Escape ~ S.Harrington

18} Bath Time!

Jenna spilled about the boys and her finding Eleven in the woods, how she had mind powers, how she was living in Mike's basement, and what she'd done to Troy. Hopper went off on a tangent about how she should've talked to him about this sooner and blah blah blah. Eventually, he gathered everyone into the police car and took them to spy on the government people at the Wheeler household. One man came out with a box from their basement and loaded it into his trunk. Hopper stood near his car, looking at the scene unfolding in front of him through a pair of binoculars with a cigarette dangling from his lips.

"I have to go home," Nancy whimpered.
"No," Hop stopped her, "You can't."
"My mom..." Nancy pointed out, "My dad are there."
"They're gonna be okay," Hopper tried to comfort her.
Nancy started to storm towards her house, but Hopper followed behind her and grabbed her arm.
"Let go," She tried to pull out of his grip, "Let go!"
"Hey!" He continued to hold onto her, "Listen to me. Listen to me. The last thing in the world we need is them knowing you're mixed up in all this."
"Mike is over there-" Nancy bit her lip, trying not to cry.
"They haven't found him," Jenna interjected, "Not yet, at least."
She pointed over in the sky where a helicopter was searching off in the distance. Hopper dragged Nancy back into the car.

"Look," Hopper stopped and took a breath, "We need to find them before they do. Do you have any idea where they might have gone?"
"No, I don't," Nancy shook her head.
"What we need right now is a walkie-talkie," Jenna said, causing everyone to turn towards her, "I normally have one on me, but grabbing it wasn't my top concern earlier. There are a couple places they might have gone, but they're scattered all over town and it would take ages to search all of them. So, what we really, really need... is a walkie-talkie."
"Wait," Jon announced, "I think I can help with getting you that walkie-talkie."

~

Hopper's police car whipped into the Byers' driveway and everyone scrambled out of the car to go hunting for Will's walkie-talkie somewhere in the house. When they walked in, Nancy was stunned at how disheveled the place had gotten, but Jenna kinda just expected it and kept on moving. They looked through Will's room and eventually, Joyce found it.
She handed it to Nancy, who held her shaking hand down on the button and asked through it, "Mike, are you there? Mike? Mike, it's me, Nancy. Mike, are you there? Answer. Mike, we need you to answer. This is an emergency. Mike. Do you copy? Mike, do you copy? I need you to answer. We need to know that you're there, Mike."
Hopper got fed up with them not responding to Nancy, so he grabbed the walkie-talkie from her and said, himself, "Listen, kid, this is the chief. If you're there, pick up. We know you're in trouble and we know about the girl. We can protect you, we can help you, but you gotta pick up. Are you there? Do you copy? Over."

"Just give me the damn thing!" Jenna finally groaned in frustration, "They're my fucking children and I know how to talk with them, so give me the walkie-talkie before we lose them."
Everyone looked over at Jenna, completely stunned. Hopper reluctantly handed her the walkie-talkie and she started to work her well-worded magic.
"Dustin, I know you're there with Mike, Lucas, and Eleven. And because I've known you your whole life, I know you're probably yelling at everyone 'don't answer, it's like Lando' but it's not. I sibling swear, idiot. If you don't answer, I'll beat your ass and not play DND with you guys, got it?" The line remained silent for a good ten seconds leaving Jenna to use her ultimate card, "If you guys tell us where you are... I'll give you guys $5 each for the arcade and maybe consider going on a small date with Lucas. So answer within 10 seconds or all deals are off. Over."
Finally, sound emitted from the walkie and Mike could be heard replying, "Yeah, I copy. It's Mike. I'm here. We're here."

Mike told them where they were at the junkyard, so Jenna and Hopper took off in a race to beat the lab employees there. Right as they arrived, so did the government workers. Hopper and Jenna shot out of the car and noticed them all moving towards the beaten down bus. They hurried over there, catching the attention of the men there. They both started throwing punches at the men and knocked out all of them. Jenna pried open the bus door while fist-bumping Hopper for their killer teamwork. She looked down the bus aisle and there they were, her little munchkins.
"Told you," She smirked proudly at Dustin, "Not Lando. Now, let's go! Move, move, move!"