Stranger Things | Bruno B. & Leone A. x M!Reader

XXXIV

[Landslide]
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Everyone except for Narancia and Mela was crowded around the wooden dining table, the mother and son being in the latter's room, and the explanation for what was happening had began.

"They reopened the gate at the lab," Jotaro started as he looked around at the people gathered around, seeing the expressions of irritation and some confusion on their faces. "That's if they even closed it in the first place. I shouldn't have trust those bastards with anything." He murmured to himself while, beside him, Fugo glared down at the table with an enraged and saddened look covering his face.

He switched his gaze to Mista and he let his look soften, "Those things killed Bob, right in front of us. He saved us but we couldn't save him." Fugo lamented making the boy frown deeply at the mention of Narancia's mom's new boyfriend, the guy was a bit much sometimes but he was one of the good people here in Hawkins. He helped Fugo and Mela find Jotaro without knowing it, something that would've ended with the police chief dead if he hadn't figured out where the tunnels led.

"We can't let him die for nothing, we have to find a way to get rid of whatever it is that's hurting Narancia and terrorizing us." He insisted and a scoff came from the other side of the table, everyone's head turning to the noise.

It had come from Abbacchio and he had an unamused look on his face from what Fugo had said. "And how do you plan on doing that? We don't even know what it can do or if we can even kill it." Leone questioned making the blond glower, annoyed that he had to point out their lack of knowledge on the situation.

"Actually," Mista interjected with an unsure look and he sent Leone a small smirk, something that got him a glare. "I might have something." He turned to Jotaro and his face went serious, knowing that he couldn't mess around now. "I think the shadow monster might be some sort of hive mind. It could be controlling the Demodogs, what if it's using Narancia to see over here?" He explained, Jotaro staring down at the table as he let his words sink in.

While they spoke about Mista's hive mind theory, (Y/n) silently moved away from the table and outside onto the porch where he sat down on the stairs with slumped shoulders. He wanted to stand there and act like he knew what they were talking about but he couldn't begin to wrap his head around what it was. 'Hive mind' and 'collective intelligence' went over his head more than the idea of the essay that he had to write to attempt to get into college. He was beginning to accept that he'd be nothing but an average person with a low income job and nothing to his name.

"Hey," A quieted voice came from beside him and it made his head lift up from his hands that he had placed it in, his eyes landing on the black hair of the male who was standing beside him at the table. "What're you doing out here?" Bruno asked as he took a seat next to him and looked out at the vast amount of trees that surrounded the property. It reminded him of Abbacchio and (Y/n)'s houses, both of them had trees around them, and they all had something that was hidden in them.

(Y/n) ran his tongue over his teeth before he shook his head, "I'm thinking." He answered with a blank expression on his face, Bruno's head turning to him and his eyebrow raised in question, urging him to continue. "I'm thinking about how dumb I am. How stupid I was and still am." He continued and the other male went to stop him but (Y/n) finally let his stare connect with Bruno's and he held himself back from saying anything. "Don't tell me I'm not."

"You're not, (Y/n), why do you think that?" Bruno ignored his words and questioned him anyway, (Y/n) laughing slightly from what he said. "Please, tell me, because I want to know why on earth you believe that."

Seeing the genuine expression that the teen had, he swallowed the lump in his throat before looking down at his hands. "For once I actually felt like I wasn't buying my way through life, you were a real friend who didn't care about money or anything that I could buy with it." (Y/n) began, his throat feeling like it was closing up as he spoke and his eyes beginning to burn. "I felt like living, I was right where I wanted to be. But then I had to fuck it up by sleeping with the biggest goddamn asshole in this entire town and lying about it to someone that I trust with my life."