RudeRory

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We woke up my walkie talkie "Do you copy? This is a code red." I heard Lucas say "I repeat, this is a code red. Rory. Do you copy."

I grab the walkie talkie off the floor "Shut. Up." I said turning the walkie talkie off and turning over, then I hear my phone ring

"You've got to be kidding me." Max said

I stood up and answered it "I'm sleeping. Go away."

"This is Mike. Do. It hang up. Something happened, something bad. Our very lives can be at stake."

"What are you talking about?"

"Just come over to my house. We'll explain everything."

"What?"

"Hurry." He ends the phone

"What did he say?" El asked

I told Max and El what he said, we changed, and I made sure we had everything, like a walkie talkie, spare batteries for the walkie talkies, we all went over to mikes.

"I didn't think it was anything at first. I mean, I think I just didn't want to believe it. The first time I felt it was at 'Day of the Dead'." Will said

"Power went out that night, too." Mike said

"And then I felt it again at the field near the Nelson farm the next day. And again yesterday at castle Byers." Will explained

"Why does it feel like?" Max asked

"It's almost like...You know when you drop on a roller coaster?" Will asked us all

"Sure." Mike said

"Yeah." I said

"No." El said

"It's like...everything inside your body is just sinking all at once, but..this is worse. Your body...it goes cold and- you can't breathe. I've felt it before, whenever he was close." Will said

"Whenever who was close?" Max questioned

"The Mind Flayer." Will said

"I closed the gate." El said to Will

"I know, but..what if he never left? What if we locked him out here with us?" Will said, we all got up and Will grabbed some paper and chalk "This is him..all of him. But, that day in the field, a part of him attached itself to me." Will tuned his hand over the drawing "My mom got it out of me...and Eleven closed the gate." He flipped the paper over "Bit the part that was still in me, what if it's still in our world?" He made a handprint with the chalk that was on his hand "In Hawkins."

"I don't understand. The demo-dogs died when El closed the gate. If the brain dies, the body dies." I said

"We can't take any chances." Mike said "We need to assume the worst. The mind flayer's back."

"Yeah. And if he is, he'd want to attach himself to someone again. A new me." Will said

"A new host." Lucas said

"How can you tell if someone is a host?" El asked

"You can't." Mike said.

We all left and went to the Pool and saw Billy, in shorts a t-shirt, and a towel over his legs

"I don't know. He looks pretty normal to me." Max said

"Max, come on, he has a shirt on. That is not normal for Billy." I said

"I mean, it's a little weird." Max said

"More that a little. He was in a tub with ice. The mind flayer likes it cold." Mike said "Plus everything El saw"