Runaway ~ (Completed) ✅ ~

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(y/n) - your name

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"What?" the kids step back in shock and slight fear, wondering to themselves if maybe they got the wrong person or that maybe it was just wishful thinking that (y/n) was alive.

But how could the girl in front of them not be her?

She looked exactly like (y/n).

But they saw her die... saw her save them...

They went to her funeral, they grieved for her so how in the world could she be alive!?

"I'm sorry kids, should I know you?" (y/n) smiles at the kids, her heart pounding in her chest and she flinches, rubbing her chest. They knew her, her heart knew that she should know them too. "Sorry, let me just-" (y/n) sets the cupcakes and the paint set down as her chest pained and her head ached.

"(y/n)! Are you ok!?" the kids help her down into the booth they were sitting, looking at each other with pursed expressions.

"You're (y/f/n) right?" the black haired kid asks and she nods. "(y/n), it's us. Mike," the kid points to himself. "Will and El." he points to the bowl haired kid and the girl.

"Mike, Will and El?" (y/n) mumbles out, furrowing her brows as she looked at the kids. They really did look familiar. "You three look familiar..." she rubs her head.

"How is she alive?" Will mutters out, his guard up thinking that maybe this was some shapeshifter or someone from the Upside Down. "It can't be her, we went to her funeral."

"But did we actually see her body? The coffin was closed!" Mike exclaims.

"Wait, are you kids from Hawkins?" (y/n) asks and the kids nod slowly and the older girls face pales lightly. "Do you... do you know about the Mind Flayer?" and that's when they freeze and (y/n) realises that she truly knew these kids before.

"You... you saved us from the Mind Flayer..." El mumbles sadly.

"You can't be (y/n), shes dead, she's gone!" Will tears up and the said girl frowns.

"It's... its hard for me to explain right now but it is me, (y/n), except my memory was wiped." the kids blink in shock at her.

"How do we know you're not lying?" Mike glares at (y/n) but his heart was hoping that it was her.

"I guess you don't. Look, all I know is that I woke up in a lab full of people experimenting on me before I found Billy and rescued me."

"Billy!?"

"Yes, I live with him in California here."

"Wait, if Billy saved her... it must be (y/n)!" Mike says and Will frowns wondering how someone he knew who had died was alive and well in front of him.

"What lab? What people?" El asks, concerned and hoping that (y/n) wasn't taken by the one person she hated. "What name? Do you know who took you?"

(y/n) racks her brain, trying to remember any name until one popped up. "Dr. Brenner? I think there was someone called that?" El fists her hands, growing furious that her Papa had taken one of her friends and experimented on her, but in a way, there was gratefulness that (y/n) was alive. Her emotions were mixed but she hugs (y/n), feeling happy more than angry.

"It really is you (y/n)." she sniffles, crying into her dress as she hugged her.

"I'm sorry dear, for putting you through so much pain." (y/n) sooths El's hair sweetly and the boys soften in relief, coming to terms that their friend was truly alive.