𝐈'𝐥𝐥 𝐁𝐞 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐓𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐥𝐥 ; ᵂᶦˡˡ ᴮʸᵉʳˢ

ix ; The Gate

After Eleven had reunited with Mike, Lucas, Dustin and Ethan, she shoves passed Max and towards Joyce and Hopper. Joyce leads Eleven to Will, who was sleeping peacefully in his bed. Eleven walks back into the main area, sitting at the dining table working up a plan to close the gate at Hawkins Lab. With a small fight between Eleven and Hopper, it eventually sparks another between Hopper and Mike, with Mike upset Hopper hid Eleven from him for almost a year without telling him, thinking she was dead.

But for now, Ethan had come to explain if they killed off the Mind Flayer and it's army, Will would die with it, they had to separate Will from the Mind Flayer. Joyce, Jonathan, Dustin, Mike, Ethan, and Hopper went back to Will, with Joyce explaining how the Mind Flayer hated heat. So, they could burn it out. How exactly, was the question. They couldn't kill the boy but they had to force the Mind Flayer out of Will's body.

"If Will's the host, then we need to make the host uninhabitable" Jonathan explains, connecting the dots

"We have to do it somewhere he doesn't know this time" Mike tells the adults

"Yeah, somewhere far away" Dustin adds

Hopper quickly offers his cabin for Will to get exorsized in, since it was deep in the woods and he had plenty of heaters set up inside, plus a fireplace. They quickly bundle Will up in a yellow blanket, Jonathan grabbing the keys as Mike and Ethan trail behind, and Joyce running out to the car.

"Take Denfield, then you'll see a large oak tree. You're gonna swing a right. That road is gonna dead-end. And it's about a five-minute walk from there." Hopper explains, giving Jonathan quick directions to his cabin.

Meanwhile, while Will was being exorsized, Eleven would go to close the gate with Hopper by her side. As Eleven and Mike were being separated again, Ethan and Mike were called inside to basically babysit their friends. Nancy would go with Jonathan and Joyce, and Steve would babysit the younger teens. With Ethan's power to keep the group safe, Steve basically needed him to keep his friends under control and protected.

About three minutes later, Mike was pacing through the Byers' living room, probably worried sick about Eleven. Ethan was inside another room, trying to hold his invisibility, which he could barely hold in the moment for some odd reason. He could hear Steve argue with Mike that they couldn't leave and they had to sit around and do nothing, and keep the Byers' house safe until the Mind Flayer was defeated.

"Fuck!" Ethan shouts, flickering between visible and invisible

"Language!" Steve shouts back

"You're not my mom, Steve!"

A few minutes later, a loud car is heard pulling into the driveway as Ethan rushes out to see who it was. It didn't seem like much time had passed but maybe Will was back and okay. But the last time he checked, Joyce's car wasn't blue and loud with a license plate from California. Max started freaking out that her brother couldn't find her there with Lucas, because he was racist and an asshole and probably kill them.

Steve walks out the door and onto the steps as Billy exits his car, the teens watching from the window. Ethan turned the sensitivity of his hearing aid up to translate to his friends what Billy and Steve were saying, being the good friend he was.

"Am I dreaming or is that you, Harrington?" Billy asks, taking a breath of his cigarette.

"Yeah, it's me. Don't cream your pants"

Billy's car door slams as he speaks again, "What are you doing here, amigo?"

"I could ask you the same thing" Steve replies, the two walking towards each other, "Amigo"