Play With Fire

What The Hell Is Going Through Your Mind

Y/NS POV:

I can't believe what Joyce just told me. Like i'm flabbergasted. "Will has a virus. We need to get the virus out of him and back on the other side of the gate,and then El can close the gate. But i need your help, we need heat. And you have magical powers of fire soooo." Joyce looks at me with pleading eyes. "No! I'm not burning Will!"

"You're not really burning him more heating him up." Joyce tries to reason.

"No,why don't we just get a whole bunch of heaters."

Joyce looked at me wide eyed. "Y/n you're the best kid ever!" She shouts at me, kissing my forehead. " Okay where will we do all this?" she questions. "The shed." I said blankly. She nods in agreement. "Okay let's go get ourselves some heaters." Joyce grabs her car keys and we walk out the door.

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We started working on the shed. Plugging heater after heater. 'I would hate to be in here' As we finish we go get Will. This is the part i've been dreading. I know it hurts the virus in him but he will feel pain. I don't want to see my friend in pain. He's already been through so much.

Apparently, my emotions and thoughts were written all over my face. Joyce puts her hand on my knee."It's okay Y/n. I'm scared, too but this is going to help Will." I nod and she pulls me in for a hug. I hug her back we eventually let go.
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We stand outside while Will yells. We haven't started the heaters yet. " LET ME OUT PLEASE!" He pleads i wanted to help him so bad. I wanted to let him out of the shed, and let him be. But i know i can't because that's not Will. It's the virus. "You ready?" Joyce asks. I nod my head and she starts the heaters.

I can hear Will scream in pain while the virus burns out of him. It's hurting Will. 'No it's hurting the virus."  I tell myself. After a minute of just standing there hearing the screams of Will. I quickly walk away. I can't hear him scream any longer. I'm in pain for him. I hope once the virus is out of him and Eleven closes that gate everything will go back to normal.

I walked and walked. I knew where i was going but i'm not sure why i was going there. I'm surprised i even remember where it was. I met Jonathan over a year ago right outside Steve Harrington's house. I heard his parents are never home so assumed nobody was home. The door was locked as a expected so I sat on the porch and waited for Steve to come home.Who knows how long that will take everyone's helping in some way. I'm no help. I'm only helpful if Eleven isn't here. Eleven is here. Which means i'm useless. I'm just a side character.

My words and ideas mean nothing. I scared Steve, Lucas, Max and Dustin away. They don't want anything to do with me . Mike doesn't like me. And Mike will keep Eleven away from me, because they have something going on. Jonathan and Nancy are too busy with their relationship. Joyce is watching over Will. I can't blame her. And Hopper, Hopper is just there. And i don't even think he knows my name.

'You sound selfish y/n, not everything's about you. No wonder they don't pay attention to you YOU LIT A CAR ON FIRE! You also lit a person on fire at school. Max comforted you because she felt pity and now you scared her off.'

"I'm a lost cause." i whispered under my breath. I sit on Steve's porch crying and letting my emotions take hold of me. I accidentally caught some leaves on fire. I stomped on them so they don't spread. After a few hours of waiting. I hear heavy footsteps and the stairs to the porch."Y/n?" I hear Steve's voice ask in confusion. I look up at him with red puffy eyes.

"Hey Steve," I stand up and nervously play with my hands,"I know we're not o-on friendship terms, but can i stay here tonight?" i choke on my words halfway through that sentence.Steve surprisingly nodded." Yea come on in. I'm guessing you don't have any clothes." He says looking around me. I shake my head. He then shrugs,"Ah, It's fine.We look around the same size." He turns the key and walks inside i follow him in.

"Hey Steve," I began. He turned around to face me."I just wanna say that day in the junkyard I-" "Its fine i get it. You were frustrated. I was,too."  I nod,"Yea I've been on edge lately. I have no idea why." Steve smiles at me,"It's fine everyone has been edge. And everyone's been handling it in different ways. For example, you light things on fire." He chuckles. I can't help but laugh as well.

Me and Steve stayed up late that night talking about stuff that's going on recently. He told me about how he went through the tunnels of the pumpkin patch, about how him and Nancy broke up, him graduating. We also talked about how i light stuff on fire."You know that Max likes you." He randomly blurts out. I furrowed my eyebrows and look at him."What? How do you know?" "I see the way she looks at you, and the day Eleven hugged you. She was so mad." He look at him."Mad.She didn't seem mad.Well she was glaring at Eleven.' "Hmm, i didn't notice." i shrug. He scoffed at my action and rolled his eyes,"Are you kidding me? It's so obvious. And i think you should ask her to the Snowball dance."

"I'm not going." I said bluntly. "Uh- Yes you are or your not staying here." I roll my eyes,"Manipulative bastard." He only chuckles at what i've called him. He gets up from the couch,"We better get some sleep. The guest bedroom his upstairs second door to the right." I nod and get up from the couch and follow him up stairs."There's a bathroom in your room. And some of my older clothes are in the closet." I walk into the guest bedroom. It's actually quite nice. There's dust everywhere but it's fine. I walk over to the closet and pick out some pajamas. 'Tomorrow i will go back to the Byers, get some clothes and tell them I'm staying with Steve for a while.' I can't bear to look at Will. His screams from earlier today haunt my ears.

I quickly get changed and get under the covers. I stare at the ceiling and wonder what's so great about the Snowball. Why does Steve want me to go? I don't want to see couples slow dancing. It's gross. Unless i'm doing it of course.I finally drift off to sleep.