"Are you holding my hand?"
"I'm scared as shit right now, so yeah, I'm holding your hand."
Steve Harrington x fem!oc
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They were running now, forgoing the weird gooey tree, in attempts to save their asses from the monster.
Nancy dove behind a boulder, pulled Halley down beside her. Breathing heavily, they looked at each other. Both pairs of eyes were filled with fear. For now, they had lost the monster— the demogorgon? Was the thing Mike had told her about? Fuck, it wasn't time to think about what the thing was. What she needed to do was get out.
"Okay," Halley breathed, leaning in closer so she didn't have to speak as loud. "We find Jonathan, right? But we have to split up. It can't chase us both at the same time."
"And if there's two of them?" Nancy asked, her nails digging into Halley's arm.
She shrugged, wishing there was a better answer. "Then you pray to your choice of god and hope they'll listen." Nancy's expression was grim, and she nodded, steadying herself as she stood up, jutting her finger in the direction she would take. Halley nodded.
They ran.
Halley couldn't hear much, only the thud of each step she took, and Nancy's shouting. She was vaguely aware of her own yells; screaming out her brother's name.
Unaware if it was a trick of wherever the fuck they were, or actually happening, Jonathan's voice rang out. "Halley? Nancy? Where are you?" For a moment, Halley let herself pause, leaning against a giant tree. She swiped at the fearful tears in her eyes, and steadied herself. Jonathan heard them. That was good. That meant they would be able to figure something out, find each other and get the hell away.
Nancy was still yelling, and she could hear faint replies, the kind that broke through consciousness into dreams right before you woke up. God, what Halley would give to wake up and find it was all a dream.
It wasn't, though. And she knew it. So took one last breath, and took off in the direction where Jonathan's voice seemed to be coming from. She had been lucky so far, no sign of the monster, but she could only hope Nancy had the same good fortune.
"Nancy! Halley! Hello?" Halley nearly screamed as a hand appeared from a tree beside her. Jonathan. Seconds away from throwing herself back to her brother, she stopped, hearing a ground rumbling growing and the sound of someone running. Shit.
Shit. Shit. Shit.
Halley, thinking with nothing but the adrenalin poisoning her veins, shed her coat and left it at the tree. "Stay there Jon," she said, and took off before he could say anything.
Nancy was only a few paces in front of the creature, and it was only getting closer. With legs over half her body, Halley was surprised it hadn't caught up before.
