IN WHICH...
"You don't love him Nancy! You know that as much as I do! He's hurting, let him go. Just admit that you're in love with Johnathan and let Steve go." Rose doesn't know why she's fighting so hard for this. Nancy huffs out a breath of air...
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"This is ridiculous." Rose grabbed one of the three buckets of chopped beef onto the railway tracks. Steve followed doing the same with the last two.
"Showing off for me Harrington?" She joked, he nodded.
"I'm always trying to impress you Red."
"Would you stop calling me that?" She slammed his trunk shut, Dustin talking into his mic around his head. Steve smirked at her bending back down. Someone from the party must've responded.
"I'll explain later just meet me, Rose, and Steve at the old junkyard." Rose bent down helping Steve ahove the other supplies into the backpack they found. "Just be there. Over and out." Rose swung the backpack over her shoulder picking up one of the buckets of meet.
"Lets go boys." Rose used her gloves hand dropping the first bit of their bread trail to hopefully lead Dart into the trap they were setting.
They followed the tracks, Rose ahead of the two boys behind her. Every couple steps she could drop a chunk of meet onto the ground.
"Rose?" Dustin called behind her.
"Yeah?"
"What do you mean one of these things tried to eat your shoulder?" Rose sighed dropping the bucket of meat stopping the three of them. The pulled down her jacket and shirt off over her shoulder to reveal the tiny scars all circling her shoulder.
"I literally mean one tried to eat my shoulder." Dustin leaned in to get a better look at the jagged raised skin. Steve could see it from where he was standing, he looked up to her face seeing her pull her shirt back up and her jacket. Her face never changed. Never even crinkled at the thought. "Hurt like a bitch though." She said behind her picking up the bucket and starting to walk again. She tossed a piece of meat to the ground.
"Why didn't you tell us about the demodogs?" Dustin asked looking down at the ground.
"I didnt think they'd ever get here. The demogoragans always could, but the dogs I just didn't think I would need to mention them." She shrugged. Her eyes searching through the forest. "Turns out I was wrong."
Rose felt the prick on the back of her neck. She stopped turning behind her. Steve and Dustin looked at her expectantly. It was getting hotter. She shut her eyes forcing herself to turn around and keep walking.
Then it got a lot hotter.
She cracked her neck sucking in a breath, biting her lip to keep quiet. It was in her chest this time.
Flashes sped by in her head. Flashes of things she's never seen. The fire, the vine. Will screaming to stop.
It all stopped in a blink. She clenched her jaw tossing another piece of meet down to the ground. She shook her head, blowing out a huff of air.
