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"Ok, what's the emergency, that obviously couldn't wait until..." Caroline started as she and Alexis walked down the stairs to the basement. She stopped when she saw the girl on the couch in Mike's jacket.

Alexis furrowed her eyebrows at the girl, her powers we feeling more alert than usual. That only happened when there was something bad was gonna happen or whenever she felt some that someone shared the same DNA as her, a feeling that she hadn't felt since she had passed by one of the houses earlier today asking if they saw Will.

" Who's this?" Alexis asked as she and Caroline stood just behind the boys.

" We found her when we went to go look for Will," Mike spoke up.

She was quite short and petite and looked like she hadn't eaten in days, her hair was shaved, nearly down to the scalp but she looked around the boys' age.

" Mike get her something else to wear," Caroline instructed him and he went to get her clothes that weren't sopping wet. As he gave her the clothes she tried to strip in front of everyone in the room which resulted in Lucas and Dustin to turn around frantically.

" See over there? Sweetie, that's the bathroom. Privacy. Get it? We don't need the boys to see everything." Caroline told the girl with a small smile and the girl smiled back.

Mike led her to the bathroom but she wanted the door to be left slightly open, to which he agreed.

" This is Mental." Dustin started.

" At least she can talk," Mike stated.

" She said no and yes. Your three-year-old sister says more." Lucas argued.

" She tried to get naked," Dustin stated causing the two sisters to chuckle. They stood by the bathroom door and kept on checking on the girl making sure she was ok.

" There's something seriously wrong with her. Like wrong in the head" Lucas declared.

" She just went like..." Dustin imitated her taking her clothes off which resulted in him knocking his hat off and causing the two sisters to chuckle again.

" I bet she escaped from Pennhurst." Lucas accused.

" From where?" Alexis asked.

" The nuthouse Kerely County," Lucas told the brunette.

"You get a lot of families there." Dustin teased.

" Bite me." Lucas barked back.

The boys continued arguing until the sisters heard something about 'another problem', that was when they decided to come into the conversation once again.

" Now, now boys. None of us know, the type of person she is, but that doesn't mean that you shouldn't have brought her here. That just shows that you boys are good people, but we also don't know what she could've gone through or how she got there..." Caroline started.

" The issue is what are you gonna do about your parents?" Alexis continued knowing that she boys went out without the authority of their parents.

" I think we should tell your mom," Dustin said referring the Mikes mother.

" I second that." Lucas voted

"Who's crazy now?" Mike barked

" How is that crazy?" Lucas exclaimed

" Cause we weren't supposed to be out tonight, remember?" Mike confirmed Alexis's theory.

" So?" Lucas questioned.

" If Mike tells his mom and she tells your mom and your mom..." Caroline started

"Oh man." Dustin interrupted.

"Your houses become Alcatraz." Alexis continued.

"Exactly. We'll never find Will." Mike stated.

" All right here's the plan, she comes back with Alexis and me..." Caroline started

" She can't come back with us Care." Lexi interrupted all eyes we're on her now.

" And why the hell not?" Care barged at her sister.

" Our mother, who is back home right now thinking that her daughters are at home sleeping and who is an FBI agent will think that she is some sort of Russian spy and we all know how much the FBI hates Russians..."Lexi started

" Wait for your mom's back." The boys interrupted in unison

" Yeah besides that, I'm with Lucas on this one. I have this really bad feeling about her." Lexi continued, replying to her older sister who understood, whenever Lexi had a bad feeling something bad was gonna happen or there was something bad or dangerous about the person.

" Then she sleeps here." Mike declared.

" You're letting a girl..." Dustin interrupts

" Just listen!" Mike shouts.

" In the morning she sneaks around my house goes to the front door and rings the doorbell. My mom will answer and know exactly what to do. She'll send her back to Pennhurstor where ever she comes from. We'll be totally in the clear. And tomorrow night we go back out And this time we find Will." Mike concluded.

Lucas and Dustin started getting their stuff together, preparing to go home. The girl eventually came out dressed in some of Mike's clothes and she got into a little fort that Mike had made for her to sleep in. 

" Wait, boys. You need to promise us, that if anything happens or you need any sort of help, that you'll call us." Caroline told all 3 of them with a firm tone

" And Lucas, you need to tell Valerie about this. You and I both know how she feels about secrets." Alexis told him.

Dustin and Lucas went up the stairs as Alexis, Caroline and Mike helped the girl get comfortable.

" Hey kid, we never asked your name," Caroline said with an innocent tone.

The girl looked up at them before pulling her sleeve up her arm and it revealed a tattoo of 𝟢𝟣𝟣. This caused Alexis's eyes to widen, she hadn't seen that number in years.

Mike tried to touch it but she quickly moved her arm away, the same way Alexis did 9 years ago. The two sisters looked at each other with confused and worried expressions as Mike kept on talking to the girl who's name was Eleven but we're gonna call her El for short. 

" I'm Caroline, Lina or Care for short and this is my sister Alexis, Alex or Lexi for short." She introduced herself and Lexi to El.

" We're gonna go, El if you need anything just let me know.Ok. Night El." Caroline told El in a gentle tone.

" Night Caroline." She replied in a whisper.

With that their night ended with a very curious and determined Alexis Newby, she knew that there was something about El and her and she is willing to do anything do get her answers. Caroline, on the other hand, felt like she needed to protect El like she protects the boys, to her El, was already like a little sister to her.

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Here's chapter 3 of This is Hawkins.

Hope you all enjoyed

Chapter Question

What do you think  Caroline and El are gonna become?

Over and Out

- Miss Swan