S1~The Weirdo on Maple Street

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"Is there a number we can call for your parents?" y/n asked as she sat next to the girl, holding her hand in a comforting way
"Where's your hair? Do you have cancer?"
"Dustin!"
"Did you run away?"
"Are you in some kind of trouble?"
"Is that blood?" Lucas asked as he stepped forward and reached his hand towards her
"Stop it! You're freaking her out!" y/n spoke
"She's freaking me out!"
"I bet she's deaf." Dustin then clapped his hands together, causing her to jump and grip y/n's hand tightly
"Not deaf."
"All right, that's enough, all right? She's just scared and cold." Mike said as he walked towards a basket of folded clothes and picked out a blue sweater and come grey sweatpants
"Here, these are clean. Okay?" he told her as he handed the clothes to her. She pushed y/n's coat off of her shoulders and stood up.
"No, no, no!" everyone shouted as she almost got undressed in front of them all
"See over there? That's the bathroom. Privacy. Get it?" Mike said, pointing towards a door on the other side of the basement. He then guided her towards the bathroom and his voice grew too quiet for the other to hear. Dustin and Lucas were still freaking out over her trying to undress in front of them. y/n rolled her eyes, picked up her coat, stood up and said
"you two need to grow up and get over it"
"but she almost got naked right in front of us" Dustin stressed, y/n just rolled her eyes again. She felt bad for the girl, she was clearly traumatised and needed help. She was just glad that they found her before the wrong person did.

"This is mental." Dustin said as they all grouped together again and started to talk
"At least she can talk."
"She said "no" and "yes." Your three-year-old sister says more."
"She tried to get naked."
"There's something seriously wrong with her. Like wrong in the head."
"She just went like..." Dustin then gestured taking off a t-shirt
"I bet she escaped from Pennhurst."
"From where?"
"The nuthouse in Kerley County."
"You got a lot of family there?" as the three continued to argue, y/n just stared at the bathroom door, trying to figure out what to do.
"All right, here's the plan. She sleeps here tonight, because this house is the only house that actually has a place she can hide." y/n started. Mike thought for a second and then nodded, waiting to hear the rest of the plan.
"You're letting a girl-" Dustin directed to Mike before getting interrupted
"Just listen! In the morning, she sneaks around the house, goes to the front door and rings the doorbell."
"That's smart! My mom will answer and know exactly what to do. She'll send her back to Pennhurst or wherever she comes from. We'll be totally in the clear. And tomorrow night, we go back out. And this time, we find Will."

"You really think she's psycho?" Dustin asked as they stopped halfway up the stairs and looked down to Mike giving her a sleeping bag
"Wouldn't want her in my house." Lucas said as he carried on walking up the stairs
"Mental." Dustin said, mainly to himself but y/n, who was stood behind him, heard.
"come on, we've gotta make sure Lucas gets home safely and still get home before mom does" she said as she pushed his back to make him walk up the stairs.

"Are you out of your mind?" Lucas asked as they all stood in Mike's bedroom, looking at the girl who was supposed to be gone
"Just listen to me."
"You are out of your mind!" "She knows about Will." Mike spoke, making everyone look at her and then back at each other
"What do you mean she knows about Will?" y/n asked
"She pointed at him, at his picture. She knew he was missing. I could tell." Lucas rolled his eyes and rhetorically asked
"You could tell?"
"Just think about it. Do you really think it was a coincidence that we found her on Mirkwood, the same place where Will disappeared?"
"That is weird." Dustin piped up
"And she said bad people are after her. I think maybe these bad people are the same ones that took Will. I think she knows what happened to him." Mike explained
"Then why doesn't she tell us?" Lucas complained and walked over to her
"Do you know where he is?" he asked loudly as he put his hands on her shoulders and shook her
"Do you know where Will is?" he shouted
"Lucas, stop it, you're scaring her!" y/n said as she stepped closer to him
"She should be scared! If you know where he is, tell us!"
"This is nuts, we have to take her to your mom." Lucas argued
"No! Eleven said telling any adult would put us in danger."
"What kind of danger?"
"Her name is Eleven?" Lucas asked
"El for short."
"Mike, what kind of danger?" Dustin shouted
"Danger danger." Mike said before holding out a finger gun towards y/n, Dustin and Lucas, to which he slapped away
"No, no, no! We're going back to plan A. We're telling your mom." he shouted and stormed towards the door
"Lucas!" y/n called towards him but before he could exit the door he just opened, it slammed shut in his face, causing the group the flinch. Lucas reached for the handle and pulled the door open, but once again, it slammed shut, but this time, the lock on the handle turned, locking them in the room. They all looked towards El with wide eyes who was now stood up. A small stream of blood had trickled out of her nose and had slowly started to dry just before it touched her top lip.
"No." she firmly said, staring Lucas in the eyes.

The Boys had radioed y/n to go to Mike's basement and shortly after she arrived, El walked over to the Dungeons & Dragons board that was layed out on the table and sat down in front of it. "What's the weirdo doing?" Lucas asked and she closed her eyes
"El?" Mike asked as they all surrounded her at the table. Her eyes opened and she slowly picked up the wizard game piece
"Will." she spoke softly
"Superpowers." Dustin said in amazement, but Lucas rolled his eyes and shook his head at him. Mike sat down and asked
"Did you see him? On Mirkwood? Do you know where he is?" El didn't say anything, instead she swiped the rest of the pieces off the board and flipped it over so the black side was facing up. Everyone was confused even more when she slammed the wizard down in the middle of the board.
"I don't understand." Mike said, prompting for an explanation
"Hiding." she softly said
"Will is hiding?" she nodded
"From the bad men?" she shook her head
"who's he hiding from, El?" y/n asked as she sat down as well. El stared her in the eyes for a few seconds before slamming down another piece onto the board in front of the wizard.

The Demogorgon.

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