There's No Place Like Hawkins//Stranger Things. SH

TWENTY NINE

"No."

Cat banged furiously on the door.

"No, you cant come in yet, Max!" The boys called through the door.

"It's me, you little shits." Catherine called, her fists resting on the door. She was about to knock again, after getting no response, when the door was yanked open and she was tugged inside the dark room, the door shutting behind, leaving Max outside.

"Why the fuck am I allowed in, but Max isn't?" Cat asked them as she walked up to the box sitting on the table. "You know it's rude to not include people, right?"

"Cat, shut up. It's important."

Catherine raised her hands to her head. "Alright, I'll shut up. Now, what the hell was so important I had to postpone shoving my face full of ice-cream and watching 'Footloose'?"

"I don't understand." Lucas told them.

"Well neither do I. Join the club." Cat sighed, leaning her arm on Dustin's shoulder.

"What do you not understand?" Mike asked.

"Uh, everything." Cat replied sarcastically.

"Will saw something that looked like Dart last year?"

"Kind of, but there was no tail." Will explained.

"Who the fuck is Dart?!" Cat questioned.

"The thing in the box." Dustin told her. Cat's eyebrows furrowed in confusion.

"What?!"

"But then he heard it yesterday." Mike continued to explain. "The exact same sound. And we think Cat did too." Cat looked over at Will. He had told Mike that she also experienced episodes like he did.

"Wait. What? Kit too?" Dustin turned to her to see his sister shrug. "Why didn't you tell us before?"

"I wasn't sure."

The boys turned to Cat. "I didn't want to worry you guys. And besides, I'm just as clueless as the rest of you."

"So, it's a coincidence." Dustin suggested.

"Or not." Mike said. "What if when Will was stuck in the Upside Down, he somehow acquired True Sight?"

"True Sight?" Both Lucas questioned.

"What the hell is that?" Cat asked.

"It gives you the power to see into the ethereal plane." Dustin explained.

"The what?"

Lucas sighed. "Elaborate."

"Maybe these episodes that Will and Cat keep having aren't really flashbacks at all." Mike suggested. Maybe they're real." Cat shuddered, not liking the idea of what she was seeing being real. "Maybe the two of them can somehow see into the Upside Down."

"That makes sense. Will was trapped there. But why Kit?" Dustin asked. The older girl shrugged. "She's never been there."

"Actually..." The boys turned to her. "I went in there after Nancy, remember? We were in the woods, looking for Barb."

"But it still doesn't explain why you also have True Sight." Mike told her.

"So, if Will and Cat heard Dart, that would mean..." Lucas trailed off.

"Dart is from the Upside Down." Mike finished.

Lucas sighed as Dustin shook his head. "We have to take him to Hopper."

"I agree." Mike said.

"Me too." Cat added.

"No way. If we take him to Hopper, Dart's good as dead." Dustin disagreed with the others.