horror movie || Steve Harrington x F! Reader

FIVE

"Guys! Y/n! Robin! Nancy!" Dustin said into the walkie-talkie. Robin picked up the walkie-talkie ", what's wrong?" asked the female. "It's Max." Dustin replied. "What?" She said in confusion. "Just hurry up." Dustin finished.

The three looked at each other with concern before Nancy stepped on the accelerator. They got to the school and quickly went inside Nancy holding a flashlight. As soon as they reached Ms. Kelley's office Max led them down the hall. "It was here. right here." Max claimed. "A grandfather clock?" Y/n asked. Max recalled the clock being stuck onto the wall, the cracks around it, the sound.

"It was so real. And then, when I got closer, suddenly I just...woke up." Max finished. "It was like she was in a trace or something," Dustin said. "Exactly what Eddie said about Chrissy" Y/n recalled. Max turned around and faced everyone "and that's not even the bad part." Y/n looked at the girl with concern. They walked back to Ms. Kelly's office and looked a Chrissy and Fred's documents.

"Fred and Chrissy, they both came to Miss Kelly for help. Uh, they both were having headaches, bad headaches that wouldn't go away. And then—then the nightmares. Trouble sleeping. They'd wake up in a cold sweat. Then they started seeing things. Bad things. From their past. These visions, they just—they kept getting worse and worse, until eventually...everything ended." Y/n could tell this wasn't just Max telling them about what had happened to Fred and Chrissy. It was something more.

"Vecnas curse"

"Chrissy's headaches started a week ago. Fred, six days ago. I've been having them for five days" Max revealed. "I don't know how long I have. All I know is that, for Fred and Chrissy, they both died less than 24 hours after their first vision. And I just saw that goddamn clock, so...," max breath shook "looks like I'm gonna die tomorrow."

That sent chills down Y/n's spine. There was a loud noise from the halls that made everyone turn their heads. Steve looked at everyone "stay here" he grabbed a lamp making his way out into the halls. Steve looked around closely as his hands clutched the lamp. Y/n and Dustin both went out into the halls before everyone followed after.

There was a few more noises before they could hear footsteps approaching them quickly. Steve lifted the lamp and the person shined their light towards Steve. Everyone screamed. Robbin grabbed onto Y/n shutting her eyes.

"ITS ME!"
"Lucas?!"

"It's me!" Lucas said clearly out of breath "Jesus, what is wrong with you!" Steve exclaimed "I'm sorry" Lucas replied. "I could've taken you down with this lamp!" Steve continued. "Sorry, guys. Sorry. I was—I was biking for eight miles" Lucas panted "give me a second. Shit." He took a few seconds to catch his breath.

"We've got a code red," Lucas informed. "What?" Steve asked. "Dustin" Lucas walked over to Dustin "I've been with Jason, Patrick, and Andy, and they've totally gone off the rails. They're trying to capture Eddie, and they think you know where he is. You're in terrible danger" Dustin sighed "all right. Yeah, that definitely sucks, but we've got bigger problems than Jason now." Dustin looked a Max.

Max looked at Lucas before looking away avoiding eye contact.

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Y/n sat on the small couch across from where Lucas and Dustin sat. She read through the articles making sure she hadn't missed anything. "Okay, uh, be honest, uh...you guys understand any of this" Steve grumbled.

"No"
"Pretty straightforward"

"Oh, straightforward, really?" Steve retorted. "What's confusing to you? So far, everyone Vecna has cursed had died, except for this old Victor Creel dude Nancy found. He's the only known survivor, if anyone knows how to beat this curse, it's him." Dustin explained. "That's assuming he was cursed, which we don't even know. How can Vecna have existed in the '50s? It doesn't make sense" Steve replied.

"As far as we know, Eleven didn't create the upside down. She opened a gate to it. The upside down has probably been around for thousands of years. Millions. I wouldn't be surprised if it predated the dinosaurs" said Dustin. "Dinosaurs?" Y/n looked up from her paper and at Dustin. "Dinosaurs? What are we—" Steve shook his head "Okay, but if the gate didn't exist in the '50s, how did Vecna get through?" Lucas asked. "How is he getting through now?" Steve added "and why now?" Lucas inquired.

"And why then? Just pops out in the '50s, kills one family, and he's like "I'm good." And poof, he just disappears. Just...gone? Only to return 30 years later and start killing random teens? No, I don't buy it." Steve sighed "straightforward, my ass. Honestly, Henderson, a little humility now and then, it wouldn't hurt you." Y/n chuckled quietly "sorry" apologized Dustin.

Steve grabbed a chair and sat down beside Y/n "can I look at yours?" He asked pointing to her paper "No" Y/n replied. Steve stared at her "oh—" Y/n cut him off "Yes. Yes, you can" Y/n handed him her papers. "Thanks" Steve thanked. Dustin spoke up again "any idea what's she's writing? Did she sleep?" Dustin wondered. "I mean, would you?" Y/n said looking back at Max.

Nancy and Robin quickly walked down the stairs into the basement "okay, so, we have a plan" Nancy informed. She handed Steve her folder and Robin handed hers to Y/n. "Thanks to Nancy's minions, we are now rock-star psychology students at the University of Notre Dome," said Robin.

"I am now Rose," Robin said. "and I'm Ruth," Nancy said. "Rose?" Y/n questioned and handed the folder to Dustin. "It has a nice ring to it doesn't it?" Robin winked at Y/n. "Nice GPA" Dustin complimented. "Thanks. So we called Pennhurst Asylum, told them we'd like to speak with creel for a thesis we're co-writing on paranoid schizophrenics" Nancy explained. "To which they said no. But we landed a three o'clock with the director. Now, all we have to do is charm him and convince him to let us talk to Victor." Robin added. "Then maybe we can rid Max of this curse" Nancy finished looking back at Max.

"About that. We've been doing our Victor Creel homework, and, uh, we got some questions" Steve said. "Lots of questions" Lucas added. "So do we. Hopefully, Victor has the answers." Nancy responded. "Wait—wait—wait a second...where's mine?" Steve motioned to himself. Nancy pursed her lips.

"We thought would be better if you stayed here...and watch them" Robin did jazz hands. Steve deadpanned at Nancy. Nancy stood up and walked upstairs to her room. Steve quickly stood up and followed behind. Robin raised her eyebrows at Y/n who only shrugged. The two stood up and followed behind Steve.

"Nancy, you're out of your mind if you think I'm babysitting again." Steve retorted. "First, they're not babies anymore. And Max is in real danger. She needs people around her" Nancy remarked. "I know. But why me?" Steve complained. Walking into Nancy's room Robin quickly began to look around while Y/n sat on the edge of her bed.

"Oh my god, you have a Tom Cruise poster! You have a Tom Cruise poser" Robin looked at Nancy with a smirk. "That's old" Nancy stammered looking through her clothes. "Can you please not touch anything?" Nancy asked Robin. "I can't do anything here, Nance," Steve complained. "I'm not complaining" Y/n interjected as she let her eyes roam Nancy's room. "Maybe I can be helpful with this asylum director dude. I don't know. Maybe I could turn on my...my charm!" Steve suggested.

"Not the charm we need," Nancy replied. "Ouch" Y/n whined at Steve. Steve rolled his eyes at the h/c. "No, I just..." he sighed. "I did a little digging last night, and it turns out this Dr. Hatch is a distinguished fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and a Harvard visiting scholar, okay? This is a lifelong student of the world. If we're gonna win him over, we're gonna have to convince him we are too. That, like him...we are true academic scholars" Nancy explained.

Robin opened Nancy's music box and smiled at Y/n "Holy shit. There's a little ballerina in here" she whispered to her holding up the box. Steve looked at Robin then at Nancy "Academic Scholar? She's giving you an academic scholar vibe?" Steve grumbled. "No, but..." Nancy held up a pink blouse "she will."

Robin's smile faded as she looked at the clothes "oh, please, tell me your joking..." Nancy held out the clothes for Robin.

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