Unintended (Steve Harrington x OC)

Chapter 3

The next morning was the funeral, though it was now harder to believe that the body being buried was Will's. His mom did not believe that it was him but that he was still out there alive. She claimed to have communicated with him. Nancy, Jonathan and I all planned to go looking for this weird creature after the funeral was over. We discussed meeting up after getting something we thought we could use against whatever the hell it was and then go after it. I knew where my grandpa's guns were kept in the basement, so I grabbed one and some ammo. I went out the backdoor and met Jonathan and Nancy as she was shooting the gun Jonathan had grabbed. We then headed together through the woods. I never imagined I would be doing something like this with people I had just met only a month ago but here we were. We continued on for hours, it had gotten dark and we were using flashlights to guide our way. We split up for a moment, and that was all it took for Nancy to disappear. Jonathan and I began calling for her, I was beginning to panic. After a few minutes of calling out Jonathan and I had found each other but still no Nancy.

"Nancy!" I called out, pointing the flashlight around.

"Jonathan! Rachel!" Nancy finally responded.

We saw a tree that had an unusual bit of trunk to it then out came a hand, Jonathan grabbed it and pulled and I pulled him. We got Nancy free and she held on to Jonathan. I gathered up her bag and once they had both gotten to their feet we ran out of there . We ended up back at the Wheeler's house. Nancy went to shower and I called my mom to let her know that I was going to sleepover at the Wheeler's. Then I went back to Nancy's room, Jonathan was getting a sleeping bag set up on the floor and I sat on Nancy's bed. I ran a hand through my long red hair, I had it braided back in the woods but now it was free of the ties. When Nancy came back into the room she laid in the bed, I laid on top of the bedding beside her but took a long time to fall asleep.

The next morning I woke up to Nancy beside me looking through books, she looked like she didn't get any sleep at all and I couldn't blame her after what she had just gone through. Jonathan came and sat on the bed while I got up to stretch, she was talking about how the creature she saw was a predator and how it hunts at night, how it could probably smell blood from a great distance like sharks do then there was a rattle of the door handle and we all jumped. Mrs. Wheeler asked if we were up, Nancy and I replied that we would be down soon. A lie of course because we instead climbed out the window and left the house. We went to get more supplies, to be better equipped to trap and kill whatever it was that took Barb and Will.

After we had finished and we're getting things in the trunk of Jonathan's car, Nancy went running off. I looked where she had gone and I saw the message on the movie theater sign. Someone had graffiti on it that Nancy was a slut. She was then running off again and I called after her. Coming to see none other than Tommy, Carol and Steve spray painting even more shit in the alley. Nancy and Steve argued, I slapped him for calling her a slut. Then Steve began to pick on Jonathan as the three of us tried to leave. It pushed Jonathan over the edge, causing him and Steve to fight.

"Jonathan, stop! He's not worth it, come on" I shouted as the two of them were throwing punches. I tried to intervene but ended up getting hit in the jaw by one of them, busting my lip open a bit.

"Rachel, are you okay?" Nancy asked as she saw the blood.

"I'll be fine, but they won't be if we don't stop them" I replied and no sooner had I said sirens were heard.

The officers got out of their car and tried to break up the fight, one of them got hit accidentally by Jonathan. Steve managed to get away but the officers were cuffing Jonathan saying he assaulted one of them.

"It was an accident, he didn't mean to hit you" I said as Nancy and I followed them to the car.

They told us to get in, which we did and we all went to the station. We sat at the station trying to explain what had happened. I was able to clean my lip and put some ice on it, while Nancy held a towel full of ice up to Jonathan's face. All things considered I think Steve was more beat up then Jonathan and I was secretly proud of that fact even though I knew it was wrong to think it. Mrs. Byers and Police Chief Hopper had shown up but now he had some questions for us. We explained about the monster as well as what we had pieced together about it.