A/N: This is just a short little cute fic for @pridewrite2021. The prompt I’m using is lesbian. Also I haven’t seen stranger things in a hot minute so this doesn’t fit anywhere in particular in the canon.
El had wrapped her whole life around the idea of being with Mike. In the lab she was nothing, but something to be controlled, something to be used. But with Mike she didn’t feel like a resource or an experiment. She became invested in building her new life with him, the way she knew she was supposed to. Mike had a mom and a dad, hopper had once had a wife, Lucas had Max. She knew this was the way it was supposed to be, but somehow it didn’t feel right.
“Hey Max?” she asked one day as they lay on their stomach in her bed flipping through magazines and listening to the radio. The other girl looked up at her, “What does it feel like when you kiss Lucas?”
Max laughed, “I don’t know, kind of wet and weird. You kiss Mike all the time, you know what kissing feels like.”
“Yeah, but I don’t mean the wet part, I mean how does it make you feel? Happy? Safe?”
Max sat up, looked at the other girl a little more seriously. “Oh, you mean the spark.”
“Spark?”
“Yeah, like electricity. Not literally, it doesn’t hurt. But you feel… I don’ know… something like fireworks. And it’s scary and exciting and warm. And you don’t want to pull away from that feeling. Is that what you’re talking about?” She had started to blush as she explained it, they talked about boys all of the time, but this felt more intimate.
“The… spark,” El repeated slowly, sitting up to meet Max’s eyes. “I don’t understand, it feels like that everytime?”
“Yeah, kinda. Especially the first time, then you get more used to it.”
“I don’t…” she felt like she was tearing up, it didn’t make sense. “I don’t think it’s ever felt that way before with Mike.”
“Oh that’s okay, maybe he’s just not the one.”
“But, what if I never feel it?”
Max didn’t know what came over her, but she knew that once she had an idea in her head she wasn’t one to back down. “What… what if we kiss?” She braced herself for a laugh from El and was ready to laugh with her, like it was all some big joke. But El didn’t laugh, she stayed serious.
“Do you think that will work?”
Max shrugged, “I don’t know, but it’s worth a shot right.”
El couldn’t speak, she thought that anything might break them out of this moment, and she desperately wanted to stay in that moment, so she nodded.
And then it happened. Max leaned in, the music on the radio swelled, their lips met and…
“The spark.” El said against Max’s lips and Max giggled softly. She felt it too.
@blinkydoesstuffsometimes @maxtothemax @avian-american Ask and ye shall receive! avian said red and blinky said blue, so naturally i decided to do both, because both is BISEXUAL CULTURE bay BEE!
max was the FIRST person to see el BEYOND just her powers. she hung out with her JUST for her, to help her find who she is.
"she made her break up with m-"
no she didn't lmfao. el can make her own decisions, max just told her mike wasn't being a good boyfriend, WHICH HE WASNT FROM HER PERSPECTIVE (they literally didn't know hopper made him back off).
i honestly hate that people try to make max out to be a villain for s3. if ANYONE is meant for el, it's max. they're soulmates in every way, romantically, platonically, whatever, they need eachother.
