"That's the beauty of Hawkins... we're always in mortal danger."
[Seasons 1-4 ✔️]
Highest rankings:
~ #1 under Joe Keery
~ #1 under Henderson
~ #1 under steveharrington
~ #1 under dustinhenderson
~ #1 under robinbuckley
~ #2 under maxmayfield
~ #1 u...
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El and Max walked out of the mall, ice-creams in hand. They'd finally become friends, after some bonding time together as they shopped, and they'd had a good time in the mall- hanging out with each other and Catherine. "You wanna trade?" Max asked, the two swapping ice-creams. "Oh, you've got to be shitting me." Max's face fell as she turned to face the familiar voice. The girls turned around to be faced with the boys. "Isn't this a nice surprise." She said, heavy sarcasm lacing her voice as she and El walked up to the boys.
Mike dropped his bike and lifted a finger to point at El. "What are you doing here?"
"Shopping." El told him, keeping her answer short.
"This is her new style." Max said. "What do you think?"
"What's wrong with you? You know she's not allowed to be here."
"What is she, your little pet?"
"Yeah. Am I your pet?" El asked.
"What? No!"
"Then why do you treat me like garbage?"
"What?"
"You said Nana was sick."
"She is." Mike lied. "She is. She is sick." He gestured for Lucas to back him up.
"Yeah, sick- she's sick. She's super sick." Lucas said. "That's why we're here, actually."
"Yeah, we're shopping." Mike added. "Not for us, but for her, for Nana."
"For Nana." Lucas reiterated.
"Also, we're here to get a gift for you." Mike added, gesturing to El. "Just, we couldn't find anything that suited you and I only have, like, $3.50, so it's hard."
"Super hard." Lucas said. "It's- It's expensive."
"You lie." El said to Mike, her features sad. "Why do you lie?" She and Max looked behind them as the bus pulled up, before turning their attention back to the boys. El took a few steps closer so she was almost in Mike's face. "I dump your ass." Max's mouth opened in shook before she followed El onto the bus. They laughed as they took their seats and sharing a high-five.
"Now can we play D&D?" Will asked.
"No."
***
Hours had passed and the mall was now empty. The shops had all been locked up for the night, except one. Steve, Dustin, Robin and Catherine were still in the backroom of 'Scoops Ahoy', the latter having been caught up on everything to do with the Russian communication she had heard the evening before.
"'The week is long, the silver cat feeds, when blue meets yellow in the west.'" They read off the whiteboard, having finally translated most of it.
