Play With Fire

Dart-Hunt

LUCAS' POV:

I saw the way Max looked at y/n yesterday. She likes him. I know it. But i still need Max to trust me. Dustin needs help with Dart. I persuaded her to come with me and Dustin. I'm obviously bringing y/n . He has fire powers how can i not bring him. He's literally the coolest. Even if he has small angry outbursts. He's a little scary i have to admit. But he's nice. Well he's nice to the party at least. I'm going to help Dustin find dart. And Max and Y/n are coming too.

I get out of my bed, take a shower and change into some clothes. I pack some slingshots and stuff for Dart hunting. I run downstairs and run out the front door not even acknowledging my family. I ride my bike over to Y/n's house. I knock on the door loudly, because y/n is a deep sleeper. I hear footsteps get closer to the door. The front door swings open and face to face with Y/n. He rubs his eyes in tiredness. " Lucas?," He looks at me,"What the hell are you doing here?" I smile brightly at him."Me, you, Max, and Dustin are going dart-hunting." He looks at me confused. "Max? Where is she?" He asks looking around me,he even looked behind him.'He's such an idiot sometimes'

"She's meeting us there, dimwit." I rolled my eyes as he mouthed 'ohhh'. "Go get changed out of pajamas." He nods and walks back inside. I wait around for ten minutes and he finally comes back. "Okay let's go." I smile. " Wait, i don't have a bike." He says bluntly. I turn to look at him,"I'll go slow." He nods and we start our way to Dustin and Max.

"Where are we going exactly?" Y/n asks from behind me. I answer his question while still looking forwards," Dustin's ." We continue on our way to the junkyard. We finally arrive. I noticed there's 3 people instead of one. Steve Harrington stands in Dustin's front yard with Max and Dustin. I get off my bike while Y/n walks towards the group.

Y/NS POV:

I walk over to the two people i know. The other boy i see is.. I have no idea. I walk up to Max and stop in front of her. She smiles widely at me. I smile back, glance  at Dustin, and look at Max again. I wink at her and walk over to Dustin. "Hey Dusty." I say walking over to him. "Hey." He rolls his eyes at the name i called him. I walk over to the random boy. He's older than us, maybe 17.

"Hey i'm y/n Brenner." i say holding out my hand for him to shake. "I'm Steve, Steve Harrington." He takes my hand and firmly shakes it. I look at him,
"Yea Jonathan told me about you. Weren't you and Nancy Wheeler a thing?"  I say letting go of his hand. He nods,"Yep that's me. Just know i'm not a complete douche anymore,"he chuckles. "I hope not" I smile. "Okay what's our plan?" Lucas says catching our attention. We all look at Dustin for instructions.

" First we have to look in the basement for dart." We all nod but nobody moves."Well, Henderson. Go look in the basement for Dart." Steve says. Dustin looked at Steve with pleading eyes. Steve rolled his eyes and follows Dustin to his basement. " Have fun." I playfully smirked at Steve. He flipped me off.'we're gonna get along great'  Max giggles at my comment. I smile at her and she looks away her face growing red.

I look at Lucas and Lucas looks at me. We both shrug in unison and go back to whatever the hell we were doing before. Lucas wanders off to the other side of the front yard. Me and Max stay silent. Max finally breaks the silence,"How do you feel about dart on the loose?" She asks me tilting her head. "Umm well. Dart is slimy and i don't do slimy. Last time i saw dart was when i was running down the hallway and bumped into you. And i was running to the bathroom to throw up."

Max nodded,"That's why you were running so fast and looked so sickly." I nodded in agreement.
She starts to laugh." What?" I ask her an amused smile on my face. "Nothing i just think it's funny how you can make literal fireballs and catch people on fire. But can't handle slimy stuff." I slowly walk towards her, she starts laughing even more. 'It's really not that funny' I'm less than a foot away from her. She looks slightly up to me, she makes eye contact with me as well. She stopped laughing a while ago and now her face is redder than a tomato. I chuckle at her and back away from her.

She looks awestruck as a back away. "You should see your face right now." i chuckle to myself. She quickly puts her hands over face to hide her redness. I laugh at her attempt,"Shut up!" she shouts at me. I laugh even harder.

After i finally calmed down from laughing. Her face went back to her normal color but her cheeks stayed a tinted pink. We fell into a comfortable silence. Lucas walked back over to us. I smiled at Lucas, he smiled back. Finally, we hear Dustin and Steve walking back up to us.

" He's not there!" Dustin shouts us. I look at all of them wide eyed,"THEN WHERE THE HELL IS IT HENDERSON?!" I can't believe he just lost that slimy,flesh eating , creature. "BUT," Steve started,
"We know where it is." "Where? Where is it?" Max asked. She looked at me with concerned eyes. 'She knows you're scared' Steve continued talking, while I zoned out and thought about all the bad things that could happen.

Lucas nudged my shoulder to get my attention. I look back up and blink a few times," What?" I said turning my head to look at Lucas. " We're gonna lead dart out of the hole in basement, with some meat. Up to the junk yard and you're gonna light it on fire." I nod along to show that i was listening. "Wait- Why does Y/n get to light it on fire?" Steve asked, he sounded truly hurt about him not being the "hero".

"Do you have awesome, slightly scary, fire powers?"Dustin asks Steve sarcastically.We all laughed at Steve's confused face. "You-?" He points to me, I nod my head. He didn't even have to finish the question. "Okay, Let's go defeat Dart." Lucas says. "Yea" "Yea let's go." We all agreed.

TIME SKIP: brought to you by jonathan's eyebags

MAXS POV:

We're all sitting, waiting in a broken down bus in the junkyard. It's nightfall now and we're still here. Lucas is sitting beside me and Y/n is across from me.  Steve and Dustin are waiting patiently. We're all ready to kill this motherfucker and go home. Y/n has been looking outside the dusty window, zoned out.

"It's like a superpower." Lucas whispers to me. I turn my head towards him with furrowed eyebrows. Lucas continued," Y/n. It's like he's in a different reality. Like, he distracts himself in it until we get his attention." Lucas whispers so he doesn't catch Y/n's attention. Lucas puts his down, going back into the silence there was before.

I turn to look at Y/n. He's already staring at me and has that stupid smirk on his face. I roll my eyes and get up to go sit next to him. He scoots over so i have some room. "Hey." I said, 'You sound so stupid Max. Hey.... Really?!' He smiled and looked at me,"Hey." Someone shuffling caught both of our attentions. Lucas scoots along the bus floor and sits in front of us.

"Hey,Lucas." I sarcastically smile. He thinks it's genuine and he smiles back."Hey Max!" I roll my eyes at his obliviousness. I hear Y/n laugh to himself. "Hey, Y/n!" Lucas says with same enthusiastic voice. Y/n smiled widely at him and waved his hand. I smiled at y/n, 'He's such a weirdo.'

"Darts here!" Steve shouts," And he's not alone." We all give each other a panicked look. We jump as quickly as possible.Me, Lucas, and Dustin were told by Steve to stay in the bus. Since we didn't have a weapon nor a superpower. Y/n and Steve walked out of the bus, but we didn't hear any noise of shrieking Darts or anything. Y/n and Steve came back in,
"Their gone. They all ran away and I have no idea where they went." Y/n says in a frustrating voice.

'He's frustrated with himself.' Y/n walks outside, we all quickly follow him out. He starts pacing and rubbing his temples. "Hey, Y/n it's fine-" Before Dustin could finish what he was going to say. A junky car caught on fire,"NO DUSTIN IM NOT GONNA CALM DOWN! ITS NOT MY FAULT THAT YOURE AN IDIOT!AND THOUGHT THAT THING WAS COOL!" Y/n had finally snapped. Dustin was a loss for words frightened by Y/n, Steve seemed more confused than ever, Lucas also looks frightened, I won't even lie. Y/n is scaring me.

"I'm- sorr-" Y/n takes a step forwards, coming towards us. And we did the DUMBEST thing ever, especially when our friend needed us. We backed away from him. Y/n had tears building up, he backed away and ran. No one tried to stop him, not even me.