she refused to believe that Henry could be alive and that he could've been Peter. Stupid that she herself did not want to connect the dots. Stupid because Andrea did not want to believe what she knew was almost completely true.
And now it all made sense.
That's why the lab was so careful with her. That's why they blocked her powers - they didn't want her to end up like the number One. That's why he was with her at all times and taught her the basic fundamentals. That's why he had treated her so differently than he had treated the other numbers.
This entire time, she had been his own flesh and blood. The own remaking of number One. They shared similar features. She had his blondish hair that would go between waves and curls. She had the height. She used to be quiet and soft till she slowly broke out of that shell.
Andrea had done some very bad things under his guidance before anyone ever got the chance to stop her and she now knew why she had fallen so easily for the man's lies and she had followed the man's words as if they were the gospel.
"He's my dad. Vecna... he's my dad."
And that statement shocked everyone so bad that a silence overcome the group. Everyones faces flashing with horror and surprise before Steve followed after Dustin's actions and pulled Andrea into his arms.
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