splinter- steve harrington

starcourt

~i'm sorry~

"keep her awake i'll be right back!" jonathon said. "you know it's actually not that bad a girl on my soccer team slid and broke her leg and the whole bone was sticking out," robin said. "robin, you're not helping," steve said. "i'm sorry," she said and jonathon came back. "okay el? this is gonna hurt like hell okay?" jonathon said. "okay," she sobbed. "i need you to stay real still and bite down on this," he said.

he started cutting her leg and she started screaming. i winced and tried to look away as he started digging through her leg. el was screaming so loud and she spit out the spoon. "STOP IT!" she screamed and jonathon stopped. "i can do it," she sobbed. she started taking it out of her leg and screaming. i heard it coming it and the glass behind us shattered making us all scream. it came out and she threw it. it started crawling away when hopper smashed it and we all looked up at him, joyce, and some other dude.

we all moved so we could sit down and mike could explain what the hell was going on. he started with the mind flayer and how it's trying to take down the world. "and it almost did i was just a tiny piece of it," nancy said. "how big is it?" hopper asked. "big," mike said. "thirty feet at least," jonathon said. "it sorta destroyed your cabin, sorry," lucas said. "okay so just to be clear this big fleshy spider thingy that hurt el, it's some kind of gigantic weapon?" steve asked. "yes," nancy said. "but instead of screws and metal, the mind flayer created it with melted people?" he asked. "yes exactly," she said.

"are we sure this thing is still alive?" joyce asked. "yeah, el beat the shit out of it but, it's alive," max said. "but if we close the gate again," will said. "and cut the brain off and the body," max said. "we kill it," lucas said. "YOO HOO," the other guy, murray, said. he came over and set down papers. "okay alexei said this is the hub, now the hub takes us to the vault room," murray said. "okay so where's the gate?" hopper asked. "not sure but i think it's fairly close to the vault room," he said. "i've been down there, i know where it is," i said. "i think it'll be about 50 feet from here," murray said, ignoring me. "more like 500, what you think you can just waltz in there like it's some commie disneyland or something?" erica asked. "i'm sorry who are you?" he asked. "erica sinclair, who are you?" she asked. "murray bauman," he said.

"look mr. bunman, i'm not tryna tell ya how to do things, but i was down in that shithole for 24 hours and with all due respect, you do what this man says, you're all gonna die," she said. "im sorry why is this four year old speakimh to me?" murray asked. "i'm ten you bald bastard!" erica said. "erica!" lucas said. "just the facts," she said. "look if you don't trust her trust me, i was with her, i was there longer, if you do what he says you're all gone die," i said and dustin walked over. "but you don't have too, may i?" dustin asked. "please," murray said.

"okay see this room here? it's a storage facility, there's a hatch in here that feeds into their underground ventilation system, that will lead you to the base of the weapon, it's a bit of a maze down there but between me and erica we can lead the way," dustin explained. "you can lead the way?" hopper asked. "you can do all the dangerous fighting hero shit, we're just, navigators," he said. "no, nope," hopper said and they made a different plan and got ready.

max pulled me aside. "i should probably warn you," she said. "about?" i asked. "billy," she said. "what about him?" i asked. "he's being controlled, he was the mind flayers first victim," she said. "shit," i sighed. "is he coming after us?" i asked. "i don't know, probably, but i didn't want him to show up and catch you by surprise," she said. "thank you," i said. "blake! let's go!" steve yelled. "what?" i asked. "we're driving dustin to his thingy majig," he said. i walked over to him and sighed. "can you keep him safe?" i asked. "always, why?" he asked. "because, i need to stay with max incase billy shows up, he was the kind flayers first victim, you're the only person i trust to take care of my brother," i said. "i'd do anything for that turd," he said. "promise me you'll keep him, and erica and robin, safe," i said. "i promise," he said.