In Hawkins National Laboratory, Brenner sits down with an enraged Joyce, who wants retribution for the faking of her son's death. Hopper is repeatedly tasered and interrogated by Connie Frazier, who threatens to kill him and make it look like a drug overdose. Hopper tries to deal for their freedom to venture into the Upside Down and find Will in exchange for forgetting the lab's illegal activities. Jonathan, Y/n and Nancy set up several traps for the Demogorgon in the Byers house, and Jonathan creates a weapon by hammering several nails through a baseball bat.
Brenner agrees to Hopper's deal on the condition that he gives up Eleven, and Hopper agrees so long as Mike, Dustin, and Lucas are not harmed. As the soldiers and scientists leave for Hawkins Middle, Frazier wonders what will happen if they find Will, which Brenner assures will not happen. Hopper and Joyce suit up and go through the lab's gate. As Joyce begins to panic once in the Upside Down, Hopper tries to calm her and remembers doing the same thing for his daughter Sara when she had trouble breathing, the first sign of her cancer.
Nancy, Y/n and Jonathan slit their palms Nancy and Jonathan end up holding hands with Y/n smiling watching them.
Before the pair can say anything, Steve knocks on the Byers door.
"Jonathan" Steve knocks harder.
"Are you there man? It's Steve!, listen I just want to talk!" Steve knocks yelling.
Y/n looks at Nancy and Jonathan nodding walking over to the door opening it a little only putting her face and hand out holding the door.
"You need to leave" Y/n says sternly.
Steve looks at her confused.
"I'm not trying to start anything, okay" Steve says nervously.
"I don't care about that, you need to leave" Y/n says more desperately.
"No,no,no listen, I messed up okay" Steve says stammering over his sentence nervously.
"I messed up.. I messed up, I shouldn't have fought your brother and done what I did at the movie theatre alright I'm not that guy" Steve says desperately.
"Really please, I just want to make things right" Steve says frantically.
"Ok please.." Steve starts but stops noticing Y/n's hand covered in a bandage.
"Hey what happened to your hand?" He asks softly.
"Is that blood?" He asks grabbing her hand which she pulls away quickly.
"Nothing, it was an accident" she says stuttering.
"What's going on?" He asks protectively.
"Nothing" she says raising her voice slightly.
"Wait a sec, did he do this to you?" He asks sternly.
"No" she says pushing the door closed more as Steve tries to come in.
"No" she repeats pushing him back.
"Y/n, let me in!" Steve says pushing in through the door.
"No, no!, no Steve!" Y/n yells louder trying to push him out.
Steve pushes through looking around seeing the house's state, Steve becomes confused as Jonathan tries to get him out with Y/n.
Nancy points her gun at him to get him to leave just as the lights flicker.
"Nancy" Y/n says quietly scared noticing the lights flickering.
"Nancy"Jonathan says a bit louder.
Steve is yelling at Nancy to put the gun down.
"Nancy!" Jonathan yells louder.
"The lights, it's here" Jonathan says grabbing the bat with nails in it.
Y/n grabs a gun turning the safety off.
"What's here, what's here!" Steve yells scared.
"Where is it" Nancy asks nervously.
"I don't know" Jonathan says back.
"What is it doing?" Y/n asks nervously.
"Where is what? Hello will anyone explain to me what the hell is going.." Steve says getting cut off.
The Demogorgon bursts out of the ceiling as Nancy and Y/n try shooting at it being dragged away by Jonathan and Steve, they run to Will's room,
"Jesus, Jesus what the hell was that?" Steve asks frantically.
"Shut up!" Nancy, Jonathan and Y/n yell at Steve.
they set up a signal to alert them to it getting caught in a set bear trap. The lights go back to normal and they realize it has vanished.Hopper and Joyce find a broken egg and the ruins of Castle Byers. As Hopper looks at a stuffed animal among the planks of wood, he remembers Sara having the same toy in the hospital.
Steve flees the house, but notices the lights flickering from outside and decides to go back in to help. The Demogorgon leaps on Jonathan, but is attacked by Steve with the nail bat. He beats it into the bear trap and Jonathan lights it on fire, causing it to flee, badly wounded, to the Upside Down. Inside the Upside Down version of her house, Joyce hears Jonathan and Y/n's voice and they hear hers, her presence signified by the lights.
Mike invites Eleven to live with his family when Will is found. When she asks if he will be like her brother, Mike disagrees. He invites her to a school dance known as the "Snow Ball" and tries to explain the concept of a crush to her, failing and instead kissing her, leaving her stunned as he goes to investigate a car pulling up outside. He sees the lab's agents emerge and runs back inside. Frazier and several agents corner the kids, but Eleven kills them by telekinetically collapsing their brains. The effort makes her pass out. Eleven awakens to Brenner standing over her and her friends being restrained, and asks to go with them instead of him. Drawn by the blood from the dead agents, the Demogorgon bursts out of the wall and kills the agents, attacking Brenner as the kids flee.
Hopper and Joyce follow a trail of blood to the library where the bodies of several people and Will with a tentacle down his throat are. They pull it out and Hopper shoots the moving tentacle dead. Will is not breathing, so Hopper instructs Joyce on CPR, having her breathe into his mouth while he performs chest compressions. As he does, he remembers doctors unsuccessfully trying to resuscitate Sara, pushing him to try harder until Will breathes again.
Mike promises a weakened Eleven that they will go to the Snow Ball together as the Demogorgon kills the rest of the soldiers. The Demogorgon enters the classroom and attacks the boys, but Eleven pins it to a wall with her powers and tears it apart, tearfully saying goodbye to Mike before the force of her power vaporizes them both. As Karen Wheeler arrives on the scene just as the police do, a distraught Mike hugs her.
Will awakens in the hospital to his mother, brother and sister at his side, Jonathan having brought him a new mixtape. Hopper, Karen, Steve and Nancy all wait outside, along with an asleep Ted. Lucas and Dustin are sleeping on each other in the chairs. Mike sits awake, deep in thought, until the boys are approved to see Will. They excitedly tell him of the events of the past several days while Nancy leaves the room, quietly distraught over Barb. Y/n follows after Nancy hugging her tightly as they cry feeling upset about her friend being gone as well. Outside the hospital, a car pulls up and Hopper gets inside.
On Christmas Eve, the boys have another Dungeons & Dragons campaign in which they fight a thessalhydra and win thanks to Will's fireball spell. As Jonathan picks Will up, Mike looks over at Eleven's untouched blanket fort sadly. On the way out, Nancy gives Jonathan a Christmas present: a new camera, actually from Steve, explaining that they are no longer together but he thought Jonathan would want Nancy to give him the gift. Hopper drives out to Mirkwood and places an Eggo in a lockbox. At dinner with his family, Will goes to the bathroom and vomits up a slug that slides down the drain before seeing a brief flash of the Upside Down. He goes back out and continues the dinner, seemingly unfazed.
Steve knocks on the front door which Y/n answers smiling.
"Hey" he says smiling nervously.
"Hi" she says looking away nervously smiling.
"You look really pretty" he says looking at Y/n's red Christmas dress.
"Thank you, you look handsome" she says smiling nervously.
Steve steps into the house seeing Nancy smiling at the pair smirking.To be continued...
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The Byers Girl (On Pause until season 5)
Fanfiction*On hold until Season 5 is out* Y/n Byers is the middle child in the Byers family. Being the babysitter of the party makes her close to them but what happens when her little brother goes missing and her best friend Nancy starts falling for her best...