Trapped

The Upside Down

Lyn and the kids were sitting on the bleacher in the gym. All exhausted from the day they were having. Mike stood up and walks out of the gym. Lyn got up to follow him out of the school. "Nancy! Jonathan!" He yells out into the empty parking lot.

"They probably went with the chief and Mrs. Byers to get Will." Lyn grabs his arm to drag him back inside.

"All the crap she was saying about not keeping secrets and sticking together." He mutters under his breath and storm back into the gym. He thought for a second that Nancy and he could have the sibling relationship that Dustin and Lyn or Jonathan and Will have. But, maybe that kind of closeness only comes with an absent parent.

Lyn took the time to look at the school map that was on the wall. She was a freshman when they move here, so she didn't know the layout of the middle school. After feeling like she had a good picture of it in her head, she walks back into the gym at a poor time in the conversation.

"They're probably just sucking face somewhere." Dustin shrugs.

"Gross." Lucas and Lyn scrunch up their faces in disgust. She assumes they were talking about Nancy and Jonathan. At least she hopes they were, if not that left Joyce and Hopper. She didn't know if she was ready for that mental image.

"No, no way!" Mike shook his head.

"Did they go with the chief?" Lucas turns to Lyn seeing if she had some answers.

"I saw them walk out the door with him, but I don't know if they actually went with them," Lyn told them.

"No," El said suddenly.

"What? Did you see them?" Mike quickly turns to her. She nods her head. "Do you know where they went?" He asks.

"Yes." She nods.

"Where? Where did they go?" Lyn was amazed at his patience for her one-word responses.

"Demogorgon." El looks at him sadly.

"We have to go help them!" Mike walks towards the door. Lyn moves to stop him from doing so. Dustin and Lucas follow her lead.

"How? We don't have a vehicle. We don't even have your guy's bikes. By the time we walk to the gate, Nancy and Jonathan would be done already." Lyn points out to him.

"This is crazy. We can't just wait around." Mike throws his hands in the air.

"Mike, in case you forgot, we're still fugitives. The bad men are still looking for us." Lucas reminds him.

"Yeah, and we don't even know where your sister is." Dustin agrees with Lucas.

"El can find them." Mike shrugs like it was no big deal for her to try to use her powers again after she used so much of it.

"She exhausted, Mike. She's having a hard enough time staying awake." Lyn points to the girl behind them that was curled up on the bleachers.

"I still think we should stick to the chief's plan," Dustin put emphasize on the word plan. Mike wanted them to go into the Upside Down with just the shirts on their backs to save his sister who might not even need to be saved.

"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." Lucas elaborated on his friend's point.

"Yeah, and she's kind of a badass now, so..." Dustin trails off on his sentence as he walks to the door.

"Where are you going? You just said stick to the plan!" Mike yells at his back.