Basic Instinct [stranger things]

20. The Bad Men

CHAPTER TWENTY
THE BAD MEN

To be completely honest, Kimmy was terrified. She was back on Aaron's bike, clutching onto him tightly with one arm while she used Aaron's walkie in her spare hand.

Aaron had ripped both the compass as well as the radio from his handlebars, shoving his compass back in his backpack and handing Kimmy the walkie.

However with each passing moment, Kimmy found herself growing more and more irritated and agitated with the walkie in her tight grip.

"Jesus, what the hell is wrong with this thing?" She snapped to no one in particular as Aaron and Lucas biked faster than ever before. She groaned, hitting the walkie repetitively against her thigh before trying again. "Mike? Mike, if you're there answer!"

She received no response, the girl felt as if she could had ripped her hair out and threw the walkie to the ground in annoyance.

"Aaron, this things is seriously broken-"

Kimmy stopped herself, snapping her gaze back to the walkie in her hand as the sound of static and muffled voices.

"Mike, Mike!" Kimmy exclaimed, sounding ecstatic to hear the boy on the other end of the radio despite the circumstances. "Can you hear me?"

"Kimmy?" Came Mike's scratchy voice, although Kimmy could make out that it was definitely him.

"Yes, it's me!" Kimmy yelled into the walkie, her head tilting back in relief that she had finally gotten a hold of him. "Listen-"

"Slow down." Mike cut her off with a curious voice, sounding stressed now at what the girl was doing talking to him. "I can't hear you, you're cutting out. Can you hear me?"

"Yes, I copy!" She replied instantly, yelling louder in fear the connection would crash again. "You have to hide Eleven, okay? Get out of there, the bad men know about Eleven-"

"What?" Mike yelled, obviously still unable to hear her. "I can't-"

"The bad men are coming for you!" She snapped, practically screeching into Aaron's ear now due to frustration. "They are coming for Eleven. You have to hide her!"

Kimmy took a shaky breath, listening for a moment in case the boy replied. When he didn't, she began to panic.

"Mike, the bad men are coming! All of them!" She yelled again, pausing as Aaron took the corner too sharply. "Mike can you hear me? The bad men are coming!"

Kimmy could just barely make out the way Mike repeated her words to presumably Dustin before she heard his end cut off. She didn't know what to say, but kept the walkie tight in her grasp in fear his voice would blare again.

"What happens if he doesn't get what I meant?" Kimmy asked the two boys she was with, her voice panicked slightly. "Do you think we'll get to Eleven in time?"

Lucas didn't reply, only offering her a wary look briefly before facing all his attention back ahead of him, pushing his bike faster.

Aaron didn't reply to her either, but she assumed that was because he was absolutely terrified of the situation at hand. She could feel the way he had tensed under her arm after the words had slipped past her lips.