Demons + Demogorgons

Chapter two - a bond

Eleven looked at her wrist, then back to the stranger. "El." She nodded, putting her arms down. "Who are you?" She asked.

"Well I'm Sal, and this dumbass is Larry." Sal snickered. Larry sighed and shook his head with a soft chuckle. "It's nice to meet you." Sal smiled. She couldn't see his smile, of course, but he saw his blue orbs for eyes scrunch up, and his posture perk ever so slightly. "Nice to meet you too." She smiled softly.

"So... where are we?" Eleven asked, tipping her head slightly, her shoulder length chocolate brown hair following suit, waving slightly after the movement.

"Nockfell." Sal explained, "Where are you from?" Larry asked as a follow up.

"Hawkins." She replied, "but I have a feeling that I'm very far from home now..." she whispered, mostly to herself, but the boys could hear her.

"Well, I'm assuming so, I have no clue where that is." Sal replied. Larry nodded to say he hadn't either.

"So.. how do I get home?" She asked, her head tilting more. The long haired boys took a minute to think about this question.

"Okay, so, I honestly don't know." Sal replied, "but you could just stay with one of us until we figure it out?" He offered.

Larry looked at Sal with wide eyes as if to say 'What the fuck dude we don't even know this girl and you're just letting her live with you, and letting ME be an option to her?!'

"Don't even Larry." Sal hissed with narrowed eyes. Larry sighed and let it go.

"But- Max- Mike- Hopper! Hop will be so worried!" She gasped. "Who's that?" Larry asked.

She explained that Jim Hopper was her adoptive father, Max was her best friend, and Mike was her boyfriend.

"Oh, well, you have a phone, yeah?" Sal asked.

El nodded "Of course I do." She replied. "You could text them?" Sal offered.

"If Hop found out I was with two teenage boys, he would kill you two and then me." She sighed. "say I'm a girl! I look like a girl, it couldn't hurt to try!" Sal suggested.

"If he found out I LIED, I'd be in big trouble." She explained. "Oh-" the boys said at once.

"Okay well we can take care of it later. For now, let's get you to my apartment and get everything else sorted." Sal replied, "Wait, Larry, could we go to your place? My dad is probably blacked out on the couch again." He asked. Larry nodded, "Mom isn't home so we're fine to do that."

They brought El down to the basement, bringing her to Larry's apartment and into his bedroom. "Sit anywhere, dude." The tall brunette invited, sitting on his bed. Eleven nodded and sat on one of the beanbags. Sal sat on the beanbag across from Eleven.

"So, explain all of this to us. How did you get here?" Larry asked. "So.. my friend Max and I were in a tree hanging out, I told her I had to grab my phone from the trees base, and so I did. I grabbed my phone and saw that the roots of the tree were glowing purple and then things started to shift and started spinning and then it was all purple, then I appeared on that nasty bathroom floor." She explained, "honestly, it's not even the strangest thing that's ever happened to me."

"I assure you, you do not know weird like we do." Larry chuckled. "Trust me, yes I do." El snickered. "How so?" He asked, almost challengingly.

She stood "are you sure?" She questioned.

Sal was intrigued now. So was Larry. What could this girl POSSIBLY know compared to them? After all the cultist demon bullshit?

What did a normal girl know?

She put both her hands out and hesitated, could she lift them both.

She'd been able to close a massive portal to the upside down and flip a shit ton of trucks, and also take down demogorgons and giant monsters and buff life guards.

She could do this easily.

She tightened her finger muscles and lifted both of them as her nose started to bleed and both boys were screaming.

"WOAH-"
"WHAT THE HELL??"
"HOW ARE YOU DOING THIS??"
"WHAT ARE YOU DOING??"

She put them back down and wiped her the blood trickling from her nose. "I think I know weird." She said blankly, sitting back down.

"Any. Questions?"

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AH ITS SO SHORT WTF-
Hi.
This was way shorter than I anticipated but I'm doing late night finishing again so honestly I didn't expect much else.

I'll try harder next time! Sorry folks!

~Brandy

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