"I swear, if I'm dying tonight because of you, I'm gonna haunt your ass so hard, Harrington!"
"Oh yeah?"
"Yeah! I'm gonna go full Poltergeist and shit!"
"Then bring it, Graveswood."
"Challenge accepted."
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In which after years of suppressing their...
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Chapter Sixty-Six: Demogorgan Escaped
(The Spy)
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Steve's car sped down the road, the only sign of life on the now-lonely road. Night had fallen, and since Dustin had finished explaining his urgent Code Red, it was silent except for the sound of Freddie Mercury's voice.
Especially since Rowan was struggling to resist the urge to both scream at Dustin and hit him upside the head.
A baby Demogorgon. Dart was a fucking baby Demogorgon. And Dustin found Dart in the school when they'd been hunting Dart down and kept him, ignoring his common sense and every single sign Dart was not a creature from this earth.
How could a kid who was so smart be so fucking stupid at once?
Instead of screaming or hitting a child, Rowan substituted for glaring daggers at Dustin while beside her, Alistair's face was torn between incredulous anger at his friend's lack of common sense when it apparently came to Dart, and fear about what Dart being a creature from the Upside Down could mean for Will, which Rowan couldn't blame him for. Especially when she thought it was fucking over, that the Demogorgon was dead and Will was home safe and it was all over.
Well, apparently, it was not, and Dart and Will's episodes were the most blatant warning signs of the Upside Down saying, "Surprise! It's back! Ready for Round 2?" Which, no, she wasn't, she wanted it to be done with Round fucking 1.
But apparently, the universe—or the Upside Down—didn't agree.
Steve, however, didn't seem to be as hung up on it. In fact, he seemed to be more concerned about Dart, evident when he asked, "Wait a sec, how big?"
Rowan gaped. "Seriously? That's your question?"
"One of them," Steve defended.
Rowan scoffed, rolling her eyes as Dustin answered, "First it was like that."
Then he stretched his arms out wide, nearly hitting Rowan as the older teen leaned back to avoid being slapped in the face. "Now it's like this."
"Well thanks for the demonstration, but I would have preferred it without you nearly fucking hitting me!" Rowan snapped as Alistair stared at his best friend and asked, "Christ, Dustin, what did you feed Dart?"
"Nougat?" Dustin answered weakly.
Alistair stared at Dustin, then shook his head and thumped back into his seat right as Steve muttered exasperatedly like he was a parent tired with his kid's bullshit, "Jesus, I swear to God, man, if this is just some little lizard..."
"It's not a lizard," Dustin snapped as Rowan and Alistair leaned forward to give Steve incredulous looks.
"Steve, Rowan and I both saw Dart, he is not a lizard," Alistair said, as Steve still pressed, "Well how do you know?"
