Boiman7000: There will be times you'll have to wait longer for a new chapter. I do write other fanfiction (though a writer's block forces me on hiatus) and I do have a job I have to go to every day. I also go in shifts, so when I have a shift that starts in the afternoon, I have some time to write in the morning but when I have the early shift, I'm brain dead afterwards, so writing will be very hard ;)
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"That was... it was..." El stammered, barely able to form a coherent thought.
"Intense?" Mike suggested, his hand running along her stomach under the shirt.
"That would be an understatement." El chuckled and hummed contentedly, pressing her back harder against his body. "How did you know how to do this?"
"Steve." he told her. "He gave us erotic magazines to learn, as he said it."
"Like Cosmopolitan?" she asked.
"No, things like Playboy, Penthouse and Hustler." he told her, blushing when he remembered his reaction upon reading the latter and his revulsion at some of the things in the last of the three magazines.
"Maybe I should read those." she giggled and turned her head so she could kiss him. "Maybe I can learn a few things to do for you."
"I..." he stammered this time, his mind whirling with images.
"This is nice." she hummed. "I'm so glad you can stay for another two days."
"Me too." he agreed and rested his head on the pillow, breathing in her scent.
El couldn't stop smiling. After waking up, she was more than ready to mount him again to get another high but this time, he seemed to have other ideas. Since he had been spooning her, he simply turned his body a bit and let his hands roam until he had build up enough courage to touch her between her legs without ever going under her pajama bottoms.
El had hissed in surprise when his fingers had reached for it. It felt even better than when she was doing the active part and after ten seconds, her left leg had lifted, giving him more room to move. He had caressed her gently, interspersing it fast circling movements and she had groaned and moaned and begged him for more.
And what Mike had also done was look at the room. While El had been moaning in front of him, he had watched the loose items in the room, her teddy bear and their clothes, everything else being tight down this time. And when El had come close to the climax he wanted to give her, her things had begun floating again and stayed in the air until she had calmed back down.
"But hey, now we know that my powers come from orgasms." she smiled at him.
"I... uh... I don't think it's just orgasms." Mike hesitated. "I think it's when you feel a very strong emotion."
"Kali said that I had to channel my anger to be stronger." she mused.
"Kali?" he wondered why he was talking about an Indian goddess.
"My sister." she explained, which confused him even more.
"You have a sister?" Mike sat up surprised.
"No, not from my mother." El shook her head. "We were raised in the lab together. She's number eight."
"Does she have the same powers as you?"
"No, she can make people see things." El told him.
"What things?"
"Anything she wants." El giggled. "She made one of her friends see spiders crawling over his arm."
"Where is she?"
"When I saw her last, she had to flee from the police, but we were in Chicago."
"So, maybe she's still in town?" Mike asked.
"Possibly." El nodded. "But I haven't seen her once since we moved here."
"Was she the one who gave you that punk look you had when you came back?"
"Yes." she nodded. "They wanted me to find the bad men who hurt us so she could kill them."
"She wanted you to kill people?" Mike gasped, his anger rising.
"Yes." she nodded again. "But after I found one, I couldn't do it. And later that night, I took one of your old shirts and I found you and dad in the void. You were yelling about something being a trap and I knew I had to come back to save you."
"I'm glad you did." Mike sighed and laid back down, spooning her again. "I love you."
"I love you too." she smiled and grabbed his hand, lifting his arm around her waist before throwing it off again. "Wait, I have an idea!"
"About?" he asked as she sat up.
"You said that my powers may be coming from strong emotions, right?"
"It's just a theory." he shrugged. "Why?"
Giving him a short, but hard kiss, she sat on the bed and concentrated on her teddy bear. She didn't use anger or rage, she couldn't use the sexual high she felt when she got an orgasm but there was one emotion she knew was strong in her. She thought of Mike, of him giving her dry, clean clothes. Him handing her a blanket and a few pillows for the fort he had built in his basement, where she slept safely for the first time without having to fear bad men waking her and making her do things.
She thought of the first eggo waffle he gave her, leftover meatloaf and candy, showing her around his home, showing her the lay-z-boy and how happy if not a bit apprehensive she was during that time. How he hid her from his mother to keep her safe. Dressed her in a beautiful dress and a wig so other children wouldn't stare.
How he defended her from the bully and how he hugged her after she had pulled him up the cliff and revealed that she had been the one who had opened the gate that caused Will to be taken by the demogorgon. She remembered herself shouting his name after waking up in the Upside Down, the first thing in her mind going back to his house but having to run when the agents noticed her.
How he called her every day for almost a year while she was hiding in her dad's cabin. His reaction to her return, the tight hug she never wanted to end. The year of bliss afterwards. The hours upon hours of them kissing, hugging, simply spending time together and enjoying each other's presence, which had annoyed her dad so much that he had broken them up. His touches, his care, his love that he showed with every word, with every gesture, with every look.
She let all of that going through her and slowly but surely, the bear lifted into the air. El couldn't stop a tear from falling from her eye when she saw it, the bear twisting and turning in the air the she moved it. She slowly let it go back down until it rested at the top of the headboard of her bed again, sitting there with its arms forward as if it wanted to applaud.
"You did it!" Mike gasped and sat up as well, hugging her fiercely from behind.
"But it was harder than I thought it was." El sniffed, burying his head in his chest.
"But now you have a starting point." Mike tried to encourage her. "Maybe you should train a bit every day."
"You think it would help?" she asked insecure and he pushed her away so he could get off the bed to stand next to it.
"El, look at me." he said and took off his shirt, revealing his toned stomach and his bigger arms.
"You look delicious." she giggled and got on her knees, her elevation on the bed making her almost as tall as him.
"But remember how I looked before?" he pointed at himself. "Scrawny, lanky, thin arms and when I began growing faster than the others, it made the impression even worse."
"But now you look amazing." El said dreamily and felt a pang of fear that another girl would take him away from here when she wasn't with him.
"And you know why?" he smiled at her.
"Because you swim?"
"Because I swim." he nodded. "I swim three to four times a week. When I first started, I couldn't do it for more than twenty minutes, now I can swim two hours before I have to take a break."
"I can't even swim." she said dejectedly.
"My point is, that practice makes you better." he said. "And if you like to, I can teach you to swim."
"You would?" she looked at him wide-eyed.
"Yes, of course." he smiled warmly and sat back on the bed, resting his back against the headboard. "When you come over for Christmas, I can take you to the indoor pool. You just have to get a bathing suit."
"Want me to get a one-piece bathing suit or a two-piece bikini?" she giggled and swung her legs over his hips, straddling him and running her hand through his wild hair.
"I'd love to see you in a bikini but I think for the sake my sanity and professionalism, you should wear a one-piece." he chuckled and ran his hands over her thighs. "Otherwise, I doubt I could teach you swimming, the only thing you'd learn would be how to be touched and ogled at by your boyfriend in water."
"How about I wear only bikini bottoms." she bit her lip and pulled her shirt over her head, seeing his eyes bug out again. "Like this."
"I... I..." he gasped. "My god, you're so beautiful."
"So, how about it?" she grinned, even shaking her chest a bit.
"Dear god, no!" he groaned. "If you did that, you'd definitely not learn how to swim."
"Is the pool even open on Christmas?" she wondered while taking his hands and putting them on her breasts.
"The owner gave me a key, since he knows I like to swim." he shrugged and began to caress them, his crotch immediately reacting.
"Oh, so we have privacy?" she wiggled her eyebrows.
"You're going to be the death of me, you know that?" he sighed.
"Relax, I really want to learn how to swim." she hugged him tightly, which felt strange given that his hands were still covering her breasts.
Mike began kissing her shoulder, gently sucking on the skin and even running his teeth over her skin. El hissed sharpy, bending her head to the side to give him better access. Mike still couldn't believe how open she had become with him during the last two days, from taking her shirt off in front of him to dropping her pajama bottoms while her back was turned to him. And now he was having his hands on her breasts again, something he would never get tired of feeling while she allowed him to caress her skin with his lips.
El pulled away and lifted her head, smiling warmly at him. She dropped kiss on his lips and leaned backwards slightly, pulling his head forward and down. Mike got the message and took one of his hands away from her breasts and replacing it with his mouth. El hummed and held his head, feeling the gentle flickers of his tongue over her nipple and basking in the feeling that she was his girlfriend, the one girl he did this with.
Screw those other girls back in Hawkins. Let them pine for him. She was the one who had his attentions. And if someone else dared to do more than just look, she'd bring the wrath of god down on them.
"Unbelievable." Dustin commented when they entered the mall, seeing the throngs of people moving everywhere. "Mike, come here."
"Screw you." Mike laughed as the others were lining up behind him.
"Okay guys, all together." Dustin said. "Push!"
"Shut up!" Mike kept laughing but started walking, the others shoving him forward.
They managed to get through the mass of people close to the entrance and began walking through the mall, seeing the large discount signs with high numbers close to three digits. Lucas, Dustin and Will were deviating towards the gaming supply store, that had less of those signs in the windows but before Mike could follow them, El squeezed his hand and got his attention.
"Wanna come clothes shopping with me?" she asked sweetly.
"Uh... isn't that something girls do together because they don't WANT their guys around?"
"I want you around." El said. "You can point out what you'd like me to see in."
"El, you could wear a burlap sack and this one would drool about how beautiful you are." Max smirked. "I'll go with the others, you two have fun."
With a big grin, El dragged Mike away, her boyfriend looking rather uncomfortable. She surmised that it was because men in general didn't like to go shopping for things they don't want to buy, so she formulated a plan in her head how she could make the experience better for him.
"Well, well, well, if it ain't Shirley Temple." a familiar voice stopped her dead in her tracks.
"Axel." she gasped after turning around, seeing the criminal gang she had met sitting under the stairwell leading to the next level.
"Even though you ran away, it's good to see you." the man with the mohawk hair cut smiled and gave her a friendly squeeze.
"Hello Jane." Dottie and Mick hugged her for real.
"Little one." Funshine nodded to her before engulfing her in a big bear hug that lifted her two feet off the ground.
"Is Kali here?" El asked. "I need to apologize to her for leaving."
"It's okay." the familiar voice of her sister greeted her from the side before the woman herself came into view. "I can see why you had to leave."
"Guys, this is Mike, my boyfriend." El introduced her sweetie. "Mike, this is my sister Kali and her friends."
"Nice to meet you." Mike said coldly, not forgetting that this one had tried to turn his El into a killer.
"Did you tell him why you're calling me your sister?" Kali asked El.
"Yes." El nodded. "He knows."
"So, you can make people see things?" Mike asked, deciding to keep cool and not embarrass El by making a scene.
"Yep." Kali nodded.
"How does that look like?"
"Like this." Kali pointed her head to the side and Mike saw a dragon crashing through the nearest store window, breathing fiery death around the mall.
"Holy shit!" Mike gasped. "That is so cool!"
"I'm impressed." Kali said. "I thought you'd scream and run away."
"You said it's only an illusion, so..." Mike shrugged.
"And you're fine with her powers?" Kali asked him.
"She saved my life more than once with them, so yeah." Mike nodded.
"So, is everything okay with you?" Kali turned to El again.
"Not everything." El shook her head. "We had another dangerous crisis last year and my dad died. Now I live here with my guardian and her family."
"Oh god, I'm so sorry." Kali said and gave El a comforting hug.
"How is it going with you?" El asked back. "Did you get away from the police?"
"Sure, but it took a lot out of me this time." Kali nodded. "They really wanted to get us that day."
"Have you killed any other bad man since then?"
"No, we decided to collect information but otherwise lay low." Kali shook her head. "You could help us, you know? Find them?"
"No, I can't." El said. "I... lost my powers."
"What?" Kali gasped. "How did that happen?"
"I was bitten by the mind flayer..."
"The what?"
"It's a monster from a... uh... Mike?" El turned to her sweetie.
"Yeah?" he came over.
"What did you call the Upside Down?"
"It's a dark mirror dimension to ours." Mike explained. "Probably controlled by the mind flayer and inhabited by demogorgons."
"Demo... what?" Kali looked confused.
"Demogorgons." Mike clarified. "About seven feet tall, can't be harmed by bullets and their head is like a flower that opens to reveal a maw with way too many sharp teeth."
"Ouch." Kali shuddered. "You're kidding now, right?"
"A few years ago, when El fled from the lab, she accidentally opened a gate to that dimension." Mike recounted for Kali, his serious tone telling her that he wasn't kidding. "Since then, we had to close it twice to prevent the creature that controls it to come into our world."
"Wait, those news reports about the fire at Starcourt Mall in Hawkins..." Kali hesitated, the puzzle pieces falling into place.
"Yeah." Mike nodded. "We fought against a giant monster controlled by the mind flayer. Luckily it burned to ash before the fire department arrived, so nobody knew what was actually there."
"And now her powers are gone?"
"Well..." Mike didn't know if he should say it but El nodded. "Not entirely gone. But she can't use them unless she's in a heightened emotional state. And even then, her control is not a hundred percent."
"Jane, can I talk to Mike privately for a second?" Kali asked her.
"Okay." El nodded and stepped away.
"Listen, before you say anything, let me just make one thing clear." Mike talked first before Kali could. "I don't like you."
"You don't even know me." Kali retorted.
"True, but I know that you tried to turn my sweet, innocent El into a killer and I don't know if I can ever forgive you for that."
"I guess I deserve that." Kali accepted. "But just so you know, I see her as my sister, so if you hurt her in any way, I will make sure that you will live the rest of your life in your own personal hell."
"Rest assured, the day I hurt El on purpose is the day I voluntarily jump into the fires of hell and lash myself to the torture devices." Mike promised.
"Good." Kali smiled. "I can see that she loves you."
"I love her with all my heart." Mike said with full confidence. "I can't live without her. It pains me that we live apart now and can only see each other for a few days at a time."
"You're a good kid." Kali said. "Albeit freakishly tall for your age."
"Don't you start too." Mike chuckled. "I get that enough from my friends. They're calling me Lurch."
"Come on, lets go spend time with your girlfriend." Kali smiled.
"You still want clothes shopping?" Mike asked his love.
"Of course." El smiled and turned to the group. "Bye guys. Stay safe."
"Goodbye, little one." Funshine smiled, even Axel sporting a smile.
El dragged him into the clothing store she visited with Max two days earlier and saw the large bargain signs on top the various clothes hangers. Using Mike like a plow, she pushed her way to the rack where the jeans had been hanging, looking for her size and finding it, quickly grabbing the pair and handing it to her boyfriend to hold.
Several more shirts landed in Mike's arms, another set of matching bra and underwear with a flower motif, one black and one red lace bra, a pair of shorts, pajama bottoms and three skirts. She rounded with out with a sweater and a jacket for the cold weather and had to laugh when she finally turned around to Mike, seeing him carry everything with only his head visible over all her stuff.
"Come on." she giggled and led him to the changing booths.
"I'll wait outside." Mike said after setting down the clothes on the small bench inside.
"No, you can stay." she winked. "I want your direct input."
"Are you aware what you will do to me if I stay in here?" he looked at her and saw her give him a sweet smile. "Yeah, of course you are aware."
"Close the door." she breathed and took off her pants as soon as they had privacy.
"Hrhm!" he groaned as he sat down on the bench.
"What's wrong?" she asked, turning towards him.
"I can't... god, your ass has become so shapely." he sighed. "Now that I know how it feels, I wanna have my hands on it all the time."
"Go ahead." she giggled and stepped closer to him so he could put his hands on her behind and squeeze just to stop again. "What's wrong?"
"It's just... in two days, we'll be going home and I'm not gonna see you every day anymore."
"I know." she sighed. "But I'll be with you for two weeks over Christmas and New Years."
"But then it's several months where we can't see each other."
"I know." she sniffed and pressed her lips against his. "But we'll get through this. We have spring break, summer break and so on."
"God, I love you so much."
"I love you too." she smiled and stepped back. "Now, let the modeling begin."
With those innocent words, El tried on the pants, Mike whistling impressed when she twirled in front of him. Her behind was very accentuated in them and she put the jeans directly onto the yes pile. Next she wanted to try on the underwear and after taking off the jeans, the shirt and her bra, she also simply pulled down her panties, Mike almost hyperventilating when he saw her doing that. He knew that if she turned around now, he'd die for real.
Luckily for him, at least this time, she didn't, simply putting on the bra and pantie combo she had taken earlier. It was partially see-through, the flowers on it covering her private parts but everything else was visible through the fabric. El didn't really like that and put it onto the No pile after putting her regular panties back on.
Next came the other bras, Mike's bulging eyes telling her that she definitely should take them. One was a little bigger than she needed currently but she was certain that her breasts would keep growing at least a bit more so it was most likely fit later. Of the shirts, two were too small, one was too wide and the others fit perfectly. She chose two of the perfect fitting ones and the wide one, the latter to wear when she wanted something comfortable and of course for when she grew into it.
"Can you believe that all of this will cost as much as the pants alone did when I came here with Max?" El asked, pointing at the Yes pile, that now included the sweater and the jacket.
"That's the magic of black Friday." he chuckled, standing up and picking up the clothing she wanted to buy.
Knowing about the chaos that can erupt on a day like this, he held the clothing articles close to him, preventing anyone from ripping them out of his hands while El put the stuff back she didn't want. Once the waiting at the checkout was over, El handed the money over to the cashier who put it all into bags that Mike took immediately, carrying it outside with El following him.
The next stop was a shoe store, Mike groaning when El sat down on a chair and began simply looking at the shoes. It took her ten minutes before she grabbed three pairs, trying them on and walking around in them, shaking her head at every single pair. Another pair was tried on and discarded before she found one that she liked,
"What do you think?" she asked her sweetie, who looked bored.
"Honey, please don't ask me about shoes." he shrugged apologetically. "For me, they have to fit and be comfortable and unless they're in screaming colors, I don't really care about how they look."
"Okay, what do you think about the shoes now?" she asked innocently before standing right in front of him, her back turned to him, and bending down.
"Uhhhh..." he almost drooled. "You're wearing shoes?"
"Shut up!" she laughed, still amazed at her own boldness and sat down on his lap to take the shoes off again. "I think I'll take those."
"Can you afford them?" he asked and turned the price tag.
"Crap." El cursed.
"Don't worry, I'll buy them for you." Mike smiled.
"You don't have to do that." she said.
"My love, we couldn't celebrate your birthday and even though you said it was okay, I still want to buy you something." he gave her a kiss and took the shoes to the checkout, paying for them before she could say any more words of denial.
"Thank you." she grinned from ear to ear and linked her arm through his elbow, carrying the bag with the shoe carton herself since he still had three bags in his other hand.
"Hey, you finished with clothing?" Dustin asked them as they found the group sitting in the food court.
"Yeah." Mike nodded and showed them the three bags she was holding. "She really held herself back."
"Shut up!" El hit his arm playfully. "You like everything I bought."
"I do." Mike winked and gave her a kiss.
"Guys, food first, making out later." Dustin stopped them from going further. "I vote for pizza."
"How about we each get a hot dog?" Lucas suggested. "Saves us of dividing a pizza among six people."
"Or we just tell the guy to slice the pizza into twelve pieces and everyone gets two." Will added.
"Sounds good." Dustin nodded and the group agreed.
"Alright." Lucas bowed to the will of the majority. "What about the toppings?"
"Hot dogs it is then." El stated, causing everyone to laugh.
With Mike and the other guys guarding her purchases, El and Max went to the vendor, getting six large hot dogs with all the stuff that goes on them and bringing them back to the group. Everybody grabbed one and began eating, Lucas, Dustin and Will gushing over the cheap things they'd found in the gaming store and showing around their purchases while Max looked bored.
"Max, everything okay?" El asked.
"It'll soon be." Max winked. "Because Lucas and I will also go clothes shopping after lunch."
"When was that decided?" Lucas looked aghast.
"When you and the other two musketeers had an hour long discussion about which version of Princess Leia is hotter."
"Guys, seriously?" Mike looked at them. "You spent an hour talking about that even though you know nothing beats slave Leia in the golden bikini?"
"There are nuances." Lucas argued.
"Not really." Dustin shook his head. "I never heard anyone talk about Leia in the white robe."
While the group laughed, El thought about something. She knew that Mike viewed the Leia in the golden bikini as hot, she had seen as much when they had watched the Star Wars trilogy together but now, she got an idea on what to do for his birthday. While she wouldn't be with him when the day came, as much as that sucked, she could give it to him during her Christmas visit.
She only needed to get a Princess Leia costume.
It's so weird, you know? I have a massive writer's block when it comes to my Big Bang Theory stories but for this one, the words flow out so easily and fast, that I can't even write fast enough. It has gone so far that I created a separate text file that contains passages from no less than five more chapters already...
But you won't get to read them anytime soon if you don't...
Review please :)