The Scholar & The Bard [Sequel to Bookworm & Toothless] (Stranger Things AU)

[19]

"All right. I'm 3.6 inches, what do you got?"

"I'm not sure. Mrs. Byers?" Mike called, waiting for Joyce to answer.

"Hold on...Twenty-one feet, four inches." She answers.

"What about Tippecanoe to Danford Creek?"

"D-Danford? Where's Danford?"

"¡Aquí!" Jess called from the other room.

"Dining room!" Will elaborated.

Joyce ran to them, pressing the measuring tape to the wall.

"Sixteen feet, ten inches."

"What about Danford to Jordan?"

Joyce sighs.

"Oh, come on. T-T-This has gotta be enough."

"It's not. It's...It's really not."

Jess follows Joyce, turning to see Mike follow up behind her, grabbing her hand and squeezing it gently.

"Okay. Can't you just figure it out?"

"W-Well it's hard. The ratio isn't exactly one-to-one. I mean if you are twisting my arm, and you are twisting my arm, I would say that the X is..."

Jess bit her lip, reaching for her necklace and rubbing it gently.

"Maybe a half mile southeast of Danford?"

Jess let out a cry of some sort of relief, knowing they had an idea of where Hopper was trapped.

"¡Gracias!" She exclaimed, running to Bob, pressing a kiss on his cheek.

"Thank you! Thank you!" Joyce exclaims, pressing a kiss to his other cheek.

Jess grabs the map, following Joyce and the boys out the house.

"What? Are we...we really going?"

X

"Like this?"

Terry showed Jane the cloth she cut, causing her to nod.

"Yes."

X

Static was hissing through the TV, Jane kneeling in front of her Mama.

"It's okay if I sit here, right?"

Jane put on the blindfold.

"Yes."

"A-And I won't mess it up or anything?"

"No."

"Okay...If you talk to Terry, will you tell her that I love her very much? And that I'm sorry I didn't believe-"

"Stop talking."

"Okay, sorry."

Jane focused on Terry's voice, on the words she kept repeating.