Runaway ~ (Completed) ✅ ~

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(y/n) - your name

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"Ok, let's backtrack here, you got your memories back which is great but you're alive because you might have the Mindflayer in you!?" Dustin exclaims.

"Does that mean she's the enemy now?" Lucas whispers unsuccessfully to his friends since everyone looks at (y/n) who frowned at that notion.

"No, she's not! How can you say that! She gave up her life for us!" Steve exclaims. "She's my-our friend! She fought with us and help us take down the Mindflayer!"

"But we don't know if she's being controlled right now like Heather, like her brother..." Dustin says. "I know she's helped us but it's a possibility-"

"-no it's fucking not!" Billy hisses. "(Y/n) is not the enemy, she would never be the enemy 'cause she's saved all your asses and-even though I would rather take her away from all this-she wants to help you again with this shit! Not once has she hurt any of you! And there's no way I will let any harm come to her, even if it means hurting you all to keep her safe." Billy seethes, the group flinching back from the protective boyfriend as he held his love close to him. "Don't you sat lay a finger on her or I swear it won't be the only thing you lose." He threatens, (y/n) pulling him back and shaking her head.

"Billy don't, please..." she whispers and he looks at her with hurt in his eyes.

"You said you got your memories back," Dustin says, thinking. "tell us something only the real (y/n) would know."

"But doesn't the Mindflayer have all the memories of its victims it takes over?" Lucas asks, the D&D kids conversing.

"They only have basic info of their victims, like names and places. Just enough to fool someone but not emotional memories. Painful or happy memories work best." Everyone turns to (y/n), waiting expectantly.

"But Billy has told everything that's happened between him and her, and (y/n)'s time here in Hawkins. The Mindflayer can just retell those memories." Lucas says.

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"Then it has to be something (y/n) never told anyone. Something from her past." Dustin explains. (Y/n) sighs heavily, feeling numb as she pulled up the long sleeve on her left hand.

"This is the reason I ran away from my home." The group looks at their friend's arm with shock and sadness, Billy frowning sadly at how empty his love suddenly looked as she traced the dark lines on her inner arm. Lines that ripped through the skin from her wrist and to her elbow.

"You..." Steve choked up, trying not to tear up.

"I fucking despised my life, my body and everything about me. I couldn't feel happy, I was just numb and so mad and I just wanted to feel something. Pain was the only thing that made me feel, it was the only thing I deserved. I didn't deserve to be happy. I was a fucking burden, a waste of space, I wanted to die but I was afraid of dying."

"That's why you had that empty pen in your drawer..." Billy whispers, remembering the spat they had before the mall chaos when she was so adamant about chucking the pen away.