cuz you and i - [Max Mayfield]

The Russians

They broke into a supermarket to get all the necessary supplements they needed right now, Belly and Mike set El down, when Nancy came back with disinfectant, cotton and bandage, she set down the bottle before trying to clean her wound

"What- what- hey what are you doing?" Max asked Nancy stopping her

"I am cleaning her wound" Nancy stated

"No no no, first we need to stop the bleeding then clean the wound then disinfect then bandage" Max said as they fell silent "I skateboard trust me" she said as she held a cloth to El's wound making Mike reach for it "Keep the pressure on it, Nice and firm okay?" Max instructed "We're gonna need water and soap" she said as Nancy and Jonathan rushed to get the things Lucas opened his backpack and empties it on the ground

"Does any of this help?" He asked as Belly sighed

"No" Max said "Get me a washcloth and a bowl" Max instructed

"A bowl?" Lucas asked

"Lucas" Belly said walking away while Lucas followed close behind, they parted ways to look for a bowl, Will and Lucas going together as Belly went alone

She walked towards a corner as she put pressure on her wound to stop the bleeding, she sat down, she was becoming weaker by the second

"Hey" Jonathan said as he rushed towards her "Oh god what happened?" he said grabbing the cloth in her hand to put the pressure on the wound, she muffled a groan

"Don't tell anyone please" she barely worded out breathing heavily

"No no I won't" Jonathan panicked to find things to treat her wound

"We can't treat it right now so" she removed the cloth from the wound as she reached out for a bandage, he helped her "Let's just wrap it until we have the time to- ugh" she groaned "Do it" she said

"Yes okay" he said before tightly wrapping the bandage around the wound

After staying there for a few moments she heard

"You wanna kill that thing with fireworks?" Max said as she saw her in front of Lucas and Will who were in front of a fireworks display

"Not such a bad idea" Belly walked towards them

"Belly? You too?" she said

"What? You got anything better?" she asked pretending that she wasn't hurt at all

"Yeah? Eleven" She stated like it was the most obvious thing in the world

"El? Against that thing? She's gonna need some backup" Belly said reaching out to grab whatever Lucas had in his hand "Holy shit? Satan's baby?" her mouth agaped as she looked at Lucas Max sighed before going away

Lucas, Will and Belly packed up some dangerous fireworks before joining the others who were now in front of El who tried to find Dustin, Lucas opened a can of coke loudly

"Sorry" he whispered

"Seriously man how can you even drink that?" Mike asked

"Because it's delicious" Lucas said as they got into an argument about the new and original coke

"Shut up! Both of you!" Belly yelled making El take off her bandana

"Hey!" she said, Belly stretched her lower lip downwards, her gums were visible as she scrunched up her nose

"Sorry" she said but it came out more as 'sowy'

"Did you find him?" Mike asked

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"The movies? Dustin's so freaked out about the gate that he decided to watch a movie?" Lucas asked while he walked beside Max, Jonathan staying close to Belly at the back of the group "Yeah makes sense"

"You're positive he said gate not great?" Max asked

"Yeah like this movie I am watching is great" Will joined in

"Sounded like gate" El admitted

"Yeah, which would explain how the mind flayer's still alive" Mike estimated as Belly stumbled but Jonathan caught her

"What is that?" Nancy gasped at the blood on her shirt

"Shh" Belly shushed her "We just have bigger concerns than this wound" She said to Nancy in a low voice

"Did you disinfect it?" Nancy asked

"She didn't let me" Jonathan said "We stopped the bleeding and wrapped a bandage around it"

"Just- we'll see- we'll treat it later" Belly stuttered as Nancy extended her arm making Belly take it as she held her walk

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Upon reaching the mall, all of them rushed to where they could see some men with guns, El stepped forward and flung a car towards them making them all drop unconscious

Dustin, Robin, Erica and Steve slowly looked up from behind the counter where they were hiding as they rushed towards each other

"You flung that thing like a hot wheel" Dustin laughed

"Steve?" Belly rushed and hugged the guy who hugged her back "Oh god what happened these wounds" she touched his face

'No they don't hurt, are you okay?" Steve asked as he held onto her waist, she winced

"Yeah, I am good" she lied

"Hey what's wrong?" he asked

"Nothing, I am okay" He gave her a look

"Belly, what happened?" he asked in a serious tone, she showed him the wound

"Nothing serious, we stopped the bleeding don't worry" She said

"Stopped it? This very much looks like still bleeding" He showed her his hand which now had a little of her blood

"She cracked the top secret code, which is how we found out about the Russians" Dustin said pointing at Robin

"Russians? Wait what Russians?" Belly remembered the time Melissa told her about how the Russians trying to open the gate

"The Russians" they pointed at the men that were laying on the floor

"Those were Russians?" Belly started to feel dizzy all the voices echoed in her mind, she fell on Steve who held her, before she closed her eyes