Dream Walker: Will Byers X Reader Fanfic

Barbara

            

Your POV

I woke with a start, looking around frantically before setting eyes on Will. He was sleeping soundly on my right, as if the recent events hadn't happened.

My features softened as I glanced down at him. Now that I had the feeling of safety at home, I relished in our friendship. My other friends were awesome too, but I felt warm and happy with Will by my side. It was only when he was in pain, or in fear when I couldn't protect him that made me frown in frustration.

I was in a clouded haze you feel when you've just woken up, and your memory of dreams or the events of the previous night are momentarily forgotten.

But then I remembered.

I had entered the Upside Down once again, but now I had found someone that was not as lucky as Will to be rescued, and Eleven to have escaped.

Who was she? How long had she been down there, and most importantly I wondered, if my powers could save her.

I wanted to ask Will if he had known her, if maybe they had been trapped together, but with all the trauma and issues happening now, the last thing I wanted to do was to dredge up cold memories.

I wondered briefly about asking the boys, but none of them had been in the Upside Down. I left the bed, still wondering what I should do when the telephone rang.

I picked it up and held it upside down, before realising my mistake, and with flushed cheeks I answered the call.

"Hello?"
"Two?"

"Yes, I'm here."

"It's Nancy."

"Oh Nancy. Did you want to know where Jonathon is?"

I heard her chuckle softly on the other end. Honestly, I thought they were a lovely pair, though I'm not sure either of them knew that yet.

"Yea... listen, I'm thinking of coming over and... well Jonathon and I are going someplace. So just let him know I'll be over in about 15 minutes alright?"

"Ok"

"Thanks Two!" With that she hung up, and I went to wake Jonathon up.

I met a long blanket burrito of Jonathon, snoring softly with his head on the side of his pillow. I lightly brushed my fingers across his cheek, hoping it would wake him up. We had become quite close in the last few weeks, and I had learnt not to fear all men, though Will had told me his father had been quite nasty and abusive.

There weren't many women in the lab, only the male scientists and Papa, so warming up to Jonathon had been a slow process, but we were quite happily comfortable with each other now, we even shared the same taste in music and would often spend afternoons listening to the newest track he had recently found.

"Umph" He grunted, but upon looking at me smiled tiredly.

"Hey Two... what time is it?"

"It's nearly nine o'clock, Nancy rang a little while ago to tell me that she was coming in about 15 minutes."

"Alright, thanks for waking me up" I chuckled at his messy hair and left him to get dressed.

Time Skip

Nancy and Jonathon went to the park to talk for a while, leaving me and Will at home. We listened to some music for a while, and then made my favourite lunch together.

As we sat eating Y/F/L, I decided to tell Will about my dream.

"Will, I was wondering if you knew her, the girl I saw last night"

His forehead creased and he bit his lip before he told me.

"Her name was Barbara Holland, I think. She was a good friend of Nancy's... But apparently when they came to rescue me, they didn't find her. But Eleven saw her, and she was already dead. My chest hardened at the thought. That monster had killed her, and I had created the monster. The familiar blanket of guilt began to engulf me, but Will quickly grasped my hand almost as if to say it wasn't my fault.
"It's not your fault Two" He whispered. I blinked and twisted my mouth, thinking. I would talk to Nancy a little more, and then maybe, just maybe I could find a way to find and save Barbara.

Time Skip

"Hey Nancy"

"Yeah Two, what's up?"

"Um... I wanted to ask you something."

"Yeah, you can ask me anything" I smiled at her, hoping she wouldn't hate me for bringing Barbara up. Nancy had truly become a role model for me also, and I thought Nancy and Jonathon would be adorable together.

"I wanted to ask about Barbara." Her smile dipped slightly, but then she visibly shook it off.

"Well, Barb was a good friend of mine"

"Best friend?"

"Yeah... she was my best friend."

"What happened?"

"Well, when Eleven was in the salt bath last year, she searched for Barb. And she found her, but she was already... dead. Eleven said she was gone, but we all knew what she meant."

"I saw her Nancy."
"What! Where?"

"In the Upside Down. I visited it last night... and I think I saw her... But she was dead." Nancy deflated, looking helpless.

"Perhaps if you could show me a photo?"

"Of course" Nancy ruffled in her bag, searching for the photo strip of her and Barb in the mall.

"Here, that's her, with the red hair" She chuckled softly.

"Yeah... She looked like a good friend."

"She was..."

We both stared at the photo in silence. I chose not to tell Nancy that I could save her, because I didn't even know if I could. But I knew I would try, the first step was getting back into the Upside Down.