Lyn waves to Lucas who was riding his bike past her before pulling into her driveway. "Mews! Mewsy! Mews! Mewsy!" Claudia was in the front yard waving a cat toy around. Lyn sigh as she got out of the car, hoping she would be able to find the cat fast. If not, she knew she would be up all night driving around town looking for her.
"Hey mom, did you check if she was in my room? She blends in sometimes with the yarn." She approaches her mom.
"Yeah, I even take them all out to see if she buried herself in them but she wasn't there. You didn't see any cat that looked like her on the ride home, did you?" She looks paranoid with the way she kept looking up and down the street.
"No, I didn't see any cats," Lyn told her.
Claudia turns around to make her way back into the house. Lyn drags her feet as she follows behind her. "Dusty, baby, you're sure she's not in your room," She asks her son who was on the phone.
Dustin put his hand up to tell her to be quiet as he spoke with someone. "Uh-huh. Thank you so much, Mr. McCorkle. Thank you so much. You are a true lifesaver. All right, this was great. Thank you. All right. Have a good one. Bye-bye, now. All right. You, too." He hung up the phone and turn to them, "All right, great news."
"They found her?" Their mom sounded so relieved that someone had found her baby.
"No. But they saw her wandering around Loch Nora." Dustin spoke to her in a calm tone that one had to have when speaking to their mother when she got like this. Lyn narrow her eyes, how did that lazy cat get all the way across town.
"How did the poor baby get all the way out there?" Claudia let out a few happy tears.
"I don't know. Lost, I guess. But they're going to look for her. And I'll stay here, just in case they call again. And you're going to go help look? Yeah? Yeah? Give me a hug. Give me a hug. Go get her." Dustin pulls her into a hug. "You're going to find her." He let his mother go.
"Okay." She put on her sunglasses. She grabs her keys and purse.
"We can find her." He nods to encourage her to go out of the door.
"We can find her." She repeated and opens the door.
"I love you." Dustin gave her the pearly smile she loved so much.
"I love you." Claudia said to her son before turning to her daughter to also tell her, "I love you." "I love you too, mom." Lyn smiles at her.
"All right, go." He waves his hands. She nods her head and shut the door. Soon after, they heard the engine running and her pulling out the driveway. "Alright, help me look for weapons that could take out a small Demogorgon." He speaks as he began to search the closet. He pulls out his old hockey goalie pads.
"What?" She gasps.
"Will was right, Dart is a Demogorgon. He grows to be twice the size of Meows, maybe more. I came home to him eating her in my room. I have him locked in there right now." He explains while continuing to search the house.
"I'll get the crowbar from the garage." She ran out to the garage to grab the tool that would be used as a weapon. She went back into the house to see Dustin laying baloney out, instead of stopping to ask questions she ran to her room.
She got a scrunchie from her vanity to give herself side braid and a bun at the end. She grabs her smallest can of hairspray and the lighter that originally belongs to Lonnie Byers. She tucks them both in the back pockets of her shorts.
She went back into the living room to see Dustin wearing his goalie pad, hockey mask, oven mitts, and a hockey stick in hand.
"You're going in with no protection." He looked her up and down. She was wearing black shorts with fishnets underneath and combats boots on. She had on her favorite Bride of Frankenstein off the shoulder sweatshirt.
"Unless you got another goalie uniform lying around, no, let's just do this." She hypes herself up to take on the mini monster.
"Here the plan, we were going to lure him with the baloney trail I made to get him into the cellar." He explains to her. She looks down at the baloney trail to see that it led outside.
"Okay." She nods her head, impressed that he had it all figured out.
"When I open the bedroom door, we have to run to the outside shed." He instructed.
"Can you run in that?" She remembers when he played for one season he would waddle more than walk.
"Kind of," He shrugs.
"How about you go to the shed now? And I'll open the door." She nods her head for him to go outside.
"What, no! We do this together." He shook his head.
"Dustin, you can't run. If it catches you, I wouldn't know what to do. If you die, I die. Please get to the shed, now." She begs. She could handle dying, but she couldn't handle losing a brother.
He nods his head and ran outside. She walked over to the door. "I got some more meat for you, Dart." She pushes open the bedroom door. "Oh fuck," She gasped at seeing Dart in his new form. He looks like a mini Demogorgon, except he seems to prefer moving on all fours.
When Dart crawls over Meow's body, Lyn turns around to run faster than she ever did before. She ran into the shed that Dustin was holding open for her. He slams it shut once she was in. They watched from the cracks in the shed as Dart came out of the house, following the baloney trail.
"Oh my god," Dustin whisper with anticipation as Dart made it to the opening of the cellar. He looks down at the steps for a few seconds that felt like hours to the Henderson siblings.
"Oh shit," They gasp when Dart turns his head around toward the shed.
"Oh fuck," Lyn groan when he started making his way over to them.
"You know, if anything happens to you I wouldn't know what to do either. If you die, I die." Dustin pushes his sister down to make her fall on her butt and charge out of the shed. Dart let out a scared screech and ran the other way. Dart was turning to run back in the house, but Dustin swings his hockey stick to make him fly in the cellar.
Lyn got up and ran outside. Dustin closes the cellar and lays on top of it as Dart slam himself against the doors. She grabs the padlock and chain to close it up tightly. "Fuck, right when I was got attach to that bastard." Lyn put her head in the hands as tears build up in her eyes. It was a great few days of having a pet that was so responsive. She curses, with how loving and cuddling he was she couldn't believe that he was a Demogorgon.
"I know the feeling." He got up from the cellar doors. "I'm going to get the walkie and Meows. Can you grab the shovel from the shed? We got to bury her." He bent down to ask his sister.
"I got it." She nods her head, standing up.
"We are going to make it through this. We are going to do what's right." He promised her before going into the house.
She smiles as she watches him. "If my little boy has to become a man, at least I know he's going to be a good one." She went into the shed to grab the shovel. She walks into the woods just far enough so she couldn't see her house and began digging.
She wipes the sweat from her brow and climbs out of the hip-deep hole that she made. She turned around when she heard her brother's voice. "Guys, this is Dustin. CODE RED! I need you guys at my house. CODE RED!" He yelled into the headset that was attached to his walkie. He had Meows wrap up in a towel. Lyn went to grab the cat from him and put her in the hole. "No one is picking up, I tried the walkie. I tried all their house numbers. Nothing. I'm going to call Hopper again and try to contact the guys while I clean the blood from my carpet." He let out a sigh from no one answering.
"Okay, I'm going to finish this." She put the dirt back in the hole to cover Meows. He nods and heads back to the house. When she had the hole filled, she bowed her head. "You were a good cat, Meows. You were an amazing companion to my mother. You will forever be in my memory and my heart for that. I hope you have fun in kitty heaven."
She picks up the shovel and made her way back to the shed to trade it for the crowbar. She walks into the house to help Dustin clean the large bloodstain in his room. She grabs a sponge and got on her hands and knees to help him scrub.
"Guys, its Dustin, I need you to pick up. This is not a drill. It's code red. Hopper is missing, so I really need you guys. CODE RED!" He kept repeating over and over with no results. "Erica? Erica, is Lucas there?" He stops scrubbing to sit up. "Where is he? Is he with Mike? Please tell him it's super important. Please tell him that I have a code...Yep, code red. Exactly" He speaks to the girl, hoping that she could get Lucas for him.
"Erica?" He let out a groan of frustration as he rips the headset off and throws it across the room. "The Sass Queen hanged up?" Lyn sat up and admire the clean carpet.
"Yeah, she did. We got to go over to Mike's. We have to find someone." He got up.
They ran out to Darling. Lyn found herself once again treating residential areas like they were race tracks. The tires screech as she made the turn onto the road where the Wheelers live. Darling jerk from Lyn slams on the brakes in front of their house.
Dustin jumps out of the car and ran to their front door to ring the bell repeatedly. Lyn watches from the car as he spoke to Mr. Wheelers. She let out a sigh as she tried not to cry when Dustin was walking back to the car by himself.
Steve's BMW pulls up and he came out with a bouquet of roses, the Henderson siblings perk up. Lyn got out of the car and Dustin ran over to him. "Steve. Are those for Mr. or Mrs. Wheeler?" He points to the roses.
"No." He shook his head, confused as to why he would give his girlfriend's parents flowers. Or maybe she considers herself his ex, he wasn't sure of their status at the moment.
"Good." Dustin took the roses from him.
"Hey. What the hell? Hey!" Steve yells, but Dustin ignores him to open the BMW's passenger door.
"Nancy isn't home." He turns around to tell him.
"Where is she?" Steve asked although he was sure the answer was with Jonathan.
"It doesn't matter. We have bigger problems than your love life. Do you still have that bat?" Dustin scoffs at his priorities.
"Bat? What bat?" He throws his hands in the air.
"The one with the nails, how many bats do you have?" Lyn snaps. She knows that Steve could be a little slow on the uptake, but she needs him to pick it up quickly.
"Yeah, I never took it out the trunk. Lyn, what's going on?" He turns to his best friend.
"I'll explain it on the way." Dustin points to the driver's seat to show Steve where he wanted him.
"Steve, we need you. We ignore a problem and let it get too big. After this, I'll do whatever to help you get Nancy back. I'll buy the damn balloons to put in her lockers, just please help us." Lyn begs as tears run down her face. Dart could get out and hurt anyone. Lyn didn't know if she could live with that guilt for the rest of her life.
"Okay, yeah. I'll help you." He reaches out to wipe her tears away and nod to Dustin that he was in.
Dustin and Steve got into the BMW while Lyn got back into Darling. They raced their way to the Henderson house.