100 Ways to Say 'I Love You' | Mileven 💕✅

99. Be careful

99. Be careful.

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The time had come. It was time to finally get rid of the Tessalahydra once and for all, along with the gate to the Upside Down. To get rid of the horror that had plagued them for four years running.

Mike was hugging El as tightly as he could, not wanting to let her go, but he knew that she had to do this one last time so that they could live as normal as a life as they could, and that's all that Mike wanted for her.

But he knew that El had to do this to protect her family, the town of Hawkins, the state of Indiana, the country of the United States of America and possibly the entire world, from the destruction of the world as they know it.

They slowly separate, and Mike holds his 2-year girlfriend's soft and smooth face in his hands. When he first met her, she had a slight babyface (as did he went they met), but since then her face slimmed down, her hair grew in, she grew into yourself.

"Be careful," Mike begged, looking at her beautiful face that would pull him from the abyss in a matter of second.

"I promise," she replies, and Mike has to hold in his tears, to stop him from sobbing into her safe arms. When El had escaped from the lab, the bad men told Karen and Ted that the tiny girl was 'dangerous'. When Mike eventually told his mom that El was the girl from the lab, Karen told Mike to stop being associated with her (because she was 'dangerous') - but Mike didn't. Because El wasn't dangerous, she had saved his life many times, more than he'd like to admit.

Mike hugged his girl once more, as tightly as he could, and slowly let her go - to save all their asses again.

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It was early morning when the headlights of the Hawkins Police Department truck (owned by Chief Jim Hopper) pulled up into the driveway of Joyce Byers' (soon-to-be Hopper) home. The inside of the home looked like it would on an everyday basis, however (like the past 4 years of fighting the Upside Down) it was a complete mess, with sleeping bags thrown all over the place, paper here there and everywhere.

A complete mess.

The front door of the home opened up, and out shot a tired but wide awake Mike Wheeler, buzzing with nervous energy as he looked at the truck, scared. It was obvious he was scared, he was avoiding eye contact with Hopper, his eyes were wide, with his eyebrows raised and furrowed. He was fidgetting with anything he could get his hands (his clothing, his own hands) as well as drumming them on the wood nearby. Even though he has a little habit of his leg shaking (which is a habit that El picked up), he was rocking back and forth on his feet.

"Is she ok?" He rushes out, not wanting to speak as much, as his heart felt like it was going up and down between his stomach and his throat.

"Yeah, kid, she did good. She's just resting, it took a lot out of her," Hopper explained, as he gently lifted El out of the car, as she curled up into a ball, into the warmth of Hopper and away from the coldness of November.