Voodoo Child (Max Mayfield X Male OC)

EIGHT: The Enigma Effect

Voodoo Child

"Maybe Mike was right"

"Nathaniel?" The mysterious girl asked, looking directly as Sol, she was unmistakeably talking to him.

"...who?" Sol chuckled nervously.

All eyes were now on Solomon, as the girl crept closer, however Mike blocked their path, taking her attention as she stared at him longingly.

"El?" He asked in disbelief.

"Mike" She said as the two embraced, obviously caring about her more than the others, it didn't take a detective to know they had a special connection.

"I never gave up on you, I called you every night for-"

"353 days...I heard" The girl smiled as Mike stared in confusion.

"Why didn't you tell me you were there, why didn't you say anything?" Mike asked confused.

"Because I wouldn't let her" Hopper speaks up, before walking up to the girl, the two hug for a moment, both Sol and Enigma sensing the tension slowly brewing.

"You've been hiding her" Mike says as his eyes widened. "You've been hiding her this whole time"

"Hey hey...Lets talk. Alone" Hopper says as he grabs him and brings him to another room.

"We missed you" Lucas says as him, Dustin and Maria do a group hug, Max standing off awkwardly to the side and Solomon standing in a corner.

"I missed you to" Eleven looks confusedly at Dustin and touched his face. "Teeth...you have teeth"

"Oh, heh, you like these pearls" Dustin says as he growls, weirding everyone out.

"Eleven?..." Max says, inserting herself into the conversation. "Hey, um...I'm Max. I've heard a lot about you" 

Eleven brushes past her and walks towards Solomon, who stares back with a hint of nervousness in his eyes.

"Nathaniel" She said, less of a question this time.

"I think you might have me confused, happens all the time" Sol laughed it off and lied, El reached into her pocket and pulled out a small file, handing it to Sol before walking past him.

"Can I see him?" Sol heard El ask Joyce as he looked to the group, only to awkwardly avoid the eye contact that greeted him.

Time Skip

"Its gotten bigger, not to mention the place is crawling with those dogs" Hopper sighs.

"Demo dogs" Dustin interjected.

"I'm sorry what?" Hopper asked in confusion.

"Demo dogs...like demogorgon and dogs..." Dustin tried to explain.

"Jesus Christ" Enigma sighed

"How is this important right now?" Hopper asked sternly.

"Its not I'm sorry" Dustin meekly apologised.

"I can do it" Eleven suggested.

"Your not hearing me." Hopper dismissed.

"I'm hearing you...I can do it" El reassured.

"Even if she can, there's still another problem, if the brain dies, the body dies" Mike says.

"I thought that was the whole point?" Max says confused.