Steve Harrington Imagines

Live for me

** Requested by: @Thyvayivuc   <3

Y/n POV

I watched as the Demogorgon swiped at me, it's large, sharp claw like hand tore my side open and a scream erupted from my lungs.  I felt the blood pool out of me in rivers, and I fell to my knees. This was the only way, the only way to save them. I wanted this end, I wanted to help in the only way I knew how. Sacrifice. 

I looked to my side and my eyes met Steve's. The pain vanished when his brown eyes looked at me, he was so sweet natured, so caring, so much better than I ever could dream to be. I smiled at him softly, a tear drop fell from my eye. 

'I love you.' I mouthed to Steve. I watched as Dustin and Jonathan held him back and I felt the alien latch onto my neck. Within seconds everything was dark, and I was finally, finally at peace. 

Steve's POV

She was gone. The love of my life was gone, and I watched her leave me. How am I expected to go on with my life now? How am I expected to act normal? She told me she loved me for the first time as she was dying, I didn't get the chance to say it back. She'll never know my true feelings. 

I was laying in bed, curled under the blanket she last laid with. It still smelled like her, the sweet scent of her perfume was dull now but still enough to remind me of her. 

That's when I heard her voice. 

"Steve." She called out. I jumped from my bed and walked out of my bedroom. 

"Y/n!?" I yelled for her to hear me. Nothing. 

"Steveee." She called out to me. I walked faster, frantically searching for her through the halls of my house. I was so focused I didn't notice how different my house looked. How the walls were a different color or the doors all moved slightly if I stopped walking. 

A hand quickly grabbed mine and drug me into a room, shutting the door behind me I looked at my captor and smiled. 

"Y/n!" I grabbed her, pulling her into me and feeling her frame in my arms brought me the comfort I had been longing for. 

"Steve.." She sighed into me, hugging me back. I couldn't control the tears, or the sobs that racked my body as I held her to me. She cried too, I felt her tears soak my shirt and I held her tighter. She pulled back and smiled at me. 

"I have been so sick without you here, I can't wait to tell everyone you're not really dead. Come on!" I grabbed her hand, going to pull her into the hallway yet she pulled against me.

"Steve.." I looked back at her, the smile on my face dropped.

"What's wrong? Come on, everyone misses you." I said to her, she sadly smiled at me. 

"Steve, this isn't what you think it is." I shook my head. 

"I think it's me saving you.." She squeezed my hand. 

"It's not your fault." I furrowed my brows. 

"What?" She walked closer, placing a hand on my chest. 

"It's not your fault." I stuttered back a question but nothing came out. "You have to go, or else you are going to get trapped here." 

"Go? You can come with me, and we can live together and be happy Y/n.." She backed away from me. I didn't even notice the signs... 

"Steve, what happened to me isn't your fault. I chose it. And I'm ok with that." Then I realized. The house looked different, the doors moved, I was under the curse and she was trying to save me. 

"I love you." I said. She looked up at me and smiled. 

"I know, I love you too." I walked to her, grabbing her face and kissing her as fast as I could. As if she could slip away from me within seconds. 

"Steve you have to go, you have to leave here or else you'll be trapped." I shook my head. 

"No, if I can be trapped with you I will choose this over the reality without you." She shook her head at me this time.

"This isn't real. If you got trapped her, you'd be alone. I am a figment of the reality he is casting for you to see." 

"So you don't know that I love you?" I asked, my heart breaking again. 

"It's really me, I am really talking with you right now but only as a lure." I shook my head. 

"He wouldn't allow that.." I knew Vecna better than she thought.

"If he knew, but I'm hiding right now, and trying to save you. Please Steve, you have to leave." I shook my head and grabbed her hands.

"Not without you." 

"Steve, I want you to go and live your life! Free of this curse, free of the aliens in Hawkins, free of a lab. I want to watch you fall in love, have babies, get a career and be the person you're supposed to be. I sacrificed myself for that reason. I love you so much, I want you to live. If not for you, for me. I am begging you. Don't let me die for nothing, use it and build something for yourself." The tears streamed so fast down my face I stopped trying to wipe them away.

"But I want all that with you.." I said, the sobs breaking my sentence apart. I felt her lips hit mine, and I savored the moment before the space she once filled went cold. 

"I will always be with you. I promise." She vanished. She was gone. 

----------------15 years later ------------------

"Bye honey, I'll see you after work!" I kissed my beautiful wife before walking over to our son. "You and I have a baseball practice session after school pal!" He smiled at me. 

"Yeah, and I'm going to kick your butt dad!" I ruffled his hair, and gave him a kiss on the cheek.

"Love you kid, see you after work." He hugged me before I headed to the car. On the drive I thought back on my life, the trauma and the growth. The challenges and triumphs. My first love. 

I hope she see's me and is proud. That she watches as my family grows in honor of her and her sacrifice for us. Parking the car I watched the locket swing from my review mirror, opening it was a picture of her, the same one in our living room. My wonderful wife knew of the situation, knew she was my first love and that she died in front of me. 

She always honored our relationship, we even celebrated her birthday every year. My wife was a treasure, and I knew that Y/n sent her to me, and for that I am forever grateful.

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When I got home I played baseball with our son, my wife watched from the porch as she enjoyed a glass of wine and as we winded down for bed, I tucked in my son and shut off his light. I walked through the kitchen, grabbing some water before turning off the lights. I walked past her picture, smiling at her beautiful face. 

"Goodnight Y/n." I felt a whisper of a hand on mine, looking down it was hers. I brought it up to my lips, giving it a quick peck before heading to bed. 

"Hey sweetie, you say goodnight to Y/n?" She asked, cuddling into my side. I smiled.

"Of course I did." She kissed my shoulder.

"Good. Now your mine for the night!" She giggled.

"I am always yours."