Orphic | •Will Byers X Reader•

Space Dust

"Yo but that's not the half of it! We did a very manly scream as obviously that shocked us, but, but, but we ran around to DigDug where she was and you would never fucking guess what name was typed into the scoreboard..."

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"Supernova" You muttered to yourself, flicking through Will's astronomy book.

Will's head popped around his bedroom door, "What you looking for?"

You turned around to face him, he had just gotten out of the shower and his damp hair was dripping onto his pyjamas, "Oh I'm just trying to look up Supernovas"

Will laughed, "That's a bit random, why the sudden interest?"

You smiled, "I don't know really, you were on about them earlier on for your science homework and they had this appeal to me so I wanted to look them up"

Will nodded and closed his bedroom door behind him, he walked over to you and started to read the paragraph that you were on.

"I just think it's so cool how they were this immense star that gave off so much energy, heat and light, yet they slowly started to die out, then BANG!" You made Will jump, "They explode with so much passion that it destroys itself and sometimes other things around them. Like the core becomes so heavy for the star that it cannot withstand its own gravitational force, so it collapses"

Your tone of voice softened, "And then, sometimes, they leave behind nebulas which are just colourful mixtures of fog floating through space. Like a beautiful reminder of what was once there, something great."

You looked up at Will, "Even then, sometimes gravity starts to pull the gas and elements in the nebulae together - creating a Proto-star, starting the entire cycle again"

Will looked at you, it was clear how passionate you were about space, "And, sometimes, these beautiful explosions are caused when," Will pointed to another paragraph on the page, "there are two stars that orbit the same point and one of the stars, a white dwarf star, steals matter from its companion star. Eventually, the white dwarf accumulates too much matter and that causes the star to explode, resulting in a supernova"

"Yeah" You breathed, looking at Will.

You slowly closed the book, letting the pages brush over your fingertips.

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Mike ran his hands through his hair.

"I mean" Lucas looked at Dustin, "We had an idea of who It could be..."

Mike and Will looked over to them, "Who?" Mike asked.

"Well, at first, we thought it could be 11" Dustin said.

Mike took a sharp breath in.

"But she's been gone for... too long. And she couldn't turn invisible, as far as we knew" Dustin sighed.

"But then we thought it could be another test subject, but the likely hood of that is just too little - and thinking of it now I never saw a number on her wrists" Lucas said.

Dustin took a breath in, "Soooo, that only left us with one other solution"

Lucas cleared his throat, "Y/N"

Mike put his head in his hands, yet Will stood up.

His mouth opening and closing every so often, like he knew what he wanted to say but he just couldn't get the words out.