"Listen to this." Mike pulled the payphone back as they all leaned in close to listen to the repetitive beeping. "That remind you of anything?"

"WarGames." Will nodded his head.

"What's a WarGame?" Locke frowned his eyebrows.

"Like video games, yeah?" Theo nodded her head, looking up at Mike.

"What?" Jonathan gave an odd look, holding it to his ear.

"Oh my god, we're not calling a phone." Will confirmed.

"We're calling a computer." Jonathan agreed with him.

Locke and Theo shared a look. "Do you understand anything?"

"Not a word." she shook her head at him.

"She might be a computer like Joshua or Owens' lab." Mike hurried to the van, yanking the map out. "But Unknown Hero Agent Man gave us access to it for a reason."

He grabbed Theos arm, pulling her next to him. "Look, just in case."

"In case of what?" she flashed him an odd look.

Will looked over as Locke blocked his eyes from the sun. "You okay?"

"The sun is just giving me a headache." the curly haired boy nodded. "Didn't exactly have time to grab any sunglasses."

"You kinda have to-" Will explained, demonstrating a cupping motion with his hand. "Sorta like a bowl...it'll block the sun more."

"We just need to find the computer. We find Owens, then we warn him." Mike laid the map out after the back of the van was risen due to Theo, he looked at her. "Then we warn Eleven. I just need a hacker. The only hacker that I know lives in Utah. Theo...what can you do?"

"Me?" she gapped at him.

"You're always on the computers, the radios. You have to know something." he explained, eyes getting a little wider every word. "You're so smart. I know you can do something."

Theo inhaled. "You know someone in Utah, you say?"

"Yeah, she's a genius." Mike explained with a nod. "But, I don't know an address."

"Utah?" Jonathan gave an odd look.

"Salt Lake City, to be specific." Mike rose his eyebrows.

"Oh my god." Will shook his head in realization. "Oh my god."

"What? Why 'Oh my god' ?" Jonathan stared at his younger brother with an odd look.

"Turn around, look at what you see." Will sung with a grin across his face, Theo smiled at his minor dance.

"Oh no." Jonathan held his forehead.

"What is this?" Locke frowned his eyebrows together but had to smile.

"NeverEnding Story. That scared the shit out of me." Argyle smiled with a nod of his head. "The Nothing, man? That's some proper existential shit, dude."

"If we take the I-15 north, we'll get there by morning." Mike pointed down at the map again. "Still don't know an address though. That's where Theo comes in."

"Oh, you're being serious." Jonathan gapped.

"How am I suppose to know an address?" Theo rose her voice with an insane look to Mike.

"I know it sounds insane, but Suzie saved the world last year." Mike looked back at him. "Maybe she can save it again. Theo, an address!"

"I don't know what you're expecting of me!" she yelled back with wide eyes. "I can't just-"

Mike smiled as he saw the look of realization on her face. "Took you long enough."

"Come here." Theo grabbed his shirt, pulling his to the front of the van. She hopped into the drivers seat while he got in the passengers side. "There's a very small chance this is gonna work but I can try."

"It's our only option." Mike nodded, placing his hand on her shoulder. "You got this."

"Okay." Theo breathed out. "What does this Suzie listen to? Does her family believe in music? Radios?"

"Dustin said they're super religious white people." Mike said back with a nod. "That help?"

"I think so." Theo gave a smirk, twisting the radio nozzle. "If i'm right, and that's a really big if, because we're so close to Salt Lake, we're likely on the same radio waves."

"Now what?" Mike looked at her as faint gospel music played from the radio station.

"Argyle!" Theo leaned across Mike to yell out his open door. "Hey!"

"What can I do for ya', dudette?" he gave two upside down peace signs.

"Do you have a program with all the radio station numbers on it? They usually come with the van!" Theo called back, Mike leaned back to give her more room.

Argyle rose his eyebrows to think about it. "Might have accidentally cooked it."

Theo pulled back, her and Mike eye to eye again. "We're fucked then."

The back doors flew open, Locke inhaling as he stared. "No, we are not fucked at all."

He climbed in, starting to pull the van apart and look high and low. Will walked over and began helping, making Theo and Mike do the same. "See anything?"

"Bunch of empty pizza boxes." Will tossed a few to the side.

"Magazines." Mike did the same.

"Spare change." Locke held up a couple pennies. "Anyone wanna get a slushy?"

"And a...pepperoni?" Theo held up the nearly black pepperoni. "Did anyone accidentally slice their nipple off?"

"Found it!" Will hollered out, holding up the program. "Theo-"

"Thank you, genius baby!" Theo cheered, jumping out of the van as Mike hurried to follow.

"Nice work." Locke smiled at Will.

"Thanks." he smiled back.

"What is the plan?" Mike was close after Theo as they went to the pay phone. "You gonna let me in?"

"Go turn up the radio, really loud." she encouraged as Jonathan beat Mike to it, turning the radio up loud enough for her to hear from the phone. She dialed the number of the gospel radio station in. "What's something Suzie would know? Something to let her know it's us and not just a stranger if she's listening."

"She calls Dustin Dusty-Bun." Mike shrugged. "They went to Camp Know Where."

"That's good." Theo cracked a smile.

"Seems like we have a caller in hopes of getting closer to God." the woman on the radio station spoke when the song ended. "You're on the line with WFMV, where prayers get answered. What could we help you with?"

"Hi, i'm looking to gift my friend with a prayer." Theo spoke, her voice echoing into the radio a few seconds after. "For Suzie. Her Dusty-Bun was hoping to remember some Jesus filled memories from Camp Know where. I'm only looking for a certain secret combination to not just jog, but drive, my memory to."

"What does that even mean?" Mike whispered, getting shhed as Theo hung up. "That's not gonna get us anywhere."

"You said she's a genius." Theo shook her head at him. "If she's actually a genius, she'd pick up on what I was trying to say."

"I never would." Mike leaned on the payphone as another song played after Theos call.

"Which is why you aren't genius enough, Michael." Theo nodded, cracking him a grin. "Trust me."

"I'm trying to." Mike agreed.

"Don't you wanna get your girlfriend back?" Theo winced when she said it to him. "You said this is our only option."

Mike hesitated. "She's not my girlfriend."

"You know what I mean." Theo shrugged her shoulders.

"Yeah, but, still." Mike argued with her. "She's not my girlfriend."

Theo rolled her eyes. "Forget I said anything then."

Locke watched the two from the van. "Somethings so weird with them."

Will looked over to watch them continue to bicker slightly. "You think so?"

"Yeah." Locke agreed. "Really weird."

"I feel like we're arguing for no reason." Mike exhaled down at Theo. "Like, it's completely unnecessary right now."

"Because you're annoying me so bad, Mike." Theo gave him a harsh glare. "Seriously!"

"What? What am I doing?" his eyes grew wide with a crazy look.

"Acting like you're not trying to her her back." she explained with an exhale, rolling her eyes and tossing her hand as she spoke. "You've been trying for almost a year and now you're actually weird toward me when I just say what we're both thinking."

"Okay well i'm not the only one who's beyond confusing right now." Mike defended himself with a shrug. "For someone who wanted to win Chad back so back, you were really quick to jump on a plane to California just to get away from him."

Theo rolled her eyes. "You don't know what you're talking about."

"So then why can't you just explain it better? Why wouldn't you want to scoop fro-yo with the guy you've been trying to win back for months?" Mike threw his hands around in confusion and judgmental eyes.

"I don't know, okay? I just didn't think it was a good idea anymore." Theo shot back at him. "How could I when you stayed up all night at my place the night before?"

"What?" Mike shut his eyes in confusion. "What-why does that mean you don't wanna scoop frozen yogurt?"

"Jesus." Theo laughed in disbelief, looking away and shaking her head. "You just don't get it, and I really don't expect you to."

"Don't get what? That maybe you missed me too?" Mike mocked her, leaning onto her level.

"No, that I was scared of loosing you." she shot back at him defensively. Mike shut up and stood straight again. "No one has ever stayed at my house before. Not even Locke. You stayed the whole night and it just made the think that Chad would have never done that, he would have just made me feel more embarrassed then I already was."

Mike could tell she wanted to say more, so he fought back the urge to talk until she was finished. "So, I thought if I held out a little bit longer, wait until summer at least, I wouldn't have to loose you yet and I could build up a tolerance of not taking everything you do to heart. Then it'd be easy to break it off between us and Chad and I get back together, and you and El make it work again. I just wasn't ready to let it go."

"Theo." Mike really did lean on her level, making them be eye to eye as he held her shoulders. "You aren't loosing me. I'm here. Right here."

She gave him a sad look. Mikes right hand touched her face. "I keep wishing I can be there for you but then you bring up calling it off."

"Because that's what it boils down to. Chad and El." Theo shook her head, his hand stayed on her the whole time. "They're the reason we even started this in the first place. You love her, you want her back. And I feel the same about him."

"And then I came to California and missed you the entire time!" he rose his voice, not to yell at her, but more himself. "I mean, what does that even mean?"

"I don't know, Mike. I wish I knew!" she agreed with him, their tones matched.

"I-" Mike began.

"We've got Suzie on the line, calling back from the message she received right before our recent song." the radio lady spoke when the song ended. "You're on the air, Suzie!"

"I was just calling to let Dusty-Bun know that the code is 682." Suzie spoke up, Jonathan hurried to write the number down. "That's in cabin Berrywind, north bunks."

"682, Berrywind. North of Salt Lake." Theo smiled with a nod. "She got it. She understood my message. That's her address."

"Yeah!" the boys cheered on Theo as Mike hugged her.

"Genius!" Locke yelled, running over with Will as Jonathan and Argyle hoisted her up onto their shoulders to celebrate. Theo didn't realize that in those few seconds, when she felt loved by three people that didn't know her and two that saw the evil in her but chose to love the good, that she'd never been happier.

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im never gonna be able
to listen to satellite again
without thinking of them.