~Just Another Kid (Y/N Harrington x Will Byers)~

Four: Will the Wise

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"Stop being a baby and do it already!" Mike grumbles.
"This is so disgusting." Max gags.
"I agree." I say standing a while away from the garbage.
"What the hell's going on?" Dustin asks.
"We're looking for dart dingus." I roll my eyes.
"Jesus!" Dustin exclaims as trash gets thrown out from the dumpster.
"Eww.." I say.
"Ugh."
"Well well well. Look who finally decided to show up. After I drew the short straw. Very convenient." Lucas says jumping out of the dumpster.
"You stink!" Max walks to Dustin's side. I nod in agreement.
"Hi, Max." Dustin smiles.
"Hi?"
"Where's Will?" Dustin asks.
"He'll be here." Mike and I answer at the same time.
"Are you just going to stand there?" Lucas tosses Dustin a trash stick. "Or are you gonna help?" We all continue to look for Dart.
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"All living things, from complex mammals to single-cell living organisms respond instinctively to danger. Expose a bacterium to a chemical and it will flee. Or deploy some other self-defense mechanism."
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[This is how the seats work]
Dustin Lucas Mike
Will      Y/N
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I look at Will's empty seat beside me. I wonder if he's okay.
"We are very much the same." I'm gonna go to his house after school.
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"Anything?" Lucas asks Mike.
"We need to talk AV room right now. Part members only." Mike looks to Max.
"Come on Mike!" Dustin says.
"No! This is non-negotiable."
"Sorry, Max." I say.
"Sorry." Lucas comments.
"Yea, sorry Max." We're all treating her like garbage and I don't want to.
"Will didn't want us to tell anyone, but on Halloween night he and y/n saw a sort of shadow in the sky." Mike describes.
"A shadow? What kind of shadow?" Lucas asks me.
"I-it was like this huge monster creature that had eight legs. Kind of like a spider I guess." I describe thinking about the monster.
"I mean if Will really has true sight. I mean if he can really see into the upside-down, maybe he saw that thing yesterday."
"He did," I say catching everyone's attention. "Well when I tried to read his mind yesterday I saw it for a split second but I got kicked out," I explain.
"So that's why he was frozen like that." Dustin whispers.
"Maybe."
"Can it hurt him?" Lucas asks. "I mean if this shadow thing isn't from our world..."
"I'm not sure. Dustin?"
"Well if you're in another plane, you can't interact with the material plane, so theoretically no the shadow can't hurt him."
"Yeah if that's even what's happening. This isn't d&d this Is real life."
"I mean, I can see the stuff Will sees too. Because of me being able to teleport to the Upside Down." I say.
"So you think you acquired true sight too?" Mike asks.
"I think so. But my point is, it all felt real." I finish.
"So what do we do?" Lucas inquires.
"Y/N and I can go to Will's after school. See what's going on." Mike plans out. I nod agreeing to the plan. "You guys stay here and find Dart." Mike finishes his plan.
"Dart? What's he got to do with this?" Dustin defends.
"Dustin." I start.
"Will heard him in The Upside Down. I don't know how but he's got to be connected to all this." Mike explains. "He's gotta be."
"If we can find Dart, maybe we can solve this." I declare. "Maybe we can help Will."
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"Hello?" Mike knocks on the door.
"Will?" I ask.
"Mrs. Byers?"
"Hey." Mrs. Byers smiles opens the door. "Hey Y/N, hey Mike."
"Is Will here?" I ask.
"You know what? Right now isn't a good time." She stutters.
"Is he okay?" Mike questions. Joyce steps out closing the door behind her.
"Yeah. You know, he's... he's just not feeling well. He's laying down. I'll tell him you stopped by." I read her mind.
"Your lying." I mumble and wipe the blood from my nose.
"Its about the shadow monster, isn't it?" Mike asks. Joyce looks at us in shock.
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"It's like...it's like I feel what the shadow monsters feeling. See what he's seeing." Will says.
"Like in the Upside Down?" Mike asks. Will nods.
"Some of him is there. But some of him is here too." Will mumbles.
"Here like in his house?" Mike inquires.
"In this house and..in me. It's like-its like he's reaching into Hawkins more and more. And the more he spreads, the more of him I feel." Mike sits on the opposite side of Will I am.
"And the more you see these now memories." I softly describe.
"At first I just felt it. Like in the back of my head. I didn't even really know it was there. It's like when you have a dream and you can't remember unless you think really hard. It was like that. But now it's like...Now I remember. I remember all the time."
"Maybe..maybe that's good." Mike says.
"Good?" I ask. How could this be good?
"Just think about it guys, your like a spy now. A superspy. Spying on the shadow monster. If you know what he's seeing and feeling, maybe that's how we can stop him." I nod my head at Mikes' thought. "Maybe all this is happening for a reason."
"You really think so?"
"Yeah, I really do." Mike says. I grab Wills hand and squeeze it reassuringly.
"What if he figures out were spying on him? What if he spyes back?" Will asks us.
"He won't." I say.
"How do you know?" Will shakily asks.
"We won't let him." I sigh. I pull them both into a hug.
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"Mrs. Byers do you have any sleeping bags? If not I can sleep on the couch." I go up to her.
"Oh, here sweetie." She goes into a closet. She pulls out two sleeping bags.
"Thank you." I say. She nods her head and goes back to the living room. I walk back to Will's room.
"Found them." I say. I hand Mike one and sit mine next to the bed. Out of my bag I pull out my color block windbreaker.
[It looks like this]:

I put it on and take out a book. I read for a while and then lay on my side. I fall asleep slowly.
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I wake to the sound of Will sitting up in bed.
"Will, what's wrong?" Mike asks. I sit up and see Will looking terrified.
"Mom? Mom? Mom?" Will gets Mrs. Byers attention.
"Yeah?" She asks.
"I saw him." Will says.
"You saw who baby?"
"Hopper. I think he's in trouble. I think he's going to die."
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