Chapter 10 

(Tatum's POV)

"Ok. Let's get out of here without getting killed." 

"Right.." I agreed, pulling away from Steve.

"Wait.." Steve whines.

I shake my head and get off his lap, and balance myself. Then reach 2 arms out for Steve and Robin. 

Dustin starts to crack open the door, "Blend." He commands. We all follow.

"Well shit, that worked." Erica shrugged as we all merged into the crowd.

"Of course it did. We just have to get on the bus with the rest of these plebes and home sweet home." Dustin explains.

"Uh... Dustin. We might not wanna go to your house."

"Why?" Dustin questions Steve.

"Well, I might have told them your full name.." Steve says.

"He's right. Shit." Robin sighs.

"What is wrong with you?" 

"Dude, we were drugged!" Steve whisper shouts.

"Steve Harrington, I will never forgive you if my mother is killed by Russians.." I murmur. Steve gives me a small glare.

"Dude! So you resist and tough it out like a man." Dustin whispers shouts back.

"Oh yeah, because you know all about being a man." Steve smirks. 

"Guys.." Robin interupts. We all stopped in our tracks.

The guards were camping out near the exit of the mall, they were waiting for us.

"Run." 

We all started to sprint away, obviously not quietly though.. Because the Russians took notice of the commotion and starting to chase after us.

We ran to the escalators, but they were closed, so we had no other option of how to escape. 

Robin on the other hand, did have an escape route. She grabbed the handles of the escalators and slid down the middle of them. Everyone followed her moves and slid down.

Once everyone had made it down we found a spot to hide behind a counter. We were all out of breath and terrified. I peaked to see if there was anyone near. The Russians were lerking, waiting for us to pop up so they could strike. 

I grabbed Steve's hand and squeezed it tight. His palms were sweaty, but I don't really care considering evil Russians with guns are currently looking for us.

Steve pulled me close to him and quietly kissed the top of my head. 

I grabbed Dustin too and pulled him into our small embrace. Erica gave us a weird look and rolled her eyes. Even when we were about to die she still was sassy, and kept a bold-face. 

I shrugged, I didn't care was she thought though. Stev and Dustin are the only boys in my life. 

I pauses my thoughts when I heard Russian. One of the men were talking to some one on his walkie-talkie. I would assume another psychotic Russian who wanted to kill us and destroy the country. 

We could hear the Russians. Their steps were getting closer by the second, and their tight breathing. 

Then suddenly, a car alarm started to go off. I jumped from the noise. 

We heard a loud crash and Russian men bickering with fear.

"What the hell." 

We all slowly got up from behind the counter to see a car completely flipped over, and all those Russians were wiped out on the floor. 

In that moment I grinned, I knew what was happening. We looked up and saw Eleven, Max, Will, Mike, Lucas, Nancy, and Jonathan.

We all got up from the counter and marched towards our friends. 

"You flung that thing like a hot wheel!" Dustin shouted, running towards Mike and El, giving them a big hug. 

"Lucas?" Erica says, rushing up to him.

"What are you doing here?" Lucas shouts.

"Ask them it's their fault!" Erica points at me, Robin, and Steve.

"True, yeah. It's totally true. It's absolutely our fault." Steve replied.

"What's going on with you guys?" Nancy asked me. I walked over hold open my arms and squeezed her into a hug. Ever since this shit with the monsters Nancy and I hadn't been best friends, we barely even talked. I wished for our old friendship back, but it would never be the same again. I pulled away and gave her a soft smile.

"I'm still totally confused about what happened to that car." Robin says.

"El has superpowers." I grin.

"I'm sorry?" Robin looked totally and utterly mind blown.

"Superpowers. She threw it with her mind. C'mon catch up." Steve says. I walked back over to him and he wrapped her arm around me.

"That's El?" Erica asks.

"Who is El?" Robin interrogated.

"I'm sorry, who are you?" Nancy wondered, gestured to Robin.

"I'm Robin. I work with Steve and Tatum, hint the uniform." She shrugged.

"She helped crack the top secret code." I say.

"Which is how we found out about the Russians."

Jonatham threw up a puzzled face, "What, Russians?" 

"The Russians!"

Everybody started yelling and bickering about everything that was happening. Apparently, Nancy, Jonathan and the kids found out people were guzzling down chemicals. I was so confused, but I started to take notice that El walked off from the group, plugging her ears. It looked like she was facing a headache or some type of migraine, maybe it was over stimulation? She closed her eyes in pain ande fell to the floor with a thud. Everyone rushed over with concern.

"My leg." She whispered out.

Nancy and I knelt down and I reached for the old bandages she had on her leg. I tore them off and was shocked by the sight. 

Everyone groaned and gagged at the disgusting, gory, patch she had on her calf. The side of El's leg started moving and I gasped.

Mike held sat extremely close to El. She wailed in pain as the thing in her leg moved around. 

"El, are you ok?" 

"El? El? El!?" Mike yelled.

Eleven screamed in pain. 

I knew something was seriously wrong. 

 Eleven was still screaming and sobbing in pain as that thing moved around in her leg. Her flesh was sizzling.

"What is that?" Erica murmured 

"There is something in there." 

"No, shit." I sighed whilst staring at the boil on her leg.

"Keep her awake!" Jonathan says, getting up off the floor, and running towards the food court. 

I get up off the flood as well, and sprint over to Jonathan. He was grabbing supplies. I hopped over the counter of the shop he was in.

Jonathan grabbed plastic gloves and a wooden spoon, while I grab a largw kitchen knife and heat up one of the burners on the oven. I hold the blade of the knife in the fire, and then we both ran back over to the group. 

"Alright, El, this is gonna hurt like hell, ok?" I say throwing on the pair of the gloves.

"Stay really still." I say with hesitation. I paused and took off the gloves, "Jonathan, you do it." 

He nodded and tried to slide on a pair of gloves quickly to the knife was still hot. 

I give her the wooden spoon and place it between her teeth, "Bite down on this." 

Eleven screws her eyes shut.

"Do it." Mike confirms. 

Jonathan nods and goes for it. He sticks the heated blade into her leg, and Eleven cries out in  agony.

I cover my mouth in disgust, and pity for the poor girl. Steve pulls me into his chest tightly, grabbing my head to face away from the putrid scene.

Jonathan sets the knife down and sighs. He takes 2 fingers and slowly puts them in El's leg to try and fish out whatever is causing her pain. Blood gushed from her leg and the cut squished as Jonathan reached his fingers in their. El screamed. She was in so much pain.

"Stop! Stop it! I can do it." Eleven squaked out. Tears streamed down her face.

Mike helped her sit up. El took a deep breath and began to pull that thing in her leg out. She was suffering and it was time to end it. She used her powers to draw it out of her leg. Her powerful screams shattered the glass display window near us.

Eleven sobbed as a small creature began to come out of her leg. She threw the creature, and we all watched it as it hit the floor.

It crawled around until is was squashed.

I looked up to see none other than Joyce, Hopper, and Murray Baumen?

A/N:  shit!!! It has been EXTREMELY LONG since I have updated this book... but GREAT NEWS!!

the book will be getting 1 last chapter then it is going to be completely revamped. So say your goodbye to this book before it is under construction. 

THINGS THAT WILL BE REVAMPED:

•The plot

   -It is still gonna have Tatum, and her back story, but a couple of things will be switched and updated.

•The quality 

   -The writing will be updated and a lot better than it currently is. 

•The characters

   -Characters will be more developed and have more depth to them.. plus there might be more added ones!?

•Cover Art, graphics, and fonts

   -all of the things above will be improved to make the story more appealing!

ALSO I MIGHT ADD SEASON 1 

If you are actually reading this book then, thank you.. but also I hope you are looking forward to the new design of this book.

Xoxo, the author