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THE PARTY IS NOW STOOD UP AND gathered around the lobby.
will reaches his hand to the back of his neck, touching the back of his neck gently.
"he's here," will says and he shivers.
sage rubs will's arm, trying to calm him down as she lets out a deep breath. "let's go," the younger wheeler twin walks off with will, the party following behind her.
"hey, hey, hey! two at a time!" the woman tries to tell the children, but gets ignored.
the party gets to the elevator and sage pushes the button, but realizes it's not working. "shit, fuck you! piece of shit." sage curses, hitting the button harshly. "stairs," mike says then walks away.
sage and the party follow mike to the stairs and immediately start running up the staircase. luckily, nancy and johnathan weren't too far up because the party made it to the couple.
"johnathan, move!" will tells his brother before they make it in front of the door.
sage quickly breaks the door to the room open and walks in with eleven to see a creature. the wheeler twin stared at the creature with wide eyes with eleven, shocked.
"jesus!"
"what the fโ"
the creature roars and charges at the two girls, but they were quick. they lift their hands and throw the creature to the wall with a yell. sage runs to the other side of the room where nancy was and kneels down to her.
eleven throws the creature to the other side of the room, and then the ceiling. sage turns around, still kneeled down, and lifts her hands โ helping eleven throw the creature back down to the floor while protecting her older sister.
the creature snarls at eleven but the hopper teen throws the monster through the window, yelling. as the glass breaks, sage covers nancy.
the monster falls down to the floor and melts, slowly crawling to the sewer drain.
"go!" eleven tells johnathan, pushing him to his girlfriend.
the party runs off as johnathan rushes over to nancy. "are you okay? are you okay?"
sage glances at the couple before scoffing at the fact that her friends left her. the wheeler twin then looks at the window and steps up on it.
"sage? what are you doing?" nancy asks her sister. "uhm, something new!" sage replied and let out a deep breath.
can i float in the air? is that possible? CAN I FLY?! sage thinks to herself before jumping out the window without hesitation.
"sage!" nancy screams. "i'm okay!" sage tells her and keeps her balance in the air as she shows nancy she's flying in the air. "oh, my god,"
the party runs out the door just in time to see the creature making its way down the sewer. sage floats down to the party and watches the creature go down the sewer. she scrunches her face at the sight before turning to the party.
"that is new," sage comments, breathing heavily.
ELEVEN AND SAGE WALK AROUND IN the void together, trying to find mrs. driscoll, billy, heather, tom, janet, and bruce.
"so, you can . . . fly?" eleven asks sage, trying to make conversation so that way it doesn't stay quiet as they search. "yeah, surprisingly. turns out i have more powers." sage replied and smiled softly, looking at eleven.
"i think it's cool," eleven says and smiles at her.
"thanks, el,"
"i also like your shirt. it's pretty." eleven compliments. "awe, thanks, el. i thought i would go for more of the fourth of july look. give the independence day spirit!" sage replied, smiling.
the two girls giggle a little before going back to searching. outside the void, eleven grabs two tissues, handing one to sage, and wipes her nose. sage wipes her nose then throws it to her pile of bloody tissues next to her.
"it can't be good for them to be in there for this long," mike said, worried. "mike, you need to relax," max tells the wheeler twin, but can't help think about sage. "what if they get brain damage or something?" mike questions.
"oh, shit. is that, like, a real thing?" lucas asks the two. "no, it's not. he made it up." max tells him, shaking her head. "mike doesn't know what the hell he's talking about."
"oh, and you do? don't act all normal! you know you're worried for sage."
"no, i . . ."
"yes, from the hawkins post. i โ i called a couple days ago about the โ yes, yes, um . . . i was just . . . following up to see if anything else had gone missing, or if โ okay. um, sorry to bother โ" nancy wheeler gets cut off by a dial tone sounding meaning the person had hung up. the teen puts the phone back and johnathan scratches out a name from the book.
"who's next?" nancy asks him. "there is no next." he replies. "unless you want to start calling random people's homes."
nancy puts her notepad down and sighs. "it doesn't make sense."
"what part of any of this makes sense?"
"there's a pattern, okay? a consistency to their behavior." nancy tells him. "they've been feeding on these chemicals since this started, and โ and, what, they just stop out of the blue?"
"maybe they have all the chemicals they need," will cuts in. "maybe they've all turned into those . . . things."
"but what about the source? i mean, did the mind flayer just suddenly stop infecting people? and even if the flayed are monsters now, why can't el and sage find them?" nancy asks.
"okay, can you guys settle an argument for us?" max questions as she walks over to the kitchen with mike. "who do you think should decide el's and sage's limits? mike or the girls?"
"the way that you frame that is such bullshit,"
"it's not bullshit, mike. this is your whole problem. and it's also why precisely why el dumped your ass."
"el dumped you?" nancy asked her younger brother. "yeah, cause her and sage are conspiring against me. they're corrupting her." mike replies.
"no, enlightening her. that fact is, el's not yours. neither is sage. she may be your sister and i get you care for her. but the girls are their own person fully capable of making their own decisions." max fires back at the wheeler teen.
"they're risking their life for no reason,"
"for no reason? mike, they flayed are out there doing god knows what." nancy informs her brother. "killing, flaying . . ." lucas lists.
"transforming into monsters." will adds in.
"and the girls are not stupid. they know their abilities better than any of us." nancy tells mike.
"exactly, thank you," max agrees.
"and they are their own person,"
"exactly."
"with their own free will."
"exactly. el has saved the world twice with sage's help the second time, and mike still doesn't trust her." max exclaimed.
"you wanna talk about trust, really? after you made eleven and my sister spy on us?" mike asked the mayfield teen. "wait, what?" lucas asked. "oh, she didn't tell you this?"
"no!"
"your ex used el's and sage's powers to spy on us,"
"no, no, no, i did not make them. it was their idea. and why are we even talking about this, seriously?" max tells them. "yeah, who cares?" will questions them.
"i care!" lucas says. "yeah. i guess girlfriends and siblings don't lie, they spy." mike agrees.
"we were just joking around," max simply tells him. "wouldn't it've been so funny if i was taking a massive shit or something?" mike asks her.
"you weren't."
"but what if i was?"
"then gross!"
"seriously, mike?" nancy asks her brother.
"i'm just trying to demonstrate how careless max is with the girl's powers." mike tries reasoning. "in fact, how careless all of you are. you're treating them like some kind machine when their not a machine, and i don't want them to die looking for the flayed when they obviously vanished off the face of the earth. so can we please just come up with a new plan because i love them and i can't lose them. especially sage. i can't lose my own twin, okay? she's still learning her powers and i can't have her suffering!"
everyone in the room goes quiet.
eleven and sage, in el's room, look at each other before el opens the door โ walking out with sage next to her. mike turns his head to look at the girls, hoping they didn't hear.
"what's going on?" eleven asked. "yeah, why's it so quiet in here? did something happen?" sage asked, furrowing her eyebrows.
"nothing. nothing." mike replies.
"just a family discussion," lucas says.
"oh," eleven says. ". . . we found him." sage then spoke up. "found who?" nancy asked.
ELEVEN AND SAGE WERE SITTING IN front of the tv โ once again in the void. eleven let's out a soft gasp and she squeezes sage's hand tightly for comfort.
nancy, johnathan, and the party were seated around the two girls, watching them. both of the girls breathing picks up before they both rip off the blindfolds on their heads.
they gasp and pant, holding each other's hands tightly.
"what's he doing now?" max asked them.
the girls turn around. "he's just sitting on his bed in his room." sage replies, wiping the blood off her nose.
the party looks at each other as eleven and sage go to the kitchen, grabbing themselves some water while talking to each other.
"and that's not normal right?" nancy questions.
"billy staying in his room on the fourth of july? no, that's not normal." max replies. "he wants us to find him," will says. "yeah, that's what i'm afraid of," nancy agrees with the byers teen.
"if we go to billy, then the rest of the flayed know where we are,"
"it's a trap, i agree. we'll be ambushed." mike agrees. "we won't be surprised," lucas pipes in. "we'll know that they're coming, and we will kick their flayed butts."
"you mean the girls will kick their butts," max corrects the sinclair teen. "it's too risky." johnathan speaks up. "yeah, and unnecessary." nancy agrees with her boyfriend. "killing the flayed won't stop the mind flayer. we have to find out where it's spreading from. we have to find the source." nancy explains.
"billy knows it," eleven says as her and sage walk into the living room. "billy's been there."
"to the source," sage adds in. "yeah but โ" mike tries speaking. "it's a trap. we know." sage says.
"we can't go to billy, but i think there's another way." eleven says. "a way for us to see where he's been."
everyone gets into position. sage turns on the tv and walks over to max, sitting on the floor next to her, and taking the blindfold from her hands.
mike kneels down next to eleven as she reaches for her blindfold.
"el, i know you think you have to do this, but you don't. it's just, you've only done this before once and it's sage's first time. and your mom, she loved you, and wanted you to know what happened. and billy's mind is โ is sick, diseased. the mind flayer is in him."
sage sighs before seeing max staring at her. "hi?" she says with a chuckle. "sorry," max said, shaking her head and snapping out of her trance.
"i'll be okay, all right?" sage assures max, grabbing her hand and giving it a squeeze. the red-head nods before turning to mike and giving him a look, listening to his and el's conversation.
sage gets up and sits down next to eleven, putting on her blindfold, and taking el's hand.
the girls make it to the void. "just follow me," el whispers to sage making her nod.
sage and eleven stare at billy as they walk towards him. the hargrove teen was sitting still on his bed, staring into nowhere. once they made it close enough, the girls look at each other and nod before exhaling.
eleven reaches for billy's hand and looks at sage, telling her to do the same. sage nods, grabbing ahold of billy's hand and holding it.
"billy," eleven whispers, her voice echoing. "can you hear me? we want to see. we want to see what happened."
billy looks up at the two girls making them stare at him, shocked a little. it was until billy grabbed their wrists harshly. sage gasped and tried taking her arm back, tears pooling in her eyes.
outside the void, eleven and sage breathe heavily โ whimpering almost.
"something's wrong," mike points out.
"stop! no! no! no!" eleven screams, trying to pry her arm away. "let me go! let me go! no, no, no!" sage screams and almost tries prying her hand away before billy lets go of their wrists.
"no!"
the two girls fall back, screaming as visions play in their head as they fall. soon enough, the two land in water. el and sage gasp before turning around to see they're on a beach.
"oh, my god," sage whispers before getting up, helping eleven up on her feet.
AUTHORS NOTE //
slay, period !!
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