IRIS
Goo-Goo Dolls.

Murray Bauman is a lot of things. Eccentric is the main one, certifiably he is an outside the box thinker when it came to being on the nose and correct with his observations, which Milly honestly found refreshing. But he isn't an idiot. He knew things, such as her powers and how it affects her every day life living. Murray kept an eye on Milly during her time in Hawkins, with some help from his numerous of high technical advanced skills and hacking her telephone line to listen in on her ( in his defence he was doing it for good and not to conspire against her ).

Murray, who is humming the Russian national anthem to unnerve Alexei ( off tune but still in a way on beat to impress Alexei ) pouring a bit of vodka in a chilled glass, grins upon seeing Milly casually walking out of the bathroom in a robe.

" Did you enjoy your refreshing shower, missy? You are just in time for Jim to bring us our long awaited food." Murray, sipping on his drink, said making room for hopper to place a Burger King bag on the coffee table. Jim, whose grunting became louder with his attitude about having to buy Burger King for Alexei too, nods.

" I hope you brought Melissa something, Jimbo. Can't forget the mother of your child now can't you."

Milly rubbed her hands, anticipating her meal, greedily takes her bag of a medium whopper meal deal she ordered. " Two whoppers. Extra ketchup, Large fry, pack of Marlboro reds. One whopper meal for Mils check." Melissa, as she watches the looney tunes episode chewing on a fry, leaned back in the brown couch tucking an old decorative pillow over her stomach. " and an extra large.. slurpee." Jim, him comfortably slouching down on the same couch and with a spread of his legs pushing his hips up to get an edge off the discomfort he feels of Milly being in a robe fresh out of the shower, grumbles.

" Burger King is nowhere near the seven eleven by the way."

" Never said it was." Murray, feigning a sense of innocence, fluttered his eyebrows flashing a smile at Jim. He snapped his eyes at hearing a laugh come out of Milly, his grin stretching up higher when Jim placed a needy hand on Milly and her bare leg. " She isn't going nowhere, I think it's safe to say you don't need to crowd her, Jim. Why don't you let her enjoy the tv? I just might make the assumption you are doing that to mark your territory. Yes?" He cocks an eyebrow at Hoppers hand slightly tightening.

" Can we try this again. Mils? Mils? Hey, Mils. We going to try again." Hopper stated, needing to get her attention away from the cartoons by taking her food as she tried to bite into her burger, Milly crossed her arms, listening as it the only thing to make her burger be back in her hands quicker, faces Alexei. He, mouthful of whopper sticking out of his lips, glances at Milly once she started to speak Russian.

" Алексей. Что делают эти генераторы, о которых вы упомянули? Что они питают?."

Alexei. What are those generators, you mentioned, doing? What are they powering?

Murray, not familiar with Milly's Knowledge of the Russian language ( which is saying a whole lot as he basically knew everything when it comes to the detail of Melissa's life ), pointed a finger at her.

" Мы знаем, что это не владельцы Starcourt, которые управляют этой операцией, Алексей. Пожалуйста, будьте честны с нами. Будь честен со мной."

We know it's not the owners of starcourt, who are running this operation, Alexei. Please be honest with us. Be honest with me.

" Мелисса, ты говоришь по-русски?."

Murray, blown away by her ability to speak with a perfect dialectical voice other than an ordinary English one, said; impressed. You speak Russian, Melissa? Milly merely shrugs. Alexei spat out the contents of the Slurpee, as it wasn't the correct flavour he wanted to have, saying how it tasted like 'Shit strawberry.' She understood Alexei, one likes the taste of a strawberry Slurpee, and she had seen hopper's eye twitch at his reaction to the drink. " What is he saying, Mils? Murray? Why did he do that for?" He, calmly, asked. Milly pinches her nose out of habit to her stress rising.

" it's strawberry. His Slurpee." Murray replied, in the same tone as hopper. " he doesn't like it. The flavour. Hence the spitting out of drink."

Milly, retrieving her burger back in her grasp, bites into the meat and salad stuffed bread to continue eating. " He did specifically say to get him a cherry one, Hop. I agree with 'lexei, that flavour is pretty shit. Strawberry's are good on their own but as a flavour? Nope." She muffled her words, bits and pieces of the burger spit in the air. " You should have listened, Honey."

" Well they didn't have Cherry. They only had strawberry. And it doesn't matter, because it all tastes the same, okay? It is sugar on ice. You tell him that, why don't you? .. please?"

Melissa, Side eyeing hopper, pinches her eyes. Jim closed his mouth, fixing his tone as he face Milly, clapping his hands together and spoke in a nicer tone.

" Can you say to him Smirnoff.. Alexei that those things taste to god damn same and don't have a single difference to em."

Murray slyly smirks watching the big bad chief of police becoming softer, than a literal child's teddy bear, talking to Melissa and he snorted a little loud. Jim glared at Murray for it. Milly's eyes rolled back out of habit to listening to Jim and finished eating her burger. " It's the same. Sugar on ice, No difference." Murray spoke for Milly, giving her a break from talking and her needing to deal with hopper, using a hand as a way to shrug. " Melissa agrees with you, tho."

" Tell that stupid man it is not the same in the slightest. I would like the Cherry I requested. Tell the pretty American woman, Melissa, she deserves to be with someone else who doesn't choose strawberry over Cherry. She knows it."

" You forget I can understand you, Alexei. You know I do have ears and can hear you. Stop it, he made a mistake and he'll get you one or if he won't do it I will make the trip myself."

" He respectfully disagrees." Murray, speaking up while keeping back a grin at Melissa's sassy comment, replied in English. A twinge of one emotion in his eyes, amusement. " it's not the same at all. And he would like Cherry. He even said he finds Milly pretty, you know. You should really watch out, Chief. Alexei might steal your fiancé from right under your nose." He, acting like he didn't stir the pot of hoppers bubbling rage he had, stated. " If you aren't careful."

Alexei's mindless laughs echoed and it seems to trigger hoppers rising temperament. His eyes are blown, you could see the veins in his eyeballs bursting. " I Yeah? You can tell him he can forget it. And how I'd appreciate it if he didn't call my fiancé pretty." Jim, slowly seething repeating the same up and down leg motion on his right side, cracked his knuckles. Milly sighed, scooting over to his side of the couch, placing a hand on his chest.

" Forget it. Just Cherry. He would appreciate it if.. you didn't speak inappropriately of the pretty.. of Melissa like that. I suggest you did not do that too. She is a good friend of mine, I want her to be respected, Alexei."

" No Cherry, No deal. Also, I am sorry for the pretty comment, Melissa. Though I don't hold regret for the statement."

" He says No cherry... No deal." Murray stated. " And that he is apologetic for the fact he called Melissa pretty." He left out the part where he'd said he wasn't regretful for calling Milly pretty, Melissa knew too, Jim rubbed a hand down his bushy protruding moustache on his face eyeing Alexei. He inhaled, composing himself, before it breaks. Milly, squealing out in surprise when Jim exploded in an anger rush jumping out of his place on the brown sofa, watched him grab Alexei by the shirt collar throwing him on the same coffee table. Murray, on first instinct he had, rushed around to Milly and moved her.

" Wait. Wait. Wait. Wait. Hopper, Stop. Stop it, be careful of Missy!" Murray yelled at hopper, as Hopper tossed Alexei back into the green chair almost bouldering his way in Milly's side. " Come on, Come on. Stop it, Jim. Think about this! What are you doing?"

" I'm teaching Smirnoff here that it's not okay, here in America, to call another man's woman pretty! I'm just giving him the opportunity to get his own damn girl and .."

Jim, dragging an entirely terrified Alexei out to the door of the building, and threw him out onto the bitumen. Melissa, hand on Murray's shoulder peaking a ways out at Alexei groaning at the force of the impact of being thrown, cringes. " Cherry Slurpee."

Murray leans back, whispering to her. " I don't think he liked that, Missy." She did a symbol of a pinch using her thumb and pointer. Saying 'I think just a little.'

" Oh, Jimbo. You're so jealous, it's hilarious to see."

Melissa, dressed in one of Murray's tank tops she tucked in the front of her jean shorts while her hair freely fell down her side, leaned on the back of her the sofa directly behind Jim, who is way more calmer than before holding her free hand.

" He calls it the key, and this Key emits a great energy. It requires much strength and power."

Blueprints of a machine, Alexei hand drew on his own free will, are scattered on the coffee table. Calculations and estimates, of size, range in a sequence of numbers Milly's brain couldn't take in. She's smart but however this is an entire different level of advanced information.

" Those houses, like the one you found, they're located near, uh, transformers. They're uh stealing from your towns power grid."

" Why build this key here? Why are they not doing this in their own backyard?" Jim asked, feeling Milly move her hand to wave away the cigarette smell. Alexei had opened the packet of smokes Jim purchased for him and Melissa hated the repugnant smell of the cigarette bad.

" What are they trying to do, blow all of us to.. what? Smithereens?"

Not being able to stand the smell longer, Melissa moves herself out of the equation by walking off to go stand outside and she breathed in the fresh air. She didn't know what was going on with her body, Milly's thoughts go to fatigue. She hadn't rest once not since she got to Murray's.

The causal murmur of chatting came from in the building, Alexei explaining to Murray and to hopper the ins and outs of those Keys being all around Russia which failed to be a success.

Deciding she needed to have a peaceful break, considering she is surrounded by Men and their testosterone, Milly jumped into the back seat of the Todfather and got comfortable. She laid down her body, on an incline, using both of her hands curling her feet and legs into her stomach. Her eyes take no less than a second before they start closing. While she is sleeping her eye balls began shifting beneath her eyelids as she started to enter a dream-like state.

Milly woke up, in her dream, hearing the all too well known sound of an ear piercing baby cry. But the thing is she is in her own bedroom back at her childhood house. In an abandoned crib, the crying was coming out of, it changes to a disgusting gurgle sound of a DemonDog which made Melissa cry out in surprise as she fell back away from the demoDog as it crawls its way out of the babies bed.

It started to emit a growl, creeping towards Melissa. She tried using her powers but she realises nothing came out of her palms and it dawns on her she is going to die. That is when He Sent it flying out of the window, making it whimper as it fizzled into nothing. Milly, eyes slowly increasing in size at the figment of her imagination, arose from her 'bedroom' floor.

He hadn't changed. Nothing had prepared her to come face to face with him, again. Melissa, throat dry and her heart erratic with each of its beats, did a barely audible gasp seeing a sleeping 'Sarah' resting in his arms. Stroking baby Sarah's hair, stalking forward to Milly's spot, Henry coldly stared straight into her soul. He is in his human form. " Well, Hello. I see we meet again, My love." Henry smiled. It chilled Melissa, he hushes little Sarah, and she stayed frozen as Henry calculated his steps.

" This is what I wanted. I finally get to see you once again, after all this time away. And you.. created a little family of your own. Hmm, it's honestly a disappointment you didn't wait for me to make my return. This could have been.. Our daughter. Melissa."

He, still with-holding her 'daughter' from her, grazed Milly's cheek and she inhaled sharply. Henry had her by her neck, applying pressure to the part of her throat her jugular breathing tube is, softly forcing Milly to stare straight at him. This is her nightmare. This had to be all a Nightmare.

" Give me my daughter, Hen.. Henry. Give me her."

Henry, gripping her jaw, glared down at her.

" You.. you had no one. No one to count on, no one to believe you when you first experienced the true ferocity of your true nature. I was the one there, for you, I was the one that helped."

He snarls darkly. 'Sarah' sensed the Evil and she started to wail.

" Then you ran straight in the arms of... your police man. Soon as you're back in that forsaken place. You thought there was a way for you to evade me but you, Milly, my love. You made an error."

Henry leaned down grazing his lips on her left ear. " I was the one to love you first. I was the one to have you, my little pet. You're Mine. I can be the only that truely loves you." Henry, transforming in his other monstrous form as he kept his taloned hand on her throat, stared at Melissa with a gaze that dared her to move. " You've always been mine. Yet you've beared.. your soul and body to he. I can sense you have yet grown another that churns in your blood. Both of your offspring bear a great power like I and you, Melissa. Strong."

" I don't under.. I don't understand, Henry. I was never yours, to start with. Why? What did I do to deserve this? You say you love me. This isn't love, Henry!" Milly, pleading, said. " You don't hurt the ones you claim to love."

Henry scowled. " Don't lecture me on the label of love, Melissa. I am in tune with how I feel and that is you.." His throat rumbled as did a distorted growl, inching a hand close to Milly and her stomach. " You.. are mine. All mine. I see it as fair game if I am in competition for a spot in your heart than you shall simply have no other chance than to.."

As if burned by an unforeseen force, Henry jumped back in shock at the sight of a flurry of brown hair barging in through the roof. it's a male in his mid twenties. His eyes were bright ambrosia, scornful are his irises as he snaps his eyes to a scared Melissa.

" D...Dad?"

Milly said, stammering.

" You're alive? How..? Are you alive?"

" Go, Mud-bug. Go!" Abraham yelled at Milly.

" You'll be seeing me again, Soon! I promise!"

'Sarah' vanished in thin air, Henry's tendrils slither on the ground and Melissa started to make her escape out of her 'Bedroom'. While she is running, out into the hallway, questions bombarded her mind.

How is her biological dad Alive? Was that really him? Was it just her mind creating an illusion out of fear for her life and she sought out her parents? Is he really alive, if he is, what is he doing in Henry and hers joint 'dream'?

She ran like her life depended on it and it did. For the sake of wanting everything but to be back with hopper. Out of the house she spins her body right back to the upside down house, it started to crumble and ghostly shrieks left the foundations as her 'Home' began shaking.

Abraham came barrelling out of the house, a second before the entire place broke off into different pieces. He start gasping for breaths, holding on to Melissa for dear life covering her head, and eventually it fell quiet. Milly, a face full of shock, looked at Abraham as if too much information was flooding her head at the same time. Her dad is really here. Real.

" How are you... why are you.. young? How are you alive? What happened?"

" I can't answer that, Mud-bug. All I know is that you don't belong here. You need to go. Be with your family, Kiddo. Your little girl."

Abraham, avoiding his daughter's need for an explanation, sniffled deeply holding on to her head staring into her beautiful brown eyes. The ones she inherited from her mother.

" I can't be with you, in the real world. I can't.. I can't leave this place without bringing you.. and your mother, your little girl, danger. It's too risky. I belong part of this world now, it's in me. Mud-bug."

" But dad I just got you. Please come home. I.. just got you, Dad. Please. You can meet you.. your granddaughter." She tugged his hand on her stomach, the echoey sound of a Heart is heard all throughout the upside down. " You can be there to meet your second... your other grandchild."

Abraham remains resilient and the place he once had a heart in ached at the first sight of a tear in his daughter's eyes. His Ambrosia eyes leaked tears of their own.

" I need you, Dad. Please. Mom will be so happy. I will be happy to have you home. Please."

" It's time to wake up, Mud-Bug. Darkness.. is coming and you need to be ready to fight for your life. Your little girls life." Abraham says, kissing her forehead, as his face became but a faded light memory and she feels her mind is starting to become more awake. " Goodbye."

Milly's eyes flew open, her body too flying up in a panic, and she looked around at the fences placed around the compound.

Her hand, quick to touch her stomach, gently applied pressure. There it was the flutter she had felt with little Sarah. How was He able to know? To see the baby? Before she knew she was pregnant her self?

She removed herself out of Todfather. In her mind the word baby plays like a broken record and an image of baby Sarah in his arms replays over and over. Her strained cries a hauntingly bittersweet tune. Instinctively she cradled her tummy.

" Mommy won't let him hurt you or your sister, You hear me."

JASMINE SPEAKS;

Surprise! Milly is pregnant, for a second time, and Abraham made his return but he isn't well human no more. His body is technically part of the upside down but his soul is still there, as he is some kind of Limbo. How he ended up down there and such will be connected to something I have planned when it comes to Henry's story, in season four.

What did you think of their, Melissa and her dad's, small 'Reunion'?

Henry being scarily obsessed with Melissa?

Her moments with Murray and Hopper?