beurzooomer (beurzooomer) wrote in chances_rpg, @ 2023-02-27 15:27:00 |
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Entry tags: | ~ex stranger things: max mayfield, ~ex tvdverse: hope mikaelson |
Open to Multiple Encounters if Interested!
WHO: Max Mayfield and ???
WHERE: The roof.
WHEN: Middle of the night during her first week.
WARNINGS: Some trigger warnings for depression/mental health issues, loss of a family member, and near death experiences.
SPOILERS? For season four of Stranger Things.
She's only had a couple hours of sleep a night since she arrived. And she's exhausted. She misses Lucas and Dustin and El even more than she already had back home, even though it's her own fault for holding the first two at arm's length for months and keeping herself isolated. It's just -- everything had fallen apart all at once. Billy dying and El and Will leaving for California, starting high school and then her mom and Neil's screaming fights that resulted in Neil hitting the road. And it's not like she misses Neil in the least; she definitely doesn't. She doesn't even feel guilty for being glad he's gone.
But it's done a number on her mom, for sure.
And now, she's marked. Maybe not here, but the minute she lands back home, she knows she's going to be plunged right back into the middle of all the shit with Vecna and the Upside Down. This place is only a tiny reprieve. And she's not sure she's going to survive when she goes back. She already almost hadn't. If Nancy and Robin hadn't figured out how to disrupt Vecna's mind control, if Dustin and Lucas hadn't found the right song to interrupt -- she'd have ended up like Chrissy.
Maybe sometimes you have to stare Death right in the face to realize you want to live. The problem is the guilt that's been eating away at her since the day Billy died. If she had just tried -- maybe she could have pushed him out of the way of the Mind Flayer and they all would have survived. She supposes she'll never know.
She leans on the wall of the roof, staring out over the city blankly. It feels weird, being back in some version of California. Feels like it's not reality.