lost love

chapter 19

-november 12th 1983-

-reader's pov-

"holy.. holy shit!" dustin exclaimed as I helped el off the bike in the junkyard, "did- did you see what she did to that van?!"

"no dustin, we missed it." mike sarcastically spat.

"I- I mean that was-" dustin stuttered before lucas finished for him.

"awesome," lucas smiled, "it was awesome." he then proceeded to kneel down next to el, "everything I said about you being a traitor and stuff.. I was wrong, I'm sorry."

"friends.." el spoke softly as lucas placed a hand on her shoulder, "friends don't lie.. I'm sorry too."

"me too," I added whilst holding out my hand for lucas to shake. he looked down at it for a moment before shaking it.

"me three?" mike tried but it was a little awkward, nevertheless lucas happily shook his hand.

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the whole party was sat around a small map we made of the lab, it was created with sticks and twigs so it wasn't the best map ever, alas we still used it.

"this is randolph road, right here," lucas informed as he marked the particular road, "the fence starts here and goes all the way around.." he then picked up an old coke can and slammed it into the centre of the map, "and this is the lab right here, the gate's gotta be in there somewhere, it's gotta be."

"well, who owns hawkins lab?" dustin quizzed.

"the sign says department of energy." lucas shrugged.

"department of energy? what do you think that means?" asked dustin.

"it means government, military." mike answered for him.

"then why does it say energy?" pondered dustin.

"just trust me, okay? it's military, my dad told me before, right n/n?" mike replied.

"yeah, he's right." I assured the others.

"yeah, it is military. there's soldiers out front," lucas told the group.

"do they make, like, lightbulbs or something?" dustin questioned.

"no!.. weapons to fight the russians and commies and stuff.." mike responded.

"weapons." lucas said in realisation as all eyes fell to el before dustin and mike looked at me with a concerned expression.

"why are you looking at y/n?.." lucas asked, completely baffled.

"she has powers," mike simply informed him.

"WHAT?!" lucas exclaimed, bewildered by this new information.

"she choked troy with her mind, he's alive though so-" dustin began but was interrupted.

"why didn't you ever tell us, n/n?" lucas asked, surprisingly calm.

"I never knew.." I meekly shrugged, "it's a shocker to me too, trust me. I didn't even know telekinesis was possible until el came along."

"so you must be from the lab.." dustin spoke as his mind filled in the
dot-to-dot path of where I come from, "..explaining why you're adopted."

"well why didn't mum and dad tell me then?.." I questioned, aiming at mike to answer.

"maybe they never knew?" mike tried, it was a pretty weak answer but it was the best I could get for now because we were all currently faced with the task of saving hawkins.