(y/n) - your name

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The road was long and dark, trees zooming past as Steve drove to god knows where with Dustin sitting in the back and (y/n) contemplating her life right now in the front passenger seat. "You both are smoking weed right?"

"Jesus fucking christ (y/n)..." Steve sighs out.

"What do you Jesus fucking christ!? Please tell me you both are just high! That all this Upside Down-demon dog bullshit isn't actually real!" (y/n) begs, looking at the two boys who looked solemn and serious. "Holy fucking shit... you're not joking... oh my fucking god... this is what I get for coming to America. No... I had to leave Australia and come to the one place where every problem imaginable exists..." (y/n) mumbles out, running her fingers through her hair as she goes over everything Dustin and Steve told her.

And I mean everything.

From the beginning to end to now with Dustin keeping a polywog that now is growing into a demo-dog.

"So Nancy knew as well... that these creatures actually killed Barbara..." the boy's nod and (y/n) breathes out shakily. "No wonder Nancy was so broken about it..." Steve flinches at the indirect comment. "Ok, so the bat with nails is a weapon."

"Yes-"

"-that's a shit weapon. One of yous gotta have a gun or a hunter's rifle at least!?" (y/n) cuts Dustin off who blinks at her in surprise.

"You know what, she has a point." Dustin says.

"No, she doesn't have a point! She's not getting involved in this." Steve hisses out, stressed and tensed as he gripped his steering wheel.

"Steve it's too late, I know everything now-"

"-I don't want you getting involved!" he yells out and (y/n) purses her lips. "I'm sorry... I-I just don't want anything to happen to you ok."

"Like with Eleven and Barbara...?"

"Yes..." Steve frowns. "I don't want you getting hurt so no... I need you to stay out of this." (y/n) sighs out and sits back in her seat, letting the boys argue about how big this demo-dog is now. "How do you know it's not just a lizard-"

"-because his face opened up and he ate my cat!"

"Jesus fucking christ..." (y/n) grumbles out, pinching the bridge of her nose in frustration. Steve finally arrives at what seemed to be Dustin's place, the boys getting out of the car. There was no way in hell (y/n) was getting out to face a demon. Hell no, she was safe in the car!

She watches through the window as Steve hits the wine cellar door with his bat, shining the flashlight in Dustin's face until the kid runs off to get the key to unlock the chains keeping the doors locked.

Oh, this is not good...

(y/n) panicked as Steve unlocks the door, going down to the wine cellar while Dustin stayed near the entrance. "Shit... what's taking him so long!?" (y/n) mumbles out, worried about how long Steve had been down in the cellar for until she rolls down the window a bit to yell out. "Dustin! What's going on!?" the kid turns around and shrugs at her, turning back around but jumping in fright.

"It's just Steve!" Dustin yells out and he starts walking down into the cellar even though (y/n) begs him not to.

"For fucks sake!" She grumbles out, looking around the darkness and she didn't feel safe in the car anymore. It was like the horror movies, she didn't know if it was safer in the car or safer to find her friends. And she really didn't want to be alone. "Fuck..." (y/n) takes in a deep breath and jumps out of the car, bolting towards the cellar and down the steps as fast as she could.

"(y/n)!" Steve quickly catches her when she bumps into him, holding her tight as she hugs him.

"Thank fuck you two are ok..." she breathes out, turning around to see Dustin squatting in front of something slimy. She peeks over the kid's shoulder and scrunches her nose in disgust. "Did you have a big ass lizard or something? Why is the shedding so big?"

"It's not the lizard..." Dustin says.

"Shit..." (y/n) and Steve mutter out, realising it was the demo-dog.

"It got bigger if it's shedding its skin..." (y/n) says, pointing at the tunnel dug out through the dirt. "It got way bigger..."

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"Now what?" (y/n) mumbles out as Steve drove her and Dustin again, keeping an eye out for the creature.

"Now nothing. I'm taking you home." Steve says and (y/n) narrows her eyes at him. As much as she didn't like it, she was a part of this, whatever THIS is.

"You are not taking me anywhere if it isn't a gunshop."

"You are not being involved-"

"-too late for that don't you think!? I was a part of this the moment the kid explained everything to me!" (y/n) points to Dustin.

"Hey! I'm not the only one! Steve was explaining it all to you too!"

"(y/n) no-"

"-look my friends are involved and I'm going to help with whatever I can ok. I'm not letting you fight this alone!"

"I can't let you do this (y/n)!" Steve yells out, absolutely worried.

"No one should be doing this! Especially not a bunch of kids! Facing demons, we're not qualified for that but here we are! I want to help Steve, help you, Nancy, Jonathan and the kids. I know you need more hands on this." Steve groans out, running his fingers through his hair in frustration.

"I can't let you get hurt..."

"And I can't let you get hurt either. I can't let anyone get hurt..."

"We need help Steve... for once I'm agreeing with letting someone join us." Dustin says and Steve just nods hesitantly.

"Ok, ok."

"Good, whats the plan?" (y/n) asks and the boys shrug. "You've got to be shitting me here... You both don't have a plan!?"

"I mean, we can lure it out with some meet?" Dustin suggests.

"And how do you think you're gonna take it down?" (y/n) muses, her arms crossed while the boys stay silent. "That's what I thought. Dustin, you go to the butchers and get buckets of meat. Steve I need you to get heavy-duty guns. Probably hunter's rifles or rifles that can take down large wildlife." The boys look at each other, blinking with uncertainty as (y/n) passes the kid some money.

"Guns?"

"Yes, guns. If that thing grows again, we need something better than a bat with nails. That reminds me, we need bear traps as well, just in case. And bullets, tons of them if I'm guessing none of us has fired a gun so our aim will be shit."

"Well... guess we got some shopping to do..." Steve mumbles out.

"Take me home first. I need to sort some things out before joining you guys." the boys nod and Steve drives (y/n) back home first, her getting out of the car once they got there. "I'll meet you back at your place in an hour Steve." he nods hesitantly before driving off. (y/n) turns around to walk into her house when she suddenly hears yelling and things breaking, flinching from the harsh words that were being screamed out from the house across from her.

Billy!

(y/n) gasps as she sees Neil shove him against a wall, gripping his collar tightly through an open window. "Shit!" she panics, trying to think of a way to stop this and she rushes into her house, grabbing her chemistry textbook and rushing out to pound on Billy's door. She kept pounding on the door until it opened, her heart racing loudly in her ears as she came face to face with the man that hurt Billy in every way possible.

"Yes?" he speaks, raising a brow at (y/n) as she shook on her feet from fear.

"Is Billy home? I missed class today and I need to ask him which modules from our chem textbook I need to study for." she lied straight through her teeth, trying to pass a sickenly sweet smile and Neil steps back to let Billy step out of the house. He closes the door behind him and (y/n) lets out a breath of relief that she was holding in.

"Not here." Billy hisses out, grabbing her wrist and pulling her across the street and into her home. (y/n) locks the door behind her and quickly rushes over to Billy, inspecting for any wounds on him.

"Are you ok? Did he hurt you?" Billy sighs out, hearing the genuine worry in her voice but he couldn't help but feel like she was pitying him.

"I'm fine." he seethes out, anger boiling in his body from burying everything he wanted to say and do to Neil.

"Billy..." (y/n) whispers as she holds his face gently, leaning down to have him look at her instead of at the ground. "I just need to know you're ok..." she sighs out, pulling him into a hug, holding him tightly. Billy melts in (y/n)'s arms, the anger dissipating and he wraps his arms around her. "He can't h-hurt you like this... He can't d-do this..." Billy quickly leans back to see (y/n) tear up, her lips quivering. "Shit..." she looks away in embarrassment to wipe away her tears and he looks at her in shock.

She was crying... for him...