Our Never Ending Story | Steve Harrington x Reader

[6] The Asshole

We hear Jonathan's faint voice calling our names.
"Jonathan! We're right here!" I scream as loud as I can. We find the portal and climb out. I collapse on Jonathan and hug him tightly along with Nancy.

We go back to Nancys house and shower and I use some of Nancys clothes again. I hear clattering outside and look.
"It's just the wind." Jonathan says. Nancy is in the shower. Jonathan is inches away from my face and it just felt right in the moment. He held my face and kissed me and I kissed him back when Nancy came in. She didn't see us thank god.

"Better?" Jonathan asks.
"Yeah." Nancy says.
Jonathan goes on the floor and shows Nancy what he got from her closet.
"Is this okay? I found it in the closet? I can go home, I just figured..." Jonathan starts.
"Yeah, no. I... I don't want to be alone. Do you?" Nancy asks.
"No." Jonathan says and fall asleep on the floor next to Jonathan.

I'm in the strange place again. But it's just the same as last time.
"You shouldn't be here, Elizabeth."
"I don't understand." I say.
"What don't you understand?"
"You keep bringing me here and then you ask why I'm here and telling me I shouldn't?" I shout.
"You will see. Very, very soon, Elizabeth."

I wake up and see that Nancy and Jonathan are already awake. I go up on Nancys bed and sit down.

"Hey, couldn't sleep?" I ask her.
"No, I don't know how you could." She says.
"Mm."
"Every time I close my eyes, I just... keep seeing that thing. Wherever I was, that place, I think it was there. Feeding on that deer. That means that if Will and Barbara..."
"Hey... my mom said she talked to Will. If he's alive then there's a chance Barbara is too." Jonathan says reassuring her.
"That means that she's trapped... in that place. We have to find it again." Nancy says.
"You want to go back there?" I ask.
"Maybe we don't have to. When I saw it, it was feeding on that deer. Meaning it's a predator, right? And it seems to hunt at night, like a lion or a coyote. But it doesn't hunt it packs like them. It's always alone, like... a bear. And remember at Steve's when Barb cut herself?" Nancy asks me.
"This thing attracts to blood..." I say.
"It's just a theory." Nancy says.
"We could test it." Jonathan says.
"Totally, but if it works..." I say.
"At least we'll know it's coming." Nancy says. The door knob rattles making all of us jump.

"Honey are you up?" It was Nancys mother, Karen.
"Yeah, I'm getting dressed!" Nancy shouts.
"I made some blueberry pancakes." Karen says.
"I'll be down in a second." Nancy says and Karen goes downstairs. I put on some of Nancys clothes again and sneak out of her window.

We go to a shop for weapons. I pick up an axe.
"Nice." I say and put it in Nancys basket.
We put the stuff on the counter.
"And 4 boxes of the 38s please." I say and he puts it on the counter with the rest of the stuff.
"What you kids doing with all this?" He asks us.
"Monster hunting." Nancy says. I snort.
"Huh." The guy says and scoffs. We put the stuff in Jonathan's trunk.

"You know last week, I was shopping for a new top I thought Steve might like. It took me and Barb all weekend." Nancy laughs.
"And now you're shopping for bear traps with Jonathan Byers and Lizzy Hopper, the two freaks of the school." I laugh.
"What's the weirdest part? Us or the bear traps?" Jonathan asks.
"Definitely you guys." Nancy laughs.
A car pulls up and it's some guy from our school.

"Hey, Nance, Lizzy. Cant wait to see your movie!" He snickers and drives off.
"What the hell was that?" Jonathan asks.
"I don't know." Nancy says.
The cinema... I start running there and hear Jonathan and Nancy running behind me calling my name. I stop infront of the cinema with tears forming in my eyes

All the right movies starring Nancy Wheeler and Elizabeth Hopper the SLUTS

"Oh my god." Nancy says.
"Jesus." Jonathan says.
We hear sprays cans hissing in the alleyway next to the cinema and hear a familiar laughter. Tommy H.

Nancy speed walks over there.
"Nancy!" I shout.
The anger boils inside of me. I've never been so angry in my life. I was shaking and felt the tears rolling down my cheek.

"Aw, hey there, snitch." Carol says.
"Uh-oh. She looks upset. Watch out she doesn't get her daddy to arrest you, Steve." Tommy laughs.
"What the hell is wrong with you?" I ask Steve and he stays silent. I slap him in the face then he sees Nancy. He pushes past me and goes over to Nancy.

"I was worried about you. I can't believe that I was actually worried about you." Steve scoffs.
"What are you talking about?" Nancy asks.
"I wouldn't lie if I were you. You don't want to be known as the lying slut now, do you?" Carol asks.
"Speak of the devil." Tommy says and I turn around and see Jonathan.
"You came by last night?" Nancy says. Shit. Did he see Jonathan and me kiss? He obviously did but why's he so mad?
"Ding! Ding! Ding! Does she get a prize?" Carol laughs.
"Look, I don't know what you think you saw, but it wasn't like that." Nancy says.
"What, you just let him into your room to... study?" Steve asks.
"Or for another pervy photo session?" Tommy laughs.
"We were just..." Nancy says.
"You were just what? Finish that sentence. Finish the sentence." Steve says. I grab Nancys arm and we start walking off.
"You know what, Hopper. I'm actually kind of impressed that a freak like you is such a slut. Trying to make out with me then the next minute having sex with Jonathan Byers." Steve says. I don't recognise him anymore. That wasn't Steve. I didn't know who that person was. I stop walking and stand still.
"You know what, I'm not even surprised that your mother left you, your dad left you. Even your sister left you. I'm sorry I have to be the one to tell you, but your just a screw up and just going to end up like your father. A useless, lazy, alcoholic." Jonathan runs into Steve and punches him in the face. They break out in a fight.

"Kick his ass man!" Tommy shouts.
"Shut up, Tommy!" I shout.
"Shut up, you slut!" He shouts and I grab my pocket blade and slam him against his wall and hold it against his neck. Carol and Nicole run off when a cop car comes and so does Steve. It was Officer Callahan and Powell. Callahan arrests Jonathan while Powell grabs me. I kick Tommy and accidentally kick Powell. He puts me in handcuffs and takes me and Jonathan to the station.

I sit down at Powells desk still in handcuffs.

"Hey Chief." Callahan says on the walkie talkie.
"Yeah?" My dad says.
"Yeah, a fight broke out here and..."
"Cal, I don't have time for this." My dad says.
"It's Jonathan Byers and Elizabeth. You might want to come here now." He says.
"What the hell." My dad says.

Once he gets here he looks raging mad.

"What the hell have you done?" He shouts and Powell talks to him in his office then he comes back out even more mad.

"You held a knife against a boys throat, assaulted him, assaulted a police officer and then resisted arrest?" He yells.
"Chief, calm down." Powell says.
"No! What is wrong with you?" He yells.
"Why is my son wearing handcuffs?" Joyce shouts.
"Well, your boy assaulted a police officer, that's why." Callahan says.
"Take them off." Joyce says.
"I am afraid I cannot do that." Callahan says.
"Take them off!" Joyce yells.
"You heard her, take 'em off and my daughters." My dad says.
"Chief, I get that everyone's emotional here, but there's something you need to see." Powell says and they go outside.