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

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Jessica Hernandez had no problem with letting the lab workers know that she did not trust them...

...And was deathly AFRAID of getting into the vans.

She shrieked and sobbed when they tried to push her in, hyperventilating heavily.

Only when Mike pushed them off her, did a few breathing exercises with her to calm down, and decided to go with her in the van, did she agree to go in.

Because she wasn't going to leave Will alone while he was in pain.

Mike did everything he could to make sure she wouldn't touch Will, not wanting her to feel any sort of pain.

He already had one best friend that was suffering, he didn't want another.

Especially one who always seemed to suffer the worst of the worst.

Eventually, the vans stopped, doors opening and getting the stretcher Will was in out, Jess and Mike following not too far behind.

"Get him out! Go! Go!"

Will was screaming in pain, and Jess was sobbing as Mike held her closely as they followed behind.

"God! Hold on, sweetie!" Joyce cried, running with the doctors and nurses pushing the stretcher.

Will was sobbing, feeling so much pain and was burning up.

"I'm right here. Just hold on."

People were giving Mike and Jess weird looks because when he saw her glancing at certain doors, he pulled her closer to his body, not wanting her to get a panic attack in the middle of the hallway.

He isn't stupid.

He knows she grew up here from when she was three to when she was seven.

Plus, this was El's personal hell for 12 years.

They both have a right to hate this place...but right now Will's more important than some personal vendetta.

They had now stopped at a room, Will crying as the nurses tried to see what was wrong with him.

"Vitals?"

"Heart rate 220. Temperature 106."

Mike had Jess pressed against his chest in an attempt from letting her touch Will to see what was REALLY wrong with him.

And apparently, Bob was doing the same for Joyce as she kept reaching for him.

"Will, where does it hurt?"

"All over." Will cried, his hair sticking to his forehead from the sweat.

Jess felt the temperature in the room decrease by a ton, freezing when she felt that familiar liquid run down her nose.

Mike saw too and he quickly wiped it for her, in a disguise of him wiping her tears.

"She says he feels like he's burning. Check for burns."

They cut the hospital shirt off him, Will screaming in pain.

Jess tiredly made the temperature decrease a bit more, blood still running at her nose, leaning onto Mike who was trying to keep her up.

"I don't see anything."

The doctor looked at Will.

"Where does it hurt the most, Will?"

"EVERYWHERE!! EVERYWHERE!!"

They knocked him out with a sedative, Jess bawling into Mike's chest, him wrapping his arms around her tightly.