Sparks 𝙀. 𝙈𝙪𝙣𝙨𝙤𝙣 (book 1)

Chapter 7. The massacre at Hawkins lab.

"My hair!" Beatrix mutters, trying to comb through it with her fingers while stomping on the bat around Steve's neck. "Are you kidding? Burn the shit off!" Nancy scolds. "Right!" She says, creating a flame in her hand and putting it on the bats head, making it squeal and fly away quickly.

But then there's one after her and Eddie, then one on Nancy's back. "Holy shit." Beatrix mutters, throwing little flames both ways, one almost burning Nancy's leg off. "Sorry!"

"Jesus H. Christ!" Eddie exclaims, throwing down his oar. "Christ on ice." Beatrix exhales, trying to stop her hands from going numb. "Oh god I hate being rushed." She exhales. "Makes my powers super fucking weak."

"Look." Eddie points to the sky. The group forms behind the two as they bats land. "Not that many, we can take em', right Bea?"

"Yeah but can we take those?" She points at more of the bats flying in the sky. Nancys looks away to the distance. "The woods- come on!" She exclaims, everyone running after her.

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"Well we don't need to go all the way downtown for guns." Nancy begins "I have guns, in my bedroom." She says, looking around. "You, Nancy Wheeler, have guns plural in your bedroom?" Eddie asks. "Full of surprises isn't she?" Robin asks. "A Russian Makrov and a Revolver."

"Yeah you almost shot me with that one." Steve recalls. "You almost deserved it." She smiles up at him. "If you're all done with your little love fest." Beatrix says, taking off Eddie's vest and tossing it to Steve.

"For your modesty, dude." He nods. "They're ones to talk." Steve whispers to Nancy before the ground shakes.

Beatrix immediately runs to grab Robin's hand. They stumble over and Eddie grabs Bea's waist like his life depends on it. The three topple over by the rock. The shaking stops and they all look around panicked.

"Yeah, so guns sound like a pretty good idea to me." Eddie says, his voice way too close to Beatrix's ear, which would've made her hand go up in flames if it already weren't from the ground shaking and him grabbing her waist.

"Seconded." Beatrix agrees, trying to fan out the flames in her hand. "Third-ed?" Robin says

"So what are we waiting for?" Steve asks, walking in front of the three with a flashlight and Nancy, they all get up quickly to follow him.

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"I thought you said I was in charge." Nancy complained. "We made that up so little Dustin would quit whining." Robin says. "Yeah plus, how would you guys survive without me down here?" Beatrix asked. "I mean yeah, Robins super smart and sometimes resourceful, Nancy you're a total badass, Steve a fighter but I can burn the shit out of anything here. And if it weren't for me, Eddie wouldn't be down here."

"Well, don't give yourself too much credit, he's pretty much useless, I mean absolutely traumatized." Robin shakes her head. "Shut up, he's useful... just not yet. I mean look, there he is... encouraging Steve!" Bea smiles. "And looking absolutely gorgeous while doing it!" Nancy mocks her friend. "Shut up!"

"I mean come on, me and Steve having a 'love fest'? What about you two?" Nancy smiles. "We... don't have time to be worrying about this right now!" Beatrix says. "Yes we do, Nancy's house is super far away." Robin reminds her. "Go talk to him." Nancy says, pushing her friend towards the two boys. But before she can reach them, another earthquake happens.

"Shit!" She yells, falling over in the middle of the two groups, bumping her head on a rock. "Nancy! Nancy, where are you going?" She hears before everything goes black.

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"Hi!"

"Hello there, why is everyone yelling?" Beatrix mutters, sitting up to find she's in Nancy's bedroom, only she's not, she's in the upside down. "Beatrix!" Nancy exclaims, looking over as she hears muffled laughter all around the room. "What in the actual hell just happened?"

"You've been out for quite a while." Robin smiles. "The back of my head hurts." She notes. "That makes sense, you bumped your head pretty hard." Steve responds. "Eddie, are you okay?" She asks the boy who has been staring at her in shock since she woke up. "Yeah," He snaps out of it. "Yeah just, really fucking glad you're ok."

"Me too." She groans, shuffling over to the rest of the group. "S T U.... C K." Nancy puts on the strange surface. Everyone murmurs in agreement. "You can't get back through watergate?" Dustin's voice asks. "The hell's watergate?" Steve follows. "Cause it's in water, and it's a gate."

"That's cute." Eddie notes. Nancy spells out guarded, to which Eddie claps.

Beatrix feels her eyelids closing again, but this time she falls over onto him. "Hey- you can't go back to sleep." Nancy pokes her. "I'm not asleep, I'm just resting my eyes." Beatrix murmurs. "Let her sleep, she probably has a mild concussion.

"Are you there?" Dustin's voice asks. "B,E,A, H,I,T ,H,E,A,D." Nancy spells out. "We think Watergate isn't the only..."

But Beatrix is out again. And when she wakes up, she's in the Wheelers garage.

"Holy shit I gotta stop falling asleep." She sighs, waking up in Eddie's arms. "Oh hi there." She smiles, looking up at him.

"It's a good thing you're awake. Grab one." Nancy says, pointing towards the bikes. "There's only four." Beatrix notes. "I don't know, share one or something." Steve shrugs.

(not the mileven moment.... BYLERS BETTER- i mean whattttt?????)

"Fine." She shrugs, walking towards the bike. "Be careful." Eddie suggests. "When am I not?"

"Right now." He points at the vine on her lig that she quickly burns off. "Bad timing." She shrugs.

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"Fuck!" Beatrix says, plopping down onto the mattress below her. "Holy shit this is not how I thought I would spend the first time on your bed." She says as Eddie helps her up.

"I'd really like to be out of this conversation." Max sighs in disgust.

"Nancy!?" Steve exclaims. "What's going on up there?" Beatrix asks. "I'm going back up." She says. "Hell if you are." Eddie wraps his arms around her waist. "Let me go!"

"There's no way I'm letting you go back in there."

"I hate you, did you know that?"

"You wish you did."