Crazy Together

20

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"What is it?" Will asks almost immediately as El opens the door to the cabin for him.

"You saw the demogorgon?" El asks intrigued now, looking over him as she shuts the door.

"Be quiet! What if Hopper hears?!"

"He won't," She assures him with a steady voice, "He left to go see your mom," She giggles a bit as she speaks.

Will laughs at this and rolls his eyes. "I should have known." He exclaims sarcastically.

"Yeah," El giggles a bit at his sarcasm but decides she needs to get back on track. ".. But, actually, did you see it?"

Will nods. "I.. I thought so.. but.. but.. they saw it too?"

El bites at her lip. "Will I.. I think you got your powers back."

"Maybe.. I.. I mean the light flickered when I was upset-"

"No! That's not what I meant.. I.. I think you made them see the demogorgon."

Will raises an eyebrow at her as he doesn't quite believe it nor understand what in the world she was talking about.

"What do you mean?"

"You.. listen.." El starts to go off the intended path of the conversation for a second as she stutters a bit trying to convey her message to him.

Will sits on the couch, and El quickly follows after and takes a seat beside him on it.

"..I think.." She begins. "..You're like my sister, Kali."

"Sister?" Will asks, now looking over at her.

"Yes. I'm number eleven," El shows him the tattoo on her wrist for emphasis. "Kali is.. number eight?" She says, almost as if she were questioning herself for a moment.

"Oh," Will says and raises an eyebrow. ".. I didn't know there was.. more of you?"

"Yes. There used to be.."

"Ah. But.. how am I like her?"

El looks back at Will as he stares back curiously, waiting nervously for an answer.

"You.. she.. she can make people see things.."

"What?"

"Yes. Try it. Please. Focus on something.."

"Huh? Like.. like what?" Will says in awe. He was very confused to say the least, he didn't know how to focus.. focus on whatever it was that he needed to.

He hadn't even meant to.. to do what-ever it was that he did?

El thinks back to when Kali showed her papa, and she shivers a bit at the memory and she instead shifts her focus and thinks back to when Kali showed her the butterfly..

Will looks over at El who has her eyes shut in focus.

"El?" Will says, leaning towards her. "Hey.. are you okay?"

She nods and looks over at him. "Yes. I was thinking about something.. you.." She points at him.

He looks over her some more as she pauses mid - sentence to think of how to phrase it quite right.

"You.." She continues. "Try and make a butterfly."

"What?"

"Focus.. on.. making me see a butterfly."

"But.. how? I can't.. can you do that?"

"No, I can't,"

"So how am I supposed to?!"

"Just try." She insists, and he sighs and bites his lip as he tries to focus some more.

He closes his eyes and she smiles as he tries.

"Focus on something from your past," She says softly as Kali did to her. "..something that makes you angry, something unfair."

Will bites at his lip harder as he thinks hard.

He focuses on this morning when Troy shoved him into a janitors - closet and called him all sorts of stuff just for liking Mike.

He couldn't help it, so what if Mike was attractive as hell?? He was taken back to when he had to leave Mike's house, and suddenly his focus was shifted somewhere else.

He blushes as his face heats up at the thought of what happened during their... kissing session.

"Focus," Eleven says, giggling a bit as she seems to notice him drooling.

"What?" He says and looks at her, realising that he's smiling wide. "Oh, sorry." He clears his throat and closes his eyes again, focusing his best on Troy and a butterfly..?

He clenches his teeth and grits them a bit as he's pulled back to the knife incident in the bathroom..

No matter what, that memory stuck out in his mind like a sore thumb when he had to use his.. abilities.

What could he do? Troy just made him mad.

The only good thing that came out of Troy was being able to practice because of him. Huh.

As he starts to get frustrated again, the lights flicker ever - so - subtly and El takes it as an indication that he is successfully focused now.

She does her best to remain quiet and calm, allowing him to keep focused but she's sort of excited to see if he can truly do it..

Kali was super powerful, and so was she, if he could do both of their abilities.. He was truly amazing at this..?

He opens his eyes and looks at Eleven, and what he does next is based purely off of instinct.

He focuses on her, and she swallows as she decides to trust him and stay put for the sole purpose of being able to practice.

Soon, a flicker of light happens between them, glowing slightly and slowly but surely a shadow of an insect with fluttering wings appears between them.

Eleven's mouth drops in awe as it's nearly the same butterfly Kali had shown her, shifting in color with rainbow streaks.

She knew that Will simply liked rainbows, though she couldn't help but feel as if Kali was still with her as she looked at it.

"Try and make it fly," She says softly, scared the illusion will fade or falter with every breath she takes.

Will nods subtly, feeling his nose bleed as he tries to focus harder. He feels his hand start to pain him as well as his head, and he pushes through the head - ache as it starts to move.

It flies around his arm, going back to fly around Elevens head as he follows it with his eyes, carefully moving it.

Soon, it disappears and he sighs, head throbbing and he wipes his nose with the back of his hand.

Eleven starts cheering and claps out of excitement. "Oh my god!" She giggles. "You did it, you did it, Will!"

She hugs onto him, and he swallows and smiles as he ignores the now slowly dulling pain in his temple.

"I.." He says, and now he gasps. "Oh my god! Wait, I did it!" He says, coming to a realisation.

"You did!"

"No- No I- I- The- Programmed Illusion!"

"What?"

"The spell in Dungeons and Dragons!? You have to be level 6 to do it but.. if you're an illusionist you can make any creature or object appear before a player or creature.. Oh my god!" He shouts out, panicking a bit.

"..." El stares at him as he speaks, before blinking blankly. "Oh my god," She says quietly, laughing a bit before hugging onto him tightly.