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I m a g i n e : You and Mike are a new couple, but once the mindflayer makes his return to Hawkins, his new primary host is not who you were expecting it to be..

R e q u e s t e d B y : cvsmic-

Word Count : 2729

P.S : i know the song that i mention was released a few years after season 3 set place but i just liked the song a lot so i added it.. ;)

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for the entire summer, you and mike were inseparable.
you two were always together, either making out or clinging onto each other for dear life when you were with the party.

you were the 'mage' of the party, with your telepathic mind reading powers and such, you saved the party on countless occasions—but that was all last year.
the city of Hawkins had been quiet this past year, giving room for the gang to occasionally hang out.

but you guys couldn't always play dungeons and dragons in mike's basement all day for the rest of your lives, now could you?

'however far away..'

the music of your record player strummed along to The Cure's hit song : lovesong—one of your favorites.

'i will always love you..'

sitting atop your bed, your lips danced across mike's own chapped ones, feeling his hand rest on your knees as your palms cupped his cheeks.
his bowl cut tickled your forehead, making you smile sheepishly against his kiss.

' however long i stay-..'

it was the usual night of kissing and enjoying each other's touches in your room in hopper's cabin—fully aware that soon, mike was supposed to meet the party at starcourt mall for a movie.

'i will always love you..'

mike's kisses on your lips halted at the occasional sip of air, feeling the amount of teenage hormones surging through either of your bodies—

"hey !"

your head ripped it's locking embrace from mike's slightly plumped lips as you sharply turned to the door in which hopper was peeking through while on his recliner.

in a hurried and panicked daze, you instinctively used your telepathic power to shut and lock the door with a flick of your hand, effectively pissing hopper off.

"hey ! three inches minimum !"
hopper yelled at you as he pounded on the door, already angry at you for disobeying his simple rule.
so when he barged in to see you and mike laying casually on your bed, he left with an irritated huff.

"wow, that look on hop's face was priceless, did you see that?"
mike into his walkie talkie, surprised that hopper didn't say or do anything to split you and him apart, nor did he ever want to find out.

so as he rode quickly on his bike in the cool night's air, towards the starcourt mall to meet up with the party, he knew fully that he couldn't wait to see you again tomorrow.

"i know, that was hilarious. imagine what he'd say if i left the door open two inches or something."
you giggled into the walkie talkie, laying down on your bed with a love-struck
face—completely dazed and flushed from your boyfriend's voice.

"i wish i was coming with you.."

"i know, me too. but i'll see you tomorrow morning—normal time. 8:30."
with mike's last words being breathed onto the walkie talkie and cracking into your own speaker, you sighed with a content
smile—wildly curling.

mike's walkie talkie clicked into a static halt, signaling that you had hung up on the station and that he was left to ride to the mall in the silent night.
the cool night air blew harshly on his face, feeling his hair blow into his eyes before seeing his bike light flickering.

"what the hell..?"
in a state of confusion, he continued pedaling while his eyes darted from the road ahead of him and to his flickering bike light that flickered into black—providing no light to guide him through the curving road.

so when his eyes darted up quickly to try and determine the road from the grass, he caught a glance of some rats scurrying across the road, making mike spin his bike off the paved road and onto the grass to avoid getting rat guts splayed all over his brand new tires.

he hunched over the handle bars, feeling like he really scraped up his knees and arms—the blood was enough to attract a certain creature.
without even a second to process anything, mike felt a vine-like tentacle wrap around his ankle, effectively tanking him from his bike.

mike yelled and screamed as he clawed at the ground—desperate to get away from whatever was pulling him away.

yet he didn't have such strength.
his screams echoed into the cold starry night's air as he disappeared into the old, dark abandoned warehouse.

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the party stood in the front of the mall, anxiously waiting for mike's arrival to go inside and see a movie.

"where the hell is he?"
lucas was growing impatient for he was nervous that the power would go out again like it did just a few minutes ago, but mysteriously regenerated.
will had gotten goosebumps and shivers when the power went out earlier, reaching his hand up to the back of his neck, he felt a form of pure evil.

"finally."
max exclaimed, seeing mike riding his tattered bike up to the racks where the party stood.

"where have you been?"
lucas complained as mike locked up his bike in the racks, his eyes not entirely focused and his knees scraped up with dried blood.

"we're gonna be late for the previews."
will complained, all members of the party were annoyed at this point—already knowing where mike was which was with his girlfriend : you.

"no where..come on."
mike's voice seemed almost not his own, like the way people talk when they try to cover up a large underlying lie.
his eyes weren't human—his steps he took as he walked with the party were stiff and uneasy.

"let me guess. you were with y/n. *mwua* "
lucas was only kidding around, although will found it funny that he was teasing mike, mike wasn't at all himself.
he was more bottled up with anger that couldn't be expressed unless he gave himself away.

"real mature, lucas."
max reprimanded him, not knowing just how agitated mike was as he walked in silence among his friends.
his head throbbed with a sense of anger, taking all it had inside him to not throw his friends against the wall and beat them.

he didn't want to know where this rage was coming from, but he knew.

"will thinks it's funny."
lucas' word's echoed in mike's head—making every other noise in the mall drown out as he focused on his friends' annoying voices.

"cause it is—.."
will began to say with a chuckle before mike's pounding head and violent rage overtook him.

"just shut up ! shut the hell up, you little shits !"
mike's voice boomed with rage and aggression as he stood his ground—preventing his friends from moving any further.
his eyes were stone cold—showing no remorse or emotion whatsoever.

the party was surprised at his sudden outburst, their eyes wide with bafflement.

"okay..okay, take it easy, man. we were just teasing—.."
max tried to calm mike down, only to be shot down again.

"just shut the hell up."
mike threatened again, his fists clenched as he decided against spending the night watching movies with the party.
deep down, mike could feel himself slipping through the cracks of his possession.

"what the hell was that all about?"

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in just the next couple of days, mike's possession was getting worse—he could feel himself spotting fevers and getting chills constantly.
he felt horrible for not seeing you at your normal time for hanging out at the cabin, but he couldn't risk hurting you.

if you or the party found out what he had been doing—who he had been hurting and kidnapping, surely you would think of him as a friend no more.
surely you wouldn't trust him any longer, and he couldn't bare the thought of that.

he couldn't bare the thought of you giving him the same look of horror that many of his victims gave him.

he knew the members of the party were looking for him, for he could feel you going into the void to search for him.
so, under the order of the flayer, he sat still on his bed in the basement of his house—waiting for you to find him so he could find out where you and the party were.

and after much time, he felt your presence in the void—hearing you call for him; to hear you.

"mike.."
you whispered as you spotted him sitting atop his bed, in the black emptiness in the void under your blind fold.
you reached for your boyfriend's hand, examining his bloodied and sweaty body—he didn't look like himself at all.

you found where he was and where the source was, but so did mike.

he saw you.

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mike stumbled out of his totaled car, obviously injured badly from purposefully crashing a random car to stop nancy from driving away with the rest of the kids from the mall—the mind flayer trailing after them fast.

with your deeply injured and bleeding arm, you ran into the parking lot with max and billy supporting you, trying to get away from the mind flayer.
but with a sudden jerk, you all had stopped running because mike saw you as he limped.

his eyes widened with rage and anger once he saw you try to escape, now running back into the mall to seek refuge from his possessed self.

and since mike had seen you, so did the mind flayer.

with mike hot on your tail trying to capture you, billy and max helped you run back into the mall, through the complex hallways that hopefully lost mike and his flayed self.

"come on, billy ! mike is right behind us !"
max's urgent voice panicked as she saw billy frantically pressing the elevator's button's at the end of the hallway that cornered them.

"the goddamn elevator isn't working !"
billy yelled back, practically pounding his fist into the buttons.

"billy.."
max warned her brother, seeing mike at the end of the hallway—giving them a concentrated aggressive look as the hallway lights flickered on and off.
"mike, come on, we're your friends-.."
max tried to bring her friend to remember her as mike took large strides to max, his eyes blurred and out of focus yet violent.
he smacked her out of the way, knocking her head into the wall to make her unconscious.

billy turned around, seeing his sister being smashed into the wall and knocked unconscious.
"max !"
billy exclaimed, his own rage surfacing because of the damage done to his sister.

billy lurched to attack mike in an attempt to protect max and you, only to have mike's inhuman strength punch billy unconscious as well, hearing his body slump to the ground with a thud.

"no.."
you murmured, seeing mike's black veined body kneel down to pick you up, fearing that your boyfriend was too far gone to save.
he knocked his head with yours, your vision blurring to black and leaving only your mind to be able to hear what was happening.

he picked you up bridal style, your head and arms dangling lifelessly as he carried you through the hallways and back into the main mall complex.
he laid you down gently on the ground, seeing your eyes flutter open with confusion as he leaned in to whisper in your ear.

"don't move. don't call for help, just lay very..still."
mike warned, his hostility in his voice seemed nonexistent but rather hesitant to see how the mind flayer will deal with you.

through a blurry vision of throbs in your head, you looked up at the broken glass of a ceiling, seeing the flayer eagerly enter the mall with a large thud, standing tall a few feet away from you and mike stood up to offer you to him.

"eat shit, you son of a bitch !"
lucas yelled as he and the rest of the party lot and threw fireworks onto the flayer with confidence and eagerness to kill it.

the 'satan's baby' fireworks seemed to be doing quite a lot of damage to the flayer, weakening him as mike felt the effects as well—feeling himself being killed slowly.

seeing that mike and the flayer were distracted, you made an attempt to get away, only to have mike violently drag you back to the position you were in before.
he hovered over you, holding your hands back above your head—making your injured arm her immensely.

you knew your love was still in mike somewhere, deep down he could still be himself.
he could remember, you just knew it.
you could help him remember if he just listened.

in a hurried and blurred train of thought, you blurted out the first thing you thought of.
"the cure."
you blurted, your face hopeful that he could remember something from the love you two shared.

"whenever i'm alone with you.."
you softly sung the lyrics to your favorite song, knowing that mike loved it just as much as you did.
mike's aggressive look softened in the littlest way, feeling his grip on your arms loosen.

"you make me feel like i am home again.."
you hummed, hearing the fireworks still go off in the background.
this song that you were singing took him back to the times he would sing it with you, humming softly as he would kiss you in your room.

he closed his eyes, remembering the way your touch could make him feel heavenly.
he could still feel your touches, from the very first kiss you played on his lips to the very last one that you two shared.

the way your lips sent him to a place he never knew was so melodic.
the way he would ring his fingers through your soft hair, and the way you would stare into his eyes like he was the most important to you.

like you loved him with all you had.

"however far away.."
you continued to sing, reaching your hand to cup his veined cheek gently, knowing your first love was still inside him somewhere.

"i will always love you.."
you finished the lyric, leaning up to meet mike's face to complete the song with a soft kiss to his lips, hoping that it was enough to bring him back.

mike smiled weakly, closing his eyes as he kissed your gentle lips, feeling his soul resurface through all the buried trauma that the mind flayer gave him.

it was in this kiss that mike could feel the magic that was powerful enough to make him remember—all the things you've been through together.

with that final smack of lips as you parted from the kiss, he remembered who he was entirely.

and who you were as well.

and what he had done, was unforgivable, yet he helped you up to your feet, holding you close to his body with the fireworks going off in the background—still weakening the mind flayer.

your love brought mike back, and that's how you two knew that what you shared was real.

even though there was an entire evil entity still at large with fireworks being shot at it just a few feet away from you two, you and mike didn't seem to care because mike leaned closer to place another gentle kiss on your bloodied lips.

"i'm sorry."
mike murmured against your lips, feeling the only sense of safeness and home with you.

the battle of love was hard, but it reigned victorious against the flayer as it dropped dead to the ground due to the gate having been closed.

your love reigned victorious against all odds, as long as you and mike had each other.

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a/n : welcome to this first imagine—ahh

this is kinda how i hoped the ending of the finale played out—without a death like billy's :(

thank you all for reading, there's so much more to come !!

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