Thank you for all the follows and favorites on Chapter one! Chapter three will be up sometime in the next couple of days, but here's Chapter two! I hope you enjoy, happy reading :)

"Eleven."

Mike's voice cracks in the middle of her name, sharp and loud and noticeable, much like the crack in Hopper's heart at seeing the kid in so much pain.

After saying her name, the teary teen squeezes his eyes shut tight, letting two tears escape from them.

They roll down his face, race down his chin, and fall down onto the boys clasped hands in his lap.

Mike pays no attention to this, just keeps his eyes closed, and lets his head fall down slowly, until it lowers itself down onto the trucks dashboard.

After watching that, and finally seeing how vulnerable Mike is at the moment, Hopper finally decides that there is no way in hell he is letting the kid go back home, (much less out of his sight,) and quickly makes a conflicting decision.

Hopper turns around in his seat and grabs the keys that had been haphazardly thrown in the back alongside countless other things, which had been desperately placed there in an attempt to make room for Mike in the front seat.

He shoves the keys into the ignition, sets the car into drive, and pushes down the pedal halfway to the floor, causing the truck to go to 0-25 in about 5 seconds.

The sudden movement makes Mike's head slam into the dashboard, causing him to jolt up quickly and look at Hopper with surprise mixed with curiosity.

"Where are we going..?" the boy asked hesitantly, his eyes never leaving the road.

Hopper decides since the kid wouldn't answer him earlier, that he would give the kid a bit of payback and return the favor.

So, Hopper pretends the boy didn't speak, and keeps his eyes firmly planted on the road.

He could tell the kid was getting nervous, because he could practically feel the anxiety rolling off of him in waves.

He knows he's probably being a douche by doing this to the kid, especially after the "fantastic" night the teen has probably had so far, but, he keeps his mouth shut.

"Hopper!" Where are we going?!"

The kid is practically shouting at him by this point, so Hopper chooses to take pity on the poor kid and decides to answer.

"Home."

As he says this, the kid instantly goes pale, and starts to immediately stutter and fidget uncontrollably.

"Hopper- please no, not home okay? Anywhere but home."

The Chief continues to ignore the kid, and stares passively at the road.

"Chief, please! Not there. Please."

Mike draws out the "e" on the please and looks at Hopper with so much desperation on his face that Hopper feels his stony facade that he put on crack in two.

Hopper lets out a dramatic sigh and finally turns to face the kid and speaks, loud and sharp.

'I never said whose home we were going to, Michael."

Hopper watches with amusement as the kids face turns into a look of half hope that they weren't going to his house, and a look of mixed fear and disgust at the use of his full name.

But, Hopper's amusement quickly fades as Mike winces in pain after making said expression, having stretched the bruise on his cheekbones too much.

"Mike!" Hopper practically yells at the kid, pulling the truck to the side of the road they were currently driving on and grabbing the kids face, turning the bruise towards him.

The bruise on his cheekbone had gotten extremely darker than it had been in the rain earlier that evening, and the other smaller bruises on his nose and around his eye had also gotten darker as well. But, this wasn't what Hopper was most worried about at the moment.

What Hopper was worried about was the large cut on Mike's face spanning from the beginning of his eyebrow, to the outer corner of his left eye.

The cut went down diagonally, and after a closer inspection, Hopper observed that it wasn't a clean cut, like one that a knife would cause, but was ridged and jagged, like Mike had been pushed roughly into something that just happened to be sharp.

This led to the new revelation that Ted hadn't just gotten angry and slapped the kid around a couple times as he had originally thought, but that Ted had actually hurt the kid more than Mike had let on. And, after a quick glance at Mike's hands, expecting evidence of Mike fighting back, and finding nothing, Hopper made another discovery, one that made a spur of red hot anger go through him so quickly that his hold on Mike tightened ever so much, making the kid wince slightly at the increased pressure on his bruises.

Of course, Hopper paid no mind to this, as the new discovery both broke and strengthened him at the same time.

Ted had beat Mike up extensively, and Mike had let him.

This broke Hopper, because he knew that Mike would never lay a finger on anyone, let alone his father. So when Ted had started laying into the kid, Mike had just stood down and had taken it, which hurt Hopper to no end to think about.

But, it strengthened Hopper though, as well, because it gave him the strength and determination to decide that after he deposited Mike somewhere safe, he was going to go the the Wheeler's house and give Ted a taste of his own medicine, and a damn big dose of it too.