"Goodbye, Mike." One instant she had turned to him and uttered the heartbreaking words, but in the next instant she was gone, swallowed up by the black ashes that had consumed the monster as well.
"El? El! El, where are you?"
Silence met Mike's words. The telekinetic girl he was calling for so desperately was gone.
"Eleven?" he tried again, but to no avail. "El?"
More silence, and a heaviness settled in Mike's gut. She couldn't be...
"Mike..." Dustin said, at a loss for words. He didn't know how to comfort his friend.
Mike brought a hand up to his face slowly. His cheeks were wet.
***
The guys were all asleep, but Mike was awake. He couldn't sleep. The fact that his first love was simply gone was mind-blowing to him. He couldn't accept it. To him, she was still there.
Finally, they let the boys see Will. Mike forgot her for a moment in his joy, but not for long. Never for long.
"...gone now. Her name's Eleven."
Will crinkled his brow. "Like the number?"
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you are not alone → stranger things
Fanfiction**DISCLAIMER: i wrote this in like middle school before season two came out & it's pretty cringy but i'm leaving it published bc it has 20k reads😏 ❝ This is not yours to fix alone. You act like you're all alone out there in the world, but you're no...
