Gasoline(A Stranger Things Story) OCxEleven

Chapter Seven:The Bathtub

I woke up in Mike's basement, Dustin staring at me. I blinked, and he said,"I wouldn't move too much if I was you." I said,"Screw that." I sat up, and wished I hadn't. My whole body throbbed, and I felt sick. He pointed over in a corner, and said,"Mike left those out for you. They're dry, and clean.." I nodded, went into the bathroom, and came back out wearing a long sleeved red shirt, and blue jeans. I asked,"Where's Mike?" He led me upstairs, to the bathroom, where Mike was cleaning El's face off. He said,"There, that's better.." El looked in the mirror, and rubbed her shaved head. Mike said,"You don't need it." She asked,"Still pretty?" He said,"Yeah. Really pretty." I said,"Beautiful." She turned, and saw me, and immediately wrapped me in a hug. I said,"Whoah, El!" She smiled at me, and Mike asked,"El?" She said,"Yes?" He said,"Um, I'm happy you're home.. You too, Sarah." El said,"Me too..", and I said,"Thanks, Mike." Mike looked like he was about to kiss El, and my heart broke a little. Dustin burst in, and said,"Guys! It's Lucas! I think he's in trouble!" We raced downstairs, and Dustin asked,"Remember how he went looking for the gate?" Mike said,"Yeah", as I exclaimed,"What?!", and Dustin asked,"What if he found it?" Lucas' voice sounded through the supercomm, blocked by static, and Mike asked,"What's he saying?" Dustin answered,"I don't know..He's way out of range."

Lucas' voice said,"...son of a bitch!" Mike said,"Lucas, if you can hear us, slow down. We can't understand you." Lucas said something, and Dustin asked,"Mad hen? Does that mean anything to you? Like a code word or something?" Lucas shouted,"The bad men are coming!" Mike and I whispered,"Bad men..." Mike yelled,"Bad men! Stay here!" He and Dustin raced upstairs, leaving me and El alone. He and Dustin raced back downstairs, and told me and El,"Come on! The bad men are here!" We raced outside, and grabbed our bikes, running with them for a minute, then climbing on. I turned my head, as El did, and saw a tall man with white hair standing there, watching her. As his eyes landed on me, they widened. Dustin said,"Go, go, go, go!" We raced off on our bikes, the men climbing into trucks, and the chase was on. My body protested every movement, but I ignored it.

  Dustin said,"Oh my God! Oh my God!" We sped onto a street, and Lucas called,"Dustin? Dustin, do you copy?" Dustin said,"Yeah, Lucas. They're on us!" Static sounded, then Lucas asked,"Where are you?" Dustin said,"Cornwallis." Lucas said,"Meet me at the corner of Elm and Cherry!" Dustin said,"Copy. Elm and Cherry!" Mike said,"Okay." We sped up a hill, and onto another street. We looked behind us, and the bad men were right there. Dustin yelled,"Shit!", and Mike said,"This way!" We rode down a hill, ringing our bells as we rode through a bunch of little girls playing. I yelled,"Out of the way!", and we sped out onto another street, where Lucas met us. Lucas asked,"Where are they?" Mike said,"I don't know...I think we lost them." The trucks pulled up behind us, and Dustin yelled,"Go,go,go!" Mike said,"Faster! Faster!" Dustin sped ahead, and I saw a truck pull out in front of him, and head full speed for us. I said,"Oh, shit", as another one followed. I closed my eyes, and called up the anger inside, and my eyes shot open, a tree cracking down on top of the second van, my nose trickling blood. The first one kept coming, and El glared at it, and it flipped over our heads, the boys looking awestruck. We looked back, as the van crashed in front of the rest of them, blocking their path. The white haired man climbed out, looking at El, and then, glared at me.

  We rode off to the junkyard, and climbed off our bikes. El sat down on a fallen tree, and Dustin said,"Holy shit! Did you see what they did to those vans?" Mike said,"No, Dustin, we missed it." Dustin said,"I mean, that- That was-" Lucas said,"Awesome" That was awesome." I sat down next to El, breathing hard, and wiped the blood from under my nose. Lucas knelt down next to us, and said,"All that stuff I said, about you guys being traitors and stuff.. I was wrong. I'm sorry.." He patted El's shoulder, and she said,"Friends- Friends don't lie..I'm sorry, too.." Mike said,"Me, too", and extended his hand to Lucas. Lucas stood, and shook his hand. Lucas then knelt, and used sticks and wood to make a model. He said,"This is Randolph Road. The fence starts here, and goes all the way around. And this is the lab. The gate has to be in there somewhere..It has to." They started talking about who owned the Department of Energy, and asked what they made, and Lucas said,"Weapons.", and everyone looked at El and me. Dustin said,"Holy shit, this is bad..." Lucas said,"Really bad. The place is like a fortress." Dustin asked,"So what do we do?" Mike said,"I don't know. But we can't go home. We're fugitives now." The sound of a helicopter came from the sky, and Dustin said,"Guys? Do you hear that?" We looked up to see a helicopter coming our way. We shoved our bikes under the bus, and Mike said,"Go, go, go..Let's move!" As the helicopter was almost over us, we raced into the bus, and Lucas said,"Get down!" We all dropped to the floor, and the helicopter flew away. Dustin said,"Mental." The helicopter continued hovering over the field.