Our Never Ending Story | Steve Harrington x Reader

[3] The Russians

I go home and home and hang my four on the hook when I hear music and talking. Mike must be over again. I go into Els room and see that she's with Max.
"Holy shit. You look amazing, El." I say and she smiles.
"Oh my god, Lizzy. You should've seen it! El dumped Mikes ass so hard!" Max exclaims.
"Really?" I ask and she smiles and nods.
"Wow. I'm going to go to sleep now so can you turn the music down a bit?" I ask.
"Yeah, sorry." Max says and turns down the music. I close the door and fall asleep.

Everything looked completely different. I don't know what's happened. I haven't had these visions in almost a year now and they're suddenly coming back.
"Hello?!" I scream and nobody answers.

I wake up and put on normal clothes since I don't have to work today but Dustin, Steve and Robin want my help with the Russian code. I go in and see Robin listening to the Russian with headphones on.

"Hey, where are the boys?" I ask her.
"Busy." She says.
"Busy with what?" I ask.
"Spy craft." She snorts.

WITH STEVE AND DUSTIN

"See anything?" Dustin asks Steve.
"Uh, I guess I don't totally know what I'm looking for." Steve says looking through binoculars.
"Evil Russians." Dustin says like he's stupid.
"Yeah, exactly. I don't know what an evil Russian looks like." Steve says.
"Tall, blonde, not smiling." Dustin says describing a stereotypical Russian.
"Mm-hm." Steve says.
"Also look for ear pieces, camo, duffel bags, that sort of thing." Dustin says.
"Right, okay, duffel bags. Oh, you've gotta be kidding me." Steve says.
"What?" Dustin asks.
"Anna Jacobis talking with that meathead Mark Lewinsky." Steve exclaims.
"If you're not gonna focus, just gimme the binoculars." Dustin complains.
"Aw, Jesus Christ, whatever happened to standards. I mean, Lewinsky never even came off the bench." Steve says annoyed.
"Dude, you are the worst spy in history, you know that?" Dustin says and takes the binoculars off of Steve and looks through them.
"Besides, I don't get why you're looking at girls when you have the perfect one in front of you." Dustin says.
"Seriously, if you say Lizzy again-" Steve says.
"Lizzy. Lizzy. Lizzy." Dustin says repeating.
"Dude, stop! Okay. I would go out with her but she's not into me, okay?" Steve says.
"Why? Of course she's into you. The way she looks at you, dude. I don't know." Dustin says.
"Yeah, I don't think she will ever like me in that way after what I did to her." Steve frowns.
"What did you do to her?" Dustin asks.
"Basically, i... none of your business." Steve says. You can tell he's ashamed of himself.
"Why won't you try and ask her out. Did you feel the electricity?" Dustin asks.
"Dude..." Steve says.
"Did you?" Dustin asks again.
"Yeah, okay. But I can't right now. There's something wrong with her. She's been off lately." Steve says.

Lizzys pov

"So... see any hot girls lately?" I ask Robin and she goes pink.
"Uh, what?" She asks.
"Come on, I know. Don't worry." I say and she smiles at me.
"Yeah, the one sitting on the booth over there." She says pointing.
"Fair enough." I say.

A little while later

"Hey, Lizzy. I've translated the message." She says.
"Holy shit, well done." I say.
"The week is long, the silver cat feeds. When blue meets yellow in the west. A trip to China sounds nice if you tread lightly..." Robin reads out.
"Tread lightly..." she says and looks in the book when someone knocks on the back door. I get up and open it.

"Delivery for you." The man says giving me a box.
"Thank you." I say. I put the box down and he gives me a clipboard and I put my signature on it.
"Have a nice day." He says to me and walks off.
"You too." I say and I look at the back of his uniform.
"Silver cat..." I mutter.
"Lizzy, you're not gonna believe who Dustin thought was a Russian-" Steve starts when I run past him with Robin following me.
I look around.
"A trip to China sounds nice..." I say looking at this Chinese shop.
"If you tread lightly..." I say and look and see a shoe shop.
"When blue and yellow meet in the west..." I say and look at a clock with blue and yellow hands. I smile as I've cracked the code.
"Lizzy, what are you doing?" Steve asks me.
"I cracked it." I say.
"Cracked what?" He asks.
"I cracked the code." I smile.
I explain it to them and that night, when blue meets yellow in the west, we go out and spy on this delivery service place.
"Look for Imperial Panda and Kaufman shoes!" I shout over the sound of the rain and thunder.
"They're with that whistling guy! Ten o'clock!" Dustin yells.
"What do you thinks in there?" Steve asks.
"Guns, bombs?" Dustin suggests.
"Chemical weapons?" Robin asks.
"Whatever it is, they're armed to the teeth." Dustin says.
"Great. That's great." Steve says sarcastically. The elevator door opens as a guy puts boxes in.
"Hey! What's in there?" Robin asks as he goes in.
"It's just more boxes." Dustin says.
"Let me check it out." Steve says and they start fighting over the binoculars.
It slams against this metal pole that makes a very loud thud.
"Duck!" Dustin yells. I grab the closet thing next to me and duck down. I look to see what I'm holding and realise it's Steves hand. We look at each other awkwardly and let go.
We run back to Scoops Ahoy.
"Well, I think we found your Russians." Robin says.