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"This is the reason I was late for class." Dustin said to Mr.Clarke with Lucas, Clove, and Max by his side.

"Neat, these doors function?" Mr.Clarke asked while looking down on Dustin's box.

"Well yeah obviously, but it's not about the trap, it's what's inside. now this very well may change your prospection of the world." Dustin said as he looked up at his teacher.

"Consider my interest peaked." Mr.Clarke said with a grin.

"Alright first lets just clarify that this is my discovery, not yours." Dustin said causing Clove to groan.

"Dustin jesus! Just show him!" Lucas shouted at him .

"Stop!" Mike shouted as he ran in .

"I'm really sorry mr.Clarke, it was just a stupid prank." Mike said quickly.

"Mike what's going on?" Clove asked but the taller boy ignored her and just grabbed her upper arm to pull her.

"What the hell are you doing?" Dustin asked while Mike began to pull Clove toward the door.

"We need to go." Mike said as he looked back at them.

"Mike-" Dustin began again.

"Right now!" Mike shouted while they quickly followed after the two.

"Hello! Hello, guys! Clove!" Max shouted outside the door.

"Why can't she come in?" Clove asked while Mike stopped Clove from opening the door.

"I don't understand." Dustin sighed.

"What do you not understand?" Mike asked him annoyed.

"Will saw something that looked like Dart last year?" Lucas asked.

"Kinda, but there was no tail." Will said quietly while Clove rubbed his back a bit .

"But he heard it yesterday, the exact same sound." Mike added in .

"Why didn't you tell us before?" Dustin asked the smaller boy.

"I wasn't sure." he shook his head.

"So it's a coincidence." Dustin said as Clove shook her head.

"Or not." she added in.

"What if while Will was stuck in the upside down, he somehow got true sight?" Mike asked while eyeing the four.

"True sight?" Lucas asked.

"Gives you the power to see into the thaperial plane." Dustin said as Lucas rolled his eyes.

"Elaborate." he said while crossing his arms.

"Maybe the episodes Will keeps having aren't flashbacks, maybe they are still real. Maybe he could see the upside down." Clove said as Mike nodded along with her.

"So that would mean..." Lucas trailed off.

"Dart is from the upside down." Mike confirmed .

"We have to take him to Hopper." Lucas said.

"I agree." Mike nodded.

"Good luck with that, he's been avoiding me for the past year." Clover sighed.

"If we take him to Hopper, Dart is good as dead." Dustin shook his head.

"Maybe he should be dead." Mike snapped.

"Mike." Clove scolded him.

"How could you say that?" Dustin asked him.

"How could you not? He's from the Upside Down." Mike shouted at him.

"Maybe but even if he, is it doesn't automatically mean he's bad." Dustin shouted back.

"That's the same thing as saying just because someone from the death star doesn't make them bad." Mike said as Will and Clove shared a look.

"We have a bond." Dustin argued back.

"Dustin, dude, are you kidding?" Clove asked with a look of disbelief on her face.

"A bond? Just because he likes nugget?" Mike asked while holding the same look Clove did.

"No because he trust me!" Dustin said loudly.

"He trust you?" Lucas asked in disbelief.

"Yes! I promised that I would take care of him!" Dustin said as Clove nodded.

"He's got a point." Clove said.

"Seriously Clove?" Mike asked her in disbelief .

"All i'm saying is if you promise something that you'll take care of them, you can't brake that promise!" Clove shouted back.

"I promise, I won't let anyone hurt you ever again El, i'll take care of you." Clove said as she looked at the bald girl infront of her.

"Promise?" El asked as Clove nodded.

"I promise." she confirmed even though she had no clue of it at the time, but she was lying.

Dustin's box began to move around, causing all of them to move back quickly .

"Don't hurt him!" Dustin said as Mike grabbed the speaker.

"Only if he attacks." the boy argued back.

"Open it already." Lucas said as Dustin grabbed the controller, opened the doors for Dart to fall out, making the familiar sound.

"Holy shit!" Lucas said while the slimy creature began to move in a inhuman way.

"What's he doing?" Clove asked from where she put a arm infront of Will.

"Holy shit!" Lucas shouted again as Dart popped out two behind legs while Mike swung at him.

"No!" Dustin said as he pushed the boys hand away causing Dart to fall off the table and run out the door considering Max swung it open.

"Oh shit!" they all shouted while running for the door, causing Clove to tumble onto Max with Dustin and Lucas not too far behind her.

"Sorry." Clove quickly apologizes to the redhead while rolling off of her.

"What was that?" Max asked .

"Dart, you let him escape!" Mike shouted at her.

"Back of Mike, she didn't mean to!" Clove shouted back at him.

"Because you tried to attack him!" Dustin shouted also at Mike.

"C'mon!" Mike said as he ran off.

"Don't you hurt him!" Dustin shouted back while Clove ran the opposite way out the school, she looked all around.

"Dart, where are you?" she whispered, not seeing the figure staring at her from near the bikes.

"C'mon you little shit, Aunt Clove isn't gonna hurt you." Clove whispered as she walked around the corner again .

"Outside is clear." Clove spoke into the walkie while making her way back into the school .

"Clove!" Mike shouted as he ran toward her with Max by him.

"What? Did you find him?" she asked.

"C'mon, bathrooms!" he said while grabbing her arms and pulling her along with him.

"Where's dart?" Mike asked while they met up with Lucas and ran into the boys bathroom.

"I don't know." Dustin shrugged .

"Maybe Will has him." Dustin shrugged his shoulders while Clove looked up.

"Where is Will?" she asked before taking off out of the bathroom, ignoring all the shouts for her to stop.

"Will! Will wake up!" Clove begged the shaking boy on the field with Mike by her side as Joyce and the three others ran out to him.

"We just found him like this, I think he's having another episode." Mike said as Joyce quickly grabbed her son, causing Clove to back up and let her tears fall while Max quickly wrapped a arm around her.

"Will! Will! Sweetie wake up, it's Mom" Joyce begged .

"Will, Will wake up. Can you hear me?" she tried again as Wills green eyes quickly shot open.

"Will you call me when you guys get back home?" Clove asked as she walked with Joyce and Will out the school.

"I will honey, don't worry okay?" Joyce asked as she hugged her and pressed a kiss to her forehead before walking away with her, still in shock son. Clove made her way back to the steps with her friends.

"Okay, that totally freaked me out, did that not freak you guys out?" Max asked as they simple just ignored her.

"It's happening more often." Clove said as she looked at the boys.

"Two episodes in two days." Lucas said as Clover sighed and looked away.

"It's getting worse." Mike shook his head.

"You think it's true sight?" Lucas asked.

"What true sight?" Max asked .

"It's nothing." Lucas shook his head after seeing the look Mike was giving him.

"Clovey, clove hey what's wrong?" Levan asked as he chased after his daughter who just entered the house with a slam of the door.

"I'm so over all of this!" Clove shouted as she threw her bag.

"Wow, hey, what's the issue?" he asked as Clove groaned.

"Everything! Everything is the issue! I have to hide everything from Max, Will had another episode, Hopper ignores me, Moms gone, El's gone! Everything is just shit!" Clove shouted as she feel onto the couch as Levan sighed and walked over to his daughter.

"Hey, kiddo we're gonna get through this." he said while brushing some of her hair back out of her face, causing Clove to look up at him.

"Not everything is shit, you aren't shit." Clove said as Levan chuckled.

"I'm glad you don't think i'm shit, wanna go get some food at the diner?" he asked as Clove couldn't help but smile as she sat up and hugged the man infront of her.

"I miss them too." He said while squeezing her tighter.

"Okay two burgers with extra fries, no tomatoes on either of them. Mayo on one, ketchup on the other with a coke and a sprite." Levan said as him and Clove sat down in the booth.

"Seems like you have our order memorized." Clove said to him with her eyebrows raised .

"Not like we don't come here every night." Levan said as Clove grinned as she over heard two deputies talking.

"Yeah some Mom called, her and her daughter saw a girl just staring at them like she didn't know where to go or something, she looked away for two seconds and the girl was gone." he said as Clove couldn't help but listen in.

"And get this, she said the playset they were at started moving at a weird motion, nothing wind could have done." the other said as Clove frowned her eyebrows and looked back over at her table.

there's no way, no way she could still be around.

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ugh i love el and clove, their reunion is gonna be EMOTIONAL

also if you were wondering

Isla Fisher as Stella Reyes