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.

16. Effigies, bleeding, and saving throws

Ch. 16

Everyone in the Hawkins Police Department looked up when the doors got kicked open. "I'm back, bitches! I found him! You were wrong, and I was right! Suck it!" El sang as she helped Mike through the door. He sank into a chair and was quickly crowded by the staff of the Hawkins PD. "Let him breathe!" El shouted, shoving everyone back. "Has someone called my dad yet? No? Well, what the fuck are you waiting for! Call him! Get off your fat asses and do something useful for once!"

20 minutes later

Everyone looked up once again as the doors burst open yet again (Where do you think El picked up the habit?), and Hopper rushed in, the Wheeler, Byers, Henderson, and Sinclair families in tow. (Along with Steve, who's there for Dustin) "Alright!" Hopper shouted, "Mike, my office! Joyce, you too! Everyone else, out!" As Hopper closed the office door, he motioned for Mike to start talking. Mike quickly ran through the events up until he faked the suicide.

"Then, I crawled on my stomach (AN: second-floor window) until I wasn't in sight of the window. I then started to run for the door, so I could tell El I wasn't dead. I heard the basement door open, so I went to check it out. There was a creepy guy with a sackcloth mask entering the house. He had a suppressed pistol and told me to stop moving and keep my hands where he could see them. I then ran for my room, where I knew I had left the gun on the floor. I started loading the gun when he came in. It's like he knew where all the rooms were, like he had been there before. He told me to drop the gun, and when I ignored him, snapped the cylinder shut, and prepared to fire, he shot me in the leg, which caused me to drop the gun and fall. He then used chloroform to knock me out. When I woke up, I was in a creepy basement temple thing. Lots of metal girders and shit. He fed me, gave me water, then bled me. When I resisted he would sometimes cut me more, usually on my ribs. I guess I didn't notice when he cut off my finger. That probably means it was when I first was knocked out. I was usually in a haze, probably a THC induced one, from the few times I shared a blunt with El, so I don't remember too many of the finer details. (Mike is a stupid, curious, impulsive teenager too, okay? Chill out. He can't be taking the high road all the time or he wouldn't be a very interesting character, now would he?) He said that eventually, he would sacrifice me to his 'master' which he had an effigy to, then he had altars for the 'servants' to his master. One looked like a bone-thin humanoid with a flowery mouth with five petals lined with razor teeth, and the center was a throat lined with even more teeth that were longer. It was titled 'The Scout.' The second had a head exactly like the first, but it was four-legged, with a thick short muscular body. I

It was named 'The Soldier'. The third was a human figure with smoke or sludge entering or exiting every orifice. That was named 'The General'. The human looked like Billy. He also seemed to be building something out of metal and, um, biomass, in the main space of the factory. (AN: In case you missed it, that's the Mind Flayer from S3). I don't know where the factory was, or how I escaped, exactly. I remember him saying something about me being 'unsuitable' for sacrifice, and ran, cause I thought if he didn't have a use for me, he'd probably kill me. I managed to duck under him somehow, I don't know how, I guess I rolled a perfect saving throw, and ran blindly without stopping for at least 20 minutes, then I collapsed because my leg gave out. My bullet wound had reopened. I then realized that I might want to get some sleep since I couldn't walk much anyway. I was sleeping when El found me." Mike finished with a sigh, adding, "If you are satisfied, I'd rather not relive any more traumatizing experiences," before walking out and facing the music of a thousand voices all shouting frantically at once.

End Ch. 16

THE WEED THAT EL SMOKES IS 80'S WEED. THAT HAD WAY LESS THC, SO WHILE IT WAS STILL BAD FOR YOU, IT WAS SIGNIFICANTLY LESS SO. NOW WEED WILL MESS YOU THE HELL UP. DONT DO IT. Also, I can hear you saying, "But if it was still bad for you, and El claims to get extremely high every day, how is she not getting messed up?" The answer is that she smokes in public, never in private. She only does it to provoke Hopper. When she doesn't want to do that, she doesn't get high. She was EXTREMELY exaggerating her drug usage there to make Mike look bad. Also, some characters, (not main ones) will use some harder drugs. Honestly, that will probably only be ecstasy. THAT IS A DEADLY AND EXTREMELY ILLEGAL DRUG. EL ONLY PRODUCES IT BECAUSE SHE IS BEING THREATENED WITH SERIOUS PHYSICAL HARM. THE CHEMICAL PROCESSES THAT PRODUCE THIS DRUG ARE JUST AS OR MORE DANGEROUS AS THE USAGE OF THIS DRUG. IT IS FOR SURE MORE ILLEGAL THAN THE USAGE OF IT. LIKE, DEA BLACK-OPS UNITS WITH MACHINE GUNS KICKING DOWN YOUR DOOR IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT ILLEGAL. Simply put, don't use or produce any illegal drugs, and I KNOW you know not to, but just DON'T, okay? Ok, I'll step off my soapbox now. That was mainly for legal reasons. I DO NOT ASSUME ANY LEGAL RESPONSIBILITY FOR ANY CONSEQUENCES ARISING FROM YOUR PRODUCTION OR USE OF ANY ILLEGAL SUBSTANCES.