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Chapter Two: The Search for Will Byers

"What? No. I-I just meant it'd be safer for you."

"Because I'm a girl?" She raised her brow, Lucas widening his eyes.

"No, no! I just... I meant, um..." It was then that he decided to give up and ran to catch up with his friends, leaving her behind the three, as usual.

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"We should be out there right now. We should be helping look for him." Mike hadn't yet touched his food as he spoke to his parents during dinner. Karen sighed and turned to Holly to assist her eating.

"We've been over this, Mike. The Chief says-"

"I don't care what the Chief said."

Karen snapped her head up to him. "Michael!"

"Mom," Doc cut in. "We're supposed to just sit here and do nothing while Will is out there? I mean, we don't know what he's going through, he could be in danger."

"More reason to stay put, sweetie. End of discussion."

The dinner table fell silent, save for Ted's utensils scraping against his plate as he ate without a care in the world. Karen stared at her husband, awaiting his say in the matter, but got none when Nancy spoke up, "So... me and Barbara are gonna study at her house tonight. That's cool, right?"

Karen shook her head. "No. Not cool."

"What? Why not?"

"Why do you think? Am I speaking Chinese in this house?" She looked around at the family with raised brows. "Until we know Will is okay, no one leaves."

"This is such bullshit!"

"Language." Ted decided to say his first word since dinner.

"So we're under house arrest? Just because Mike's friend got lost on the way home from-"

Doc felt rising anger as her lungs constricted. "Don't blame Will for this just because you wanna lie to Mom!"

"(Y/N), deep breaths. Nancy, take that back." Karen tried to calm her children.

"No!"

Standing up from her chair, Doc walked around her siblings to leave the kitchen. "I'm sorry, I can't listen to Nancy be an asshole tonight."

"Language!" Her father called out to her as she rushed up the stairs. After distancing herself within her bedroom, she approached her bulletin board on her wall. Nancy had helped her make it last year and she added a photo to it each time she got one. Her eyes fell upon a photo of her and Will, standing in front of the movie theater after watching Poltergeist. She was ruffling his hair, their smiles frozen in time.

    "Were you scared at all, Will?"

"No! Of course not!"

"Oh... Well, I was."

"Really...? Uh- Well, I guess there were some parts that made me jump..."

Smiling softly at the memory, she shook her head. "You better be okay, Will."

Unable to sit beside herself for longer than ten minutes, Doc made her way to the basement, careful of her footing so as to not alert her brother, who was sitting at his D&D table. Stalking closer, she noticed he was talking to one of his friends on his walkie. It was most likely Lucas, since he was in closer range than Dustin. Silently standing a few paces behind him, she carefully listened to their conversation.