The missing case of Will Byers

11/5/1975 A boy is running through the woods at night, he couldn't see anything. He could only feel, the stinging pain of sticks piercing his feet, the gash on his cheek reaching his neck, the cold air burning his lungs.

He's been running for hours, but it only feels like minutes with adrenaline from fear pumping through his veins. He finally sees the edge of the forest, the road, and a light in the distance coming from the left side.

The scared boy makes it to the road and he's now facing the light, it gets closer, and closer, and it didn't stop, he jumps out of the way, the driver swerved noticing the boy in the road before stopping and getting out of the vehicle

The boy feels dizzy and no matter how hard he tried to get up the pain of his body was excruciating, his adrenaline finally wearing down. He looks at the man walking towards him before looking at his left wrist, a piece of skin burned covered a mark of pain and torture

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Present time 11/6/1983

"Dylan! Wake up"

Dylan Harrington woke up from his nightmare at the sight of his older brother Steve Harrington. Dylan looks at his watch to see it's only 9:00 Am on a Sunday morning. "It's so early, why are you waking me up now?" Dylan asked while yawning, Steve walks around Dylan's room picking up any trash he had.

"Okay first of all it's not early, it's 9:00 o'clock and second of all you have that thing at the wheelers remember?" Steve says his hand on his hip. *right!* Dylan thought jumping out of bed.

"Now Im hanging out with Tommy and Carol today so you can either hurry and get some clothes on-" Steve proposed before he was cut off by Dylan. "No it's okay I'll ride my bike"

"Alright fine by me.....mom and dad left for their business trip last night, so I made breakfast it's downstairs," Steve pauses and then sternly looks at Dylan "be home by 9:30."

Dylan quickly looked at Steve, "wait can't I just stay at mikes house tonight!"

Steve looked at Dylan confused, " Mikes house? I don't know Dylan it's a school night," Steve says.

"Well I have all my stuff there and mikes house is closer to school anyway " Dylan pleaded.

"Alright fine but call me if anything happens, okay?" Dylan nodded with a big smile on his face

Dylan always liked staying at Mikes house, Mike was his best friend so of course he loved hanging out with him, but that wasn't the only reason, being in the Wheeler house was very comforting.

Dylan didn't really like Ted but that was the only problem. The wheelers were the family he always wished he had.________________________________

Dylan was adopted by the Harringtons in 1975 when he was 4. Though he wasn't adopted with love

His "parents" only adopted him because Mr Harrington cheated on his wife and to cover it up and still be the perfect family they adopted the "Hawkins child in need."

You wouldn't know he was a Harrington if you walked in their house, his adoptive parents don't like him being in the family pictures, his mother say it's because he's not actually a Harrington but Dylan knows it's because of his scars, especially the scar on his face, no amount of clothing could cover it up.

Dylan didn't like his scars, they probably came with his freak starter kit the main thing being his powers, Dylan realized when he was 10 that he could move things with his mind, lift really heavy stuff, and make something hot at will. Nothing too serious though just simple actions like accidentally denting metal with his bare hands or burning his clothes but over time he's learned to control it.

He's gotten pretty good at controlling his powers, but he hasn't told anyone, The fear of people shunning him for something he couldn't control scared him, especially since he grew up in a no mistake family. He hasn't even told his closest friends, the party. __________________________

Dylan makes it to Mikes house and knocks on the door, he was met with a beautiful face, Mrs wheeler "hey Dylan! How are you honey!" Mrs wheeler exclaims

"I'm doing great how about you ma'am?" Dylan responds

"I'm doing lovely, the boys are downstairs in the basement" Karen says with a smile.

Dylan made his way to the basement before getting stopped at the kitchen by holly, Mikes little sister.

"Dylan!" Holly exclaimed with a big grin before jumping into Dylan's arms.

"Hey holly" Dylan hugged the little girl, he thought holly was sweet.

He then heard loud footsteps from the basement and saw Mike wheeler emerge from the basement with a big smile on his face. "Dyl, you made it!" Mike ran over and hugged Dylan.

Dylan could feel butterflies in his stomach by the use of his nickname but pushed it aside .

Mike and Dylan made their way downstairs.

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"Something's coming, something hungry for blood!" Mike says in a menacing voice the 5 boys surrounding a table, curious of what's to come.

"What is it!?" Will exclaims slightly standing up from his chair.

"What if it's the Demogorgen! Oh God we're so screwed if it's the Demogorgen!" Dustin worriedly expressed

"It's not the Demogorgen!" Lucas contradicted

"It's probably the Troglodyt-" Dylan tells Dustin before he was cut off by Mike who was sitting in front of him.

"An army of Troglodytes come your way!" Mike said to the 4 boys who all signed in relief.

"Told you" said Dylan looking at Dustin.

Mike then paused and shushed the party "wait, did you hear that?" Mike looked up and around the basement before his eyes landed on the boys in the room.

"No that didn't come from the Troglodytes..... That came from something else" The boys leaned in waiting to hear what was coming. "Boom, boom, BOOM!.....The Demogorgen!" Mike yelled while slamming the figurine on the table.

Dylan held his head in his heads groaning

"We're in deep shit!" Dustin expressed

"Oh God" Lucas signed

"Will your action!" Mike asked

"I don't know!" Will exclaimed looking at the others for advice

"Fireball him!" Lucas yelled bravely

"No it's too risky, cast protection" Dustin argued 

"I think I have to side with Dustin on this one, sorry Lucas but it's too risky." Dylan said looking at Will

"Don't be pussies, Fireball him" Lucas said to the whole group.

"The Demogorgen is tired of your silly human bickering, It stomps towards you, BOOM!" Mike yells

Will is distraught by the boys arguing, he doesn't know what to do, it's really risky to Fireball the Demogorgen but...... "Fireball!" Will yells accidentally throwing the dice off the table.

The boys all jump up to look for the dice, Dylan looks over by the couch, when he notices Mike is going upstairs to his mom, Dylan follows him to talk to Mrs wheeler.

   Dylan walks into the kitchen mid argument, "Dad don't you think-" Mike was cut off "I think you should listen to your mother." Ted says. Karen gave Mike a look before turning to Dylan noticing he was there, "hey honey, what can I do for you?" Mrs wheeler asked.

  "Oh I just wanted to ask if I could stay over tonight?" Dylan asked, Mrs wheeler always let him stay over she wasn't the biggest fan of his parents so she always treated him like a son."Oh course honey, you can stay for as long as you like." Karen said. Dylan smiled and made his way to the garage where the rest of the boys were already there with their bikes

  Dustin and Lucas rode away first saying bye to Mike and Dylan and waiting at the end of the driveway for Will.

"It was a 7." Will told Mike

"What?" Mike asked

"I rolled a 7, the Demogorgen, it got me." Will repeated

"Well see you lat-"  Then Dylan stopped Will grabbing his shoulder,"Hey will, do you need me to ride with you tonight just to your house?" Dylan worriedly expressed he couldn't help but feel a pit in his stomach like something bad was gonna happen. Will smiled at Dylan, "No it's okay I'll be fine.... see you tomorrow, goodnight!" Will said while riding away.

  "You staying over tonight?" Mike asked Dylan. "Yep" Dylan responded with a smile. Mike grinned happily he loved it when Dylan stayed over

Mike and Dylan were in mikes room, Mike sleeping on his bed and Dylan in a sleeping bag next to him. The two boys were talking when Dylan brought up his concerns.

"You know I have a bad feeling about Will, I don't what it is but I'm just worried, I should've ridden with him-" Dylan was rambling before Mike stopped his worries."Hey, Dylan don't worry I'm sure he's fine Will has done this before it's not the first time he rode his bike at night alone." Mike said comforting Dylan's thought

  Dylan pondered for a moment before agreeing, "yea you're right." Dylan said, it was quiet for a moment before Dylan changed the topic"You know, if my brother and your sister get married, then we would be brothers." Dylan said chuckling.

"Ew." Mike responded with a grossed out expression on his face.

     Dylan laughed and matched his expression, "yea, Ew......Brothers just don't sound right for us, I think we should just stick with best friends." Dylan said

"yea totally." Mike responded 100% agreeing .

  The two boys then went to sleep but they both couldn't shake off the feeling of how best friends sounded for them. Brothers didn't sound right but neither did  friends.