Stranger Things - Steve Harrington X Reader

Chapter 8: The Battle Of Starcourt

Eleven continues to scream and sob in pain as the thing continues to move inside her leg.

"What is that?" Erica asks in disgust.

"There's something in there." Mike states the obvious

"Jesus Christ." Dustin exclaims in disgust.

"Keep her talking. Keep her awake, okay?" Jonathan orders as he gets up and runs to one of the food shops. We do as he says.

We move her to where her head rests on Mike's lap and her leg is clear from anything else. Soon enough, Jonathan comes running back to us, knife in hand.

"Okay. Alright, El? This is gonna hurt like hell, okay?" Jonathan says as he crouches next to her leg.

"Okay." Eleven sobs.

"I need you to stay real still." He puts on a pair of gloves. "Here, you're gonna want to bite down on this, okay?" He hands a wooden spoon to Mike and Eleven bites down on it.

Dustin mumbles profanities as Jonathan nears the knife to Eleven's leg. He looks around, unsure.

"Do it." Mike encourages.

"Okay." Jonathan whispers before cutting into her wound as Eleven screams in pain.

He puts the knife down and uses his gloves fingers to reach in and attempt to pull the thing out. Eleven screams in agony as she sobs. Jonathan can't get a hold on the thing and Nancy calls his name, quickly being shushed by him. He continues to dig in, panicking and frustrated.

"No! Stop it!" Eleven spits the wooden spoon out of her mouth. "Stop!" Jonathan stops and pulls his fingers out of her wound. "I can do it." She cries as she sits up. "I can do it."

She uses her powers to grab a hold of the thing from inside her leg. She cries in pain, but continues anyway. Slowly but surly, it makes it way painfully to the opening of the wound. As it gets stuck on the opening, Eleven screams as she struggles to get it out. Her screams cause the glass behind us to shatter into pieces. She gets it out, screaming in anger now, and she throws it across the mall.

As the thing squirms away, it gets stomped on by none other than Jim Hopper with Mom and some other bum behind him.

...

We start sharing what we know and what we've been through.

"The Mind Flayer, it built this monster in Hawkins, to stop El, to kill her and pave a way into our world." Mike explains as we sit at the fountain in the middle of the mall.

"And it almost did. That was just one tiny piece of it." Nancy jumps in.

"How big is this thing?" Hopper asks.

"It's big." Jonathan answers as I sit next to Mom and smile at her. She smiles back before we turn our attention back to the group. "Thirty feet at least."

"Yeah." Lucas voices. "It sorta destroyed your cabin." Hopper sighs. "Sorry."

"Okay, so, just to be clear, this... big fleshy spider thing that hurt El," Steve gestures to El who is being held by Hopper, her adoptive father, "it's some kind of gigantic... weapon?"

"Yes." Nancy says.

"But instead of, like, screws and metal, the Mind Flayer made it's weapon... with melted people."

"Yes, exactly."

"Yeah, okay. I- yeah, I'm just making sure." Steve nods in understanding.

"Are we sure this thing is still out there, still alive?" Mom asks.