"Friends don't lie". Isn't that your little bullshit saying? Hey, hey, hey! Don't walk away from ME! Where'd you go on your little field trip, huh? Where? You go see Mike?
[Sadly] He didn't see me.
Yeah, well that mother and her daughter did, and they called the cops. Now, did anyone else see you? Anyone, at all? Come on, I need you to think!
Nobody saw me!
You put us in danger. You realize that, right?
[Angrily] You promised... I'd go! And I never leave! Nothing ever happens!
Yeah, nothing happens and you stay SAFE! [Furiously bangs his right hand on the dressers]
[Furiously] You LIE!
I don't lie, I protect! And I feed, and I teach! And all I ask of you, is that you follow three simple rules! Three rules! And you know what? pPauses temporarily before screaming furiously] You CAN'T EVEN DO THAT! [El then bangs her hands on the dresser, and pause]] You're grounded! You know what that means? It means no Eggos... [he angrily throws a pack of Eggos waffles out of the freezer] ...and no TV for a week!
[Hopper tries to move the TV, but El angrily holds it in place with her powers]
Alright, knock it off, let go. [El shakes her head, and he tries to move it again] Okay, two weeks. [He tries again] Let go! [El angrily shakes her head] A month!
No!
[Sarcastically] Well, congratulations. You just graduated from no TV for a month, to no TV at all!
[He angrily rips the power cord in two]
[Horrified and furious] NO! No, no... no! [She tries to fix it to no avail]
You have got to understand that there are consequences to your actions.
[Furious] YOU are like Papa!
[Hurt and furious] Really? I'm like that psychotic son of a bitch? Well, all right. You wanna go back in the lab? One phone call, I can make that happen.
I hate you!
Yeah, well I'm not so crazy about you, either. You know why? 'Cause you're a brat. You know what that word means? How 'bout that be your word for the day, huh? Brat, why don't we look it up? B-R-A-T. Brat.
[He tosses the dictionary to her, but she angrily slams it into him with her powers in retaliation for the insults and threats]
Hey! What the hell is wrong with you? [El uses her powers to ram the couch into his leg] Ahhh! Hey, HEY!
[El uses her powers to knock over a bookcase, then storms into her room and slams the door shut]
Hey! Hey! [Furiously bangs on the door] Open this door! Open this damn door!
[Inside, a terrified El sits against the wall, crying]
[Furiously bangs on the door again] You wanna go out in the world?! You better grow up! GROW THE HELL UP!
[El screams, and her powers shatter all the windows, startling Hopper, and she starts sobbing]
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