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"I hope I make it a little softer here for someone."
~Butterflies Rising
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"I just . . . I can't believe she didn't come back," Mike sighted quietly as he stood in his basement, eyes trained on the blanket fort that Eleven had built "She's got to be close," Dustin spoke up from his spot on the bottom of the stairs.

Floyd turned to look at his cousin with raised eyebrows, since he had arrived he had attended a funeral of his best friend and had his other friends info-dump a conspiracy theory on him as well as a mysterious girl with powers "You think she's still here?" Dustin turned to look away from Mike and to stare at Floyd "She has no where else to go."

"She said it wasn't safe," Mike muttered "She just messed up the compasses because she wanted to protect us," He continued "She threw Lucas against a car! I wouldn't call that protecting us!" Floyd exclaimed, waving his hands through the air frantically, his curly hair shaking wildly "She was just trying to break up the fight," Mike argued.

"You started that fight Mike." The friends locked eyes "He was being horrible to El," Mike defended "You're going to pick the girl you've known for what, a week? Over Lucas who we've known for years?!" Floyd asked and Mike hesitated before he opened his mouth to respond, but Dustin quickly interjected.

"Look, she affected all of us with her crazy mind powers yesterday. Us fighting now won't help anyone." Dustin looked at Mike intently before his eyes flickered to Floyd, who was gnawing his lip "She probably didn't mean—" Mike started before Dustin snapped "No, Mike! You give me and Floyd a break! We were being the only reasonable ones. The three of you were just being a bunch of little assholes! We saw what Eleven did, but bottom line, what started it all was you. You punched first. And you know the rule. You draw first blood—"

"No! No way!" Mike exclaimed in disgust. "I'm not shaking his hand."

"You're shaking his hand!"

"No, I'm not!"

"Rules are rules, Mike," Floyd added "Obey or be banished from the party. Do you want to be banished?" Dustin raised his eyebrows and Mike bowed his head "No."

"Good," Dustin breathed out a sigh of relief. The young Henderson boy turned on his heel and strode away before shrugging on his jacket. Then he tossed Mike and Floyd's jackets to each one respectively, who shared a confused glance "Where are we going?" Mike called as Dustin hopped up the basement stairs "Where do you think?" Dustin retorted from upstairs "We're going to get Lucas. And then we're going to find Eleven."

"Let's go!" Floyd sped after Dustin, Mike hot on his heels.

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Jonathan and Nancy had both slept at the Wheeler house, Scarlett had instead returned home. Her house was far enough from the monster sightings so rationally she felt safe.

The next morning Scarlett had been tucked under her covers, sketchbook in hand as she sketched a drawing of Blake dancing in a field. Her reference was a polaroid of Blake spinning in the woods. The hardest part to draw by far was Blake's hair. The red strands were a wild, curly mess that reflected the sun brightly.

Tick.

The brunette frowned and put her sketchbook down. Wrapping the heavy blanket around her shoulders, she groggily dragged herself to her window. She frowned as she saw Jonathan and Nancy standing beneath her window, dressed up like they had been the previous day.

"Why are you two here this early in the morning?" Scarlett asked as she opened her window "We're taking you monster hunting. Again," Nancy called back and Scarlett stared at the younger girl for a few seconds before shrugging "I'll get dressed and be down in a few."

"You kinda look like my grandma like that!" Jonathan barked, Nancy joining in in his laughter. To be fair, Scarlett Henderson had over a dozen big curlers in her hair, there were big glasses on her face, a heavy blanket around her shoulders and she had a partly see through shawl wrapped around her hair to keep the curlers more in place "Ha ha ha, Jonathan."

Scarlett quickly took out her curlers while brushing her teeth. After, she quickly buttoned up a shirt and stuffed it in her trousers before walking out of her house to be greeted by the chilly morning air and her two monster hunting friends.

In the end they decided to take Jonathan's car, partly because his car was there and also because Claudia's car had broken down and therefore the mother required Scarlett's car.

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Soon enough the three teens stumbled through the hardware store. They had made a quick detour to the Sizzling Griddle where Scarlett managed to score them all coffee and some form of breakfast food.

Jonathan dumped a bear trap into the shopping cart that Scarlett was pushing through the store. Scarlett quickly dropped an extra set of lighters in the cart.

The brunette did smoke so she always had a lighter with her, but one could never have too many lighters when monster hunting.

"What you kids doing with all this?" The man behind the register asked, a southern accent obvious in his heavy voice "Monster hunting," Nancy deadpanned. The man shrugged, he probably thought that they were idiot teenagers that were messing around.

The three teenagers walked out of the store, each holding a box with various contents. Jonathan opened his trunk and Scarlett happily put her heavy box away "You know last week, I was shopping for a new top I thought Steve might like," Nancy said, staring at the bear trap peeking over the edge of Scarlett's box "It took Barb and I all weekend, it seemed like life or death. And now-" She trailed off and bit her lip.

"Your shopping for bear traps with Jonathan Beyers and Scarlett Henderson," Jonathan grinned "What's the weirdest part? Me or the bear trap?" Jonathan asked, causing Nancy to laugh a little "You, definitely." The trio shared a few more laughs.

"Hey Nance, can't wait to see your new movie!" Some random jerk from school hollered "What's that barf bag talking about?" Scarlett frowned and turned to see Nancy marching off in the direction of the small movie theatre "Yo, Nancy! Wait up!" Scarlett rushed after the younger girl, Jonathan hot on her heels.

Nancy halted as she read the words on the sign on the theatre.

ALL THE RIGHT MOVIES STARRING NANCY THE SL*T WHEELER

"Jesus," Jonathan murmured as Nancy's breathing became shallow. All of the sudden it felt as if everyone was staring at her. Eyes following the Wheeler girl around. Surly everyone would tell her parents. Her parents who wanted nothing more than to be a perfect nuclear family. Parents who would throw her out due to her being a sl*t.

Nancy started running, she needed to get away from that sign, from the weird Scarlett Henderson, from the Jonathan Byers who surely helped tarnish her reputation "Nancy, wait!" Scarlett called out, both her and Jonathan once more sprinting after her.

Scarlett's eyes widened as she saw none other than Steve, Tommy and Carol in the alleyway. Of course they would have done it. Those three were such stereotypical idiots. All three rich, issues at home, not the smartest and so they channeled their feelings into making other people feel bad.

"What's wrong with you?" Nancy demanded, slapping Steve across the cheek. The sound was so hard that Scarlett cringed, that surely hurt like a bitch "What's wrong with me, what about you?" He asked glaring at her "I was worried about you, I can't believe I was actually worried about you."

"What are you talking about?" Nancy looked back to see Carol and Tommy "I wouldn't lie if I was you, wouldn't want to be known as the lying sl*t now, would you?" Carol blew a big bubble as she looked at Nancy "Oh hey, you brought my favourite d*ke!" Carol gushed as she looked at Scarlett "Tell me, where's my lesbian sister?"

"Bite me, airhead," Scarlett hissed, prompting Tommy to stride forward "No one talks to my girl like that. You hear me?"

"You came by last night," Nancy spoke, making the attention drift back to her and Steve "Look I don't know what you think you saw but it wasn't like that." Her eyes looked at Steve who just seemed sceptical and hurt "What you just let him in your house to study?" Steve deadpanned, looking down at Nancy who hesitated before talking "We were just-" She stopped shaking her head.

"What? Finish your sentence, come on!" Steve challenged glaring at her. After a several seconds of Nancy not answering he looked at Scarlett sharply "Where you there?" Now, Scarlett had gone home and left the two alone, and Scarlett wasn't the best liar in the world "I-....Nothing happened Steve, you know neither of them would do something," Scarlett offered and Steve shook his head, taking a few steps back from Scarlett "Go to hell Nancy."

"Yeah it's time to leave," Jonathan began but Steve cut him off "I always took you for a queer but I guess you're just a screw up like your father." Steve met Jonathan's eyes, the younger of the pair suddenly gained a defensive look "In fact your whole families a bunch of screw ups, look what happened to your brother. The Byers' they're family's a disgrace to the entire-" Steve never finished because Jonathan jumped him.

A punch hitting Steve square in the jaw before they started rolling over the ground in white anger. The two boys were punching, scratching and pulling each other's hair.

Carol and Tommy cheered for Steve to finish Jonathan, Nancy kept trying to break up the fight and Scarlett stood there frozen in fear. She knew that the fight could never end well. Soon enough the sound of sirens filled the ears of the group of teenagers.

Carol and Tommy immediately bolted, sprinting down the alley "Guys! The cops are here!" Scarlett urged as she tried to tug Jonathan's shoulder, only to be almost smacked in the face by one of the boys.

A cop pulled Jonathan off of Steve and pushed the boy into a car that was parked in the alley. Taking the opportunity, Steve jumped to his feet and ran as fast as he could, a cop perusing the boy.

"The three of you are going to the station," One of the cops informed, forcing Scarlett, Jonathan and Nancy into the police car.

A/N:
So this is very very very late.....hehehehe...I am sorry. Also I should be studying for a chemistry test and a reading test, but who needs sleep?

i do

Anyway, hope you enjoyed!

Me 24/7, not gonna lie

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