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El
She walked in and found something she wasn't expecting. It was an office. A simple office. She looked back at Billy but found him simply watching her.
"What is this?" She asked unsure what he wanted her to see in here because there wasn't much. A large desk, a red desk chair, a bookcase and filing cabinet to the sides of the room, a stack of paper and a folder next to the large white computer that buzzed faintly through the room and a white lab coat hanging on the back of the door.
"Look at the folder," he said.
"What's in it?" El asked walking further into the small room and closer to the folder.
"See for yourself," he said, coming into the room and stood in front of the door, arms crossed.
El looked at him for a long moment wondering what this was all about but made her way around the desk anyway, this was for hopper she repeated in her head over and over again trying to keep her calm. She sat down and looked at the computer that glowed light blue, trying to get any clue as to where she was one last time but all it showed was green numbers. She sucked in a deep breath before she looked back down and carefully opened the tan-colored folder.
Inside she found a ringed binder, the front page was stamped with a red bird that looked like an Eagle its wings spread out as it looked right at her. A word had been crossed out and replaced with Другой written in black.
She flipped past it and to the first page, but she was surprised to find it was in English, not the mystery language they spoke here, but it really didn't help her with figuring out what any of it meant as she read.
Name: Dr. Augustyn S. Lason
Address: 3631 Ulica Maya
Poland, 45204
Birthday: June 11, 1943
Age: 43 years old
Project: GATE 01.
Status: Dead.
Under that, there was a photo of who she could only guess was Dr. Augustyn S. Lason, his black hair just starting to gray, his green eyes staring right at her. She flipped to the next page and found much the same thing, a name, and a photo.
Name: Dr. Mildred W. Sanders
Address: 718 Grim Avenue
San Diego, CA 92101.
Birthday: November 18, 1957.
Age: 28 years old.
Project: GATE 01.
Status: Dead.
Over and over she flipped through the pages reading name after name, looking at photo after photo.
Name: Dr. James T. Thayer
Address: REDACTED
Birthday: December 5, 1946
Age: 39 years old.
Project: GATE. 02
Status: Alive.
Name: Dr. Adam M. Vinson
Address: Storgatan 51
310 38 SIMLÅNGSDALEN
Birthday: September 15, 1962
Age: 23 years old
Project: GATE. 01
Status: Dead
Name: Dr. Antonio REDACTED
Address:4968 Camden Place
Conway, SC 29526
Birthday: May 11, 1940
Age: 45 years old
Project: GATE. 02
Status: Alive.
Name: Dr. Stephen F. Armstrong
Address: 3856 Logan Lane
Germany 97863
Birthday: REDACTED
Age: :REDACTED
Project: GATE. 02
Status: Alive
Name: Dr. Alexei R. Andreyev
Address:1528 Kelly Drive
Hawkins IN 47869
Birthday: October 30, 1954
Age:29 years old
Project: REDACTED
Status: Dead
El flipped to the next page still not sure why she was reading this, this book filled with random doctors living around the world who had it seemed no meaning, not to her anyway.
That was until she saw the name on the next page. Feeling her heart drop to the bottom of her stomach and her head start to spin as she read what was under it.
Name: Dr. Martin K. Brenner
Address: REDACTED
Birthday: July 17, 1931
Age:54 years old
Project: REDACTED
Status: Alive
She could only stare at the page blankly, the word "Alive" was the only thing she could think of as a feeling of dread filled every part of her body.
Alive
Alive
Alive
Alive
Alive
He was alive...
"Do you see what I mean now?" Billy asked, "Do you understand now why we need to work together?"
El felt her breathing pick up as the burning behind her eyes returned, but this time she didn't stop them from falling down her cheeks, so many emotions hit her at once for that name, sorrow, fear, hatred, and deep, deep down though she hated herself for it fondness. She got up from the chair slowly and walked around the desk in a daze, a feeling like she was going to throw up in the back of her throat as she held on to the desk to keep herself upright.
She didn't know what to think…..no she did. That this was never about Hopper. This was that monster trying one last time to get at her. It what way by showing her this she didn't know, but it wasn't real….couldn't be real. This was all in her head like what Kali had done last year...show her someone she should hate and want dead for what he did to her and her mother...but she didn't and just like Kali he was using that against her.
"Hopper," she breathed, the word shattering like glass so it came out small and broken, but a moment later she regained her voice and spoke louder looking right up at him now. "Where's Hopper?!"
"Hopper?" Billy laughed shocked at her words, "How f**king stupid are you?! Don't you understand that the person who made your life a living hell is alive and you're worried about some cop who only cared about your powers?!"
At his last word, she felt only one thing, pure anger. How dare he even say that, how dare he! Hopper had been the first grown-up she had ever felt truly safe way. The first grown-up to give her a safe place to live, the first grown-up to never care about her power. She felt no more fear or even sadness, just hatred. "This isn't real, all of this is in my head," El said, slowly walking towards him. "You wanted me to believe your lies so I would 'join' you and it would be so much easier to kill me or use my powers, but you made a big mistake using HOPPER TO DO IT!"
She shouted the last words and swung her arm out to the right, sending him flying into a wall so hard cracks spidered out from it.
Suddenly she was blinded with white light and a ringing in her ears but when her vision cleared she was back in Brimborn Steel Works Mill in the same place she had been standing when he had touched the side of her head. But there was one thing different. People circled her now all eye on her and him as Billy got back up, his eyes black holes.
AN
As always thanks for reading, it means a lot to me. If you want to review and give me your thoughts and or any criticism on what I could do better please feel free, it always helps. we're in the end game now tho there will be five or six-chapters after the next one tieing up loose ends and leading us to the moving day. I hope your all doing well as you can be right now. Stay safe everyone :D