Lyn and the kids were sitting on the bleacher in the gym. All exhausted from the day they were having. Mike stood up and walks out of the gym. Lyn got up to follow him out of the school. "Nancy! Jonathan!" He yells out into the empty parking lot.
"They probably went with the chief and Mrs. Byers to get Will." Lyn grabs his arm to drag him back inside.
"All the crap she was saying about not keeping secrets and sticking together." He mutters under his breath and storm back into the gym. He thought for a second that Nancy and he could have the sibling relationship that Dustin and Lyn or Jonathan and Will have. But, maybe that kind of closeness only comes with an absent parent.
Lyn took the time to look at the school map that was on the wall. She was a freshman when they move here, so she didn't know the layout of the middle school. After feeling like she had a good picture of it in her head, she walks back into the gym at a poor time in the conversation.
"They're probably just sucking face somewhere." Dustin shrugs.
"Gross." Lucas and Lyn scrunch up their faces in disgust. She assumes they were talking about Nancy and Jonathan. At least she hopes they were, if not that left Joyce and Hopper. She didn't know if she was ready for that mental image.
"No, no way!" Mike shook his head.
"Did they go with the chief?" Lucas turns to Lyn seeing if she had some answers.
"I saw them walk out the door with him, but I don't know if they actually went with them," Lyn told them.
"No," El said suddenly.
"What? Did you see them?" Mike quickly turns to her. She nods her head. "Do you know where they went?" He asks.
"Yes." She nods.
"Where? Where did they go?" Lyn was amazed at his patience for her one-word responses.
"Demogorgon." El looks at him sadly.
"We have to go help them!" Mike walks towards the door. Lyn moves to stop him from doing so. Dustin and Lucas follow her lead.
"How? We don't have a vehicle. We don't even have your guy's bikes. By the time we walk to the gate, Nancy and Jonathan would be done already." Lyn points out to him.
"This is crazy. We can't just wait around." Mike throws his hands in the air.
"Mike, in case you forgot, we're still fugitives. The bad men are still looking for us." Lucas reminds him.
"Yeah, and we don't even know where your sister is." Dustin agrees with Lucas.
"El can find them." Mike shrugs like it was no big deal for her to try to use her powers again after she used so much of it.
"She exhausted, Mike. She's having a hard enough time staying awake." Lyn points to the girl behind them that was curled up on the bleachers.
"I still think we should stick to the chief's plan," Dustin put emphasize on the word plan. Mike wanted them to go into the Upside Down with just the shirts on their backs to save his sister who might not even need to be saved.
"Exactly, we stay here, keep El out of sight and keep her safe. That's the most important thing, remember? Besides, she's okay. She's with Jonathan." Lucas elaborated on his friend's point.
"Yeah, and she's kind of a badass now, so..." Dustin trails off on his sentence as he walks to the door.
"Where are you going? You just said stick to the plan!" Mike yells at his back.
"I am. I'm just going to go get some chocolate pudding. I'm telling you, Lunch Lady Phyllis hoards that shit." Dustin yells back over his shoulder.
"Oh, pudding," Lyn pulls the cart with the beer box on it and follows her brother to the chocolate goodness.
"Are you guys serious?" Mike yells out. Lucas shrugs at him before following the Henderson siblings.
"El needs to be recharged!" Dustin yells before he closed the door.
"What makes you think she's hoarding the pudding," Lyn ask her brother.
"Because every time it's on the menu we always run out, but that never happens with anything else. This means that she has to be hiding it somewhere." He enters the cafe like he was on a mission of a lifetime.
"I can't wait to see what kind of mood she'll be in on Monday when she finds it gone." Lucas rubs his hands together. The lady was always in a foul mood. She probably will be in rage mode come Monday. It wasn't like she could accuse anyone of stealing it, then she would have to admit she was hiding it in the first place.
Lyn left the cart by a table. They walk around the lunch counter and began looking everywhere for it. Lyn pocket lights when she found them and was able to find one for each of them. Smoking must be a bonding experience with the lunch ladies.
Lyn was walking farther in the back when she saw there were three boxes stack up against a fridge. "Dustin! Lucas! I think I found it." She moves the boxes of plates and utensils.
Dustin came around the corner with Lucas at his heels. He rips the door open and screams in triumph. "Found it! I knew she was hoarding it. I knew it. Always lying, saying she's out. Bald-faced liar," He grabs as much as he could carry. "Mike, I found the chocolate pudding!" He turns around to yell. Mike and El were now sitting down in the dining area.
"Okay!" He yells back, knowing Dustin wouldn't stop until he got a response.
Lucas and Lyn fill up their arms with cans of pudding too. There was still some leftover, what did that lady need so much pudding for? They walk out to see El by herself.
"Where did Mike go?" Lyn places the pudding down on the table. Dustin and Lucas did the same covering the whole table with cans of pudding. They sat down to rip into it.
"Nancy." She points to the window. Lyn nods her head and passes her a spoon. "I know what like like is." She said, making them stop shoving their face to look at her.
"What happened while we were looking for pudding?" Lyn ask.
Before El could answer Mike came running in, yelling and waving his arms around. "Guys! Guys!"
"What is it?" Dustin sigh, frustrated that his pudding time was being interrupted.
"They found us." Mike pants. Dustin let out sighs and put some pudding in his pockets, earning an eye roll from everyone.
"Everyone takes a lighter." Lyn hands them out like it was candy on Halloween. "You can light the cloth and throw it at them." She pointed to the bottles.
She picked the box off the cart since the wheel squeaked. They made their way to the backdoor. They had to dip behind a trash can to avoid a few agents. "The west side of the building is clear." The agent spoke into the walkie talkie.
They smile at each other since that was where the backdoor was. It was almost too easy to move around these professional agents. "How did they find us?" Lucas whispers.
"I don't know, but they knew we were in the gym," Mike told them.
"Lando." Dustin gasps.
"Fucking cop," Lyn mutters under her breath.
With the back door insight, they all felt a sense of security that they were almost in the clear. But, of course, the fates could never make it that easy; the back door's busted up. "Got 'em!" Two agents charge at them.
"Go, go, go, go, go!" Mike screamed. Lucas grab a bottle from Lyn and lit it up before throws it behind them. They turn a corner, feeling the heat of the fire on their backs and the screams of the guards filled their ears.
Lyn let out a sigh as she thought they got away. That relief only lasted a few seconds as more agents came around another corner and made their way towards them. "Why does this school have so many corners?" She screams. She didn't realize how many blind spots there was until she wanted to see everywhere. They turn to run back the way they came from
"Freeze." The agent yells, but they didn't look back. The agents chase them down the main hallway.
They were forced to stop when more agents and a blonde lady cut in front of them. The lady quickly pointed a gun at them. The agents behind her did the same. Lyn pants as hopelessness filled her at being surrounded.
"Light another bottle and I'll shoot you." She moves the gun to Lyn.
The guards froze as the lights began to flicker. Lyn watch as the lady's eyes filled up with fear as blood began to drip from them. She and the agent's bodies drop lifeless to the floor. Lyn stares with wide eyes at how fast someone can go from being powerful to dead.
As that thought enter her mind, a thud came from beside her. She looks down to see El on the floor, knock out cold. They kneel down on the floor next to her. "El, are you okay? El!" Mike shook her. "Something's wrong." He looks up at them when she didn't wake up.
"She's just drained," Dustin told him.
"No, no, no, she won't wake up." Mike tears up.
"We have to get out of this hallway." She pushes the beer box into her brother's arms and scoops up El.
"Leave her. Put the child down and step away from her." An older white-haired man in a suit with more agents came around the corner.
"Fuck off!" Lyn held El closer to her.
"No! You want her, you have to kill us first." Mike stood in front of her to yell at the man.
"That's right!" Dustin moves to stand next to Mike.
"Eat shit!" Lucas moves to protect El too.
They were so focused on the man in front of them; they didn't notice the men coming from behind until they were grabbed.
"No! No! Get off me!" Dustin drops the box making the bottles crack open on the floor.
"You idiot!" Lucas was punching and kicking the man holding him.
"Let go!" Mike screams.
"You dumbass you're going to make me drop her," Lyn growl out as the guy struggled to pin her arms to her sides. The white hair agent grabs El from Lyn's arms. "No you fucker, give her back." She screams.
He moves down to the floor to lay her down on his lap. "Eleven? Eleven, can you hear me? Eleven?" He put a hand on each side of her face and shakes her head.
"Papa?" El whispers making Lyn swing her legs back to kick the guy holding her in the shin.
"You fucking bitch." He growls in her arm and painful tightens his hold on her. Lyn cried out in pain.
"Hey, you prick that my sister," Dustin yells out next to her.
"Let her go! Let her go, you bastard!" Mike screams, making Lyn turn her attention back to El.
The man was turning her head back to him and whispering to her, so they couldn't hear.
"Mike. Mike. Mike." El points at him.
The light bulbs began sparking, making both the civilians and government workers freeze. Their eyes fell on the weak El, knowing this would kill her.
"Blood." Mike gasps.
"What?" Lucas still in the agent's arms turns to his friend.
"Blood." He repeated himself as a thud came from the wall.
"Fuck, there too much blood here." Lyn curse when she realized what he saying.
A monster busted out of the wall. "Demogorgon," Dustin yells out as the agents drop them to shoot at it.
"Come on, come on." Mike went to pick up El, but he was struggling. So, Lyn took her from his arms. They ran down the hall leaving behind the screeching animal and the armed agents. Mike leads them into the science lab. Lucas locks the door behind them.
"Come on, get her on the table." Dustin points to a table in the back. She put El down. They crowd around her.
"Just hold on a little longer, okay? He's gone. The bad man's gone. We'll be home soon, and my mom she'll get you your own bed. You can eat as many Eggos as you want. And we can go to the Snow Ball." Mike grabs her hands.
"Promise?" She whispers to him.
"Promise," Mike smiles down at her. Lyn smile at them, realize how El knew what like like was.
The monster cries of pain and the gunshots getting louder brought them back to reality. They stare at the door waiting for any signs of a threat. There was a loud thud and the gunfire continued for a little while more before stopping.
"Is-is it dead?" Dustin asks.
There were a few moments of silence before they go their answer. The Demogorgon jumps on the door breaking it down.
"Go, go, go, go!" Mike yelled.
"Go where?" Lyn screams at him. They didn't have anywhere to run. They were trapped in the classroom with the Demogorgon.
"Get the wrist rocket! Get the wrist rocket now!" Dustin points at the backpack that Lucas must have dropped off in the classroom at some point. The boys ran over to the bag. Lyn stayed in front of El, using herself as a human shield.
"Go, go, go, go, go!" Mike chants to Lucas who pulls his slingshot out. "Get the rocks, get the rocks, get the rocks! Getting the rocks!" He yells at Dustin who was digging through the bag.
Dustin pulls his hand out of the backpack to show that it was now filled with rocks. "Give me one." Lucas put his hand out. Dustin put one in his hand.
"Go! Go! Kill it! Kill it!" Dustin cheers his friend on.
"Fire! Fire!" Mike shouts in his ear.
Lucas shot rock after rock, nailing the monster right in the chest, but it didn't faze it. Which wasn't surprising, if a load of bullets couldn't stop it then rocks most feeling like nothing to it.
Lyn jumps when a hand grabs her shoulder. El pushes her to the side to stand up. "El, no if you use any more power you could die." She grabs the girl's arm to stop her.
"If I don't then all of you will die. All my friends will be dead. Goodbye Rosalyn." El pulls away from Lyn and walks over to the monster. Lyn tried to ran after her, but found that her feet couldn't move. She looks up at El, not believing that she was using her powers on her.
As Lucas shot his last rocks at the monster, El made it fly into the chalkboard. The boys stood there in shocks thinking the rocks work when El pushes past them.
"Eleven, stop!" Mike ran after her, but she waves her hand and made him fall into the cabinets against the wall.
The powerful monster squeals and wiggles around, but it couldn't get off the board. El walks in front of it. She turns around to look at her friends one last time. "Goodbye, Mike." She whispers when she eyes land on the boy who held a special place in her heart.
"No more." She put her arm up toward the creature. Lyn and the boys slam their hands over their ears at the high pitch screams it gave out. They shut their eyes when a light glow from the monster's chest and black dust was coming off of it.
There was a loud explosion making them open their eyes. There was a cloud of black dust falling to the ground to reveal the chalkboard had a dent and black blood where the monster used to be. "El? El? El! Eleven! Eleven! El! El, where are you? Eleven! El?" They scream out, but none of them sound as desperate as Mike.
Lyn was sitting in the waiting room of the hospital. Joyce and Hopper were successful in their mission to save Will. She kept an eye on Hopper. She made her move when she saw him go over to the vending machine.
"I know it was you that told the agents where we were." She leans against the side of the machine as she stares him down.
"You want to do this right now kid?" He sighs.
"I just want you to know that there no hard feelings." She shrugs.
"Really, because you seem like the grudge-holding type to me," He narrows his eyes at her.
"My break promise cancels out yours. I promise to make sure the bad guys didn't get her. I couldn't do it." She tried to stay stronger, but she breaks down towards the end.
"Oh god. Don't cry kid, it wasn't your fault. I'm sure you did everything you could." Hopper panics, not knowing who to deal with a crying teen.
"Come on, Rosalyn. Will is up." Dustin pulls on her arm, but stop when he saw her crying. "You made my sister cry." He glares at the cop.
"Jerk," Mike mutters. Lucas made an unimpressed noise at the officer.
"It wasn't him, I was just thinking about El. Go on and see Will without me. I don't want him to see me like this." She wipes the tears from their eyes. They ran off screaming Will's name over and over.
Lyn went back into the waiting room and took a seat next to Nancy who was sitting next to Steve. "I'm sorry about Barbara. I wish that we knew that the others knew from the start then maybe we could have come together soon and got to her in time." She looks over at Nancy. It must have felt lonely to be grieved by yourself for someone. Barbara's death did seem like a speed bump that they speed over. They didn't even have a moment of silence for her. It must have added insult to injury for Nancy.
"I'm sorry about El." She looks down at her hands. "I'm going to see Will." She stood up and walk out of the waiting room.
Steve moves so he was in the chair next to her. "Did you fight one of them too? Is that why your arms are all bruised up?" He whispers.
"No, I got this bruise from a government agent holding me down while they tried to kidnap El." She looks down at her arms that were black and blue.
"Government agent? El?" He tilts his bruised face in confusion.
"Do you know anything?" She huffed out of frustration.
"All I know is I went over to the Byers to apologize and I end up having to beat up a large monster with a bat cover in nails." He told her.
"Wait, you were able to beat it up with a bat." She reaches out to rub his arm. It only confused her more, his arms were tone but they weren't bulging muscles.
"W-w-what ar-e y-ou do-doing?" He stutters out.
"They shot bullets at the one that came to the middle school and it didn't affect it. How could you hitting the thing with a bat do any damage?" She continues to massage his arm like a muscle would pop out of nowhere.
He swallows a moan at having her rub his sore muscles and uses all his will power to push her hand off him. "I'm stronger then I look."
"It must have been a baby." She decided.
"What? No way it was at least 7 feet tall." He defends himself.
She peaks into the hospital room and saw Will in the bed with Joyce and Jonathan sitting by him. "Since when are you shy? Come in!" Will shouts at her when he saw her in the doorway.
"Hello there Duckling, nice to see you finally came back from your vacation." She walks over to the empty side of the hospital bed.
"Yeah, vacation at the Bates Motel." He scoffs getting a laugh from everyone around the bed.
"At least at the Bates, you would have gotten a shower, you stink." She pinches her nose.
"I was stuck in hell, what's your reason for stinking." He laughs.
"Fighting off government agents," She smirks.
"Did you really make Molotov Cocktails?" He smiles up at her.
"Oh yeah, but Lucas only got to throw one before an agent knocks them out of Dustin's hands." She told him.
"Did you at least get to see the one Lucas threw?" He asks.
"Nah, but I know it made a grown man scream." She smiles.
"I thought you could do that with just your face." He jokes.
"WILL." Joyce scolds him.
Lyn and Will share a look before breaking out in laughter. "I miss you, duckling." She grabs his hand.
"I miss telling you to stop calling me that." He pulls his hand away from her. He laughs at her pouting face. "I miss you too." He smiles softly at her.