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Sitting in the Wheeler basement, the party watches Eleven, bandana covering her eyes, radio static playing through the room, trying to locate where Joyce and Hopper were in the void. After a good thirty seconds, El, still in her colorful outfit, speaks up.
"I found him"
"Where?" Max asks
"Woods."
"Woods?" Will asks, confused why Joyce and Hopper would just casually be going for a hike right now.
"What are they doing?" The redhead asks
"Ill....annoy. They're going to Ill-annoy."
"Mike! Ian! Breakfast!" Karen knocks on the locked basement door, calling for the boys.
"Not now Mom!" Mike shouts back, turning back to the group as Eleven removes the bandana, "Illinois? Illinois, like the state?"
Eleven shrugs, repeating the word, stammering a bit as she obviously didn't really know, just going off whatever the adults had said. Max then pulls Eleven away into the bathroom, wanting to clean her bloody nose up and check on the scar around her neck made by Billy. That merely left the boys in the main area, Lucas on the couch, Will at the D&D table, Ian sitting on the table and resting his feet on another chair, and Mike pacing back and forth as he was anxious as all hell about the situation.
"The bottom line is they aren't here. It's up to us" Lucas tells the raven haired boy
"Up to us to do what, exactly?" Mike asks
"Find Billy and stop him."
"Okay yeah, that's a really nice sentiment, but even if El could find him again, and that's a pretty big if, then what?"
"We burn the shit out of him and we make sure he doesn't escape this time."
"Another foolproof plan made by Lucas Sinclair, everybody," Ian interrupts, clapping sarcastically as he looks around the room.
"Then what? We don't win. We got the Mind Flayer out of Will before and it just came right back" Mike continues, making a point to Lucas.
"We can't just stop Billy and call it a day," Ian adds, "We have to stop the Mind Flayer."
"How the hell do we do that then?" Lucas asks
"I don't know." Mike answers
"Maybe El does?" Will suggests
The boys look back at the closed bathroom door, confused why the girls had been in there so long.
"What are they doing in there?" Mike asks
Lucas stands up, box of cereal in hand as he stands next to Mike, "I dunno. Girls just like hanging out in bathrooms." He offers some of his Coco Puffs to Mike, which he declines.
