30| GATHERING MATERIALS TO CAPTURE A DEMOGORGON

[ Chapter Thirty ]

❝I mean Steve with his bat and me with my handgun against a demogorgon doesn't sound like enough.❞

[S2:E6: The Spy]

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Beth had no idea what she should even wear for this kind of activity. She ended up wearing a jean jacket over a t-shirt and jeans and sneakers. She parted her hair, pulling part of it back into a hairtie and leaving the rest to flow down her back, but she attached another hairtie to her wrist in case.

When she came out of her bathroom, she wasn't surprised to see Steve and Dustin in her kitchen. Dustin had rummaged through her cabinets and was eating cereal out of a bowl, the box still sitting open on the counter, while Steve was biting into an apple.

"Seriously?" Beth asked, looking at both of them.

"It's not our fault you take forever to get ready." Dustin said through a mouthful of cereal.

Steve smacked the back of Dustin's head slightly.

"And who were the ones who showed up to my house in the early morning?" Beth asked, grabbing the cereal box from the counter and closing it before shoving it back in the cupboard.

"That's fair." Dustin agreed.

"Okay, are we going to stand around and chat about this for the next hour or are we going to capture ourselves a baby demogorgon?" Beth asked the group, grabbing her bag and walking out to the car.

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The three had a successful trip to a supermarket, slightly out of town, where they emerged with enough packaged meat to feed a small army. Despite all three of them being exhausted from little sleep, they went back to Beth's house and spent around an hour chopping it all up into small squares and split it up into containers for transport. Once they were there they would split it up into three separate buckets, one for each person.

"That woman who checked us out looked like she wanted to report us." Beth snorted as she recalled the cashier at the supermarket's face as she watched the three of them dump a huge pile of packaged meat onto the counter beside the cash register.

"She definitely was considering turning us into the police." Steve replied with a little smile on his face.

"As if it's a crime to buy things at the supermarket." Dustin added.

Beth laughed as she carried one of the containers out to the driveway, while Steve opened his trunk and put his container inside, before taking Beth's from her and placing it inside as well.

"Are we going to need more weapons for this?" Beth asked, biting her lip.

"Steve has his bat." Dustin announced, pointing at Steve's backpack that held the bat with the nails.

"Technically that's my brother's bat, I mean he was the one who hammered the nails into it but what I meant was should I get more weapons? I mean Steve with his bat and me with my handgun against a demogorgon doesn't sound like enough." Beth asked, looking between Steve and Dustin.

"You're not using the gun unless there are extreme circumstances, remember?" Steve said, putting his backpack in the trunk beside the meat containers and the empty buckets, "Besides, if someone hears a gun go off then we're definitely going to be in trouble."

"Okay Steve, I get it. No more weapons. We'll just talk to the demogorgon and hope we don't die in the process." Beth said sarcastically.

"Remind me why we needed her again?" Steve turns to Dustin.

"We need her because we needed backup and no one else was answering." Dustin said, sounding exasperated, as if he was an adult and watching two children bicker.

"I'm right here. I'd appreciate it if you don't talk about me like I'm not standing right next to you." Beth huffed, "Okay well at least we have gasoline, I mean in case we need to light anything on fire."

"Why would we need to light anything on fire?" Steve asks.

"Fine. You know what, let's just go. I'm sure everything will be fine." Beth rolls her eyes and opens the passenger side door, dumping her backpack on the floor before getting in.

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The trio had decided to use the abandoned railway tracks that led through the forest surrounding Hawkins so as to avoid contact with most people who would ask questions that none of them wanted to try answering. At the end of the tracks lay the junkyard which is where they decided to assemble their trap and lie in wait for the demogorgon.

The whole way there Beth was silent, leaning her head against the car window as Steve instructed Dustin to try and continue to get into contact with Lucas. Beth thought that it was useless seeing as how he nor any of the others had responded to Dustin's "code reds".

When they got there, the three of them piled out of the car and Steve and Beth got to work separating the chunks of meat into the three buckets so they could each carry one. Then they all put on rubber gloves so that they wouldn't have to touch the meat with their hands.

Steve handed Beth the gasoline and Beth put it into her backpack with a cloth wrapped around it so it wouldn't touch her other things.

"Dustin! Dustin! This is Lucas! Do you copy?"

Beth looked over as she heard Lucas' voice through Dustin's walkie.

"Well, well well. Look who it is." Dustin said sarcastically.

"Sorry man, my stupid sister turned it off." Lucas replied.

"Well, when you were having sister problems, Dart grew again, he escaped and I'm pretty sure he's a baby Demogorgon." Dustin explained.

"Wait. What?" Lucas asked.

"I'll explain later. Just meet me, Beth and Steve at the old junkyard." Dustin replied, "And bring your binoculars and wrist rocket."

"Steve? Steve Harrington? And Beth Byers?" Lucas asked.

"Okay, you ready?" Steve asked Beth and Dustin.

"Just be there stat. Over and out." Dustin replied and looked at Steve and Beth, "Yep, ready."

Beth sighed, "As I'll ever be."

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Word Count: 1024

Hey everyone! We're finally getting into the good stuff! Also, I finally watched part two of season 4 and um yeah I'm gonna change a bunch lol.

(The gif at the top was made by me. Please do not steal it.)

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I love you all and will see you soon for chapter 31!

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7. 29. 22