"Griswold Family, this is Scoops Troop! Do you сору?! Over! Griswold Family, I repeat, this is Scoops Troop. Do you--?" The Mind Flayer roars loudly and Dustin's staticky voice cuts out. Then, it resumes. They couldn't hear what he was saying.
Max, Gabby, Mike, and El hide behind a counter. Her left-hand clutches El's hand tightly and her right hand in Max's. The Mind Flayer storms through the mall and gets dangerously close to where they were hiding. All it did was roar and move on. Gabby's breathing was shaky as Mike peeks over the counter.
"It's turned away," Mike tells them, crouching back down, "If we go up the stairs now, we'll make it."
"No way, not with El's leg," Gabby points out.
"We have to try," Mike says.
"There's another way," El speaks up, "to get out through the Gap." Gabby looks over the counter getting a clear view of The Gap and sees the Mind Flayers' back is turned before crouching back down.
"It might just work," Gabby whispered.
"Okay," Mike nods. A beat of silence. "Now!" Mike grabs El's hand, and Gabby grabs Max's. The four-run into the Gap. El knocks something over and it makes a noise. The Mind Flayer hears it and turns around.
It heads into the Gap and one of its tentacles searches the store for the four. One of them snatches up a mannequin. Realizing it isn't one of them, the Mind Flayer throws it away. It lands right next to them, and they gasp, breathing heavily. The mannequin is wearing the same shirt as El.
Another tentacle slithers around the store they moved to the other side of the clothing stand.
Right as it was about to find them, Gabby heard a balloon pop. The Mind Flayer roars and retracts its tentacle, stomping over to where the balloon must be.
"Go!" Mike says.
They run through the Gap and through the back rooms until they reach the outside of the mall. Max and Gabby help El walk and Mike leads the way. Then, they were greeted by a flayed Billy emerging from his car that was on fire and looked directly at them.
"Shit!" Max yells.
"Go, go, go, go, go!" Mike yells and they quickly turn the other way.
Mike takes over Max's place in helping El, and Max runs over to the gate outside, pressing the button to close them. They walk back through the back hallways of the mall, trying to find somewhere to hide as El groaned.
"In here, in here," Mike says quickly, finding an elevator.
Gabby jammed the button impatiently. "Come on fucking open!" Gabby shouted angrily.
"Billy," Max breathes. Mike, El, and Gabby turn to see Max, in the doorway, staring at Billy, who is standing at the end of the hallway.
"Billy, you don't have to do this," Max pleads to him. "Billy, your name's Billy, Billy Hargrove. You live on 4819 Cherry Lane. Billy, please. I'm Max. I'm your--" Before Max can finish, Billy slaps her--hard causing her to crumple to the floor.
"Max!" Gabby yelled. As Mike tries to punch Billy, but before he can, Billy slams him into a wall. He crumpled as well.
Billy turns to Gabby. She glares at and outstretches her hand before she could use her powers Billy's arm shoots out and grips her wrist tightly, slamming her head into the wall and flinging her away before doing the same to El.
Shifting awake Gabby heard a voice. "Don't be afraid. It'll be over soon. Just try and stay... very still."
Gabby slowly opened her eyes and became aware of her surroundings she was laying on the cold mall floor with Billy over them. El was next to her, waking up as well.
Everything was so blurry until she saw the Mind Flayer crawling out from the broken ceiling while snarling. Gabby suddenly realized what was about to happen, gasping she began to wriggle around on the floor trying to move away from it but the girl was too tired to get up.
They once again tightly shut their eyes and grabbed each other's hands tightly as a tentacle came out of the Mind Flayer's large, gory, tooth-filled mouth. It was coming towards the two but then they heard a bang and bright lights it pulled away.
"Flay this, you ugly piece of shit!" Gabby heard her boyfriend yell.
Gabby looked up and saw Lucas with a ton of fireworks. He then threw another one into its mouth and the Mind Flayer stumbled backward, screeching in pain.
Lucas, Will, Nancy, Jonathan, Steve, and Robin all threw fireworks at the Mind Flayer. When Gabby turned around, she saw Billy screaming in pain as black veins appeared all over his body. Being connected to the Mind Flayer feeling the same pain.
With enough energy and Billy being distracted and in pain, El and Gabby started trying to crawl away from him. But he noticed and started dragging the two back by their legs, making them scream. The screams of Mind Flayer being that close was too much for Gabby
As Billy was looking over to the two in hate, looking into his the two decided to remind him of a happy memory from his past hoping that would get him out of this state of mind.
"Seven... feet..." Gabby muttered weakly reminding him of the beach, "You told her... the wave was seven feet." Remembering made Gabby and El start to cry.
"You ran to her, on the beach," El sniffled, "There were seagulls. She wore a hat... with a blue ribbon. A long dress... with a blue and red flower."
"Y-yellow sandals... covered in sand she was pretty," Gabby sobbed, "She was really pretty. And you... you were happy." Gabby noticed tears starting to form in Billy's eyes. Gabby placed her hand on his cheek as he started to cry as he was remembering and fighting against the Mind Flayer.
When Billy looked up and saw how mad the Mind Flayer was, he slowly stood up and glared at it in anger. The Mind Flayer seemed to notice that he was no longer on its side with a roar it released a tentacle from its mouth towards the two.
"No!" Billy yelled as he caught it and held it back from getting to them. He roared in anger.
Sadly, the Mind Flayer released more tentacles, stabbing his stomach as he screamed in pain. Gabby and El watched in shock as the Mind Flayer continued sending tentacles and they pin onto his body as the final tentacle plunges through Billy's chest.
He sank to the floor as his vest was stained with dark red blood that was also pouring out of his mouth. The Mind Flayer stabbed him once more, right in the chest!
"Billy!" Max screeched from behind them.
The tentacles leave Billy's body, and he drops to the floor. The Mind Flayer went into a livid frenzy, wobbling around and storming all over the place before collapsing to the floor. It doesn't move again. The gate must be closing.
Mike ran over to Gabby and El and embraced them in a huge hug. Gabby noticed Max was kneeling over Billy's dead body, crying. Gabby and El gave her a massive hug.
"I'm sorry, it's okay, it's okay," Gabby reassured her as Max sobbed in their arms.
Eventually, firemen, police, and the military arrived at the mall rushing them all out and taking them to the ambulances outside.
Seeing her father she shrugged off the blanket and ran to him, "Daddy!"
"I told you I would be back my little darling," David said as he hugged her. But something wasn't right.
"Where was Hopper?" Gabby said as she looked around, when she saw the look on her father's face she realized he was dead. Gabby hurt for El because she lost her father.
"No." He just nodded.
THREE MONTHS LATER.
Today is the day.
The day that the Byers and El were moving away. After everything that happened, Joyce decided that it was best to move away from Hawkins to get away from the past and give her kids a fresh start.
Gabby understood what she was getting at but she was losing a sister and one of her best friends on the same day. She was sitting in the living room with Max, Lucas, and Dustin putting stuff in boxes but then Gabby and Lucas started singing Dustin's song.
Turn around. Look at what you see. In her face. The mirror of your dreams. Rhymes that keep their secrets. Will unfold behind the clouds.
"Wait, did we get that verse right?" Gabby asked Dustin with a smirk on her face.
Dustin just stared at the couple with a blank expression on his face. "It's 'unfold behind the clouds?"
"Yeah, but you're butchering it, so could you please stop?" Dustin says to them.
"You don't sound nearly as good as Suzie-poo and Dusty-bun." Max teased and Dustin rolls his eyes at them.
"So then join in, Dusty-bun," Lucas says, blowing him an air kiss.
"Yeah, come on, Dusty-bun," she pleaded, "why don't you join us?"
"You guys are so funny, you should be on Carson," Dustin says flatly.
"Can't we just hear your rendition?" Max asked.
"No."
"Please," Gabby pleaded, "Just one verse?"
"No. No way. It's reserved for Suzie's ears and Suzie's ears alone," Dustin tells them. Lucas looked at Gabby looked at each other and the two started singing again. As the two continued to sing and clap to the beat, Dustin waved his middle finger at them while they kept singing.
"Shut up, you guys!"
"Stop! You guys, please, shut up."
Gabby finally was packing up stuff in one of the bedrooms when El walked in smiling.
"I'm guessing that you and Mike were back together," Gabby asked El, giving her a look. She gave a smiling nod and she wrapped her arms around me.
The two broke apart and she whispered, "I'm going to miss you."
"I'm going to miss you too I wish we could just sneak you into my house and have you live there," Gabby says, as a tear fell down her face as El giggled.
"You know I remember painting you for days." Gabby started as El wiped her face "and then finally meeting you, you were cold, wet, and wearing a big yellow Bennys burger shirt. I didn't think I was meeting my sister for life." El gave a small laugh.
"El, you are going to be ok. You have Joyce, who is gonna take great care of you and you'll have two amazing brothers, and I'm am a phone call away or I'll use Dustin's Cerebro if Mike isn't using it."
"Thank you," El whispered as they hugged one last time.
Everything was now in the truck so it was time to say our goodbyes before the Byers were officially moved. Gabby's eyes were red from crying. Everyone was trying to hold back tears. El pulled Gabby into one last hug before pulling away and placing their wrist next to each other.
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"I'll miss you, sister."
"I'll miss you too, sister." She nodded as Max came over to hug her. Gabby looked at Will to see that his eyes were bright red, she wrapped my arms around him and he hugged her back. They broke apart and smiled at each other, "I'll miss you Gabby."
"I'll miss you too Will."
Gabby walked over to Joyce and hugged her as well. She had lost Hopper and Joyce was also like a mom to her, it was sad for Gabby to see her go. She wrapped her arms around her and mumbled, "I love you,"
"I love you too sweetheart," Joyce whispered back as she let go of her.
Gabby walked by Jonathan, giving him a hug and a small smile. "I'll miss you, Johnny."
"I'll miss you too Gabby." He said as they pulled apart.
Jonathan and Will got into the car while El and Joyce got into the U-haul truck. That is when they started driving away. Mike, Dustin, Nancy, Max, Lucas, and Gabby all watched as they drove down the driveway onto the road. Then they were gone.
Gabby wiped the tears off her face then everyone grabbed their bikes. Everyone mounted their bikes Gabby got on the back of Lucas's and they all started on their separate ways.
Whooo that is the end of season three rewatching this episode made me cry again 😭 can't wait to see you guys in season four!!!