♡ Steve Harrington x Byers!fem!reader
♡ after all the stuff happening in Hawkins, protecting your family, Vecna slowly changes his game plan to come after you, their protector. Due to you being the target, you and Steve’s secret relationship also slowly comes into light which causes a lot of stress and miscommunication between everyone.
♡ use of y/n, reader is Byer’s daughter, shy but feisty reader, swearing, fighting, abuse, arguing, fluff, smut (at some point 😙), near death, hella injury, and probably other things I have yet to add <3
♡ a/n: yalllll this is part 3, this is slowly becoming a slower burn, slow timeline through the episodes. I think I’m gonna start adding songs to each part that I feel like fit the chapter yk! Also the finale was rough?? But my brain is cooking. Ily you all fr 🫶🏻
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 |
Your chest hurts. It feels heavy.
You shoot awake, surrounded by the familiar faces of your two brothers. The sharp inhale of oxygen hits your lungs, relieving your choked feeling.
“I thought he got you y/n,” Jonathan starts. His hands are rested tightly on your shoulders and his face hovers above yours. Will stands on your other side, inches away from Jonathan, their eyes glued to your face.
“What?” You ask with a raspy morning voice. It feels like you just woke up for the first time in years, but it was only a few hours.
“Your breathing was slowing.” Will adds.
“I think it was sleep paralysis again” you assure. Fear kinda melting over your skin. “It’s been quiet other than your thing at the woods Will.”
“Still, we’re also going to be late. Get dressed we’ll wait in the car.” Jonathan says rubbing his thumbs over your shoulders over the tshirt. The boys leave out of your room closing your door for your privacy.
Your window was still open, even if Jonathan had a fit about it last night. You kinda felt bad for snapping at him, you were more worried as there was one of his enemies hiding in your closet. His enemy. Fuck. Steve.
You don’t remember him leaving, you didn’t wake up during the night to see him leave. Did anyone see? Is he okay?
All the questions rushing to your head scrambling what you were just about to do, then it’s like something was listening. A small paper hidden in the pair of socks you left out for this morning.
Hey sweetheart, I slipped out while you were fast asleep. I didn’t want to get into another fight ;) see you at school baby ~ Steve P.S. yes I did get you a kiss before I left <3
This surely wasn’t the first time Steve had snuck in, but he’d never left a note before until today. It was sweet and refreshing after the hell of a nightmare you awoken from.
It’s Friday, the school parking lot is full with more of students’ rich parent’s cars. Their paint jobs glistening under the clear sky and bright sun. Of all the cars though, Steve’s burnt red BMW always sticks out the most. The color was always your favorite and the amount of space was better for things other than storage.
Between the passing periods Steve and you only really give glances. You try to hide your blushes and giddy smiles from him, but he can see right through it.
“Hey y/n!” A cheerful voice squeals behind you. You spin to see Robin and her joyful face jogging up to you.
Robin and you have been a lot closer the past two years since getting into high school. Steve picked up a temporary job at Scoops Ahoy selling ice cream at Starcourt last summer leading you to meeting Robin.
“Hey Robin!” You cheer back.
“I got word about tunnels being built underground? I guess they finished the job. Do you and your boyfriend want to come to Squawk?” Her elbow nudging your side.
“My boyfriend? Since when do I have a boyfriend?” You laugh to her. Your eyes attempting to stay serious as if you totally didn’t have Steve in your bed that very morning.
“You know what I mean” she winks. “Speak of the devil.” Stood ahead of you two was Steve in his red letterman jacket, his hand fiddling in his pockets.
“Ladies” he clears his throat. “Y/n would you like to visit these tunnels with me tonight?”
“Oh meee?” You tease. Robin laughing but also gagging at our interaction.
“Depending how long it takes we can pick something up after.” He offers. You nod. His hand exits his pocket, grabbing softly onto yours before walking past you two to you hope is his next class.
“Mmmm probably more like picking you up after, and putting you down, over and over-” you stare at Robin with your jaw agape. “In the driver seat-.”
“Robin!!” You yelp shooing her sentence. You laugh, your happy interaction cooling down seeing your older brother staring at you from down the hall. How much did he see?
“I’ll see you tonight love.” She says and heads off to her class. You wave her down as she leaves. You and Jonathan left alone in the hallway feet away from each other. No words get said. You both pass each other acting as if you are foreign strangers. The only sense of your presence is the air from both your speeds.
“Damn how many people were coming tonight?” You ask. Jonathan pulls up to the WSQK station. It’s in a fairly rural area, you probably haven’t seen building for miles and the only roads are old country roads.
You and Will curled in the backseat with Mike in the middle seat, as Jonathan drove with Nancy in the passenger seat.
“Well, us,” Nancy starts. “I think Joyce and Hop with El.”
“Steve and Robin” you add on. Jonathan’s gaze clicking to you in his rearview mirror. “Robin told me.” You shrug.
“El?” Mike asks. “Eleven will be there?!” His voice peaking with excitement and nervousness at the same time.
It’s been months since they seen each other, hell, even since you’ve seen her. Jim and your mom have been very cautious on her whereabouts and where she’s seen going. Since the lockdowns started the military has also been looking for her.
Because of everything going on, your mom isn’t home too much. You and the boys had a sneaking feeling that her and Jim were having a fling but she don’t want to get our hopes up for a possible step dad later. Especially what happened after Bob.
“Damn we’re the last ones here.” Huffing from the drivers seat. The car parks roughly from his attitude and the backseat clears out. Will opens the clear double doors. The window clings of ‘WSQK’ flaking off against the wind.
“El!” Mike squeals rushing towards her wrapping his arms around her. Her grasp tightening around his shoulders. Her eyes open over his shoulder seeing me and Will standing behind, causing her to fall back from Mike and jump at me with the same energy.
“I missed you kid.” You say squeezing around her small body. “So much.”
“I missed you too y/n” she responds. As she hopes to Will Steve stands in the doorway of the recording booth where Robin sits organizing her scrambled records across the counter.
“Took you long enough!” He teases crossing his arms to you. Your eyes rolling with a small laugh escaping your throat.
“Blame my brother for that then.”
“I’d rather not sweetheart.” Your cheeks heat up and Robin winks over her shoulder to you. “So this is the booth where Robin does most of her radio shows.”
“Uhm I’m rockin Robin.” She corrects still sleeving records. Steve’s hands rise in defense and then one takes yours as he leads you out of the booth.
“This is where I think we will end up staying for awhile. It seems like a safe spot.” He explains entering the main room where everyone else sits. He still never lets go of your hand, ignoring any or all eyes that stare at them.
“Alright attention please and thank you.” Hopper says with a louder voice that almost shakes the glass against Robin’s booth. “We’re all here to start a new era of how this shit is going to go.”
His explanation was both informative and boring at the same. Pretty much all you gathered was, military is bad, military go for El, El must travel underground, underground also has portal for the upside down. Fuck the upside down.
“Wait so the idea is we have to go back to the upside down?” Jonathan asks, almost a fear shaking in his chest.
“If we want to destroy whoever or whatever this Vecna character is.” Hopper says crossing his arms. “I will be going under first. And only me.”
“Jim that wasn’t the plan.” Joyce chimes. Her look of sternness could kill depending who you were. “You cannot go down there alone!”
“We will be in contact here.” He throws her and Will walkies. “My other thought is tracking Vecna from up here too.”
“I can drive.” Steve says.
“I can hook up a satellite tracker for the car.” Dustin follows.
“Okay then Jonathan and Nancy you will join them, Will and y/n-,” he pauses. His eyes softening looking at us both. “You’ll stay here with Mike, Robin, El and Joyce.”
“What?” You voice cracking. “You want us to just sit here and do absolutely nothing?”
“You’d be more of a look out.”
“So that’s doing nothing.”
“It wasn’t my choice.” Your eyes shoot to your mom who refuses to look to you and your brother.
“Mom are you fucking kidding?” You say with a bite in your tone. You wouldn’t want to leave half the group here, or Steve.
“I can’t let you both be away from me. Not with Vecna out there doing whatever.”
“End of discussion y/n!” A wetness filling into your eyes. You’re upset, you’re frustrated. You didn’t want to be left alone useless. Your chair rattles against the tile as you push against it and leave the building.
The cold air blasts into your face shoving the double doors. The air almost refreshing your thoughts for just barely a second. Walking a path around the small square building, you walk up the side roof ladder to hide on top of the building with the electric tower.
“Mom she isn’t me. She’s in a safer spot than I am.” Will pleads. Jonathan still sits in silent in his chair, biting his nails in both panic and heavy thought.
“You’re both targets William. He will take you both and I’ll get stuck under the pressure to save you both.”
“So it’s a you problem?” Jonathan finally chimes.
“No! I want you two safe!” Mom shrieks.
“But I can just go to the upside down? There’s no fight for me?” The heaviness stiffening the room. No response comes from a soul in that room. Jonathan follows in your footsteps by leaving and climbing to the roof.
“Hey loser” he groans at the top step. His voice jolting you a little.
“Hey,” there’s a silence between you two. It’s not uncomfortable, it’s more there’s nothing to say.
“Will was vouching for you, both of you.”
“I’m guessing it did nothing.”
“Wow how’d you guess?” You huff a smile. You love Joyce with everything you are, but she never fails to stand on business of her rules and the safety of her family.
“Wild guess.” The air falls silent again.
“She wants to send me down there, there was sure no damn fight for me.” His words ache in your chest a little. You can feel his pain in his actions recently. Jonathan was very much the Byers glass child. The oldest who had to endure the parental figure when he could and had to use his life to protect you and Will’s from Lonnie. “She didn’t even say anything y/n. Like after all I’ve done why am I being given up like that?”
“I don’t think she’s giving you up Jon.” You sigh. You rest your head on his shoulder continuing. “You’ve always been our man of the house. Everything of the Byers falls on you and she probably just assumed that. I don’t want to go. I don’t want Nance, Dustin, Steve..”
“Sis I need you to be honest with me.” You lift your head to look at his. His eyes still faced ahead towards the empty country roads and windy trees.
“No.” You stop. “I.. I don’t know.” The sigh of disappointment escapes Jonathon’s lungs to your weak response. “He’s not bad. I trust him. You just need to get over yourself. Please.”
“I know.” You feel your tears start again. You aren’t really sure why, you just hate the feeling of disappointing your brothers. “But I do. I think we could work. But we aren’t.. you know?”
He sighs again but it felt more of a relief than anything. He bought your lie.
“Just don’t let it get in the way okay?” You nod to him leaning on his shoulder again.
Minutes? Maybe hours have gone by. Honestly you weren’t quite sure. You and Jonathan damn near fell asleep on top of the roof only to be woken up or snapped back to reality hearing the echoes and crowds of voices beneath you.
“Y/n?” Nancy calls out. You groan sliding across the roof to look below seeing her and Steve look up to you.
“Yes?” Your eyes only glueing onto Steve.
“The boys are going to see Max, do you want to come with?”
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