Hawkins Curse || Steve Harrington x Reader ||

The Battle Of Starcourt

I put my hands on her head, I muttered something under my breath.

*Steve's POV*

I heard y/n mumble something over and over, her eyes started to glow, she continued to mumble words.

El relaxed, the pain eased. Y/n started screaming in pain. "Y/n?" I asked rushing over to her. She put her hand out pushing me away. "I'm okay. Just get the thing out of El." She said in a grunt.

Jonathan ran off to grab some supplies. Jonathan came running back holding a knife and a wooden spoon. "Here." Jonathan said putting the spoon in y/n's mouth.

*Y/n POV*

I bit down on the spoon, trying to focus on my words. "This is going to hurt like hell." Jonathan told me, I nodded in response bracing myself.

I screamed in pain, the scream being muffled by the spoon as Jonathan cut into El's leg. I screamed as the pain became worse. "STOP! STOP IT!" I said as I spit out the spoon. "I'll do it." El said, she looked towards me to let go, I stopped muttering words and moved aside.

I collapsed on Steve, my leg still stinging with pain, he clutched me tight.

El yelled as she flung the thing out of her leg the lights began to flicker and the glass behind us shattered before the creature came flying out of her leg.

Someone stepped on the tiny meat thing, "Dad!" I yelled getting up and running over to him. He cupped my face, "Oh y/n what happened?" He asked me. "You should see the other guy." I said, remembering how I flung the guards.

I helped get El all patched up, she sat on Hopper's lap while I sat next to him, putting my head on his shoulder.

"The Mind Flayer, it built this monster in Hawkins, to stop El, to kill her and pave a way into our world." Mike explained. "And it almost did That was just one tiny piece of it." Nancy continued.

"How big is this thing?" Hopper asked. "It's big. Thirty feet, at least." Jonathan stated. "Yeah. It sorta destroyed your cabin. Sorry." Lucas mentioned as Hopper have him the death stare.

Okay, so, just to be clear, this...this big fleshy spider thing that hurt El, it's some kind of gigantic... weapon? But instead of, like, screws and metal,the Mind Flayer made its weapon...with melted people." Steve recalled. "Yes, exactly." Nancy said. "Yeah, okay. I...Yeah, I'm just making sure." Steve said.

"Are we sure this thing is still out there,
still alive?" Joyce asked. "El beat the shit out of it, but, yeah, it's still alive." Max explained. "But if we close the gate again..." "We cut the brain off from the body." "And kill it. Theoretically." Max, Will and Lucas explained.

"Yoo-hoo! Yoo-hoo!" A man with glasses and a beard yelled walking towards us with papers.

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El and I sat at a table while everyone stood around us.

"Okay, this is what Alexei called 'the hub'." He said placing down the papers and pointing to a spot. Now, the hub takes us to the vault room." The man explained. "Okay, where's the gate?" Hopper asked. "Right here. I don't know the scale on this, but I think it's fairly close to the vault room, maybe 50 feet or so." He explained. "More like 500." Erica interjected. "What, you're just gonna waltz in there like it's commie Disneyland or something?" She said in a sassy tone. "I'm sorry, who are you?" He asked. "Erica Sinclair. Who are you?" "Murray...Bauman." He responded.

"Listen, Mr. Bunman, I'm not trying to tell you how to do things, but I've been down in that shithole for 24 hours. And with all due respect,you do what this man tells you, you're all gonna die." Erica ranted. "I'm sorry, why is this four-year-old speaking to me?" Murray said. "Um, I'm ten, you bald bastard!" Erica snapped back. "Erica!" Lucas yelled. "Just the facts!" Erica defended.