𝘿𝙍𝙄𝙁𝙏𝙄𝙉𝙂 - Max Mayfield

20. The perfect Sage

A/N: I should be in the middle of exams rn but the college staff are on strike so, double update! You're welcome.

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Eleven..." Mike spoke as he walked closer to the girl, almost close to tears.

"Mike" El closed the gap between them as they shared a hug.

"Is that..." Max turned to Aiden and Lucas.

"Yeah" Aiden nodded.

"No way... She's actually real" Melanie still couldn't believe her eyes.

"I never gave up on you" Mike said after they pulled away from each other. "I called every night for–"

"353 days" El finished. "I heard... And Aiden told me"

Mike immediately turned to the aforementioned boy. "You talked to her? You knew she was okay?! And you didn't say anything?!"

Aiden nodded without any facial expression. "Hop told me not to. And even if he didn't make me keep quiet about it,I still wouldn't have told you"

"You knew she was fine and didn't bother to tell anyone! Why?!" Mike screamed, stepping close to his adopted brother.

"Cause ever since she left, you've been acting like a dick to everyone around you," Aiden stepped closer to Mike,his annoyance starting to rise once again. He never thought a fictional character would piss him  off so much. "do you really think you deserve to see her again after everything you've pulled in the last year?!"

"We met El way before you did!" Mike repeatedly shoved the chakra user,which really didn't have much of an effect on him. "You're always acting like you know better than everyone and can fix everything! All cause you're from a different time!"

"Mike–" Aiden sighed.

But Mike was beyond reach. "You don't know what it's like to lose anyone cause you didn't have anyone to begin with!"

Mike then started to assault the boy with shoves,slaps and punches. "I wish we never met you!"

"Mike!" Nancy yelled.

"Mike,stop it!" Dustin tried to reach over to pull Mike away,but a dull thud  stopped him as Mike fell backwards. Aiden had connected a fist straight to his jaw.

"Mike!" El yelled.

In an instant,a familiar whirring sound was heard as Aiden pinned the biological Wheeler to the floor, a fully charged Rasengan spinning in his right hand as he looked Mike dead in the eye.

"I've had about enough of you" Aiden said as he seethed at him. "You can question anything else,but don't you ever discredit the things I've lost, Michael"

"Aiden get off of him" Joyce pleaded, worried that the angered teen would do something extreme as she knew that Mike had pressed a lot of Aiden's sore spots. Everyone else was just as shocked... They knew Aiden and Mike didn't exactly get along anymore but Aiden always seemed to ignore it... But now he finally snapped.

"I lost my mother before I could even learn to think,I lost my best friend... I will never see either of them again" Aiden let out a shaky breath. "And I basically lost my old life by being sent here. So don't whine to me about loss and be grateful that El actually came back!"

With that, Aiden banished the blue sphere in his hand and got off Mike. As Mike stood up, Aiden walked to a corner of the room and let out a deep sigh, running his hands over his face. Hopper walked over to Aiden who looked up at him. Without a word,the police chief pulled him into a hug which Aiden quickly returned.