Ahoy, Dingus - Steve Harrington x Reader

Season 2 ~ She's Back

"Eleven." Mike breathes out, making his way over to the girl.

"Mike." She gasps as he pulls her into a tight embrace, not wanting to let her go.

"Is that..." Max whispers from next to Lucas, nodding in response.

"I never gave up on you." Mike said, gripping El's shoulders. "I called you every night. Every night for—"

"353 days." El concludes. "I heard."

"Why didn't you tell me you were there? That you were okay?"

"Because I wouldn't let her." Hopper pipes up from behind the couple. "The hell is this? Where have you been."

"Where have you been?" El retorts as Hopper pulls her into an embrace, kissing her forehead.

"You've been hiding her." Mike says, shoving Hopper. "You've been hiding her this whole time!"

"Hey," Hopper says, clutching Mikes shirt collar. "Let's talk. Alone."

Mike and Hopper walk into the room that Steve and I had previously been in. El walks over to me and taps my shoulder.

"(Y/n)?" She asks.

"Hey." I softly smile, bringing her into a hug, stroking her cheeks. "You look good, kid."

I smile as we walk over to my brother and Lucas, El pulling them into a group hug.

"We missed you." Lucas says.

"I missed you, too."

"We talked about you pretty much every day." Dustin says as they pull away. El then curiously stuck her fingers into my brothers mouth as I let out a small laugh.

"Teeth." She simply says. "You have teeth."

"Oh. You like these pearls?" Dustin nods as he purrs, making Eleven jump back slightly.

"Eleven?" Max says as she walks over to our little circle. ""Hey. Um, I'm Max. I've heard a lot about you."

Max stuck out her hand for El to shake as she simply ignored it, bumping Max against her shoulder and walking over to Joyce who pulled her into an embrace.

Joyce and El walked out of the room as I see Steve walk over to me and drape an arm around my shoulder, kissing my forehead. El and Joyce walk out of Will's room, wiggling out of Steve's grip I rush over to them.

"You opened this gate before, right?" Joyce asks as I make my way to the other side of El.

"Yes."

"Do you think if we got you back there," I whisper. "that you could close it?"

El looks in between the two of us, slowly nodding her head.

Making our way around the tiny kitchen table,  We formulate a plan for El to close the gate.

"It's not like it was before." Hopper sighs, his arms crossed over his chest. "It's grown. A lot. And, I mean, thats considering we can get in there. That place is crawling with those dogs."

"Demo-dogs." Dustin pipes up, making us all look at him.

"I'm sorry," Hopper sighs, confused. "what?"

"I said, uh, Demo-dogs. like Demogorgon and dogs. You put them together, it sounds pretty badass—"

"Dustin," I say, rolling my eyes. "This is not important right now."

"It's not. I'm sorry."

"I can do it." El says from beside me.

"You're not hearing me." Hopper told her, rolling his eyes.