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

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"SHIT! GET HER OUT!"

"Stay with us, Jess! Stay with us!"

Everyone was panicking as Jonathan swung open the door, turning the lights on and clearing the dining table, Nancy comforting a sobbing Mike whose clothes were partially stained with Jess' blood.

He couldn't get the image of her getting clawed and bitten by the demodogs out of his head, it reminding him from the last time he saw her bleeding nearly to her death.

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Steve had yelled at all the kids to keep their distance from Jess, him holding the sobbing, bleeding girl as Hopper searched through his truck for the first aid kit.

"Steve...Steve."

He looks down at the girl, rushing her inside and laying her on the table.

"The boys...another room...only Max stays. Don't w-w-want them...c-c-crowding me."

How Steve understood her through her blubbering and sobbing no one knows, but he understood.

"Okay, I'll make sure they stay away."

Nancy had rushed towards her, making her sit up, grabbing onto her shoulder, looking at Jess.

"I'm going to relocate it, alright?"

Jess nods, sobbing as Nancy counted to three and-

POP!

Jess lets out a shriek of pain, the lights flickering and glass flying everywhere.

"HOLY SHIT!!"

Nancy flinched when she realized a glass shard had stuck to Jess' shoulder, cursing.

She hears the boys cursing and yelling when Steve pushes them but not Max to a separate room, yelling that they knew Jess since they were in elementary and deserved to be by her side.

Max ran up to the girl, trying to calm her nerves that the brunette was quite literally bleeding to death.

She watched as Nancy, Jonathan, Hopper, and Joyce surrounded her, first aid kit in hand.

Joyce shakily pulled the glass from her shoulder and Jess let out a whimper, the lights still flickering madly.

Max grabs onto Jess' hand, wincing as her hand was squeezed as the adults tended to her wounds, all yelling out what to do to stop the bleeding.

Jess passed out thirty minutes into the procedure, but they had finally stopped the bleeding, wrapping her in bandage wrap, glass, books, and drawings all over the floor from Jess' telepathic breakdown.