In case you don't live forever

Chapter 15: Blood

Peter's Pov:

"Guys, Guys. This is crazy. We can't just wait around" Mike yelled at Lucas and Dustin while I sat next to a shaking El, trying to calm here down and warm her up. "Mike, incase you forgot we're still fugitives. The bad men are still looking for us" Lucas told him. "Yeah, and we don't even know where your sister went" Dustin explained. "El can find them" Mike told him. "Mike, look at her. I still think we should stick to the chiefs plan" Dustin said. "Exactly, we stay here, keep El out of sight and keep her safe. That's the most important thing, remember? Besides she's okay. She's with Jonathan" I stood up and joined the rest of the group. "Yeah, and she's kind of a badass now, so.." Dustin added and started walking away from us. "Well, where are you going? You just said stick to the plan!" Mike asked Dustin. "I am. I'm just going to get some chocolate pudding! I'm telling you. Lunch lady Phyllis hoards that shit" Dustin yelled back and I facepalmed. "Are you serious?" Mike yelled at him. "El needs to be recharged" Dustin told Mike and Lucas and I shrugged and followed Dustin to help him.

"Mike! I FOUND THE CHOCOLATE PUDDING!" Dustin yelled at Mike as we grapped as much cans from the fridge as we could fit in our arms. I couldn't fit as much because of my cast though. "How do you even like this stuff Dustin? Its like chocolate shit and it's so weird" I asked Dustin. "Its not chocolate shit, Peter. Its delicious" He told me and I just shook my head. We carried the pudding to the room Mike and El were sitting in just to see El. We placed all the pudding on the table. "This will charge your battery right up, I'm telling you" Dustin explained to El and opened up a can of the pudding. "Guys, Guys!" Mike ran in, seeming worried. "What is it?" Lucas asked him, turning around to look at him. "They found us" Mike told us and my eyes widened. "Holy shit" I mumbled as we ran out of the room and down the halls. "How did they find us?" Lucas asked. "I don't know, but they knew we were in the gym" Mike told him. "Lando" Dustin spoke and the doors that were in front of us open. We turned around and bolted back down the hall. There were more of them. We ran the other way but there were more bad people. We were fully cornered now. El stood face to face with the bad lady and the lady's eyes started to bleed. Same for the rest of the men. Blood trickled down their faces. They all looked like something out of a horror film. Soon they all collapsed on the floor and El fell to the floor. We all got down on our knees to see if she was okay. "El, are you okay? El!" Something's wrong" Mike shook her a little. "She's just drained" Dustin told him. "No, no, no. Something's wrong she won't wake up. El! El! El!" Mike shook her again.

"She's barely breathing" Mike said. "We've got to go" Lucas spoke. "Leave her!" A voice yelled. We stood up and looked at a few men standing by us. My breath started to become heavy and I was shaking uncontrollably. Oh no not a panic attack, not right now. I took my inhaler out of my fanny pack and inhaled it sharply. "Step away from the child" The man spoke again. "No! You want her, you'll have to kill us first" Mike told the man. "Thats right" Dustin said. "Eat shit!" Lucas yelled and I heard footsteps from behind us. Bad men grabbed us and held us back. Everyone was screaming except for me. I was crying, shaking, it felt like the walls were closing in on me. I was so fucking scared. The man got down on the ground and spoke to Eleven. The only thing I could hear was "Mike, Mike, Mike" mumbled from El, everything else was muffled. All of A sudden the lights started flickering. "Blood" Mike mumbled. "What?" Lucas asked. "Blood" Mike said again. "Demogorgon" Dustin mumbled and the men let go of us. We stepped aside and they ran away, guns in hands. Dustin grabbed El and carried her and we ran to a safer room. Dustin placed El gently on a table and Mike held her hands. "Just hold on a little longer, okay? He's gone. The bad man's gone. We'll be home soon, and my mom, she'll get you your own bed. You can eat as many eggos as you want. And we can go to the snowball" Mike reassured her. "Promise?" She asked him softly. "Promise" Mike sniffled. The moment was ended when we heard a monster screech. I jumped back and grabbed Lucas's hand on instinct. He squeezed my hand a little basically saying 'everything will be okay.' Guns fired outside the room and the lights were flickering like crazy. I continued to hold Lucas's hand tightly. "Is.. Is it dead?" Dustin asked when the gunshots stopped. Thw door burst down and there stood the demogorgon. "Go, Go, go, go, go!" Mike yelled and Lucas let go of my hand to grab his backpack. "Get the wrist rocket! Get the wrist rocket now!" Dustin yelled, his voice cracking a little. Lucas pulled it out of his backpack. "Get the rocks, get the rocks, get the rocks!" Mike yelled at Dustin and Dustin took the rocks out of Lucas's backpack. We were all yelling as Lucas slung the rocks at the Demogorgon. They had no damage on it at all. He continued to sling the rocks until he had none left. As he slung his last rock the Demogorgon went flying onto the wall. El came forward, blood coming out of her ears and nose. She walked closer to the Demogorgon "Eleven stop!" Mike yelled at her but she flung him back against cupboards. He crashed on the ground. Eleven got even closer to the Demogorgon and it squealed as she kept it against the wall. El looked back at us "Goodbye, Mike" She mumbled and Mike tears rolled down his cheek. I sat next to him and wrapped my arms around him. I hid my face in his arm as the monster squealed again and everyone covered their ears. I kept my face in Mike's arm and heard El screaming along with the monster. We all kept our ears covered. Everything fell silent and I looked up. Flakes fell to the ground and a hole was formed in the wall. The only thing I didn't see was El. Mike and I got up off the ground and we all started screaming her name. "El? El? El!" Mike screamed. "Eleven!" Lucas yelled. "El" I yelled, sounding like I was going to break any moment. "El, where are you? Eleven? El?" Mike yelled. He turned to face me and wrapped his arms around me tightly. I hugged back just as tight.

I sat outside at the back of an ambulance, crying. There were many other ambulances and police cars surrounding to school. I saw a familiar car approach the school and the person got out of the car. It was Steve. I stood up and bolted toward him, flinging my arms around his torso, crying into his chest. He wrapped his arms around me tightly. We stayed in the hug to have another person join us. It was my other dad, Chris. He wrapped his arms around both of us, pulling us closer to him. We stayed in this hug for a few minutes and I cried into their arms. Soon, both of them pulled out of the hug and I looked at Stevs's beat-up face. "What happened to your face?" I asked him through tears. "I got beat up" He told me. "What happened to your arm?" He asked me. "I fell out of a tree and broke my arm" I explained and he nodded. "When we get home I am fixing up your face" I explained still crying and he nodded chuckling a little.

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