S O F T C O R E // Steve Harrington X Reader // Stranger Things

21. The Sauna Test

I was still paranoid over the Russians. When I got home I paced my room. I was hoping that tomorrow everything would be fine. We were all in the back room of Scoops Ahoy as Dustin was giving us the run down. "That key card opens the door, but unfortunately, the Russian with this keycard also has a massive gun. Whatever's in this room, whatever's in those boxes, they really don't want anybody finding it." He said to us and there had to be another way.

"But there's gotta be a way in." Robin said to us all.

"Like a vent or something." I said to them as Steve blew into his hat.

"Well, you know...I could just take him out." Steve said and I had to stifle my laugh. There was no way he was doing that.

"Take who out?" Robin asked and I looked at him.

"The Russian guard." He said to us and I put a hand on his.

"I'm liking the confidence but it won't happen." I said to him. I was hoping he really wouldn't do that.

"What? I sneak up behind him, I knock him out, and I take his keycard. It's easy." Steve said and it wasn't that easy. They we're armed.

"Did you not hear the part about the massive gun?" Dustin asked him and Steve looked at him.

"Yes, Dustin, I did. And that's why I would be sneaking." Steve said and I couldn't help but smile a little at that. It wasn't gonna work.

"Ah. Well, please, tell me this, and be honest, have you ever actually...won a fight?" Dustin asked him and he hadn't. So Steve had no chance with this one.

"Okay, that was one time- -" Steve started and I shook my head.

"More than that." I said to him and looked at Dustin. 

"Twice. Johnathan. Year prior?" Dustin said and that's when Steve looked at him.

"Listen, that doesn't count." Steve said but I didn't. It was still a fight that he lost.

"Why wouldn't it? Because it looks like he beat the ship out of you." Dustin started and I looked at Robin shaking my head. Just like that the boys were bickering again.

"It was..." Steve started to say.

"You got a fat lip, crooked nose, swollen eye, a lot of blood..." Dustin continued and I looked around the room. Tuning them both out.

"Y/n, that just might work." Robin said and I saw what she meant. The vent. We went around the other side and she got some cash from the tips jar.

"Hey, Robin! Y/n! Hey, what- -what are you doing?" Steve asked her and I looked at her as we were leaving.

"I need cash." She said to him simple as that. He didn't need to ask questions.

"Well, half of that's mine. Where are you going?" He asked her and I looked at him with a smile.

"To find a way into that room, a safe way." She said to him and I looked at him. He wasn't impressed by this at all.

"I'll come together just trust me." I said to him and I then looked at Robin again.

"And, in the meantime, sling I've cream, behave, and don't get beat up. We'll be back in a jiff." Robin shouted and we were gone. Off to do the next thing. We went into town to require some tools. Mainly a blueprint. We then made it back to the mall. "It is fascinating what 20 bucks will get you at the County Recorder's Office. Starcourt Mall. The complete blueprints." Robin said to us.

"And isn't this the best thing ever." I said to them all. Dustin looked at Robin and I with a smile.

"Not bad." He said to us.