• The Best Hargrove • Steve Harrington x Reader •

Chapter Twenty-Six

The ride to Eddie's trailer was filled with nothing but tension and silence. Max, Lucas and Erica had been dropped off at the Creel house on the way there, which left you, Steve, Nancy, Dustin, Eddie, and Robin. "Okay, I wanna run through it one more time. Phase one-" you started, before Nancy cut you off, finishing your sentence. "We meet Erica at the playground, she'll signal Max and Lucas when we're ready."

"Phase two?" you continue, waiting for someone's response. "Max baits Vecna, he'll go after her, which'll put him in his trance" Steve finishes, looking down at his feet. "Phase three?" you look at Dustin and Eddie. "Me and Eddie draw the bats away" Dustin adds. "Four?"

"We head into Vecna's hopefully newly bat-free lair and.. flambé.." Robin concludes, to which you nod at everyone's responses. They seemed to understand the plan quite well. "Nobody goes onto the second phase until everyone has copied. Nobody deviates from the plan no matter what. Got it?" you warn, to which everyone agreed. "Got it."

You all trotted across the small section of bushes and trees, before running over to Eddie's trailer and opening the door. "Be careful" Dustin warns. "Will do, buddy" Steve confirms, propping himself up on the rope which still hung from the ceiling. He began to climb it, until he fell through and landed straight on his feet. "What does he want us to do, applaud?" Robin jokes, glancing over at you, to which you chuckled at her ridiculous comment.

Steve dragged the mattress from Eddie's room to under the rope. "Alright, let's go" that was your cue to start climbing the rope. Robin helped you by clasping her hands together like a small step. You peeked your head through the gate, before dropping down onto the mattress. Steve took your hand to help you up. "Gotcha."

After everybody dropped their weapons inside and came in themselves, it was time to put this plan into action. You all stepped outside of the trailer and began walking to the Creel house before Steve stopped and turned around for a second. "Hey guys, listen, if things start to go South, I mean at all, you abort, kay? Draw the attention of the bats, keep em' busy for a minute or two, we'll take care of Vecna" Steve explains. He began to turn back around towards the rest of you, but Eddie stops him before he could go any further. "Hey, Steve?.. Make him pay."

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You all finally make it out of the woods after a long time of walking and being convinced you were lost. The Creel house stood before you, along with the dinky playground in front of it. There was some orange glitter on it, which meant that Erica was there. "Erica.." Steve spoke softly.

"So far, so good" Robin smiled as Erica spoke into the walkie-talkie, saying that you were now moving into phase two. "Yeah, and we're not even at the hard part yet" Steve scoffed, to which you nodded and looked back at him, before stepping forward. "Take the bait you son of a bitch, take the bait.."

After a few minutes, Erica's voice could be heard again. "Okay she's in, initiate phase three!" she ordered. A gut-wrenching feeling grew in your stomach. What if something happened to her? What if your plan didn't work? "She's in, initiate phase three" Robin informed Dustin and Eddie who were at the trailer, preparing to distract the bats. "Copy that, initiating phase three."

Moments later, Eddie's guitar could be heard far out in the distance. "Hell yeah, that's what I'm talking about!" you cheered as you listened to Master of Puppets by Metallica playing in the distance. It was one of your favourite songs, you had always loved bands like Metallica.

"Okay it's working, let's go" Nancy advises, before she ran up to the front door of the Creel house, seeing as the bats were flying away. Moments later, you all did the same. Steve opened the door, revealing the same black vines all over the house. "Oh, shit.. this is not good.."