Hold on Tight ~ A Mileven Story

The Horrors of the Lab

Mike's pov:

El drove us to her house so she could check in with Hopper because she hasn't been home in a few days, when we got to my house we went into the basement. "Do you want to say what they did to you first or me?" I asked El as we walked to the couch.

"I'll start if you want." El replied as she took a deep breath, "From what I know is I was taken there as a baby, my mom was a part of some sort of drug experiments when she was pregnant with me. I don't remember much of the first 5 or so years there but I know I was tortured when I didn't obey Brenner, he would lock me in a closed off copper room that I was unable to use my powers in. He would use me for experiments to help strengthen my abilities apparently." I wiped tears off her cheeks. "One time they tried to make me kill a cat, I couldn't do it so they locked me in that goddamned room. I tried so hard to please him, but whatever I did it wasn't good enough. When I did escape I felt so free, I was finally away from all of them, all the pain in the world faded away. They poked and prodded me until I couldn't take anymore, I snapped and killed a few people, they were hurting me, taking me away, I-I regret everything that happened at that lab." El started crying as soon as she finished her story.

El's pov:

It was so hard to explain most of it to Mike, I leaned my head on his chest as I cried, I could tell he was crying because I could feel tear drops on fall onto my hair, he kissed right where I felt the tear and he kept his lips there. When I pulled myself together and stopped crying Mike started to explain what happened to him.

"Now knowing your story, my experience doesn't seem as bad as mine was. When I woke up, after your guys dropping me off, I was in a room alone. I was like that for 3 days with no food or water, when someone finally came in with food and water it was so little. That was my routine until about a month later and that when the experiments started, I still was blacking out so they made the experiments harsher. I hardly slept, and when I did all I could think about was your last words to me. They tried to get me to forget you with more experiments but it didn't work, about 6 months into all of that I just stopped talking, they were furious, they sent me to the room that you just explained to me, they locked me in that room for a week with no food, I sensed that you were in that room at one point, same with the room I slept in at night. That was how it was for 3 years I was scared and alone, I couldn't wait for it to be over." Mike finished trying not to cry.

I put my head on Mike's chest again and he put his nose on my hair. We sat like that until Holly came walking downstairs, "Hey Mike and El, why are you guys crying? You're not breaking up are you?" 

Mike's pov:

"Don't worry we're not breaking up, we just found out some new information about each other and it was kinda sad." El explained to her. "Do you wanna come sit with us?" Holly nodded, ran over to El, sat on her lap and wrapped her arms around El's neck. Holly gave El a kiss on the cheek, she crawled over to me and did the same. 

Holly went to walk back up stairs and El and I got up to properly hug each other. She wrapped her arms around my torso and went to kiss my cheek, I turned my head right before she made it so my cheek so she kissed my lips instead. she looked up at me ad gave me a stink eye and I just smirked at her. "You guys are so adorable it's gross." Holly said out of the blue while walking back up the stairs.