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"Eleven" Mike moves to her and Eleven moves to Mike
"Mike" Eleven embraces Mike into a hug, wrapping there arms tightly around each other, crying
"Is that -" Max asks Lucas. Lucas nodes his head and they look back at Mike and El
"I never gave up on you" Mike pulls away and looks at El "I called you every night. Every night for -"
"365 days. I heard"
"Why didn't you tell me you were there? That you were okay?" Mike questions Eleven
"Because I wouldn't let her" Hopper says from next to me. Everyone looks at him with there eyebrows knitted together. Hopper moves forward, past Mike. "The hell is this? Where you been?"
"Where have you been?" Eleven asks angrily
"You've been hiding her? You've been hiding her this whole time!" Mike shoves Hopper
"Hey!" Hopper grabs the collar of Mikes shirt and Nancy and I take a couple of steps forward
"Let's talk. Alone" Mike and Hopper go into another room. Once we hear to door shut we all shift our eyes to Eleven. I step forward and wrap my arms around her small frame.
"We're just happy to know your safe" I say softly to her into her slicked back hair
"We missed you" Lucas says to her as El holds Lucas and Dustin
"I missed you, too"
"We talked about you pretty much every day"
They pull away from each other and look Eleven looks at Dustin and shoves her thumb over his front teeth.
"Teeth"
"What?"
"You have teeth"
"Oh. You like these pearls?" Dustin then purrs making Eleven jump sightly and me look at him with a questionable look on my face
"Eleven?" Max then comes forward with a small and soft smile "Hey, um, I'm Max" She holds her hand out for Eleven to shake it "I've heard a lot about you"
Eleven looks at Max and walks straight past her through to Joyce and gives her a hug. I walk over to Max who looks a little hurt and I place my hand on the back of her neck.
"Just give her a bit of time" Max looks up at me and gives me a small smile
"Hey"
"Hey, sweetheart"
"Can I see him?"
Eleven and Joyce then disappear into Wills room, leaving the rest of us.
()()()()()()()()()()()()()()
"You opened this gate before, right?"
"Yes"
Dustin, Lucas, Max, Nancy, Steve, Jonathan and I make our way over to the kitchen where Joyce and Eleven are talking about the Gate.
