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dustin, lucas, will and eleven all came running into the hospital room at the same time. mike was still unconscious in the hospital bed, and the doctors say he took a hard hit to the head. 
                          
eleven kneeled down at the side of the bed. "m-mike?" there was no response. she started to cry. will walked over and gave her a hug and also began crying. 
                          
"mike... oh my god..." dustin covered his mouth.
                          
the machine mike was hooked up to made loud beeping noises to show that his heart was still beating. this scared eleven, so she kept moving away from the strange machine.
                          
"mike. mike, eleven..." el said softly.
                          
"your friend might not wake up for a bit." a doctor walked in the room. everyone turned to fave him, except eleven, who was still looking at mike. "a hit like that to the head could be fatal. i'm surprised he's still alive." 
                          
will wiped his tears. "is he gonna be okay, though?"
                          
the doctor bit his lip. "well, uh, we-we aren't sure. we have to wait for him to wake up."
                          
el's heart hurt so much. she felt better when mike was at dustin's. this was a new feeling she had. one she didn't like. it was a mix of guilt, anger and sadness, all together in one big ball that sat in the middle of her stomach.
                          
the doctor noticed the silence, and left the room.
                          
"what happened?" lucas asked.
                          
dustin could barely speak at this point. he was choking on his tears.  "h-he was at my house for a sleepover." dustin paused and took a breath. "and we st-started biking back to his house when all of the sudden..." he paused again to sniff. "this truck came out of nowhere. we didn't even hear it until it was too late. he didn't see mike, and....." everyone looked at mike again. "b-bam......" dustin said quietly.
                          
"my fault...." el whispered.
                          
"eleven, no one thinks it's your fault." will gave her a sad smile.
                          
"m-my fault..." she repeated.
                          
all of the sudden, the machine stopped making short beeping sounds, and instead started making one long beep. everyone froze.
                          
"MIKE! DOCTOR, WE NEED A DOCTOR." lucas shouted.
                          
a whole bunch of doctors came running into the room as fast as they could. eleven ran in front of mike's bed. "leave.... mike.. alone.." she said.
                          
"MOVE IT, KID." one of the doctors shouted. two of the doctors tried something with the IV while one of them lifted up mike's shirt and put two metal plates on mike's stomach and shouted "CLEAR." before mike's stomach jolted up. a couple of others tried doing something with a machine, while one of them but am oxygen mask on mike's still face.
                          
eleven screamed. "NO!" she was terrified. she raised her arm in the air, and in a matter of seconds, she had lifted the doctor with the metal plates up in the air.
                          
"ELEVEN! STOP IT!" will shouted over the doctors commands.
                          
she didn't listen. she wouldn't let anyone hurt mike.
                          
she continued to have him levitate, and was about to throw him at the wall when lucas ran and tackled eleven to the ground, making her lose focus. the doctor landed on the ground with a thud. he looked at eleven in horror before quickly trying to press the metal plates on mike's chest.
                          
"CRAZY BOY, WATCH IT!." the doctor shouted with a mixture of curse words. it was obvious he was frustrated, and probably didn't mean what he was saying. no one was paying attention anyways
                          
lucas quickly got off the ground and grabbed a hold of eleven, who was screaming. everyone noticed the river of blood coming from out of her nose, which she quickly used her arm to clean it. there was now a red streak going up her pale arm.
                          
"CLEAR." the doctor shouted again. mike's stomach jolted up again after being pressed with the metal plates. still no response.
                          
all of the guys were crying. they might have just lost their best friend. the guy that they would play dungeons and dragons with. the guy that would bike all around the block with them...
                          
mike's parents and nancy ran into the room.
                          
"MIKE! OH MY GOD! PLEASE, MIKE... PLEASE JUST... JUST.... BREATHE AGAIN. YOU CAN'T DO THIS TO US." nancy cried over eleven's loud screams. if lucas wasn't resisting her, she would have killed all of the doctors.
                          
"CLEAR." the doctor shouted for a third time. mike's stomach went up again. and then back down. eleven collapsed onto the ground crying.
                          
"no....NO..." mike's mom cried and hugged Ted, mike's dad.
                          
the whole room was filled with darkness, knowing that the one ray of light had died.











                          
"WAIT." one of the doctors shouted. eleven stopped screaming. 
                          
beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep
                          
"your friend. he's still alive!" one of the doctors messing with the IV bag said.
                          
the doctor didn't put mike's shirt down yet, so eleven saw that his stomach was indeed sinking and raising back up again, just like when he would cuddle her at night when she cried. he was breathing again, but he still wasn't awake.
                          
all of the doctors walked out of the room, along with nancy, mike's parents and the boys. the doctor's were scared of eleven, so they just left her in the room with him.
                          
eleven sat down in the chair beside the bed and tried to get comfortable. she didn't want to go to bed without mike there with her.
he looked so peaceful to eleven. he looked like he was sleeping. she smiled. "mike... i love you..." she said quietly, knowing that mike couldn't hear her.
                          
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IT KILLED ME TO KILL MIKE. BUT I BROUGHT HIM BACK AHHHH