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

22. The Flayed

We were still falling. It felt like forever. Just constant falling. All of us screaming and holding on for our lives. "Shit! Shit!" Dustin shouted at this was clearly the end of us.

"We're going down! We're going down!" Steve shouted at all of us.

"I had noticed!" I shouted to him. I'd moved so I was grabbing onto one of shelves. I was surprised it hadn't broken yet.

"Yeah, no shit, Harrington!" Robin shouted we were all on edge let's face it.

"Why don't these buttons work?!" Dustin shouted and that's when I could hear Steve screaming still. Erica then went over to the panel.

"Press the button!" Erica shouted at Dustin. This was a lost cause.

"What do you think I'm doing?" Dustin shouted and clearly he wasn't otherwise we would've stopped.

"Come on, press something! Just press the button!" Steve shouted at him and that's when Dustin screamed.

"Push it!" Erica shouted and that's when the elevator came to a stop. We all landed with a thud.

"Oh!" Steve got out. He then looked at me. "Are you okay?" He asked me and I nodded at him.

"I'm okay. Are you?" I asked him and he looked at me.

"My groin. It fell on my groin. Dustin! Get this off of me!" He said and that's when I saw the box on him. That wasn't going to be too good. "I can't move." Steve said and I stood up and went to help him up to his feet before he wrapped an arm around me.

"Is everyone ok?" Robin asked and I definitely was. I couldn't say the same about Steve.

"Yeah, I'm great, now that I know that Russians can't design elevators!" Steve shouted as he let go of me and went over to the panel. I just wanted out of here already.

"I think we've clearly established that those buttons don't work." Robin said to Steve.

"We just gotta wait for something to happen." I said to him. Nothing was going to help us now.

"They're buttons. They have to do something." Steve said to the both of us. But we couldn't do anything.

"Yeah, if we had a keycard." Robin said and that's why nothing worked.

"A what?" Steve asked her and I was glad to know that there was nothing we could've done to get us out of this position.

"It's an electronic lock. Same as the loading dock door. if we don't have a keycard, it won't operate, meaning- -" Robin started as she went over to Steve.

"We're stuck in here." Dustin said to us and I looked at them all.

"Well, who would've thought we'd miss out on July 4th for this." I said to myself. Especially since it was July 4th in a few hours.

"Yeah." Robin said to us all.

"Just so you nerds are aware, I'm supposed to be spending the night at Tina's, and Tina always covers for me. But if I'm not home for Uncle Jack's party tomorrow and my mom finds out you four are responsible, she's gonna hunt you down, one by one, and slit your throat." Erica said to us and I wasn't scared of Mrs. Sinclair especially since I got on well with her.

"I don't care about Tina! Or Uncle Jack's party! Your mom's not gonna be able to find us if we're dead in a Russian elevator!" Steve said to her and she didn't know what to say.

"Steve, calm down a bit." I said to him and he just needed to take a couple of breathes and maybe he'd calm down.

"Hey. What if we climbed out?" Dustin asked as he pointed up to the hatch on the ceiling. That's when him and Steve opened it and the two of them went out to look before retreating back.