Chapter 17 - Memory

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3rd Person

She closed her eyes, and as she opened them she was surrounded by darkness.

She walked around, looking for any sign of life.

"Please, Will." She whispered, her eyes scanning everywhere around her.

She looked around, but couldn't see anything.

"Will?" She yelled, hoping he might hear her.

"Will!" She yelled louder.

"WILL!" She screamed, running to try and find him.

"Will, don't do that."

Eleven heard a voice, and she immediately began to search for it.

"Don't do what, Mike."

The voices were echoing from everywhere, and she was finding it hard to find them.

"This! You keep just.. shutting down!"

That's Mike's voice.

Eleven turned around and saw Will and Mike, seemingly arguing.

"Shutting down?" Will's eyebrows raised.

"I want to be there for you, Will. Seriously I do! But you just.. you won't talk to me, man." Mike frowned.

Eleven recognized this argument, it was just over a year ago.

Will looked up at Mike, speechless.

"I-.." Will started, but didn't finish his sentence.

"Will I don't understand! Why won't you just talk to me?" Mike chuckled, his face upset.

"Because, Mike. You wouldn't understand." Will muttered, looking down.

"Well I can try!" Mike tried, but Will shook his head.

"Mike let's just stop.." Will muttered, knowing one of them would say something stupid.

"Will stop fucking doing this!" Mike yelled, causing Will to flinch.

"Mike stop." Will whispered, tearing up.

"Every single fucking time I try and talk to you, it's the same shit! 'You won't understand' or 'Let's just stop' when I want to help! I don't get why you won't just let me help you!?" Mike fired, getting louder and louder.

"M-Mike stop it please." Will's lips trembled.

"You do this every time and I'm so sick of it, Will." Mike scoffed.

"I'm sorry I jus-"

"You know sometimes I cannot stand to look at you." Mike spat.

Will began to cry.

He started crying, his hands covering his face.

"Stop. Stop it please." Will sobbed into his hands.

Mike was frozen, he hadn't expected such a reaction out of Will.

"I-.. Uh.." Mike stuttered, looking around awkwardly.

"I'm sorry. I'm really sorry." Will sobbed, and Mike sighed.

"No, Will I'm sorry I shouldn't have said that." Mike apologized, moving over to Will.

"I'm sorry! No no please don't hurt me!" Will panicked, seeing Mike move closer to him.

"W-What? Will I'd never hurt you?" Mike frowned.

"No please I'm sorry." Will continued to sob, and Mike wrapped his arms around Will.

"It's not your fault, Will. I shouldn't have yelled at you. None of this is your fault." Mike hugged Will, rubbing his back.

"I'm sorry." Will whispered, barely hugging Mike back.

"It's okay, just calm down." Mike whispered back, trying to calm down the smaller boy.

Will sobbed into Mike's chest, letting out all of his bottled up emotions from god knows how long.

Mike held him, wrapping his arms around Will tightly.

"It's okay, you're safe." Mike whispered, and Will had calmed down quite a bit.

"I'm sorry.." Will whispered, his voice heart broken.

"Don't be, it's okay."

They began to fade away, and Eleven stood there. She was speechless.

Is this all Will could remember? Was this the only memory he had?

She walked around, hoping to find another memory, but there weren't any more. She looked, she searched everywhere she could, but there was nothing.

"Eleven?" A voice broke through her thoughts, it was Mike.

She left the void, and opened her eyes to see Mike stood in front of her.

"What are you doing?" He asked her, his voice quiet.

She looked up at him, and his eyes were red and puffy.

"Mike, are you okay?" She asked him, her voice laced with concern.

"No. Is he okay?" Mike answered shortly.

"I don't know.." Eleven answered truthfully.

"Oh." Mike looked down, sitting down on the chair next to Will's chair.

"Can I.. talk to him?" Mike whispered, and Eleven got the hint and nodded.

"When you're done, come back out so the rest of us can say bye to him." Eleven told him, her eyes stinging.

"I will, I won't be long." Mike nodded back, his eyes burning.

He sat down and sat in silence for a few minutes.

"So.."

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