002 - Steve Harrington

The Body

When Dustin and I made it home, he went straight to his room.

"Dusty?" Mom asks concerned when she sees his tear streaked face. "Dani, sweetheart. What's going on? What's wrong with Dusty?" Mom says and looks at me.

"Mom. It's Will. His body was found at the quarry." I whisper to her. She gasps and quietly starts to cry.

"Oh. Oh my poor baby." She says as she looks down the hallway at Dustin's closed door.

"I think he needs time alone, to process."

"Yes, good idea. Tomorrow, if he wants to stay home from school, will you also stay home? To keep an eye on him?"

Now, if there's one thing you should know about Claudia Henderson is that she is strict, and I mean strict about us going to school. She wants us to have perfect attendance and at least make the honor roll. Claudia doesn't know about a lot of things, but if she even gets the smallest ick that we didn't go to school, she'll call and make sure.

"Of course, mom. I'm going to go to bed." I say and I kiss her on the cheek goodnight. "Goodnight." I say and walk down to my room.

"Goodnight sweetheart."

**

The next morning, when I'm putting my shoes on for school Dustin barges into my room.

"Oh good, you're up." Dustin says.

"Yeah, it's 7:30 and school starts at 8."

"Forget school, you're coming with me to Mike's."

"Why Mike's?"

"It's about Will."

**

Dustin, Mike, Lucas, El and I are in Mike's basement listening to weird noises come from the walkie talkie. Eleven is sitting under the fort and we're all sitting on the floor with her.

"We keep losing the signal, but you heard it, right?" Mike asks.

"Yeah, I heard a baby." Lucas says

"What?"

"Mike, you obviously tapped into a baby monitor. It's probably the Blackburns' next door."

"Uh, did that sound like a baby to you? Mike says sassily. "That was Will."

"Mike." Lucas sighs.

"Lucas, you don't understand. He spoke last night. Words! He was singing that weird song he loves. Even El heard him!"

"Oh, well, if the weirdo heard him, then I guess-"

"Are you sure you're on the right channel?" Dustin pipes up.

"I don't think it's about that. I think, somehow, she's channeling him." Mike says as he looks at Eleven.

"Like... like Professor X." Dustin says smiling.

"Are you actually believing this crap?" Lucas says as he looks at Dustin. "Dani? Do you believe this crap?"

"Actually I do. We know that she can move things with her mind, but we don't actually know the full extent of her powers. Like, we don't know what all she can do. So yeah, I'd say it's believable." I say looking at Eleven.

"Did you guys not see what I saw? They pulled Will's body out of the water. He's dead!" Lucas shouts.

"Well maybe it's his ghost. Maybe he's haunting us." Dustin says.

"It's not his ghost." Mike says.

"So how do you know that?" Lucas says to Mike.

"I just do!"