California dream

The Sauna Test

Season 3
Chapter 4

I'm currently brushing my teeth and listening to the thunder when I get what seems like a flash back
"Her fag of a girlfriend y/n"
Billy turns around suddenly and there's an ear splitting noise. The whistle with blood,the red door opening,  the bathtub filled with ice and water, Heather, "help me", her getting dragged into the floor

I look at myself in the mirror carefully, studying my features and then there's a loud thunderclap that makes me jump, I sigh while turning around and heading back into my room. "Which one?" Max says pulling two comic books out of her bag
"I don't know" I say in monotone sitting on the bed and getting under the covers
Max puts the comics down and look at me in worry
"Hey, there's nothing to worry about anymore, okay?"
"It doesn't make sense Max"
"What doesn't make sense?"
"Heather" I look from my lap to her "the blood. The ice"
"Heather had a fever, so she took a cold bath, but she's better now. That has to be it. I don't know where that blood came from but...we say her y/n. We both saw her. She's totally fine"
"What about Billy?"
"What about him?"
"He seemed...off" i state being careful with my words making her chuckle
"Wrong is kind of like his default, but it's nice to know he's not a murderer, because that would've totally sucked" she chuckles making me have to bite my lip to stifle a smile that wants to spread across my face. She gets closer to my face and takes my lip out from between my teeth "Don't do that, you'll hurt yourself. Plus it makes me want to kiss you"
I chuckle and look at the two comic books "wonder woman, seriously? Captain marvels so much better" (the first captain marvel comic was released in 1967, in case you wanted to know)
"No!"
"Yes!"
"Wonder Woman is so so so much better, I mean-"
"Let's just read" I cut her off before she opens the comic book and leans back onto the bed.
I snuggle up into her side, my arms around her waist and my head on the chest slightly so u can hear her heart beat
"This is Wonder Woman, AKA princess Diana. She's from Paradise Island, which is, like, this hidden island where there are only women Amazon warriors" not long after that I feel my eyes start to close and I can't help but fall asleep to the sound of my lovers heart beat and her calming voice.

"Do you copy, this is a code red" I hear Lucas's voice over either Max's or my walkie talkie
"I repeat, this is a code red. Max. Do you copy? This. Is. A. Code. Red"
Max scoffs before picking up the device
"Shut...up. And get off this Chanel! It's for y/n and I only, dumbass!" She turns it off and snuggles back into my side
Next thing we know the phones ringing. Max shoots up in my bed and scoffs again "you've got to be kidding me" she gets up while I stay laying down watching her from the bed. Smiling at how she tucks her hair behind her ears and the way she walks and how her-
"Like what you see stalker?"
I nod
"Stop staring"
I shake my head making her laugh
"I'm sleeping. Go away" she says seriously into the phone
The person on the other side of the line speaks
"What are you talking about"
They speak again
"What?"
Max puts down the phone
"What did he say?" 
She doesn't answer me, she just looks down at the phone. That gets me out of bed...fast. I'm up and running over to comfort her

I get on my bike as Max gets on hers
"I'll pick up Eleven! You go to Mikes!" I yell to her before racing off towards Elevens house.

*time skip*

When I arrive at Mikes house with Eleven I let myself in Eleven following close behind, I go down into the basement and sit down next to Max, I put a hand on the thigh and hope it calms her down.
"I didn't think it was anything at first.I mean,I think I just didn't want to believe it" Will starts "the first time I felt it was at the Day of the Dead"
"Power went out that night, too" I state while looking at each of my friends individually
"And then I felt it again at the field near the Nelson farm the next day. Then again yesterday outside Castle Byers"
"What does it feel like?" Max asks concerned
"It's almost like...you know when you drop on a roller coaster"
"Sure" Mike says
"Yeah"
"No" Eleven and I say at the same time making Max look at me in disbelief I shrug and continue to listen to Will
"It's like...everything inside your body...is just sinking all at once,but...this is worse. Your body...it goes cold and- and you can't breath. I felt it before, whenever he was close"
"Whenever who was close?" Max asks confused
"The Mind Flayer"
"I closed the gate" Eleven states while looking at Will
"I know, but...what if he never left? What if we locked him out here with us?"