Over And Out

Chapter five

Will pulls his knees to his chest and his breathing quickened.  He had tears falling out of his eyes that he couldn't stop.

The phone rang, causing him to jump.  He ran over to the phone and picked up.

"Hello?"  He said quickly and desperately.

"Will?  It's Mike.  Are you okay?"  He asks, edge to his voice.  Will sighs.

"Please hurry Mike."  His voice broke.

"We're around thirty minutes away, okay?  Will you be okay until then?"  He asks.  Will hesitates before answering.

"Yes.  But listen, you guys need to be extremely careful as soon as you get back into Hawkins.  He knows."  Will says quietly.  There was a long silence and he heard Mike curse under his breath.

"We'll be there soon.  Put the headphones on."  Mike instructions him.

"I will."  Will says, knowing that the headphones wouldn't help him the same way they helped Max. 

"Be safe."  Mike sighs.

"You too."  Will says quietly.  Both boys hung up at the same time and Will sighs to himself.

He walks back over to the mattress and sits back down.

Only thirty more minutes. He thought to himself.  He grabs the headphones with a shaky hand and puts them back on his head.  He picked up his pencil and paper and continued his drawing.  He didn't worry to much about going outside and waiting for his family and friends, because he told them where he was staying the first day after they left.

Thirty minutes seemed to drag on forever.  He kept jumping at every sound, anxious that it might be Vecna again.  He was lucky not to die in the situation he was in, be he knew he wouldn't be so lucky next time.

It worried Will that now Vecna's newest target was Mike.  How was he supposed to tell him that?

When he started hearing voices finally he dashed to the store door, swinging it open. 

It was only Jonathan and Hopper but Jonathan ran over to Will and pulled him into a hug.  Will almost began crying and hugged him back, grateful that he was alive and that his brother cared about him so much.

"We were so worried about you."  Jonathan whispers as they pulled away from each other.

"How ya doin', kid?"  Hopper asks while hitting his shoulder in a greeting.  Hopper and Will had never been particularly close.  Mainly because Hopper scared Will.

"Fine."  Will lies and looks back to Jonathan.  "Where's everyone else?"

"We all split off."  Jonathan says.  "You're friends went to Hoppers cabin to be safe, Steve and Robin are supervising them.  Mom is waiting in the cars with Nancy and Argyle stopped at a pizza store right before we got back into town so he'll be here in a little bit."  Jonathan explains.

"We shouldn't be spiting off anymore."  Will shakes his head.  "The more we're divided the more likely he'll be able to kill all of us."

"We're meeting up at the cabin, come on, go get your stuff quickly."  His older brother says.  Will nods and runs back inside the store.  Jonathan and Hopper watched from the doorway.

"You did all this?"  Hopper asks him as Will shoved his stuff into his bag.

"Yeah."  He replies shortly as he slings the bag onto his shoulder and walks back over to the two men.  Jonathan wraps his arm around Will's shoulder and they walk a few blocks until they reach the outline of the town.