There's No Place Like Hawkins//Stranger Things. SH

SIXTEEN

The Bathtub

Cat looked up as Joyce and Hopper walked into the police station.

"Hey." Joyce said, sounding annoyed. "Jonathan? Catherine? Jesus, what... what happened?"

"I'm fine." Jonathan told her, not answering his mom's question.

Cat let out a breathy laugh, holding her ribcage. Her broken leg was propped up on a chair. "If you call a possible broken rib fine, then I'm just peachy."

"Why are they wearing handcuffs?" Joyce asked Callahan.

"Well your boy and Miss Henderson here assaulted police officers. She," He pointed an accusing finger at Cat, "broke my nose, kicked me in the balls and, like I told you Chief, stole my gun a few weeks ago. That's why."

Catherine tilted her head back and laughed, for some reason finding this all very ridiculous. She was slightly loopy due to the pain medication she had been given. Both Hopper and her friends gave her weird looks.

"Take them off." Joyce demanded.

"I am afraid I cannot do that." Callahan told her.

"Take them off!" Joyce yelled at him.

"You heard her. Take 'em off." Hopper said to Callahan.

"Chief, I get everyone's emotional here, but there's something you need to see." Powell spoke up, leading him out of the room.

The Chief and the two police officers came back into the room, placing the large box of bear traps, boxes of bullets, lighter fluid and all the other things the teens had bought onto the table in front of them.

"What is this?" Joyce asked, going through the box.

"Why don't you ask your son? We found it in his car." Hopper told her.

"What?" Joyce's head snapped towards her son.

"Why are you going through my car?" Jonathan asked them.

"Yeah, dipshits, why are you going through a car that's not yours." Cat argued.

"You're one to talk." Callahan told her. "The amount of times we've caught you for stealing..." He trailed off as Hopper told him to cut it out.

"Is that really the question you should be asking right now?" Hopper asked Jonathan, leaning forward on the desk. "I wanna see you in my office."

"Ooh, someone's in trouble." Cat giggled. "I don't know why I'm laughing, I'm also in trouble."

"You won't believe me." Jonathan told him.

"Why don't you give me a try?"

***

Cat, Nancy and Jonathan were sat in Hopper's office, watching as he and Joyce looked at the photo of the monster they had encountered.

"You say blood draws this thing?" Hopper asked the teens who sat looking nervously at the adults.