Risk | Byler

2- Guilt

There was the whole group gathered in Hopper's cabin.

Max was alive and awake. However, her bones were broken, so she had to stay at the hospital.

- How long ago did she wake up? - Eleven asked.

- About ten minutes ago, I guess. - Steve answered.

Will looked at steve, a little bit confused. - Ten minutes?-

- Yeah, yeah. Why? - Steve asked.

- No.. it 's nothing. Just making sure. - Will said.

It was something for Will. Ten minutes before, Vecna’s voice disappeared from his mind.

But Will wouldn’t say anything about it. Everyone was so happy for Max. He was, too, but he had a strange, terrible feeling about that.

- So, kids, tomorrow we’re going to visit Max. But now, we have a few things to talk about, and then we go to sleep. - Joyce Interrupted.

Everyone agreed.

- I think I couldn’t have a good sleep for an entire week - Dustin said.

- Me neither - Steve, Robin and Nancy replied at the same time.

- And we don’t know if we’ll be able to do it in the following days either, so, let’s get a good sleep tonight. - Will added.

Everyone stared at Will, surprised.

- Come on, Will - Dustin reproached.

- Sorry, just precaution - Will said with a sarcastic smile.

- Yeah, sleeping sounds great right now, but I’m really hungry. Let’s go for some pizzas or something first - Argyle exclaimed appearing on the door of the cabin.

- Who the hell are you? - Steve asked.

- I don’t know, but he’s right. Why don’t we order some pizzas? - Robin said. - I know we’re not at the best of circumstances right now, but I missed you all and I’m happy we’re all safe. Let’s share a moment together.

Everyone agreed.

While the pizzas arrived, everybody helped at Hopper’s cabin cleaning up.

Will and El were cleaning El’s room.

- What was that? - Eleven asked.

- That what? - Will replied.

- “We don’t know if we’ll be able to do it in the following days either”,  are you okay? - Eleven asked again.

- Yes.. Yes I am. It's just... this is not over yet. He hasn’t ended yet. You know that, right? I’m just worried,  and I… -

- I know, Will. - Eleven Interrupted. - I know. We’ll fight him, and we’ll kill him. But we need to have some rest. And so does him. He won’t attack soon.

Both El and Will sat together on El’s old bed.

- You’re right. I’m sorry. Will replied and then continued - And you? How do you.. feel about that? I mean, after all the Vecna’s fight stuff. You barely talked about that. - Will said.

- I… I wasn’t ready for the fight. Papa was right, and it consumes me. I thought I could prove him wrong and I just… made everything worse. - Eleven said, with some disappointment on her face.

- Worse? El, you saved the guys. They would be all dead without you. Maybe you couldn’t defeat Vecna by yourself, but you were there to help, you saved them.