Kate Hopper thought she'd finally had everything taken from her.
With her father gone and her sister all the way across the country, she truly didn't have anything left. Since her father's death eight months before, she'd broken up with her boyfrien...
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AS NIGHT FELL on Hawkins, the group of eight picked up their pace to try to find the gate in question.
Kate didn't know how to feel about their hunt to find it. She had no desire to go through a gate, particularly whenever she'd left her gun in her car (per Steve's request, of course). None of them had anything to defend themselves, and she didn't like the idea of them going in there empty-handed. She felt like she was going insane. Was she the only person that remembered what the creatures from the Upside Down had done to people? Done to her? The closer they got, the more anxious she became. She definitely did not want to go to another dimension. Not today.
"Hey, you okay?" Steve asked, touching her shoulder.
At the sensation of his fingers, she jumped, immediately relaxing whenever she saw his worried stature. "Y–Yeah, I'm fine."
He frowned slightly. "Kathy, if you wanna call this off, just say the word and it's over, okay? You and I, we... we can go back, find some other way to help out."
"What? No, that's not—" She cut herself off, lowering her voice. "I just... I can't be the only one that thinks this is a bad idea."
"I'm pretty sure I said it was a bad idea about a hundred times, but Henderson ignored me." He sighed. "He doesn't listen to me anymore."
"Oh yeah?" Kate asked. "You were right about him having a new friend."
"Yeah, it's annoying," Steve said, rolling his eyes.
