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Indiana drove the kids back to Mike's house. They scurried into the basement to try to find Hopper.
El put on her blindfold and sat down.
The five sat around the girl waiting, "I found him."
"Where is he?" Indiana asks.
"Woods."
"Woods?" Indiana asks confused.
"He's with... Will's mom."
"My mom?"
"What are they doing?"
"Ill... annoy."
Indiana turns to Mike with a confused face.
"They're going to Ill-annoy."
"Illinois" Indiana corrects.
"Mike! Breakfast!" Karen bangs on the door. "Not now mom!" Mike yells.
"Illinois? Illinois, like the state?" Indiana asks. El removes the blindfold.
"The state of Illinois?" Mike repeats her question.
"Ill-annoy." El replies. Indiana takes El to the bathroom to clean off her bloody nose.
"You did good." Indiana smiles as she wiped the blood from her skin. "I'm proud of you."
El smiles as she looks at herself in the mirror. Her brown eyes were glued to the bruises around her neck. Indiana sighed at the red marks. Max opens the door and walks in. She watches as El touches the bruises.
"Does it still hurt?" Max asks.
El reaches her hand down as she talks. "Only when I talk."
"Well, it's a good thing you're not Mike, then. 'Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.' And you'd be in constant pain." Max chuckles. Eleven laughs and takes over cleaning El's nose.
Mike was pacing around. "Something's not right. I can't get Hopper off my back all summer, now all of a sudden, he's hiking with Will's mom to Illinois? And Dustin's MIA, too? I mean, this can't be a coincidence."
"Oh, him and Steve have been doing russian translating or something. That's where he's been." Indiana shakes her head.
"What does it matter? The bottom line is, they're not here." Mike states. Indiana holds her hands up in defense. "Jeez, relax."
"It's up to us." Lucas looks around.
"Up to us to do what exactly?" Indiana asks.
"Find Billy and stop him."
"Funny, you think we can take down Billy? Last time I checked Billy took down Steve, with ease. What do you expect we're gonna be able to do?" Indiana asks.
"El?" Will speaks up.
"Even if El could find him again, and that's a pretty big if, then what?" Indiana argues.
"We burn the shit out of him and make sure he doesn't escape this time." Lucas speaks as if it was common sense.
"Okay, then what?" Mike asks with his eyebrows raised.
"Then we win." Lucas shoves a handful of coco puffs in his mouth.
