*14*

🔥CHAPTER 14🔥

*-*Third Person's POV*-*

Meliah was in complete shock as she stared at the person who just entered the house, thinking she might never be able her, it was the girl who opened the gate to the upside down, sucking me into that dark place.

"Eleven." Mike mutters, walking closer to the girl, holding her in an embrace. "Mike." She gasps out, holding onto him tightly.

"Is that..." Max tried asking, but the two boys standing on both her sides, only gave her a nod yes as an answer, still in shock themselves.

"I never gave up on you. I called you every night. Every night for..." Mike says, only to have Eleven finish his sentence for him, "353 days. I heard."

"Why didn't you tell me you were there? That you were okay?" Mike asks, a little hurt she never reached out to him, leaving him to think sje might be dead all this time.

"Because I wouldn't let her." Shockingly it was Hopper that spoke up, walking up to her. "The hell is this? Where you been?" Hopper asks the girl, stepping closer to him, eleven glared up at him, only questioning him back. "Where have you been?" The man embraced the girl, looking relief to see she was safe.

"You've been hiding her." Mike mutters in realization, "You've been hiding her this whole time!" He yells, pushing Hopper, the chief turned towards him immediately, "Hey! Let's talk. Alone." Hopper says dragging mike towards will's room.

Meliah once again was keeping to herself as she wached the girl greeting all of her friends, and touching Dustin's teeth he didn't have the last time she saw him. Meliah felt kind of bad for Max when she tried introducing herself only to be ignored, and she could tell max couldn't understand why the girl was acting that way.

Eleven cried in Mrs Byers arms, after pulling herself together she asked Mrs Byers if she could see Will, with a heavy heart the woman took her to her room where Will was laying on her bed.

The two came back to the kitchen where the piece of paper was laying that said, close gate, eleven staring at the paper intensely.

"You opened this gate before, right?" Mrs Byers asks eleven.

"Yes."

"Do you think if we got you back there, that you could close it?" Mrs Byers asks again, only having the girl nod her head, making Meliah start feeling nervous.

And so everyone was gathered around the kitchen table once again, trying to come up with a plan to put an end to this. "It's not like it was before. It's grown. A lot. And, I mean, that's considering we can get in there.The place is crawling with those dogs." Hopper explains.

"Demo-dogs." Dustin states correcting the chief.

"I'm sorry, what?" Hopper asks him.

"I said, uh, Demo-dogs. Like Demogorgon and dogs. You put them together,it sounds pretty badass..." Dustin explains getting cut off, "How is this important right now?" Hopper asks annoyed.

"It's not. I'm sorry." Dustin says ashamedly.

"I can do it." Eleven states, directing the conversation back. "You're not hearing me." Hopper says looking straight at her.

"I'm hearing you. I can do it." Eleven states, not looking away either.

"Even if El can, there's still another problem. If the brain dies, the body dies." Mike points out.

"I thought that was the whole point." Max says in confusion.

"It is, but if we're really right about this... I mean, if El closes the gate and kills the mind flayer's army..." Mike tries explaining to her, as Lucas adds, "Will's a part of that army."

"Closing the gate will kill him." Mike says. Mrs Byers turns looking deep in thought, she got up walking towards her room, staring at her son laying on her bed. "He likes it cold." She mutters.

"What?" Hopper asks.

"It's what Will kept saying to me. He likes it cold. We keep giving it what it wants." Mrs Byers says, closing the window in her room.

"If this is a virus, and Will's the host, then..." Nancy says, only to have Jonathan finishes her sentence as he says, "Then we need to make the host uninhabitable."

"So if he likes it cold..." Nancy mutters.

"We need to burn it out of him." Mrs Byers states with determination.

"We have to do it somewhere he doesn't know this time." Mike points out.

"Yeah, somewhere far away." Dustin says.

Hopper knew exactly where to send them, giving Jonathan direction on where he has to go, after eleven said her goodbyes once again those two group left leaving Meliah and Steve with the group of middle schoolers.

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