16 and in love
in which two friends have to come to terms with the fact that they'll never be normal
or
in which romantic feelings blossom between two boys who are terrified of confessing to each other
the only characters i own are nathan burns, car...
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"do you really think it'll work?" kasey asked eleven softly as nathan drove towards the creel house. "of course." eleven nodded her head, her eyes trained on the road ahead. they had stopped at a gas station to get energy drinks, to refuel her just in case.
"but... what if it doesn't?" kasey asked softly, fear in her eyes. "i won't let it fail. i already lost one friend." eleven muttered, memories of max in her head already. "we're here." nathan said numbly as he climbed from the driver's seat.
"erica! same spot as last time, tell kasey the code." steve began shouting orders as nathan gazed at the house. it had been ripped in half, a gate separating it and leading off towards the center of town. nearby, all of the grass and trees had died. "i don't have a good feeling about this." kasey muttered softly. "bats can't go through the gates. we aren't sure why, but they're trapped." dustin muttered reassuringly.
nathan sat on the ground, his back pressed to a dead tree, headphones around his neck, with will's head in his lap. "will, i need to tell you something." he muttered, his fingers running through will's hair. "hmm?" the smaller boy hummed, not opening his eyes. "i love you." nathan whispered, before taking the cassette out of it's player slowly and pushing it into his back pocket.
he wasn't going to trick vecna, who spared him and gave him a second chance.
"i love you too." will smiled, opening his eyes and leaning up to kiss nathan softly.
"we gotta wait now." kasey sighed as she sat next to the couple, eleven laid in a kiddie pool of salt water, her eyes covered with a pair of goggles, and a radio played static. "don't bring me down unless you absolutely have to." nathan told them, a nervous smile on his face. "el needs time to do her thing." he shrugged, before gazing down at his boyfriend.
it only took five minutes for the signal that mike and dustin had gotten the bats away. nathan stood up - will had sat up by now - and stood in the middle of the grass. "come on, vecna, i told you i wouldn't stop you!" he shouted, before hearing the chimes.
"hi henry." he breathed out slowly, his eyes drifting to the man. "you even took the song out. i'm impressed, you really want to die." vecna began, leading nathan to the debris of his mind land. "i'm done burdening everyone. joyce doesn't need four kids, my mom doesn't need a disappointment. i would've done it myself, probably." nathan shrugged, tears brimming in his eyes.
"i can't get in his mind." el complained as kasey and will watched nathan hang a foot off the ground. "ERICA! TELL THEM TO GET OUT OF THERE!" kasey screamed as loud as she could while will pressed play on the cassette player. but everyone quickly realized there was no music playing through the headphones. he clicked rewind, but realized the tape was gone. "the tape..." he breathed out, looking at the ground for it. by now, nathan's legs were three feet off the ground. "no." will sobbed, turning to eleven, who's eyebrows were knit together as she tried to access nathan's mind.
blood began pouring down from nathan's eyes, as el remembered all of the good times with him, all of the music he showed her, the movies, how much fun they had together. but she just couldn't get into his mind. "he... doesn't want me... to save him." she huffed, ripping the goggles off her eyes. "he won't let me in." she sobbed, throwing herself into will's arms as they watched nathan's limbs crack and break.
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