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1985
Hawkins Indiana

'Chapter Eight: The Battle of Starcourt'

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'Chapter Eight: The Battle of Starcourt'

'You die, I die'

Flesh sizzles as El holds my hand and screams out in pain sobbing. My heart races as I hear it move around inside of her. Somebody get that out before I do it myself. "What is that?" Erica asks in a rush, pointing towards it.

"Something is moving in there." Mike announces making me turn my eyes to Steve as he watches intensely. "Keep her awake, okay?" Jonathan says before he takes off running. I see El start to close her eyes and Mike watches "stay awake. Let's get her on this side." Mike suggest.

Steve comes down beside me as they lift El off my lap and on to the other side as she leans into Mike. "Uh-" Robin stutters as she watches this mess. Yura's eyes widen as she huddles around staring at the wound. "You know, it's not actually that bad. This goalie and this other girl slid into her leg and the bone came out of her knee, six inches or something. It was insane." Robin announces.

We all look at her. I scrunch my face up. "Not helping Buckley." I declare, tearing my eyes back to Eleven as she winces. We hear running footsteps of Jonathan coming back. "Okay. All right Ell?" He questions kneeling by her wound.

I look down into his hands and see a knife and a wooden sort of spoon. Is he going to dig it out? "This is going to hurt like hell okay?" He announces as Yura looks at him. "You're gonna cut it out of her!?" She says dumbfounded. I nod my head and shuffle down to her wound.

"Need to stay really still-" he puts on gloves "you're gonna want to bite down on this okay?-" he says handing Mike the wooden spoon to bite down on. Jonathan looks at me. "You remember science class don't you?" He questions me.

My face drops. The time we dissected the frog and took their insides out, oh god kill me now. I'm good with blood, but I don't know how good I will be at this. I nod my head rapidly. "Make sure she doesn't move her leg." He adds, holding the knife out to the wound.

I hold her leg as he stares at everyone before slicing the knife down right above the head of the wound. El screams and wriggles slightly, Nancy exclaims as Yura looks like she's about to faint. This is the part which isn't going to be fun.

We nod at each other as he digs his hand into her open skin. Everyone exclaims as El sobs and shrieks in pain. He searches around for the thing that's moving inside of her. I look at her leg and see it moving slightly upwards. "Jonathan!" Nancy yells, exclaiming. "Stop talking!" He says calmly, searching around her leg rapidly and she screams.

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