The Wheeler home. Home of the mythic bitch herself, Nancy Wheeler. The girl that had been the first real friend Andrea had - before everything went south and she became the first person that Andrea would say she hated.

Andrea followed after everyone else through the Upside Down as they headed towards the Wheeler Home, knowing that it was the place that they needed to be. It had weapons, after all, weapons that would protect them when Andrea couldn't.

Or simply for when Andrea didn't want to protect you.

Nancy Wheeler had been the one to reach for the doorknob and open the door to the Wheeler home. Everyone peered in through the darkness as Steve lifted the flashlight so that everyone could look in and see the area around.

Andrea went in along with Steve, the two having their arms hooked together. They walked further than anyone else as they looked around. Looking at the vines that covered the room from the top all the way to the bottom causing them to make a face.

"Might be time to get a maid, Wheeler," Robin spoke up after a moment as she looked around, the Upside Down version of the Wheeler home was truly something to experience.

"Come on. I don't want to stay here longer than we have to," Nancy shot as she began to make her way up the stairs.

Andrea jogged up the stairs after everyone else, although, Steve was the only exception of that as the man followed behind her as he shined his light up. She noticed as he paused, the sound of distant talking catching their attention.

"Is that Dustin?" Andrea questioned softly as she began to recognize the voice.

"It is," Steve ran back down the stairs before he started to yell, "Dustin! Dustin!"

Andrea followed back down after him, "Steve!" She didn't expect him to do that.

Steve started to spin in circles as he called out, "Dustin! Can you hear me? Dustin! Du- Hello? Hel... Hello?!" He flashed his light around as he continued to spin.

Andrea made a face as she pinched the bridge of her nose, noticing as the others stood not too far from her, "Maybe he really does have rabies," Robin whispered as she leaned over to Nancy.

"Hello! Hello!" Steve continued to yell.

"Steve, what are you doing?" Nancy questioned as she leaned forward ever so slightly.

"Hello!" Steve yelled before he turned to Nancy, flashing the light in her eyes causing her hand to go to her eyes as he walked over, "He's here. Henderson. That little shit, he's here. He's like..." The grin on his face while he panted out of breath, "He's in the walls or something. Just listen."

"We can hear him talking," Andrea explained as she made a face.

Steve pointed at the ceiling as he looked at the group, "Dustin. Dustin! Dustin! Dustin! Dustin! Can you hear me?" He went back to turning around while flashing his light around the room.

"That brings us to the question you raised. How and why is there a gate at Lover's Lake? Let's analyze. What do Eleven, Andrea, and Vecna have in common?"

Andrea paused as she ran her hand over her face watching as Nancy began to walk as she yelled, "Dustin!"

Eddie whipped one of the curtains open as he spoke, "Dustin?"

"D!" Andrea called out after a moment.

"Dustin!" Robin yelled loudly as she grinned.

Steve flashed the light around before he looked over at Andrea, "All right, either this kid can't hear us or he's being a total douchebag," He sighed.

"Will found a way," Nancy realized as she looked over at something.

"What?" Steve questioned as he grew confused, turning his head.

"Will," Nancy spoke as if she were about to give an entire story, "He found a way to speak to Joyce through the lights," She seemed determined as she began to walk into another room as everyone followed.

"Lights?" Steve questioned the woman while Andrea tilted her head.

She looked at the light above her head which had glowing particles around it. It reminded her of... pixie dust. Like from Peter Pan. She tilted her head as she stared up at it curiously.

"The switch, try the switch," Steve ordered the woman in the other room as she struggled with the lamp.

"Okay," Nancy sighed as she followed his orders, flipping the switch over and over again until... nothing.

"Guys," Andrea hummed as she stared up at the lights, "It's like Neverland."

Steve turned around as Dustin's voice carried faintly around them, his light shining at the area where Andrea pointed to as his eyebrows furrowed, "It's not working," Nancy was getting annoyed as she continued with the light.

"Guys," Steve was trying to help Andrea out.

"Look," Andrea's voice was more stern this time as she continued to point up.

"You seeing this?" Steve asked as the energy started to thrum, causing Andrea to tilt her head.

Andrea watched as the others walked over to her as she slowly placed her hand in the particles, causing it to glow around her fingers causing her to let out a small laugh. It tickled in a way. Then Nancy followed after her, both moving their hands around.

"Whoa," Eddie breathed out as he walked over.

Everyone slowly placed their hands in the glow. Looks of pure admiration going across their features before curiosity took over. Steve, standing behind Andrea as he leaned over her, tapped Andrea's hand as he seemed perplexed by this.

"It... tickles," Steve spoke as he made a face causing Andrea to laugh.

"It kinda feels good," Robin spoke as she continued to whirl her hand around.

Eddie looked over at her with a smile while Nancy dropped her hand, "Does anyone know morse code?" The Wheeler woman asked.

"No," Robin and Steve spoke as they removed their hands after Eddie did.

"I do," Andrea hummed as she removed her hand last, "Dustin made me learn."

"Wait, does SOS count?" Eddie asked as he looked between the two women, "Is that... is that good?"

And so it seemed agreed.

"Andrea, you wanna do it?" Eddie asked as he looked at her before nodding, "Go ahead."

Andrea looked slightly caught off guard for a moment before giving the man a smile and reaching her hand back up as she slowly began to do SOS and gate in morse code for Dustin. Hoping that someone would notice.

"It's working," Robin spoke after a moment when the other group fell into a silence.

And so the group rushed around as Dustin came up with a brilliant way to talk to them. Getting little Holly's toy so that they could light it up.

"Come on, come on," Steve began to mutter under his breath as he waited while hugging Andrea from behind.

"Seeing this?"

Nancy began to strum her hands through it and they could hear Dustin's faint laughter. Smiles reaching everyone's faces as they watched before Nancy removed her hand.

"We're not moving it, but we're gonna unplug it. Stand by," Dustin's voice echoed as everyone listened closely. The light faded out before something said, "Try it now."

"Okay. Um... Uh..." Nancy began to stumble on what to do as she looked forward before spelling something out with her fingers.

"Worked!"

"Yes! Hi!" Eddie yelled happily.

"Stuck?"

"Yes," Eddie breathed out.

"Yeah, we are," Robin nodded as she sighed happily.

"You can't get back through the water gate?"

"What's Watergate?" Steve then questioned.

"'Cause it's in water and it's a gate," Robin spoke as she looked over at Steve as she explained.

"How the hell we got here," Andrea retorted with a grin as she ruffled Steve's hair.

"Oh."

"That's cute," Eddie commented as he laughed.

"Right... Um, no. It's..." Nancy spelled out guarded for the group.

"Guarded."

"Yes, yes."

Most of the conversation was portrayed the same way but Andrea found herself drifting off into her mind. Something just did not feel right to her in those few moments. Everything seemed to be bouncing back and forth, or maybe that was Andrea's thoughts.

She honestly could not keep up with herself. It was like she was hyperactive when in reality she was anything but at the moment. Ever since they had come through the portal her headache had been slowly going away before coming back.

A repetitive cycle that had pissed the woman off beyond belief. It was over and over again. They needed to find a way out and Andrea hoped whatever was happening in the talk with Dustin, that they figured out a way for them to get out so that they could leave. That was the one thing they needed more than anything.

A way out.

"Andrea," Steve whispered as he nudged her side, "Hey..." His tone was soft as Andrea jolted back to reality.

"Sorry, I just spaced out," Andrea whispered.

"Don't worry about it," Steve pressed a soft kiss to her head, "Come on. We're going to the Munson trailer, they think there is a portal there."

"How do we get there?" Andrea asked softly before her question was answered.

Andrea was holding onto the back of Steve as he drove the bike down to the Munson trailer. Andrea nearly felt a chill run down her spine as a bat began to squeal.

"Guys?" Andrea called out as she breathed out, "I'm not gonna be mentally here for a few, so if I just fall off the bike leave me. I'll get there in like... an hour?"

"Wait!"

But she couldn't exactly help that she slipped back into her mind.

Andrea found herself back in her younger body, holding hands with her father as Eleven ripped the chip out of her neck while they sat in one of the back rooms. A worried expression on her face.

She could barely remember this.

She was held tightly in his arms as he ran his fingers through her hair before letting her go. That was their last real normal moment.

Then she was crying as she stood with Peter in the rainbow room.

All of the kids surrounded them as they glared at the girl.

Eleven ran in as the lights flickered like crazy. The mangled bodies of the other numbers were everywhere as blood covered the floors and walls of the rainbow room. Only one remained alive as Peter and Andrea stood side by side, both their eyes half-lidded as blood slipped down their noses.

And then Two was dead, his bones snapping as he hit the ground.

Eleven let out a loud gasp as she panted. Peter wiped the blood from his nose as he grunted, clearly angry but slowly turning around as he looked at Eleven.

"I asked you to wait," He turned to Eleven as he spoke.

Andrea looked at Peter before looking at the other numbers with wide eyes. She had just realized what she had done. Blood was still down her nose, her blonde hair a mess as she looked at him as tears welled in her eyes.

Eleven turned and tried to run, pulling the doors open before One flicked his head causing them to shut as the girl yelled. She turned and whimpered while Peter slowly walked to her. Placing his hand on her chin.

"Why do you cry for them, Eleven?" He asked the young girl, "After everything they did to you? Hmm? You think you need them, but you don't. Seven realized that. You both don't," His eyes scanned over his face, "Oh, but I know you're just scared."

Seven hated the fact that she felt absolutely nothing for the numbers who were dead on the ground. She tried to convince herself she had to be upset, she had to feel for the fact that she had killed them but she didn't.

After all, her father was right. She didn't need them and she had to kill them before they killed her.

She tried to say it was the manipulation, but this?

This was just what the father and daughter had been capable of.

"I was scared once too," Peter placed a hand on Eleven's face as he looked at her, "I know what it's like to be different. So does she. To be alone in this world."

Peter slowly walked back over to Seven as he placed his hands firmly on her shoulders, like a father trying to keep his daughter from running, "What did I do?" She stuttered out as she tried to be upset, but she wasn't.

And he knew that.

"Like you, I didn't fit in with the other children. Something was wrong with me," Peter spoke with a firm tone as he looked between the two children, "All the teachers and the doctors said I was... broken. They said, my parents thought a chance of scenery, a fresh start in Hawkins, might just cure me."

Andrea made a face as flashes of Henry's life from the Lab flashed in her mind. All the abuse, the pain. Even after she was born, it only continued.

It settled as she grasped the memory he played for her, "It was absurd. As if the world would be any different here. But then... to my surprise, our new home provided a discovery. And a newfound sense of purpose," Her father continued.

Little Seven made a face as a few tears slipped down her cheeks. She couldn't help but wonder what was going to happen to them.

But of course, Andrea knew what would happen. She just wished she had known then what she did now.

"I found a nest of black widows living inside a vent. Most people fear spiders, they detest them. And yet, I found them endlessly fascinating. More than that, I found a great comfort in them. A kinship. Like me, they are solitary creatures. And deeply misunderstood."

Andrea sucked in a sharp breath, she wanted to say that he was wrong but she wasn't so sure anymore.

"Are gods of our world, the most important of all predators. They immobilize and feed on the weak bringing balance and order to an unstable ecosystem," Peter slowly lowered down next to his daughter as he wiped her nose and gave a soft nod as he rose back to his feet.

Little Seven made a face of discomfort.

"But the human world was disrupting this harmony," Peter spoke as he looked firmly at Eleven, "You see, humans are a unique type of pest. Multiplying and poisoning our world all while enforcing a structure of their own. A deeply unnatural structure."

Little Seven wandered behind Eleven, the twelve-year-old girl looking scared while her green eyes held the exact same look that her fathers held.

"Where others saw order, I saw a straightjacket. A cruel, oppressive world, dictated by made-up rules. Seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years, decades! Each life a faded, lesser copy of the one before," He got aggressive.

"But you were never a lesser," Andrea could hear him as he talked to her, seemingly watching as well.

"Wake up, eat, work, sleep, reproduce, and die!" Peter yelled at little Eleven as he looked in fear.

And Seven did nothing.

"Everyone is just waiting. Waiting for it all to be over. All while performing in a silly, terrible play, day after day. I could not do that. I could not close off my mind and join in the madness. I could not pretend. And I realized, I didn't have to. I could make my own rules," He began to explain.

"You are conflicted," He spoke once again.

"I could restore balance to a broken world. A predator... but for good," He smiled while looking back at his daughter, "As I practiced, I realized I could do more than I possibly imagined. I could each into others, into their minds, their memories. I became an explorer."

"And I taught you."

"I saw my parents as they truly were," Peter began to wander, "To the world, they presented themselves as good, normal people. But like everything else in this world it was all a lie. A terrible lie. They had done things, Eleven. Such awful things."

Andrea let her head fall.

"I showed them who they really were. I held up a mirror. My naive father believed it was a demon cursing them for their sins, but my mother somehow knew it was I who was holding up that mirror and she despised me for it. She called a doctor, an expert. She wanted him to lock me away... fix me."

"Stop," Andrea whispered in her mind.

"Even though it wasn't I who was broken. It was them," Andrea remembered this all too well, the one memory she tried to lie to herself about, "And she left me with no choice but to act. To break free."

Little Andrea's eyes fell to the floor.

"With each life I took, I grew stronger. But I was still a child, I did not know my limits and it nearly killed me," He continued, "He was arrested and blamed for the death of my sister and mother just as I had planned. But I was far from free. I woke up in a coma only to find myself placed in the care of a doctor, the very doctor I had hoped to escape..."

"Please," Andrea begged, "Let me out."

"You were my greatest creation."

"You tricked me..."

"Tricked you? No, I saved you."

Andrea felt everything in her sink as Eleven threw her father. Little Seven looked at Eleven with fear and anger but did nothing, just as he had instructed her.

He got up and walked forward, the show-off beginning. The lights began to flicker as they thought, the young girl struggling. Eleven then was thrown against the wall and thrown around.

Andrea closed her eyes and it went away for a moment.

The last moments of her father being with her played through her mind. Watching as his back hit the wall, he struggled as Andrea screamed and fell down the wall crying. She made herself believe it was the grief of the others, but it was for her father.

Blood covered them all, she cried as he struggled but didn't help as told. And then Eleven screamed as he did, something beginning to disintegrate as he cried out causing Andrea to look away. The screams and wails continued until they didn't....

Creatures clattered in the distance as the air began to glow red while everyone rode to the Munson trailer. Andrea held onto Steve tighter as fear ran through her veins, the girl coming back to reality, everyone whipping into the trailer park as quickly as they could get there.

Something was terribly off.

"It's right here," Eddie called out as he slid off the road.

Everyone was quick to get off of the bikes while Robin stumbled out, "That's gotta be a Guinness World Record. Most miles traveled inter-dimensionally," Andrea laughed at the woman's words.

"Just inhaled a bunch of that crap," Steve pointed at the air as he fixed the flashlight and coughed, "It's stuck in my throat."

Andrea made a face, "Ew."

Eddie pulled open the door to the trailer and everyone looked up upon seeing the portal, Steve muttering a, "God damn," as he turned the flashlight off and grabbed ahold of Andrea.

"This is where Chrissy died," Eddie stated the obvious with a sad look, "Like, right where she died."

It continued to whither and make noise as Robin spoke, "I think there's something in there."

"Your mom," Andrea joked before something started to poke through, "Well shit."

"What the hell is that?" Eddie questioned as everyone looked confused by whatever the hell was coming through.

"Portal boob?" Andrea questioned as it went back up momentarily before something cut it open and everything screamed, "SHIT PORTAL BOOB IS MEAN!"

Steve looked in fear as he grabbed onto Andrea as tightly as he could while everyone watched the portal carefully. Something poked through as it cut it open. A mop?

Then it stopped and everyone slowly walked closer to the portal, peering overhead to see what was the cause. Andrea and Steve are the first ones under.

"No way..." Steve muttered out as he looked shocked.

"MY BROTHER! Damn, I got excited about a boob portal," Andrea sighed in relief as she looked up to see the reflection of their friends.

"Hi, there!" Dustin waved with a grin as he laughed.

"Hi," Steve grinned as he loosened up on Andrea.

"D!" Andrea shrieked happily as she waved, "I knew I loved you for a reason!"

"Hi," Everyone else let out as they watched.

Everyone continued to laugh while Robin spoke, "Holy shit, this is trippy."

"Bada bada boom!" Dustin yelled.

It wasn't long before a mattress and rope had been thrown through the potral, a way to get everyone out in one piece.

"Guess I'm the guinea pig," Robin spoke as she grabbed onto the rope before wrapping herself around it with a grunt and slowly got out of the portal.

Everyone watched with wide eyes as she fell onto the mattress, everyone looked at each other, "All right. I guess I'll go," Eddie spoke before he started to get up.

"All right," Steve nodded his head before adding, "Easy. Easy."

"Wheeler next," Andrea muttered.

Steve grabbed Andrea's hand before sighing, "I'll see you on the other side."

"On the other side," Nancy added with a grin before Andrea paused.