Little Do We Know || A Stranger Things Fanfiction

The Episodes

"Will. I just found him like this!" Mike calls as Lucas, Max, Dustin and Mrs. Byers' rush over.

I poke Will nervously. Something not right.

"I think he's having another episode!" I cry.

Lucas, Max, Dustin and Mrs. Byers' reach Will and us. Mrs. Byers' shakes him, trying to snap him out of this.

"Will! Will! Will!" she yells. "Sweetie, wake up! It's Mom! Will! Will, wake up! Can you hear me? Will, please, just wake up! It's Mom! It's me!"

I look at Mike, who looks worried, Lucas, who looks scared, Dustin, who looks nervous and Max, who looks confused. I know I look like a mix of them; worried, scared, nervous and confused.

"Will wake up!" I shriek.

There's a gasp, and Will opens his eyes.

***

We follow Will and his mom out of the school.

"Okay, that totally freaked me out." Max states. "Did that not freak you guys out?"

"Two episodes in two days." Lucas says.

"It's getting worse." I reply.

"You think it's True Sight?" Lucas asks.

Mike and I turn to him.

"What's True Sight?" Max asks in confusion.

"It's nothing..." Lucas stammers.

***

Mike and I stand in front of the Byers' front door.

"Hello? Will? Mrs. Byers?" Mike bangs on the door.

There's a pause as the door unlocks.

"Hey." Mike sighs as Mrs. Byers opens the door.

"Hey, Mike. Maya." she replies.

"Is Will here?" I demand.

"You know what? Now... Now is not a really good time." Mrs. Byers stammers.

"Is he okay?" Mike demands.

I nod.

"Yeah. You know, he's... he's just not feeling real well." Mrs. Byers explains, stepping outside and closing the door behind her. "He's laying down, so I'll tell him you two stopped by, okay?"

"It's about the shadow monster, isn't it?" Mike asks.

Mrs. Byers turns around slowly, and let's us in.

***

I'm sitting next to Will, my hand on his back. Mike is walking around his room.

"It's like... it's like I feel what the shadow monster's feeling." Will explains. "See what he's seeing."

"Like in the Upside Down?" Mike asks.

"Some of him is there." Will nods. "But some of him is here, too." 

"Here, like, in this house?" I ask.

"In this house and..." Will pauses. "In me. It's like... it's like he's reaching into Hawkins more and more. And the more he spreads, the more connected to him I feel."

Mike sits down next to us. "And the more you see these now-memories."

"At first I just felt it in the back of my head. I didn't even really know it was there. It's like when you have a dream and you can't remember it unless you think really hard. It was like that. But now it's like... Now I remember. I remember all the time." Will explains. He's shaking, and I place my hand gently on his.