"MIKE?" Eleven Screamed through her tears. "MIKE!" she heard herself echo.
"Mike…?" she managed to get out through her sobbing. She dropped to her knees. It was dark. All around her. She knew where she was. The place. The bath.
"Mike… mike…" Mike suddenly woke up to his girlfriend talking in her sleep. He didn't remember falling asleep on the basement couch, but that's where we woke up.
He looked around still half asleep. He saw el sleeping in her blanket fort despite the bed his mom bought her to sleep in. she felt safe when she was in the blanket fort mike made, just for her.
He walked over to her stumbling on his way and crouched down. She was rolling around, obviously having a hard time sleeping. Yet she didn't wake herself up. He gently shook her shoulder to shake her awake. Her head jolted up as he stopped shaking her shoulder. "MIKE!" she shouted still half asleep. She Leaned over and gave her boyfriend a hard hug. "Mike…" she said through tears.
Mike let her hug him for a good minute or so then pulled away. "El!" mike said worried for her. "What happened? Did you have a nightmare?
"Night.. Mare?" El said having not heard the word before despite being 14 already.
"It's just a big word for bad dream." Mike explained.
"Oh." El said. "Then yes. I had a nightmare."
"Do you want to talk about it yet?" Mike asked caringly. "Yes" El said scooting over and patting a spot indicating she wanted mike to come sit with her. He was all she needed after that experience.
"So, what happened in your dream?" Mike asked her. "I was back." That was all she said. "In the upside down?" Mike said very confused. "No." El said. "The bath."
"You're still having those dreams? After two years? Dang El" Mike said while giving his girlfriend a caring side hug.
"Well no matter HOW long its been, those dreams are not real. The demogorgon, it can't get you. You killed it. Forever. The next time that happens just come upstairs and crawl in my bed. Or even Nancy's." El smiled a bit and nodded agreeingly.
"Now come on El. Lets go have some Eggos." Mike said knowing that eggos can fix everything when it comes to eleven.
"Hey el guess what." Mike said to his girlfriend
"What mike?" el said in wonder.
"I love you" mike said to her
"M-Mike?" El said to mike
"Yes el?" mike said knowing what she was going to say
"I love you too"
Mike smiled, and kissed the top of her head.