Mike had waited for Will a long time, sat outside the fort, with El sat across from him, while Dustin and Lucas stayed by Will's side. Mike looked up at El and smiled at her.

"I missed you." Mike told her "So much"

"I missed you too" El responded, smiling back at him.

"Where have you been?" He asked her.

"Demogorgon" She said, looking towards the ground. "I am Sorry"

"No, no" Mike said, grinning and holding El's shoulders, "It's not your fault, You're here now."

Eleven looked up at Mike, feeling warm and protected by his side. She reached out forward and hugged him like she never wanted to let go. She remembered the last time she was this close to Mike. It was back at the school, before the Demogorgon took her. Sat at the table, when he did that thing, whatever it was, when he pushed his mouth onto hers. El didn't understand what it was, but he knew it was what you do to people who you like more than a friend.

She liked Mike more than a friend. A lot more than a friend. She needed to show him that.

El moved back from Mike and leaned in towards Mike. He did the same, knowing what was about to happen. They moved closer and closer towards each other, their lips about to touch.

"Guys!" Dustin shouted, bursting out of the fort just in time to see Mike and El lurch backwards.

"What's wrong?" Mike asked, clearly unhappy they had been interrupted.

"It's Will!" Dustin anxiously said, "He doesn't have a pulse!"

Both Mike and Eleven turned to face each other with a panicked look and they both ran into the fort.

El looked on with a look Mike had seen before, it was the look she had given him the first day they met, when he had tried to close the bathroom door. It was fear.

Mike tried every point his Mom had shown him to take a pulse but he felt nothing. The boys started to fall into tears but all El was thinking was any way she could help, any way she could save Will's life the way he had saved hers.

"No" El muttered.

"What?" Mike asked, turning towards Her.

"Move" She replied, kneeling beside Will's body.

Mike watched in awe as El closed her eyes and held her hands out in front of her, one on top of the other. She began to breathe deeply as she focused on the searing burning she felt in the centre of her palm.

Mike watched intensely as El's hands started to glow and, to his amazement, he wasn't scared, he trusted her fully. He waited patiently, hoping somehow she could save him.

After a few seconds, Eleven opened her eyes, afraid of what she'd see. She turned to Mike.

"What happened?" He asked impatiently.

"I - I don't know" El responded, lowering her gaze to the ground. Everyone was silent, no one could speak.

El's head sprang up as she heard a cough from Will's body, just as he sprang up as if he'd had a horrible nightmare.

"Oh my god!" Mike exclaimed, "Will, are you okay?

"What?" Will said in a dazed voice, "Where are we?"

"We're in Castle Byres" Mike responded, "You're safe now"

"No..." Will stated, snapping into awareness to look into Mike's eyes, panicked "We're not safe at all"

"What do you mean?" Lucas asked.

"It's alive. I saw it. I heard it." Will stammered, not losing eye contact with Mike.

"Yes, The Demogorgon, we saw it too" Mike said, trying to calm Will down.

"No, you're not listening" Will said frustrated, pointing towards Eleven "She was the Demogorgon"

"Woah, woah, woah!" Dustin said, "She was the Demogorgon?"

"Is it true El?" Mike asked, to which El could only nod before will cut in.

"That doesn't matter!" Will shouted "It's alive! The upside down is alive and it's coming for us!"

"How is that possible?" Mike asked

"I don't know" Will complained "Please believe me"

"We do" Mike said calmly. "We just want to know what's going on"

"I don't know" Will stuttered, "But we need to - We need to -"

Will collapsed.

"If what he says is true, We need to do something" Mike concluded, "But first we should get him home"

"This is getting ridiculous" Dustin complained, "We've had no sleep for two nights in a row"

"Get some sleep in English then" Mike suggested, "But after school, we've got work to do"

"What do you mean?" Lucas asked, curiously

"Well if the Upside Down is alive, it's only way through is to use the doorway at Hawkins Lab, right?" Mike asked.

"You're saying we should try to close it" Dustin asked, doubtful "Do you know how much energy that would take?"

"She could do it" Mike said turning to Eleven, "Couldn't you?"

Eleven just looked at Mike and shrugged, however inside she feared the consequences it would have.

"We have to try," Mike said turning back to Dustin, "It's the only way."