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SOMEBODY'S WATCHING ME
Hopper drove him and Jess to Joyce's house. "Do you have a notepad?"
"Huh?" Jess furrowed her eyebrows.
"A notepad Jess! A notepad do you know what a notepad is?! Jesus!"
"Alright! Alright! Jeez!" Jess dug through her bag pulling out her diary as Hopper snatched it off her before Jess protested and snatched it back. "That's my diary dipshit.et me rip a page out first."
"Why do you keep your diary with you?"
"Why do you think so no one reads it. Anyway here's your paper and a pen." Jess handed Hopper everything out of her bag as they got out, knocking on the door.
"Go away Lonnie!" Joyce could be Heard- behind the door. "Seriously! I am going to mur-" Joyce opened the door as Hopper held up the piece of paper saying 'Don't say anything.'
Hopper sighed at Jess as they looked over all the lights hung up on the wall. Jess started in the hallway unscrewing each lightbulb, when she was finally done she walked into the living room.
"I think we're good." Jess nodded at Hopper as he sat down out of tiredness.
"Right okay." Hopper nodded.
"What the hell is going on?" Joyce spoke calmly.
"They bugged our place." Hopper nodded between him and Jess who was on the phone to her work saying she couldn't come in. "They put a microphone in the light. It's because I'm onto them and they know it."
"Who?"
"I thought they might be watching you or Jess. I don't know the CIA, the NIA, Department of Energy, I don't know."
"You gotta explain this to me." Joyce shook her head with confusion.
"I went to the morgue last night. It wasn't him. Wills body it was a fake." Joyce scoffs happily in disbelief but also relief. "You were right. You were right all this time." Just then Jess clears her throat crosses her arms not looking impressed. "Okay fine yes you were right both you and Jess. You were both right."
Everyone sat round the table as Hopper and Joyce had a cigarette after Hopper explained to both women what he saw at the lab.
"Upstairs or downstairs?"
"Upstairs! There was a laboratory. It was where they must do experiments or something, and then there was... there was a kids room."
"How did you know it was a kids room?"
"Because I told you Jess! The size of the bed, there was a drawing, there was a stuffed animal-"
"You didn't say there was a drawing." Joyce interrupted.
"Yeah there was a drawing of an adult and a child."
"Was it good?"
"It was a kids drawing Joyce it was stuck figures." Joyce got up and grabbed a sheet of paper slamming it down on the table showing Will's drawing.
"Wasn't Will." Joyce shook her head.
"Hang on a second. Remember the night when Benny died." Jess stood up taking the news article out of her bag that Hopper showed her. "Hop you told me that Earl saw some kid with him with shaved head."
"Yeah."
"He said it couldn't have been Will. But maybe..." Jess sat down back at the table showing the article to Joyce. "Look this woman, Terry Ives, she claims to have lost her daughter Jane. She sued Brenner, she sued the government. Now, the claims came to nothing but what if... Hop you've been searching for Will but this whole time you've been chasing after some other kid."
"Son a bitch you smart kid." Hopper patted Jess on the back not knowing how hard he slapped her.
"Ow Jesus!"
Hopper drove them to the outskirts of Hawkins and parked at a phone booth to call the police department to get an address as Joyce and Jess waited into Joyce's car. Jess in the back as usual.
"Did Lonnie do that to you?" Joyce spoke up.
"Joyce it's fine."
"It's not fine though, why didn't you tell me?"
"Cause he said if I went near you I'd be sorry, I couldn't give a shit he doesn't scare me but i didn't want to cause a scene at the funeral, it was the last thing I wanted for you."
"Oh sweetie." Joyce turned round letting her finger trace over her bruise forming.
"I'm fine." Jess placed her hand on top of Joyce's. "I promise."
"I don't know why I believed he had changed."
"Hey! I'm okay. I promise I would tell you if I wasn't." Just then Hopper came back into the car. "You got it?"
