09. FIGHTING MONSTERS

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"Let me lace up my boots, cause imma slay some giants."

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SOMEWHERE IN HAWKINS

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Eleven sat laying in the bathtub in the school's gymnasium, but she wasn't really there she was somewhere else. She was looking searching, for a little missing boy, but who she found with him was not what she expected.

Kneeling next to the boy was an older girl with a worried expression on her face as her brow furrowed as she tried to keep his eyes open.

"Girl." El said to the people surrounding her, which consisted of half of the Byers, and many other people.

"What do you mean girl?" Joyce asked El, who was laying simply in the tank.

"Girl with Will." Eleven said slowly, as Joyce gasped with relief but she still didn't know who the girl was,

"What does the girl look like?" Hopper asked leaning closer to Eleven.

"Girl. Gone." Eleven slowly but surely spoke as Joyce continued guiding Eleven to her boy.

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STEVE HARRINGTON'S CAR
FIVE MINUTES AWAY FROM
THE BYERS HOME

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Emma's eyes shot open and she sat up breathing quickly barely noticing the panicking Steve next to her.

"Emma? Are you okay?" Steve says as Emma continues hyperventilating, she knew then. If she could trust someone with her secret. It would be Steve.

So Emma told Steve. Everything. About the Visions. About how she was home when Will went missing. The creature without the face. Every last detail.

And Steve listened.

Actually listened.

The entire drive to the Byers.

"So... your kind of like a superhero?" Steve chuckled smiling at Emma who rolled her eyes.

"Kind of. But I think we should probably go see my brother." Steve nods and they walk towards the front door and Steve halts a second before he begins banging on the door.

"Jonathan? Are you there, man? It's... it's Steve and Emma! Listen, we just want to talk!" Steve shouts through the door, and an unexpected voice responds,

"Steve Em, listen to me." Nancy says firmly opening the door quickly causing Steve and Emma to each raise an eyebrow.

"Hey. Nancy, what..." Steve slowly says,

"You need to leave." Nancy cuts him off.

Steve begins to stutter, "What? No, I'm not trying to start anything, okay?"

"I don't care about that. You need to leave." Nancy firmly spoke a slight under turn of worry in her voice. But Steve ignored her and began stammering,

"No, no, no. Listen, I messed up, okay? I messed... I messed up. Okay? Really. Please. I just want to make things right. Okay? Please. Please..." Steve freezes as he and Emma catch sight of Nancy's bloody and bandaged hand, "Hey, what happened to your hand? Is that blood? Are you..."

"Nothing." Nancy stutters, "It was an accident."

"Yeah, what's going on?" Emma said trying to connect the dots as Nancy tried to say nothing was wrong before she was cut off by Steve.

"Wait a sec. Did he do this to you? Nancy, let us in!" Steve rambled defensively.

"No. No! No, Steve!" Nancy said trying to stop Steve and Emma from barging in to no avail. The room was filled with Joyce's lights, and decked head to toe in dangerous weapons.

"Jonathan why the fuck are there weapons everywhere?" Emma asked solely to her brother ignoring Nancy and Steve's argument behind her.

"Ems you need to leave, you don't know what you're doing." Jonathan said, as the lights began to flicker ominously as Steve and Nancy still fought, the twins being the only people in the room aware. Jonathan grabbed his sister's wrist and pulled her behind him.

"Nancy! The lights. It's here." Jonathan shouted as Steve clueless as ever still continued to ask questions.

"Where is it?" Nancy asked thrashing around her gun looking for what Emma was guessing was the creature with no face.

"Where is what? Whoa! Easy with that!" Steve called out as the gun pointed in his direction.

"I don't know. I don't see it." Jonathan said seriously.

"Where is what? Hello? Will someone please explain to me what the hell is going... " Steve started before he was quickly cut off by Jonathan as the monster with no face, appeared in the corner of the room, coming out from the ceiling.

"No! Go! Go! Run! Go! Get out of here!" Jonathan tried to say to Emma and Steve but his voice was overcame by the monsters growls. "Jump!" Jonathan cried as they jumped over a bear trap and ran into Wills room slamming the door behind them.

"Oh, my God! Oh, my God! Jesus! Jesus! What the hell was that? What the hell was that?"

"Shut up!" Emma Jonathan and Nancy all said in sync as Emma gave Steve the 'I'll explain later look'.

"What's it doing?" Nancy said as the nosies abruptly stopped.

"I don't know. Do you hear anything?" Jonathan asked Emma who was the closest to the door.

"No." Emma said shortly as she opened the door out into the hallway gesturing for Jonathan to lead the way.

"This is crazy. This is crazy. This is crazy. This is crazy! This is crazy! This is crazy!" Steve called out as Jonathan cut his hand so that the monster would come back, "What are you do... What are you doing? Are you insane? It's going to come back!"

"So you need to leave. Right now." Nancy said firmly, this time Steve didn't waste a second.

Steve runs to the car, pulling a persistent Emma's hand out with him. They opened up their car doors, but looked back at the house. The lights were flickering. Nancy's screams filling the air, pleading out Jonathan's name.

In that moment Emma and Steve knew what they had to do, they ran faster than they had before into the house, Steve picked up Jonathan's bat and Emma picked up the gun she always kept in the hatstand since Will disappeared.

Emma shot out the bullets like crazy as Steve swung the bat. Emma and Steve tried to direct it into a corner, as it scratched Emma's arm causing a streak of blood to run down it.

"Emma!" Nancy yelled as the blood dripped down Emma's arm. Then there was a click Steve had swung the bat hard enough to lock the monster into the trap.

"He's in the trap! He's stuck!" Jonathan called as the lights continuously flickered on and off in the surroundings.

"Jonathan, now!" Nancy screamed as Jonathan threw the

"Did you hear that?" Emma said slowly as the flames went up surrounding the burning creature in hot flames.

"Get back!" Jonathan cried as he extinguished the fire causing everyone to cough.

"Where did it go?" Emma asked looking around as the group panted, the only sign that creature was ever there was the blood and the burnt off shrivelled skin left on the floor.

"Gone. It has to be dead." Jonathan says through short breaths, "It has to be." Then Jonathan turned to Emma who was blinking slower and slower. "Ems?" Jonathan stared at his sister and then saw her arm. "Shit."

That was the last thing Emma could remember.

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HOSPITAL BEDROOM

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Emma woke up blinking slowly as the noise and smell of the hospital became aware to her senses. On the chair sat Steve Harrington, he was asleep clearly it had been over 12 hours as the sun was shining through the window.

Emma groaned, her arm was bandaged up, she lent her head back and when she looked at the ceiling. Fuck. She was there again. But she couldn't be.

They had killed it. Hadn't they?

Emma blinked and she was back again in the sterile room. And she decided to just do herself a favour and just be there. And not worry about whatever was going on inside her head.

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{MONSTERS IN MY HEAD}
ACT ONE COMPLETE

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LILLY SPEAKS—

ACT ONE IS DONE!! WOO HOO!!!
IM SO STOKED ABOUT IT

also did you notice when Steve was worried about Emma it's the first time he's said her name the whole book! (I may be wrong,)