One chance

  Dylan, Dustin, and Steve were gathering the buckets of meat they bought along with a can of gasoline out of Steve's trunk. The three boys were wearing yellow dish gloves as to not touch the gross raw meat.

Dylan never liked the look or feel of raw meat, it was gross, he barely liked eating meat. He could eat a chicken or steak dinner but he doesn't go out of his way to fulfill his hunger with it.

*this is Lucas do you copy! Dustin?*The sound of Lucas's voice mixed with static came through after the group waited hours for  someone else to respond.

  "Well, well, well, look who it is." Dustin responded as he walked away from the car

*sorry man, my stupid sister turned it off.* Lucas apologized

"Well while you were having sister problems, Dart grew again, he escaped, and I'm pretty sure he's a baby Demogorgen." Dustin replied

Dylan was hauling the gasoline in Steve bag as his older brother was shoving his nail bat in.

"I'll explain later, just meet me, Dylan, and Steve at the old junkyard." Dustin said

*wait, Dylan? Steve?!* Lucas confusingly asked

"Bring your binoculars and wrist rocket." Dustin replied not explaining to Lucas why he's with the Harrington brothers.

*Steve Harrington?!* Lucas asked again louder, to which Dylan came over and stood next to Dustin taking his super comm.

"Lucas just get your ass over here, over and out." Dylan said throwing Dustin his comm back. picking up a bucket of meat and walking towards the railroad. Steve and Dustin following.

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       Dylan was standing next to Steve throwing down meat as the three boys walked down the railroad track. Dustin leading.

"All right, so let me get this straight. You found this creature and decided to keep it to impress a girl, and then you lost it, but it came back and ate your cat?" Steve questioned.

Dylan jerked his head to look directly at Dustin "You mean you actually kept dart to impress max? Not because you had a "bond"."

"Alright that's grossly oversimplifying things. And I did have a bond with him!" Dustin defended himself, as Dylan rolled his eyes

"I mean, why would a girl like some nasty slug anyway?" Steve asked

"An interdimensional slug? Because it's awesome." Dustin replied

"Well yea sure until it eats your face off." Dylan said "plus that's like trying a bit too hard, I mean I don't know much about women but I don't think they like slugs."

"I agree, that definitely wasn't the right approach." Steve continued "Well sorry, not everyone can have that perfect Harrington hair." Dustin remarked

"Whoa, it's not about the hair dude, and you see Dylan's mess of curls...no offense." Steve said messing up Dylan hair before walking up closer to Dustin.

Dylan gave Steve an offended look before going back to throwing meat on the ground, Dylan thought about all the girls that have liked him, he wished he liked them back, they weren't ugly, most of them were actually really pretty but Dylan just felt nothing for them.

Like in the 4th grade a girl named Sarah asked Dylan if he wanted to be her boyfriend, he said no of course and ran away, but Dylan pondered why he didn't like her. She was nice and Dylan liked the stickers she had on her lunchbox but he just didn't like her.

Or in 7th grade when Dylan had made friends with a girl in his math class, she ended up confessing to him. Again she was pretty and nice, Dylan enjoyed talking to her but he just didn't like her..........

"That's when you kiss her?" Dustin asked after Steve went on a lesson about sexual electricity

"Woah, woah, woah, slow down Romeo." Steve said "sure okay, some girls yea they want you to be aggressive, but others want you to be slow and stealthy, like a....Like a ninja!" Steve said smiling

"What type of girl is Nancy?" Dustin asked

Dylan saw the look on Steve face, he could tell Nancy was starting to lose interest, the way she would hesitate before saying I love you or sometimes fake giggle at his jokes.

"Nancy's different. She's different than the other girls." Steve said

"Yea she seems pretty special, I guess." Dustin replied "but this girls special, too, you know. It's just, like, something about her-"

"You're not falling in love with her are you?" Dylan asked as he stopped in his tracks "that's not a road you wanna go down Dustin."

"No, no" Dustin responded

"Good don't." Steve said "neither of you should she'll only break your heart, and your way to young for that shit."

Dylan, looked to the ground, he was a bit too late for that advice.

The boys went silent before Steve broke it."Faberğe Organics" Steve said pointing at his hair

"What?" Dustin's asked

"It's Faberğe Organics, use the shampoo and conditioner, and when your hair is damp... not wet! Damp....you do four puffs of the Farrah Fawcett spray." Steve explained

"Damn! That had been bothering me." Dylan said smiling

"Wait, how did you not know what he used?" Dustin asked

"Because he would put duct tape all around his products, he told me one day when I was a man he would show me." Dylan said mockingly

"Well, now you know." Steve said a he stopped and turned to the two boys "you tell anyone I just told you that.....and your asses are grass....you understand that?"

The two boys nodded quickly and they continued on their walk.

"I think max likes you Dylan." Dustin blurted out

"What! No we're just friends." Dylan expressing

"Well yeah, but she still likes you." Dustin said

"Okay......well, I'm not into redheads so.. she's all yours" Dylan said.

The boys continued on their journey to the junk yard.

Yea Dylan didn't really have a thing for red heads he preferred black hair.

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JUNKYARD

They boys made it, looking at all the rusted cars and trash lying around. It brought back memories for Dustin and Dylan, they wouldn't call it good ones, but everything happened for a reason.

  Dylan and Dustin stood next to Steve as the older male just looked around not saying anything.

"Steve, you good?" Dylan questioned giving his older brother a weird look.

Steve sighed "Oh yeah, yeah, this will do." Steve took his sunglasses off and walked forward the two boys following him as they left a trail of meat leading down to where the abandoned bus was.

Dylan emptied out his bucket and stood up straight, cracking his knuckles when he heard a familiar voice calling.

"I said medium well!" Lucas yelled as he rolled his bike up.

Dylan smiled as he saw Lucas but it quickly dropped as he saw the red head girl come into view. He was furious

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        Dylan, Dustin, and Lucas are behind a car in private. Dustin was asking Lucas questions on why Max was here as Dylan just stood behind Dustin not muttering a word, his eyes dead set on Lucas.

  "You told her!" Dustin asked

   "So what?" Lucas replied

    "So what!" Dustin mocked

Dylan couldn't even put into words how he felt, max was a normal girl she had a life outside of monsters, she was free, she could grow up without the fear of being eaten by a demogorgon, or tortured by the lab.

"Look Dylan, I know you don't-" Lucas tried to explain to Dylan but he wasn't having it.

"No Lucas, do you not get how much danger you just put max in? This shit isn't some joke, we don't just recruit people." Dylan's was full of emotion, his eyebrows were furrowed and his lips in a snarl.

"I know but-" Lucas tried to butt in again

"If she ever gets hurt......or killed, it's your fault." Dylan walked away from his friends as he made his way over to Max who was struggling to lift a piece of metal against the bus.

"Hey Dylan!" Max said with a smile

Dylan ignored her and grabbed the piece of metal she was holding and easily put it against the bus, repeating it twice before turning to look at her.

Her face was stretched with confusion. "Is something wrong-"

"One chance" Dylan said

"What?" Max asked

The boy walked closer to her"One chance to just leave, never come back, we won't talk to you and you can just forget what Lucas said completely, lead a normal life."

Max pondered looking at the boy in confusion, before she smirked, still skeptical "Well, I accepted the risk....so.." the girl shrugged

  Dylan just looked at her, his eyes full of sorrow and guilt. He didn't have a good feeling about this.

"Okay....." Dylan said to the girl before walking away to help his brother.

Steve was setting up a path and putting away extra metal parts. Dylan felt like he had to say something, it had been so awkward between them.

"Steve?" Dylan said as he helped his brother.

"What's up?" Steve asked looking at his brother.

Dylan fiddled with his fingers, and chewed on his lip. "I just, I-i..........I'm sorry, I shouldn't have yelled at you, I was-"

"Hey....you don't have to say sorry, you were going through stuff, and you got tired." Steve said he placed his hand on Dylan shoulder, Steve looked down at his brother with regret. Dylan nodded along with Steve."I just feel bad, it's not just me that has hard times....i was selfish."

"Dylan-" Steve chuckled "you're not selfish, you're strong, the strongest kid I know, well technically with your powers you are the strongest kid." Dylan and Steve smiled together at his joke, Dylan immediately hugged Steve, tight.

"We good?" Dylan asked

"Great." Steve replied as the brothers went back to work.

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  The group has finished setting up their trap, metal strapped against the bus, a ladder leading to the roof from the inside, tires for shielding.

They all hopped in the bus closing the door, Dylan could faintly see the sun setting through the slight cracks in the metal. He could smell the stench of gasoline, and meat.

30 minutes passed and it was now completely dark, Lucas climbed up the ladder using his binoculars to keep a look out, there was a thick fog that stopped them from fully seeing the ground, including the bait.

  Dylan sat next to Steve on a bean bag as his brother kept flicking his lighter. Max sat to the left of them facing towards the back of the bus arms folded.

  "So you guys have really fought one of these things before?" Max asked

The brothers nodded as Dylan slightly sat up trying to peak through the cracks again.

"And you're, like, totally 100% sure it wasn't a bear?" She questioned again.

Dylan turned to answer her before Dustin cut him off

"Shit, don't be an idiot. Okay? It wasn't a bear." Dustin said his voice annoyed "why are you even here if you don't believe us?"

Max had a surprised look on her face, as she then sighed and stood up "geez someone's cranky, past your bed time?" Max mocked him as she climbed up the stairs.

"Nice going, she might dig the confrontation." Dylan said sarcastically as he kneeled down next to a window looking at the foggy ground

"No, it's good, just show her you don't care, you're right." Steve smiled thinking Dustin was taking his advice.

Dustin was walking back and forth between the sides of the bus "I don't." He replied

Steve's smile grew as he winked at Dustin

"Why are you winking, Steve? Stop." Dustin said as Steve shrugged fiddling with his lighter again.

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  Dylan was sitting waiting for something to happen, when they all heard a growl, Dylan immediately stood up and climbed the stairs, he was met with Lucas and Max frantically searching the ground, Dylan looked around seeing this dog figure except it had a head like a demogorgon.

"Lucas, ten o'clock!" Dylan whispers yelled as the boy turned his binoculars.

"I got eyes! Ten o'clock! Ten o'clock!" Lucas voiced cracked as he yelled.

"Are you sure that's not just a dog?" Max asked

"Does that look like a fucking dog?" Dylan remarked.

Dylan watched as this new creature sniffed around the dirt but didn't come close to the meat, he then heard the sound of a squeaky bus door, he looked down to see his brother walk out with his bat.

"Steve! What the hell! Get back on the bus!" Dylan yelled, which was ignored by his older brother.

Dylan was concerned and confused, and he was panicking when he remembered. The one thing he's confident in doing. Protecting.

Dylan slid to the edge of the bus and jumped down, against Lucas's and Max's protests.He ran to his brother stopping where Steve was a good distance between each other.

"Dylan go back on the bus." Steve demanded

"Just shut up and find it." Dylan responded looking around.

The two guys were looking around when they spotted one it was slowly coming towards Steve as he was getting ready to swing his bat.

"Three o'clock! Dylan! Steve! Three o'clock!" Lucas yelled.

Dylan and Steve noticed multiple of these dog like creatures, surrounding them. The bus door then opened as a scared Dustin was yelling

"ABORT! Steve! Dylan! ABORT!" Dustin shouted.

Steve and Dylan ran towards the bus, Steve jumped in and waited for Dylan to jump as well, but that never happens he saw his brother give him a small smile before using his powers to close the bus door.

Steve pounded on the door trying to get it open.

Dylan turned to see angry, hungry, teeth flower looking at him. He cracked his knuckles and prepared for a fight.

The first one jumped on him but was quickly grabbed by its neck before being  slammed to the ground by Dylan, another creature attempted to jump on Dylan who heated up the monster, cooking it until it was lifeless.

Dylan could feel the splatter of blood on his face as he killed each creature that tried to hurt him. His body full of adrenaline.

There was still more than 5 monsters left but they quickly ran the other direction, like they heard a calling. Dylan was holding one of them down with his foot, he could feel it squirming trying to run away.

Steve quickly opened the door and the other kids jumped out, they saw Dylan who had some of his flannel ripped off revealing his bandage and some scars, blood scattered across his clothes and face none coming from him except for the nosebleed he started to wipe away.

Dylan grabbed the creature by its head grasping the leaf shaped mouth avoiding the teeth, he then ripped the creature in half and threw it to the side.

Dylan's breath was heavy but he didn't feel tired. "You think this will stain?" Dylan asked pointing at his flannel which was splattered with blood.

"Okay what the hell! How did he do that?" Max asked Lucas she face widened in shock.

Lucas turned and faced the girl "I wanted to ease you into it, remember when I talked about El? From the lab?"

"Yea?" Max replied

"Dylan came from the lab as well, except they don't really bother him." Lucas said

Max looked at Dylan who was brushing off pieces of flesh from the monsters."I can see why......"

"Where did they go? Did you scare them off?" Dustin asked Dylan

"No.......there going somewhere." Dylan replied

"That was so idiotic, you could've gotten hurt!" Steve yelled

"Not as idiotic as YOU walking out here with them....... I have powers, you have a bat that you took from the dude that beat you up." Dylan remarked

He then started walking towards where the creatures ran, he walked a couple of feet before turning around "Are you coming or what?" Dylan yelled as the rest of them ran to him.

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KALI

"But it doesn't have to be scary." A Women sitting on a rooftop with Eleven opens her hand to show a butterfly, it was pretty and it changed colors. It wasn't real though.

That's what number 008 could do, trick your mind.

"This butterfly isn't real." Kali said "Ive just convinced your mind it is."

Eleven was entranced as she saw this colorful butterfly, fly around her. She was focused on it only hearing number 008s voice, not the cars or wind blowing.

Kali reached for the butterfly closing into her hand making it disappear into thin air."We all make mistakes though, even me, I've used my powers for bad things, things papa has told me to do." Kali sat up straight and took a deep breath. "I had to torture....a brother, it was for a "good" reason but it still hurts to think about it."

"Who?" Eleven asked her eyebrows furrowed, curious.

"Have you heard of 013?" Kali asked her face serious

Elevens eye widened"Yes.....he is in Hawkins."

"What? That's not possible, I thought he'd be dead by now....Jane..you need to stay away from him." Kali stated placing a hand on Elevens shoulder

"I don't understand?" Eleven asked she face concerned

"Some use their power for evil.....013 is one of them, he has hurt and killed, he is the real monster." Kali expressed

Eleven stood up "You're wrong! D-Dylan is good, he cares"

"Is that his name?" 008 shook her head "it's only a matter of time until he shows his true colors and all of Hawkins will be in danger."

Eleven teared up at this, how could Dylan be bad? He isn't, no way. She left the rooftop going down the stairs.

What does she mean "only a matter of time" what has Dylan done?

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HAWKINS

Dylan could feel the cool breeze touch his arm as his flannel was ripped, usually he would try and cover up his scars, hide them, but at the moment he didn't care.

"Your positive that was dart?" Lucas asked

"Yes, he had the exact same yellow pattern on his butt, he ran away with the rest of them." Dustin responded

"He was tiny two days ago." Max said

"Well, he molted three times already." Dustin responded

Dylan was trailing behind, looking at the ground all of this chaos made him forget about the Byers and Mike. He wondered what they were doing, he just hoped they were safe, he regrets leaving them. But if he didn't Steve would probably be dead.

"Yea he's gonna eat a lot more than just cats." Steve remarked, Lucas quickly stopped and pushed Dustin to face him

"Wait a cat?" Lucas loudly asked "Dart ate a cat!"

"No, what? no." Dustin stuttered

"What are you talking about? He ate mews." Steve said confused

"Mews? Who's Mews?" Max asked

"Dustin's cat." Lucas replied before he gasped "I knew you kept him!" Lucas finally put two and two together.

"No!....no!...no, I-i no........he missed me. He wanted to come home." Dustin said sniffling.

"Bullshit!" Lucas yelled

"I didn't know he was a demogorgon, okay?" Dustin said

Dustin and Lucas got into an argument, shouting who's fault it was, and who caused the party to be in more jeopardy.

Dylan and Steve backed away, the two heard a screeching from a distance, Dylan walked closer to the sound, hearing it better, it sounded like this things.

"Hey guys!" Steve yelled but the two didn't listen as they kept arguing

"GUYS!" Dylan yelled as they turned to look at him. The boy started running towards the sound, the rest of the boys following closely, max trailing behind.

Dylan didn't know where the hell those sounds were coming from, but he wasn't prepared.