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Terry kept walking through the hallways, still keeping patrol. She hadn't heard from the kids for a bit of a long time, but she guessed that meant everything was safe. That was great. Nothing seemed to be suspicious or clue into trouble. As long as they were alright, she could-

All of a sudden, she saw a couple of figures with flashlights enter into the hallway. By instinct, she hid behind a wall. She carefully peeked over to make sure it wasn't the kids.

They weren't.

They were adult figures, one of them asking, "You see anything?"

"Nothing," the other replied.

She looked away and mouthed out, "Shit!" They found her...or him. Whoever came first. Either way, now there was trouble.

She looked around for a place to hide and founded a janitor's closet. She quietly walked to it and slowly opened the door. It smelled like chemicals that made he feel a little nauseous, but she would deal with it if it meant hiding from them. She saw the lights go closer, so she went in and closed it quickly. The room was too dark, making her wish she had a flashlight so she knows where to hide there. She heard the footsteps and voices draw closer, making her clench harder on the door knob.

She felt something on the side of her shoulder, so she had one hand feel it. It felt like a broom or a mop. Whichever it was, it was the best manner of defense she's got. She grabbed it and waited for the voices and the footsteps to go away. She heard them fade away, then completely gone in two minutes. She sighed in relief, letting go of the broom and touching the wall, only to feel something jab her palm.

She exclaimed as quietly as she could and figured out something. She let her hand feel it. It was a light switch. She sighed in relief again as she flicked it up. The light nearly blinded her, but at least she could see. It was a messy place, but it was the janitor's closet. Of course it was. Now she knew where to hide if she got into a situation like this again. She looked to see if there was a more capable way of arming herself. Nothing. She sighed. At least she tried...

As she switched the light off and exited the closet, she looked at her walkie-talkie. Since the agents from the labs were here, the kids needed to be warned...

Back in the Byers home, the teens avoided the bear trap and slowly went into the living room. It wasn't there either. Jonathan and Kali were absolutely baffled. Was it truly gone? It couldn't be...

As they continued looking around, Steve kept muttering like he was going insane and stormed to the phone to call 9-1-1. However, his girlfriend noticed that and walked to him, ripping the phone off of his ear and throwing it away. "No!" she shouted.

He gave her a completely aghast look. "Are you CRAZY?!" he exclaimed.

"It's going to come back and the authorities won't help it! So leave!" He stayed still, looking at her as if she was going crazy. She didn't yell again, but demanded in her cold voice, "Steve, go. Now." She looked goddamn scary to him, being so serious and cold, like she was going to kill him or something!

He ran out and scrambled to his car. He got out his keys and tried to get in. Due to his fear of what just happened and what he's seen, he accidentally dropped the keys. He swore under his breath and got them. He unlocked his car and opened the door. As he was going to go inside, the light flickering inside caught his eye. That meant it was back, right? Kali was in there, trying to kill that monster. His girlfriend...in there...going to face that thing...

...

The two teens whipped around, ready for it to come on. "Come on..." the girl muttered.

"Where are you, you son of a bitch...?" the guy also muttered. They kept looking around and still wasn't seeing it. Damn it, where was it?!

Suddenly, all the lights stopped and caused a blackout in the home. Both teens stopped looking around. They had no idea what this meant. Was it there?

Kali saw it appear behind Jonathan, making her yell, "Jonathan, look out!" He looked behind him, but didn't react in time to have it pounce on him and release his grip on the bat. She gasped, seeing it drool on him and open its mouth. The guy never looked so horrified in his life.

She didn't want him to die, so without a second thought, she shot at the monster, yelling, "Go back to the hell you came from, you son of a bitch!" It looked at her. Even without a face, she could tell it wanted to kill her. It got off of Jonathan, who was still stunned by what just happened to him. She knew the bullets were useless, but she kept firing at it. "You killed Barbara! You took his little brother! You almost killed my mum several times!" It kept coming to her, still being slowed down but unaffected by the bullets. "I won't let you kill my friend!" The guy looked at her with surprise that she even called him her friend...

She ran out of ammo, making her swear under breath and look for something else to attack it with. All of a sudden, she heard a battle cry and saw a figure hit it with the nailed baseball bat. She thought it was Jonathan, but it was...

"Steve?!" she exclaimed. She was in utter disbelief. He came back...and was kicking this monster's ass.

He swung at it again, making its chest bleed a little. He went around it and shouted, "Come on!" It did go for him, but he swung at it again, making it scream. He hit it again, making it stagger back. Another hit, it staggered back even more. He twirled the bat and hit it one more time, making it scream louder as its foot caught into the bear trap. It latched onto its foot, the monster trying to get free from it. Kali looked absolutely shocked. He did it, he made it go into the trap.

"It's in the trap!" he shouted to Jonathan, who was up and better now after spitting out its saliva.

"Now, Jonathan!" the teen girl also shouted to him. He nodded as he ran, got out the lighter, lit it up, and threw it to the gasoline-covered floor. The floor caught on fire and began to incinerate the creature. All the teens shielded their eyes from the fire, its screaming making their ears ring.

Kali ran to the fire extinguisher, grabbed it, and ran to the fire. "Get back!" she shouted at the guys, making them go behind her as she sprayed the extinguisher to cease the fire. Everything went black for a few seconds, the teens coughing because of the terrible mix of the extinguisher and the smoke. When everything cleared, they saw sizzling flesh on the bear trap.

"Wh-where did it go...?" Steve asked.

The girl shook her head as well as the other guy's. "No...it has to be dead," she replied stubbornly.

"Yeah, it couldn't have survived that..." Jonathan added. Thankfully, it was out of their reach, for now.

All of them had to ease themselves up, relieve the tension they had in their bodies. It was over, hopefully, it was all over.

In a few seconds though, they saw the lights glowing one-by-one. Still prepared for battle, they felt tense again, following the lights lighting one-by-one. They then heard...a voice. They couldn't decipher it, so they didn't know if it was a monster or a person.

A person...

They continued following the lights, Jonathan realizing why they were lighting up as they were. He asked, "Mom...is that you?" While Steve looked at him like he was crazy, Kali looked concerned. How would he know about...? "Mom?"

"Jonathan?" they all heard her respond. His eyes were watering at the sound of her voice. Both Kali and Steve looked surprised. How the hell did that happen?

In the Upside Down, Joyce stopped in the middle of the living room there, shocked that she could hear her son, even though she couldn't see him. God...deja-vu hit her. It was like when Terry communicated with her yesterday, except at this moment...she was Terry.

"Come on, Joyce," Hopper said. She snapped out of her shock and awe as she followed him out of the house.

The teens went outside and saw the street light flickering. They all knew, even Steve, that it wasn't the monster doing it.

What Steve doesn't know though, was that it was Joyce and Hopper in the Upside Down.

The kids were in the cafeteria, Lucas and Dustin getting the chocolate pudding for Mike and themselves. Jane and Mike sat together at a table. "JANE! WE FOUND THE CHOCOLATE PUDDING!" the curly-haired boy shouted.

"OKAY!" she shouted back. She lowered her voice to speak to Michael. "Are you feeling any better, Mike?" He just shrugged, making her sigh. He did go through an intense experience, she assumed.

"Jane, what's...'pu-ding'?" he asked her, curious of what he was going to eat to feel better.

"Pudding's a chocolate goo you eat with a spoon." He looked a bit disgusted at her description. He didn't like "goo". "Don't worry, after all of this is over, you can eat actual food instead of junk food and leftovers. My mama's an awesome cook. She can make you whatever you like."

He smiled, thinking the only nice adult in the labs being an awesome cook was cool. "Ice cream?"

She scrunched her face up a little. "I don't think so, but she can try."

"Eggos, too?"

She giggled a little, smiling. "Yeah, but actual food too." She sighed again, continuing, "You know, when this is all over and Will's back and you're not a secret anymore, my mama will get you an actual bed for the basement. Or you can take my room if you want, since I'm usually in the basement anyway." He smiled again, at the thought of living with Jane and Terry. "She'll take care of you, better than the bad men did. She'll be like your new mama and Kali can be like your older sister." He liked the sound of that too.

"And you will be my sister too?"

She instantly shook her head. "Uh, no, no."

His smile disappeared, now looking confused. "Why 'no'?"

She felt her heart racing a little faster and her face heating up a little. "B-because...this is different..." She nervously moved her fingers around a little.

"Different?"

She sighed again, looking away from him. "I mean...I, uh..." She shrugged. "I don't know." All these feelings for him, the feelings she had earlier back in that bathroom, came back now. She didn't know how to deal with them. Could she be...?

Mike saw the look on her face, feeling concerned. "Jane."

She looked at him. "Yes?"

"Friends don't lie."

That was right. She had to stick to that. The feelings she had felt like they were weighing down on her chest, so she needed to let them out in some way. She took a deep breath and said, "Okay." She finally looked at him in the eyes, her feelings amplifying a little. "I...I was thinking...maybe..." She took another deep breath and finished, "Maybe I can take you to the Snow Ball."

He looked curious. "Snow Ball?"

"It's this school dance where you dance to music and eat things and stuff." She got her hand off of the table to...hold his. Now his heart was racing and he felt his face heating up a little. "I've never been to one, but I know...I know that you don't usually go with your brother..."

"N-no...?"

"Well, you can, but...it's weird, really weird." He failed to see how that was weird. "You go with someone...you like..."

His eyes lit up a little. "A friend?"

She shook her head. "N-no, someone you really like...someone that's more than...a friend." She squeezed his hand more, their eyes locked with each other.

Now Mike got more curious. "Wh-what is someone that's more than a friend?"

"Someone you wanna do this to." She then leaned in, closed her eyes, and kissed his lips without warning. His eyes widened for a second at the feeling of her lips on his. It felt...good. Really good. He closed his eyes and took it in.

She broke it, opening her eyes and seeing the look on his face. He looked very surprised at first when he opened his eyes and touched his lips, but then he looked happy, smiling. She smiled as well. She thought that maybe it was weird for him, but she was glad he enjoyed it. She did too...it was her first kiss...and she didn't regret having Michael be her first kiss at all. It felt like she was in heaven for those few seconds they kissed.

"Jane?" her mother said through the walkie-talkie in a whisper, breaking the romantic air the two had. "Jane, sweetie, are you there?"

The girl looked at her walkie-talkie, slowly getting it to her mouth and replying into it, "Y-yeah, Mama?"

"Are you and the boys still in the cafeteria?"

"Uh...yeah?"

...

Terry slowly walked through the hallways, making sure she wouldn't get caught. "Listen, I need you all to get out of there."

"Wait, what? Why?" Jane sounded so worried.

"I saw a couple of those 'bad men', you call them..."

...

Both her and Mike looked shocked and even scared. "I hid away from them, but I think there's more of them. You all need to get out of here fast, you understand?"

Before she could answer, she saw lights flaring from the windows. She thought that... "I-I think Kali and Jonathan are back here. I see the lights."

...

The woman mouthed again, "Shit!" She then saw an exit door and replied, "I'll try and get them. Just go to the nearest exit."

"A-and will you escape, Mama?"

"Of course I am." She then walked towards an exit door and saw the woods across the field. "The woods, run into the woods, and meet me there. Alright?"

"O-okay, Mama."

"I love you, sweetie. Over and out." She finally ran through the exit door and ran across the large field into the woods.

From the corner of her eye, though, she saw a couple of army trucks and black cars. She looked horrified. That wasn't Jonathan and Kali...

She swore under her breath, hoping the kids, especially Jane and Michael, were alright.

...

Jane looked at a horrified Mike, standing up as well as he did and putting the walkie-talkie in one of the pockets of her overalls. "We need to get Dustin and Lucas," she said to him, the freckled boy nodding.

"Wait, what about us?" Lucas asked. The two saw the two boys carrying a lot of cans of pudding.

"We need to get outta here, fast!"

"Why?" Dustin asked.

"The bad men, they found us!"

Both boys looked shocked and horrified, dropping the cans of pudding. "Shit...!"

...

Outside, the black cars and army trucks stopped. Everyone exited and went into the school, both buildings, to be exact. Some agents met up with others there. "You see Teresa or M11 at all?" one of them asked.

"No, we're trying," one of the agents stated.

Soldiers and agents looked through classrooms and other rooms, not seeing a trace of the woman or the telekinetic boy. Soldiers and a few agents stormed into the gymnasium with both of the doctors. They both saw a filled-in kiddie pool, knowing that M11 was there.

Some agents and soldiers went into the cafeteria. They saw cans of pudding scattered all over the floor. They knew both of them were here, so they kept looking.

...

The kids ran through the hallways to one of the exits, panting in terror. "H-how the hell did they find us?!" Lucas whisper-shouted.

"I-I don't know, but they knew we were in the gym!" Jane whisper-shouted back.

"Lando, I'm tellin' ya!" Dustin added in a whisper-shout.

They all suddenly stopped when they saw soldiers burst through the door, shining their lights at them. "We got 'em!" one of them shouted.

The kids immediately turned, Jane shouting, "Gogogogogogogo!" They entered into a classroom, but more agents were there, so they got out of there and continued down the hallway, but then more agents and soldiers, including the blonde-haired woman, appeared and pulled their guns on them, specifically Mike. He didn't let up though.

He tilted his head down, looking angry at them as he strained himself to freeze them and crush their brains. They all were frozen stiff, their eyes bleeding. The kids were very freaked out about this and looked at Mike. His nose began bleeding and some veins became visible on his face as he focused solely on crushing the inside of their heads. Several seconds later, everyone heard a disgusting squishing sound as all of the agents and soldiers fell down, completely dead. The kids were absolutely awed by this.

Mike breathed heavily, feeling more worn and weak than he did before. He then collapsed onto the ground unconscious, worrying the kids and making them crouch down to him. "Mike?! Mike, are you okay?!" Jane asked, almost sobbing as she nudged him to stir him awake. "Mike?!" Her eyes were watering, looking up at the two other boys. "Wh-what's wrong with him?!"

"H-he's probably completely drained now!" Dustin answered, his voice matching the worry and horror on his face.

"B-but he won't wake up!" She kept nudging him, hoping he would stir. "Mike! Mike!" She began to cry, tears streaming down her face. "Mike, please! Wake up!" The boys looked forlorn at the sight of her crying and shouting like this. They've never seen her this way, and they wished to make her feel better. "MIKE!"

Terry hid behind a tree in the woods, panting to catch her breath from running. She figured she was far from the school. She just realized something though:

She never specified where in the woods she and the kids should meet.

"Damn it!" she shouted through her teeth as she slammed her fist on the leafy ground. She looked at her walkie-talkie, wondering if she should contact them to make sure they're alright. She wanted to, but at the same time, maybe she would call at a bad time and blow their cover...

Damn it, what would she do...?

Jane checked his pulse, relieved that he was still alive. She then heard him breathe, though it was faint. "H-he's barely breathing," she stated in a sobby voice.

"Come on, let's go," Lucas said.

"Leave him," said...Dr. Wheeler, making the kids look up and see not only him, but also Dr. Brenner, a few soldiers, and an agent, appeared at the end of the hallway. The doctors approached Mike, but the kids stepped in front of his unconscious body, making them stop and look coldly at them.

"Step away from the boy," Dr. Brenner demanded in a cold voice.

"No!" Jane yelled to him.

"Step away from the boy, Jane." She felt intimidated to hear him call her by her name again. However, she wouldn't take it. He may be her father, but he was one of the bad men.

"If you want him, then kill us first!"

"Yeah, that's right!" Dustin added.

"Eat shit!" Lucas added.

Suddenly, three soldiers appeared behind them and each grabbed one of them, startling them and having them struggle. Jane screamed a little and shouted, "Get off!"

"You idiot!" the African-American boy yelled.

"Get the hell off me!" the curly-haired boy also yelled.

As the kids yelled and struggled, Dr. Wheeler sat Mike up while Dr. Brenner just observed. The man in the glasses held his son's face and asked, "Michael? Michael Eleven, can you hear me?" The boy finally stirred and opened his eyes a little. His vision was blurry, but he saw...

"Dad...?" he replied weakly.

He smiled and nodded. "Yes, it's your dad, son."

"I'm also here, M11," Dr. Brenner said, the boy slowly looking at him. "We're both here now." His face and his own father's were the last he wanted to see again.

He heard the kids struggling, looking to see the soldiers hold them tight. He looked distraught at that sight. Jane yelled angrily, "Let go of him, let go of him, you son of a bitch!"

"No...no..." the freckled boy whimpered out, looking away before his dad made him look at him and shushed him.

"You're just sick, Michael, but the doctor and I, we'll both make you feel better. We'll take you back home and we'll do our best to make you feel better. Home is where we can make things better and no one else will get hurt." He gave him a smile to comfort him, though it was a creepy one to him.

"Your father is right, Michael Eleven," Dr. Brenner added, the boy looking at him. "We three can go back home and nobody else will get hurt. Not your friends, not Terry." All of the kids' eyes widened at the mention of her name. "What do you say?" The boy didn't like him, or his dad. He knew he made empty promises...his dad too. There was no way he was going back.

Never.

Suddenly, Jane's walkie-talkie whirred and a muffled voice asked through it, "Jane?" The girl looked aghast as well as the other boys, including Michael. "Sweetheart, are you there?" The doctors finally recognized the voice.

It was Terry's.

Brenner looked at Wheeler with a face that asked his question for him. The man nodded, the white-haired man approaching Jane, making her look more and more terrified.

"Jane, do you copy?" Terry kept asking, though she was getting no answer. She sighed and put the walkie-talkie down. She just knew it. She knew she was contacting her at a bad time. Now she wished she'd never done it.

But maybe there was the possibility she dropped it at a panic...maybe-

"Teresa," Dr. Brenner's voice greeted, making her feel horrified. "We've been acquainted once again." She stood up and backed away from the walkie-talkie, looking around for any ambush. Now she was extremely worried for her daughter, Mike, and the kids. Did they-

"Give that back!" she heard Jane shout through it. She felt so terrified that she was instantly near tears. "Give my super-comm back, you bastard!" The woman didn't even care that she heard her daughter curse.

Her daughter, and her friends, were in danger.

Martin chuckled and looked at his struggling daughter. "Is that any way to treat your own father, Jane?" he asked her. She only gave him a sharp and angered look.

"J-Jane?! Sweetheart?!" Terry exclaimed through the walkie-talkie. "Baby, are you okay?!"

The white-haired man grinned, walked away from her, and said into it, "She's fine. The rest of her friends as well."

Terry, leaning against the tree with her walkie-talkie near her ear, knew that was wrong. Lying son of a bitch. "What about Michael?"

The freckled boy looked shocked to hear her say his name to Brenner. "He's fine as well. We're not low enough to harm children."

She scoffed. Who the hell did he think he was speaking to? "If you do anything to them-"

"We won't. Not yet." Her breath became heavy and shaky. "I'm going to give you two choices."

"Give us your location and nothing happens to our daughter and her friends. We'll take in M11 and you, but do no harm her and them."

The thought of having her mother being taken away as well as Mike terrified Jane to no end. "No! Don't do it, Mama!"

Brenner stopped at the end of the hallway and faced the kids and his fellow doctor. "Or..." He pointed at the man carrying the curly-haired girl and waggled his finger towards himself as a gesture to bring her to him. He did so, Jane now even more terrified and struggling even more. "Our daughter can be taken in for our little project."

"NO! NO!" she yelled at the top of her lungs, trying her best to break free.

The woman gasped, about to cry and sob. "She was proven incapable before, but our ways of testing will make sure she isn't." She heard him chuckle, he had the gall...to chuckle about this. "At least it won't be just be Ted's son, but also my own daughter. Our children tested and used for the better." Tears ran down her cheeks as she began to sob. She couldn't even fathom the thought of...no. No...

The boys were absolutely horrified and angered at the thought of Jane being handed over to the bad men and treated like Mike, so they struggled to break free and kick that soldier's ass. "LET HER GO, YOU SHITHEAD!" Lucas shouted from the top of his lungs.

"YOU'RE NOT TAKING JANE AWAY FROM US!" Dustin also shouted from the top of his lungs.

Michael was the most horrified though, muttering again, "No..." All the things he went through there, all those painful memories...he didn't want Jane to go through them too. He clenched his fists, feeling both distraught AND furious. They were going to hurt her...like they hurt him...

Terry sank down to the ground, still crying and sobbing, covering her face and wiping her tears at the dreadful thought of her daughter being that torturous experiment. "I'm going to give you ten seconds. If you don't answer, you'll never see our daughter again..."

"If you do and give us your location, nothing will happen to her or the rest of her friends," Brenner finished.

Tears streamed down the tomboy's face again, still struggling to break free. "NO! MAMA, HELP ME!"

"MAMA! HELP!" Hearing Jane's cries for help made the dirty-blonde-haired woman feel so distraught, sobbing more.

"Jane..." she whimpered, sniffling and wondering what to do. For God's sake, she didn't want Michael to go back there, but Jane being one of their experiments... "Oh my God..."

Stopping right here. What do you guys think?

I've been WAITING to write this chapter ever since I started writing this fanfic. There's two reasons why:

1. MIKE AND JANE FINALLY KISSING! DUH! I swear, no matter how many times I watch that scene, it never fails to make me fangirl. Never. This was no exception. Writing Jane kissing Mike makes me fangirl like that scene did. :D

2. Brenner and Wheeler catching the kids and Brenner being the sociopath he is. I figured he would be the man to blackmail his own ex-wife with his own daughter by telling her that he'll take her into his experiment with Wheeler and never seeing her again. Of course Jane and Terry are absolutely horrified by that. The boys'd be angered as all hell and Mike...oh boy. Jane going through what he did, that's never a pleasant thought in his mind. Thought that would make for some good drama and tension.

Keep supporting this fanfic! The next chapter will be long and end Season 1 of this fanfic! I'll see you guys then! ;D