LACUNA | WILL BYERS ¹ ✔

The Body - [Pt.3 - FINAL PART]

(a/n: Short again... I know...)

We rushed down to the AV Room.

It was dark. El sat down in the seat.

"Now what?" Dustin asked.

"She'll find him," Mike replied. "Right, El?"

Mike tuned the frequencies.

I sighed. "You can do this, El."

El closed her eyes and began to work her magic.

"She's doing it," Mike said. "She's finding him!"

"This is crazy," Dustin said.

"Calm down. She just closed her eyes," Lucas said, clearly annoyed.

Suddenly, the lightbulb burnt out.

I yelped.

"Holy..." Dustin said.

I sighed, my breath shaky.

We all leaned in, my gut was telling me something was about to happen.

There was some clanging of some sort on the other side of the radio...

"What is that?"

"Only one way to find out," I said.

We then heard a whimpering, which sounded a lot like Will's.

Tears started to form up in my eyes.

"Mom?" He said.

"Will?" Mrs. Byers said.

Tears started pouring down, although I didn't make a sound.

Mike saw me and put a hand on my shoulder.

"Mom?"

"No way!" Lucas said.

"Mom..."

"Will!!"

"Please..."

"Will!" She kept calling. "Will!"

"Mom!"

"Will! I'm here! I'm here! Oh, God!"

"Mom!!" He shouted.

I started sobbing now.

"Will!" I shouted. "Can you hear us?"

"Will!" Mike called.

"Will, it's us! Are you there?!" Lucas shouted.

"Can you hear us?! We're here!!" Dustin shouted.

"Will! Are you there, can you hear us?!" I shouted.

"Hello? Mom?"

"Why can't he hear us?" Lucas asked.

"I don't know!" Mike shouted.

El was really working herself.

"Baby..." Mrs. Byers cried. "Will..."

Some monster growled, and I started crying harder.

"Mom! Mom, it's coming!!"

"Tell me where you are! How do I get to you?!"

"It's like home, but it's so dark... It's so dark and empty, and it's cold!" He shouted, like he was so scared.

I couldn't stop crying by now. I was a mess.

"Mom? Mom!" His voice cracked.

"Listen to me! I swear I'm gonna get to you, okay? But right now, I need you to hide."

"Mom, please!"

"No, no, listen! Listen, I..."

The growling intensified.

"I will find you, but you have to run now! Run! Run!"

Then the Heathkit exploded into flames, making everyone yelp, and my eyes were blurry from crying.

El didn't move, maybe she overexerted herself...

The fire alarm started ringing, and I still couldn't stop.

Dustin grabbed the fire extinguisher and started spraying at the fire.

El was severely bleeding from her nose.

"El, are you okay?" She didn't reply. "Can you move?" She still couldn't reply. "Here, help her up."

We each grabbed a part of her body and helped her up.

We put El on a rolling desk thing we found and rolled her out the school.

Oh, my gosh...

Will's alive?

All this time, he's been alive?

But then what was his body?

Was it fake?