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Steve nestled Kathleen against him and put an arm around her waist. keeping her on her feet. In order to move quicker swiftly, they pretended that Steve and Kathleen were dating in order to avoid appearing overly skeptical.

As patrons began to leave the cinema, Dustin poked his head out from the bathroom door as he watched people discuss the movie. They all moved quickly into the crowd as Steve and Kathleen started to speak like a couple, acting as though it was their date night. ''Well, shit, that worked.'' Erica comments.

As they moved in the direction of the door, Kathleen grinned at her. It obviously worked. '' Course it worked. We just have to get on the bus with the rest of these plebes, and home sweet home, here we come. '' Dustin exclaimed. that at least one of their strategies had so far been successful.

Steve seems a little uneasy about what Dustin had just said, Kathleen noticed. "Uh, Dustin? Yeah, we might not wanna go to your house. Well, I might've told them your full name.'' Steve admitted, Kathleen's eyes grew wider as she rapidly remembered that she had also revealed them her name.

''I have to move.'' Kathleen muttered to herself.

''What is wrong with you?'' Dustin questioned. but he keeps moving his eyes forwards to avoid drawing notice.

''Dude, I was drugged.'' As a result of Steve's little too loud defending, Kathleen nudged him slightly.

''So, you resist. You tough it out. You tough it out like a man.'' Dustin said in agitation as they continued to walk.

As soon as Robin reached out and grabbed Kathleen, Steve, Dustin, and Erica all came to a stop. ''Guys.'' she said, pointing to the entrance. Two Russian men were there inspecting people's identification. They wouldn't be able to leave with those two standing there

"Abort," said Dustin. Kathleen wondered where they could hide. They obviously knew the entire layout inside and out and would be detected in no time. "Abort, Abort, Abort," Dustin pushed as they all sprinted towards the escalators, Kathleen staggered as Robin assisted her. Dustin quickly decided to throw all caution to the wind and slide down the middle.

Erica, despite her hesitation, immediately followed Dustin as she slid down the middle of the escalator. Both Steve and Robin assisted Kathleen in sitting. She grinned when Robin gave her hand a light peck, which caused her to slide down, and Erica and Dustin both assisted her in getting off.

They had all finally arrived at the bottom when Erica inquired, "Where do we go?" When Dustin caught a glimpse of one of the food benches, he made the decision to leave. "Apparently there." She remarked as the others trailed closely behind.

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When Kathleen heard the man footsteps circling around, she forced herself to hold her breath. They were all discreetly tucked down beneath the bench. She was holding onto Robin's arm and was being encircled by a terrified Erica.

She overheard the man talking. knowing what was going to happen next, the words broke her heart. Kathleen turned to face Robin, who had watery eyes and was already looking at her. They were both unsure of what would occur next, but Kathleen mouthed the exact words that she had spoken in that room.

Robin tightened her grip on Kathleen as the footsteps drew nearer, and they both closed their eyes. only for the car alarm to start sounding, startling everyone. All of a sudden, there were smashing noises and a complete stop. They all exchanged perplexed glances.

They all took a moment to gather themselves before cautiously beginning to emerge from behind the bench. presently observing a wrecked automobile with bodies on the ground. They all turned to look up and saw several persons standing there. The front-row girl and the girl with red hair were unknown to Kathleen, but the rest of them were people she recognized or had heard of.

The gang hurried down as they all began to laugh and reunite, Robin was still holding Kathleen by the waist. Will Byers was looking at her with a saddened expression, Kathleen filed that thought away for later.

''That's El?'' Erica questioned.

''Killer style kid,'' Kathleen remarked. The older girl offered her a wink while the quiet girl gave her a brief smile.'

''Who's El? '' Robin asked, not really knowing what was going on.

Nancy examined the two while seeming perplexed. ''I'm sorry, who are you?"

''I'm Robin." She remarked with a smile. She turned to Kathleen, who was preoccupied at looking at the now-crashed car.

When Kathleen felt eyes on her, she turned to see that they were all actually looking at her. ''I'm Kathleen Munson, but you can call me Kat." she introduced herself with a small wave.

''You're Eddie Munson's cousin.'' Jonathan spoke out and made a small recognition, for the first time. She had the impression that nobody was judging her.

''That would be me.'' She nodded

When Kathleen's leg started hurting, the group started to argue. She also started to stumble a little. Robin saw her slight trembling and inquired, "Are you okay? " She shook her head, and Robin sat her down on the bench.

Before anyone could notice, eleven covered her ears and appeared to be in pain. She then fell to the ground. They all hurried over because they should be concerned because the girl was essentially everyone's lifesaver. "What's wrong, El? El!" Mike queried. crouching next to the girl, who is plainly hurt.

''My leg. My leg.'' She whimpered in pain.

Jonathan began removing the crimson bandages. There was a gash underneath it all with movement inside of it. Although Kathleen could just just make out what was happening from where she was standing, she still focused on her leg as everyone began to sigh and turn away in disgust. fervently praying that whatever that is on her leg was nothing more than a big ass cut.

Eleven screamed in agony as the pain in her leg continued to worsen. Kathleen had to turn her head away after witnessing the poor girl's suffering. yet she hissed in pain since her leg hurt so much and she couldn't figure out why.

'' Keep her talking, keep her awake, okay? '' Jonathan commanded before starting to run. As Kathleen stood up and staggered up to the girl, she felt tears welling up in her eyes. Even though she didn't know her, the blonde girl vowed to do everything in her power to console and maintain her composure.

Kathleen sat down next to the young woman slowly. ''Hey rock star, can you look at me" She spoke softly. as the trembling girl turned to look at her. ''You're doing fantastic, I know how agonizing it can be to feel as though your leg is being torn apart because it kind of happened to me earlier. ''she remarked with a tiny laugh that caused the girl to gaze at her in confusion.

She carefully removed her own leg's bloodied bandages. exposing a significant wound that extended from the bottom of her knee to just over her ankle, "It's hurting a lot for me right now, but I'm hoping not as much as you, so what I'm gonna do is grasp your hand and we can both squeeze through the pain okay.'' She responded with a hopeful smile.

''It's, uh... You know, it's not actually that bad. There was a...goalie on my soccer team, Beth Wildfire, this other girl slid into her leg, and the bone came out of her knee,six inches or something, it was insane." Robin stated attempting to assist even if it wasn't necessary.

''Robin....You're not helping.'' Robin just apologized before crouching next to Kathleen and placing her hand on the young woman's shoulder. Kathleen leaned in to the touch as she kept her eyes on El.

With a variety of items in his hands, Jonathan returned in a hurry. "This is gonna hurt like hell, okay? Need you to stay real still. Here, you're gonna want to bite down" She received a wooden spoon from Jonathan. El quickly bit down. In order to reassure her that she was still here, Kathleen gripped her hand.

Before he began to cut into El's skin, Jonathan turned to face her. As Kathleen let EL to squeeze her hand, EL yelled in agony. As she looked at Mike, who was looking at Kathleen thankfully, she rubbed her arm. While Kathleen began to shed a few tears out of sympathy for the girl in front of her, Robin kissed the girl's head.

''I can do it. I can do it.'' She let go of Kathleen's hand.

Once more extending her arm, Eleven began to pull on the monster that was resisting her. Glass walls started to break as her screams became too loud. Robin immediately covered her so that no one fell on them.

When the thing was finally freed from her leg, Kathleen felt her eyes widen as if she was about to throw up. It was finally hurled across the floor in the hopes that it would perish.

When it attempted to crawl away, someone stomped on it, putting it out to its agony. Along with the others, Kathleen looked up when she noticed Joyce Byers, Chief Hopper, and a man whose identity she was unsure of. All she knew was that something was moving in their direction and it wasn't Russians.

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Well that's all from me. I hope to see you in the next update