A heap of faith, my love

Chap 5: The Flea and The Acrobat

Amelia's POV :
(Edited)

"What was Will saying? Like home... Like home... but dark?" Mike asks the group. He stands and I steal his spot on the couch.

"And empty" I point out.

"Empty and cold. Wait, did he say cold?" Dustin looks at us.

"I don't know. The stupid radio kept going in and out" Lucas says irritated

"It's like riddle in the dark" Dustin sighs

" Like home"

"Like his house?" I wonder.

"Or maybe like Hawkins"

"Upside down" El utters.

"What she says?"

"She said upside down" I tell Lucas.

"Upside down" Mike repeats.

"What?"

"Upside down!"

Mike walks over to the table and grabs the DnD board and flipped it over. "When El showed us where Will was, she flipped the board over, remember?" He flips the board back around while we all sit around the table, "Upside down. Dark. Empty."

Lucas looks at me then Dustin, "Do you understand what he's talking about?"

"-no"
"-nope"

"Come on guys think about it. When El took us to find Will, she took us to his house, right?"

"Yeah. And he wasn't there"

"But what if he was there? What if we just couldn't see him? What if he was on the other side? What if..." He flips the board the right way up, "What if this is Hawkins and..." He flips it over upside down, "this is where Will is? The Upside Down "

"Like The Vale of Shadows" I remember.

Dustin grabs a DnD guidebook. And starts searching through it, finally finding the page he wants, and starts reading aloud.

"The Vale of Shadow is a demension that is a dark reflection or echo of our world."

"It is a place of decay and death. A plane out of phase. A place of monsters"

"It is right next to you, and you don't even see it"

"An alternate dimension" Mike says.

"But... how... how do we get there?"

"You cast Shadow Walk"

"In real life, dummy"

"We can't shadow walk, but... maybe she can" we look over at Eleven.

"Do you know how we get there? To the upside down?" Mike asks her.

She shakes her head signaling she doesn't.

"Oh, my god" Lucas slumps in his chair

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The next day was Will's funeral. Abigail helped Amelia get ready while she also got ready in a black dress.
The pastor speaks. As everyone holds a flower and mourns. Except Mike, Dustin, Lucas, Amelia, Abigail, Jonathon, Nancy, and Joyce, who knows the real truth.

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Abigail's POV :

"This is where we know for sure it's been, right?" Jonathon asks us.

I grab the paper to look closer at it.

"So that's--" Nancy point to one of the three red dots.

"Steve's house"
"And that's the woods where they found Wills bike and... that's my house.