Always ~ Mileven fanfic

3 words that mean so much!

El brought herself to Max's door and knocked on it.

"GO AWAY LUCAS" Max cried out.

" I - It's El" El mumbled quietly. She felt so extremely bad for Max and she knew this was all of her fault that Billy had died. She wished she could keep everyone safe from the Mind Flayer and she felt like it was her job since she had powers. El turned to walk away from the door figuring that Max would want to be left alone.

"Wait" Max's voice came from the other side of the door. She opened it slowly and El let herself in.

Max's room was a mess! Across the floor were numerous photo albums that El thought must have been Billy's. There were lots of tissues across the floor, blankets just sitting around, food wrappers. It reminded El of the cabin when she had used her powers and ruined it. She thought of Hopper. Their triple decker eggo extravaganza after every meal, the songs he used to play on a big round thing. She loved him so very very much.

El quickly reminded herself that she was here for Max and she let her feelings run free. El had trouble getting around all of the stuff on the floor with her crutches and she tried to dodge as much as she could.

"Max, I am sorry for what happened to billy" El sat on the hospital floor near some of the photo albums. Max quietly sat down next to her.

"El it's not your fault. Billie was a dick and i hate how many people he hurt and I hate that he made people feel like shit... including me. But he was my brother and... I've never had anything closer than him to me before..." her voice trailed off and El hugged Max close to her.

They sat in silence for a few minutes just appreciating each others company. Max slowly pulled away from the hug and picked up one of the photo albums. She searched through the pages until she came across a photo that would have been taken a few years ago. In the middle of the photo was a young Billy and there were five girls hanging off of him.

"This was five years ago on Halloween, that's Billy and some girls from his school and in the corner on the right that's me. My mom and I were arguing because she wouldn't let me get a skate board" Max and El laughed and laughed until Max bowed her head and started to cry. El hugged her tightly.

"It's ok Max, I know it hurts... but it gets easier, better" El told Max. Suddenly there was a knock on the door and Max wipes her tears and got up to sit on the bed. She nodded to El to let them in.

"Max? I know I should have said this along time ago but I love you and I'm going to be here for you every second until you get better" Lucas rambled as he walked into the room. Max ran over to him and wrapped her body around his.

"I love you too stalker"

El laughed and steadied herself with her crutches and she left the room. She made her way back to her own room to go and see Mike. When she got to the room she could see through the window Mike crying with a nurse next to him and his parents crying as well. El walked into the room worried absolutely sick about Mike.

"El!" Cried Mike and El ran over and hugged him tightly. She was so worried about Mike and she had never seen him so worried.

"Jane, we have something to tell you" said the nurse. El looked nervously at the nurse and she held Mikes hand tightly in hers.

"The Mind Flayer found your mom and she - she - she didn't make it sweetie."

No, no, no, no, no! First Hopper and now Mama. El didn't know how much more she could take. Mike sat up in his bed and El started to hyper ventilate. El screamed as hard as she could and ran to the door. She stumbled out and stood in the middle of the hallway. Joyce found her and sprinted to her so she could support her. "Mamas gone" El screamed and fell into Joyce's arms, her crutches fell from underneath her lost all of her balance. El felt so extremely empty and she felt as though she could not take anything more at all. Joyce cried along with El trying to comfort her as much as she could.

The nurses got El back into the room and on her own bed. She had stopped screaming but she was still sobbing quietly to herself. Joyce has gone home with Will, Jonathan and Nancy, Mikes parents had gone home to check on Holly and they stayed the night with her. Everyone else had gone home and they had been discharged. Mike slowly got out of bed. His head still pounding but all was good and his results had come back clear. El cleared a spot for him on her bed and he layed down next to her.

"El?" Mike said stroking the hair out of her face

"Yeah?"

"You are the strongest, most loving and giving person I know! You saved us all and I'm so very thankful to have you in my life and -"

Mike paused and breathed in, he knew the words that were about to come out of his mouth meant to much and that he would always mean this, through life, through deaths, through everything. "I love you."

Thank you so much for reading! This one was definitely a hard one to write as I had so many different ideas. I hope you like my spin on what happens and
you continue to read my stories. I hope that you enjoyed because I love writing this!

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