𝐠𝐨𝐧𝐞 - 𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧

13

Mike was sitting in the fort in the basement. It was July 4th, 1987. It had been two years since El died. He was seeing his therapist regularly, and she helped, but he was still never really happy. Will had moved away shortly after their sleepover the last year, so he had lost one of his best friends. Little did he know that at this very moment El was running into Hawkins. El didn't know she had been gone for two years, she had no sense of time. Mike looked at the photograph of him and El. He bit his lip as he started to weep. He just stayed like that for a while, crying in the fort. He was thinking. "I have this inexplicable heavy feeling in my chest all the time, it doesn't go away." He thought. He wanted it to go away. Then it hit him, there was a way for him to do this. At this point, that option didn't seem as daunting as it did two years ago. He took a deep breath and headed out the door. Towards the quarry. Meanwhile, El rain into town, looking around trying to recognize her surroundings. She kept walking and saw an abandoned building. It was Bennys. Her lip trembled. She remembered Bennys kindness towards her, and what had happened to him. She took a detour through Mirkwood. After what seemed like hours, which in reality was only half an hour of walking, she saw the familiar house, her first home. She opened the basement door to find that Mike wasn't there. She went around and knocked on the front door. "Oh my god, El, is that you?" Nancy said, opening the door. El nodded. She was still wearing the same outfit from two years before, and she has obviously outgrown them. "Where is Mike?" She asked frantically, starting to get upset. "He's not in the basement?" Nancy asked. El shook her head and Nancy went and checked Mikes room. "Are your powers back?" Nancy gestured for El to come in. She got a blindfold and changed the tv to a static channel. She found Mike in the void. He was walking along a gravel path. El recognized it. "Quarry." El said. "Oh no." Nancy said. El removed the blindfold. "El you have to go to him. I think he's going to do something bad." "What?" El questioned. Nancy decided to give it to her straight. "Kill himself. Jump off." El got up and started to panic. She ran out the door and set off towards the quarry, hoping she wouldn't be too late.