(y/n) - your name

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"Holy fucking shit..." (y/n) and Billy don't scold Lucas on his language as he was processing everything they had just told him. About (y/n) coming back to life, escaping the lab, living with Billy in California, her being connected to Vecna somehow with her Upside Down episodes and all that shit. Lucas in return told everything he knew about Jason and his gang, how they were out to kill Eddie since they think he killed Jason's girlfriend and how Dustin was in major trouble since they were after him now.

"This all has gone to shit..." Billy breaths out in annoyance, his love calming him down.

"We need to warn the others." (y/n) says before turning to Lucas. "Does Jason and his gang know where Eddie is?" he shakes his head no.

"I gave them a fake address so no. But like Dustin and Robin said, if you guys managed to find him, they might too."

"They're a bunch of lug head jocks with meat for brains, they can't possibly be that smart right?" (y/n) asks, Billy pursing his lips to not laugh at her description of the jocks.

"Well, they're a pretty determined bunch of lug head jocks..." Lucas says quietly, settling back in his seat.

"In that case, we gotta floor it." Billy slams against the metal, zooming down the roads and all the way to the school in record time before everyone quickly got out of the car to head inside.

"How the hell did they break in?" Lucas mutters out in confusion, catching the flashlight that (y/n) tosses him.

"There's a janky door towards the back of the school I used to use when I wanted to leave to smoke or just leave without getting caught." Billy says and his love raises a brow at him.

"No wonder, bet I wouldn't even see you in most of the classes we had together." (y/n) says, remembering the stories her boyfriend told her about skipping classes and about high school as he grins down at her.

"What, did you secretly miss me, princess?"

"Don't get too cocky love. Remember, I still don't have any memory of that." (y/n) rolls her eyes with a smile as she walks off further in front of the boys, letting her boyfriend eye her ass.

Mhm, fucking sexy as always.

"Door man, we're looking for the door." Lucas rolls his eyes and Billy growls at him lowly before walking away from the kid to search for the door. He finds it behind some sketchy stairs and the dumpsters, pushing them away easily to find they were locked. "What do we do now-" the kid gets cut off as the older adult slams his body against the door to force it open, the doors swinging to the sides. "Ok, that works I guess." Lucas walks through first before the adults.

"Thanks for alerting the whole neighbourhood that we're here." (y/n) snickers at Billy who brings down his hand to grab her ass, earning a hitched gasp from the burning heat of his handprint that sent shivers up her spine.

"I always aim to please but I would prefer if the sounds were coming from you." he whispers against her neck, his love blushing red in embarrassment.

"Billy!"

"Let's go find the punks." he says, grabbing his love's hand and walking down the eerily empty hallways of the school with Lucas running after them. The three of them ran down the halls with Lucas' help to the school shrinks office, weaving through the silent darkness until a slow chiming rang out through the music in (y/n)'s headphones. She abruptly stops, pulling on Billy's hand who looks at her with concern as his mouth moved but she couldn't hear him talk.

"I can hear the clock!" (y/n) yells out over the loud chimes, not as deafening now since her headphones were on and she tries to focus on the music. She couldn't hear the boys talking at all and she winces at the cacophony of sounds that rattled around her brain, trying to focus on the song's melody to block out the chimes as she covered her ears.

"Where is it coming from!?" she just barely makes out Lucas' words and she points down the hallway as the three of them head towards it.

"Here!" the boys look around the random hallway to see nothing, no change but (y/n) could still hear the chimes and she could see the grandfather clock that the chimes were coming from. "It's right there!"

"We don't see anything (y/n)!" Lucas says, the girl gripping her head as it pounded from all the noise until she gasps out for air when it all suddenly stops.

"(y/n)-!" Billy and Max both call out, rushing to catch her as she falls to her knees but his sister catches his girlfriend instead when the rest of the group found them. (y/n) breathes heavily, like the air around her was finally clear and her body could focus on her lungs instead of her head, Max holding onto her with worry as blood lightly trickled from her sister-in-law's ears.

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"(y/n), are you sure you're ok?" Robin asks as the girl nods, Billy pressing tissues against her ear to clean up the blood while Max did the other side. The whole group was now inside the school counsellor's office, sitting or standing around the table covered in papers while Nancy and Robin caught them up with what they found out about Vecna before the group talked about the supposed grandfather clock that was seen.

"Are you sure you saw a grandfather clock?"

"The both of you?" Max and (y/n) both nod at Nancy and Robins's questions.

"It was likeshe was in a trance or something." Dustin says, looking at Max.

"(y/n) wasn't in a trance though, why is it different with her when she can hear and see the same thing as Max...?" Lucas mumbles out.

"Either way, it's exactly what Eddie said happened to Chrissy." (y/n) says, thanking the siblings on either side of her when they cleaned up the blood. There was a faint ringing but nothing she couldn't handle as it died down.

"That's not even the bad part. Fred and Chrissy,they both came to Miss Kelley for help. Uh, they both were having headaches, bad headachesthat wouldn't go away." Max explains as everyone looked at the files on Fred and Chrissy. "And then... then the nightmares. Trouble sleeping. They'd wake up in a cold sweat. Then they started seeing things. Bad things. From their pasts. These visions, they just... they kept on getting worse and worse,until eventually... everything ended." (y/n) watched Max with a deep frown, seeing how affected she was and instantly knew about all the symptoms in a personal way.

"It's happening to you... isn't it..." she whispers and the young redhead looks at her with tears.

"I've been having them for five days..." Max sobs and (y/n) quickly pulled her into a hug, cradling her head against her shoulder.

"(y/n)... have you..." Steve asks, a hand over his mouth as he tried to process everything.

"I don't know... my sleeping has been fine, the headaches only come when I hear the chimes. I've never had a nosebleed either..."

"But we don't know for sure either..." he replies back, Max ranting out about the last two victims dying in a span of 24 hours after seeing the clock and her just seeing it with (y/n). "Looks like I'm gonna die tomorrow-"

"-I'm not letting some fucking undead creature take you away." Billy seethes, his brotherly instincts showing. "Over my dead body!" Max looks up at her brother, jumping into his arms to hug him and he holds her tight. "I'm not letting you die on me shitheel..." the group let the siblings have their moment while Lucas caught everyone up about Jason and his gang going off the rails with vengeance against Eddie and Dustin.

"Well this is fucked..." (y/n) mumbles out.

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"Okay, be honest. Uh... You guys understand any of this?" Steve asks as he reads over an article about Vecna's first surviving victim that nancy and Robin brought over for everyone to read. Lucas and Dustin were doing the same, (y/n) and Billy watching over Max as she sat away from the group to write.

"What do you think she's doing?" Billy whispers.

"Her final letters in case she..." (y/n) couldn't bring herself to say it, shaking her head. "No, nothing is going to happen if we figure out how this Victor guy survived."

"And how do we do that!?" Steve exclaims, spewing questions left and right while Dustin tried to answer most of them.

"Ok forget why Vecna attacked in the 50's ok. Let's focus on the now." (y/n) sighs out.

"But if a gate didn't exist in the '50s,how did Vecna get through?

"How's he getting through now?"

"And why now?" Lucas and Steve continue to throw questions out.

"Look, all we know is that he's going after the ones that have trauma, the ones that are easily manipulated and guess who that would be, impressionable teens who have some major PTSD of some kind." (y/n) exclaims and the boys agree with her. "Now about the how he's getting through; easy, through minds right. He has to have some sort of mind powers. So that means he necessarily doesn't have to physically be here on Earth to be controlling the kids. He could still be in the Upside Down."

"That's a really good point (y/n)." Steve says, dropping onto an armchair and crossing his legs like a sassy mother but she ignores him as she looks over at Max with concern again.

"She hasn't slept all night..."

"You haven't either..." Billy says, pulling (y/n) to lay her head on his shoulder.

"I need to look out for her..."

"I know darling... we both do..." the couple jumps in fright at the sound of the basement door of the Wheeler's house slamming shut, Nancy and Robin running downstairs with some folders in their hands.

"Okay, so...we have a plan."