Love Is A Battlefield (A Stranger Things/Steve Harrington Fanfiction)

Chapter Fifteen: Very Bad

After about half an hour of us sitting in the station, Joyce and my Dad finally showed up.

"Hey! Jonathan? Geez, what...what happened?" Dad stopped beside me, eyeing the bag of ice I was holding to my hand.

"What did you do?" He asked.

"I punched Steve Harrington."

"Ma'am..." Callaghan started.

"I'm fine."

"Why is he wearing handcuffs?" Joyce questioned.

"Well your boy assaulted a police officer, that's why."

"Take them off."

"I am afraid I cannot do that."

"TAKE THEM OFF!'

"You heard her, take 'em off." Dad agreed.

"Chief, I get everyone's emotional here, but there's something you need to see." Powell interrupted.

Dad followed Powell and Callaghan outside and they came back with the box from the surplus store. I pinched the bridge of my nose as Joyce started going through it.

"What is all this?" She asked.

"Why don't you ask your son? We found it in his car."

"What?"

"Why are you going through my car?" Jonathan demanded.

"Is that really the question you should be asking right now?"

"Dad," I put a hand on his arm, causing him to look at me, I gave him a knowing look.

"I wanna see you in my office."

"You won't believe me." Jonathan insisted.

"Why don't you give me a try?"

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Dad dragged Nancy, Jonathan, Joyce and I into his office and we told him everything, with the picture and the monster, Nancy's theory and our experiment.

"You're saying blood draws this thing?" He asked, the Demogorgan picture in his hand.

"We don't know."

"Its just a theory." Nancy said.

"We need to talk." Joyce grabbed Jonathan's arm, pulling him out into the hallway. I sighed, scratching my head.

"Look Dad...this thing is more complicated than just the monster." I said. He nodded.

"I know. Joyce and I have been looking into Terry Ives and Hawkins Lab." He said. I raised my eyebrows.

"Did you talk to her?" He nodded.

"Her daughter, Jane has been missing for twelve years," He said, "Benny, the guy that owns the burger joint across town? He supposedly committed suicide a few days ago, but before he died, one of the local guys told me that Benny was seen with a kid with a shaved head, and I thought that was Will. This whole time I thought I was chasing Will, when I realized that I was following the clues of this other kid, that I think escaped from Hawkins Lab." I nodded.

"Yeah, um...yeah, she did. That also explains why the lab was lying about the security footage when they showed it to us." He furrowed his eyebrows.

"Wait, why are you bringing this up now?" I bit my lip.

"Well-"

"I want an apology!" My words were cut off by shouting coming from the bullpen.

"An apology for what exactly?" I heard Callaghan ask. Dad opened the door, walking out into the hallway.