My pearl - Stranger things, Max Mayfied

4. Will the Wise

Vivvie is walking with Dustin and Max trying to find Will. The only thought even going through her mind right now is Will. Is he safe? Is he okay? I knew i should've stayed with him. Were some of the thoughts that were going through Vivvies mind right now. Until they run into Joyce Byers, Wills mom, and probably the closest thing Vivvie had to a Mom right now.

"Dustin! Vivvie!" Joyce calls out to them

"Mrs. Byers?" Dustin asks.

"Joyce?" Vivvie asks.

"What's going on? Wheres Will?" Just even hearing Joyce ask that question could make Vivvie cry.

Lucas comes running into the door from the outside, out of breath, and tells them "The field!"

They all start running out to the field Vivvie running as fast as she possibly can worried what she could possible run into Will looking like.

"Will. I just found him like this! I think he's having another episode!" Mike tells them as they all run up to Will.

Will is standing still in the middle of the field, non responsive, his eyes were shut but they looked like they were still moving underneath, and he was slightly shaking.

The sight infront of Vivvie makes her nearly cry as the tears are fighting to leave her eyes.

Joyce runs up to Will putting her arms on his shoulders and shaking him yelling "Will! Will! Will! Sweetie, wake up! It's Mom! Will! Will, wake up! Can you hear me?"

At this point Vivvie is silently crying with one hand over her mouth. "That isn't gonna work" Vivvies voice cracks as the talks and she wipes her eyes with her sleeve. Joyce looks at her for a second but then goes back to shaking Will's shoulder.

"Will, please, just wake up. Please wake up! It's Mom! It's me!" Joyce continues yelling.

Will gasps as he opens his eyes, Joyce instantly hugs Will and Vivvie lets out a sob of relief. Vivvie immediately hugs Will after Joyce lets go of him.

"I'm so sorry Will for leaving you all by yourself." Vivvie cried. Will didn't do or say anything back to her, Joyce tapped on Vivvies shoulder and very calmly told her.

"We should get going now sweetie" Making Vivvie let go of Will and wipe her eyes.

"Yeah sorry" Vivvie whispers and Joyce smiles at her.

Joyce slightly wraps her arm around Wills shoulder and walks him through the school and to the front, where her car is, with the party not far behind them. The walk was silent the only noise being Vivvies sniffles that occur every minute or two.

The party stands at the front steps, once Joyce and Will were out of reach Max asks "Okay, that totally freaked me out. Did that not freak you guys out? Max looks at all of them confused.

Vivvie sniffles again. "Two episodes in two days." Lucas states.

"It's getting worse." Mike says.

"You think it's True Sight?" Lucas asks Mike making Vivvie raise an eyebrow and Max ask. "Whats true sight?"

Mike, Lucas and Dustin looked at each other and Lucas quickly says "It's nothing." Then they hear Joyce's car start and drive away.

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Vivvie finds herself almost crying herself to sleep that night thinking about what happened that day. She knew Mike hated her, but she didn't know he hated her so much to the point he replaced her with El.

She started thinking about her communication with the party, she would've at least thought they would explain to her what true sight is when Max left, but they didn't and even after she asked, Dustin said her he would tell her later, but never did.