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Hopper and everyone had discussed a plan. The gate is crawling with the DemoDogs as Dustin calls them and Eleven can still try to close the gate. Hopper and her argued a little with her saying that she. Can. Do it. I also helped back her up. Offered her help but she recommended for me to stay and protect her friends. So I have.

Joyce had said that Will kept saying 'It Likes It Cold' and so she and Jonathan plan to take Will somewhere away from the dogs and monsters. They plan to burn it out of him as Will is a host and make Will uninhabitable for the Mind Flayer to be. They took him and went off on their way.

Nancy and Steve went outside and scouraged around with a pile of junk. They probably had another private conversation which I stayed with the kids.

Mike eventually had a private conversation with Eleven and I didn't dare interrupt. Lucas and Dustin left to do something in the kitchen. Which leaves me and Max.

"Hey." She tells me.

I look up. "This is really crazy, but if anything happens. I'm glad you're my sister."

I smile lightly at her and she smiles back. "I'm happy you're my sister too. Regardless of what Billy says."

She chuckles lightly and so do I. Mike already said goodbye to El. And now, it's just me, Dustin, Lucas, Max, Mike and Steve.

Now? Dustin is throwing stuff out of the fridge and me and Max are forced to stand off to the side.

Brilliant.

"I...It should fit now." Dustin sighs.

I look to Steve who has the wrapped up dead Demogorgon in a blanket.

"Is this really necessary?"

"Yes, it is, okay?" Dustin answers aggravated.

"This is a groundbreaking scientific discovery. We can't just bury it like some common mammal, okay? It's not a dog."

"All right." Steve just gives in and I shake my head. "All right, all right."

I really hope El knows what she's doing.

"But you're explaining this to Mrs. Byers, all right?" Steve states.

Steve rams the thing in there but the icky substance from it's mouth sticks to the fridge a little bit like slime or something which I find disgusting.

"Christ. Help me out."

"What am I supposed to do?"

"Get the door, man."

"All right, I got the door."

"Ew, Jesus-"

"God-"

They get interrupted as both boys slam the fridge door. I sigh in relief and Max chuckles.

Steve sighs and rubs the head of Dustin, ruffling the hat around. I turn to see Mike pacing back and forth while Lucas sweeps the glass. Every second he paces, Lucas gets even more annoyed.

I roll my eyes. Max holds the dustpan and I clean up some of the vine papers.

"Mike, would you just stop already?"

"You weren't in there, okay, Lucas?" He sasses.

"That lab is swarming with hundreds of those dogs."

"Demo-dogs!" Dustin yelps.

"The chief will take care of her." I try to reassure Mike, walking up to him. He gives me a questioning look and merely shrugs his shoulders.

"Like she needs protection." Max mutters.

"Listen, dude." Steve sighs walking up to Mike. "If a coach calls a play in a game, bottom line, you execute it. All right?"

"Okay, first of all, this isn't some stupid sports game. And second, we're not even in the game. We're on the bench."

Sounds about right.

"Right so my point is..." Steve stammers.

He becomes silent for a moment and everyone stares at him waiting for an answer. I give him a judging look and cross my arms.

"Right, yeah, we're on the bench, so, uh, there's nothing we can do." He sighs throwing a tea towel over his shoulder.

"That's not entirely true." Dustin says. Me and Steve look in his direction.

"I'm listening." I say which catches the attention of the others.

"I mean, these demo-dogs, they have a hive mind." He begins.

"When they ran away from the bus, they were called away."

"So if we get their attention." Lucas continues.

Um...

"Maybe we can draw them from the lab."

"And clear a path to the gate." Mike nods.

"Yeah, and then we all die." I huff.

"Well, that's one point of view." Dustin acknowledges.

"No, that's not a point of view, man. That's a fact." Steve agrees with me.

Mike's eyes widen like he just realized something and runs between Steve and Dustin. "I got it!"

He runs off to the fridge where there's a two-way path creating one. "This is where the chief dug his hole. This is our way into the tunnel. So..."

He walks off somewhere else in the room. All of us automatically follow. "Here, right here. This is like a hub. So you got all the tunnels feeding in here. Maybe if we set this on fire..."

"Oh yeah, that's a no." Steve instantly points it down.

"The Mind Flayer would call away his army." Dustin says quickly.

"They'd all come to stop us." Lucas says.

"Hey." Steve says but nobody listens. Me and Steve exchange glances at each other.

These damn kids...

"We'd circle back to the exit." Mike looks up.

"Guys." I start.

"And by the time they realize we're gone-"

"El would be at the gate."

"Hey hey hey!" Me and Steve yell at the same time, both clapping our hands. The kids turn around to face us.

"This is not happening!" Steve barks with a glint in his eyes.

Mother Steve!

Wow, that was weird.

"But-" Mike begins. I interrupt him.

"No, no, no, no, no. No buts!"

"I promised I'd keep you shitheads safe, and that's exactly what I plan on doing. We're staying here. On the bench. And we're waiting for the starting team to do their job. Does everybody understand?"

"This isn't a stupid sports game." Mike hisses.

"He said does everybody understand that?" I ask frustrated.

"I need a yes." Steve demands.

Everyone stands in silence clearly disappointed with the two of us. Well, poo sucks for you!

At that moment, we hear an engine revving and me and Max exchange glances.

No no no no no there's no way it would be him!

Me and Max walk toward a window in a quick dash. We go to stare out the window and we can hear rock music playing from the car. Music that we recognize all too well for a specific guys interest.

Lucas comes beside us.

Shit shit shit shit shit shit shit shit shit shit shit shit shit shit shit shit SHIT!

"It's my brother." Max says softly. But her words mean nothing but trouble.

"He-He can't know I'm here. He'll kill me. He'll kill us." Max looks toward us, her eyes flashing between me and Lucas. All three of us most likely. That's what she thinks.

The car stops then revs loudly one last time. There's a look of what seems to be motherly instincts in his eyes and everyone is now on edge.

"Steve-"

"Y/N, you stay right here. All of you." He orders.

"I'll come with you." I whisper as he walks to the door.

He ignores me.

"Steve I-"

He instantly turns around and quickly grabs my wrist. I feel my heart skip a beat as he puts his soft lips onto mine. I jump slightly as he pushes a bit harder into the kiss. I grab his wrist with the hand that he's using to grip mine so we're basically just holding each other's hands. Wowie.

He pulls away and my breath shutters a little bit. The kids are watching but I suddenly don't care.

"Stay. Here. I'll deal with Billy."

I nod silently as he still has my arm. He pulls away and walks out the front door. I hear the car wheels skid and I turn to the kids.

All four of them stare at me in shock. Jeez. The lights go off and all five of us watch by the window as he gets out of the car. He stands there for a moment, with Steve standing outside the house.

"Am I dreaming, or is that you, Harrington?"

"Yeah, it's me. Don't cream your pants." We hear him say. I squint my eyes suspiciously.

Boi?

Billy throws off his black jacket leaving only a really unbuttoned red shirt. I roll my eyes.

Jackass.

Billy slams the car door. "What are you doing here, amigo?"

The two of them slowly walk up to each other while we watch from the inside of the house.

"I could ask you the same thing."

Their voices are faint, in the distance. But we can still hear every word they say. Or at least I can.

"Amigo."

"Looking for my sisters. A little birdie told me they were here."

FUCK.

"Huh, that's weird. I don't know either of them."

"Small, redhead, bit of a bitch? Average, h/c, mega-bitch?"

"Doesn't ring a bell. Sorry, buddy."

He nods silently, getting rid of his cigarette.

"You know. I don't know, this... This whole situation, Harrington, I don't know. It's giving me the heebie-jeebies."

"Oh, yeah? Why's that?"

"My two bitchy sister go missing all day. And then I find them with you in a strangers house."

My eyes widen.

"And you lie to me about it."

"Man, were you dropped too much as a child, or what? I don't know what you don't understand about what I just said. They're not here."

"Then who are they?"

SHIT.

Steve turns his head.

FUCK.

"Shit! Did he see us?" Dustin asks as all of us get behind the couch.

My ears perk to the sound of a noise, Steve grunts and I feel my heart pound.

Not MY STEVIE!!

I hear Steve groan as we all get up from the couch. Billy bursts the door open and stares at all of us. My eyes widen. Lucas stands in front protectively.

"Well, well, well."

Billy slams the door shut making me flinch.

This is it. He walks up to us and I feel my heart pound.

"Lucas Sinclair. What a surprise. I'll talk to you first."

His eyes snap to Max. "I thought I told you to stay away from him, Max."

"Billy, go away." She pleads.

"You disobeyed me." He growls lowly. "And you know what happens when you disobey me."

"Billy..." He ignores me.

"I break things." He grunts.

He suddenly grabs Lucas and drags him along.

"Billy! Stop! Lucas! Billy! Stop! Lucas!"

He rams him against yellow pots and glass stuff as Lucas struggles in his grip. I dart my eyes around for anything I can use but there's nothing. My eyes widen with fear.

I've never seen Billy like this before!

"Get off of me, you-"

"Since Maxine won't listen to me, maybe you will. You stay away from her. Stay! Away from her! You hear me?!"

"Lucas said get off him!" I yell.

Billy turns around and grabs my wrist, using all my force to swing me to the ground. I let out a grunt as Lucas runs off.

"And how could I forget the older sister?"

I jump up and grab his wrist but he throws me to the wall. I yell as the kids scream for Billy to let me go. He puts his hand close to my throat and my heart rises.

"You...I have tolerated you for TOO long!"

I struggle in his grip. My heart pounding and breath rigid. "I know all about you and king Steve. You and your fucking relationship."

He rams me against the wall again. "We're blood siblings Billy! Don't do this."

He chuckles evilly. "What? Do what? Because you have limits with boys too. Steve isn't a hero. A good boyfriend. A leader or nothing. And I wouldn't be surprised if I found out that you were fucking him."

My eyes widen with how casually he says that and his eyes get really dark. "So..."

He gets really close to my face. "You've been fucking Steve Harrington. But I'll kill him. Since he's been fucking you. Your mindless naive body."

I feel disgusted with his words. Those grimmy words that he forced out and so toxic and violent. It makes me shudder.

"STEVE IS BETTER THAN YOU!!"

I kick him and he falls back with a groan. He looks up with eyes of rage.

"You are so dead Y/N. YOU'RE DEAD!!"

Suddenly Steve shoves him. My eyes sparkle with light and joy and Steve smirks at me. STEVE!!

"No. You are."

Steve narks a punch on him and I quickly run to the other kids.

"Are you okay!?" Max asks. I nod quickly. I turn my head back.

"STEVE!"

The next thing I see is something that makes my body go numb. Billy laughs. He laughs like that punch didn't matter. He laughs like he's crazy. Psychotic. Insanity. Out of his mind. Like a robot, his voice sounds like it was recorded like those laughing monkey toys.

"Looks like you got some fire in you after all, huh?"

Steve runs a hand through his hair silently.

"I've been waiting to meet this King Steve everybody's been telling me so much about."

There's nothing but silence. Until Steve says. "Get out."

I shudder. I don't think it'll be that easy.

The two boys stand there for a moment. Before Billy throws his arm back. Steve ducks the punch and knocks Billy in the face.

"YES!! Kick his ass Steve! Get him! Murder the son of a bitch! Get that shithead!"

Mike and Dustin are the loudest as Steve punches Billy to boost him on. I see Billy grab a plate and I gasp.

"STEVE LOOK OUT!!"

Too late. Billy smashes it on Steve's head and he backs up.

"Holy shit!"

Billy goes to punch him but Steve backs up with Billy follows. My eyes are wide. Me and Max exchange worried glances.

He grabs Steve and Steve tenses.

"No one, tells me what to do!"

Billy head buts Steve and Steve falls to the floor.

"WHOO!! GET UP!!"

Steve slides against the floor but instantly moves as Billy grabs him. My heart pounds with everyone else.

Me and Max watch in Horror and Lucas sees our faces. One after the other, Billy is on top of Steve punching him left then right left then right.

Billy screams as he does this and Steve cannot do a thing.

Billy will literally kill him!

Max looks down to see a needle on the desk. She looks toward me. I nod. I grab Steve's bat. I see what she wants to do.

The two of us push past the boys. One step after the other. Walking, pacing, toward Billy. The crazy Billy.

Max raises her hand and stabs the needle into Billy's neck.

And everything stops.

Billy grunts and the kids stop yelling surprised. He quickly stands up as the two of us take a couple steps back. I glare up at Billy. He grabs the needle from his neck, shocked.

"The hell is this?"

"You little shits, what did you do?" He tries to walk toward us, but is unsuccessful and falls back near Steve. I despretly wanna run over to Steve.

But me and Max have a job to do. Two voices. Are louder than one.

"Shit." I hear Mike say. Billy laughs and I grab the bat. Raising it high. Max has her fists.

"From here on out, you leave me, Y/n and my friends alone. Do you understand?"

"Screw you." He manages.

I throw the bat down between the gap in his legs and he lifts his head up surprised. The boys stand shocked as I raise it again.

"SAY YOU UNDERSTAND!!" Our voices scream in sync, creating an echo that sounds like it's multiple. Our voices are powerful, combined and loud.

"SAY IT!!" We say together.

"SAY IT!!"

"I understand." He croaks out.

"What?" Max asks.

"I understand." Billy says a bit louder.

Two girls can beat one asshole.

He sighs sadly, shutting his eyes. Done, dusted. Clear. I run over to Steve who is passed out.

"Steve?! Steve!" I shake him lightly but his face is a mess. Tears sting my eyes. I pick Steve's hand up, but nothing.

Max gets the keys from Billy's pocket and jingles them.

"Let's get out of here."

I turn to Steve. I nod. "Steve with us."

Max nods. "Let's go do what we wanted."