I'm trying to set up the conflict I have in mind for the main plot point, so sorry if these last couple chapters are sort of filler. Anyways, I hope you enjoy and don't forget to review!
Kali had been planning her biggest kill. After finding out Dr. Brenner had been alive this entire time, she had been tracking people down trying to get information on him. She was getting close. She knew he was somewhere East, most likely a big city, but she wasn't sure where. She was going over the maps obsessively, trying to understand. That's when she heard it. The faintest whisper that seemed to be coming from inside of her own head.
"Sister?" it said. Kali suddenly started to see something. It was blurry so she kept focusing on it.
"Sister! It's Jane. I need your help." Kali could suddenly see Jane in a blackness that could only exist in her mind.
"Jane! What are you doing here?" Kali asked, perplexed. The older girl still felt the pangs of betrayal from Jane, even now. It had made her grow more bitter.
"I need your help! You have to make me stronger so I can fight it. It's too strong for me," Jane rambled. Kali looked at the desperation in her eyes and got an incredible idea.
"I can help you, sister. But," she paused, "You'll have to promise to help me too, deal?" Kali offered.
"Anything."
"Locate the man who calls himself our father. Then, we are going to kill him," Kali told her. She could see the fear in Jane's eyes but it melted into determination.
"Deal. I'm in Hawkins, Indiana. Find me and help me, then I'll do it."
Kali was suddenly back in her work room, her friends shaking her awake and her nose dripping blood.
Will and Mike were speechless after hearing of the deal Jane had made with her sister.
"Is that safe? To go after him? What if he captures you and takes you back to a lab?" Mike questioned.
"I will kill him," Jane said without hesitation.
"What are you going to tell Hopper when some girl arrives to help you kill the Mindflayer?" Will asked.
"I'll tell him before she's here," Jane said with a shrug.
Mike and Will exchanged a look, but reluctantly went back to doing their homework.
Lucas was in his bedroom with Max. He really couldn't even believe his mom had allowed it, even though the door remained open.
"You're fifteen, Lucas. I trust you," his mom had told him. The fact the Mrs. Sinclair was also totally nuts over his girlfriend helped. "Such a nice, strong girl," she would say about Max. Lucas was watching Max as she did homework on his bed, while he sat at his desk. Her black eye was nearly healed, it just looked like she had one eye bag that was darker than the other. Max looked up, catching him staring.
"You watching me, Stalker?" Max teased, smiling.
"What? No! Of course not!" Lucas deflected. Max got up and gave Lucas a light kiss, effectively shutting him up.
"That's what I thought," Max said triumphantly, sitting back down on his bed.
"You're both nerds," Erica said from the hallway.
"Stay out of my room!" Lucas yelled to his sassy little sister, who stuck out her tongue and ran down the stairs.
Hopper himself came to pick up Jane and Will from the Wheeler's on his way home from work. They got inside the car and sped off. Hopper wasn't sure how to bring up the incidents of the day to Jane without getting upset, so he drove the kids in silence, waiting to be with Joyce when he confronted her. Joyce knew exactly how to say things without shouting and opening up a black-hole. It was something Jim admired her for.
When he pulled into the gravel driveway, all three of them trudged into the Byers house. Inside, Hopper grabbed Jane's hand.
"We need to talk," he told her. Hopper pulled his daughter into the kitchen, where Joyce was cooking dinner. "What was the one rule I gave you when you started school?" Hopper questioned.
"Don't use your powers at school," Jane recited, knowing exactly what this conversation was going to be about.
"And what did you do today?" Hopped asked again, this time clearly agitated.
"I used my powers," Jane admitted calmly.
"Do you realize how much danger you put yourself in?! I don't even care why you skipped the first half of your day! What if that kid tells people and those monsters from the lab find you?! Then what?" Hopper yelled.
"Hop," Joyce reprimanded, putter her hand on his arm. He nodded at her and calmed down a bit.
"I'm just trying to keep you safe, alright kid?" Hopper tried again.
"I know. I'm sorry. It won't happen again," Jane said cooly before walking off. Hopper just shook his head. Jane sat down on Will's bed, thinking of what Kali had said last year. She had told Jane that they would try to keep her from using her gifts, that they would never understand her. Maybe she was right. Hurry up, Sister, Jane thought to herself.
Mike was up all night, worrying over what Jane had told him this afternoon. He really could not take losing Jane again. She meant the world to him. And although Mike had never met Kali, but he had a bad feeling about her. He understood her wanting to kill Dr. Brenner who had miraculously survived the Demogorgon two years ago, but revenge was definitely not the healthiest way to deal with trauma. It would only blow up in her face, and Mike was scared that she would drag Jane into that as well.
Will woke up in the middle of the night to get a glass of water. He'd had to pry his hand out of Jane's to get up, but he somehow had. He was sipping his water in the kitchen when he saw headlights in the window. Curiously, Will made his way to the living room window. He was shocked to see no other cars in the driveway besides Hopper's, Jonathon's, and his mothers. Will was a little confused since this was not the area where people pulled in someone's driveway to turn around. He lived on a dead end. Slightly freaked out, Will went back to his room and shook Jane awake.
"I think something weird is going on," Will whispered to her. Together, they creeped back out into the living room. Jane peaked outside and her heart nearly dropped out of her chest when she saw a familiar van parked out front. Kali was standing outside of it, looking right at her, her nose dripping blood.
"See? No one's there. But I swear I saw headlights," Will said to Jane, truly seeing nothing outside.
"It's sister. She came." I guess I didn't get a chance to tell my dad, Jane thought to herself.
