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   "Will! Robin! There you are. El did it. She killed Vecna." Dustin said.

"How did she do it?" Robin asked.

Steve perked up saying, "First, she shouted, 'one!' Which, I don't know why she called him that," Will noticed Nancy glance at Eleven knowingly before turning his attention back to Steve, "He looked back at her, and she used her powers to try and shove him, but he only moved a little bit. They then had this whole brain power fight. They kept on shoving each other to the side and doing more weird shit with their brains until they were both flying in the air, they looked like they were both equally dying but then El pushed through and like, exploded Vecna. Then she passed out. I carried her back here."

"Do you think she's okay?" Mike asked.

"I'm sure she'll be fine, Mike," Lucas reassured.

Will was looking around the room to read what everyone else's view of the situation was when he noticed Nancy and Jonathan walking together to another room. They needed to figure their shit out. Everyone else was still focused on Eleven.

"Crap. I just realized the police are still after all of us for different reasons..." Dustin pointed out.

"Yeah... well, we'll have to figure that out," Robin said.

"Especially me, everyone still thinks I'm a psychopath murderer," Eddie said.

Everyone continued talking about the police who were after them and why. This was a strange topic, Will supposed, but not surprising for the Party. After all the shit that had happened, Will probably wouldn't find anything surprising ever again. Not in the "holy shit, man-eating monsters are real?' Type of way, at least.

Jonathan and Nacy returned from the other room, "I suppose Will, Argyle, El, and I should head back home and figure out what the hell happened with the men that were shooting at us-" Everyone that wasn't in California for spring break exchanged confused looks, but Jonathan continued, "and we have to get home before mom does. Mike, you're technically still supposed to stay with us for the rest of spring break. Are you coming with us?"

"Yeah, I'll come with," Mike said.

"Damn, after a year of being apart from you guys, we only get to see you for a few stressful hours," Lucas pouted.

"Yeah, we've missed you guys," Max said.

"Yeah, same here. Maybe we'll come back to Hawkins to visit again under better circumstances," Will said. Everyone nodded in agreement.

***

After exchanging goodbyes, Will, Jonathan, Argyle, El, and Mike all got in the Pizza van and drove in the direction of home.

The moment they got in the car, Will asked, "So what's going on between you and Nancy, Jonathan?"