••••• "Don't don't you want me? / You know I can't believe it when you say that you don't need me" •••••
"This might be the stupidest thing I've ever gotten myself involved in, but I'm in."
In which Steve Harrington and Kimberly Henderson go from be...
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Back at the Byers house, the group sat, trying to gather themselves together and make a plan.
"They didn't believe you, did they?" Dustin asked after Hopper hung up the phone.
"We'll see," Hopper muttered, looking back at the group.
"'We'll see'?" Mike scoffed. "We can't just sit here while those things are loose!"
"I hate to say it," Kim whispered to Steve. "But I kind of missed Mike's bitchy attitude."
"We stay here, and we wait for help," Hopper said through clenched teeth before walking out of the kitchen.
The two teens and four younger kids sat in silence for a while, Kim sitting on top of the counter and Steve leaning next to her. He wanted more than anything to wrap his arms around her or take her hand or kiss her, but didn't want to make her mad with Nancy being so close by.
"Did you guys know that Bob was the original founder of Hawkins AV?" Mike asked, walking over to the stack of puzzles and brain teasers Bob had brought by earlier.
Kim hadn't known Bob very well, but she had known that he was nice and that he made Joyce happy. In her book, that made him a pretty good guy. And after hearing about how he had died so that people she cared about could get out of the lab, made her feel that much worse that he was gone.
"Well, what do you want to do, Mike?" Dustin asked, her brothers outburst pulling Kim back into the conversation. "The Chief's right on this. We can't stop those Demo-dogs on our own."
"Demo-dogs?" Max asked, raising her eyebrows.
Dustin looked at her with an exasperated expression. "Demogorgon. Dogs. Demo-dogs. It's like a compound. It's like a play on words-"
"Yeah, okay," Max interrupted, not used to him talking to her like that. "I get it."
Dustin sighed. "I mean, when it was just Dart, maybe-"
"But there's an army now," Mike nodded, knowing better than anyone else in the room just how many of those things there were. "His army."
"What do you mean?" Steve asked the young Wheeler boy.
"His army," Mike repeated, louder this time. "Maybe if we stop him, we can stop his army, too."
"I'm sorry," Kim spoke up. "But who the hell are you talking about?"
Mike rushed away, coming back with the picture of the shadow monster than Will had drawn. "It got Will that day on the field. The doctor said it was like a virus, it infected him."
"And so this virus, it's connecting him to the tunnels?" Max asked.
"To the tunnels, monsters, the Upside Down, everything," Mike nodded.
Kim and Steve exchanged a look, having no idea what the kids were talking about, but walked closer to the picture to try and understand. "Whoa, slow down," Steve told Mike.
