Teens
- April 14h 1984
- Canonicity: Non-Canon

"Can we please stop running!" After finding the crash site where Jonathan apparently crashed his car I noticed the people from the lab dismantling it. But to avoid being spotted we of course started running. And now Will was getting tired. So I started slowing down and then finally turned around. Will meanwhile collapsed right onto the ground as he needed his time to calm down. I walked back towards him and sat down in front of him. "So, you gonna tell me what the heck you saw?" Will then asked. "Didn't you see it yourself?" I asked him. "Uh, no cause you almost immediately pulled me away again!" Will said. "Okay, so Jonathan crashed back there right?" I asked him for confirmation even though I didn't need it. "Well, his car was being dismantled by Hawkins' Lab," I explained. "Meaning, whatever happened is something the public cannot know," I continued. Will looked at me. He then made the gesture for me to continue. "No that's it, all I know," I said. Will sighed. "Or they're the ones that had to get the car parts?" Will said. "No cause it wouldn't have been dismantled but dumped at the junkyard," I continued. "You're seeing stuff again (y/n), and I don't think we should look into this," Will said as he sighed, falling back into the leaves. I looked at him. "Well, there's only one person that truly knows what happened," I said. Will rose back up. "No, no, we cannot ask him right now," Will said. But that was already too late. I was dead set on asking him about whatever he still knew about the crash.

On our way to the hospital nothing interesting happened. I didn't ask Will about what he was going to tell me, I kind of forgot about that. Most of the walk was silent as Will was still a bit angry. But like I said, nothing interesting happened there, until we arrived at the hospital where Jonathan was. From what I remember they funnily enough kept him in the same room they kept Will in when he was found. Together with Will I went up the stairs, through the hallway right into the room where Jonathan was in the bed, with Joyce sitting right next to him. She noticed us as soon as we walked in. Joyce immediately got up and walked around the bed towards the door where she hugged Will. "Ohh, I'm sorry," she said while hugging him. She then let go and sorta pet my head. I don't really know what she was planning on doing, but the thought was nice. "Sorry for what?" Will asked. "For leaving you at home, all alone, I might've forgotten to check in with you," Joyce explained. "But you shouldn't have come over, really," she continued as she returned to her chair, waving to us that we should follow. 

Will and I walked into the room and up to Jonathan who was asleep. Or well, in a comatose state. I heard a sniff coming from Will so I glanced at him. He had tears in his eyes. And as the good friend I am, I threw my arm around his shoulder as he laid his head on my shoulder. Not crying, but definitely sad. "The doctors said they found him like this," Joyce said. I looked from Jonathan to Joyce and back to Jonathan. "How did..." I started, but almost whispering, causing Will to come right through: "Is he going to wake up soon?" Will asked. Joyce looked at him, with almost a sorry in her eyes. "Ever?" Will asked. Joyce looked down at the ground. "The doctors..." she started but then decided it was time to take a deep breath. Probably to add to the drama. "The doctors said, they don't know, but they're expecting the worst," Joyce explained. That's when Will broke as he started crying, grasping onto my shoulder. I opened my arms and he disappeared right into them. Crying while I was hugging him. 

"How did he end up like this though?" I then asked. Will stopped crying and freed himself from my hug. "What?" he asked confused. "I mean, I'm not an expert on this stuff, but it feels really unbelievable he ended up in a forever comatose state from a car crash," I explained. "Maybe it was Hawkins' Lab," I said. I then looked at Will and Joyce. Will seemed angry. "How is that your focus right now?!" Will said angrily. "My brother is basically gone and you're still on about this whole mystery, can't you focus on what matters for once?!" Will yelled. I however ignored him and turned to Joyce. "Do you know where he was coming from?" I asked her. "Well uh, I..." Joyce started. "(y/n) stop!" Will yelled. "Where was he before the crash?" I asked Joyce once again. "He said something about a giant party," Joyce said. "Tina's?" I asked after which I realized I basically just confirmed it for myself. "(y/n)!" Will said. "Will no, I need to know what happened!" I said. "Well then good luck in finding out on your own, because I'm staying here!" Will said. 

And that's how I ended up going to Tina's alone. On the way I kept wondering what could've happened to Jonathan. So I decided to use the spare time, trying to get some more info from the others over the walkietalkie. That is how I got the address of Tina's place from Lucas. Well actually from Erica since Erica visits Tina's regularly. I learnt from Dustin that is was Tina's birthday party, the biggest ever and that basically every teen in town was invited. That's why Jonathan was there obviously. However Mike then proceeded to inform me that some teens never returned home after the party and thus are missing, which was adding to my list of suspicions. With this information I reached Tina's which seemed deserted. 

Not going to lie, but I was kind of nervous walking up to the front door. When I reached the front door I noticed scratch marks, as if a cat really wanted in, only were these bigger, and way too high up for a cat. Maybe someone had one too many beers? I went to ring the doorbell but noticed the door was still open. "Hello?" I asked as I opened the door. Inside the house all the lights were turned off. I slowly walked in, feeling just the same cold temperature as outside. The thermostat must've been destroyed in a rampage. Only then I heard noise coming from upstairs. So I grabbed the first best thing that could serve as a weapon and made my way upstairs.

I found the person making the noise in the bathroom. In the bathroom was Tina, sitting in between the sink and the toilet. She was whimpering, crying for some reason. I dropped my 'weapon' and quickly went over to her. "Tina, oh my god are you okay?" I asked, kneeling right beside her. "Who are you?" she asked in pain as I noticed she had both arms in front of her stomach, pushing. I grabbed her arms and slowly moved them out of the way. Her stomach was sliced open. "What the fuck happened?" I asked concerned. While I pushed her arms back into the original position. I quickly told someone on the other end of the walkietalkie to call 911 and then walked over to the cabinet, hoping to find some first aid stuff or something. "Y... y..." Tina whimpered. She also made this weird growling noise, probably from pain. I couldn't find anything. "L... oo..." Tina whimpered. 

I finally found something that would be of use and quickly went back over to Tina. As I kneeled back down and moved one arm away she finally managed to say something. "Look, out," she said weakly, throwing her arm at my face, causing me to turn towards the bathtub. That's where I saw the attacker. It was a Demogorgon. It turned to me, opened it's mouth and let out a hellish roar and then charged at me. In the charge it lift one of its arms, ready to slice me, but I slid out of the way. Tina was sliced once more, probably fatal this time as I put my hands on the ground and pushed myself up, starting to run. 

Running across the upper hallway towards the stairs. Once I arrived at the stairs I looked back, witnessing the Demogorgon coming full speed at me. I stood there, and waited. But then, right as it was about to kill me too, I ran down the stairs. Due to its speed it ran past the stairs, had to slow down and turn back, giving me the time to run towards the front door, which sadly had closed back when I walked in. The Demogorgon was way too quickly downstairs for me to open the door as I ducked and avoided death once more. So I ran towards the kitchen, as I knew, fire was its one weakness, and there was a frying pan just lying around, waiting to be used as a weapon. I realized after the chase, it had lost me, running would cause it to catch up with me as it was one straight line to the kitchen. I quickly hid behind another cabinet and looked around. When the coast was clear I stood up and just ran, only to pass the first corner and be scratched on the right side of my stomach by one of its claws. It hurt like hell, but I had no time to wait for pain as I made it to the kitchen and turned on the gas. The fire soon appeared as the Demogorgon caught up with me in the kitchen. I grasped the frying pan from the counter and hit the beast against his head. This gave me the time to then run to the other side of the kitchen and search for something to ignite the house with. And as expected, I found a full vodka bottle still in the fridge from the party. I grabbed it and threw it at the wall behind the stove. The bottle broke and the kitchen caught on fire. The Demogorgon screeched as it then bashed right through a window and jumped out of the house. Leaving me to run back to the front door and bust it open. 

I ran outside and saw Will pulling up on his bike. Then I heard the roar once more as the Demogorgon appeared on the roof of the house and jumped off, starting to chase me once more. But luckily I managed to hop onto Will's bike and he biked away as fast as he could, leaving the Demogorgon out in the open as the sirens of the cops were audible. "Thank you so so much," I said in a panic. "You're welcome," Will said as he kept biking away at the same pace. "So I know what might've happened," I then said. "Yeah I think I do too!" Will said afraid as he then suddenly took a sharp left right up to my house. I was confused as to why we went here but then I realized. We were going to create a plan. We had to create a plan, to save everyone. Because Will and I, are going to take down a Demogorgon. Together. Well, maybe with a bit of help. "Should we ask her?" I asked Will. "It's a Demogorgon, she took one down before," Will said. "But that was after El completely trashed it in the first place," I said. "We need her," Will said as I opened the door to my house, allowing us both inside. 

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A Day With Scoops Troop
- June 14th 1985
- Canonicity: Canon

Today is June 14th 1985. Another day of summer break, a friday. And today I had told everyone we would meet up and go do something fun today since everyone couldn't yesterday for some reason. So the first thing I did was getting ready in montage style because why not. After that I got on my bike and made my way over to Will's from where we would both bike towards the mall and meet up with the rest. 

"You're late," Will said as soon as I parked my bike. He was already on his bike, waiting to leave. "Couldn't you have started talking as soon as I biked up the lane, now I parked my bike for nothing!" I said as I got back on my bike. It wasn't meant offensive, and I think he got that. Well I mean, by now we could just call each other rude words and it would be taken as a joke, because that's how close our friendship was right now. I hopped back onto my bike as Will already started biking off. So I had to really do one heck of a race to catch back up to him. "So any idea on why we're going to the mall again, finally gonna use Steve for free movies?" Will asked. I would've responded if I wasn't fighting for my life after that short race. "First of all, that sounded really weird," I said after which I paused for a second to catch my breath. "Second, it was two days ago that we, wait no, Max managed to arrange that, we haven't even gotten a chance to use the... wait, how do we call it?" I asked him. "Back hallway? Back door? Backrooms?" I suggested. ."Isn't it just 'around the back'?" Will asked. I laughed. "What, what's so funny?" Will asked as he smiled a bit nervously. "My own stupidity, I mean how didn't I know that?" I laughed as Will joined. I soon stopped again because I was still, fighting for my life from that one race. 

We arrived at Starcourt Mall not long after that conversation. Where Lucas and Max were already waiting for us. "Hey guys!" I said as I went to park my bike yet again. Will hopped off his and then walked over to the others, waiting for me to join. "Where's Mike?" I asked. "Late, as usual," Lucas said. "He can't leave El's side, ever, remember?" Lucas continued. "Oh, right I forgot," I said. "Of course because he can't go two seconds without her." "You guys are acting like it's a crime they're in love," Max brought up. "It is!" I said. Max looked at me. "Well, uh, I mean..." I said as I quickly looked to Will and then back to Max. "It isn't as long as it isn't in the way of our friendship," I quickly said. Max nodded. "That is true though," she said. "So did you guys think of anything we could do?" Will then asked. "No, but we can just look around and then decide," Lucas said. "We could sneak around the back and watch a movie?" Will suggested. "Wait that's actually a great idea," Max said. "So which mo..." I started but got interrupted by Lucas. "Around the back? What if we get caught?" he asked. "We can blame Steve!" Max issued. Will and Lucas got excited about this revolutionary idea. "Right, so which..." I started and got interrupted yet again. "Oh look, there's Mike!" Will said as he pointed to someone biking in our direction. It was indeed Mike as he didn't slow down and crashed his bike right into mine. "Idiot!" I yelled as Lucas told him he was late, after which we went into the mall.

Most of the walking was spent listening to Lucas and Mike arguing about Mike being late, as usual. There was no decision making as to what we were going to do. "It's not that difficult Michael!" Lucas said. "Atleast you can take your girlfriend outside!" Mike yelled back. "Guys just stop," Will then said, and they actually went silent for once. "What are we going to do?" he then asked as everyone started looking around. I noticed some corndog shop or whatever those are called. "We could..." I started and got interrupted once more. "Let's go to the Gap!" Max yelled as she pulled Lucas with her. Mike and Will followed. But I didn't. They were literally ignoring me, I bet they didn't even notice I didn't follow. And since they didn't care I decided to do something on my own.

"They just left you standing right there?" "It's not like I expected different, they all have boyfriends and girlfriends, except Will, but he just follows wherever they go." I took another bite... lick? sip? What do you even do with icecream? You eat it, right? Anyway, Steve was sitting on the other side of the table, questioning me as to what happened and why I was here. He was able to sit there because he always had his reliable buddy Robin who could take over for just a second. "And you couldn't even suggest any ideas, ah man that's a bummer," Steve said. "So now I'm eating icecream and then I'll probably go home and spend the summer just sitting there, isolated," I said. "Well until Dustin returns from summer camp," I added. "Hey dingus, lunchbreak is over!" Robin yelled to Steve. I looked over to her as she leaned over the counter. That's when the worst, of the worst happened. Erica Sinclair came walking in. She rang the bell on the counter and Robin turned attention towards her. "Give me a sample," she said immediately. "Which one?" Robin asked. "Any, just give me," Erica said. Robin sighed and went to grab a random flavor of icecream. "And what are you doing sailor boy, you work for your money, you do not sit around all day!" Erica said. Steve then also sighed, waved goodbye at me and returned to the counter to serve Erica her samples. 

I stood up, deciding I had enough icecream. On my way towards the exit of Scoops Ahoy I noticed everyone had left already and I was the only one in the shop besides Erica, Robin and Steve. "All mall visitors, please evacuate through the nearest exit." Evacuate? I turned around to Robin who was looking at Steve. "Oh yeah, totally forgot," Robin said as she walked to the back. "Forgot what?" Erica asked Steve. I quickly ran over to them. "Yeah Starcourt locks down every  so often to check if the lockdown system still works, today is in fact the final day that they're doing it because the systems haven't failed once," Steve explained. "We should get the hell out of here!" I said. "And who put you in charge, mister I don't have any friends," Erica said. "You're here all alone too you know?" I said. "That's because I chose to be," Erica said. "Well I did the exact same!" I said, laughing, trying to sell this lie. "No you didn't, I saw Lucas running around with Max, and those other nerds," Erica said. The emergency evacuation repeated once more as Robin returned with both Steve's and her own bag. 

"There you are!" I turned around to see Will coming into Scoops Ahoy. "Will, what are you doing here?" I asked him. "Well Lucas left and Max didn't wanna hang out with just me and Mike and since Mike would rather be with El than we me he also left, basically everyone left, and you disappeared out of nowhere but then I saw you here," Will explained. "But the mall..." I started when all of the sudden a metal wall slams down right at the exit, locking us in the store. "Is going on lockdown," I said as I ran to the metal wall. I slammed my fist on it but of course, what type of effect would that have had. And that's when I realized we were truly locked inside the mall.

"So you're telling me I am stuck with two nerds and two sailor people?" Erica asked. "Yeah," I said. We were in the room in the back where the boxes filled with extra icecream were delivered. Steve and Robin were sitting on their chairs at the table. Erica was sitting down on one of those boxes with Will on another pile, sitting one box higher than Erica. I was standing in the door opening between the main section of Scoops Ahoy and this back room. "Oh you bet your ass that I will be the one that gets to eat you all, because I ain't starving to death!" Erica said. "You are sitting on icecream that literally lasts until like next month, you'll be good," Steve said. "A diet of icecream? You'd need healthy food too," Will said. "What are we even going on about, the lockdown takes how long exactly? Five hours?" I asked Steve and Robin. "We don't know, it's been very inconsistent, it's somewhere between seven hours and seven days," Robin said. "We're doomed," Erica said as she fell backwards onto another box. She tried to look at the ceiling but Will's head was blocking her vision. "So is there anyway to get out?" I asked. "It's a lockdown, I don't think so," Steve said as in the background Erica told Will to move his head out of the way because it was making the direction she was looking in very ugly. I would've said otherwise, but now is not the time. "Well there has to be a way out," I said as I walked over to the other metal wall which also blocked an exit. "There isn't, we just have to sit this one out," Steve said. "Or we climb through that vent," Erica said, as still was still looking up. Everyone followed the direction she was looking in and indeed, there was a vent opening. I was really small though. "But we wouldn't fit," Robin said. "Erica would, but she'd never do that for us, she'd leave us behind," Will said as he moved, looking at Erica again. "Who told you you could ruin my view again?" Erica said as she got off the boxes. "Look, I will help you guys, but then, you will also include me in the free movies deal," she said. Will and I looked at each other and then at Steve. "Okay," Steve said. Erica smiled and then the box moving started. 

"See you on the other side, nerds!" Erica said and disappeared into the vent, leaving us all behind in the room. It got quiet as I grabbed a chair and sat down. Will then sat down next to me. "Why did you walk away?" he asked. I looked at him, questioning what he meant. "Back with the others, when they went to the Gap, why'd you leave?" Will asked. I smiled, laughed at bit even. "Oh that, that was nothing," I said. It was quiet once more, which made me realize Will knew it wasn't nothing. "You guys just, seemed to ignore me. Besides, it was my idea to hang out today. Heck it's always my idea," I explained. "No one listened to me, so I just, gave up bothering and left," I continued. I got quiet yet again and I just looked down at the floor. "The Goonies," Will then said. "What?" I asked as I turned towards him, frowning. "That's the movie I wanted to see, answering your question," Will explained. I smiled and looked down yet again. "Thank you," I said. "For being my friend." Will hugged me. "Ew." I turned towards the source of the sound. It was Erica, who had managed to remove the metal wall. "Could you all save that 'power of friendship' bullshit for later?" she said as she returned to the hallway. Will and I got up and followed Steve and Robin to the hallway.

"Okay so, every opening is blocked off with those metal walls," Erica started as we were walking down the hallway. "Now there isn't a source that I could find that made them all come down, however..." she continued as she then took a right into another room. This one had all sorts of electrical wires, one of which was plugged into an outlet. "These wires are connected to the lights, and the lights are apparently on the same network as the walls..." Erica explained. She grabbed one of the wires and plugged it in. Then she walked over to the light switch and flipped it. I heard a noise behind me, so I turned around and saw the metal wall getting lifted back up, allowing us to go through. "We essentially hijack the system and can escape," Erica explained. Will turned to her. "And you are calling us the nerds?" he asked. "Tell anyone this and it will be your last day roaming the Earth!" Erica threatened. "Then you'd have to get past his mom, that's practically impossible," I said as I walked over to the outlets and started plugging in every single one I could find. And after plugging in every single one we went to the next room. From there it was really easy. Just turn off the lights and move on until we were at an exit. 

After more light switch flipping we reached the door to the outside world. However this one was blocked off too. "Oh shit," Robin said. "What 'shit', just find the damn light switch!" Erica yelled. "Which one, and where?!" Robin asked. "Just the..." Erica responded when she realized. "Do I really have to do a scavenger hunt with you nerds just to get out of this shit mall?" she asked. "Well good luck finding that, I did my part!" Erica said and sat down. Will then suddenly whispered something to me. "Don't you have powers?" he asked. I realized I totally forgot about that part. "Wait, oh my god, I could've gotten us out hours ago," I whispered back. "But not in front of Robin and Erica," I said. Luckily Steve was in range as he heard our whispers and went over to Robin and Erica. "Let's just start the search," he said as he took them away into some store. Will and I ran towards the blocked off exit. There I was about to do my thing when Will tapped my shoulder. "Camera's!" he said. "Shit, that's why I didn't get us out of here hours ago," I said. "I have an idea!" Will said as he then disappeared into some store. He returned with a bunch of t-shirts. Will walked over to the camera and held the shirt right in front of it. "Go do your thing!" he said. I nodded and then focus all strengt on the wall. And with that I blasted it out of it's frame, allowing us to get out. Erica, Robin and Steve soon joined as we celebrated we escaped and just ignored the questions about how the metal wall was removed. And that is where this story comes to a close.

A/N

Haha technically speaking this one still released following the schedule. Yes I'm still alive, yes I'm actually still working on this. And of course update time!

Hawkins' Happenings 4 will still release somewhere in November, I'm not going to even say a date because I just don't know. 

Hawkins' Happenings 5 is planned for December with just one story being 'Defeat', the ending to the whole Jonathan car crash storyline we have going on. After Hawkins' Happenings is finished that is basically it for now, however:

I do still have the "If The Byers Stayed In Hawkins" storyline going on. Chapter 35 has already released, Chapter 36 & 37 are still beinig worked on.

- These will be released somewhere between the release of Hawkins' Happenings 5 and Stranger Things 5. 
- They won't release at the same time.

And that is it for now, I'm glad you are still reading this story and I will see you all somewhere in November :)