Dream Walker: Will Byers X Reader Fanfic

Breath of Life

Barbara's POV

I was alive again. The feeling was unimaginable. My breathe shuddered for the first time in months, and I felt pain. 

So much pain. I wasn't even sure if I was alive at first, even dying hadn't hurt this much. My eyes that had nearly been sewn shut, opened to see a young girl hovering over me. Her eyes were closed and I could only ask her why she'd done this to me. 

But it became clear. I had been dead and she had somehow brought me back to life. 

I could see my parents again, I could see Nance! But... after all this time, I wasn't sure if she'd just run off with Steve. We'd been friends for so long though... 

I almost cried as I took in our surroundings. We were still here, with that monster. 

How was I going to return to my family now?

Your POV

Barbara gasped, loud but broken, as if she had been sobbing and ran out of oxygen. I had done it. The searing heat of bringing another human back to life still lingered in my chest. It had hurt, dragging someone out of unknown depths, and repairing their body again. 

I opened my eyes, and saw hers looking back at me, in both shock and in gratitude. It made me feel uneasy. I had unlocked the key to life and death... I could feel a sickness that continued to follow me. It felt like I held the sands of time, and I was just tampering with it, signing myself on the wanted list for the reaper to hunt. 

I pushed that thought away when she began to speak. 

"Thank you" She rasped out. I silently nodded, but I smiled at the thought of having another person beside me, even in the Upside Down. 

"My name is Y/N, or Two. I brought you back to life."

"I know... I felt everything... H-How long have I been... dead?"

I wanted to tell her everything. About how Nancy and her family had missed her so. How they were still looking for her, and Nancy was seeking justice for her best friend. 

I longed to tell her that I had come home one night, with Will after going to the arcade with the others, and we had heard Nancy weeping on Jonathon's chest. She was crying that she had to lie to Barb's parents, right to their face that their daughter was indeed still alive. 

It was liberating to believe that someday they would be reunited, and all the suffering in grief for Nancy, and the broken hopes of her parents would be forgotten. 

It wasn't my story to tell anyway.  

"Barbara... you've been... gone for 1 year and 3 months"

A long pause echoed afterwards. 

Finally, she whispered. "Oh my god...What about, my parents? And... How do you know my name?"

"Nancy told me. And... about your parents. I-I'm not entirely sure, I only found out about you recently" I lied, looking at the ground. 

"So... what-what are you doing here? Were you taken?" She sat up slowly, grimacing, though I'm not sure if it was due to the pain, or the memory of being taken by the monster. 

"No I was... Yes, yes I was taken" Even in her haze of shock, she gave me a knowing look that told me she knew I was lying. 

"It tried to take my friend, and I distracted it and... I ended up here. So I ran, and then... well I've set up a kind of base not far from here." Another lie. She'd find out for sure, that something wasn't right with me living. 

She nodded slowly. "So... who's your friend?"

 " Will. Byers... He's a friend of Mike"

She chuckled, and smiled at me. "So you're hanging out with those bunch of misfits"

"Yeah" I grinned. The thought of having a friend in this horrid place instantly washed my feelings of self-deprecation.  

"So... have you got any idea of getting out of here? Is it possible to..."

"Umm. I've been stuck here for a while, but I think I know a way out. It's the main gate, that's the easiest way out. And... I've got powers."

"Powers?"

"Like... what?" 

"You believe me?"

"Yeah, I do. Hey, it's not like some random person could have brought me back to life"

We both laughed, and I felt comfortable with her easily. She seemed like a big sister, like Nancy, but the more cautious type. 

"I can manipulate time. Basically I can make it slow down, or sometimes speed up. But everything looks the same to me, otherwise I wouldn't be able to control it I guess... And I can control anything that relies on time. I guess, that's how I brought you back to life. I just reversed it."

"That sounds interesting... So you think you could, maybe slow time down and get us out of here?" 

"Something like that." 

"Well, at least we've got a safe place to make a plan." She smiled, and it brought a warm feeling to my stomach. Maybe, between the two of us we'd get out of here. And I could see Will again.