"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 One-Hundred-And-Fifty-Two: SOS
(The Massacre At Hawkins Lab, Pt. 4)
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Rowan sprinted out of the room and to the stairs, running down them despite the risk of them breaking under her weight from the rot of the Upside Down seeping through into its foundations, not caring since Steve could be in danger.
She ran down them—and came face to face with a perplexing sight.
Steve was in the middle of the kitchen, wildly swinging the flashlight as he shouted, "Dustin! Dustin! Can you hear me? Dustin!"
"What the fuck, Steve?" Rowan whispered, staring at her boyfriend in bamboozlement as behind her, Nancy, Leo, Eddie, Robin and Valerie came down the stairs and joined her, also staring at Steve in confused shock.
"What the hell is he doing?" Leo asked, staring at Steve as he turned around and yelled, "Du... Hello? Hel... Hello!?"
"Maybe he really does have rabies," Robin said, but Rowan and Valerie shook their heads.
"If he did, Rowan would have found something or we would be acting just like that," Valerie pointed out.
"Maybe he's cursed?" Leo hypothesised.
"No, he isn't," Rowan said immediately, but her fists clenched anyway. if Steve was cursed, if Vecna was targeting another person she loved, then Rowan was throwing the plan of getting the hell out of here out the window and marching to the Creel House and barbecuing Vecna.
"Hello! Hello!?" Steve shouted.
"Steve, what are you doing?" Nancy demanded.
"Hello!" Steve yelled, before he finally turned to them, shining the flashlight in their eyes.
"Jesus, Steve! I'm already injured, could you not blind me as well!?" Valerie exclaimed as she threw a hand up to block the light, everyone doing the same and squinting in it as Steve walked up to them, something manic in his eyes.
"He's here," he said, pointing up. "Henderson. That little shit, he's here. He's like... he's in the walls or something."
Rowan frowned in both confusion and concern as she looked around her, everyone else doing the same expect for Leo, who asked, "Uh, you sure you okay, Harrington? You're not like, going crazy, right?"
"No, I'm not, Kingston. Just listen," Steve snapped, before he shouted again, "Dustin!"
He moved away, wandering around the kitchen as he yelled, "Dustin! Dustin! Dustin! Dustin! Can you hear me?"
"I think your boyfriend's going crazy, Rowan," Leo stage-whispered to Rowan, but she barely heard him.
