Hawkins Curse || Steve Harrington x Reader ||

The Nina Project

I woke up I'm a sweat, I barely slept. Max was sitting on the sofa, "Couldn't sleep?" I whispered, she nodded. I looked up the stairs and gestured for her to follow me.

Mr and Mrs Wheeler were in the kitchen, "Morning." I said waving to them heading over to the table were Holly sat. "Oo, What's this." I asked pointing to her game, she was putting peices into a board. "You make a pattern and whe you switch it on it lights up." She said with a smile, I noticed she had paper and some crayons. "Could we borrow these?" I asked gesturing towards the paper and crayons, she nodded.

I left Max to draw while I went outside for some air.

After a few moments I walked back inside to Dustin sitting next to Max. "Y/n, there you are." Dustin said.

I smiled and looked down at Max's drawings that were now folded and shaped into a house. "The Creel House?" I asked.

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"What exactly are we supposed to be looking for in this shithole?" Steve asked as we approached the house. "We're not sure. We just know this house is important to Vecna." Nancy said. "Because Max and y/n saw it in Vecna's red soup mind world?" Steve questioned as we got to the boarded up door. "Basically." "Great."

"Maybe it holds a clue to where Vecna is. Why he's back. Why he killed the Creels. And how to stop him before he comes back for Max and y/n." Dustin explained. "We don't think he's in here, do we?" "Guess we'll find out." I said standing next to the boarded up door. "Move out the way." I gestured for everyone to move aside.

I used my powers to take the nails out of the board, causing it to bang down on the ground making a dust cloud as it landed. I noticed the stain glass on the door, Steve walked towards the door.

"It's locked. Should I knock, see if anybody's home?" Steve said trying to open the door. I moved him aside and used my powers to unlock it. "You weren't trying hard enough." I teased as I walked in, floorboards creaking as we walked.

"Looks like someone forgot to pay their electric bill." Lucas said trying to turn on a lamp, Dustin and I took out our torches. "Where'd everyone get those?" Steve asked us. "Do you need to be told everything? You're not a child. Back pocket." Dustin said as I walked off not wanting to talk to Steve at the moment.

I walked over to Max, she shone her torch at a grandfather clock, "Hey, guys? You all see that, right?" She said calling everyone over. "Is this what you saw? In your visions?" Nancy asked, we nodded. "I mean, it's... just a clock. Right? Like a normal old clock." Robin said wiping the dust off the face of it. "Why is this wizard obsessed with clocks? Maybe he's, like, a clockmaker or something?" Steve suggested. "I think you cracked the case, Steve." Dustin said sarcastically.

"All I know is the answers are here. Somewhere. Okay, everyone stay in groups of two and three. Robin, upstairs." Nancy walked up the stairs Robin following close behind.

I stayed with Steve and Dustin, Steve let out a sigh as we walked up the stairs. "Was that a sigh?" Dustin asked. "No, I did not sigh." "Why'd you sigh?" "I didn't sigh. Just come on, dude." "I heard you." Dustin said as I took Steve's hand. "W... We're just always put together okay?" Steve said looking at me and Dustin. "You have a problem with that?" I asked feeling a little hurt. "It'd just be nice to, I don't know, mix it up a little bit." Steve said. "What so you can go off with Nancy?" I scoffed dropping Steve's hand, turning around to go join Max and Lucas.

After a few minutes of wondering around I decided to go see what Dustin was up to so I walked up the stairs. I peaked my head around the corner to find Steve staring into Nancy's eyes with a smile.

I may have overreacted but I used my powers to make Steve's torch burst, They looked in my direction I hid behind the wall as fast as I could.

When I got to the bottom step I noticed the lights starting to flicker, soon Max and Lucas came in. "That's not you is it?" Max asked, I shook my head. "Definitely not me."