❝don't wait up for me.❞
in which kristen wilson tries to navigate summer to go to her senior year of high school, but she didn't expect to bust in a secret russian base with her two coworkers and her little sisters friends.
est. june 22'
s3 - s5
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There were multiple guards waiting for the big show between the Demogorgon and the prisoners tonight.
Hopper had ripped off a piece of his coat, preparing for the fight.
"You know," Enzo started, "what we are to attempt is quite mad. Even by your standards, Americans."
"Yeah? You got odds for us this time?"
"I think... a thousand to one?" "I believe it," Kristen nodded.
"Even if we somehow kill this beast, we still must escape. We fail there, I don't think they will be so kind as to throw us back in a cell. They will shoot us on sight."
"We'd die as monster slayers. You'll be a legend."
"But still a traitor. You forgot traitor."
"Monster slayer trunks traitor," Hopper pointed out. "I bet Mikhail will be proud of his pops, at least."
"Mikhail? No. I can't do nothing right with him anymore, it seems. He will say, 'Papa, I bet those Americans did most of the monster slaying.'"
"He's that age, huh?"
"Yeah, he is that age. It is same for you, American? With your new daughter?"
"Last time I was with El, she wanted just about nothing to do with me. I was just in her way, really. I think back to the way I was with my dad at that age. I was the same way. The exact same way. I think it must be hard wired into us to reject our fathers. So we can grow and move on. Become something of our own. I hope that's what she's doing. Coming into her own. But still--"
"You worry. To worry for our sons and daughters and siblings, that is natural, isn't it?"
"Yeah. But nothing about what El has had to deal with is natural. That beast, that monster in there, it's a part of something that what's to hurt El. To kill her."
"I don't understand," Enzo said, getting up and walking over to Hopper as Kristen did the same.
"To be honest, neither do I. All I know is that thing... that thing shouldn't be here. It shouldn't be alive. Because it is, it means it still isn't over. I thought I was out here to pay for what I've done. But I might've been put here for some other reason. Maybe I... maybe I can still help El. Even if it's the last thing I do."
"You almost sound religious, American."
"Religious? I don't know about that. But maybe I should give that prayer thing a try. 'Cause if we wanna get out of here, get back to El and Mikhail and Amber, you and us... we're gonna need a miracle."
