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"Nancy! Nancy!" Rocky shook the oldest Wheeler quickly as he grabbed her face. "Come on, Nanc. Max, hurry!"
"I'm trying!" the redhead called back from inside of Eddie's trailer.
"Whatever you guys are doing up there, hurry up!" Steve agreed as he yelled up into the gate.
"Steve says you need to hurry!" Erica ran down the hallway. "Rocky is done with the waiting, too."
"No shit!" Dustin screamed.
"We're trying. We can't find anything." Max panicked, Rocky listened closely to her voice as he kept his hands on Nancy's shoulders.
"Seriously, what is all this shit!" Robin shouted loudly.
"What the hell are they doing?" Rocky gapped at Steve.
"What are you even looking for?" Eddie shouted.
"Music!" Steve and Rocky yelled on sync.
"This is music!" Eddie shouted loudly.
"Then bring it to us!" Rocky yelled. "Bring it to me or i'm gonna come get it from you!"
"That sounds pretty serious!" Dustin shouted in a panic as his feet came echoing down the hallway. Just as Rocky let Nancy go to reach up, she gasped and collapsed.
"It's okay." Steve shhed her as she gasped for air. Rocky leaned down in fear for her. "It's okay. I'm here. I'm right here."
When morning rolled around, and Nancy had a minute to recover, Rocky had managed to crack up a few eggs for the group and huddle around together. Max felt his hands go onto her shoulders when Nancy inhale. "He showed me things that haven't happened yet. The most awful things. I saw...a dark cloud spreading over Hawkins. Downtown on fire. Dead soldiers. And this...this giant creature with a gapping mouth. And this creature wasn't alone. There were so many monsters. An army. And they were coming into Hawkins. Into our neighborhoods. Our homes. And then...he showed me my mom. And Holly. Mike. And they... they were all..."
Rocky reached over and put a hand on her shoulder, Nancy reached up and grabbed it in comfort.
"Okay, but...he's just trying to scare you, Nance." Steve looked over.
"Well, mission accomplished, Steve." Rocky gave him a dumb look.
"It's not real." Steve stated.
"But it felt real to her." he stood up for Nancy again.
"It's not real yet." Nancy pointed out with a broken voice. "But there...there was something else. He showed me gates. Four gates. Spreading across Hawkins. And these gates, they looked like the one outside of Eddie's trailer but...they didn't stop growing. And this wasn't the Upside Down Hawkins. This was our Hawkins. Our home."
"Four chimes." Max's words made Rocky looked down at her, but she stood up and walked to the doorway to be away from everyone. "Vecna's clock. It always chimes four times. Four exactly."
