Happier With You
AN: Thank you so much for the love for chapter 14! Especially for the mature content because it was the first time I've ever written smut!
Here we go! The last chapter! :-( I really hope you enjoy this. I've added some more smut, so just a warning for that.
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Chapter 15 – Happier with You
Mike woke up to the feeling of warm sun beams hitting the pillow from where they streamed through the thin curtain of the bedroom. He blinked a few times to get the sleep out of his eyes and took in the beautiful vision next to him.
El was sleeping securely in Mike's arms, his firm chest pressed against the soft skin of her back whilst her hands held onto his arms securely as she slept soundly. Mike couldn't help the dreamy smile on his face as he snuggled closer to her, bringing his head to the curve of El's shoulder.
He slowly started to plant loving kisses on her skin, breathing in her natural scent and feeling happier than he could even begin to explain. Everything about this situation was right. Having El tucked up against his body, their hearts beating seamlessly together and their souls reunited was just perfect.
Mike felt El start to stir slightly and she mumbled incoherently into the pillow. He couldn't help but grin with amusement at how adorable she was. "Good morning gorgeous," Mike said against El's skin as he planted kisses up her neck and across her jawline.
El let out a little giggle and leaned her head slightly into the kisses. "Good morning handsome," she sighed happily, turned around so they were facing each other. Her arm moved to his side, and she trailed her fingers up and down his torso.
They stared at one another for a moment, taking in each other's blissful smiles and bright eyes. "I love waking up next to you…" Mike said tenderly, his eyes not leaving El's.
"So do I. And when I'm with you, it's the best I ever sleep." El admitted gently, a glimpse of the past in her eyes. Mike knew that she had always had trouble sleeping following all of the traumas she had dealt with in her life. But she had always told him she never had a nightmare when she was in his arms.
In response to her words, Mike leaned in slightly, closing the small gap between them to kiss her lips softly. Their noses nudged each other playfully and their grins were equally as bashful. "I love you." Mike said breathlessly.
El beamed and stared between his dark eyes and his lips. "I love you too. So much." She whispered, closing the distance once more with another delicate kiss. It was the kind of kiss that made them savour every second and memorise the feel of one another's lips.
Their kiss became more intent and Mike felt himself become needier as they rolled around on the bed together, El ending up straddled on his lap. He looked up at her with want. "You know we don't have to get out of bed yet…" he said smirking slightly.
El grinned but her eyes turned to the clock on the bedside table. She sighed, "we've got to get ready. Hunter and Emma leave in two hours."
Whilst disappointed that he couldn't stay in bed with El all day, Mike knew that they couldn't not be at the train station when Hunter and Emma left. For one, they were their friends now, they wanted to thank them both and wave them off, and secondly the whole party was coming along too, including Joyce and Hopper who had been housing them.
"Yeah you're right." Mike said begrudgingly before adding, "but I think I'm gonna have a quick shower. There's still towels here right?"
El nodded and climbed off his lap, "yes in the second drawer in the bathroom cabinet." She said laying her head back on the pillow. She sighed and bit her lip deep in thought.
"You okay?" Mike asked watching her expression.
"Yes, I'm good." She said quickly, a grin appearing on her face. Mike gave her a lopsided smile and then got up off the bed to take his shower. He couldn't help but beam with pride when he saw El checking him out, out of the corner of his eye. They were both still very much naked.
Mike got the old shower running with relative ease, it definitely wasn't the first time he'd made use of it. He didn't have much to work with but had found a half empty bottle of shampoo and a body wash. He suspected it was from El's original stash.
He ran his hands through his wet hair, washing out the shampoo whilst smiling to himself as his mind replayed the previous night. It couldn't have been more perfect. A night out with his friends, stargazing with his beautiful girlfriend and then the opportunity to prove to her how much he loved her and how much he had missed her. Their intimacy had been on a new level, they were slightly older now and their feelings had matured. But what had not changed was how much he truly loved her and wanted her in every way.
As Mike reached for the body wash he heard the door creak open slightly. "Babe you okay?" he called out from under the stream of water.
"Yes, I just need something…" she said in a quiet voice. Before Mike could even respond, the shower curtain was yanked back and he gasped in surprised as he saw his girlfriend stood naked in all her beauty, a condom packet in her dainty hand, her eyebrow raised and a very mischievous smile on her face. What she needed became very clear.
Mike couldn't help but gasp in surprise and felt his body immediately heat up seeing El naked in front of him. Her body was just incredible, as if it was carved by angels. But what was really sexy, was her confidence. Her cheeky smile and the glint in her eyes. Mike felt himself hardening just by looking at her.
"Come here…" he said gruffly, helping her into the tub with both hands, which didn't leave her and wrapped around her slender frame, bringing her naked body to his.
Their lips crashed together in a whirlwind of passion. Mike didn't think he would ever be able to get enough of El. Her skin felt like paradise against his quivering body and he wanted her more than ever. They gasped for breath as their lips moved in unison like they had been rehearsing for years.
El moaned against Mike's mouth causing all the blood from his brain to start rushing down to his groin in desperation. Her hands still holding the packet wrapped around his neck, drawing him down even closer and one of Mike's hands ran up El's bare back to bury itself into her now wet locks.
Mike could feel himself shaking with desire as one of El's hands slowly snaked down his wet body, her fingers teasing his throbbing cock causing him to groan loudly. They broke their kiss and stared at each with dark pleasure as El slowly moved her hand up and down his shaft, the want in their eyes almost bursting free.
"Are you teasing me?" Mike asked in a low voice, his breathing no longer steady.
El side smirked and there was that sexy glint in her eyes again. "Maybe…"
Mike moved his hands roughly to her ass and pulled her tight to him, causing them both to choke on their unsteady breath and for El to remove her hand. As Mike moved his hips against her and dropped his head back in a groan from the sensation, El was trying with shaking hands to open the condom packet.
He watched her with heavy lidded eyes as she opened the packet and took his cock in her hand once more, rolling the condom on expertly. El's eyes looked slowly up his body and finally to his face. When their eyes connected, Mike felt his heart scream with desire at the look in her eyes. She looked like she wanted him to devour her.
In one movement Mike grasped the back of El's wet thighs and hoisted her up against the tiled wall whilst she wrapped her arms around his neck to keep her securely in place. Mike's lips attacked El's neck and collar bone. He wanted her to know how desperately he craved her.
"You're so hot…so sexy…" he mumbled deeply against her skin, her scent almost overpowering him as he jutted against her.
El moaned and dug her fingers into his shoulders. "I want you right now Mike. I want you to fuck me. Hard."
Mike's heart raced and his cock was rock hard at her words. El rarely swore except for when she was in the heat of passion and he couldn't help but love it. Only Mike got to see her really lose control like this, and the fact that it was his body giving her the pleasure was just incredible.
He pressed his lips to her upper jaw and nibbled on her ear lobe. "If you want it hard baby, I'll give it to you." He whispered to her, earning a moan of desire in return.
Taking a shaky breath, Mike adjusted and then pushed into her completely, both of them gasping with excitement at the feeling. There was nothing better in the entire world than being one with El.
He allowed her body to get used to the intrusion for a moment before starting to move his hips sharply, jolting El up the tiled wall slightly with every thrust. "Yes" she gasped closing her eyes and holding him even tighter.
Mike collapsed his head into the curve of her shoulder as his hands grasped her thighs firmly as he started to really pound into her. "Baby you feel amazing," he panted, his only thoughts of bringing them both the pleasure they deeply craved.
He moved his hips quicker, the sounds of their rushed breathing and bodies crashing together the only noise he could hear. Mike couldn't even hear the sound of the warm water splashing onto their bodies. He could only concentrate on the stunning body of his girlfriend that he was currently pounding into. Just the fact that he got to be the one to do this, the fact that she was his was so overwhelming that it turned him on even further.
"Oh…yes…yes Mike." El sang repeating the words again and again as Mike desperately thrusted into her with such a need to have her. Her head was against the tiles as she panted and opened her eyes to watch him beating into her passionately.
Mike couldn't look at her because he knew it would send him over the edge before she had even reached it. He concentrated on breathing roughly into her shoulder and kissing the skin with lust as he thrust again and again, diving in as deep as he could, his low groans mixing with her gasps.
"Uh El.." Mike grunted out, his body on fire with the sensation of plunging into El, he felt more alive than ever.
"Fuck! Yes Mike, yes!" El was shouting and it was music to Mike's ears, he had to bit on her shoulder to stop himself from cumming right then and there.
"Come on baby…" Mike said egging her on, pounding her as hard as possible, his hold on her thighs so tight that he was sure he might bruise her. This wasn't making love like the night before, this was raw passionate sex.
Mike could suddenly feel El trying desperately to lock her legs together as he felt her walls quivering around his aching cock. He finally raised his head from her shoulder, desperately wanting to see the moment that she reached her climax.
Her fingers teared painfully into his shoulders but he didn't care, he watched whilst pounding her hard the way her mouth opened in a cry and her head fell back in deepest pleasure as she shouted out. "MIKE!" She almost screamed with fire as he felt her walls squeeze him tightly.
The sensation along with the look on her face was too much and Mike felt himself being completely pushed off the cliff by her. "Oh fuck! El!" He cried out as his vision erupted into white and they climaxed together.
Whilst the aftershocks raced around their joined bodies, Mike shakenly tried with all his might to keep El up in his hold, not wanting to collapse with her just yet.
El smiled at him, almost drunk, her eyes dilated and happy. "I love you" she purred against his face. Mike couldn't contain how big and wide his grin was, he could feel the glow of love and adrenaline in his blood. "I love you too." He whispered, peppering her cheeks with sweet kisses.
After a while of delicate touches and loving words, Mike finally pulled out of El and helped her down gently. They showered together in blissful wonder and dressed to leave the cabin.
El made sure everything was how they found it and took his waiting hand. They beamed at each other, feeling so incredibly in love and happy beyond belief. They were just heading out of the bedroom door and towards the front door when it opened abruptly. Mike couldn't help but jump in surprise and guilt when he saw who was towering there.
Mike watched nervously as Hopper's eyes went straight to El, a sense of relief seemed to lower his tense shoulders before his expression became stern when he took in the sight of El and Mike holding hands and leaving her old bedroom.
There was an awkward silence before El spoke up. "Dad! What…em…what are you doing here?" They all knew she tried to speak casually, but her voice was full of nerves.
Hopper glared at them both, "did you honestly expect me to believe Max's cock and bull story that you stayed the night with her? I thought you'd took off again." He said clearly annoyed but also hurt.
Mike could feel El tense next to him with guilt. They hadn't thought about how Hopper might still be feeling on edge about El needing to leave at any moment.
"I'm sorry dad." El said with remorse. Mike couldn't help but feel bad too and so nodded and anxiously looked at the chief of police. "Yeah…we're sorry." He mumbled.
Hopper gave him a death stare and Mike had to quickly avert his eyes. "Let me reiterate. I thought you'd took off again…but no. I find you here with Wheeler." He crossed his arms and looked at the young couple.
"How many times Wheeler will I have to walk in on you with my daughter?" Hopper added looking at Mike with scrutinising eyes.
Mike flinched remembering all the times Hopper had caught him sneaking into the house and out of the house. He didn't know which times had been worse. But they were older now, they were almost 20 and it wasn't exactly like Hopper could stop him.
Knowing he should say, "never again sir." But also knowing it wasn't the truth and still feeling blissful despite the intrusion, Mike couldn't help but sheepishly say, "probably a lot."
El snorted in surprise at his straight up answer and Mike couldn't help the small smile on his face. He hesitantly looked up at the chief who was watching him with careful eyes.
"I swear to god Wheeler, you'd think being shot you'd take the threat seriously that I will shoot you. You have 5 seconds to get out of this cabin and into your car before I start shooting."
El and Mike burst out laughing and rushed out of the cabin whilst Hopper pinched the bridge of his nose with the look of someone who knew he was losing a battle.
After a not so awkward car journey with her dad, they picked up Hunter and Emma and headed for the train station.
The station was already filled with Dustin, Lucas, Max, Will, Joyce and Mike who had just pulled up, all awaiting their arrival. When they got out of the car, Max gave El a sneaky wink. El grinned, making sure her dad wasn't watching. She was looking forward to filling in her best friend on everything that had happened after she and Mike had left the lake.
Mike and Dustin moved forward to help Hunter and Emma with their bags, whilst Hopper and Joyce went to the station office to collect their tickets. As El watched her two fellow subjects, she felt a hollow pain take over her stomach. She was going to miss them so much, they were part of her family and always would be.
El moved forward and linked arms with Hunter and Emma, they all beamed at each other and walked forward to the platform, nothing needing to be said for the moment as they all enjoyed a few more minutes together.
The party gave them a respectable distance until Hopper and Joyce came back with the tickets. "Here you go kid," Her dad said to Hunter handing him the papers.
Hunter grinned up at Hopper, "thank you…for everything." The two men shared a brief hug surprising the party except for El who knew that they had grown close. Very much like father and son.
Joyce stepped forward and hugged both Hunter and Emma, making them promise to call and giving them both a care package of food. They thanked her and embraced her too.
All of the party stepped forward now and hugged their two new friends. El watched Hunter and Mike embrace in a brotherly hug, both of them talking quietly to one another which she couldn't really pick up on. She saw their warm smiles and the genuine emotions in their eyes, so whatever they were talking about was only good things.
Emma stepped up to El and both girls smiled at each other before wrapping themselves up in a tight hug. "Thank you for everything El." Emma sniffed into her shoulder.
El felt tears escape her eyes but she tried to smile through it. "Thank you for opening up. I'm going to miss you so much."
Emma broke out of the hug and the girls squeezed each other's hands. "I'm going to miss you too. You're a great friend."
The girls both sighed, their emotions heavy on their chests. El looked over at Hunter who was having a hug from Will. She couldn't help but smirk slightly as she looked back at Emma. "Any updates?" she said indicating the handsome blonde.
Emma blushed and leaned in with a nod, "we kissed last night." She whispered. It took everything in El not to squeal too loudly.
"That's amazing! Please keep me posted okay? You are going to write? And send me your number as soon as you arrive?" El said in a rush of excitement. Emma laughed and nodded, "of course."
Max came over to hug Emma and El broke off, knowing it was time to say goodbye to Hunter, but not really wanting to. He had been there for her, every single time for over two years. Yes, they had shared one kiss but it was in the heat of the moment, but he had never taken advantage of her, even at her darkest hours. He was a true friend, in fact he was now like a brother to her. He had saved Mike's life. If it wasn't for him, she would be without her soul mate right now, El knew deep down she would probably be dead.
Hunter spotted her and they met in the middle of the crowd, both of them with sad smiles and watery eyes. "I…I don't even know where to start." Hunter gasped, his voice shaking.
El laughed through her tears and embraced him, her head on his chest and his arms tightly around her as she allowed the tears to finally fall. They just held each other and sniffed for some time.
When they finally pulled away El wiped at her tears and took a deep shaking breath. "I'm never ever going to be able to thank you for everything you have done." She told him sobbing slightly.
Hunter side smiled, "I don't need you to thank me. I just need you to be my friend. You're one of my best friends. You have to promise me that even though we're going to live a distance away that you visit us. And we can write and call each other. Okay?" he said clearing his throat, trying to get a hold of his emotions.
El grinned and sniffled, "I promise." She said seriously, knowing there was no possible way she could ever just forget about Hunter and Emma. "And will you promise me that you will always be happy and live a good life?" she asked him almost vulnerably.
Hunter immediately smiled warmly and nodded. "I promise." They hugged once more and he gave her a brief chaste kiss on the cheek. El squeezed his hand one last time and then let the boys help with getting the luggage onto the train.
El turned to Mike who had just finished loading on a bag. He turned to her with a calming smile. She knew he would have seen her embrace with Hunter, but there was no longer jealousy in his eyes when he was around her friend.
Mike came over to her and moved his arm around her shoulders, bringing her in closer to his body. El moved her arms around his waist and leaned her head against him, feeling warm and supported.
"You okay?" he whispered to her, his voice laced with love and comfort.
El sniffed and took a deep breath. She knew Hunter and Emma were leaving to have the lives they wanted and she knew they would be happy, that gave her peace of mind and helped her to answer Mike's question. "Yes."
After waving off Hunter and Emma, Hopper and Joyce had gone off to work and Dustin turned to the party suggesting they all go and get brunch seeing as they all had skipped breakfast.
When they entered Benny's, El couldn't stop from grinning brightly as she took in the familiar surroundings. Mike was holding her hand until they were separated by the table. She stared at him with love and he stared back. This was like how it had always been. Will and Dustin facing one another, Max and Lucas facing and then El and Mike. It was a beautiful nostalgic moment.
After eating their food and sipping on their milkshakes, the party got talking about Hunter and Emma again and placing bets on how long it was before they were an official couple. El's guess was two days.
"So when do you reckon we can visit them?" Dustin asked eagerly, looking around at the group but specifically at El.
She could only shrug because whilst she had learnt to drive, she didn't own a car. El turned her eyes to Mike who answered for her. "Well what about spring break?"
They all nodded in agreement. "And then next summer why don't we all go down to California?" Max said making them all peak with interest.
"And we could invite Hunter and Emma too." El said with excitement. She had wanted to go to California ever since Max had described it to her when they were 14.
"Yeah totally." Max said smiling as she sipped at her chocolate milkshake. "We can have a road trip and I'll invite you all to my dad and show you how to surf board."
"As long as we don't get bitten by a shark," Will said smirking slightly but El could read the slight fear in his eyes, despite the Jaws poster she knew was still on his bedroom wall.
Max rolled her eyes, "you'll be fine as long as they don't think you're a seal…so Dustin you're screwed." She teased making them all laugh except their curly haired friend who scowled at her.
"Well they'll probably think you're a clown fish with all that orange hair." Dustin bit back.
Before Max could retort, Lucas put his hands in between them. "Calm down you too." He laughed.
"I'll keep the sharks from you." El said turning to Dustin with a smile. He beamed and looked at the others, "thanks El. so I've got myself a body guard…beat that!"
"Well I think the real problem we're going to have for you boys, is that me and El will get to see Hunter with his top off again." Max joked earning a snort from El and an eye roll from Mike and Lucas. Dustin and Will thought the other boys reactions were hilarious.
El turned to her boyfriend amused by his reaction and she couldn't stop her words. "Your body is perfect." She told him boldly. Mike's eyes widened in surprised and he seemed to ignore the laughter of his friends and gave El a confident smile as her words clearly soaked straight into his heart.
They all laughed and talked about nothing particularly important which warmed El's chest. This is what she wanted, to be normal, to argue about Star Wars theories, to laugh at Mike's Yoda impression which now made his voice break as he was too old for the high-pitched voice and to fall in love every time she looked into his dark eyes. She felt truly happy.
Mike's foot was gently stroking against her leg and she smile at him mischievously whilst sipping on her milkshake. Now that they had smashed through the icy wall that surrounded their sexual life together, El wanted him more than ever. All she knew was that she refused to go another day without being intimate with him again. He was like a drug and she couldn't get enough.
"So…" Dustin said breaking through the quiet peace of the group and looking at El and Mike. "Are we going to talk about the fact that you two are in yesterday's clothes?"
Lucas and Max snorted at this, Will cringed and El and Mike both flushed in reaction to the question. El was about to saying something when Mike beat her to the chase.
"Do you really want to know the answer to that question?" he asked with a playful grin which made El smile. Usually he would become very embarrassed and tell his friends to shut up, but it seemed Mike was embracing their new sex life as much as El was.
It was Dustin's turn to blush and he quickly shook his head and said a long and playful, "no!"
Mike pulled up onto the drive of his house that afternoon with El in the passenger seat. His mom was out at book club, his dad was working and Holly was in school. They'd have the house to themselves.
As he unlocked the door, he watched El's eager smile as she looked around the house. Mike quickly closed the door and followed her around like a lost puppy. It made his stomach squirm with butterflies and his heart quiver with love when he realised she was taking everything in, as if she had missed it.
They got up to his room and Mike watched slightly self-consciously as El went immediately over to his desk with surprise. He had photo frames on the desk, one photo of the whole party and three framed photos of him and El. Their prom photo was on his bedside table as well as the photo of them at their first snow ball together.
When El turned back around to him she had tears in her eyes. Mike didn't even need to ask her what was wrong, he understood immediately because his eyes had become watery too. They both couldn't believe this was real, they were back together and in some ways, it was like they had never been parted. They rushed into each other's arms, just holding one another in their secure embrace. Mike kissed El's forehead gently as he breathed in the smell of her hair. He closed his eyes, not knowing if they were in their hold for hours or minutes.
Mike changed his clothes and watched with amusement as El stole one of his sweaters and threw it on over her white sun dress. "I still have one of your sweaters you know." She told him playfully as she gave the new sweater a little content sniff.
"Really?" he asked in surprise, feeling immediately happy at the fact that she had a piece of his clothing through the years.
El nodded lovingly in response and Mike took her hand, feeling so peaceful. "Do you fancy some eggos?" he asked her amused already knowing what her response would be.
"Yes!" she almost squealed before letting him lead her out of his bedroom and down to the kitchen. Whilst Mike got to work making the eggos he noticed El wander off into the basement. He stayed in the kitchen until the eggos were done, putting them on a plate and following his girlfriend into the basement.
He noticed immediately that she was laying in the pillow fort with a smile on her face. She turned her head to him as he walked down the stairs. "I can't believe you kept it up…" El mused.
Mike smiled rather shyly and shrugged, "I just always hoped you would come back." He said honestly.
El watched him quietly as he passed her the plate and then crouched to get into the fort with her. She giggled as he had to almost crawl because he was so tall. Mike rolled his eyes at her amusement and finally managed to lay next to her, his feet hanging out the other end of the fort.
They munched on the eggos in comfortable silence for a moment, both of them in a world of their own as they thought about the events of the last two years and how they ended up back here. But Mike always knew that deep down they would always end up back with each other. They were soul mates.
At one point, he had thought he would truly lose El, not to the scary aspects of her troubled life, but to a new threat. To another man. It had been something that hadn't feared him before until it was so close to actually happening.
When they finished their eggos, El put the plate to the side and Mike turned to her, a little hesitant and scared to ask the question that was now bugging him terribly. "Would you have been happy with Hunter?" he said it in almost a whisper, a vulnerability springing up in his voice.
El turned to him with surprise. They were both holding up their upper bodies with their elbows. She considered him for a moment and then shrugged casually, "Maybe…but I don't love him." She paused and her eyes became instantly warm as she stared into his dark orbs. "I love you. I'm happier with you and always will be."
Mike felt love flood through his entire body and he had to hold back a sob at how much her words meant to him. He stared back into her astoundingly beautiful and expressive eyes and just from that one look he knew how much she loved him. He hoped he would get the chance to prove his love to her every single day for the rest of his life.
As Mike looked at El, in their fort he couldn't stop a cheeky lopsided smile appear on his lips as he moved closer to her. One arm snaking around her body as she giggled in his embrace. He brought his face down to hers, his forehead leaning against her as they stared intently at one another. The fire in their eyes was evident.
"And I'm about to make you even more happier..." He whispered seductively before their lips crashed together in a thrill of passion. El pulled him on top of her and gasped and moaned as they were totally enveloped into their feelings of love, want and trust. She knew her words were always going to be true, Mike was the only one, he had always been the only one, she was and always would be happier with him.
AN: I hope you enjoyed this chapter. Please let me know what you thought. I may or may not have cried writing this chapter as it's the last one :-( Just the epilogue to go now!