Basic Instinct [stranger things]

63. Teasing

CHAPTER SIXTY-THREE
TEASING

Kimmy, Aaron, Dustin, Erica, Steve and Robin were all stood around with confused expressions as they listened to Mike try and catch them up on what they had missed.

"The Mind Flayer, it built this monster in Hawkins." The boy rushed out, talking as fast as he could, knowing the group had no extra time. "To stop El, to kill her and pave a way into our world."

Kimmy was sure she was looking to the boy with the most taken aback expression to have ever crossed her face. Hardly able to comprehend what the boy was saying.

"And it almost did." Nancy spoke up with a nod. "What was in... El's leg was just a small part of it."

Kimmy scrunched her face up in slight disgust at the older girls words, wishing for nothing more than for that image to be permanently removed from her brain.

"How big is this thing?" Hopper asked bluntly, pressing an ice pack to the side of El's face as the girl lay in his arms.

"About thirty feet at least." Lucas murmured, a slightly pitiful look crossing his face abruptly. "It sorta destroyed your cabin... sorry."

Hopper sighed, rolling his eyes in annoyance at the fact.

"Okay, so, just to be clear, this..." Steve began in a tone that Kimmy knew was nothing but good. "This big fleshy spider thing that hurt El, it's some kind of gigantic... weapon?"

"Yes." Nancy answered instantly, knowing well that the boy was one of the oldest in the group, yet was the one struggling the most to comprehend what was going on.

"But instead of, like, screws and metal," Steve continued, not taking her one word answer as enough of confirmation. "The Mind Flayer made its weapon... with melted people."

Kimmy had to shrug her shoulders in response, it was clear that the situation at hand was a little... crazy. Well, it was to Kimmy at least. She didn't blame Steve for questioning it.

"Yes, exactly." Nancy nodded once more.

"Yeah, okay." Steve scoffed, shrugging his shoulders sarcastically. "I'm just making sure."

"Are you sure this thing is still out there, still alive?" Mrs Byers questioned, not sounding particularly convinced.

"El beat the shit out of it," Max begun bluntly, scrunching her face up as she spoke. "But, yeah, it's still alive."

"But," Will spoke up from next to Max. "If we close the gate again, we cut the brain off from the body."

"And kill it." Lucas nodded, before turning to Hopper and slightly backtracking. "Theoretically-"

"Hey!" A voice yelled, catching Kimmy's as well as everyone else's attention. The brunette felt her brows raise when the man she didn't recognise from earlier walked up to the group. He was rustling a bunch of papers in each of his hands to get the groups attention. "Hey!"

Kimmy watched as the man slammed the papers down on a table, frantically motioning for the group to make their way over to him so he could say whatever he needed to say.

Kimmy sighed, following Steve as the group reluctantly made their way to him.

"Okay," the man sighed, pointing to the paper on the top of the pile before the whole group had even made their way to him. "This is what Alexi called 'the hub'."

Kimmy looked over to see what exactly what he was fussing over, her face displayed nothing but confusion as she looked down only to find hand drawn blueprints on the pieces of paper.