*27*

🔥CHAPTER 27🔥

*-*Merliah's POV*-*

Eleven moved the TV towards the living room, to check where Billy was again.

"What's he doing now?" I ask her, playing with my fingers nervously, as she wiped her nose, when she looks towards me, all she told me he was still sitting in his room, doing nothing.

"And that's not normal, right?" Nancy ask me.

"Billy will never be caught at his house on fourth of July? It's unheard off." I tell her, Max nodding her head in agreement.

"He wants us to find him." Will points out.

"Yeah, that's what I'm afraid of. If we go to Billy, then the rest of the flayed know where we are." Nancy says.

"It's a trap, I agree. We'll be ambushed."  Mike says.

"We won't be surprised. We'll know that they're coming, and we will kick their flayed butts." Lucas states.

"You mean El will kick their butts." Max corrects him, I know I would like nothing more than to have my Billy back, but I won't put others lives at stake just for my happiness.

"It's too risky."

"Yeah, and unnecessary. Killing the flayed won't stop the mind flayer. We have to find out where it's spreading from. We have to find the source." Nancy tells us all.

"Billy knows it. Billy's been there. To the source." Eleven tells us, coming from the kitchen.

"Yeah, but..."

"It's a trap, I know." Eleven says, cutting Mike off. "We can't go to Billy, but I think there's another way. A way for me to see where he's been." She explains to him, and he couldn't do anything, but agree.

Eleven puts on the tv once again, on statics, and sat down infront of it. "El, I know you think you have to do this, but you don't. It's just, you've only done this before once, and your mom, she loved you, and wanted you to know what happened, and Billy's mind is... Is sick, diseased. The mind flayer is in him." Mike explains to her, trying one last time, to have her back down from this.

"He can't hurt me. Not in there." El says to him.

"We don't know that." Mike says, El turned towards him, taking his hand. "Mike, I need you to trust me." El says to him, he looks towards Max and I, both giving him the look.

"Yeah, just... Be careful." He says, going to sit back down on the chair closest to her, everyone else came sitting down as well. El closed her eyes with a cloth, and I paid close attention to her, all I wanted to know is if my Billy is still in there.

Eleven started shaking and breathing heavily. "Something's wrong." Mike says, i stared at the girl in concern. The shaking stopped after awhile.

"I'm okay." El says calmly.

"What's going on?" Mike asks.

"I'm... On a beach." El tells us.

"Okay, I may be dense, but the last I checked, there weren't any beaches in Hawkins." Lucas says, confused.

"What else do you see?" Max asks her friend.

"A woman. She's... pretty. I... I think she's looking at me. There's... a boy. It's Billy."  Eleven tells us what she sees.

"It's California. It's a memory." Max states, looking down sadly.

"I think I see it. The source." El states, making me start feeling very nervous, as i watched her, every second that passed, while she was quiet, had a nerve in my body jump.

"I think I found it. The source." El spoke up.

"Where, El? Where are you?" Max asks her.

"Brimborn... Steelworks." El says. Jonathan got up, getting the phonebool, he quickly went through it. "Here, okay, uh, steelworks, steelworks... Uh... Here, steel. Found it. 6522 Cherry Oak drive." Jonathan says.

"That's close." Nancy says.

"El, El, we found it. Get out of there. Get out." Mike tells her. When she finally pulled off the cloth from her eyes, screaming, "No!"

"El, you're okay. It's... it's okay." Mike tells her, taking the girl into his arms, who started crying, I wasn't sure what happened while she was coming out of her trance, but whatever it was, had scared her a lot.

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