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

Five: Dig Dug

"Is there where you saw him? Is this where you saw Hopper?" Joyce asks Will.
"I think so. Yeah." Will says.
"Okay." We begin to search for the same drawing.
"Here!" Mike yells pointing at a piece of paper. Mrs. Byers and I run over to where Mike is standing.
"Okay... So Hopper is here?"
"Yea. So we need to figure out where that is. Right?" I say.
"Right." Mrs. Byers agrees.
"Did he say anything? I mean before he left?" Mike asks.
"Uh.. Something about Vines?" We hear a car pull up. "Hopper." She whispers. We walk to the window. Her boyfriend Bob gets out of his car. She walks outside to greet him. After a few moments, she walks inside with him.
"Huh." He hums. "Hmm.." He turns to Will. "You drew all these yourself?"
"Mmm-hmm." Joyce sighs.
"Why exactly?" Bob asks.
"I..I told you the rules. No questions. Okay?"
"We..we just need you to help us figure out what...Bob? Bob? Over here." Joyce walks over to a piece of paper. Bob gently places the puzzles he had gotten for Will into Mikes's hands.
"Where, this is." Joyce draws a red X on one of the pieces of paper.
"That's the objective," Mike says.
"Find the X." I add.
"Yea? What's at the X? Pirate treasure?" He chuckles.
"I wish." I whisper under my breath.
"Bob. No questions." Joyce raises her voice.
"Okay." He whispers. "Let me talk to you a second. Hang on you three." He grabs Joyce by the arm. I sigh. I wish he could know the truth but it could put him in danger and he seems nice. After a moment of awkward silence, they come out of the room they were standing.
"Okay, I get it. That's lake Jordan. And if that's lake Jordan then you can probably find...yeah that's uh sattlers quarry..and if you just follow it naturally..it moves too..the Eno river. And there it is! That's the Eno, do you see it? Okay so the lines aren't roads but they act like roads. And they act like roads cause when you follow them you'll see..they don't go over water. And that's the giveaway! That's the giveaway. ha! Don't you get it? It's not a puzzle, it's a map. It's a map of Hawkins." Will Mike and I make concerned eye contact. If it's a map of Hawkins that means... "Right, Will?" Bob asks. Bob lays out a map, a notepad, and a few other items.
"All right. I'm 3.6 inches, what do you got?"
"I'm not sure. Mrs. Byers?" Mike calls.
"Hold on.... Twenty-one feet four inches."
"What about Tippecanoe to Sanford creek?"
"Danford? Wh-wheres Danford?"
"Dining room." Will says.
"Sixteen feet, ten inches."
"What about Danford to Jordan?"
"Oh come on. This is got to be enough."
"Its not..it's really not."
"Okay. Can't you figure it out?"
"W-well it's hard the ratio isn't exactly one to one. I mean if you're twisting my arm, and you're twisting my arm I would say that the X is..maybe a half-mile southeast of Danford?"
"Thank you! Thank you." She kisses his cheeck. Grabbing the map she heads outside.
"What.. are we really going?" Bob asks following after us.
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"There's nothing..there's nothing here."
"Are are we close?"
"We're in the vicinity."
"What's that mean? The vicinity?"
"It means we're close. I don't know it's not precise."
"But we did all that work!"
"I told you the scale ratio isn't exactly one to one. We needed to take-"
"Turn right."
"What?"
"I saw him."
"Where?"
"Not here. In my now memories."
"In your what?" Bob asks.
"Turn right!"Joyce turns right slamming right into a pumpkin patch sign.
"Ahhh!"
"Are you okay?" Joyce asks us.
"What's Jim doing here? Joyce?"
"You three I need you to stay here."
"No mom,mom,mom it's not safe."
"I'm the one with pow- who can you know!" I say not wanting Bob to know I have superpowers.
"I can protect you guys." I fight.
"No. You stay here. Stay here!" They get out of the car and look for Hopper. Bob hands her a shovel after they walk to what looks like a giant hole. She begins to dig the whole deeper. Joyce and Bob go down in the tunnel. I read Joyces mind.
"Bob, over here. It's his." She picks up a cigarette. "He's gotta be this way. Come on."
"Hopper!" I open my eyes again and wipe the blood from my nose. Mike and Will stand outside the tunnel opening. I hop out of the car to join them.
"Do you see anything? I mean in your now-memories?" Mike asks Will. Will shakes his head no. Just then Hawkins Lab vans pull up.
"Oh no." I say. I instictevely cover my tatoo.
"We're not here for you." An agent says leading people with flamethrowers and other agents towards the tunnels. Will falls over in pain.
"Will!" I yell.
"Will? Are you okay?" Mike yells.
"Will what's wrong?" He looks like he's having a seuizure.
"Hey! Someone help!" I yell at the agents. One of them nods. Will starts to scream.
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Hi! This was a short chapter. The word count is 885 words.

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