EPISODE SIX
the spy.

THEY MET dustin and steve harrington at an old junk yard, lucas had filled them in on what was going on—which included dart being a demorogorgoj.

seeing the two boys, lucas yelled. "i said medium-well!" he waved. max smiled whilst nova waved and steve waved back whilst dustin looked confused. 

steve looked at dustin, and then at max and nova before raising his brows.

nova and max helped steve set things up to fight against dart, whilst lucas and dustin went to talk, no doubt about them and why lucas told them.

"hey dickheads! how come the only one helping me is this random girl and nova?" steve waved his arms around at dustin and lucas. "we lose light in 40 minutes. let's go...let's go, i said!"

"all right, asshole! god!"
"okay! stupid."

the five helped getting everything set up, excitement and nerves filling their body as they watched steve pour gasoline around the place whilst nova climbed up a ladder in one of the RV's.

it started to get dark, and they headed inside, shutting and locking the RV door and then, they waited.

lucas climbed up the RV and sat on the top as nova looked at dustin, max and steve before following him with a shy smile. she wasn't sure why she followed him and sit with him, but she knew she should.

"it's kinda awesome." she spoke up as lucas turned to her with his binoculars. "huh?"

"the fog. looks like the ocean." she smiled slightly at the memories of when she would play in the ocean for hours with billy and their mom on weekends and even school days when they would skip.

"you miss it?" lucas asked her, angling his body so he was facing her. she frowned, "miss what?"

"the ocean. the waves? california?" he corrected.

she smiled before nodding slowly. "a lot. i miss everything about my childhood from california."

he smiled softly at her, "i bet hawkins seems pretty lame." he chuckled and she shook her head.

"no, no. it's not that. it's just...everything was different back then. plus, my mom is still there." she trailed off, a sad smile on her lips as she glanced away from him.

"why?" he asked with a slight frown. she chuckled, "it's this legal term called 'divorce'." she smiled as he rolled his eyes with a smile.

"see, when two married people don't love each other anymore—" she began as he laughed quietly, "i know what divorce is."

she joined in with his laughter, but the smile slowly faded from her lips and she began to explain. "my mom left us when me and billy were younger. left us with my dad. i hated her for it. i hated her for leaving us with him...but i get it now. and then, my dad met susan...she's nice and i love max, but...i just miss my mom. and i know billy does too. he's been a dick for so long now...he takes after my dad but it doesn't give him an excuse...he used to be my favourite person in this whole world. can you believe that?" she asked with a raised brow. lucas widened his eyes in disbelief as she chuckled.

"he was probably the best brother i think anyone could ask for. then...one day. literally over night he just...changed. i miss him so much...he's not billy anymore. he's just always so angry. and he can't take it out on my dad, or susan, or max, so..." she explained, a few tears falling down her cheeks at this point as lucas listened with a frown.

"so he takes it out on you?" he asked. she looked at him, and nodded her head, wiping away the tears. "i don't even know why i'm telling you this. it's just...i know i can be kinda a bitch sometimes. i just don't want whatever happened to billy to happen to me. i guess i'm angry too. i'm angry at my dad, im even angry at my mom still sometimes. and i'm really angry at billy...i just really miss them." she sniffled slightly. "i'm sorry." she shook her head, looking down.

he stared at her with a frown, he even had teary eyes at the thought of her being upset, and then she laughed to herself, "jesus. what's wrong with me? sorry." she wiped away the tears and looked away, embarrassed.

"hey. you're nothing like your brother, okay? you're cool, different, super smart. and you're beautiful." he listened, as nova raised a brow with a light blush on her cheeks.and you're, like, totally tubular." he mocked as she laughed, and he smiled, happy he got her to laugh.

"are you saying billy is ugly?" she joked, and he scoffed out a laugh. "also, nobody says that, you know." she tilted her head at him. he shrugged with a grin.

"well, i do now." he responded with a small smile.

"and it makes you seem really cool." she mocked as he laughed. "thanks...for cheering me up, i guess." she shrugged.

he smiled. "it's okay. i promise you this, i'll always look at for you." he smiled. she returned it.

he tilted his head with a soft smile. "i like taking with you, supernova." she smiled, "i like talking with you too, stalker."

a sudden growl in the distance was heard as they jumped with wide eyes. "lucas! what's going on?" dustin yelled.

"hold on!" lucas called out as he used his binoculars to look around.

"i've got eyes! ten o'clock! ten o'clock!" he shrieked, of their life wasn't in danger, nova would definitely laugh.

"you sure that's not, like, a dog or something?" nova raised a brow, staring into the binoculars as lucas stared at her in shock.

"what? look at that thing!" he exclaimed quietly.

"he's not taking the bait." nova spoke up, and lucas realised. "shit."

the door to the RV opened, and nova and lucas frowned as they looked down to see steve walking out. "steve! what are you doing get back inside!"
she whisper yelled.

he brought a finger to his lips to hush her and then walked out, whistling at the demogorgon to get it to come out, waving his metal bat as they heard max ask what steve was doing.

lucas suddenly gasped as nova turned to him, "steve! watch out!" lucas screamed. "a little busy here!" steve yelled back.

"what's going on?" nova exclaimed, snatching the binoculars, gasping at what she saw.

"three o'clock! three o'clock!" lucas yelled.

steve looked away and widened his eyes. there were more than one demogorgon. dustin yelled for steve and opened the RV door. "steve! abort! abort!"

a demogorgon began to run at steve as he smacked it with the bat and fell over a car. "steve! hurry! run!" the teens were screaming at him in fear. steve ran towards them, and nova slammed the door shut behind him, bolting it.

"are they rabid or something?!" max exclaimed. "they can't get in! they can't!" lucas exclaimed as they all screamed when the demogorgons made the RV move and shake.

one of them managed to get in, and the young teens screamed as steve whacked it with the bat and the teens ran to the back.

dustin grabbed his supercomm and screamed, "is anyone there? mike? will? god! anyone!"

"shit!" max yelled as the claws of a demogorgon broke through the RV.

"we're at the old junkyard and we're going to die!" dustin yelled into the supercomm.

nova suddenly froze, and looked up in fear as a demogorgon could be heard on the roof, she looked up to the ladder and felt a scream caught in the back of her throat as one of them looked down at her.

"out of the way!" steve gently pushed her back into lucas as steve began to wave his bat around and lucas checked to see if she was okay, she held onto his hand tightly as the demogorgon screamed.

suddenly, it stopped and growled loudly before running off. they all stood up with a frown, before nova awkwardly let go of lucas' hand, muttering an apology.

"okay...yeah i believe you now." max spoke up.

they all went to the door, steve first with his bat as they looked around to see the junkyard abandoned. "what happened?" lucas spoke with wide eyes.

"steve scared 'em off!" dustin said proudly but steve shook his head.

"no..." he spoke, and nova looked at him, before at the demogorgons retreating figure.

she looked at them all in realisation, "they're going somewhere."

they all looked at her, terrified, before everyone shared a look together.

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