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BILLY CRAWLS OUT THE CAR AND SLAMMED THE DOOR. He groaned as he got up, his car left in flames.

Sofia, Mike, Max, and El were leaving the mall when Billy spotted them. They rushed back inside, Max pressed the button, causing the gate to close. But Billy was able to caught it just in time.

The teens panted as the lights flickered, trying their best to move fast with Billy on their tail.

"In here, in here." Mike pressed the button to the elevator. "Okay, come on, come on."

Billy pushed the door open hard. Max heard and went out to check. "Billy." She looked at him with fear.

Mike, El, and Sofia looked up before pressing the buttons even harder. Billy made his way to them.

"Billy, you don't have to do this." Max tried to talk to him. "Billy. Your name's Billy Hargrove. You live on 4819 Cherry Lane. Billy, please, I'm Max, I'm your-" Max was cut off by Billy slamming her into a wall, knocking her down.

Mike rushed forward, lunging at Billy before getting knocked out, too.

Sofia put El behind her as she threw Billy across the floor. She was shocked that he instantly got back up.

Sofia used her powers again, but she didn't get the chance before Billy choked her. She picked at his arm, hoping to lose his grip.

"Billy, please," She spoke between breaths. "Fine. Have it your way."

Sofia looked Billy straight in the eyes and touched his third eye.(Someone call Charles Xavier up in here) Billy's memories began to flash in Sofia's head. She saw him at the beach with his mother, he looked about seven. And he was... happy. Happy. An emotion she saw that never reached him now.

Sofia gasped as she opened her eyes to see Billy still choking her. It was a miracle she hasn't passed out yet. Only anger fullfilled his eyes as she was thrown to the side, vision fading to black.

El tried to use her powers but Billy threw her head to the wall, knocking her out. Billy put her on her shoulders as he dragged Sofia. Towards the Mind Flayer.

Billy took the two girls through Scoops Ahoy and pulled up the gate. He laid them down and slowly came closer to El's face.

"Don't be afraid," He whispers. "It'll be over soon. Just try and stay... very still."

El's eyes widened when she saw it, The Mind Flayer. Sofia remained unconscious while El tried to move away.

Suddenly, a stick of fireworks was thrown at the mind flayer, making it shriek, and Billy groaned in pain.

"Flay this, you ugly piece of shit!" Lucas exclaims as he threw another one.

The others threw more fireworks, causing even more pain.

"Hey asshole, over here!" Steve exclaims.

The others threw even more fireworks as El tried to move away due to the distraction.

There was a loud ringing in Sofia's ears as she blinked her eyes open. It was bright, everywhere.

El tried to crawl away desperately before Billy grabbed her leg and pulled her back.

When Sofia came to her senses and looked around, her eyes widened in size. The mind flayer was right in front of her.

Sofia groaned as Billy grabbed her wrist, already in enough pain as it was.

"Seven... feet." El spoke up. "You told her... the wave was seven feet."

For a spilt second, Sofia could see him. She could see Billy. He took a shaky breath while El continued.

"You ran to her on the beach. There were seagulls. She wore a hat with a blue ribbon. A long dress with a blue and red flower." El recalled the memory. "Yellow sandals, covered in sand. She was pretty. She was really pretty. And you were happy." El sobs.

El reached Billy's face, and a tear fell as he closed his eyes and remembered his mother. Slowly, he got up and looked at the mind flayer.

The mind flayer snarled, one of its tentacles came out and lunged forward. Billy caught it and pushed it back, more tentacles came and pressed into Billy's side. He groaned in pain, then lastly one plunged into his heart.

"Billy!" Max screamed.

His body fell limp on the ground as Mike and Max ran towards them.

"Billy, no Billy wake up please." Max begged.

"I'm sorry," Billy whispered before his eyes stared into space.

Max sobbed harder. "Billy no, Billy please, Billy."

Max pressed into El's side as she sobbed, El held her. Sofia only looked on with guilt, survivor's guilt. Nothing good came out of that.

Firefighters and paramedics came soon after. They checked Sofia to make sure she was alright, she had a mild concussion and it didn't help with all the lights at the moment.

Steve made his way to her and stood while they checked her out.

"How do you feel?" Steve asked.

"Fine, just a mild concussion." Sofia answered.

"And your arm?" Steve asked. "Which is now mysteriously healed?"

Sofia turned to look at her arm, which was tied up and had dried blood. She realized she didn't feel any pain anymore, She gasped.

"Yeah," Sofia hummed. "Guess I'm a wizard." She joked, Steve smiled before turning away.

"Steve, wait-" Sofia ran to Steve and hugged him tight.

"I'm sorry," She whispered.

"Hey, hey," Steve patted her back. "It's okay."

"I'm sorry for every mean thing I said. I'm sorry for all the stupid shit I got you involved in." Sofia sobbed into Steve's shoulder. "I'm so sorry, so sorry Steve."

"It's okay," Steve murmurs. "It's okay."

Sofia wasn't the only one who felt sorry that night.

Three Months Later...

"That should be the last of it." Jonathan told Sofia, who put the box in the van.

"Oh, thank god," Sofia rolled her eyes. "I didn't know today was arm day."

Jonathan chuckled before looking away sadly. Sofia instantly trapped him in a hug.

"Am I the first to hug you?" Sofia asked.

"Sadly, you're not." Jonathan smiled. "Nancy beat you to it."

"Not surprising." Sofia smiled. "I'll miss you."

"I'll miss you too." He smiled sadly.

Sofia slowly walked away before she was in yet another bone-crushing hug.

"El," Sofia smiled.

El only sobbed in Sofia's arms, who held her.

"It's okay," Sofia kissed the crown of her head.

"See you again?" El looked up.

"You will." Sofia hugged El again.

The family got in their respective vehicles and began to drove away, all eyes on them as they grew further and further away.

Sofia watched as they drove away, an emptiness now filling her up as she looked at one more thing at what used to be the Byers House.

She got in the car with Ryan as they drove away. Before coming across a file that seems to be hidden on purpose.

Sofia picked up the file and when she opened it, she stared at it with a blank look.

Subject 002: Nataliya Johnson The file read information about who Nataliya really was, she was more than just a number. Hell, they all were, if only Nataliya got the chance to do that.

The car came to a stop and Sofia got up, Ryan was exiting the car when she looked at him.

"It'll only be a minute." She told him.

Ryan sighed and sat back down in the car, while Sofia walked past the gates of the cemetery until she came across a grave.

Billy Hargrove.

She looked at it blankly before moving on, visiting the person she was going to see.

Once she found it, she sat down on the grass. Sofia planted a flower she brought on the way there.

"Hey Nat," Sofia smiled. "I don't know if these are your favorite but these were the only ones I could afford." Sofia chuckled at the last part.

"I'm doing good, or I like to think that I am. My friends moved away today so I'll miss them. But Steve and I and maybe Robin and Ryan are going to have movie night and I get to pick the movie!" Sofia gushed. "I never really pick the movies but hopefully with Steve and Robin's new job, I get to do it more often."

Sofia went up to the headstone and kissed it. "Steve says I probably should stop doing that if I wanna get sick." She rolled her eyes. "As if I would listen to him."

"I miss you Nat," Sofia looked up. "And I know you're happy somewhere else. I just want you to know that... that I'm sorry and I love you."

Sofia brushed the tears from her eyes as she got up.

"Bye Nat, I'll see you later." She smiled softly as she made her way back to the car.

Sofia shut the door with a smile. "So it went good?" Ryan asked in the rear view mirror.

"It did." She smiled back.

"That's nice to hear," Ryan chuckles.

It was, It truly was.

Mira Speaks

We did it, we're actually here :,)
I thought the day would never come lol but thanks for coming on this ride brochachos, I love you all(and for a bonus, I wrote a bonus chapter for you all :)