Eddie wasn't the sharpest crayon in the box but he did have his moments and this was not one. Even though he was getting them a way to get to the wheelers he could have come up with a better way or at least a way that wouldn't end them up in trouble or worse jail.

"are you sure this is a good idea" Peter grunted. If it wasn't obvious Peter didn't like Eddie, he didn't like the way he dressed, the way he acted immature he could have a whole list but none of them could be worse than the way he stared at y/n. Peter recognised that stare too well to not know what it was.

"well do you have a better one patty" Eddie said cutting the wires of his neighbours home. "its Peter" he spat back the anger taking over as he knew he couldn't think of a better idea. "sorry I didn't know" Eddie's words were full of sarcasm. "right boys. Stop acting like little girls" hopper said as the engine revved. Eddie got up and rushed over to y/n before Peter could.

"young love" hopper mumbled to himself before driving. The pole outside hitting the side of the vehicle followed by shouting. He turned the corner last minute causing them all to slant to the side. "let's go baby" hopper had never been so happy but he knew once he was with Joyce it would be better.

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"please don't blame the kids Karen it's just they wanted to see and before I could stop them they were running off" Joyce spoke before taking a puff of her cigarette. "so we have nothing to worry about?" the officer stood beside them asked. Joyce smiled innocently answering his question.

"then for the last time please explain why you are all drenched" he pointed his hand behind her causing her brows to furrow as she turned.

Max, lucas, Steve, Nancy, robin mike, will and Dustin where poking their heads around the corner trying to listen in on what was happening. "what did I tell you. Not on my new carpet" Karen stood up trying to wave them away but they stood in place too eeger to hear what was happening. "Ted are you going to help. Ted" just then the middle aged man jumped awake. "wha- oh yeah um get to bed" Karen just shook her head at him and placed her hands on her hips.

The officer went to open his mouth to say something else but was interrupted by the doorbell. "do you mind?" Karen shook her head and the officer walked toward the door. They heard talking but they couldn't make out who it was. Their questions were soon answered by Jim hopper walking into the kitchen with the officer. "hopper told me he scared you which caused one of you to trip then you all fell into the lake" hopper smiled behind the officer at Joyce's reaction.

She just merely nodded not knowing what else to say. "very well my night shifts over so I'm going to head back home" he nodded to hopper before walking out of the room and soon out of the house. Hopper and Joyce smiled at each other shocked that they had gotten away with it. "right can someone please explain what is happening?" they looked over to Karen who was massaging her temples.

They had all gone to the wheelers basement and were soon joined by el, Eddie and Peter who were both carrying y/n. They placed her on the couch and surrounded her.

"have you been able to figure out what's wrong with her?" Robin asked. They just shook their heads. "she looks quite peaceful". "yeah maybe she was tired from using so much of her power and passed out" will added to Mike's statement. "the same happened to me but it was so long they classed it as a coma but I woke up and I'm perfectly fine" they all stared at Peter who was pale as paper and covered in multiple cuts or bruises. He was still wearing his orderly outfit but it had rips in it revealing his many deep wounds. His eyes were no longer their usual sparkly blue they looked more like a dull gray almost like an elderly person's hair.

After their many looks that said are you sure were sent to him their gaze went back to y/n. "maybe we should leave her to rest we don't want her to over do it and become ill" Joyce admitted. They all agreed and because it was almost 5am they decided that they will sleep alongside y/n and see how she was in the morning.

El couldn't get to sleep. She was too nervous and scared. Had those few words in the upside down been a goodbye. They couldn't be it wouldn't be fair. She sat up before her feeling could take over and swallow her whole.

The others were laid on the floor scattered around the basement. But only one person stood out to her at this pont and it was y/n. She got up making sure not to step on anyone and made her way over to y/n holding her hand once she got there. She knew it was a bad idea but she needed to know if y/n was OK.

She took a deap breath closing her eyes. She was in a place that had become very familiar over the years. The void. "four" she said loud enough. But no one came to her. "FOUR!" she couldn't find her. "no NO" she stomped her foot on the ground and spun around frantically looking for her. Shouting so much the pain brought a tear to her eye.

She snapped out of it being face to face with Peter. "I couldn't find her either" a tear slipped from his eye causing el to jump into him arms. Burying her head into his shoulder hush her sobs and Peter did the same.

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The floor beneath me felt around the same temperature as my body which wasn't good. It was a tiled floor and I knew from my many years at the lab that they became cold. Well cold would be an understatement. I didn't have enough strength to sit up so I just laid there a little longer. A couple of seconds became 1 minute which became 5 and 5 soon became 10.

My head was pounding against the floor and that's when I knew I should really get up. I looked around the room and even though I was in a place I had never seen before there was a counter with little trays in it. There were seats behind the counter with tables and only a small light I was surprisingly calm. I walked over to the doors but all I could see was darkness like I was in a void but not the void I knew. I felt as if I was lacking the energy to do anything even inhaling felt like a hard job.

"Peter?" my voice came out barely a whisper. I cleared my throat. "guys?" it didn't seem like much but it was definitely louder than the last. "is anyone there" I took in my surroundings. So it isn't the void and isn't the real world so what is it? My thoughts were interrupted by the sudden sound of what sounded like a lullaby.

I looked around the large room and noticed a door behind the counter. I ran up to it and tried to push it open but once again I was to weak. It wasn't the fact that I was too weak it was the fact that it was stuck in place it was made like that. The lullaby was still playing it was like it was a broken record player going over and over again. My brows furrowed which only made my head hurt even more.

I turned back to the other door. What if that one opens and its my way out? But it only leads to darkness. Just then something on the counter caught my vision but one thing that sent shivers down my spine was as i noticed it the lullaby stopped playing leaving me in complete silence again.

I walked over to the counter reaching out for the item. It was some tipe of cloth. I lifted it into the air making it unravel. I seemed to be a shirt almost like a polo shirt with the collar. I looked back the the counter to see a hat. It was a weird looking shape.

I placed the shirt back on the counter and went to reach for the hat. Suddenly their was a tapping noise coming from behind me. I looked at it noticing something was tapping the plastic panel in the wall. I walked towards it the tapping now getting louder and faster. As I stopped in front of it a full hand slammed on the panel causing me to jump.

I placed my hand on the handle to slide it open but as I did the ground dissappeared behind me causing me to fall.

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I jumped up from the couch in what looked like the wheelers basement. Soon greeted by a familiar hug. Peter. I melted into his arms wrapping my hands in his hair. His arms wrapping around me like a blanket. "I missed you so much" he cried into my hair. Peter felt like home to me he had an aura that  made you feel welcomed and happy.

I pulled away from him even though I didn't want to. "hey sweetie" Joyce said as they all stared at us. I smiled back that was awkward. "everything is OK. He's gone" el smiled at the end of her sentence. Those words seemed to fill the room with relief and happiness as if they were mixed into an airfreshner and sprayed around.

"so this means..." I felt the tears swell in my throat. "you are free you can go to school and be normal teenagers and do normal teenager things like I don't even know what teens do now days" hoppers moustache wiggled as he smiled.

We are free. Peter van go to school and be normal. We can have study sessions together and go shopping and well do lots of other things.

"but who will look after Peter?" i wasn't going to deny it I didn't want Peter going to some random person and moved away I wanted him to stay here in hawkins with us. With me.

"my mom could take him" Mike shouted instantly receiving a scowl from Nancy. "if that's OK with her then sure"

Hopper was hesitant to leave to get the paperwork for Peters adoption and insisted on staying in Mike's basement for one more night but we all reassured him we would be fine. By the evening Peter had introduced himself to Ted and Karen and had to tell them our usual fake sob story.

They had allowed him to stay at mine and Dustins for the night so we could spend time together and what she called catch up but it wasn't a catch up it was a recovery of the trauma we had both been through and hold each other a let out sobs and wheeps.

"right have fun and let me know when you are coming back tomorrow" she waved us goodbye from the front door.

"so this is my room" I turned on the lamp in the corner which left the room with a calming golden glow. "this is my desk where I study. This is where I put all my clothes and this is my be-" before I could finish my sentence he wrapped his arms around me completely letting go of all his stress.

We shuffled over to the bed and laid in it just hugging. "Peter?" I played with a stand if his hair looping it around my fingers. "mhm" I felt his warm breath hit my neck feeling like a soft blanket. "did you want to take your orderly clothes off" just saying the word orderly made me feel sick. It just brought back so many unwanted memories of the lab. He nodded his head and slowly sat up.

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The two weeks had flown by which wasn't fair at all. I had spent most of it with him after school and on the weekends. I wanted to spend as much time as I could with Peter. Even though I was going to school with him it's not like we could spend all those hours talking and spending time together we had to work and I had a feeling that would somehow come between us at some point but I pledge to myself I won't let that happen.

"Y/N HURRY UP" Dustin slammed his fist against the bathroom door for the fourth time in the past 10 minutes. "just a second" I removed the last curler I had borrowed from mom out of my hair and sprayed some hairspray. "it's perfect" I looked in the mirror and smiled.

As I walked out Dustin looked shocked and I gave him a twirl. "like it" I felt my cheeks heat up, I had never worn makeup properly before but I hope I did a good job. "like it? I love it" he gave me a grin looking the outfit up and down. "your costumes good too but what is it?" I felt awful as his grin soon turned into a frown. "I'm luke skywalker obviously" I tried to make an expression that said oh yeah I totally see it but it obviously didn't go well.

"well what are you supposed to be then?" he crossed his arms over his chest smugly. "sandy from Grease obviously" I copied his sass but I don't care about that as soon as he smirked like he had an evil plan. "what!?" he just pushed past me and ran into the bathroom. "Dustin Henderson you better tell me this instance wh-" I was soon interrupted by a voice.

"omg sweetie you look amazing" mom held up her camera catching me off guard with the flash. "look at this photo you look perfect". I took the photo from hef hands that she passed to me. I did not look perfect I looked as if i had just woken up from a nap. Like the type of naps that make you forget what day it is, you end up having one of your pant legs rolled up to your thigh and your hair is stuck to your face from the sweat.

"say cheese" I heard Dustin screach from the unexpected flash from mom's camera. She had ambushed him as he came out of the bathroom. "aww look at you" she showed us the photo and I couldn't help but laugh as Dustin had somehow managed to look worse than me.

"my little sandy and luke aaaw I can't wait to hang these up" she lifted her camera once again at me and dustin who had moved to my side. "right smile" before we could even look up she had taken the photo. "right get you light thing out sweetie" dustin rolled his eyes. "it's a ligh-" the camera flashed before he could even finish.

If this is what every Halloween was going to be like I would prefer being tucked up in bed watching some movies and baking. That sounded perfect but I always tried to see the good in things. At least I got to celebrate Halloween, in the lab papa would give us warm pumpkin slices which were disgusting.

"wait come back" I heard mom shout as dustin dragged me to the doorway. "why are we leaving so early" I shivered at the cold, orange coating everything. "Eddie can't get us, he's too embarrassed to show me his costume" he laughed at himself. "what even is his costume?" I walked a bit faster catching up with him.

"you'll just have to see" I didn't like the way he was smiling it was like he was up to no good. But the thing that confused me the most is he had the same smirk when I told him what my costume was earlier when he was talking about Eddies.