003 and 012

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He was pulling them along but his little 11 year old body could only drag the 8 year old so far. There were sirens going off as well as gunshots, he was extremely bloody and had bruises covering almost every part of his body. The 8 year old he was dragging was passed out and leaving a trail of blood wherever they went. It was February 12th, 1978. After what seemed like days of running, though it was probably just a few hours, he found a safe place for the two of them to stay. He found some bandages to wrap their wounds and the 8 year old woke up and was about to talk but the 11 year old silenced them. They traveled for a few more days before deciding it was safe enough to talk. " 003 did we really get out" the 8 year old asked. The boy who we now know as 003 replied with," yes 012 we did ." The two children would continue traveling till they reached Lenora Hills, California where they were both adopted . 003 was adopted by Neil Hargrove and his wife and was named William but liked to be called Billy, and 012 was adopted by Zoey Winfred and was named Alex. Billy and Alex had good lives after being adopted, except for the abusive tendencies that Neil Hargrove had towards his wife.

Everything started to go down hill only 2 years after the two were adopted. Mrs. Hargrove ran away from Neil but left Billy to be abused in her place. And Ms. Winfred came down with a fatal disease, and died 8 months later. Alex was a orphan but did not go into the system and stayed by themselves in that big, dark, lonely house that held memories of what used to be, and of what they no longer had. Both children started to isolate themselves from everyone but each other. When Billy was 16 Neil remarried to a woman named Susan Mayfield who was now Susan Hargrove. Susan had a daughter who was Alex's age and sometimes they would talk at school.

One year after Neil got remarried Susan proposed that they move to her hometown Hawkins, Indiana. After Neil said they would be moving Billy ran to Alex's place to tell them the news , and neither one of them was happy with it, that night the two came up with conspiracy's that Susan was with the lab or worked with Brenner directly. Of course the two knew subconsciously that she was not with him or the lab, because if she was they would have been sent back a year ago. The day the Billy left Alex was sobbing and Billy had a few tears falling, which Max was shocked because she thought he did not know how to cry) they promised to call and to write to each other.

Everything was fine till Alex got the worst call of their life. Max called Alex in tears on July 5th, 1985 at 4:12 pm. The call went,

M: i am so sorry

A: Max what are you sorry for? Why are you crying?

M: Billy h- he

A: MAX, WHAT HAPPENED TO BILLY? IS HE OK? MAX?

M: there was a fi- fire at the mall and * there was a short pause from max* and Billy was in it and he didn't make it out.

A: what, M: I am so sorry Alex i should have saved him, I should have done more. A: Max I am sure you did everything you could. I am going to get off the call and try to understand this,ok?

M: o- ok Alex goodnight

After the call Alex sank to the wall in tears. Their best friend was dead. Their brother was dead, and there was nothing they could do about it. A few days later they got on a plane to Hawkins for the funeral. They stayed a bit away from the funeral watching it from a distance. When everyone left they walked up to the grave with a bouquet of camellia flowers, yellow roses, lavender, and gladioli and placed them on the grave. "Billy you were the best brother i could ever ask for and you were the one who got me out of that hell hole of a lab, I did not deserve you and i hope that the next life will be better to you that this one ever was, goodbye."

On august 1st at around 4 am there was a loud persistent knock at the door that after a few minutes woke Alex up from their sleep. Coming down the stairs, while they were cursing the person who woke them up by knocking at the door, They felt a familiar feeling of warmness and family. When they opened the door they were shocked at what they found

BILLY!?

And this quick ish flashback brings us to where we are now in the early morning on August 1st, 1985

A/n in flower language Camellia means admiration, Yellow Roses mean friendship, Lavender means peace, And Gladioli means remembrance of a loved one

I hope you all are enjoying the story so far and sorry for the cliffhanger

yours truly, author