013?

The boys are now all at the Wheeler dining room table picking at their meatloaf, waiting to be excused so they could go question the girl with  supernatural abilities.

Dylan took small bites to not be rude but the other boys just impatiently moved the food around their plate.

Mrs.Wheeler noticed they weren't eating the meatloaf, "is something wrong with the meatloaf?" Karen asked looking at the boys.

Dustin just looked at Mrs Wheeler, "No-no-I just ate two bologna sandwiches at lunch..........I don't know why." Dustin chuckled

"Me too." Lucas said smiling

"It's delicious mommy." Nancy said with an innocent look on her face"So there's this assembly tonight at school, for Will, barbs driving." Nancy followed up.

"Assembly, why am I just now hearing about this?" Karen asked furrowing her brows

Nancy looked dumbfounded"I-I thought you knew?"

"I didn't, and you know I don't want you out there after dark until Will is found." Karen responded

"I know but, everyone's gonna be there, it's weird if I don't go." Nancy said

Dylan knew she was lying there was no assembly, but he's brother was having a party, she was using Will as an excuse to go suck faces with Steve. It angered Dylan

"Alright but I want you to back by 10:00." Karen said Nancy nodding in response.

"How about you bring the boys with you-" Karen was cut of by a stampede of disagreements

"Shouldn't you be there? For Will?" Karen asked confused

Mike took a sip of his milk when he saw Eleven walk downstairs, which caused him to spit it out. Karen turned to look behind her hearing a noise which Dustin slammed the table with his fist

"Sorry spasm." Dustin said

Dylan then met eyes with Eleven and pointed to the basement with his eyes, telling her to go down. Once El left out of site he turned to Mrs wheeler.

"Um Mrs wheeler, could I stay here tonight? Steve won't be home because of the.......assembly" Dylan says giving Nancy an annoyed look.

"Of course sweetheart, like I said, anytime." Mrs. Wheeler smiled.

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  "El?" Mike called out walking downstairs, the rest of the boys following him, he had some meatloaf and milk for Eleven, he walked towards her at the tent and put the food down gently. "No adults, just us and some meatloaf. They won't tell anyone about you, they promise, right?" Mike reassuringly said to El.

"Yea we promise your secrets safe with us." Dylan said smiling at El then looking at Mike who was also smiling at him gratefully.

"We would have never upset you if we knew you had powers." Dustin said chuckling awkwardly, which was met with Dylan lightly hitting his shoulder.

"What he means is, we were just scared earlier." Mike said

"We just want to find our friend." Lucas chimed in folding his arms.

"Friend?" El said looking at Lucas confused.

"Yea our friend, Will?" Dylan replied

"What is f-friend?" Eleven questioned

"Is she serious?" Lucas asked bewildered, Dustin just shrugged in responds, Dylan just rolled his eyes and kneeled.

Dylan then lightly laid his left hand on Eleven's, Mikes eyebrows furrowing at the interaction but was unnoticed by the two.  "A friend is someone you would do anything for, someone you care about, someone you can trust." Dylan said slightly smiling.

  "Yea, you lend them your stuff like trading cards as well." Dustin agreed with a toothless smile.

  "And they never break a promise." Mike said

"Especially if there's spit." Lucas added

"Spit?" She asked

"A spit swear means." He paused and spit in his own hand, "you never break your word." Lucas then shook Dustin's hand much to Dustin's Dismay, who had a grossed out expression.

"It's a bond." Lucas finished

  "It's really important, because friends tell each other everything, things that parents don't know." Mikes said

Dylan looked away at this, feeling guilty he hates that he has to have a secret from the group.

Eleven then stood up from the fort and walked over to the table in the basement that they played DnD on, she sat down and stared at the board and pieces.

"Uh what's she doing?" Lucas asked judging Eleven.

"El?" Mike asked standing by Eleven, Dylan next to him.

She picked up the wizard figurine and looked at it for a bit.

"Will." She said

"What?" Lucas asked turning to look at Dylan

  "I think she means the figurine represents Will." Dylan informed Lucas while not taking his eyes off of Eleven.

Eleven then nodded proving Dylan's assumption correct.

"Superpowers" Dustin said quietly under his breath, which Lucas then looked at Dustin  annoyed and rolled his eyes.

"Did you see him, on Mirkwood, do you know where Will is?" Mike asked

She didn't respond, she just pushed all the other figurines on the floor and flipped the board over so it was Upside down. Then she put the wizard figurine representing Will in the middle.

  "I don't understand." Mike said

Dylan stepped a bit closer to Eleven looking at the board and figurine confused on what she was trying to show them.

"Hiding." El whispered

"Will is hiding?" Mike asked Eleven, she nodded her head.

"From the bad men?" Dylan asked next Eleven shook her head.

She then picked up the Demogorgen figurine and slammed on the board. Dylan looked at Mike both sharing the same idea, they didn't know much but they knew one thing.

Will was in trouble.

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Mike and Dylan were still in his basement, Dustin and Lucas already left planning on coming back in the morning for a plan.

  Dylan looked at the girl in the tent, still wondering where he recognized her from, it was killing him to know. He then noticed her slightly coughing clearing her throat.

"Mike, can you get Eleven some water?" Dylan asked Mike who was putting away the board and figurines.

"Yea, sure thing." Mike walked up the stairs to the kitchen.

While Dylan waited, he saw the girl looking at a clock in the basement, so he crouched down by her and took his watch off.

"Look, this is a watch, it's like a miniature clock." Dylan handed her the watch and she took it confusingly.

"w-w-watch?" Eleven asked Dylan.

"Yea a watch, it tells time, lets me know when to do things." Dylan smiled as he explained.Eleven paid no mind to the watch as she was staring at his left wrist. His burn scar.

Dylan took notice to this and rolled his sleeve up halfway to better expose his scar."It's just my burn scar, like the one on my face, except my face is just a cut so they're different. I don't know how I got it so I can't really tell you how." Dylan nervously chuckled as he rambled.

"013?" Eleven asked as she examined his face.

"Excuse me?" Dylan said

Eleven then pointed at Dylan and then moved her finger to point at his wrist.

"Brother." She said firmly

It then clicked in Dylan's mind, he has similar powers to Eleven, his scars.

"You said you came from the bad men right!" Dylan asked Eleven firmly, he had pondered for years where he came from.

"Lab, yes, bad men." Eleven responded

Dylan stood up his head getting dizzy, he's chest tightened up. He rushed to the bathroom closing the door.

He looked in the mirror and the scar on his cheek was bleeding, his wrist burned, his feet hurt, he couldn't breathe, it was cold, and his nose was bleeding. He was panicking when-

*KNOCK* *KNOCK*

"Dylan?" Mike asked knocking on the door

"Dylan, are you okay?" Mike asked again

Dylan looked at his reflection and everything was normal, he's scars were old and nothing hurt. "What the hell was that?" Dylan asked himself before opening the bathroom door.

Mike grabbed his shoulders"Is something wrong!" "What happened ?!" "Are you okay?!" "El said you were in trouble!"Mike bombarded Dylan with questions

"Im-I'm, fine yea I'm fine." Dylan stuttered

"Are you sure?" Mike asked

Dylan then gently grabbed mikes wrist and took them off his shoulders, he didn't let go though.

"Mike I promise I'm fine." Dylan said smiling, Mike smiled back before realizing they were still holding hand, they both sheepishly pulled away.______________________________

The feeling of Dylan's touch still lingered on Mikes wrist as he set up his sleeping bag in his room.

The two then went to sleep, awaiting the adventure tomorrow.

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013 hysterically screamed, the sound of his voice echoing through the cold lab.

"Please!" 013 pleaded

"Please stop!"

013 was chained in a room, staring at a beast It was 10 feet tall and 60 feet wide, it looked like a bat, a giant bat with claws and giant sharp teeth.

It was there In front of him screeching, not hurting him but taunting him.

"Get out of my head!" 013 yelled

"GET OUT!"

The bat was gone, and out came Dr. Brenner walking in front of him, he bent down a little to look at 013.

013 was shaking, the chains rubbing against his squirming limbs, he glared at Dr.Brenner.

*SLAP* "Don't look at me like that." Dr. Brenner said before walking away leaving the boy there for hours.

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Dylan awoke with Mike slightly shaking him

"Wake up, Dylan, Dustin and Lucas will be here soon." Mike said before leaving his room.

He sat up from his sleeping bag, his cheek slightly stinging.

"013" Dylan thought, if he was actually like Eleven then he's in a lot more deep shit than he thought.