Hey you strange beings, now this chapter hasn't got any smut, but I feel like Mileven deserve this encounter this feels like a much needed thing for them and their relationship! Read to know more!

(Not a very long chapter but a much needed one)

Chapter three: He called 353 times, now 354.

A week later, El and Mike find themselves both bored and earning for the others company.

School seemed to just consume Mikes time, so he has hardly seen his El since the table incident.

He fondly thinks of how they cuddled in his bed afterwards deciding the excitement was becoming too much too soon... especially since El hardly understood anything to do with those certain body indulging situations.

Mike still wanted to do more, but wanted to also take it slow and make sure he doesn't make El do something she may not truly want to do. He loved and respected her too much to push her, no matter how hormones seem to take over like a drug. He would get through the haze like a shark against a tidal wave, just so to insure her safety and consent.

But now holding his radio phone, he felt his fingers caressing that certain radio while wanting to connect to a certain channel. One that he used often and around about a whole year - hoping, wishing to hear a soft angelic voice crackle through maybe she would have been saying his name.. or saying anything, he remembers he would have done anything for even a single sound, even if he had to say no more himself, he remembers promising her over the hand held radio that he would say nothing more so long as he knew she was listening that she was still around.. that she wasn't just... gone!

He just couldn't except that sort of reality, one where she didn't exist anymore. It was too painful, like a knife to the hand, it was something that would have left him scarred for life...

Now though, he could click to that certain channel, and maybe just maybe she will answer this time...

His thumb slowly turns the dial ...

El feels torn between visiting him like she would for those many many days that she couldn't see him...

It had become her way of keeping sane, lucky she was, to have powers that could blank out everything and pin point people - she is like a humanoid GPS. As Dustin had called her once not that long ago. . . She remembers fondly how after that comment, Mike had slapped Dustins head making his iconic hat fall off, while saying, 'she isn't a thing'... then she remembers with slight contemplation; Lucas saying. 'No but she sure is strange'. That made Mike nearly pummel Lucas to the ground again, luckily this time Will was there to intervene with a soft hand to Mikes shoulder.

Sighing softly to herself, she decides to take the plunge.

So quickly she grabs her blind fold, and with a few twists on the tv she has it set on a static channel, placing the blind fold over her eyes- she mentally takes herself back into the void...

Looking around she sees nothing but darkness, a darkness that seemed to both consume and collect. Consuming ones self and collecting bits and pieces that El wished to see or hear.

Walking with feet patting softly on water sounding ground.

She feels no water as her bare feet rockingly steps slowly about, while she waits and waits and wa—- wait!

"El can you hear me... "

Her eyes turn to see her Mike sitting in their fort again, a flicker of déjà vu a word hopper taught her, strays slightly to mind. But then Mike speaks again.

" I know I probably am being stupid, by trying to contact you this way again, but I just miss you... I could kid myself and say we all do, but by now I know not to fool myself... what I'm trying to say is... and I hope this works ... though didn't I hope for that for so long... how does this even work.. I mean.. El? Please just .. please just say something, anything.."

With every word El had been taking slow steps towards him, now kneeling right by him, she raises her hand this time managing to take his star kissed cheek in her palm, making his eyes widen, but before he says anything she says.

"Mike!"

One cracklings voice, her voice though making sure it's not his imagination he presses the button on the side to answer.

"El is that really you..."

A few seconds pass before ..

"Yes." She replies voice echoing from the void and crackling through his radio, Mike smiles widely dimples and eyes glimmering with tears.

How long had he waited for this, and even though he knows it's silly to have done it, since he knew already she was still around, he felt suddenly consoled in a way that felt like his mind could finally rest a bit.

"How have you been ... I miss you .." he replies back to her sniffing a bit trying to make himself not cry...

She doesn't say anything yet her mind consumed with so many thoughts...

He called for her 353 times, now 354, this time she answered, for she knew somehow she knew without understanding it too much that by answering, it would fix this breech in their bridge. It would fill this void in their hearts they have been ignoring...

And now as El caressed his face she wondered about the thin line between the void and the real world.

Or the - Rightside Up - as Dustin had cheekily called their realm.

Explaining how it just sounded 'right', Dustin truly was humouring without really trying.

But anyways, El found herself leaning closer to her Mike, closer an closer till her lips found his, she could feel them not as much as she could in the Rightside Up, but she still could sense the fire works as Nancy once explained a kiss to feel from someone who you had great feelings towards.

And with this small act, she needed no more words.

Mike couldn't believe it, but sure as hell could feel it... her soft lips on his moving slowly but surely. Mike finds himself closing his eyes enjoying the familiar yet sort of distant feeling.

Sitting without knowing where to grab, was a strange sort of feeling, it was confusing, unsure but still somehow just right and very much so them!

El lets her tongue take a chance, and finds herself opening Mikes lips, both have their eyes closed so they can cut off other senses so to feel as much as they can of this indescribable experience.

Soon tongues are battling like dragons in a cave of wonders. They moan from time to time as they ghost each others mouths in a five minute long dance, which they know so well by now, and even more so again.

Now both so lost in the ethereal feeling of the other is jolted nearly out of skin and void when suddenly!

"Hey Mike what you doing on this channel again, like seriously dude! Anyways code red or code fluffy in this case, just get your ass down to mine, and bring Eleven, it'll be worth it..!"

"Oh right nearly forgot and over!"

Dustin's interrupting voice of course has to come at the most emotional times, he was the true ice breaker!

Anyways Mike quickly answers back with..

"Alright be there soon over and out!" Mike then waits to make sure Dustin is truly gone before pressing the side button again.

"El you still there?"

El who was looking at Mike with a small smile finding how cute he looked when frustrated nods before realising he can't see her so then replies with.

"Yes Mike.."

Mike sighs out a breath of relief.

"Wanna meet at Dustin's ?" He asks hopeful, a few seconds which feels like minutes pass before she says .

"Okay!"

Smiling Mike quickly stands.

"Alright see you soon then love you!"

"Love.. you to." She says unknown to him with a blush.

Mike now also blushing turns off the radio and grabs his woollen jumper before scattering up the stairs more excited to see El more then anything else.

El back in the Rightside up,

takes off her blindfold, then uses the blind fold to wipe the blood from her nose, then turning off the tv she watches her reflection in the screen as her grin grows.

She was going to see Mike... and she just contacted him in a way she felt she wanted to in what feels to be a very long time.

An yet...

It just only took more then 353 times!