Strange Love • Steve Harrington

Tag You're It

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We all joined, going around the kitchen and living room. And nothing. No talk back.

"All right, either this kid can't hear us or he's being a total douche bag."

"Will found a way."

"What?" I crossed my arms.

"Will. He found a way to speak to Joyce through the lights." No wonder there was so much Christmas lights in the shed! Nancy went around and flipped the switches.

"It's not working."

"Hey uh Guys?" I stood above the chandelier that was on. "You seeing this? Or is Vecna in my head?" They all turned to me. We came close to the light, reaching out. The lights started to get brighter as we touched it. The sensation was funny. It tickled, it felt good.

"Does anyone know Morse code?" Robin and Steve said no.

"Wait, does SOS count?" Eddie said.

"I know couple of words." I also said. They all turned to us. Eddie and I took turns on the light. SOS, Help me, was repeated over the lights to get Dustins attention.

"It's working." Got them.

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We went back upstairs to Nancys room, wait for the kids to get the Lite-Brite set up to talk to us. We heard Dustins voice echoed the room. Nancy drags her hand over the screen, it lit up. We smiled as it worked. The lights go off and now we have to write. Nancy drags her finger to write Hi. It worked! We jumped for joy.

"Hi!" Eddie gets all happy.

"Okay um..."

"Tell him we're stuck." Nancy nods and starts to spell. The kids try to guess it.

"Stu...stupid? Stupid?" We heard them. Well hold on! Nancy finished the word. "Stuck."

"Yes." Eddie hums in agreement and we sat in front of the light also agreeing.

"You cant go through watergate?" Dustins voice echoes.

"What the hells watergate?" Steve sighs. Of course Dustins names for these stuff.

"Cause it's in water and it's a gate."

"Oh. That's cute." Nancy writes again. Guarded. They got it still. We heard that Dustin can get us out.

"Genius child."

"We think Watergate isn't the only gate. That there's a gate at every murder site."

"Does anybody understand what he's talking about?" We all shook their heads. Nancy sends a question mark.

"How many times do I have to be right on the money before you trust me?" Dustin yells back.

"Jesus Christ. This kid's gotta get his ego in check." Steve scuffs.

"It's his tone. Right?" Eddie joins in.

"Its a age thing. He's getting more needy and all. High school boys." I also scuffed.

"He wasn't this needy when you left." Steve looks at me. "He kept complaining about how little he sees you and then tells me that you steal me from him, i can never win."