cuz you and i - [Max Mayfield]

same busy signal

Warning: very descriptive drug use ahead, includes, syringes

"I am never biking" Belly panted "ever again!" she dropped down with the bike when they reached Eddie's trailer, as instructed to them. Escaping through the window, puncturing a police vehicle, and riding the bike all the way 7 miles was a lot of adrenaline for Belly to sober up.

They walked in to see a mini gate at the roof of the trailer.

"Dustin, look for a broom or something" she instructed as he found it and gave it to her, she pushed it up and through the red covering and it cleared, gravity working the opposite way and she saw the four, Robin, Nancy, Steve and Eddie, all of them alive and breathing making her sigh in relief

"Hi there" Dustin smiled at them and they smiled back, Belly smiled but only for a moment.

"Okay, there's no time to screw around" she said "Dustin and Erica, get bedsheets and tie knots in them, I'll join you, so these guys can climb up." She turned to Lucas and Max "You two get mattress, so they don't hit their head on the ground" and they got to work

"This is the craziest shit, I've ever seen in my life" Erica said once the sheet was stable and gravity wasn't working on it anymore "And I've seen some crazy shit"

"Like what was under Lucas' bed?" Belly said as they high-five'd

The four started making their way through, Robin was the first one, followed by Eddie, once he landed Belly hugged him

"I actually thought you were gonna die or worse, get caught or some shit" she said into his shoulder and he hugged her back, tight

"Nancy!" they heard Steve, as Nancy stood still, Steve shook her shoulders violently " Nancy, stay with me" Belly froze and only came to her senses when Eddie pushed her to go his room, looking for music.

All of them were frustrated and scared looking through tapes as fast as they could to find something Nancy could use to get out of Vecna's dream world, they were throwing tapes around, yelling at each other a whatnot.

After minutes of looking, Nancy was back, she didn't need music, she was released by Vecna himself. After coming back she saw the horrifying sight Vecna showed her, a destroyed world, bloodbath, everyone dead.

"Four chimes" Max stated "Vecna's clock, it always chimes four times"

"I heard them too" Nancy admitted

"He's been telling us his plan this whole time"

"Four kills" Belly looked up

"Four gates" Lucas completed for her

"End of the world" Belly stated

"If that's true, he's only one kill away" Dustin informed

"I'll try them again" Belly reached for the phone to try reach the Byers, they've been trying for endless time, but no luck

"Anything?" Dustin asked

"No, same as before"

"Maybe you punched it wrong, try again" Steve said

"I wouldn't punch it wrong 50 times " Belly was getting frustrated

"I don't know"

"I know how to use a phone, Steve" she sighed but trying again anyway "This phone's been busy for like 3 days now, it can't be Joyce's job. Something's wrong" she said putting the device back

"Whatever is happening in Lenore, is connected to all of this" Nancy suggested "But Vecna can't hurt them, not if he's dead" Belly looked at the girl "We have to go back to the upside down" Nancy worded out as they started arguing about how this is a bad idea

"Hey Eddie?" he looked at her "Can I use your bathroom?"

"Feel free"

She walked into the bathroom, locking the door behind her, she wiped sweat on the forehead. She looked at the mirror for a long minute before sighing, she reached into the big pocket of her pants, taking out a handkerchief. She laid it flat on the stool and picked up a syringe and a small bottle, she filled the syringe with the liquid and put the bottle with handkerchief back in her pocket.

Looking at the syringe, she knew she couldn't have herself inject it at her arm, so she sat on the stool, took off her shoe and rubbed the area between her big and index toes, she took the syringe and when it was only touching the area, she looked at the mirror, she saw herself, as a child, looking back at her. She considered putting the syringe away, but her brain did not let her.

She injected the needle all the saw into her skin, the liquid traveling her nerves the more she pushed in. Once done she put the syringe away and let the drug take over. She felt drowsy, spinning head, an itchy foot and a dry mouth.

She did not even try to get up when she heard the door banging and others calling her name. Her eyes slowly closed against her wish, but there was nothing she could do, she no longer had the energy to fight it and let it take over.

Heroine took over Isabell.