Tether (On hold)

1. We're just friends (Edited)

Faye Wheeler lived a normal life, with a normal family in the unremarkable town of Hawkins, Indiana. She had a mom, dad, an older sister, a younger sister, and a twin brother. She went to school, she liked to draw, and she played with her friends. Nothing unnatural happened.

Until the night of November 6th 1983.

The vanishing of Will Byers was all anyone was talking about. Phrases life Missing child didn't belong in the same sentence as Hawkins, Indiana. Things like that just didn't happen here. That was for the big cities and movie screens. But it did happen. Will Byers had disappeared, and no one knew where he had gone. Not his family, not the police, and not Faye- his best friend. As it turned out, Will's disappearance was the catalyst for a series of very untoward and very unexpected events. Ones which would prevent Faye Wheeler from ever describing herself as normal ever again.

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December 1983

"Woah woah woah, that's not it, is it?" Dustin exclaims, voicing what everyone in the room is thinking.

Mike shakes his head. " No, there's a medal ceremony-"

"Oh a medal ceremony!?" Dustin cuts him off, words dripping with sarcasm.

Faye, Mike, Lucas, Dustin, and Will have spent the last 10 hours embarking on a celebratory Dungeons and Dragons campaign- their first since Will had been found after going missing. Faye doesn't understand how every other girl her age doesn't like D&D- it's the best game ever. Even if her stupid brother messed up the story, she's just glad to have the party back together.

The arrival of Will's brother Jonathan silences their bickering. Will gathers up his things and says goodbye as Dustin and Lucas start play-fighting. Just as Will leaves the room, Faye notices his watch still sitting on the table. She picks it up and runs after him, narrowly avoiding Dustin's elbow hitting her in the face as she passes.

"Will! Wait up, you forgot your watch!"

Will is waiting by the front door, Jonathan have been intercepted by Faye's sister Nancy. He smiles when he sees her.

"Oh yeah, thanks" He says, returning the watch to his wrist. He then looks at Faye with a sheepish expression "Actually, I kind of left it on purpose."

Faye frowns at him. "Why?"

Will opens his backpack and pulls out a folded piece of paper. "Because I wanted to give you this. I thought the others might get mad because we did secret Santa and you're not supposed to get anyone else presents."

Faye takes the paper, raising her eyebrows. "It's like you to break the rules."

"Yeah but this doesn't technically count as a present because I didn't buy it." Will grins.

Laughing at his warped logic, Faye opens up the paper and sees it is one of Will's drawings. Of the group, she and Will are the only ones that like to draw so it's something they often do together. This particular drawing is of them, the whole party, in various heroic poses. They're wearing capes in each of their favorite colors (Faye's being purple) and brandishing swords. It isn't until Faye gets to the last figure on the page that she realizes who it is.

"Is that.."

"Eleven," Will answers. "Yeah. I wasn't sure exactly what she looked like, but I know you guys really miss her, so I thought she should be in the picture."

"Thank you, I love it" Faye smiles.

Will shrugs, looking embarrassed. He always gets embarrassed at compliments. "Merry Christmas."

"Merry Christmas," Faye replies. Suddenly, she leans in and gives Will a hug, glad to have her best friend back.

Jonathan clears his throat, and the two spring apart. Both their older siblings are smirking at them. "Ready Will?"

"Yeah." Will nods.

Something suddenly occurs to Faye. "Hey Will, How did you know I'd be the one to notice your watch?"

Will laughs. I'll give you five dollars right now if Dustin and Lucas aren't down there fighting and Mike isn't sulking."

Faye joins in on the laughter- Will is smarter than people give him credit for. She waves goodbye and the Byers leave, Will's drawing still clutched in her hand.

"Soo.." Nancy singsongs. "You and Will?"

Faye felt her cheeks flush, but two can play at that game. "You and Jonathan?"

The smirk drops from Nancy's face. "What? No, We're just friends."

Faye raises her eyebrows. "Sure" She mutters under her breath as she goes upstairs to her bedroom she shares with Mike. Grabbing a pin from the desk, she puts Will's drawing up on the wall next to her bed- the newest addition to the collage of artwork already on display.. As she goes back to join the others, Faye realizes she hadn't denied Nancy's insinuation that she and Will like each other.

SUMMER 1985

FAYE'S POV

As Every Breath You Take played on the radio, Will danced with me, just like we did at the snowball.
"I'm suffering from some serious Deja Vu" I say.

"Hey Faye, wanna dance?" Will asks quietly.
"I would love to." I say in return.

"God, I love you." Will says before he kisses me.

We stay like that for a few seconds before we separate. I go back forcefully and he guides me to the bed, where he sits down and I straddle his lap.

He puts his tongue in my mouth and our tongues fight for dominance. He was about to tug on my shirt when someone knocked on his door.

"Hey, do you know where mom's we- oh, okay.." Jonathan came into the room, and we split apart.

"Don't tell mom?" Will said.

"Fine." He said. "But you owe me, oh and Mike's at the door. He looked pretty pissed off."

"Aw shit!" Will and I say in unison.

"What do you want Mike?" I asked as I closed the door.

"What the hell Will?" He asked. "She's not ready for this kind of stuff!"

"Yes she is! I love her, and she loves me!" I said. Mike opened his mouth to day something when we heard a scream.

"MIKE! WILL!"  following that, was a thud

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