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12| A Day Of Unexpected Events
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𝐒𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠: 𝘽𝙮𝙚𝙧𝙨 𝙍𝙚𝙨𝙞𝙙𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙚

A SHARP KNOCK ON the Byers closed front door startled poor Joyce immensely. She mutters to herself as she puts her house slightly together and makes her way over to the door. She swings it open rather quickly and scares the person on the other side.

-"Steve?" She asks out of pure shock. She had met him only a few times before through Stella. But she never thought that he would ever have a reason to knock on her door.

-"Hi Mrs. Byers. Look, I know I haven't been exactly nice to Jonathan, but we need to talk."

Joyce stares at the boy with wide eyes. She moves out of the way so that he can step inside. She leads him to the kitchen where he takes a seat at the circular table.

-"I'm sorry for the mess, we went to the Cory today to see Will "supposedly"." Joyce apologizes while putting things away as Steve sits at her table with his hands folded.

"You said you wanted to talk?" She questions slowly after joining him at the table.

-"Yes, look I know about your son, and my sister." He hangs his head low and takes a deep breath.

"But with if I told you that, they could possibly still be alive?" He speaks slowly and in a low voice. Joyce's eyes practically pop out of her head as she registers all of this information.

-"I knew it!" She exclaims standing up from her seat. Steve's eyes go wide as he watches the older women walk around her Christmas light lit house.

"Ok, so I know this sounds crazy, but Will communicated with me, through the lights," she grabs a string of them off of the floor.

"Hopper then came over and tried to tell me that my son was dead, but I refused to believe him. Did your sister talk to you through lights?" She suddenly asks, curious about how he thought of this.

-"No, but I saw her. She was stuck in like a-a different place. What I saw from where she was, it looked out of this world. I saw her today, just after Hopper told she was dead. She said Will was with her, that is your son right?" He confirms even though he already knew.

-"Yes, Will is my boy. You see I'm not going crazy! You saw you're sister! Who's with my son! Steve, do you realize what this means?" Joyce places her hands on his shoulders.

-"That we can look for them?" He guesses a bit overwhelmed by her behavior.

-"Yes! Did she tell you where they are? Think Steve, think!" She encourages him. Steve's shuts his eyes closed and contemplates.

-"Hawkins! But she said Hawkins something
point 0........."

𝐒𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠: ʇɥǝ 𝙣𝙙𝙨ı𝙙ǝ 𝙙𝙤ʍ𝙣

-"WILL! I SAW STEVE!" Stella cries while running into Castle Byers. Her face was red from the wind and wet from crying. Her breathing was ragged, and there were twigs stuck in her brown hair. It looked as if there were more freckles on her face than before due to the fact that there was some mud that had flung up from the ground and land on her face around her nose.

-"Woah woah woah! Slow down! What did you say?" Will questions while taking her bag off of her shoulders and placing it on the ground. He sits her down on the makeshift bed and then takes a seat beside her.

-"I saw Steve. He was there. At Hawkins High! He really was! He tried to pull me out of here. I told him where we were. He'll get help I know it!" She says quickly while trying to catch her breath. She places her hand over her chest and looks over at the boy beside her.

"Will, what's wrong?" The girls happy mood shifts when she notices Will looking around uncomfortably.

-"Oh, it's nothing." The boy avoids eye contact at all cost. Stella frowns as she studies her friend closely. Something was terribly wrong, and she was going to find out.

-"Will, listen to me," she instructs while kneeing in front of him. The boy looks up and stares at her freckles instead.

"Look, you're all I've got, and I'm all you've got. If there is a problem, you have to let me know. I told Steve where we are, it's only a matter of time before they find us. So please, open up, let me in, let me help, because that's what friends do. They help each other, physically and emotionally. Please Will, tell me, what's wrong?"

Will looks up into her eyes and finds true sincerity in them. It amazes him at how well she was with words. She was only twelve, and yet she said that better than any of their older brothers could.

-"Stella, I'm fine it's just. I'm not saying you went crazy, but you saw Steve? I mean I'm sure you did, but sometimes I feel like I'm dreaming, because none of this could possibly be real. But then again, ugh." He covers his face with his hands.

"I-I just wanna go home. I'm so tried of living in fear. I'm so tried of having to think every second that, this is it...... or-or is it? I'm tried, and I miss my family. I just wanna go home." The boy confesses, knowing fully well that his best friend felt the same way, but won't dare to show it.

-"I know what you mean. And I'm tried too, I miss my family, and I hate living in fear, heck I almost died." She sighs and looks down at the ground.

"But remember, friends don't lie. I saw Steve, I told him where we are, and he'll get help. I know it Will, I just know it..........."

𝐒𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠:𝙃𝙖𝙬𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙨 𝘾𝙤𝙧𝙤𝙣𝙚𝙧

HOPPER SAT IN AN UNCOMFORTABLE chair at the Coroner, while waiting to inspect the bodies.

-"What's taking so long?" He asks with a sigh to the man behind a tall desk.

-"Well, everything's been a bit chaotic around here without Gary." The man explains while readjusting his glasses.

-"Without Gary?" Hopper questions, his boredom quickly turning into curiosity.

"Where's Gary?" He stands up from his seat and walks over to the desk.

-"Well, I thought you knew. Those men from State they...... they sent Gary home last night." The man says casually.

Hopper becomes suspicious and glances at the doors to the left. He then turns back to the man and asks,

-"Who did the autopsies?"

-"Someone from State." The man with the glasses answers truthfully.

Joyce and Jonathan Byers stood on the other side of those doors to Hoppers left. They were waiting to see Will's body. Joyce looks over and sees Stella's under a sheet. She shakes her head and refocuses her attention back on Will.

The man in medical clothes pulls the sheet down to reveal Will's face and chest. Jonathan lets out a cough, which doesn't sound good, and runs away from the window. As for Joyce, she just stands there, mentally laughing at those people from State. They were doing a horrible job of convincing her that "that thing" was her son.

-"He has a birth mark on his right arm. Can you show that to me, please?" She challenges them calmly.

Not even minutes later, Joyce comes bursting out of those doors that separated her, Jonathan, and Hopper. She power walks away and straight for the exit.

-"Ma'am!" The man from State cries

"Ma'am, I need you to sign!" He tries to keep up with her.

Jonathan hides his face in his hands and shakes his head. He was afraid to say that his mother might be going crazy..........

-"I don't......." Joyce spins around practically on her heel and stares the man down.

"I don't know what you think that thing is in there, but that is not my son." She clarifies, scaring the crap out of the man while doing so.

-"Joyce, wait a second." Hopper stands from his seat, trying to be the peacemaker,he grabs her arm lightly.

-"No!" She yells, ripping her arm away from Hopper's grasp.

-"Mom!" Jonathan yells, completely embarrassed that his mother would act like this. He wanted more than nothing right now, to crawl into a hole and stay there......

-"Ma'am- I-I-I......." the State coroner stutters...........

𝐒𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠: 𝘽𝙮𝙚𝙧𝙨 𝙍𝙚𝙨𝙞𝙙𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙚

-"DID YOU SIGN IT?" Steve asks while sitting on the edge of his seat. Joyce had just finished explaining what had happened to her earlier that day.

-"Yeah, But Jonathan was telling me that we had to deal with this, and now he's planning a funeral for that thing at the Coroner." She sighs while crossing her arms over her chest.

-"They'll probably gonna want me to do the same thing." Steve rubs his temples with a sigh.

"I mean, I already talked to Hopper, about something..... that doesn't matter. I'm the legal guardian here, and I'm not even graduated from High School." The teen stands and starts to pace the room.

-"Steve, I wanna tell you something. I really want to help you find your sister. Now that we know for sure that they are alive, do you wanna team up and look for them together? I love Stella. She's very sweet, and kind, considerate. Last time she came here, I told her that her smile lit up the room!" She chuckles softly at the memory.

A thin smile forms on Steve's pink lips. It was true, everything Mrs. Byers has to say about his younger sister was true. Her smile could light up an entire room.

"So, what do you say?" She asks in a low voice.

The teen looks up with no hesitation and with that same thin smile. Joyce tilts her head to the right and studied his face.

-"I'll say this, it's one unexpected alliance." He says with a slight smirk before grabbing the older woman's hand and giving it a shake.

𝐒𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠:𝙒𝙝𝙚𝙚𝙡𝙚𝙧 𝙍𝙚𝙨𝙞𝙙𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙚
(𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝘽𝙖𝙨𝙚𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩)

-"WE KEEP LOSING THE SIGNAL, but you hear it, right?" Mike asks the party while playing around with the channels and antenna.

-"Yeah, I heard a baby. It actually sounded like two babies." Lucas answers in a deadpanned voice. He raises his brows when says the word "two".

-"What?" Mike asks shocked that his friends were not being very helpful at the moment.

-"Mike, you obviously tapped into a baby monitor." Lucas states in a very matter-of-factly like tone.

"It's probably the Blackburns' next door." He continues while checking his finger nails for dirt. He only checked his finger nails when he needed an escape out of a conversation he didn't want to be apart of.

-" Uh, did that sound like babies to you? It was Will and Stella....."

-"Mike!"

-"Lucas you don't understand. He spoke last night, they both did! Words! He was singing that weird song he loves. And Stella even joined in! Even El heard them!" Mike looks over at the girl who's seated on the couch.

-"Oh, well, if the weirdo heard them, then I guess......." A mischievous grin grows on Lucas's face he looks over at Dustin who rolls his eyes.

It was decided by Mike, that El needed a bigger radio to channel the two stuck in the upside down. They all agreed on the radio at the A.V. club at school. But the problem was, how were they going to get the "weirdo" there? They decided, that the best idea, was to give El a makeover.

Lucas and Dustin found an old pink dress of Nancy's, and a blonde wig. Mike did the tedious work and put powder on her face. So that she would look "freshened up".

After Mike said she looked, "pretty good", they took off for school, hoping to just get in a out of there as quickly as possible.

-"Ok remember, if anyone sees us, look sad." Dustin explains to El. She imitates the curly haired boy who wipes his eyes as if there's tears in them.

-"Attention students, there will be an assembly to honor Will Byers and Stella Harrington in the gymnasium now. Do not go to fourth period." A voice says over the PA.

-"It's locked." Says a flustered Mike while trying to open the A.V. club room door.

-"What?" Lucas asks in equal disappointment.

-"Hey, do you think you can open it? With your powers?" Dustin asks, trying to look on the bright side.

-"Boys?" Mr. Clarke asks after spotting them in the hallway.

-"Hey," Lucas says in a low and sad voice.

-"Assembly's about to start." Their favorite teacher informs them. He points in the direction of the gym.

-"We know. We're just, you know..." Mike looks at the ground. His mood shifts perfectly to go along with the situation.

"Upset." He finishes after sniffling.

-"Y-yeah, definitely u-upset." Dustin adds onto the act while stammering.

-"We need some alone time." Lucas licks his lips then bites the inside of his cheek. He wipes his eyes and looks back up at Mr. Clarke.

-"To cry," Dustin sniffles.

-"Yeah listen. I get it. I do."
Mr. Clarke starts to feel horrible. These poor boys were trying their best to keep it together.

"I know how hard this is, but let's just be there for Will and Stella, huh? And then... the Heathkit is all yours for the rest of the day. What do you say?"
He asks the boys a soft voice and in a kind manner.

They all nod and quickly make up a story about how El was actually Mike's second cousin from Sweden named Eleanor. Mr. Clarke seemed to buy it. No red flags went up in his mind when the girl said she came from a "bad place".

They four made their way into the gym for the assembly. Each looked around at the other kids to see if any of them had any actual sympathy. Of course none of them did. Troy and James sat a few chairs down from them. They laughed and mocked the Principal the entire time.

-"Mouthbreather," El whispers to Mike while looking down at them.

When the assembly was finally over, Mike had officially had enough of Troy and his jerkiness. He looks over at El before marching into battle to stick up for his friends.

-"Hey, hey, hey, Troy? Hey Troy!" Mike grabs the bullies attention after saying his name twice.

"You......you think this is funny?" He questions him, full of confidence. It was probably the look that El gave him before he approached. Her said something like, "drag that little mouthbreather-......."

-"What'd you say, Wheeler?" Troy turns around with a smug look on his stupid face.

-"I-I saw you guys laughing over there. A-and I-I think that's a real messed up thing to do." Mike stammers while trying to not seem intimidated by the two boys who probably weighed more than him and El put together.

-"Didn't you listen to the counselor, Wheeler? Grief shows itself in funny ways. Besides, what's there to be sad about, anyway?"
Troy answers. But he wasn't near to be finished at all. For the bully was only getting started.

"Will's in fairyland now, right? With his best friend Selena! Flying around with all the other little fairies. All happy and gay!" He starts to jump around and act like a three year trying to imitate a fairy.

A wave of anger courses through Mike's veins before he steps forward and pushes Troy to the ground. Gasp could be heard from everyone in the room and even Mike was a bit surprised at his unexpected action.

-"You're dead, Wheeler! Dead!" Troy stands with a horrible scowl on his face, his fist clenched, and his ego crushed.

Before he can move forward to attack the Wheeler boy, he freezes. His anger turns into panic when he realizes that he can't move.
He grunts before his mouth goes agape when he feels warm liquid running down his leg.

-"Dude, Troy peed himself." A kid announces while pointing to him. Troy looks down and his eyes go wide at the embarrassing sight.

The boys laugh and girls start to giggle. Mike looks back at El, who's got blood running out of her nose. The bully starts panting heavily and El releases him from her hold. She looks at Mike with a slight smile before turning away and wiping her nose.

-"Holy crap!" Dustin exclaims in shock.

-"Hey! What's going on here?" The Principal asks in an annoyed tone while stomping back over to the gym.

"Oh." He says in a low voice while rolling his eye.

-"Mike! Let's go!" Lucas pulls his friend along so that Troy wouldn't be able to hunt them down. They also needed to get El to the big radio, so that they could contact their friends in the upside down.

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