One true love | Eddie Munson

15 : N A N C Y

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I went over to Jonathan's house and he was there with Joyce and the chief, Hopper.

"Nancy, we tried calling your house, but nobody answered." He said.

"I was with Hailey, we were dealing with some things." I said changing my attention to Hopper, "Were you able to find Will or Barb?" I questioned him.

"No, not yet. We think that your brother may be in trouble with people from Hawkins lab."

"What?! Mike's in trouble?!" I was confused, because I saw him yesterday in the morning; he was acting quite weird but I didn't think much of it.

"We tried calling him but we don't know where he is either." Jonathan added.

I thought for a second, "Did you try the radio thingy he always has?" I asked.

"Radio thingy?" Joyce said exchanging looks between Nancy and Jonathan.

Jonathan thought and it clicked as he got up abruptly and went to Will's room to go to find the walkie talkie while we all followed and I took the walkie from Jonathan.

"Mike? Mike? Are you there? It's me, Nancy. Mike, we need you to answer. This is an emergency Mike, do you copy?" I waited for an answer and repeated the words, 'do you copy' more times than I've ever thought I need to, then Hopper was losing his patience and took the walkie talkie from me.

"Listen kid if you're there pick up." He said blatantly, "We know about the girl, and we know you're in trouble. I need you to answer so that we can help you and so we can protect you. Now, are you there? Do you copy? Over."

We waited a bit and Hopper put down the walkie talkie with a sigh, "Does anyone know what else we could try?"

"Yeah, I copy. It's Mike, and I'm here... We're here" We heard the walkie say.

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"I was so worried about you." I said hugging Mike once Hopper showed up again with all the boys and this girl.

"Yeah, uh... I was too" He said awkwardly and I looked over at the little girl who was about his age.

"Is that my dress?" I asked to take a better look and she looked around at the boys.

We were all sitting on the couch and Mike was explaining to us how the Upside Down works and that in the diagram Barb and Will were the fly and they were stuck down there, and apparently the girl can see them and talk to them when they're down there. It was all really confusing and hard to keep up with, but then Joyce asked the girl... Eleven, to see if she could find Will, but when she tried with the static of the radio it did work.

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We went together to the school to make Eleven a sensory deprivation pool, so she could concentrate and find Barbara and Will. We prepared the water and all the salt, Dustin was checking to see if an egg would float in it, once it did we helped her into the pool, Joyce handed her the goggles we had made to block out any light and we all gathered around her.

"Can you find Barb?" I asked gently.

She tried finding Barb first and she got really nervous and began shaking and freaking out repeating the words, 'gone'. That was it. That was when I knew Barbara didn't make it. I watched as Joyce calmed Eleven down, but I walked out of the gym and sat alone to think and cry. I was so angry that that thing had taken Barb. I had to find a way to tell Hailey. I know she wasn't as close with Barb as I was, but she still deserves to know.

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After a while Jonathan decided to join me after he had talked to his mom and Hopper about helping them find Will, but was put on babysitting duties, or so I heard because they talked so loudly.

"We have to distract that thing from them, your mom and Hopper are just walking in there like bait."

"What?" He looked over at me.

"We have to go to the station, and get our things back... Barbara is dead because of it, so we have to kill it. I want to kill it."

With absolutely no hesitation Jonathan drove us to the station and we sneaked by the officer at the front desk and got our things. We drove back to his house and set it all up. Their house looked absolutely insane and Jonathan had put nails onto my bat and I loaded the gun. We went to the kitchen and got knives and looked at each other.

"You said it likes blood, then we'll just have to give him blood." I said and handed him a knife and looked at him, "On the count of three, Ready?"

He nodded and he started, "One."

"Two."

"Nancy, really you don't have to do this."

"Three." I said and with no hesitation, no going back we cut our hands and the blood flooding out of our hands dripping onto the floor.

I brought the bandages over to the couch and wrapped my hand first before wrapping his. I wrapped him gently but a big tight to stop the bleeding. I then just stared at his hands for a little bit, reflecting on this entire thing and how I would've never thought in my entire life that I would be doing something as crazy as this.

We went over the plan one last time, and we jumped looking at each other nervously when we heard a knock at the door.

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This one's a short one so I'll post the other chapter, so I don't keep y'all waiting. Much Love <3