Emmeline Hale. (Billy Hargrove)

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Emmeline's POV.

One hour later.

I stood in front of the kids as everyone stood in a protective circle since the Mind Flayer found us, and we would no doubt have Demo-dogs on our porch in a few moments. I growled lowly as I heard one circling the house. Everyone watched as I walked forward a bit, getting space between us so I could shift without hurting anyone, but before I did anything, we heard a struggle outside before a demo-dog was thrown in the window, and landed dead on the floor. Hopper checked and confirmed it was dead before we all turned, weapons ready, facing the door as something began to unlock it. When it swung open I froze. Before me was Eleven. My Eleven. She had longer hair than the last time I saw her, and she was taller and older than she was. It had been 3 or 4 years since then, so it was understandable. Mike hugged her first before him and Hopper went into a room for privacy since the man had been hiding Eleven away from the group. She hugged Dustin and Lucas together before seeing me behind them.

"Five..." she whispered weakly as she tears up. I did too.

"My Eleven..." I whispered softly as she ran into my arms and cried. "You've grown so much, my little pup... I've missed you..."

"I... missed you too..." she mumbled into my shirt, well Joyce's shirt. "Papa is dead, he was killed last year. I saw... I saw mama..."

"That's great... baby, I'm so happy you're away from the lab, and that you've met your mother..." I say, wiping her tears and bleeding nose.

"You're El? I'm Max." Max introduces but Eleven just releases me and goes and hugs Joyce before going to Will's room to see him.

"She's... she's very untrusting to others at first. Don't take it personal. We've been through some things in the past." I tell her softly.

"Yeah..." Max mumbles softly, sad that El didn't like her.

"Maybe she misunderstood who you are or something. I'll talk to her when this is all over..." I tell her.

Before long Joyce leaves with her two sons and Nancy to go get the Mind Flayer out of Will using Jim's cabin that the shadow monster won't know where it is. Jim took Eleven to go close the gate and I kissed her head for good luck. I stayed with Steve and the kids, where we were to wait at the Byers until the gate was closed. The kids discussed a plan to distract the mind flayer and his army away from El, and I told them that they'd need to be careful and listen to Steve if he let them go. He didn't. Before they could try to convince him, we heard a loud car. Max, Lucas and I look out the window to see Billy's blue camero. I sigh before telling the kids to hide while me and Steve dealt with Billy.

"Am I dreaming, or is that you, Harrington?" Billy asks as he gets out of his car. He stares at me and Steve. "And look, Emmy is here too."

"Yeah, Yeah it's me. Don't cream your pants." Steve sighs. Billy takes off his jacket, throws it in his car before slamming the door shut. Steve walks down the steps towards him as I stay, guarding the door.

"What are you doing here, amigo?" Billy asks as they stop walking.

"I could ask you the same thing," he pauses a second. "Amigo."

"I'm looking for my step-sister. A little birdie told me she was here." Billy says as he glances over at me and the window. Dammit.

"Huh, that's weird, I don't know her." Steve says as Billy smokes a cigarette.

"Small? Redhead? Bit of a bitch." Billy lists, not really caring.

"Doesn't ring a bell, sorry buddy." Steve offers and looks back at me.

"She's not here, Billy." I tell him seriously as I cross my arms.

"You know, I don't know, this..." he sighs and clicks his tongue. "Whole situation, Harrington, I don't know." Billy takes his cigarette out of his mouth. "It's giving me the heebie-jeebies." I sigh deeply.

"Oh, yeah? Why's that?" Steve asks. Billy smirks, smoking again.

"My 13 year-old sister goes missing all day, and then I find her with you in a strangers house with little miss Emma. And you lie to me about it." I tense up as Steve chuckles, really acting clueless.

"Man, were you dropped too much as a child, or what?" Steve asks. Billy releases some smoke and runs his tongue on his bottom lip. "I don't know what you don't understand about what I just said. She's not here." Billy takes his cigarette and points past Steve.

"Then who is that?" Steve and I turn to the window and the kids duck quickly. I sigh deeply, he was obviously pissed even more now.

"Oh, shit. Listen–" Before Steve can say anything, Billy pushes him down.

"I told you to plant your feet." Billy says, leaning over Steve and I get in a protective stance. Steve groans. I couldn't hurt Billy, and I think he knew that as he grabbed my arm and pulled me inside. "Well, well, well." He shoves me inside and I fall in front of the kids, who all look at me worriedly. Max more so. "Lucas Sinclair, what a surprise." He walks towards Lucas and Max stands in front of him. "I thought I told you to stay away from him, Max."

"Billy, go away." Max says, knowing what her brother could do.

"You disobeyed me. And you know what happens when you disobey me." Billy says in a threatening low voice. I begin to stand at this point.

"Billy..." both Max and I begin to try to coax him to stop.

"I break things." He goes to grab Lucas by the collar and press the boy to the wall, but I push Lucas out of the way and I take the pain. "Emma, stay out of this." He begins to loosen his hands from me.

"No." I growl out, eyes changing to purple as I become protective. "You will not harm Lucas, or Max, or anyone of their friends." I growl.

He shoves me out of his way and I hit my head. Mike, Dustin and Max rush to me as Lucas is now pinned by Billy. I growl as I feel myself shifting from anger. Instead of growing into my normal form, I'm a normal sized wolf so I don't destroy anymore of the house. I hop on Billy's back and grab at his neck with my teeth, not hard to draw blood, but hard enough to get my point across. These were MY pups, and I wouldn't let anyone, not even my imprint, harm a single one of them. He throws me off and turns to my fallen form.

"You're dead." He says angrily. I whimper slightly at the glare he sends. Before he can get to me, or harm Lucas, Steve comes in.

"No. You are." He punches Billy and they fight harshly, nearly hitting Dustin and the others a few times, but I protect them.