Steve Harrington Imagines

Upside down

** Based off season 5 !! **

** May be spoiler-y so please read with caution <3 **

Y/n POV

I buckled the remainder of my jacket next to hopper as we talked our strategy for the night. It was my first crawl, not the first one I've been apart of, but the first one I've gone on where I don't sit in the radio shack.

I'm not sure how I was able to convince them to let me go, but I'm not saying anything now. It's my time to show them how useful I can be!

"Y/n, are you listening?" I shook my head to return to reality and smiled at the crew staring at me.

"Absolutely, we wait for the go, stay on the trucks until it's time to depart and then we go search. I got it all up here." I tapped my head with my fingertips. Everyone went back to preparing for our crawl when a hand wrapped around my arm and pulled me away.

"Hey, can we chat for a second?" I looked at Steve. His big brown eyes seemed a little more anxious than the crawls normally make them look.

"What's up?" He let out a large sigh and shut his eyes for a second.

"Be careful." I furrowed my eyebrows. That's all he had to say to me?

"I will be?" The question in my tone was a bit more apparent than I wanted it to be.

"Okay." He awkwardly smiled and let out a small laugh before he wiped his hands on his jeans, patted my shoulder and walked away. I was left in confusion.

Be careful? Not 'wow I'm so worried about you, please come back to me in one piece because I utterly wouldn't survive without you by side.'

Just... be careful.

Brushing off the weird encounter I followed hop to the tunnel system we used to get to the gate. The tunnels were cold, I shivered a bit as my feet hit the soft ground beneath me. Hop threw down our guns, and before he descended down I watched as he gave Joyce a soft kiss. I smiled at the 2- it took them long enough to finally get together.

Soon, hop and I were walking through the tunnel. A series of twists and turns kept us moving at a quick pace to make sure we got to the trucks in time.

"You ready for this?" I looked at the husky man next to me. His beard was longer than he usually kept it, I liked it.

"I am." He smiled.

"I like your confidence." I smiled back.

"Well if I wasn't confident then we probably wouldn't make it out." His lips formed a straight line and he took a minute before he nodded.

"You're right, thank god you're confident." I laughed at his remark and slowed my pace as we got close to our target. A small ladder at the base of door.

Climbing the ladder I softly closed the trap door behind me and watched as hop waited for our signal to proceed forward.

"West clear." I heard Mike say over the radio. Mike and Lucas sat in a watch tower farther away, they made sure we knew it was clear for us to run. The second Mike said clear Hop and I were off to the last truck in line. I hopped onto the back of the truck, throwing my gun into the back of the truck I grabbed hops hand to help me get over the tailgate. We sat against some boxes and I watched as the red webbed gate behind us began to close. Trapping us here- only for a little while.

Steve POV

I paced back and forth as I waited to listen for Y/n and Hop.

No word.