steves sister | a stranger things story

Chapter 44

"Nancy, just say with me. Stay with my, ok?" Steve could be heard from pleading for Nancy to wake up from the trance. "What ever you guys are doing, hurry up!" Steve yelled looking through the gate at Marley.

"Steve says you need to hurry!" Yelled Marley, running down the hall to the others

"Yeah, no shit!" Said Dustin digging though Cupboards.

"We're trying, we can't find anything!" Exclaimed Max

"What is all this shit?" Questioned Robin holding up a bunch of Eddie's CDs

"What are you even looking for?" Questioned Eddie

"Madonna, Blondie, Bowie, Beatles? Music! We need music!" Yelled Robin

"This is music!" Exclaimed Eddie snatching a CD from Robin.

"He showed me." Nancy quietly said as they all sat around Max's house.

"Things haven't happened yet. The most awful things, I saw a dark cloud, spreading over Hawkins. Down town on fire. Dead soldiers. And this... giant creature with... a gaping mouth. And this creature wasn't alone. There were so many monsters. And Army. And they were coming into Hawkins. Into our neighbourhoods. our homes. And then... he showed my mum and Holly. Mike. And they, they were all..." Nancy paused taking a shakey breath.

"Ok, but... he's just trying to scare you, Nance." Steve reassured "right, I mean, I mean it's
Not real."

"Not yet." Nancy spoke up "but there, there was something else. Showed me gates. Four gates. Spreading across Hawkins. And these gates, they looked like the one outside where f Eddie's trailer, but... they didn't stop growing. And this wasn't the upside down Hawkins. His was our Hawkins. our home."

"For chimes Max suddenly stated, they all looked over at her.  "Vecnas clock. It always chins four times. Four exactly."

"I heard them too." Nancy said everyone turning to look at her.

"He's been telling us his plan this whole time." Max went on.

"Four kills." Marlow added

"Four gates." Finished Lucas "end of the world."

If that's true... he's only one kill away."

"Oh Jesus Christ, Jesus Christ." Muttered Eddie putting his head in his hands.

"Try em again. Try 'em again." Steve spoke Max got up and went to the phone.

"Anything?" Asked Max as she placed it back down.

"No." Max sighed "rang a few times then went to busy signal."

"Maybe you punched it wrong. Try again." Ordered Steve

"I didn't punch it in wrong." Max stated

"Well, I don't know." Muttered Steve

"I think she knows how to use a phone." Added Dustin

"I'm just saying she could've typed it in wrong." Steve went on.

"Same shit." Max said again placing it back in the receiver.

"How is that possible?" Asked Lucas

"Joyce has this telemarketer job. Always on the phone." Dustin suggested "Mike won't stop whining about it."

"Yeah, but this phones been busy for what, three days now?" Questioned Max "that's not Joyce, no way. Somethings wrong."

"She's right." Nancy agreed "it can't be just coincidence. It can't be. Whatever's happening in Lenora is connected to all of this. I'm sure of it." Nancy went on, getting up to look out the window. "But Vecna can't hurt them. Not if he's dead." Nancy turned back to face the others. "We have to go back in there. Back to the the upside down."