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C H A P T E R E I G H T E E N

" THE MASTERPLANS "

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| D E C E M B E R 25th , 1986 |

H a w k i n s , I n d i a n a

"Y/N, I LOVE YOU."

Mike stared at the corner of the room where
Y/N once stood, his eyes tearing up at the loss of her presence.

His words echoed solemnly as Mike now stood alone in Y/N's room.

He hoped that she heard him, she left too early for him to be able to tell if she did or not.

What was she talking about? She was going to single handedly break her and Hopper out and escape by themselves?

There's no way he was going to lose her.

As much as he knew Y/N would be angry at him for ignoring her warnings, he couldn't worry about that now. He needed to be sure she would be okay.

"Guys!" Mike stormed into the living room where everyone lay asleep, now startled by Mike's outburst. "Guys, wake up!"

"Jesus, what is it?" Lucas groans, rubbing his eyes as he pulls his arm from its draped spot around Max laying next to him in their shared sleeping bag.

"Guys, seriously!" Mike yells again, effectively startling everyone awake. "Wake the hell up!"

There was no way Mike was going to waste another second knowing that Y/N and Hopper were going to try to escape solo tonight.

There was much to be done, and Mike had a plan. Well, sort of.

"Alright, alright!" Steve yawns, his hair ruffled as he sat up from the floor's sea of blankets.

Everyone was now awake and annoyed, glaring at Mike for an explanation for waking them up.

"Guys, you'll never believe who I just saw." Mike walked over to stand in front of the living room so they everyone could see him.

"Michael Wheeler, it's very late, so I suggest you go on and hurry this up—.." Murray began to sass, before Mike scoffed and interrupted him.

"I just saw Y/N." Mike blurted, earning widened and confused eyes all around the room.

The room fell silent, everyone trying to decipher what Mike meant.

"Wait a minute, wait a minute," Joyce mumbled, rubbing her temple to try and figure out what Mike was talking about. "You actually saw Y/N?"

She was hopeful. Mike nodded furiously, his eyes wide with raw curiosity and determination.

"Yeah, she was actually here. Well, not psychically, but I could see her, she said she didn't have a lot of time." Mike began to ramble, effectively confusing the group even more.

"Kid," Billy eased, his hand rubbing his eyes before putting his attention to Mike. "Slow down, calm down, just take it easy."

That was a breathing therapeutic technique that Will had taught Billy when it came to dealing with their PTSD from being in the upside down and having panic attacks because of it.

Mike listened, and took a breath, but couldn't seem to settle his nerves and adrenalin.

"Yeah, slow down a little," Max added, rubbing her eyes, "You actually saw Y/N? You talked to her?"

"Yes!" Mike blurted, irritated that the effort to hurry was not being pursued. "It was more like she visited me through the void like El does, but I could see her. I don't know how she did it, but she did."

That was just Y/N being herself. She gets things done, and she does things no one would ever think possible.

There was no one quite like Mike's Y/N.

But although Mike didn't know exactly how
Y/N did it, all he cared about was her safety.

"What the hell.." Steve mumbled to himself,

"Oh my god.." Joyce smiled to herself at the now very solidly proven fact, that Hopper and Y/N were both alive, and in Russia.

"Now, we need to hurry! She needs our help."

"Wait, what? What did Y/N say?" Will asked, sitting up from his sleeping bag.

Mike hesitated for a moment.

He could tell them what she really said in which the party would tell him to listen to
Y/N's warnings, or he could bend the truth and they could go help her.

He opted for the second choice.

"She said that she and Hopper were being held in some place, but they're going to break out tonight." Mike gestured to the ground. It wasn't entirely a lie.

"So, she said that if we want to help them out, then we need to be at the gate under Starcourt, because that's where they'll escape out of since it's the same way they got in."
  Mike explained, the group's eyes blinking simultaneously as they tried to understand.

"No fucking way.." Billy mumbled to himself, running a hand through his permed curls as he finally realized that the young girl that practically saved his life now needed his help too.

"Well, what's the plan?" Dustin pitched in, now standing up. "We definitely need one."

Mike shrugged, his plan mostly consisted of just going to the gate and barging in, hoping to find Y/N waiting for him there. But for obvious reasons, that wouldn't work.

"If we meet Y/N and Hopper at the gate, we'll need to lead them to the entrance." Will remembered, knowing that there could be a different route inside the upside down.

"What do you mean?" Joyce asked intrigued, turning to her son with his messy hair.

"When I was in the upside down, there was no gate exit or entrance. You and Hopper saved me from the outside coming in, and somehow navigated through the upside down to get back to the gate entrance you came in from." Will explained.

"So, we'll need to lead Y/N and Hopper to the gate's entrance." Will paused, unsure. "The gate can't be easy to find after all the time they've been in Russia. They might not remember where it is."

Mike seemed to understand what Will was referring to. "Then we'll need to go into the upside down, find them, and bring them home. Just like El mentioned earlier." He stated.

There was a silent understanding, everyone seemed to be under the same influence that this would be all they needed in a plan.

They were all on the same page. They were all willing to do everything it took to save Hopper and Y/N, and that's exactly what Mike needed.

He was going to save them.

He was going to save the girl that he was in love with, even if it was the last thing he ever does.

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| D E C E M B E R 25th , 1986 |

K a m c h a t k a , R u s s i a

Y/N stumbled back onto her bed as she recovered from walking in the void, her grey eyes fading back to their usual eye color.

Her breathing was heavy as she struggled to catch up to it, her adrenalin trying time settle down.

She shakily lifted two fingers to her nose, pulling them away to see the red maroon color she knew all to well.
Her healing powers must've not worked fast enough to keep the blood from flowing from her nose.

Projecting herself visually in the void to another person outside the void was very difficult, so it made sense why it took so much out of Y/N.

She had just seen Mike. And he saw her.

It hurt her to leave him as confused as he was, and it was hard to be as blunt and straightforwardly rude at one point, but she needed to.
She needed to be sure Mike was safe when she returned.

And she wasn't sure if she heard correctly, but before she returned, she heard Mike yell something.

She couldn't hear it very clearly, but as she closed her eyes, she tried to remember and relive the moment for just a second.

She tried to find the memory to relive, her eyes darted around behind her eyelids.

And there it was.

"Y/N, I love you.."

Y/N's eyes shot open, her jaw dropped as her breathing was staggered.

"Holy shit.." She froze.

She couldn't help the blush that sprinkled her cheeks, but she couldn't help but have mixed emotions.

Mike was her best friend, and after that night with the battle at Starcourt Mall, she tried so hard to convince herself that she wasn't in love with Mike.

She tried so hard. But seeing him again just undid all her progress in doing that.

She couldn't help herself.

Did he mean 'love' in a romantic way, or the best friend way? Did he really mean it in the first place?

Would she even mind if he meant it in the romantic way? The way she felt for him..

Stop.

You don't have time for this. She stopped her overwhelming thoughts.

She shook her head, her controversial thoughts finally dispersed from any more debate. Her emotions didn't seem to be important to her at that moment.

That's what the facility and her training had done to her. Her emotions were uprooted, and didn't seem as important to her anymore.

She hated it. She refused to become what Brenner wanted her to become.

She didn't want to become the hostile, the heartless, the mindless, the brainwashed, the monster, that she feared she was becoming the longer she was in the facility.

Seeing Mike helped her with her fear of becoming that, and it was an old habit of hers.

Seeing Mike always gave her a sense stability and reassurance. Just seeing Mike, reminded her of where she came from. That's why she..loved him.

She was still human, despite her blood.

She needed to get out of here, and as fast as possible. She needed to get back to her friends. She needed to get back to Mike.

Y/N slid to the stone concrete flooring of her cell, sitting with her knees crossed. She needed to talk to her dad to make a plan to get out.

She closed her eyes, focusing on finding her father as she began her walk through the void.

Dad..

Her voice echoed through the darkness, her footsteps were alone until a pair of sounds joined her.

Y/N..

She saw her father's figure approaching her confusedly, responding to his daughter's calls.

Y/N sighed with relief as she saw her father, a sense of reassurance washed over her.

"Dad, it's tonight." She blurted hurriedly, knowing they didn't have a lot of time to talk. It was always risky talking through the void.

Hopper scrunched his eyebrows. "What's tonight?"

Y/N sighed dramatically, "Tonight, we're getting out of here." She smirked confidently, yet seriously.

Hopper's eyes widened with realization, nodding understandingly as he already began to think up of a plan.

A plan to break out of a top secret, government secure, underground Russian facility.

"Tonight, we're breaking out of this hellhole."

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Authors Note :

HERE WE GO, I'M SO HYPED.

i just finished writing the entire ending for this book, and not gonna lie, it's a crazy ending. it's a lot to take in, but i think i like it.

but that's not for a little while longer, but not too far away ;) 

!! OKAY WOW. actually, some of you guys are like legit predicting the plot of this story,
( i won't say who or what they predicted )
and idk how but you guys are doing it, but i'm thankful you guys are so interested in it !!

HERE WE GO.

THE BEGINNING OF THE END.. or is it?

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what do you think about all this ??

any theories ? any predictions?

thanks for reading.. stay tuned !!

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