Runaway ~ (Completed) ✅ ~

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(y/n) - your name

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Max walks over to squeeze next to Lucas as he drapes a blanket over her, letting her lay her head on his shoulder and Billy narrows his eyes at the boy. He promised to keep an eye on the kid, moving to grab a cigarette to relieve his stress of this whole fucking situation.

Everyone soon nods off to sleep one by one, leaving Max and Billy to be the last ones still awake. "I'm sorry..." Max whispers, looking up at his brother who turns around to see her already looking at him.

"None of this is your fault. You can't blame yourself for things like this." he shakes his head but his sister persists.

"None of this would've happened if (y/n) didn't save me, didn't sacrifice herself to save me and give me her headphones or-"

"Maxine," Billy cuts her sister off and she purses her lips quickly. "I'm not going to say this again. None of this was your fucking fault. You're just a kid for fucks sake and this is all some magic and monster shit come to real life from fucking books. "you wouldn't have known any of this was going to happen."

"But-"

"-come back to Cali with (y/n) and I." Billy quickly says, cutting off Max who looked at him with wide eyes.

"What? Why?"

"Because of the demonic creatures coming out from hell!? That's why!?" related or not, it was every older sibling's instinct to look after the younger ones and Billy definitely didn't like the frown on his sister's face.

"Billy... I can't. What if something happens here and they need my help-"

"-well then they all need to leave too, run away from this Upside Down shit.

"We can't just leave this town with the monsters! They don't know what's going on like we do-"

"-and suddenly it's our job to kill these fuckers and make sure the people in town are safe!?" Billy snaps back. "We're not fucking heroes and we shouldn't have to be if we don't want to-"

"-I want to..." Max says, the siblings quietening down. "I want to help... I know I'm not a hero but please, please let me make it up to (y/n) for what she did for me..." she says, Billy sighing out. He takes one last puff, blowing the smoke above him and stubbing out the cigarette on a tray on the coffee table next to the couches.

"Fine Max. If that's what you want," he pats her head gently. "Then I guess we're staying a little longer back at Hawkins than planned." The siblings were the last to fall asleep, quickly dozing off to dreamland along with the others.

"He showed me things that haven't happened yet. The most awful things." Nancy says hoarsely, absolute fear and terror in her eyes as the visions ran past her eyes over and over again. Erica, Steve and Eddie were sitting on the couch in front of Nancy, Robin curled on the floor next to her, Lucas and Max standing by the wall behind the couch with Billy standing on guard with his arms crossed. "I saw a dark cloud spreading over Hawkins. Downtown on fire. Dead soldiers. And this... giant creature with... a gaping mouth." everyone listened carefully to what Nancy saw in her visions with dull expressions as if they were no life in them except for the fear in hers. "And this creature wasn't alone. There were so many monsters. An army. And they were coming into Hawkins. Into our neighborhoods. Our homes." Nancy was terrified, terrified of why and what Vecna had shown her, tearing up when she recalls what happens to her family. "And then... he showed me my mom. And Holly. Mike. And they... they were all..."