As Hawkins Falls: Max Mayfield x Fem Reader- A Stranger Things Fanfiction

45: No.

Forty-five: No.

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"What?" Lucas' voice came through the radio.

"Just meet us there, Lucas!" Y/n yelled into the walkie.

"I... I can't. I think some real bad shit's about to go down."

Max took the walkie from her girlfriend. "What are you talking about? What 'bad shit'?"

There was no response.

"Lucas? Lucas."

Everyone looked at each other, sharing worried looks until Y/n spoke up. "Wait..."

Everyone looked at her.

"Why are we going to school?"

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"Dustin, do you copy?" Robin's voice was heard from Dustin's radio. The curly-haired boy pressed the button to speak, bringing the radio up to his face. "Yeah, I copy."

"So, Nancy's a genius. Vecna's first victims date back all the way to 1959. Her shot in the dark was a bull's eye."

"Okay, that's- totally bonkers, but I can't really talk right now," Dustin told the girl, following Max and Y/n down the school halls. Max had stolen Ms. Kelley's office keys, so they were on their way to break into her office. Robin's voice came through the radio again. "Wait- what are you doing?" She asked, and Dustin glanced behind him as he replied. "Breaking an entering into school to retrieve some confidential and extremely personal files."

"Can you repeat that?"

"Just get your ass over here, stat. We'll explain everything."

Y/n stood beside Max as the redhead unlocked Ms. Kelley's office door.

"It's like a mini-Watergate or something," Dustin said upon arrival. "Hawkinsgate."

"Wait a second, didn't those guys get caught?" Steve asked, making Y/n roll her eyes. Max spoke up, catching everyone's attention. "Holy shit."

"What is it?" Y/n asked her girlfriend.

"I found it."

"You did?"

"Yeah, and not just Chrissy's file," she revealed. "Fred was seeing Ms. Kelley, too."

Max sat down, opening up each person's file to compare them side by side. She flipped through a couple of pages before stopping, staring at one particular page that mentioned headaches and nosebleeds.

"What is it?" Y/n asked, getting no response. "Max?" She moved to look at her girlfriend's face, seeing her glossy eyes glued to one spot on the paper, staring emptily, like her body was a lifeless husk of matter, and Max was no longer there. Steve and Dustin started to call Max's name, too, but she remained silent. Y/n turned the chair so the redhead was facing her before continuing to call her name. "Max? Max!" She started to snap in the girl's face, but Max's empty gaze didn't move, and panic quickly settled in Y/n, her heart sinking as she called for her girlfriend, remembering what Eddie said about Chrissy's trance-like state moments before her death. Steve moved next to Y/n, grabbing onr of Max's shoulders while Y/n cupped Max's face in her hands. Y/n's eyes started to water, a knot forming in her stomach and her throat starting to burn as she and the others kept repeating Max's name.