𝗯𝗼𝘆𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗯𝗲 𝗯𝘂𝗴𝘀 • 𝘀𝘁 𝘅 𝘁𝗯𝗽

chapter seven

will was the first to speak after a silence fell over them. "uhm.. i'm gonna call the others, we'll meet up with them." he said before standing up. vance looked at him. "shouldn't you call hopper and joyce?" will waved his hand dismissively. "they have their own thing. just trust us, alright?" vance didnt get a chance to say 'no' before will left the room. vance watched him leave and then stood up. "i'm not gonna wait for your little ghostbusters group or whatever to get together knowing that my little brother is in danger." he started to leave the room, but jonathan stepped in front of him. vance looked down at him, scoffing. "move."

jonathan rolled his eyes. "no. you're not going anywhere. you don't even know where the lab is." vance glared. "i'm sure it can't be that fuckin' hard to find." he started to step around him, but jonathan stepped to the side as well. "we're not letting you go alone, it's too dangerous." vance gave a light shove to jonathan, who stumbled slightly. "i'm going whether you guys like it or not." el stood up, stepping in between the boys. "no," she said simply. by now vance was getting pissed at the two. he was about to test his luck with el when will came back.

"eddie's house in ten. let's go." he tossed jonathan the keys. vance was going to argue that he wouldn't come, but he didn't get any words in before he was drug out and forced into the car. to his dismay, everyone tuned out his words of protest.
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vance let out a groan of annoyance as will drug him into the trailer house. he didn't want to be here. this was a waste time — time he could've spent looking for griffin. although, his mood changed drastically when he got inside and his gaze landed on bruce. bruce didnt look as he usually did. he hair was messy and there was dark bags under his eyes. he was nervously chewing on his nails. he quickly took notice of the boy to the left of him as well — finney. on his right, was another boy — a much older boy. he had short brown hair, and it practically stood up by itself. he looked around the room, taking in everyone else in the room.

in the corner stood the curly-haired boy vance had spoke to at lunch, vance vaguely remembered his name — eddie. he was arguing with a boy in a plaid vest, who wore the same 'hellfire' shirt as eddie and one other person in the room. the two girls he had saw jonathan sitting with a couple days prior were indulged in their own conversation. he recognized the other two boys standing by eddie from lunch the other day. vance noticed max pushing her way through people before hurrying over to el and pulling her in for a hug. he looked around and saw lucas sitting on the couch, awkwardly. will's jaw practically fell open as he took notice of the unreasonable amount of people in the trailer. "okay, what the hell? there is people here that should not be here!" he gestured to bruce, finney, and the boy in the plaid vest.

the boy on the other side of bruce put his hand on his shoulder. "this is my cousin— i cant just ditch him, my parents aren't home." he gestured to finney. "and that's his friend. he wouldn't let me take him home." finney flashed a bright grin. will sighed before turning in eddie's direction. "why is gareth here?" he asked. the boy — now known as gareth — huffed. "why cant i be here? what kinda illegal shit are y'all doing?" eddie through his hands up in exasperation. "see?" will sighed. "fine, we'll figure it out." eddie gestured to vance. "you have no right to yell at us after you brought him along."

will groaned. "thats different! he's our brother, and so is griffin." he inhales. "which brings us to the reason this was a code red." vance snorted. "code red? what is this, a spy movie?" he got a couple dirty looks for that. eleven shook her head. "no. that is our code we have always used. you don't get it yet." she pats his shoulder. "you will though!" he smiled, and vance rolled his eyes. "anyways," will started again, pushing his way through people and over to the couch. he sat down. "el used her powers and found—"

now bruce pushed his way through the group — this was a horrible meeting spot, there was not near enough room. "holy shit, what? who has powers?" he asked, his eyes wide and eyebrows furrowed. gareth stepped up beside bruce. "yeah, what? you can just drop that?" finney pushed his way in between the two. he pointed at el. "that girl, she has powers. she used them to find something. god guys, catch up." will was mildly impressed by his ability to put those things together. "seriously? none of you guys could've explained even a little bit of what's going on to them?" a couple people shrugged and will groaned.

"alright, here we go again."

with that, vance heard the same story from an hour ago. although, the other three took it much more serious than vance had. it was silent for a couple minutes before gareth spoke. "wait, so that's why they thought we were a cult?" a couple people nodded. "okay, is everything good now?" will asked. finney spoke up now. "no, actually, i dont know half the people in this room." will sighed. vance was actually glad finney asked that, it would be helpful to know names.

after they wasted another ten minutes getting to know eachother, vance could feel his annoyance bubbling up again. "okay, now that we're done with our fuckin' ice breakers, can we focus on the important shit?" he spoke up. "my brother is missing, and she knows where he is." he pointed to el. "we know where he is and what could possibly be happening, but we're sitting here wasting our fucking time getting to know eachother!" he snapped. bruce quickly looked at eleven. "you know where his brother is? do you know where my sister is? did you see her? is she okay?" he asked. el slowly shook her head. "no.. i only saw griffin."

bruce's face dropped and he went silent. finney took his hand in his own, running his thumb over bruce's knuckles. vance took notice of it, his eyebrows furrowing. were they dating? he didn't have much time to over think it before will hushed everyone. "i'm getting there, alright? we cant just go break in without a plan! thats fucking stupid." he said, taking a deep inhale. he looked at bruce. "yes, your sister might be there, but we're not sure. we only had an item of griffins, so we had to work with that. but.. we saw him at the hawkins lab. so, we have a start. we just need a plan now." he glanced between the people in the room. "and, uh, we're gonna need to split up, because this isn't gonna work." he got of couple nods in agreement.

vance was getting antsy, but atleast they were starting to come up with a plan now. he just had to hope they weren't too late.
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word count: 1,263
mmmm its so hard writing actual plot and not just romance... im not built for this 😭 anyways i cant wait to write will & finney's friendship bc they have so much potential