Lucas and Mike make a daring rescue attempt at the hospital. Karen makes a choice that has irreversible consequences. The others notice that something is wrong with Will. Dustin sets out to mend his rift with Robin. Erica sets up her Plan B with Holly after her botched escape attempt.
the next chapter of @stardewfalls and i's ST5 rewrite!!
Steve Harrington x Fem OC Rewrite
1677 words
Warnings: N/A
"Project Rom-Com?" Steve asked.
Alice sat next to him in the front of his car.
"Yeah, y'know Sixteen Candles, or Working Girls that sort of thing," Alice replied, rolling her eyes, feet up on the dash.
Steve stared back inquisitively, "Are you a nerd?"
"Oh shut it, the point is Nancy has seen those movies, her expectations for romance are all high, so all you have to do is some big romantic gesture, and boom! Your relationship is fixed." Alice smirked, proud of her idea.
"Okay, so what's your plan?" Steve asked dumbfounded.
"I don't know, you're the one in love with her shouldn't it be your idea?”
"Yeah but you're the smart one, and you're the one who has actually seen a "rom-com."’ Steve smiled his fingers quoting his words.
"That's definitely a lie, but whatever, just get her some flowers, maybe sing her favorite song. Easy peasy."
"If there is one thing I don't do it's sing."
As they rolled up to the Wheeler house Steve pulled over behind a bush.
"Nance can't see you or she'll just believe what everyone else thinks." Steve stated.
"Don't worry I'll just hide in the backseat and hope no dog walker sees me and gets the wrong impression." she smirked.
He gave her a look.
"Just go, I'll entertain myself while you get her back. Although I am expecting a ride home." she said, shooing Steve away.
He pepped himself up in the rearview mirror before clutching the flowers and climbing out of the car.
Before his feet could meet the grass a scrawny boy intervened.
"Oh Steve, you are a lifesaver!" the boy exclaimed, his curly hair was stuffed beneath a color block hat and he was wearing some sort of headset.
"Hey kid, I'm kinda doing something important right now." Steve said, trying to skirt around the kid to no avail.
"We have bigger problems than your love life. Do you still have that bat?" the boy asked.
"Ahaha what bat?" Steve asked sheepishly, his face going tense praying Alice wasn't listening in.
"Y’know the bat with the nails and stuff." he stated the obvious.
"Oh that one." Steve said before the other boy climbed his way to Steve's car.
"I call shotgun!" he yelled approaching the car before noticing Alice slumped down the front every so slightly peering out the window trying to see what was happening.
"Steve! Who's this girl hiding in your front seat?" the boy yelled, turning around to see Steve staring at him with daggers in his eyes.
“I’m no one, I’m all in your head.” Alice smirked at the young boy.
He just shrugged.
“Nancy’s not home, so scrap whatever plans you had.” the boy said, climbing into the backseat.
The three sat in silence as Steve drove towards the younger boy's house. Steve’s Queen cassette played, filling the air.
“Sooo,” Alice started, breaking the awkward silence, “how do you two know each other?”
“Tutoring!”
“Basketball!”
The two boys said at the same time. Steve glanced at the younger boy through the rearview mirror.
Dustin coughed, “I mean basketball, I’m tutored by a different Steve.” He gave Alice a toothy grin.
Alice gave him a look before shaking her head, “Okay, sure.”
They’re absolutely lying to me right now she thought to herself.
“So, how big was this lizard again?” Steve asked, attempting to change the subject.
“First it was like that,” Dustin motioned, showing his lizard growing drastically in size “Now he’s like this.”
“I swear to god, it's just some little lizard, okay.” Steve said, focusing on the road.
“It's not a lizard!” Dustin exclaimed.
“How do you know?” Steve countered.
The two began to bicker over the lizard's legitimacy.
“Because his face opened up and he ate my cat.” Dustin stated.
The car went silent.
Both Steve and Alice turned to look at the boy.
“What did you just say?” Alice asked the boy.
“He ate my cat.” Dustin said, his voice high and his face grimacing.
Steve pulled the car over as Alice sat staring at the dashboard, her mind swirling.
“Shit, shit, kid you’re gonna get us in so much trouble. The government made us swear we wouldn’t tell anyone.” Steve said, running his hands through his hair.
“It just came out!”
“Okay!” Alice finally piped up.
The two boys stared at her.
She looked towards Dustin “Let’s deal with this lizard,” she pointed at Steve, “and then you’re gonna give me a ride home and explain what the hell is going on.”
The two boys sighed in relief.
“Okay, so besides the bat what else are we using?” Dustin asked as they approached his house.
“Bat?” Alice asked.
“You’ll see.” Steve smirked.
“I have bear spray in my bag?” Alice suggested as they unloaded out of the car.
Steve opened his trunk to reveal a wooden baseball bat, nails protruding from every inch of the barrel.
“Jesus.”
He grabbed the bat before slamming the trunk, “Bring the bear spray.”
The trio rounded the back of the Henderson home towards the storm shelter.
“Aren’t your parents gonna be confused about what we’re doing?” Alice asked the boy.
“Nah, my mom’s got bookclub tonight so we’re in the clear.” he explained as they approached the shelter.
Steve walked towards the doors, “I don’t hear shit.”
“He’s in there.” Dustin stated.
Steve tapped the door with his bat before banging it.
“What if it’s scared?” Alice suggested.
Steve stopped before turning to look at Dustin, “All right, listen, kid if this is some Halloween prank, you’re dead.”
“It’s not.”
The two began to bicker again, “It’s not a prank, get this out of my face.” Dustin exclaimed, trying to cover his eyes from Steve’s flashlight.
“You got a key for this thing or what?” Steve asked.
Dustin immediately began to scramble through his backpack.
The two teenagers gave each other a look, “What the hell are we doing here?”
“Got it!” Dustin exclaimed, before Steve took the keys from his hands and opened the storm doors.
The trio examined the black abyss.
“Let me see that.” Steve grabbed Dustin’s flashlight.
“He must be further down there.” Dustin stated, “I’ll stay up here in case he tries to escape.”
Alice smacked the boy's arm, giving him a look. Steve turned to look at him.
Steve slowly began to descend the stairs, bat in one hand, flashlight in the other.
Alice tried to glance and follow him as light flooded up the stairs.
“Steve?” Dustin asked peering down the stairs. “Whats going on down there?”
Steve suddenly appeared at the bottom of the stairs, causing both Alice and Dustin to jump.
“Get down here.”
The two approached the stairwell, Dustin hesitated, Alice pushed him down first.
Steve stood at the bottom, his bat covered in some sort of slime.
“Jesus Christ." Alice exclaimed at the sight of it, gagging a little.
“Oh shit.” Dustin said.
Steve pointed the flashlight towards a large hole in the wall.
“Oh shit!” Dustin exclaimed.
The trio approached the hole as Dustin repeated, “No way.”
“You weren’t lying about the size of that lizard.” Steve sighed, flashing the flashlight into the abyss.
“Told you so.” the kid replied.
The three stood in silence for a moment.
“Alright, let me run inside, I’ll get some bologna and we can follow him.” Dustin exclaimed racing towards the stairs.
“What?” Steve exclaimed. “Absolutely not.”
The boy gave him a disappointed look. “What?”
“Jeez it's 11 o’clock, I’m sure your mom will be home soon. We’re not tracking a sci-fi creature in the dead of night.”
Alice nodded her head, “As much as we wanna help you, we can’t do much right now. We should tell the Chief.”
Steve gave her a look.
“Alright,” Dustin sighed, “but you’re both coming back tomorrow. See you at 10!”
The two teenagers began to protest but Dustin was gone.
“Jesus that kid is a lot.” Alice sighed as she and Steve made their way towards his car.
“Tell me about it.” The boy rubbed his forehead.
Alice swung into the front seat before rummaging around in her bag.
“Wait,” Steve began, “how did you know that the Chief could help?”
Alice stopped before sighing. “I’m gonna tell you something but you can’t think I’m crazy.”
“You just helped me track down a cat eating lizard, that I’m assuming is the size of a dog.”
Alice laughed, “Alright, you got me there.”
“Last Halloween, I disappeared for a few days, everyone thought I ran away."
Steve remembered Tommy and Carol constantly taunting a girl, calling her “Runaway”.
“I remember,” he sighed.
“Well I didn’t. I’m still not sure where I was. They said I was gone for five days. I only remember bits and pieces, lots of running, from something. I remember bleeding, and falling through some slimy portal of sorts. Before I knew it I was back in our world, in the woods. I made it to the road before passing out.” Alice picked at her nails.
“After that I was in and out of consciousness for a couple of days. They said I broke three ribs and I tore my spleen. I eventually went home, Chief Hopper came a couple days later, said he needed to get a statement. He reassured me I wasn’t crazy, I told him everything I could. He was the only person I told, well now besides you.”
She looked towards Steve, he just stared at her.
“Oh god you think I’m crazy.”
She went to go, a hand on her arm stopped her.
“I don’t.”
She just looked back at him.
“I promise I don’t. Last year I fought a big ugly creature with that bat and almost died. Believe me if you’re crazy, so am I.”
She smiled.
“Okay, about that, I brought this.” She held a cassette tape. “You have terrible taste in music, this will change that.” she said sliding it into the player.
The opening notes of 10:15 Saturday Night began to play as they pulled out of the Henderson driveway.
William and Amanda Byers are born on March 22nd, 1971.
It’s a freezing night. The wind howls through the hospital’s corridors, bending the trees outside the darkened windows.
Joyce Byers is just shy of 29 years old, and delivers her children alone, with only the night-shift nurses to hold her hand.
Amanda is the first to come, a healthy – if somewhat small – baby girl covered in blood and yellow gunk. She comes out shaking her fists and screaming her tiny lungs out, angry at being pulled out into the harsh white lighting of the hospital. William came next, eleven minutes and twenty seconds after his twin at the very end of a 16-hours-long labor.
He’s born smaller than his sister, too small, and comes out silent, his lips blue and fingers purple. When two heartbeats pass and not a single breath has moved his tiny chest, the delivery room bursts into action, the doctor and nurses fearing the worst. Joyce - lonely, terrified and in so much pain – can barely lift up her head to demand answers, tears mingling with the sweat on her face as she whispers over and over through cracked lips to the nearest nurse, demanding the woman to just tell her what is wrong with her baby boy.
Amanda wails, loud in the arms of a frantic nurse, and then -
The group investigating the lab faces a new foe when when trying to help Nancy and Jonathan out of a sticky situation. With a familiar threat on it's way, Mike and Lucas race to the Hawkins General Hospital. When a new arrival in Camazotz shakes up the plan, Erica must descend back into the arms of the enemy.
New chapter of @underscore-jude and my Stranger Things season 5 rewrite <3 Shares are appreciated.
