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Find her way back to me

"It would take a lot of energy to build something like this" Mike spoke as he showed the drawing Mr.Clarke made to him. Mavis looked at him oddly and then back to El, who's eyes were wide.

"I mean... that has to be what happened, right? How else would Will get to Australia?" Mavis asked with a shrug of her shoulders after the boys told her the story Mr.Clarke said to them about the flee and the rope.

"For the last time, he isn't in Australia," Dustin said annoyed as he slapped his forehead.

"What we wanna know; is do you know where the gate is?" Lucas asked with a sigh as he approached El, after rolled his eyes at his friends. Eleven shook her head while Mavis sat down next to her.

"Then how do you know about the upside-down?" Lucas asked her defensively, making Mavis chunk the pillow behind her toward him.

"Ignore him, he hasn't been updated on his people skills yet," Mavis said with a glare to Lucas before her gaze softened when she turned to El.

"She's not people, she's a weirdo" Lucas pointed out while Mavis flipped him off as she pretended to scratch the side of her face.

"Dustin, what are you doing?" Mike asked the curly-haired boy annoyed as he walked around the room with a small hand compass in his hand.

"Dustin? Dustin!" Mike yelled at him again when he didn't answer, Dustin's head shot up at the sudden yell.

"I need to see your compasses," he said quickly as they all gave him a weird look.

"What?" Mike asked him just as confused as the others.

"Your compasses, all of your compasses right now" he demanded as the group all searched Mike's basement for extras before putting their own on the table from their pockets.

"How do you have one?" Lucas glared at El when she slowly set the one from her pocket on the table with the others.

"I gave her one, in case she gets lost. So she can find her way back to me" Mavis added in as El nodded from beside her.

"Come back to Mav," the wigged blonde said in confirmation, making Lucas roll his eyes.

"What's exciting about this?" Mike asked with a sigh as Dustin sorted the small compasses.

"Well they're all facing north, right?" Dustin asked as he met eyes with each of them.

"Yeah, so?" Lucas shrugged as he pulled on the tie around his neck, making Mavis sigh and undue it for him with one yank.

"Well, that's not true north" Dustin shook his head, causing his curls to shake slightly.

"Not true north?" Mavis asked him with a look of telling him to go on.

"Exactly what I just said, that's not true north. Are all of you seriously this dense?" Dustin asked as he looked between his three friends, making Mavis's eyes widened suddenly.

"The upside-down!" Mavis said loudly as she began slapping the boy's arm as he shoved her off.

"See! Mavis's got it" Dustin explained as he pointed to the girl.

"Are we missing something?" Mike asked, still just as confused as he was before.

"The sun rises in the east, and it sets in the west" Dustin explained as you would to a toddler.

"Which means that's true north," Mavis said with a point in a completely different direction than the compasses where.

"So the compasses are broken?" Mike asked with a shrug, making Mavis sigh and slap her forehead.

"Do you even understand how a compass works? Do you see a battery pack on this?" Dustin asked as he waved the small object in Mike's face.

"No?" Mike said, even though it came out more like a question.

"No, you don't because it doesn't need one. The needle is naturally drawn to the earth's north pole" Dustin said as he put it back on the table.

"So what's wrong with them?" Lucas asked as he slowly began to catch on.

"That's what I couldn't figure out but then I remembered that you can change the direction of a compass with a magnet. If there is a presents more powerful than a magnetic field or deflects to that power. And then I remember what Mr.Clarke said, the gate would have so much power" Dustin said as Mike's eyes widened, making Mavis nod with a smile.

"Destroying the magnetic field," he said as his eyes got bigger, nearly as big as Mavis natural ones.

"That's right" Dustin nodded his way.

"Meaning if we follow the compasses north..." Lucas trained off as he looked to Mavis.

"Then it could lead us to the gate, where we find Will and bring him home," Mavis said as she put a hand on the table with a serious look.

"Mav" El said suddenly as she grabbed the girl's arm. They had been walking for around thirty minutes now, following the compasses.

"Yeah? What's wrong?" Mavis asked the girl as she stopped to turn to her.

"Turn back," she said, making the shorter girl in front of her blink with confusion.

"Why? Did you forget something?" Mavis asked her, making El shake her head.

"I'm tired," she said, Mavis gave a small grin.

"Me too, but just a little longer okay? Then we can go home and watch a movie and go to sleep" Mavis said with a smile as they linked arms and continued to follow the boys.

"Look once when the police were chasing me I hid in that abandoned school bus. Got away with it and everything" Mavis grinned as she pointed to the bus in the junkyard to try and impress El.

"Oh no," Dustin suddenly said as he stopped quickly.

"Oh no? What's oh no?" Lucas asked him as Dustin turned around with a worried look on his face.

"We're heading back home," Dustin said, confusing his friends.

"What? Are you serious!" Mavis said annoyed, she was tired and hungry, and only wanted to curl up with El, eat egos, while watching Greece.

"Are you sure?" Lucas asked while putting an arm in front of Mavis to stop her from charging at him.

"Yeah I'm sure, setting sun is right there and we just came back around," Dustin said with a sigh as Mavis spun in a circle and rubbed her forehead.

"And you're just realizing this now?" Lucas asked him annoyed, making his friend give him a look of disbelief.

"Why's this all on me?" Dustin asked defensively.

"Because you're the compass genius!" Lucas shouted, making Mavis roll her eyes.

"What does yours say?" Dustin asked as the group all pulled out their small compasses.

"North," Mike and Mavis said at once as Dustin sighed.

"Makes no damn sense" he commented while swinging his arms in the air.

"Maybe the gate moved" Mike suggested as Mavis shook her head.

"No, I don't think it's that, we would have felt it or heard something" Mavis shook her head his way.

"She's right, I think it's something else screwing with the compasses," Dustin said as he looked around for any signs.

"You think it's something here?" Mavis asked as she looked between him and Mike.

"No way, it would have to be like a super magnet" Dustin shook his head before Lucas'cut in.

"It's not a magnet, she's been acting weirder than usual! If she can shut doors with her mind, she can definitely screw up a compass!" Lucas yelled as he looked at Eleven.

"Why would she do that?" Mike asked him annoyed while Mavis rolled her eyes.

"Because she's trying to sabotage our mission because she's a traitor!" Lucas yelled as Mavis shoved his shoulder.

"Shut up Lucas! She's not a traitor!" Mavis yelled at him as she poked a finger to his chest, making Lucas turn and walk toward El as she and Mike quickly followed.

"You did it, didn't you? You don't want us to reach the gate, you don't want us to find Will. Admit it" Lucas said as Mike and Mavis watched intensely.

"Admit it!" Lucas shouted loudly as he grabbed El's arm, making Mavis jump
in quickly. She didn't mean to, she was just so angry... she backhanded him right across the face.

"Stop treating her like a rag doll, Lucas! Just stop it!" she yelled at him as he pushed the pain off with a horrible glare.

"There's blood on her sleeves! I knew it" Lucas said as he pointed out the blood on El's sleeves, that was indeed there.

"Lucas cmon!" Mike shouted at him while Mavis stared at El, who looked like she was about to cry, and then the smaller girl realized that El did do it.

"That's old blood, right El?" Mike asked as he looked at the girl, whose lip began to tremble.

"It's not- it's not safe," El said as tears rolled down her cheeks, Mavis blinked as she fell silent for the first time.

"Eleven" Mavis whispered with a look of betrayal and hurt.

"What I tell you! She's been playing us from the beginning!" Lucas shouted as he got into Mike's face.

"That's not true! She helped us find Will" Mike quickly defended the girl while Mavis stayed still and attempted to calm her nerves.

"Find Will? Find Will? Where is he then? Huh, I don't see him" Lucas said sarcastically as he turned in a circle.

"You know what I mean!" Mike yelled back at him, only getting Lucas even more annoyed.

"No, I actually don't. Just think about it, Mike! You too Mavis! She could have told us where the Upside Down was right away but she didn't! She just made you slap me and have us run around like headless chickens!" Lucas said as Mavis stared at the worked-up boy.

"Alright calm down!" Dustin said as he tried to get between the two boys.

"No! She used us! All of us! She helped just so she could get what she wants, food and a bed. She's like a stray dog" Lucas explained as Mavis's blood boiled.

"Screw you, Lucas! You haven't liked her since she showed up because you're pissed off there's a little change! She's not a dog and she's not a weirdo! She's human!" Mavis yelled as she got closer to the boy with large steps.

"No, screw you Mavis! You're blind that a girl actually wants to be around you! You let your feelings and your emotions get in the way, like always! This is exactly what threw you into conversion therapy a couple of months ago!" Lucas yelled at her as Mavis lunges for him but Dustin quickly held her back.

"Don't bring it up! You always throw that in her face as if she doesn't remember!" Mike yelled at Lucas as he shoved his chest backward a bit.

"No, I won't! Because Mavis's little girlfriend knows where Will is and she's just letting him die in the Upside Down. For all we know it's her fault! We're looking for some stupid monster, but did you ever stop to think that maybe she's the monster?" Lucas asked him as he pointed toward El, pissing Mike off even more.

"I said shut up!" Mike yelled as he grabbed Lucas's shoulders, making them both go down.

"Guys!" Mavis yelled to try and get them to stop fighting but it wasn't any use.

El, Dustin, and Mavis all began yelling at the two over and over but it was as if neither of them could hear. El suddenly screamed loudly, making Lucas fly off Mike's body and crash into a piece of metal a few feet away. Mavis gasped loudly as she quickly ran toward the boy and began to shake him slightly as her friends joined her.

"Lucas, hey hey hey. Please, Lucas, wake up" Mavis began to panic and get emotional as she shook her best friend.

"Why would you do that? What is wrong with you!" Mike yelled at Eleven but Mavis was too worried about her friend to snap at him for it.

"Lucas, you okay?" Mike asked him with a sigh of relief as the silent boy slowly sat up.

"Hey? Can you hear us?" Mavis asked as her shaky hands touched his.

"Lucas how many fingers am I holding up? How many fingers?" Dustin asked him as he held up his hand.

"Let me see your head," Mike said as he reached for the boy but Lucas quickly slapped it away and stoop up.

"Hey, careful," Mavis said as she stood with him.

"Just let me see" Mike tried again but was slapped at once more.

"Get off of me" Lucas explained with a hurt tone of voice and fear falling off his tongue like a second language.

"Let him go," Dustin said as he stopped Mike from running after his friend, just as Mavis noticed something.

"Where's El?" she asked in a panic as the three began to call out her name and look around quickly.

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Lucas has a point here he just should have worded it differently