Dustin knew that Sarah needed clothes, and he knew Hop knew the last thing about dressing well. So he decided to take matters into his own hands...with the help of Steve, of course. After about fifteen minutes everyone arrived to Dustin's house and he told them his plan.

"You want us to spend all our money on clothes and school supplies for this girl that just came back to life…?" Mike asked.

"Not all your money, just a good amount of it." Dustin said, "And c'mon it's the christmas season and if we let Hop shop for her she might as well wear a mini sherif outfit everyday just like him."

Mike rolled his eyes, "Dustin this is-"

"A wonderful idea, let's go right now." Eleven interrupted.

"El!"

Eleven turned to Mike, "She's my sister and I am going to help her. Will you?"

Mike sighed, "Fine, let's go."

Dustin looked up at Steve for approval, he nodded. Piling into Steve's car, the six kids by themselves exceeded the limit, his car only held five. Good thing they were all tiny, Mike, Eleven, Lucas and Max sat in the back, Dustin and Will in passenger and Steve in driver's seat.

"Ok buckle up, I don't want any of you dying today so safety first." Steve said in a motherly way, "Alright where to first?"

The boys looked at each other suddenly realizing that they didn't know how to shop for girls and Max and Eleven were even more clueless. Max grew up on hand-me-downs and Eleven wears whatever she can find in Hop's closets and whatever Nancy gives her.

"The mall?" Dustin suggested.

Steve nodded, "The mall it is."

As they pulled up to the mall Dustin realized that he had no idea what stores to go to, he didn't even know the names of clothing stores, his mother always did his shopping. Luckily for them, It appeared that Steve knew just where to go and apparently knew what would fit Sarah just from what he remembered her looking like.

In the end they ended up getting more than expected. A couple of high waisted jeans,black, navy blue and white wash, they were baggy, but tightened at the ankles and waist, a pair of overalls, a couple tight and loose turtlenecks of various colors and at least seven sweaters. One was completely pink, one was plain white, one was striped with many different colors, deep greens, reds, blues, blacks, etc, another sweater looked more like a baggy dress shirt, white button-up and red stripes going up and down, one was jean, one was knit and tan, and the last one, Dustin's personal favorite was white with a rainbow stripe across the chest and arms. They also got a couple t-shirts, but not many, it was too cold and the bought her a coat along with a zip-up sweater for indoors. Lastly they got a pair of blue high top converse and white Adidas with black stripes.

The whole trip Max and Eleven would comment on a few items they liked and Lucas and Mike would silently take note. Sometimes they'd even stay behind and ask Steve for some help. When they returned they didn't seem to have purchased anything and it was hard to tell if Steve had more bags than when he entered because they had boughten so much for Sarah.

At the end of the day Steve bought the kids some cheap mall food and then drove them home. Before Dustin, Mike and Lucas went into their homes with their bags, Steve told them he would help wrap their stuff in the morning.

Dustin had to carefully sneak through his house with his loaded bags as to not wake his mom. He did not want to explain the many girls clothes he had. It was a simple answer, Christmas time charity, but it was still a very awkward conversation.

The next morning Steve woke the boys up early. Apparently they had "a lot of work to do." Lucas, Mike and Dustin didn't understand how hard wrapping a present could be, but apparently you had to get boxes, bags, ribbons, bows, tissue paper and a million different types wrapping paper. Then on top of everything there were specific ways to wrap different packages. It happened to take them all the way to lunch to finish wrapping. By that time the boys vowed to never buy another Christmas gift again, it was absolutely not worth it.

After lunch everybody went to visit Sarah again, she would be discharged from the hospital three days before Christmas. Hop invited everybody over to his trailer, but then realized that it couldn't hold everyone. Luckily for him Mrs. Wheeler said they could all come over at 9:00 to open present and then back over at 6:00 for dinner. Of course the kids were allowed to stay downstairs to hang out if they wanted.

"What will I do when the break is over?" Sarah rarely spoke, this is one of those rare times.

Hop thought for a moment, the kids would be in school and the adults would be at work, "Well maybe you could stay with me at the department."

Sarah shook her head, "I want to go to school."

Hop frowned, "I'm afraid you're a bit behind kid."

"I've gone to school every day I could in the Upside Down, I know everything. I just need practice."

"Oh I don't know-"

Ms. Henderson interrupted Hop, "Dustin is an excellent student! I'm sure he'd love to tutor Sarah before the break."

Hop looked at Eleven and the other kids, "If Sarah goes to school do you promise to include her? And take care of her?"

They nodded.

"Dad I'm not a baby, just because I can't feel anything it doesn't mean I need extra help."

Hop rubbed Sarah's forehead, "I know kid, I'm just looking out for you."

"Did the doctor ever say why I can't feel?"

Hop shook his head, "He said that you could be a sociopath but it's highly unlikely, you don't show most of the symptoms. He also believes you can get your feelings back."

Something sparked inside of Sarah, a new hope, I hope so.

Hop looked around the room, "What was that?" looking around the room you could see that everyone else was confused as well. They heard something, a voice, but no one had spoken. It sounded something like Sarah, but it was full of emotion.

"That was me." Sarah said.

Everyone stared at her, how, did she do that?

"Gift." Eleven said, eyes wide, "Her gift."

Sarah nodded, "I can speak through mind, read minds."

"But you had emotion." Will said.

"I know, my mind's voice never lost emotion, I don't know why."

"What did Brenner make you do?" Hop asked.

Sarah looked at the hospital sheets, pearly white with little violet flowers, "He made me talk to the Russians, or spy on people, make them do things."

"Do things?" Lucas asked.

"I'm like a conscience, I can make people do what I want."

"How-" Mike was cut short.

You want to jump, really high, a pattern, two legs, one leg, don't stop.

Mike started jumping, first on two legs, then one, into a pattern. He didn't stop, "What's going on?"

Stop.

Mike stopped.

"I can make you do whatever I want. That's what Brenner made me do to people."