El is on some serious

by JaceHerondale21

With Hopper tracking down a sick psycho mauling and killing animals for the last year, he's never around, so El turns to smoking weed to get attention from him. AU where El has no powers, and so the Upside Down is never discovered. I will explain why El is still with Hopper, and not her mom, later in the story, so chill the heck out.

13. Jon and Mike throw down

Ch. 13

Byers house, Jonathan's room.

Mike slammed against the wall and slid down it. "Come on! Fight me! Come on! You want to fight so bad, right? What are you, a fucking cowardly woman beater? Come on Mike! Fight back!" Jonathan shouted, shoving Mike back down as he tried to climb back to his feet.

"No," Mike replied. "I won't be baited into a fight."

"Seems like you just got baited not an hour ago, buddy," Jonathan replied.

"She swung first."

"Then you duck, and walk away."

"El would lose all respect for me if I did that. She wanted that fight more than I did."

Mike replied, walking out of Jonathan's room, exiting the Byers's house, climbing on his bike, and heading for home. Soon, a Hawkins PD vehicle pulled up to the Byers's house, tires spinning. Hopper jumped out, grabbed a shotgun, saw that Mike's bike was no longer there, cursed, threw the gun in the backseat, and headed inside (remember Hopper's promise to Mike at Murray's). "What the fuck is going on kid? From what I hear, you threw the first punch. That true?"

Hopper asked El, who was sitting on Joyce's bed, when he got inside.

"I slapped him and kneed him in his balls after he called me a slut, (Hopper clenches his teeth, and subtly shifts his weight on top of his hands) then he shoved me. I then started swinging for his face, to which he returned in kind." El replied.

"So, Mike just saw you and out of the blue, called you a slut? Not buying it, kid." Hopper replied. "For all the things about Mike that I hate, he genuinely cares about you, so I can't imagine him saying something like that without you seriously hurting him. So either last night was worse on him than we thought, or you said some dumb shit and pissed him off. I'm going to go with option two, based on my experience with the both of you." Hopper then got up and left the room, heading toward the truck, not waiting for El to follow.