A/N Sorry I haven't posted in a while. I've been rlly busy and crap. Also, this is just the beginning of the finale. I just split it up so I can at least give yall something while I make the next chapter {idk if anyone cares but yeah} 

I gripped the wheel of Billy's Camero as I sped down the dark road. My knuckles were turning white from how hard my hands were clutching the wheel. The car was strangely silent after Lucas had given me directions.

The silence was broken by Steve slurring Nancy's name in the car. Steve groaned and reached for hi head. "No, don't touch it," Dustin whispered. "Hey buddy, shhhhhh. It's okay! You put up a good fight, he kicked your ass, but you put up a good fight, buddy, it's okay, you're okay."

"Okay," Lucas searched the small map for directions in the passenger seat. "You're gonna keep straight for half a mile, and thennn, you're gonna take a left on Mount Sinai."

I nodded my head in confirmation. "What's going on?" Steve mumbled from the back.

I turned my head to see Steve stretched out with his head in Dustin's lap. God, I wish that was my lap he was in so I could comfort him. "Oh my God," Steve's voice got louder.

"Steve, relax," Dustin reassured him. "She's driven before."

"Yeah," Mike spoke up. "But not 200 miles-per-hour!"

"Hey," Lucas retorted. "She's better than any of y'all doing it."

"Ooooh, oooh my God!" Steve hollered.

"Steve, they were gonna leave you behind, but I promised you'd be cool," Dustin admitted. "Okay?"

Steve continued to shout. "What's going on?!? Woaahh stop the car, SLOWN DOWN!" Steve yelled. "STOP THE CAR!"

"I told you he'd freak out!" Mike yelled at Dustin.

"EVERYBODY SHUT UP!" Me and max yelled in unison

"I'm trying to focus!" I screamed over everyone.

"That's Mount Sinai! Make a left!" Lucas pointed at the road in front of us.

"What?" Max questioned.

"MAKE A LEFT!" Lucas's voice cracked.

I turned the wheel as quick as I could all the way around. Everyone in the car shouted and I heard a shrill cry from Lucas as the car abruptly turned and I sped in the direction of the new road.

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The car pulled to an abrupt stop at the pumpkin patch. "Hellooooo," Steve hollered.

"Whoaaaa," Dustin said in amazement.

"Incredible," Mile announced.

"She could be your zoomer," Max stared at me with wide eyes.

I blushed tenderly at the compliments. "Okay, okay. Enough with the googly eyes," I said, motioning to Dustin who was gawking at me. "We have to get down to this 'hub' thing that Wheeler is talking about."

"No," I heard a gruff voice say.

"Excuse me?" I retorted at Steve.

"I told you that you're not getting a scratch so you're not going down," he explained. "I keep my promises, Byers."

"Didn't you just get absolutely obliterated by Billy?" Dustin asked.

I snorted out a laugh. "Shut up," Steve snapped.

"I'm going down, whether you like it or not, Harrington," I smiled while putting on my bandana.

Dustin had told me about the air situation they had discovered with Will when Will got back, so that was the origin of the bandana and goggles situation. I slapped on the goggles. I felt like I was going to a swim practice.

I trudged towards the opening to the 'hub' in the middle of the rotting pumpkin patch. Lucas and Max were close behind me with Dustin helping Steve up. When I saw Steve struggling to walk I genuinely wanted to make sure he got better instead of making his state of being worse. "Steve," he looked up at me in his little bandana. "Please wait in the car. You're not well enough-"

"Look, Ads," he began. "I care about you enough to risk my own well-being to protect you because there's something special about you to me. I can't explain it but you... I have a feeling you were brought to Hawkins for something big. Something that needs you. So, please, let me help you."

I was shocked at his words. "I-"

"Okay, mom and dad, stop flirting. We have work to do," Dustin yanked on our shirts to get us moving. "You'll have time for that later."