"Your next" it said, more clearly this time.
El burst down the door, with the others behind her.
"What the f*** was that?" Mike said in confusion
The voice changed, and said something new this time.
"Leave the door open three inches." The man said.
"Joyce, Joyce!" It said.
"Hopper?"Joyce said from behind Dustin.
'It couldn't be....' El thought, with tears in her eyes.
They ran down stairs, into the lounge room. When turning on the T.V, they were treated with an awful surprise. It had Jim, locked in a cage. The top of the screen read '"The American" exhibit, in Russia'. There was silence from all of them. A faced jumped from the window of the door on the jail cell. It woke up Mr Wheeler. He then activated the recliner, and laid back on the sofa, and dozed off. Mrs Wheeler was upstairs, on the phone.
Mike ran up the stairs, and took the phone off of his mom.
He got off the line, and called the police station.
"Mike!" Karen whined.
"Mom!" Nancy shouted back.
"Hello? I'd like to report something," he said, quietly, and calmly. "Yes sir. We- yes, it is Mike. We saw Jim on the T.V, and we heard him on our ra- Jim Hopper. Yes, I know he was suspected dead, but we saw him!"
Joyce took the phone off of him. "You listen here! We saw Hopper on the T.V, we are not crazy! I lost my son, I lost magnetism, I lost my sweet girl, and I lost my husband! I am not crazy, I haven't lost my mind, I just want to see my husband again!" She shouted. "I-I mean, Jim!"
Everyone froze. Will ran down stairs, with tears in his eyes, back to his room, and El ran past Joyce.
"No, don't go!" Mrs Byers shouted, desperately.
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Hopper ran out of the kitchen, knife in hand, and ran down a flight of stairs. He came to a door, made of metal, and locked with metal bars. He searched for a key hole, and put the knife in the keyhole. It opened the door, to show a testing chamber, similar to the one found in Hawkins. He noticed a bright, orange light coming from a crack in the wall. It was the gate. He ran to the glass door separating the mass destruction happening in the next room, and the room Jim was in at the time. He opened the door, only for a midst of dusty soot type material to come into the room. He started to cough harder and harder, until he passed out.
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"Honey, I'm sorry I didn't tell you earlier," Joyce said.
