Come Back To Me - Mike Wheeler
°❀⋆.ೃ࿔*:･ 𝘢𝘯𝘺𝘢 𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘢𝘬𝘴
Hello! I come with another fic as an apology for not being as active!
After the finale of Stranger Things, I genuinely had to take a bit of time away from the show. The lack of good writing, the destruction of characters and plot overall took away from what the ending should have been. The Duffers somehow managed to destroy some of the most complex characters they have and I hope in this fic I can do just a few of them justice.
Description: After winning the final battle, you realise that the decision made between you and your sisters is slowly becoming a reality.
Word Count: 1691
CONTENTS: sadness :(, character death, mike finally having a better reaction, sacrifice, better reaction from the party, reader has powers like El, use of Y/N once.
As you help the last kid jump down from the last few steps of the radio tower as he turns to you and gives you a massive hug before running over to the other kids climbing into the truck from the shuttle door, a smile forming on your face as you watch all of them hug each other, not in fear of Henry anymore. Your mind goes back to the moment Joyce gave the final blow to his neck, the feeling of finally being free.
“You okay?” Your boyfriend asks from beside you, his arm wrapping around waist as he pulls you along with him. You turn your head to look at him, a smile on his face as he looks back at you. “Yeah. I'm perfect”, your voice comes out as strong as you hoped, even with the close future in your mind as you climb into the back of the truck as well.
Mike’s hand finds yours as the two of you sit beside each other as your backs lean up against the metal. His fingers brushing up and down the side of your hand as he holds on, not wanting to let go as he looks speaks to Holly who he hadn't let out of his sight since you had found her.
The sound of Lucas and Dustin laughing, the kids all talking, Joyce talking to Will and the sound of the thunder and lightning outside as the truck bounced on the never roads blended into the background, the only sound you could eventually hear was your own heart racing in your chest.
You feel Mike pull you closer to him, pulling you out of the slight panic you were having, he encloses you in a tight hug as he kisses the side of your head. “This is finally over,” his voice strong, “you don’t have to worry about any of this anymore. We will sort out the military and we will go anywhere you want. Remember the waterfalls I told you about in Iceland?” You look up at him and nod, your voice failing you. As you look into his eyes, all you see is love, the pure love he has for you radiates out of him, it always has. The guilt fills your chest, the feeling quickly swallowing you in just a moment, because you knew what was coming.
Your eyes trail their way over to Jane who was sitting across from you, her eyes full of fear as she looked back at you. She knew how you were feeling, after all - she was your sister. The joint deal you made with Kali hung heavy between the two of you the entire time, especially since Hopper found out and tried to convince you not to go ahead with it.
The sound of Lucas’ voice startles you, “So, what’s our plans for after this? Finish senior year and then what?” him and Dustin moving over to sit with the rest of you. Will has a quick answer as he talks about potentially going to carry on with his art, a warm smile on his face, the first once since you had ever met him. The others talk about their plans, college being mentioned a lot of the time. You had zoned out for what felt like hours before Dustin turned his head to you and pulled you out of it. “Y/N, what about you? What are you going to do?” The question hits you hard, your breath quickly sharpens as you look over to the girl once more, “I’m not sure, with the military still looking for me and Jane - we will probably lay low for a while.” The answer you give seems to go down well with the others as they immediately start strategising some way to get the military off your backs, the plans quickly becoming unhinged as the boys laugh.
All of a sudden a bump comes from beneath the truck as you all get thrown into one side of the wall as Steve swerves the steering wheel of the truck before it suddenly stops. The sound of voices coming from outside before the shutter doors open as military men shine their lights in grabbing people and ushering you all out of the truck. You look over to your sister, eyes locking once again as she gives you a slight nod, signalling it was time.
Mike grabs your hand as he pulls you out of the truck, before quickly being grabbed by one of the military men being separated. This was your time. Jane grabs your wrist and squeezes your hand four times as the signal. Your eyes close, breathing slowly as you use your abilities to teleport you and Jane back inside the upside down, just at the gate. By the time you open your eyes you see all of your family being separated and either tackled or held back, Dr Kay pushing past people to search for you and Jane.
Her face getting redder every second she couldn’t see you, before screaming at some of her men asking where you and your sister were. You look over at Jane, who was holding back tears as she watched what was going on. The weight of your decision was clear on her face and the way she dropped her grip on your wrist as she watched everyone being shoved around by the men in uniforms.
From where you both stood you could see the realisation on Mike's face as he finally saw where you were, it felt as if your world went in slow motion. The way he pushed back the man holding him against the side of the truck as he tried to reach you before being grabbed back again. Closing your eyes and focusing, you pull him into the void.
You watch as Mike falls into the water of the void, before he looks up to see you walking over to him. He climbs up quickly, running over to you, his hands on your hips as he looks into your eyes, the tears already swelling in his brown eyes. “Why are you and Jane still in there? You need to get out.” His voice was breaking, his eyes widened slightly as he watched you slowly shake your head, the tears falling from your eyes and rolling down your cheeks.
You didn't need to tell him what was going on, he could see it in your eyes. He starts to shake his head, eyes closed as if he was trying to wake up from a nightmare, his voice quiet as he wraps his arms around your waist, pulling you chest-to-chest with him, “Please, no. Please don't leave me. Baby please”, he begged you. Your hand meets his chest, feeling his rapid heartbeat quickly soften at your touch, the other hand meeting his jaw as you pull his head down to look in your eyes properly. “Mike, I have to do this. This ends with me and Ja-”.
He's quick to interrupt you, not in a rude way but begging you to not leave him, how you both could figure something out to get rid of the military in your life, how he could finally take you away from Hawkins and take you to Iceland. You were strong minded, and Mike knew that, but he couldn't help but beg for the love of his life to stay with him. His tears rolled down as he kept repeating his previous statements over and over again as you kept trying to explain this is what you had to do.
“I love you, Micheal Wheeler. I will always love you”, your foreheads meet as you sob through your words, the love swallowing the both of you in the form of an invisible force field. Mike's lips quickly meet yours, the kiss is desperate, a final attempt at trying to convince you to stay with him. One that doesn't work. You pull back to look at him one last time, before you send him back to reality.
As you come back to the present moment in time, the bomb goes off behind you and Jane, the warm feeling of the blood dripping down from your nostril as you look over to see your dad coming back from his void meeting with the girl beside you. You watch as his body stills, as if he is paralysed, not able to move to reach you both. You can see the pain in his face, the pain of realising that him trying to convince you both to not do this didn't work. The pain of realising that he had not only lost his first daughter Sarah, but he was losing his other two daughters as well. He couldn't cry out, his body wouldn't let him. The only thing he could do was cry as he watched the two girls he cared for sacrifice themselves to end this, once and for all.
You can hear your friends shouting your names, pain evident in all of their voices. Dustin tries to push past the soldier holding him back as he screams for the both of you, his face full of confusion as he stares at the two of you standing there.
Lucas pleads for you both to ‘not do this’, how he would make sure you were safe from any danger if you just came back.
Will starts to hyper ventilate as he watches his sisters cry out in pain at the choice they are making, his body not letting him move without falling over on itself as he shouts your names.
Max tries to force herself out of her wheelchair in hopes of being able to run over to her best friends, but is quickly caught by Vickie who grabs her just before she falls onto the floor, even then still reaching out to you.
In one last moment, you look over at Jane, for her to be already looking at you. The sound of everyone screaming becomes a distant sound as you both close your eyes, hands and minds linked together for one last time, before the world goes dark.
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