Caught In The Loop | Steve Harrington X Reader

~18~ Set It On Fire

I turn the steering wheel and accidentally hit a mailbox on the way doing so which startles me and scares Steve. The tires screech loudly all of a sudden and everyone screams in the dark car.

We finally get back on track and move forward again. I sigh, continuing to drive. The others calm down and Steve pants.

"I'm sorry Steve!" I apologize. "But it's not like I could argue against four kids to go outside and search the tunnels with two broken high school boys on the floor."

He grumbles something under his breath and Dustin sighs. "Steve, she cares. She's awesome. But she cares."

I smile lightly in the rearview mirror and I see Dustin return one of his adorable signature smiles.

We continue to drive the rest of the time in silence and before you know it, we've arrived to that big rotting pumpkin era. It skids to a stop with Steve screaming one last time.

"Argh Hello!"

"Whoa!" Dustin chuckles.

I pant and breathe frustrated, hands gripping the wheel with my knuckles so white. I let go of it and my hands shake.

"Incredible." Mike comments. 

"Incredible..."
Huh!?
My eyes shoot open, looking around.
No, no no not now!
I glare up at the man, panting and getting as much air back to my system as I can. He chuckles.
"You and Five-"
"FINLEY!" I screech. My nose bloody and red.
"Finley." He says through gritted teeth.
"Will be very useful to me when I need you most. He can connect or destroy love lives. And you can make and create whatever you desire. I think you two will be so strong."
I glare up at him silently.
"But..." He turns away.
"But what?" I ask.
"I want to open up to a new world. A new dimension. A place we can explore, and experiment further. You and Five sadly will not cut out for the job."
"So are you just gonna test more kids, is that it!?" I yell.
He turns to me silently.
"Y/N."
"Why of course."
"Y/N?"
"And if you don't want to help me..."
"Y/N!"

My eyes widen and I sit up, nearly banging my head on the wheel. The car doors are open and Steve is wide awake. He stands by my door while the others begin to go down the hole.

"Y/n. Thank God. Please, don't make me deal with these damn kids alone."

I watch as Dustin glances at us with some sort of safety glasses and a bandana before walking down the hole. I sigh, sitting upright before we go to the trunk. Me and Steve throw on safety glasses and the bandana. He picks up the bat and I have a newly constructed flamethrower.

Me and Steve head down the hole"Y and I look around. It's very cold, damp and oddly blue with the tunnel being absolutely crippled yet massive. I gawk at my surroundings as Steve grunts with the final drop into the hole. His eyes are wide as he looks around.

"Holy shit."

"I suddenly have a bad feeling about this." I grumble.

"Yeah, I'm pretty sure it's this way." Mike says aloud carrying some sort of paper map.

"I'll protect you if anything goes wrong." I say lowly to Steve. "I should protect you."

"We can protect each other." I opinionate.

He nods and decides to go with that before the both of us uneagerly take our first few steps into the tunnel.

"You're pretty sure, or you're certain?" Dustin asks.

"I'm one hundred percent sure. Just follow me and you'll know." He answers.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa." Steve hesitates. "Hey, hey, hey, hey I don't think so."