I almost feel sorry for what I'm gonna do*

but then oh he has gorgeous blue eyes and oh he can actually be quite witty and, dare he say, funny at times. interesting. he is not scared by andrew.

andrew finds himself sharing little things, like phones and seats in the maserati for him.

and then all of a sudden, drake was back. and neil was protecting him - so was aaron. and then andrew's gone and proust is here but then at least he is off the drugs.

thinking everything would go back to a new kind of normal, andrew comes back only to find neil is well and truly neil now with gorgeous auburn hair and bright blue eyes shimmering with life even after seeing death so many times.

andrew finds himself looking at neil more, looking for neil more. neil who went to the nest for him, who experienced unworldly torture to keep andrew safe that ended up being futile anyways.

when neil accepts all of his disgusting secrets and truths and, in the moments where andrew does nothing but hate himself, neil finds something to latch onto and respect. neil who accepts his kiss even without warning, and who keeps accepting his touches and no matter what, unlike anyone else andrew has ever met, respects his boundaries and what it is andrew cannot take.

for once in his life, andrew is enough for someone. the little things he can give are enough for the boy who had never had a thing of his own.

but think about then, how he must have felt, when neil was gone. and andrew slowly realises the meaning behind those words. thank you, you were amazing. it made andrew feel sick to his stomach and somehow his hands had made it to kevin's neck despite his promise to protect him.

all he needed was to find him. find neil. it was only once it was gone that andrew recognized the ache that was neil, the hole he had left open and oozing blood.

Spoilers ahead!

1. Max, Billy and the Creel house. It's obvious that the 3 share a spooky connection and are somehow entangled. We see her talking to Billy at his grave and then the scene immediately cuts to the grandfather clock with the UD veins that we know is located in the Creel house.

She is also shown floating in the graveyard in a position mimicking the one of out demonic looking friend from the beginning and end of the trailer.

The party later visits the Creel house. Notice that the the background in the shot of our UD demon and the attic of Creel house are in the exact same location. You can see the same beams holding the roof as well as the candles and crates in the background.

Conclusion: This is Billy, calling out to Max from the UD. 

2. Having established that this is Billy he seems to have been corrupted by the Upside Down. However his left arm is still intact and it seems that the veins are growing on top of him very much like an exoskeleton.

Also notice that the right hand is an enlarged claw. We see this claw again in two more shots. One time when Max is running from something in the UD towards the exit wound of the portal.

And another one as it rises threateningly in front of the cheerleader character in an homage to the famous bath tub scene from Nightmare on Elm Street. 

3. Steve seems to enter the UD through a body of water, meaning this will likely happen in the episode titled The Dive. We see him here floating in front of the portal and then in another shot as he gets spit out on the other side. 

4. Speaking of the other side, the group seems to spend a longer amount of time there.

We have shots of them biking through the UD, Dustin dirtied up and covered in Spanish Moss (?) Eddie playing the guitar on the roof of Hoppers trailer well as Steve fighting monsters in a dried out lake or swamp (notice the boat in the bg). Possibly the trailer and the lake are also the location of the scenes where Max is in peril. 

5. Steve might to be the first and possibly last to enter and exit the UD. In the scene where he says "See you on the other side." to Nancy they are in the UD and he looks quite apprehensive.

Something might go wrong and he might be stuck there. He also loses his shirt and jacket and lends Eddie's DIO denim west. Compare to his outfit when he enters Kreel house.

6. However, as seen in photos taken on set while filming, Steve does seem to resurface from the upside down and appears in a scene back in Hawkins where the citizens and the group of friends stock up on weapons.

AS does this Billy Hargrove looking guy with Dacre's proportions and the exact same outfit and scrape wounds as Steve. 

Your suffering is almost at an end.

The fight hadn’t even been over something worth while. It was about a game, a stupid basketball game that didn’t even count because they were in the heart of Summer and the season didn’t even start until the end of Fall. It was a game set up between Hawkins’ High’s head coach and the head coach of some high school an hour away. Steve had wanted to go, took the day off and everything but when he told Billy about being there to cheer him on Billy had lost it.

hes absolutely not freezing his balls off no no no steve where the hell are you

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