even weirder stuff || stranger things x female reader (season two)

four - the three (or six) musketeers are looking for d'Artagnan

Thursday, November 1, 1984

"Say that again," you rub your temples as you walk over to Hawkins Middle School with Lucas.

"Okay," Lucas sighs. "Dustin found a weird creature in his trash, decided to adopt it, showed it to us earlier, and now it's escaped, and Will thinks it came from the Upside Down so we have to find it now."

"And what did he call it?"

"Dart. For D'Artagnan. It's stupid, I know."

"Dart," you repeat, shaking your head. "And Dart grew legs over a day's time?"

"Yup."

"Great, great. Oh, and the new girl's seen it too?"

"Max? Yeah."

"We're kinda fucked, ain't we?"

"What do you mean?"

"I don't know, Lucas. Maybe you guys stumbled upon some Upside Down monster that can grow legs in less than a day and is most likely to grow even bigger in a short time, and instead of bringing it to Hopper, you thought 'hey, why not show it to Max so the government kills both us and her', and then lost the fucking animal?"

He stays silent as you walk in the corridors of your old middle school. It was weird to be here after you ran from armed men and the Demogoosebumps through those very corridors last year. You had to say, they cleaned the mess up quite well. You couldn't tell dozens of people died and left liters of blood on that tiled floor.

"But hey, you didn't know," you sigh, patting his shoulder. "We should look for it now."

"Yeah. You got your walkie on you?"

"Surprisingly I do," you fumble through your bag for it. "You never know when you'll need it."

You set in to the usual signal so you can stay in contact while splitting up to search for Dart. You had never seen the creature, but you figured you'd recognize a weird-looking animal when you'd see it. You headed towards the cafeteria. Maybe the thing -Dart- was hungry and wanted some chocolate pudding. Or a bite of lunch lady Phyllis.

You open the door to the kitchen slowly, half-expecting to find yourself face-to-face with a lunch lady, but it was empty. The chocolate puddings were still there, and there were no bloody corpses hidden under the sink.

"Guys," Will's distorted voice in the walkie makes you jump. "I found him."

"Thank god," you sigh, getting up from the floor as you were trying to see if Dart was somewhere under the cafeteria tables.

"Where?" Dustin asks.

"In the bathroom by Mr. Salerno's."

"Copy that," Mike answers.

"Where is that again?" you ask yourself, trying to remember who that teacher was and where his classroom was located. In the meantime, you exit the cafeteria, and almost bump into someone, the only distinguishable feature you have the time to see being a flash of red hair.

"Agh!" the girl that just bumped her forehead on your shoulder winces, holding her temple.

You stumble backward a bit at the impact, but that's all.

"You should watch where you're going," she says.

"And you shouldn't be running in the corridors, yet there you are. Let's stop giving each other advices we won't follow."

She looks up at you with a frown, but there was no animosity in her gaze, simply curiosity.

"Who are you anyway?"