Just Out Of Reach • Billy Hargrove x Reader

Under Attack

You wait outside the gate as Nancy and Jonathan get into the car pulling into the lab. You wait next to Steve leaning against the toll booth. "Hey... thanks for saving us back there" you look up at him smiling. "Yeah no problem" he says turning to look at you. "Did you... ever imagine this is how you'd spend your Saturday...?" you ask letting out a small laugh looking down. "No... but i've had worse" he replies before putting his arm on your shoulder and squeezing it. "Can i tell you something...?" you look back up at him "sure" he says not letting go. "I was actually... really scared back there... but..." you trail off taking a deep breath. "But you being back there really made me feel safe..." you look up at him. "Awh..." he pulls you in for a hug you hug him back wrapping your arms around his torso. Your stomach fills with butterflies as you breathe in his scent. It wasn't that pleasant it smelled like something with rotting mixed with cologne. You let go and lean back onto the toll booth again his arm still around your shoulder. "You're welcome" he squeezes your shoulder letting go it now goes back to silence. For while nothing happens just silence until you hear honking and look up to see lights coming straight towards you. Everyone moves out of the way as the honking gets louder. A car pulls up with the writing "Hawkins Police DEPT." plastered on the side of it. A man with a beard and hospital scrubs opens the passenger door "let's go" he says in a commanding tone. Everyone piles into the car one by one you get into the passenger seat next to the bearded man. Steve closes the door and looks out the window "okay let's go!" he yells out turning around now face to face with you. Your face turns pink as you quickly look down you notice that Steve never looked away. You knew because you could still feel his eyes lingering on you. You get jolted out of the moment by the bearded guy "Who are you?" he asks driving frantically down the back roads. "I'm y/n" you reply looking at him "she's my cousin she just moved here!" Dustin adds on from the backseat. "I'm Hopper, sorry we had to meet under these circumstances" he says eyes still on the road "no worries" you laugh nervously. You eventually make it to a house pulling into the driveway. Steve gets out first and offers you his hand. You grab it and get out of the car as he smiles at you. You smile back feeling your cheeks go red he lets lightly squeezes your hand before walking into the house as you follow. The entire time this was happening you felt sharp pains in your side it felt like your skin was being burnt off. You didn't question it strange things keep happening and they eventually stopped. This would eventually stop just like everything else right? In the house you hear Hopper on the phone as Johnathon talks to his brother who is unconscious. You lean against the kitchen table as Steve walks in his arms crossed. Mike gets up from the kitchen table and goes out to the living room grabbing a blue cube. He walks back in talking about someone named "Bob" someone you obviously haven't met. "We can't let him die in vain" Mike says placing down the blue cube as you get up from leaning on table. "I mean... when it was just dart maybe..." Dustin says as Lucas cuts him off "but there's an army now." You cross your arms looking at the blue cube "His army..." Mike mutters "What do you mean?" Steve questions Mike. "Maybe if we stop him... we can stop his army too" Mike says as he walks out of the room Max, Dustin, and Lucas following him. You stay in the kitchen as Steve follows behind the kids watching as Nancy and Jonathan stand over Will. You didn't know this kid very well but you still felt connected to him in a way.

You look up and everyone starts crowding the kitchen table. You go to the living room and bend down to Will. You place your hand on his feeling how cold his was almost the same temperature as yours. Confused you get up and walk back to the kitchen wanting answers. Before you could open your mouth separates going different ways. "Hey what now?" you ask Dustin as he walks outside with Lucas. "Go help Steve" he says waving you off walking into the backyard. You go back inside and see Steve grabbing duck tape from a drawer. "Hey" you gingerly speak as walk up behind him. "Hey can you help make the walls in the shed?" he asks handing you the tape. "Sure" you smile at him as you turn to the back door. Walking to the shed you see all the items from the inside of the shed on the ground. You start helping the others tape the cardboard to the wall and dare not ask any questions. The atmosphere already felt depressing like the life was sucked out of it. You eventually finish up and go inside with Dustin, Max, Lucas, and Nancy. You walk up to Steve who is swinging his bat "what now?" you ask him as he stops turning to face you. "We wait..." he sighs you start to speak up "how lon-?" getting cut off by Hopper "guys come in here!" he yells out. You walk into the kitchen seeing everyone around the table. "Me, Joyce, Mike, and Johnathan will go back out to Will" he says getting up. "We will use these walkie-talkies to communicate his morse code and you will write it down" he says handing you a walkie-talkie. You sit down at the table waiting for the code to come through. After a while you finally find the message. You look over to the notepad as it reads "close the gate" before hearing the phone ring. Dustin gets up and picks it up slamming it down thinking you're safe it rings again. Nancy grabs the phone and forcefully rips it from the wall throwing it to the ground. Hopper comes into the house "they found us!" he yells out as you get up. Everyone begins to huddle in a circle ready to attack "where are they?" Max asks. No answer just the screeching from them in the distance getting louder. You hear it getting closer before it stops you let out a sigh of relief before something comes hurdling through the window. No one speaks no one dares to you all slowly walk up to it "Is it dead...?" Max asks as you peer over her shoulder. You then hear the sound of a door opening you quickly turn around seeing a girl. She has a small nose bleed, her hair slicked back, wearing jeans, and a black shirt.