~=~=~Elevens POV~=~=~

"Go to hell you piece of shit!" He screams. Billy doesn't flinch. He stands up and starts to walk towards Mike. I stand up and start to lift Billy off the ground. I turn him so he is facing away from Mike and I'm standing in front of Mike. I'm painfully yelling as I throw Billy through the brick wall, and he tumbles to the grass outside.

~=~=~Mikes POV~=~=~

I step back and Eleven falls into my arms, sobbing with tears streaming down her face as the lights continue to flicker. I don't know what to do but just to hold her, make her feel safe.

Will looks over at me and nods, I help El up and we slowly walk towards the damaged brick wall she threw Billy through. She wipes her bloodied nose and tears away as she trembles slightly. Billy stands up and starts to run away into the bushes as he wails.

"Ill-annoy," Eleven whispers "They are going to Ill-annoy."Out of nowhere, my Mom calls out to me "MIKE, BREAKFAST!" I roll my eyes. "NOT NOW MOM!!" I screech. "Illinois? Illinois like the state?" I ask as she takes off her blindfold. "I-Ill-annoy." She shrugs her shoulders. Max leads her into the bathroom, I'm guessing to clean her up.

"Somethings not right. I can't get Hopper off my back all summer, now all of a sudden he's hiking with Will's mom in Illinois and Dustin's MIA too! I mean, this can't be a coincidence." I rant to Lucas and Will.

"What does it matter?" Lucas sighs looking up from his book.

"The bottom line is, they're not here! It's up to us!" He explains

"Up to us to do what exactly?" I question.

"Find Billy, and stop him."

"Okay yeah, that's a really nice sentiment, but even if El could find him again, and that's a pretty big if, then what?" I explain.

"We burn the shit out of him and make sure he doesn't escape this time," Lucas explains.

"Okay, then what?" I ask getting a bit frustrated.

"Then we win!" Lucas yells.

"No, see that's the problem! We don't. We don't win. We got the mind flayer out of Will before and he just came right back. We don't just have to stop Billy, we have to stop the mind flayer." I explain. "How the hell do we do that?" Lucas says waving his arms around. "I don't know-" I start when I'm cut off by Will, "Maybe El does."

I stand and turn towards the bathroom where Max and El are. "What are they still doing in there?" "I don't know, girls just like hanging out in bathrooms." Lucas says as he puts a handful of cocoa puffs into his mouth.

"They're conspiring against me" I sigh. "That's what you are worried about?!" Will yells. "Well it's not my main concern, it's just a sub-concern" I whisper. "I thought it was already over!" Will says. "It's not over okay? We're just taking a break!" I yell, frustrated. "She said she dumped your ass that doesn't sound like a break," Will argues.

"It wasn't!" Max yells. "You guys do we can still hear everything you're saying right?" followed by Eleven chuckling. "Conspiring, I told you. Conspiring." I whisper. I hear some knocks at the door. "NOT NOW MOM!" I scream rolling my eyes.

"Mike open the door!!" I hear someone say firmly. Is that Nancy? I run upstairs and open the door to reveal Nancy and Jonothan looking quite shaken.

"It was the same thing, the same thing that happened to Will last year." Nancy explains, "and look at this. The body temperatures." Will looks over and sees 95° F. "He likes it cold" He whispers.

"Okay so this crazy old woman who was eating fertilizer," I start "Mrs. Driscoll." Nancy corrects. "Yeah right, 'Mrs Driscoll' What time was this attack?" I ask. "Last night." she replies. "Right but what time last night?"

"Around 9:00." She states. "You waited all night to call?" Jonathan whispers. "I was waiting for the doctors to run some tests," Nancy replies. "You weren't there?!" Will yells at Jonathan. "Well I'm here now aren't I?" He replies, sounding quite frustrated and a touch sarcastic.

"Hallelujah!" Nancy sarcastically says.

"Ooh." Lucas sighs.

"Um.. so what time was this 'Sauna test'?" She asks. "Around 9:00." we all say in unison, sounding almost robotic. "Well, that proves it, my theory!" Nancy exclaims.

"She's Flayed just like Billy," I say. "Flayed?" Jonothan questions, sounding rather confused.

"The Mind Flayer, he flays people ; takes over their mind, once they do that, they basically become him," I explain. "If there are two flayed..." Lucas starts ominously. "We have to assume there are more." Will adds onto Lucas' out-loud thought.

"Heather..." Eleven says out of the blue. "Billy was doing something to her, She was scared. She was screaming. Bad screams."

"What's a good scream?" Lucas asks. "Max said-" Max then interjects. "Doesn't matter." Nancy then joins the conversation. "I'm sorry who's Heather?" She asks. "She's a lifeguard at the pool," Max replies. "Heather Holloway?" She asks. They both nod. "Tom." Nancy and Jonothan say at the same time.

We all start jumping into the car when Will and I realize that we have to sit in the trunk. "Seriously?" I complain. "Welcome to my world." Will sighs as he opens the trunk. We both hop in and Nancy tells us to put on our belts. The car is filled with a bunch of 'clicks'.

We arrive at what I'm guessing is Heather's house and see the door wide open. We all walk in and get a waft of chemicals in our faces making my eyes water. "Jesus its freezing." Max wines. "Oh god," Nancy says as she covers her mouth. We see a tipped over fridge and a bunch of open empty cleaning containers.

"What the hell? Last year Will didn't eat chemicals." Max asks picking up and looking at a bottle of bleach. "Did you?" "No," Will says scrunching his eyes. "This is something new."

"What if they are creating something?" I ask. "I mean if you drink this crap it will kill you," Max explains. "Yeah if you're human," Lucas says. Nancy and Jonothan walk into the living room and start talking about bandages and she picks up a wine bottle with a blood mark on it. "He was attacked," Nancy says to Jonothan who nods. She follows a blood trail to a ripped up carpet.

El and Nancy start talking about how Mrs. Driscoll wanted to go back. Somewhere where they didn't want Eleven to see. "How do we find it?" El asks "Mrs. Driscoll," Will says with a sudden realization. "If she wants to go back so badly, why don't we let her?" Will then smiles.

"Get in the car," Nancy orders sternly.