Authors Note: Hey, sorry that I haven't posted in a long time. I had been trying to come up with the structure of this chapter and when I finally did school had worn me out to much so I didn't feel like typing it. I'm not sure how this chapter will cause the readers (aka: you guys) to react. I hope you like it though. The reasons for the actions that happen in this chapter will be revealed later on. Thanks so much, please review!

Will got out of his mom's warm car in no particular rush to get into the school building. He hadn't ridden his bike to school because it was too cold. That morning however, he was in an unusual good mood, the night before he had staid up late working on an art project for his class. He spend hours sitting at his poorly lit dinning room table, trying to actually express something in his art. In the end it was mainly a sloppy mix of deep blues, some black, and red streaks. Though, if one looked close enough, they could see he faint outline of a forest turned upside down. He looked at the large canvas once more, and smiled to himself, he was proud of the final product. Then he saw it, he didn't feel it happen but he saw it. "Hey Zombie boy, nice scribbles."He heard echo, then he saw himself, holding the paper, being shoved to the side. Suddenly, the paper fell out of his hand and into the snowy earth beneath , the world was the same again, this tine he wasn't day dreaming. Then he saw Troy approaching him fast, "Hey Zombie boy, nice scribbles." Troy chuckled.

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That had to of been a coincidence, right? Nothing more to it, right? That's what Will thought as he walked down the busy school hallway. But the odd thing was that when he saw it happening, he was the person pushing himself. No, that wasn't right, he wasn't the person pushing himself, he was viewing it through Troy's eyes. That's what startled him so much. He shook off the thoughts, thinking he was going insane. Then he wiped his nose on his sleeve, and when he lifted it back there was a small spot of blood. That had to be coincidence too...right.

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El sat in her bed, pondering her decision to exit the warm covers surrounding her, to step on the cool wood floor, and to get out of her comfortable pajamas. Just then she heard a soft knock on her door before the old wood frame creaked open.

"Hey, kiddo! You don't seem in any rush to get up this morning do ya?" Hopper said, in a quiet but happy voice.

"No, I think I'm sick." El sniffled, attempting a fake cough.

"Oh, I see. You know every once-in-awhile work makes me get sick too."

"Really?"

"Absolutely!" He laughed, taking a seat on her bed.

"Absolutely?" She asked, looking to him in question.

"It means...definitely or yeah!" He said, ruffling her hair, "I think that today you are absolutely sick and staying home." He gave a wink and a smile before getting off the bed with a sigh.

The moment El heard the door close and the police car leave the driveway, she ran into the kitchen, her socks slipping and sliding agains the floor. She opened the door to the beautiful sight of a yellow waffle box. She lifted it up, held it far out as to read it and said out loud, "Egos." She didn't even bother to put them in the toaster, she then went to the TV and turned on her favorite program. It went on like that most of the day, until she got lonely and realized how much this reminded her of the days when she wasn't allowed to see her friends. She shook of those thoughts, anything was better than school. She got further into her warm blanket and began to doze off. Her dream was nothingness, and If it was something, she didn't remember. Suddenly, she awoke with a start. Her house was rotting, vines creeped up the wall, alive with furry. There were flakes almost like snow that seemed to float in slow motion about her. She recognized this place. "Help!" She screamed, her shaking voice echoed through the void. "Someone Help!" She frantically ran about the house, tears coming to her eyes. Wishing that there would be a portal somewhere, but she had shut it. She couldn't open it again, she would risk the safety of all of Hawkins. She heard a crash that sounded like thunder, the noise startled her and led her to look out the window, the world was tinted with a red glow. She didn't know why but she walked towards the door, drawn to it like a magnet, the door opened with a familiar creak. Just then she saw it, a small part of the mind flayer and it was reaching towards her. "Will!" she shrieked, "Stop it!" then she ran to the other end of the house, exiting through the window. She remembered what Will had said. She wouldn't fight it, she would run...run...run. And she did, the fastest she had ever ran in her life. But she was nothing compared to the monster, no match without the use of her powers. "Will?!" she screamed, searching for help. It got her.

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"Will...Stop It!" He heard a familiar voice echo through his head as he awoke with a start. He had been sleeping in class again. Suddenly the bell rang and he quickly gathered his things and went to the hallway to meet his friends. He was the first one out and waited for the rest of his group, then he saw Mike but something was wrong.

"What's up?" Will said, concerned.

"El's not in any of her classes?" He replied, scrunching his eyebrows in concern. Just then Lucas, Dustin, and Max approached.

"What's wrong?" Max said, looking to both Mike and Will's faces.

"El's missing."Will replied.

"Oh..." Max said, looking to the ground. She hopped it want something she said.

"Maybe she's just sick. Everyone gets sick, right?" Lucas said, trying to make the best out of the situation.

"Yeah, I'm sure she's fine."Dustin said, patting Mike on the back.

As the group was trying to be of some comfort to Mike, Will remember what had happened that morning. Maybe he could get into the monsters head? Maybe he could check on Jane? Make sure it hadn't tried to attack her yet? He cancelled all the noise of the hallway, even closing his eyes, searching for the part of the monster that had left him. He still felt connected to it in a way, it most definitely wasn't inside of him though. Then, he was viewing through the monsters eyes, It was chasing Jane, she ran through the forest near Hoppers house. She wasn't in the upside-down but she believed that she was. El wasn't fast enough, the monster began reaching inside her. The sight was all to familiar to Will and he couldn't handle much more of it, he opened his eyes with a start.

"We need to help her, she's in trouble." Will whispered, attention was turned to him as he wiped his nose of more blood.