A/n Sorry for not posting any sooner. Also, this chapter is dedicated to my sister. Happy Birthday!!
Nancy's pov
Nancy opens her eyes to find herself in a place which the opposite of living itself, a blanket of the cold shivering silence covering the area because of the lack of life, where it's always dark and everything is covered with tar and rotten. It was the exact opposite of normal life. Where viruses and bad creatures thrive and feed on anything that dares to move, the upside-down.

She was lost. She knew that. And the first thing to do was to look for Johnathan. Nancy took her flashlight out and started scouting around. The deafening silence was being cut off by the crunching boots on the grounds. What was crushing beneath it, Nancy wasn't sure she wanted to know.

She was cautiously making her way through the forest, wanting to look around a bit before shouting for Johnathan. Her flashlight flickered and she stopped. Suddenly a sound came and Nancy whipped her head around and her breath caught. She saw a creature, that creature, the one who ate barb. She knew it, she couldn't see his face but she knew it. She was frozen in fear and her blood ran cold and she tried to prevent herself from screaming.

Nancy shook herself out of a stupor and slowly stepped back, trying not to catch the monster's attention but stepped on a branch and ran when the monster roared in anger.

"JOHNATHAN!!! JONATHAN!" She screamed and On the other side, Johnathan screamed her name in an attempt to find her.

She ran around this weird identical forest trying to find him.

"JONATHAN WHERE ARE YOU!" She screamed.

"NANCY! FOLLOW MY VOICE. FOLLOW MY VOICE." Nancy tried to find the source of the voice. She ran and ran and ran. Her heart was beating out of her chest and she was sure the monster could hear it.

Nancy ended up at the same place where the monster was. She screamed as she tried to run away. She scrambled behind the tree, trying to calm herself and hid from him. She could still hear Johnathan's calls which seemed to be getting louder.

She let out a whimper and pushed herself against the tree hoping that the monster would go away. She heard the leaves crunching under its feet and screamed when it roared in front of her. Its head got closer and closer and closer and its mouth opened and........
"Nancy!NANCY! Wake up!" Nancy got up with a start seeing her brother with a frown and concern on his face shaking her arm. She was hyperventilating and she was sweating profusely. She didn't seem to realise it was a dream.

Her eyes darted around as she gasped tears and started sobbing loudly. Her heart was beating out of her chest and Mike rushed to hug her.
"Nancy. You're okay. You're safe. You're at home." He kept on whispering soothing words in an attempt to calm her down.

Nancy and Mike's parents weren't at home. They had gone away for a few days to visit their aunt. It had been three months since Eleven and the Byers had moved away.

Nancy slowly started calming down and her eyes were unfocused as she stared at a random spot in her room.

"Do you want to talk about it?" Her brother asked. She shook her head trying not to let any more tears slip out.
"Do you want water?" He asked to which she nodded her head.

Her brother unwrapped his arms from around her and went downstairs to get her a glass of water. Nancy looked around her as she saw that the blanket was crumpled at her feet and her pillow was on the other side of the room leading her to believe she must have thrown it. She took deep breaths as Mike entered the room with a glass of water which she took gratefully.

"I heard you from my room." He admitted.

"I heard you screaming and I rushed here. You were kicking around in your sleep. You kept on shouting Johnathan's name and I didn't know what to do. So I came to you and started shaking your arm," he said

"What were you dreaming about?" He asked hesitantly not wanting to upset her.
Nancy was silent for a while. It had been almost two years since that....incident had happened yet it was fresh in her mind.

"You remember that time two years ago when barb had died and eleven had run away?" She said. Mike never knew about the incident.
"Johnathan and I, we uh, went investigating. He had taken some photos when it happened, but it happened so quickly, he didn't see it happen. We saw the Demogorgon in one of the photos, so we went to the forest, at night. A deer was wounded by a car accident and you know how blood attracts it. We wandered around for a little while and Johnathan went scouting ahead. I saw this weird tree which kind had this huge hole which was covered in goo." Mike's eyes widened as his breath hitched.

"I went inside and reached the other side."

Mike's voice was barely a whisper as he said, " You went to the Upside Down."

He grabbed her hand as she continued, "We got separated from each other and I went looking for him and dem- it came." Her voice caught as she squeezed her eyes shut.

"We barely made it out with our lives that day."  She concluded.
Mike gulped and said, "I never knew. Did you ever have nightmares before?" He asked and Nancy contemplated telling him the truth.
She relented and said, " A couple of times but Johnathan was always able to calm me down. I hadn't had one in months so this one took me by surprise.

"I miss him, so much." She said and her voice cracked. She tried not to cry but Mike hugged her again and the tears spilt out. The whole experience was traumatic for both of them but Nancy bore the brunt of the after-effects. And now he wasn't even there.

"I know. I miss her too." He was referring to el, who was with the Byers. They had been together for as long as Nancy and Johnathan had been together and it was hard on him too."

"Do you want me to call him?" Mike asked.
"No. He's probably asleep. I don't want to wake him. I'm fine thanks to you." She said and smiled gratefully.

"Will you be able to sleep? Or do you want me to stay?" He asked and Nancy's mind flashed back to when she was small when she used to sleep in the same room with Mike.
"Can you stay?" She asked and he nodded. He went to his room and got his pillow. He got a bedroll and spread it on the floor. He slid into bed and got ready to sleep. He reached out his hand and grabbed Nancy's for comforting her and they both fell asleep.

A/n Just a bit of brother-sister fluff. Also uhh, I was supposed to post this on June 14 which was like my sister's birthday and I'm highly overdue but still happy belated birthday?

Your sassy author
Mal