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chapter seven , You...are danger
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Gus keeps her eyes on the painted alphabets across the wall.After seeing Will's body, Gus was out of it and Hopper had no way of snapping her out of it. He managed to convince Gus to go with him to the Byers household to tell Joyce and Jonathan about Will.
The brunette looks to the side and sees Jonathan holding in his sobs. He was trying to stay strong and Gus could see that. Gus inhales a shaky breath and walks over to him.
"Hey..."
Jonathan hesitantly looks at the brunette. Gus rolls her lips into her mouth, to keep them from shaking. She wraps her arms around his neck. Jonathan freezes for a moment, and suddenly a wrack of sobs leaves his lips. He wraps his arms around her waist. Gus' eyes blur with tears as she listens to Jonathan cry even harder than before.
Gus thinks back to the day her dad died and what she was told when she was crying.
"It's okay...let it out."
"It's not Will."
Jonathan lifts his head from Gus' neck and looks at his mom. He pulls away from the brunette. Gus turns toward Joyce as well.
"Joyce--"
"No, you don't understand." Joyce shakes her head. "I talked to him...a half hour ago."
Joyce walks over to the cabinet and opens it, revealing more Christmas lights. "He was here and he was...he was talking with these." she carries the lights over to Hopper.
"Talking?"
Joyce nods, "One blink for yes, two for no." she drops the lights.
"And then I made this so he could talk to me." Joyce points to the letters painted across her wall.
Gus shifts her eyes from the wall to Joyce.
"Cause he was hiding...from that...from that thing." Joyce stammers.
"The thing that came out of the wall?" Hopper questions. "The thing that chased you?"
"Yeah--"
"Mom, come on, please." Jonathan walks over to his mom, the exhaustion evident across his face.
"No, maybe he's--"
"You've gotta stop this--"
"It's after him!" Joyce cries.
A large lump forms in Gus' throat.
"He's in danger. We have to find him! We--"
"What exactly was this thing?" Hopper asks. "It was some kind of animal, you said?"
