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STEVE HAD HIS HANDS ON HER cheeks, tears welling up in his eyes as he realised this may be the moment he loses her

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STEVE HAD HIS HANDS ON HER cheeks, tears welling up in his eyes as he realised this may be the moment he loses her.

He knew her favourite song, take my breath away by Berlin and even though he tried to sing it, the words didn't sound the same.

He was yelling up to them, his voice hoarse as he tried to tell them to hurry up. Dustin was in the other room, panicking as he knew his sister could die.

He was trying to find alternate favourite songs but Eddie didn't have the same music taste as her. 

In the upside down, Vecna was showing Bea his plans for the future and it showed her the world overtaken by the upside down, Hawkins split in half by a gate, her family, Steve, her friends. All dead.

"Tell Eleven, everything," he said and she woke up, collapsing into Steves arms.

"It's okay, I'm right here, I'm right here baby," he said, holding her on the floor as she sobbed into his shoulder, not sure what else to do.

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Thursday, 27th March, 1986

BEA SAT ON THE COUCH IN MAX'S trailer next to Steve, his arm protectively wrapped around her. He wasn't letting her go and time soon.

"He showed me things that haven't happened yet, the most awful things," she explained, eyes welling wuth tears, "I saw a dark cloud over Hawkins, downtown on fire, dead soldiers, and this giant creature with a gaping mouth and there was an army of monsters,"

He could tell it was difficult to talk about, "It's okay," he said, gently rubbing his hand over her shoulder.

"Then he showed me my mum, Dustin, Steve, all of you guys, and the Byers and El and even Hopper, and you were all-" she couldn't finish her sentence, looking down into her lap.

"He's just trying to scare you Honey, I mean it's not real, Hoppers not even alive," he explained, looking down at her. He wanted to hold her forever and keep her safe, to never let Vecna get ahold of her.

"There were gates, four gates, spreading across Hawkins and they looked like the ones by Eddie's trailer but they didn't stop growing. It was our Hawkins," she explained.

"Four chimes," Max said and everyone turned to her, "Vecnas clock always chimes four times,"

"He's been telling us his plan the whole time. Four kills, four gates. The end of the world," Lucas stated.

The room was quiet, nobody quite sure what to say as they realised he was only one kill away from the end of the world.

Max went back, trying to call the Byers again but it was a busy signal again. They bickered, Steve trying to figure out why they wouldn't answer.

"We have to go back in there, back to the upside down and kill him," Nancy said and Bea nodded, agreeing with her.

"We weren't prepared. We'll get weapons and protections. Find his lair and kill him," Bea suggested, the group bickering.

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