Stranger Things Imagines

Lucas Sinclair: Scared (Part 2)

For @love_nyny

Y/n's POV

I walked into Lucas' living room after using his shower, I was wearing my dress that I had left at his house a while back. I sat next to him and he smiled at me gently. I cuddled into his side and he strapped my body against him by wrapping his arms around my shoulders.

"Hey, sweetie," he says. I look up at him and cup his cheek to push my forehead against his forehead. He closes his eyes and kisses the bridge of my nose.

"Hi," I simply say. I bite my lip gently and ask "When does summer end?"

He says "It's starting Monday."

"What's today?" I ask, genuinely wondering. I didn't have a way to see what the date was there.

"It's Friday. I want to ask you something," he says trying to skip out of the school talk.

"Lucas-" I say but he cuts me off asking his question.

"Why were you in the lab anyways, Y/n?" I looked at him in shock at his question and tell him the truth.

"It was a dare... Obviously," I say. Okay... Half the truth.

He nods his head and asks "Who dared you?" I looked up at him personally thinking "I didn't think this far into my lie," but came up with someone anyways.

"Jade West. She told me it would be cool if I went in. I told her I wouldn't. She said "I dare you" so I did," I say quickly and then looking at him in hopes he believed me.

"Jade West moved at the beginning of the summer, Y/n," he states. I sighed realizing that I couldn't lie anymore and decided to tell him.

"Fine... I was talking to Steve about it and he said that if I wanted to know what happened to Will I should check it out myself," he looked shocked.

"So you did? Why couldn't you leave?" I teared up and nodded my head.

"I wish I could've... But I couldn't, Lucas. I felt so alone and-" He pulls me close, my sobs cutting off my words. "I just wanted to be with you, Lucas," I say, finally getting it out. I wrap my arms around him and continue to cry.

"You're never leaving my sight again Y/n, I promise," he says, holding me tight against him. I deep down could only hope he'd keep that promise as I clung to him like a spider monkey.

The next day I was sat with the boys in Mike Wheeler's basement, the usual hangout for me and the gang. I looked into Lucas' eyes as he played D&D with a smile on his face. He continued to stare back at me so long we hadn't realized he needed to roll the die.

"LUCAS! MAKE YOUR MOVE!" Mike yells.

He jumps and rolls the dice quickly yelling "PROTECTION!" and I just giggled. Eventually, all the boys cheered which signified that he had protected himself within the game. Lucas ran over to me and kissed me saying "I did it," before running back to Will and the other three.

I started feeling a pain in my head as I smiled at his enthusiasm. I held the side of my head and asked El where the closest bathroom was to which she responded by pointing at the bathroom door next to the stairs. I ran over to the bathroom and leaned over the kitchen counter with tears burning my eyes. "Fuck," I mumble. The pain in my head turning into a high pitched ringing noise. I collapse to the floor and everything around me looks like it had in a room I entered within the lab. I didn't know why but I started screaming "Lucas! LUCAS!" in hopes that he would appear but as far as I knew I wasn't at Mike Wheeler's anymore.

Lucas' POV

I heard Y/n screaming from the bathroom, "LUCAS!" and jolted up from my seat. I ran to the door and tried turning the doorknob to find it was locked. "Y/n! You'll be okay! Stay there!" I turn around and see the other group members crowded around me looking for the source, the reasoning behind her screams for me.

"What's going on?" Nancy asks as she walks down the steps.

"OPEN THE DOOR!" Mike yells. Nancy grabs a hammer from the toolbox nearby in a rush as she runs over to the group in front of the door, bringing the hammer down on the doorknob and screaming a bit. Karen and Ted come down with Holly in front of them.

"NANCY!" Karen yells, Ted biting into the donut in hand. After another swing, Karen grabs the hammer and the knob from the door hits the floor. I pry the door open aggressively to see Y/n curled into a ball in the corner of the bathroom, tears pouring down her cheeks as she looks up at me.

We were now all sitting in the living room. Karen had Y/n wrapped in a blanket and Nancy was trying to get her to eat, but she wouldn't. Something was wrong with her.

I walked up to her and kneeled down in front of her on the floor, holding her knees in my hands. "Hey," I whisper. She looks down at me and a tear slips from her cheek. I reach up and cup her face, wiping the stray droplet from her soft skin. "I want you to tell me anything you feel. Anything at all. I don't care if it's just happiness I just want you to tell me-"

"I'm scared," she whispers. Karen moved over when I subconsciously got up to sit next to Y/n. "Scared of what?" I ask while reaching for her hand.

"I'm scared of that place. Lucas, it's still here. I don't care what you say, nothing is the same. I went somewhere. It was dark and cold. It was empty. It was an abyss of snowflakes and just all my fears bundled up into one awful place. I can't escape it, Lucas," she says.

Hearing her say all that brought tears to my own eyes and I knew I had to help her understand that this wasn't real. It WAS gone and she was with me now, it would just take a day of her and myself.

FINAL PART COMING UP NEXT CHAPTER!