"LUCAS? LUCAS DO YOU COPY? IT'S MIKE"
Nothing.
Mike looked at Will hoping his face might give him some hope but he was gone, his heart fell. Was he just imagining him? Tears filled his eyes, Eleven was asleep again he noticed blood running from her nose again.
'Am I going to die here?'
He fell asleep too.
Steve was walking home from Nancy's, his parents took the car so he didn't have many options.
'Damn are the streets always this scary?'
Hands in his jacket pockets he started humming, he can see his house from here so nothing to get nervous about even if Nancy's brother disappeared not too from where he was walking.
Steve took the key out from his pocket reaching the front door of his house, the wind blew hard drops of rain were starting to fall from the sky. The door opened revealing the dark home, he quickly got inside and turned the lights on.
Rain was now pouring outside but that wasn't the thing that caught Steve's attention
"What the hell?"
Outside right by the pool was a little kid wearing a hospital gown, sitting as if watching the rain hitting the pool water. Steve walked out carefully, not really sure what to do already soaking wet
"Hey! Who are you? what are you doing here?!"
the closer Steve got the blurrier the kid got, he couldn't see anything
"Kid! i'm talking to you!"
but as the kid turned around Steve realized it wasn't a kid at all, It didn't have a face.
"I think there's a sleeping bag in the closet,I know Mike's room is empty but... I just don't really want anyone to sleep there until we find him is that okay?"
Nancy was holding herself back from saying she also didn't want to be alone, there was something about Jonathan that always made her calm as if having him around would somehow bring Mike back from wherever he was
Jonathan nodded and gave her a reassuring smile, and that feeling came over her again like everything is going to be okay.
Suddenly the sound of rain filled the room and a loud thunder startled both of them which caused Nancy to hit her head on the top of her closet
"Nancy are you okay?!"
Jonathan rushed over to her but her face was covered with her hands, she was laughing
"Nancy?" he couldn't help but start laughing too, every time they looked at each other they laughed harder
Gasping for air while the laughter died a little they share a lingering look
Nancy cleared her throat and got up
"Sorry I don't know what just happened this day was just..." she stumbled
"Crazy" Jonathan finished her sentence
He took a last look at Nancy before spreading the sleeping bag on the floor and falling asleep, another thunder echoed through the room all Nancy could hope was that Mike was somewhere warm and safe even if she didn't really believe it.
Will woke up terrified,covered in sweat from the thunder that blasted through the house, the blanket that someone must have brought him was on the floor right next to a toy of a dinosaur that Mike always used to carry around everywhere
That place, that girl , that monster are all real? How the hell is he going to help Mike if he doesn't even know what's real and what's not
He decided, first thing tomorrow he'll tell Dustin and Lucas everything. If it is real then Lucas really did try to reach Mike with the supercom and if he really did that, it means he actually succeeded.
Morning came quickly after that, Mike of course was still missing and Nancy was on the phone trying to reach her parents' hotel yet she couldn't get through
"Maybe they gave you the wrong number? Do you remember the name of the hotel? We can call 411"
Nancy put her head in her hands trying to remember the name but it was one of those times where no matter how hard you'll try you'll never remember the thing you need most
The doorbell rang and Nancy jumped out of her seat already expecting to see Mike standing there with his stupid smile he always had when she got angry at him
"Mrs. Byers? "
Jonathan and Will both went pale realizing they forgot to let their mom know they're staying the night
Joyce walked into the kitchen where they were sitting, her hand protectively around Nancy's shoulder
"No phone, no note, no nothing! Isn't it enough to have one missing boy?! You want to make it three?"
After the boys apologized Nancy told Joyce everything
"Sweetie I am so sorry you had to go through that all by yourself, first thing we'll go to the police together they'll know what to do. You boys need to get to school okay? Ask around, maybe someone saw him"
Everyone got ready to leave, Jonathan and Will still had to pass through their house to change their clothes and get their things
Will quickly got down to the basement and made sure the supercom was there, he scribbled a note
'Mike, I don't know if you'll get this but if you will just know THE SUPERCOM WORKS! Stay close to it we'll try again soon
Promise I'll get you out of there,
Will'
He left the note under the supecom and ran upstairs
"Will sweetie, are you sure you're okay with going to school? You've had a long night, you look a little pale maybe you should stay home?"
"NO! No mom I'm fine really, I just… want to find Mike already"
Monday morning was Jim's least favorite time of the week, it wasn't even morning yet and the phone's been ringing for what seemed like forever when he finally decides to actually get up and answer
"Yeah?"
His voice was rough, drank too much again last night
"Chief, we got a problem. Benny saw a body in the woods right near his place,
He says it's a little kid Chief. "
Jim breathed hitched "A kid?"
"So... You heard me last night? and you think you saw Mike in his basement? with a girl?" Lucas had his unbelieving look on, Dustin on the other hand looked wide eyed at Will
"Mental"
"You know what I think? I think, you just heard me from Mike's supercom and it somehow got into your crazy dream! Honestly do you hear yourself?!"
Will took a big breath, standing up to this friends wasn't something he normally does, especially not when it came to Lucas and Mike - those two could fight for hours
"I'm just telling you what I saw Lucas,You don't have to believe me! But after school i'm going to try talking to him again are you going to come with me or not?"
Dustin nodded his head trying to signal Lucas to say yes to Will's suggestion but Lucas was staring somewhere else
"Hello? Did you hear what I just said?"
The sound of sirens was heard loud and clear, an ambulance and a police car were soon revealed driving fast somewhere
"Oh my god... Mike!"
The boys still on their bikes rushed after them arriving to the scene just to see them a gurney being brought out of the woods near Benny's diner
"Oh shit oh shit oh shit " Dusting looked down too scared to see who it was
Will's eyes widened
"It's not Mike!" Lucas said a mix of sadness and joy in his voice
"It's the girl from my dreams"
On that gurney was a girl, wearing a hospital gown with a shaved head.
"WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED? WHERE IS THE GIRL?!"
The lab was a madhouse, doctors and scientists all looking for one girl
"We're sorry ! She was in a coma! We left her for five minutes! No normal person can wake up from such a long coma and walk away like nothing happened"
Brenner punched the table next to him
"But she is not NORMAL IS SHE?
FIND HER!"