(y/n) - your name

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(y/n) sighs as she sat on a chair with the rifle in her hands, just sitting in silence with the three musketeers and the rest of the kids that were waiting for Hoppers next order after everyone helped to clean up the Byers shed. They were using it as a non-disclosed area, boarding up every inch of wall, floor and ceiling with scraps of paper or cardboard to confuse the Mind Flayer in Will so he doesn't know where he is.

Nancy walked over to (y/n) and leaned against a wall in front of her. "So you got sucked into this to huh?" She smiles at her softly.

"It seems like it yeah..." (y/n) mumbles out. "Hey... I'm sorry... about Barbara..." Nancy frowns.

"Thanks... I just... I wish I was there to stop it all. If I had known what was happening, I could've prevented it-"

"-hey... it's not your fault Nancy. Yes you didn't know back then but now you do and now you avenged your friend." Nancy nods, explaining to (y/n) what she and Jonathan did.

"And now, the news will be out and Barb's parents will finally have closure."

"The important thing is... did you get closure?"

"I... I guess in a way... I did. Those bastards are going to get what's coming to them."

"Atta girl." (y/n) cheers, hi-fiving Nancy. The girls sit in silence for a bit, Nancy looking over at Steve who was urging her to ask the question he begged her to ask (y/n) while they were in the shed together.

"(y/n)."

"Yeah?"

"Is there anyone you like?" (y/n) raises a brow at Nancy's question.

"That was random..."

"Yeah..." Nancy chuckles nervously and (y/n) shakes her head. "Really? No one?"

"I-" (y/n) stops, her mind going to Billy and her eyes widen. It had been almost 24 hours since she last saw him and she promised she would come back to him! He must be worried! "I need to call someone!"

"We can't call anyone! The mind Flayer might track it!" Dustin hisses out.

"But-" Dustin shakes his head and (y/n) purses her lips, looking at Max who was talking to Lucas. Everyone stops when the lights in the house suddenly start to flicker, walking over to the window to stare at the shed where the Byers, Mike and Hopper were in. "What's happening-?" the door suddenly slams open and Hopper, Mike and the Byers walk into the house. 

"He's talking, just not in words." Hopper says, sitting at the table with a pen and paper.

"What is that?"

"Morse code." everyone replies back to Steve.

"H.E.R.E."

"Will's still in there. He's talking to us." Hopper nods. Everyone rushed around to get things to talk to Will to distract the Mind Flayer in him. (y/n), Lucas, Max and Dustin stayed in the house to translate the morse code Hopper was receiving from Will through the walkie talkie as (y/n) noted down the letters.

"Guys!" (y/n) calls everyone over.

"Close gate." everyone says.

"As in the gate in the lab?" (y/n) whispers and everyone jumps when the phone rings. "Shit!" (y/n) jumps up and tears the phone off the wall without thinking, looking back at the others in fear.

"Do you think he heard that?" Max asks.

"I don't know but get ready." (y/n) picks up her rifle, hearing loud screeching from the distance.

"That's not good..." Dustin mutters out. Hopper and Joyce brought in the unconscious Will and Mike ran to his friends who looked out the window as (y/n) and the three musketeers suited up with weapons.

"Get away from the window! Now!" (y/n) hisses out and the kids look back at her. "I am not asking you again!" the kids drop down on the couch, not wanting to cross a furious (y/n) as she passes Hopper a gun and he thanks her. "Get back." (y/n) growls to the kids, them hiding behind the adults as Hopper, Nancy, Joyce and her held their rifles and Steve and Jonathan held their own weapons. 

Everyone was at a standstill, fear taking hold of their hearts. (y/n) tried to keep her breathing steady as she heard the chittering and snarling of whatever the fuck was outside the house. Her blood was pumping loudly in her ear, looking down at Max who held her axe.

"Everything will be ok..." She whispers to her and Max nods, stepping closer to (y/n). Everyone screams when one of the demo-dogs flies through the window but it whines in pain before dying on the floor. "What the fuck...? Who-" everyone quickly turns around to hear a creak, staring at the front door. "Who else knows we're here!?" (y/n) whispers out and no one answers in fear, too focused on whoever or whatever was going to come through the door. Everyone holds their breath as the chain on the door slides off, the knob turning and the door opening to reveal a girl?

Who's this?

(y/n) watches as everyone lowers their weapons, eyes wide with either shock or pure happiness. Mike walks forward, looking like he was going to cry and (y/n) realises that this must be Eleven, Mike's girlfriend-courtesy of Dustin telling her that. The two kids have a heartwarming connection and (y/n) moves to lock the front door again, sticking up cardboard to cover up the hole in the window.

(y/n) stays in the background, realising that she never belonged to any of this as the group reunite with someone they lost. Hopper hugging his daughter and the kids being ecstatic that they got their friend back. She simply watched as Hopper pulls Mike into a separate room after he was yelling at him about being a liar. 

She didn't belong here.

She didn't belong anywhere.

Eleven looked over at the new girl she didn't recognise after hugging everyone, seeing her sit on top of the couch back and looking out the window. "Hello." She whispers and (y/n) looks at her in surprise, blinking at the all powerful girl.

"Oh hi. I'm (y/n). Nice to meet you Eleven." She smiles at her. "Wait." (y/n) reaches into her pocket and takes out a packet of tissues, handing it to Eleven. "For your nose." Eleven takes it gently, smiling at (y/n) softly.

"Thank you."

"No problem kid."

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"It's not like it was before. It's grown. And, I mean,that's considering we can get in there. The place is crawling with those dogs." Hopper says as everyone gathered around the kitchen table.

"Dustin, don't even." (y/n) hisses lowly and he quickly shuts up. "I locked up the gate before we left so most of them are trapped in the labs, unfortunately. Sorry about that."

"No that's good. They didn't run out into the town." Hopper nods at (y/n). "But it does make it harder for us."

"I can do it." Eleven says and Hopper disagrees.

"You're not hearing me."

"I'm hearing you. I can do it." She quickly replies.

"Even if El can,there's still another problem." Mike points out.

"If we cut off the connection of the brain when we close the gate, the bodies and hosts die including Will..." (y/n) sighs out and Joyce looks horrified until she suddenly gets up and walks off. Everyone follows her to Will's room.

"He likes it cold..."

"What?"

"It's what Will kept saying to me. He likes it cold. We keep giving it what it wants!" Joyce exclaims as she shuts the window bringing in cold air.

"If this is a virus,and Will's the host, then-"

"-we need to make the host uninhabitable." Nancy and (y/n) nod at each other.

"We need to burn it out of him." Joyce hisses out, ready to save her boy.

"We have to do it somewherehe doesn't know this time."

"Yeah, somewhere far away." Dustin and Mike say and Hopper knows what to do next.

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"Is this necessary?" Steve sighs out as Dustin empties out the fridge to keep the dead body of the demo-dog in. Steve and (y/n) promised Hopper and Eleven-who went to close the gate-and Nancy and Jonathan-who went to help get the shadow monster out of Will- to look after the rest of the kids in the house.

"Steve, put it down please." he listens to (y/n), setting the creature down and she goes to grab the axe, ignoring Dustin yelling at her as she swings down and decapitated it.

"WHY!?"

"To make sure this shit doesn't come back from the dead. Now either help me bury it or go help teh others clean up the place." Dustin huffs and walks away, Steve blinking at (y/n). He had never seen this ruthless side of her before as he picks up the dead creature and she grabs the shovel.

"You're pretty harsh on the kids."

"Yeah well this is not an ideal situation and I'm not taking any chances to lose someone. Not with Mike's moping or Dustin being a dumbass." (y/n) snaps as she digs a hole in the ground. "I'm sorry." Steve shakes his head.

"No I get, people turn into fight or flight mode when they're in danger. You're just on hardcore fight mode." he chuckles and (y/n) smiles, easing with his laughter.

"Yeah... I never thought I would be a part of something like this... It's not..."

"Normal?"

"Yeah... Hawkins truly had shady things hiding beneath its monotonous days." Steve grins seeing (y/n) being more comfortable with him, throwing the demon dog in the hole and helping her cover it back up. "I think that should be it. Let's go back inside and make sure the kids aren't messing things up."