horror movie || Steve Harrington x F! Reader

SEVEN

Everyone was in the Wheelers' basement sleeping. They had agreed to take turns watching Max in case anything happened. Dustin was on watch duty but dozed off. Max got up from her spot quietly making sure not to wake anyone and headed upstairs.

"Dustin, can you hear me? Dustin?"

Y/n's eyes fluttered open and sat up. She grabbed Dustin's walkie-talkie. "Earth to Dustin" Eddie's voice rang. "Ed's, it's Y/n" Y/n replied tiredly. "N/n! Hey. I'm gonna need a food delivery, like, really soon. Unless you want me to go out into the world" said Eddie. "No. Don't do that" Y/n rubbed her temples. "Stay where you are. We'll be there as soon as we can, 'Kay?" Y/n instructed. "Yeah, yeah. Listen, can you pick me up a six-pack? I know, it's stupid as shit, drinking right now, but a cold beer would really calm my jangled nerves.—"

Y/n's eyes wandered to Max's empty spot. "Yeah, yeah sure. I'm gonna have to call you back, okay?" Y/n said. "No—don't you dare. L/n—L/n!" Y/n walked over to Dustin and shook him awake "Hey, Dust-Bin! Thought you were on watch duty?" Dustin rubbed his eyes "yeah, yeah. I am." He replied sleepily. "Then wheres max?" Y/n looked at him sternly "she's right there—a second ago! I swear I dozed off for..." he checked his watch "an hour" his face dropped.

"I think that cap of yours is false advertisement" Y/n flicked his thinking cap and quickly headed upstairs. Dustin stood up and followed right behind the h/c. Walking into the kitchen they saw Max sitting at the table as she scribbled on some paper.

"Morning guys," Karen said. Y/n and Dustin sighed with relief "everything okay?" Y/n nodded "yes, Mrs. Wheeler" Y/n responded. "Call me Karen, what's your name? Haven't seen you around yet" Karen said with a smile. "I'm Y/n L/n, nice to meet you" Y/n returned a smile. "I'm glad you guys decided to add someone new to your group," Karen said to Dustin.

Y/n walked over to Max and sat beside her. The redhead stopped her music and set her headphones around her neck. "Hey. You okay?" Y/n said. she literally almost died, Y/n. "I—uh, sorry dumb question" Y/n scratched her arm. "it's okay. Just couldn't sleep. People kept blasting music into my ears, for some reason." Max replied. Y/n chuckled "but Holly let me borrow some of her Crayons. We've been having fun, right, Holly?" Max looked at Nancy's sister.

Y/n looked down at Max's drawings. Each page had something different but the same background "is this what you saw last night?" Y/n asked looking up at Max "well it's supposed to be. I thought it would be easier to draw it out than to explain it, but not so much." Max rested her head on her hand.

"Is that...?" Y/n grabbed one of the drawings " it was like they were on display" Max referred to Fred and Chrissy "and then there was this red fog everywhere. It was like a dream...a nightmare."

"You think, maybe...Vecna's just trying to scare you?" Y/n asked "with Billy? Yeah. But when I made it here...I dunno, something was different. He seemed surprised, almost. Like he didn't want me there" Max answered.
"Maybe you infiltrated his mind. He invaded your mind, right?" Dustin sat down with a plate of pancakes. "Is it that a big leap to suggest you somehow wound up in his?"

"Like Freddy Krugers Boiler room?" Y/n suggested "Freddy Kruger?" Holly looked at Y/n. "He's a super burned-up dude with razors for fingers. And he kills you in your dreams" Dustin explained. "Seriously?" Nancy said from behind them. They all turned to look at the short-haired brunette.

"Sorry. It's a movie. It's not real" Dustin apologized to the young blonde. "Just think about it. What if you somehow unlocked a backdoor to Vecna's world? Like, maybe the answer we're looking for is somewhere in this incredibly vague drawing" Dustin picked up one of the pages.

"God, we need will."
"Yeah, no shit. I tried to get a hold of them again this morning and it's the same busy signal"

Y/n squinted her eyes as she looked at the papers. Nancy walked closer to the table and grabbed one of Max's drawings "is this a window?" She asked "yeah" max replied "stained glass with roses" Y/n muttered. "See? I'm not terrible after all" Max remarked. "Yeah, well, it helps that I've seen it before." Nancy began to fold up Max's drawings and putting them close together. Grabbing a marker she drew lines along the fragments of the drawings "it's pieces of a house" Max pointed out.