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IT WAS A FEW HOURS LATER AND EL WAS SITTING on the edge of Mike's bed with a blanket on her lap running her fingers through Twelve's hair as his head was in her lap while he was lying down with Ben on Twelve's stomach looking into the plushie's eyes, feeling slightly relieved that the sore burning pain in his body finally subsided.

Mike had gone downstairs a few minutes ago and Twelve and Eleven looked up when the bedroom door opened revealing Mike with Dustin and Lucas, once seeing the new boys Levi sat up, catching Ben as the plush fell off his stomach, and sat up watching the two stare intently at him and Eleven.

Dustin slowly closed the bedroom door as Lucas glared at Mike. "Are you out of your mind?"

Mike sighed at his friend, "Just listen to me."

"You are out of your mind!-"

"They know about Will!" Mike exclaimed, finally getting his friend's attention.

"What do you mean they know about Will?" Dustin questioned, glancing towards the duo on the bed.

Twelve rolled his eyes, looking towards Eleven who just softly smiled at the boy causing him to flop back onto the bed, ignoring the conversation.

Levi looked to the side by Mike's pillows and smiled when he saw a brown teddy bear sitting there. Twelve glanced towards Mike who was too caught up in arguing with Dustin and Lucas before grabbing the stuffed bear and started playing with it.

Twelve slung himself so he was lying on the bed, upside down and hanging off the mattress, playing with Ben and the bear that Twelve had named Klaus.

All of a sudden Twelve noticed the room had gone silent and he felt as someone was watching him causing him to look towards Mike and the group but since he was upside down he really couldn't see what was happening. But the boy jumped sitting upright when Lucas came towards them, glaring.

"Do you know where he is? Do you know where Will is?!" 

Twelve flinched, looking up at the boy in fear as Lucas shouted and grabbed Eleven's shoulders harshly, throwing Twelve a glare too, causing the boy to sink into the bed and slightly move the two plushies up to hide behind them.

Mike looked at his friend with wide eyes, "Stop you're scaring them!"

"They should be scared! If you know where he is, tell us!" Lucas exclaimed looking at the two on the bed who just sat silently.

The boy turned to Mike, "This is nuts. We have to take them to your mom."

Mike shook his head, "No! Eleven said telling an adult would put us, her, and Twelve in danger."

Twelve looked up from the plushies and connected eyes with Lucas and the scared boy gave Lucas a small smile causing the boy to roll his eyes.

"Their names are Eleven and Twelve?" Lucas asked turning to Mike in question. But Dustin was looking at Mike with wide frantic eyes, "What kind of danger?"

Mike shrugged smirking slightly, "Well El and Levi for short." he said softly.

"Mike, what kind of danger!?" Dustin yelled.

"Danger. Danger." Mike shouted, putting up a gun shape with his hand and putting it up to Dustin's head, causing Dustin's eyes to widen, then Mike put his hand up to Lucas' head, but the boy slapped his hand away.

"No, no, no! We're going back to plan A. We're telling your mom!" Lucas stated, walking towards Mike's bedroom door, opening it but jumps back when the door gets slammed shut by an invisible force.

Lucas ignores it and goes to open the door again, Twelve sees what he is doing and conjures Four's powers, and heats up the doorknob before going back to playing with the stuffed animals. Lucas grabs the handle but pulls back in pain at the heat and they watch as the door locks on its own.

Lucas, Dustin, and Mike look towards the bed, seeing Eleven glaring at them with a bloody nose and Twelve sitting there nonchalantly playing with the two stuffed animals and wiping his bloody nose on his sleeve.

"No," Eleven stated.

There was an eerie silence looming over them the only noise was the inaudible talking that Twelve was doing while playing before a loud voice came from downstairs, causing them to jump.

"Dinner's ready!"

Dustin and Lucas glance towards Mike as he turns to Eleven and Twelve. Mike walks towards the two on the bed and crouches down, smiling softly as Twelve sits Mike's stuffed bear on his lap next to Ben. "Hey, you two stay here, okay? Just for now."

Dustin and Lucas share a glance of uncertainty, before turning back to the scene. Levi looks at Mike, squeezing the plushies closer to him, "Come back?"

Mike glanced back towards his friends, "Don't worry, Levi. We'll be back before you know it."

Twelve looks at El and she gives him a look of reassurance, knowing the boy was scared that more people will leave him. "Promise?" the boy mumbled.

Mike smiled, "Promise."

Twelve watched as Mike stood up and walked out of the bedroom with Lucas and Dustin behind him.

Twelve exhaled, puffing his cheeks after a few minutes of the boys gone. Eleven looked at him amused as she takes in his figure lying on the floor sprawled out like a starfish with Ben and Klaus on his stomach.

Eleven rolled her eyes after a while, annoyed with Twelve's huffing and puffing. She gets up from the bed and stands over the boy by his head and Levi looked up at the girl her figure upside down in his eyes, he smiles innocently causing Eleven to shake her head chuckling silently.

Eleven moved so she could grab Ben and Klaus, holding them while Twelve got up off the floor and took them away from her, El grabbed the boy's wrist and dragging him out of the bedroom.

Twelve looked around the house as Eleven dragged him, Twelve catches sight of the kitchen where they're several people sitting down eating.

He saw an older woman who Twelve recognized as Mike's mom, and an older man with glasses, who had to be Mike's dad, there was Holly the little girl from the pictures, and Twelve's eyes widened as he saw Nancy the pretty girl.

Mike, Dustin, and Lucas looked at the two walking with wide eyes, and Twelve just waved at them with Ben in his hand, smiling innocently, as Eleven finally dragged him down the stairs into the basement.

Once the two went downstairs, Twelve started to explore, on the couch he finds a small thin paper book.

"X- men?" he said slowly, trying to sound out the words like Three and Four taught him to.

Twelve being curious picks up the book and walks over to the fort where Eleven was fiddling with Mike's walkie-talkie.

Twelve climbed in and sat Ben and Klaus by him, opening the book and looking in amazement at the colorful pictures, trying to read the words but gave up and flipped through the pages in awe at the drawings.

I'll read it to you if you want?

It's okay Twelve sighed.

After a while, the two heard footsteps causing them to stop what they were doing, and Twelve peaked out of the fort seeing Mike, Dustin, and Lucas walking down the stairs, Mike and Dustin holding plates of food.

"El? Levi? It's okay, no adults just us and some meatloaf." Mike called out coming closer to the fort with his friends behind him.

Eleven and Twelve look past Mike at Dustin and Lucas, Eleven with a questioning glare and Twelve with a small soft hesitate smile.

"Don't worry, they won't tell anyone about you two, they promise. Right guys?" Mike said looking back at his friends while taking the plate out of Dustin's hands to give it to Levi who started eating it quickly.

"We wouldn't have upset you two if we knew you had superpowers!" Dustin stated, smiling excitedly, but shouts in pain as Mike hits his leg.

Mike shakes his head sighing, "What Dustin is trying to say is that they were just scared...earlier. That's all."

Twelve frowned looking down, setting the fork in his hand down suddenly not hungry. He didn't mean to make them scared, he felt sad knowing that he was the reason why they were scared.

"We just wanted to find our friend," Lucas explained.

Twelve's breath hitched snapping his head towards the boy, visibly flinching at word friend.

Eleven glanced towards Levi, before turning to Lucas. "Friend?"

"Yeah, friend. Will?"

"What is friend?" Twelve questioned, his voice shaking with sadness.

"Is he serious? Um.. a friend-"

"Is someone that you'd do anything for." Mike cut off the boy.

"You lend them your cool stuff, like comic books and trading cards." Dustin smiled, glancing towards his X- men comic that Twelve had been looking at.

"And they never break a promise." Mike finished.

"Especially when there's spit," Lucas adds.

Eleven and Twelve share a confused look, "Spit?" the girl asked.

"A spit swear means..." Lucas trails off, spitting in his hand and putting that hand on Dustin's in a handshake, which Twelve flinched at remembering when Benny had held his hand out for one. "You never break your word. It's a bond."

Dustin looks down at his hand in disgust as Mike keeps talking, "That's super important because friends...they tell each other things. Things that parents don't know."

The boys walked away to talk as Twelve was looking down at his lap squeezing Ben three times. "Five." he whimpered.

El heard him and furrowed her brows, "What?"

Twelve looked at the girl with teary blue eyes, "Friend."

Eleven sighed sadly, grabbing the boy's hand squeezing it reassuringly.

The two were silent and they heard the group of boys talking about Will, their missing friend. Eleven looked towards Twelve then at their hands. "Do it," she whispered.

Levi looked at the girl confused. "What?"

She wants to connect. the voice mumbled.

The boy was confused but closed his eyes, focusing on their hands touching. Feeling her power, Levi opens his eyes that flash white then the boy knows why she asked him to do this.

Eleven nodded at the boy and pulled him up with her and they walked towards a table that held the game of Dungeons and Dragons. The two sat at the table and the three boys in the corner turn to them.

"What's the weirdo's doing?" Lucas questioned, glancing at Dustin and Mike, who just shrug, circling around the table.

Eleven put one hand on the board grabbing one of Twelve's hands while his free one goes to the board as well and they both close their eyes.

"El?" Mike called, looking at the two.

"Levi?" Dustin went to touch his shoulder, but Lucas slapped his hand away.

"Don't touch him! He's obviously doing something!"

"Sorry."

El and Levi focus on the static ringing in their head, focusing the power from the board.

They both open their eyes, and Twelve nods at the girl with a sad look on his face. Eleven picked up the playing piece that was the wizard, holding it up to her face. "Will," she said almost in a whisper.

"Superpowers," Dustin stated, ignoring the glares Mike and Lucas send him.

Mike slowly sat on the other side of El, "Did you see him? Last night? On Mirkwood? Do you know where he is?"

Twelve swiped all of the pieces off the board onto the floor, grabbing one specific one as Eleven flips the board to the black side and places the wizard piece that Will uses down in the middle.

"I don't understand."

"Hiding." Eleven sighed.

"Will is hiding?" Mike asked while El nodded. "From the bad men?"

Eleven shook her head, glancing at Twelve who was looking at the board blankly.

"Then from who?"

Twelve slowly placed the piece he had in his hand onto the board, revealing a two-headed monster then he whispered.

"Demogorgon."

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A/N) Mwhaha! Y'all are in for a treat for the few next chapters! But until then I hope you enjoyed this one!