We took her back to the Wheeler's house out of the cold rain that had set in
"Do you have a phone number for your parents?"I ask her, sweetly.
"Where's your hair? Do you have cancer?"Dustin asks, I whack his shoulder.
"Did you run away?"Lucas asks
"Are you in some kind of trouble?"Mike asks
"Is that blood?"Lucas says, pointing his finger closer to the girl but Mike slaps it away.
"Stop it! You're freaking her out!"Mike exclaims
"She's freaking me out!"Lucas tells him
"I bet she's deaf"Dustin says, the claps really loudly near her, making her jump
"Hey, you're scaring her, you don't know what she's been through"I snapped at them.
Mike goes over to the washing basket and grabs some clothes and hands them to her. She puts them to her face, she stands up and takes off my coat I gave her to wear. She goes to take off her shirt right in front of us
"No,no"
"Nononononono"
"See over there is the bathroom"I point
"Privacy. Get it?"Mike says, she picks up the clothes and walks over to the bathroom. Mike goes to close the door but she stops him from doing so.
"You don't want it closed?"Mike asks
"No"She mutters quietly
"Oh so you can speak, okay well how about we keep the door just like this?"Mike questions.
"Is that better"I ask her
"Yes"She mutters again
"I'll be right out here if you need me alright"I tell her, giving her a warm smile. She nods slowly at me..
The boys leave afterwards and I stay behind to make sure the girl is comfortable, I notice she seems to look at me a lot like she knew me,
"I never asked for your name"Mike says, she pauses and pulls up her sleeve to show 011. I feel myself subconsciously fiddle with the watch that sat on my wrist.
"Is that real"Mike lunges forwards making her retract her arm
"Sorry, I've never seen a kid with a tattoo before"Mike stammers
"What's it mean? Eleven?"Mike continues, she points to herself
"That's your name?"Mike asks, she nods
"Eleven okay, well my name is Mike. Short for Michael"Introduces
"I'm Dani, short for Danielle"I tell her
"Maybe we can call you El, short for Eleven"Mike suggests. She nods again. I smile at her.
I stand up to leave as I should get back to the Byer's as soon as possible
"Night El"I say, about to walk up the stairs
"Night Dani"El says back as I leave and I feel my heart melt at the smaller girl.
I woke up the next morning to Jonathon cooking breakfast and Joyce with the poster
"What? No, be careful of the poster"Joyce says
"Yeah, okay. Alright"Jonathon stutters out.
"I just need you to eat, Mom,"Jonathon continued. I go into the bathroom to rinse my face and I stay in the clothes I was in, I had spare clothes in my locker. I walk out the bathroom hearing Joyces loud voice to see Hopper
"Oh, Dani dear morning honey"Joyce says, calmly now. I see Nancy pull out the front
"That's Nancy Joyce, I'll see you later"I tell her, kissing her cheek before leaving through the door. I asked Nancy to drive me as I didn't want Jonathon to worry about Will and Me getting to school, I don't know if he will go today.
I walk through the halls with Barb and Nancy, going through flash cards she made, both of us having a competition to see who can answer the quickest. Just as we turned the corner Steve and his friends came past and snatched the cards
"I think you studied enough for this, I'm telling you, you got this"Steve tells Nancy
"On more important matters, my dad has left town on a conference and my mom's gone with him cause you know she doesn't trust him"Steve continues
"Good call"
"So are you in?"Steve asks
"In for what?"Nancy asks, confused
"No parents? Big house?"Carol says
"A party?"Nancy says
"Ding, ding, ding"Carol says, while Tommy laughs
"It's Tuesday?"Nancy says, still not getting it
"It's Tuesday"Tommy mocks, I give him a look and he stops
"It'll be lowkey. It'll just be us. What do you say? Are you in or are you out?"Steve asks again
"Oh god, look"Carol says, we all turn
"Oh god that's depressing"Steve says, I try not to let my temper get control of me
"Should we say something?"Nancy asks
"I don't think he speaks"Carol says, disgusted
"How much do you want to bet he killed him"Tommy says
"Hey, that's my cousin you're speaking about"I remind them. Nancy walks over to him.
I walk into my first class of the day, I sit more in the middle area of my class. Mrs Click's class, I look over at Steve who wouldn't stop talking loudly, getting crumbs everywhere, I roll my eyes. The school day doesn't go quick enough. It's lunch time and I want the day to end already.
"Hey Danielle still coming to that party later"Steve asks
"Over my dead body, I'm gonna be looking for Will"I tell him.
"Alright you're loss"Steve says
"Not much of a loss"I mumble, after lunch is finished it's the last lesson of the day, the time I'm gonna be doing my test.
That night I'm at home with Joyce when the lights started to flicker. I was in Will's room doing some drawing with Will's texters when the radio started blaring should I stay or should I go by The Clash making me scream in fright, from the sudden playing of the stereo. The light flickering brightly. Joyce opens the door to where I'm there scared out of my mind of what was there when everything turned off and there was something coming through the wall and we screamed and ran for the car
"Will"Joyce mumbled, we walked back in when it continued again. That night I was in Jonathan's room since I didn't want to be scared awake by anything again, I grabbed the spare mattress they had from when I used to stay over all the time as a kid and lay it on the floor and decided to go to sleep.
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Danielle Byers- Steve Harrington
Fanfiction"I love you, you and your pretty boy swag" "Of course, you say that, I love you too Dani" Where Byers and Harrington get along in the end. Completed until next season
