#demodogs

"You feel cold..."

Demo Harringrove piece related to the comic 'Bonding' I did a while back

"Who has the floppiest widdle face????"

Lil doodle based on this :

Cause Vecna had little to no issue in kidnapping twelve children - it took him like, four hours tops. The only resistance he faced was from grown ups, not the kids themselves.

Part one: “The Accident”

Pairing: Steve Harrington x Henderson!reader

Summary: A couple of days after the accident Dustin finally decides to apologize for his behavior, only he had been acting weird. You and Steve find him at the cemetery, turns out you weren't the only one looking for him.

Warnings: a bit of angst, fluff?? Reader is a badass

Notes: Part three is possible, but as of right now, I'm stumped on how to proceed. So, any ideas or recommendations would be awesome.

It had been a couple days since the accident, but the effects of it still lingered. You and Dustin hadn’t spoken since the accident, you had tried, though it seemed Dustin didn’t want anything to do with you. Could you blame him? You had said some pretty mean stuff–sure it was stuff he needed to hear but nonetheless you felt bad.

Currently you were sitting in Steve’s bed shuffling through the short stack of films he had dug out for you to pick one for y’all to watch, a little date night per se. You still had a bandage on your forehead, and you were sore but nothing too bad, nothing you couldn’t handle. You look up to see Steve walk through the door, and he sits down on the bed beside you, leaning in to give you a kiss on the lips.

“Okay babe you have a movie picked out yet? I have the living room all set up for us, pizza, popcorn, your favorite candy, and drinks.”  As Steve spoke, he kept his face close to yours, close enough to feel each other's breaths.

“Blankets?” You let your eyes meet his, a smile on your face knowing he probably forgot.

“Oh right! Blankets. How could I forget?” He keeps leaning in as he speaks and eventually his lips are on yours again, but not for long because he starts kissing all over your face, a hand going around your waist to keep you from being able to get away.

“Steve!” you get out between laughs “Steve stop! “You keep laughing as he moves down to your neck. You knew he was just being silly, he’s been doing all he can to keep your mood light and well, this was working pretty good. You reach up trying to push his face away and he just looks up at you with a dorky smile on his face

“Come on! Can’t I kiss my beautiful girlfriend?” Steve mock-whined giving you a performative pout.

You didn’t get the chance to answer before the two of you heard the front door open downstairs. You and Steve give each other a look then you both get off the bed to go downstairs to see who was here. Pretty much everyone just entered Steve's house, well at least the kids and Robin did, they knew they were welcome anytime. Well except on date night according to Steve. You made it downstairs and you see Dustin walking in, backpack on, hat low on his face, his Hellfire t-shirt was ripped… This was the third t-shirt he had that was ripped like that… You swore those boys at his school were lucky you were legal or else you’d beat the hell out of them yourself…

“Dustin? Everything oka-?” You didn’t finish your sentence before Dustin’s arms were around you, hugging you tightly. You gave Steve a look, slowly putting your arms around your brother. Steve left to give the two of you the moment.

“Dustin… What's wrong…?” one of your arms is around his shoulder, your other hand comes up sort of rubbing his head. You were puzzled, trying to figure out where this sudden burst of affection came from.

“I’m so sorry… I’ve been such an asshole to you– to everyone. I’m sorry sis I really am.” Dustin said, his voice painfully sincere, it sounded like he was about to break down…

“Hey… It's okay Dustin… It's okay.” Your heart broke at the sound of your brother’s voice, he sounded so hurt. You just held him closer resting your chin on his head

“No it’s not– I was so mean for no reason- I- I  hurt you.” You pull back to look at your brother, tears are rolling down his cheeks now.

“Dustin, you were hurting. You are hurting.” Your voice is soft but stern. “You are grieving the death of one of your really good friends… You did not hurt me. I’m hurting because you are. Because you are my brother Dustin and I worry for you,” You reach up wiping one of his tears from his cheek, feeling your own eyes water. “And I wish I could take your pain away, I wish grief wasn’t so hard but life is unfair, it’s so unfair and I’m sorry Dustin I am.” You feel a tear of your own roll down your cheek. “But you keeping all of your pain and anger inside…” You reach down pointing to where his heart is “bottling it up to try and make it go away isn’t working. It never does. I need you to talk to me… or Steve, or Lucas, or the rest of your friends. Anyone. Get this pain off your chest. You reach up, wiping another tear from your brother's face. The last time you did this Dustin was probably 13 and now he was 17. Too old for his own good you thought.

Dustin hugs you again he’s quiet for a minute… “I will… I will I promise” His voice was quiet, vulnerable. You still wondered what prompted this sudden apology. But you weren’t gonna simmer on it too much, because your brother was still hugging you like his life depended on it. 

You stayed quiet for a while, just hugging your brother, slowly rubbing his head. “Do you want to stay and watch a movie with us…? We have pizza and popcorn. And we’d love to have you…” you lean back to look at his face 

He contemplates it, then pulls away, wiping his cheeks. “I shouldn’t… I just wanted to apologize to you. You don’t deserve anything I’ve done to you…” he looks down then looks back up at you. “Your head feeling any better…?”

You smile softly. “Yeah… it’s feeling better, thank you Dustin. And I’m serious if you want to stay-“

“It’s okay… I’m…” he thinks for a minute like he was trying to come up with a lie. “I’m going to hangout with the party… Y’know while we’re not busy”

You study his face for a moment and decide not to push it. “Right… okay. I love you Dustin…”

“I love you too sis.” He says and turns to leave. You watch him go, even after the door shuts behind him you stand there staring at the door.

“Everything okay?” Steve’s voice snaps you out of it, and you turn to see Steve standing in the doorway.

“Yeah all good. It’s all good. He uhm.. apologized. But.. I think- I don't know, let's go watch the movie.” You move to walk past Steve but he gently grabs your waist to stop you

“Babe, you know you can talk to me. Right?” He lets his arms snake around your waist, resting his head on your shoulder.

“Of course Steve, but we can talk about this later. I just want to have a nice night with you.”  You turn your head to look at him best you could.

“Yeah… okay we can do that. But if you change your mind I’m all ears.” He kisses your cheek then slides around you to be holding you chest to chest. He kisses your lips. “Let’s watch this movie shall we?”

You watch Steve walk towards the living room and you follow. The two of you get comfortable on the couch together and start the movie. It was fine at first but you couldn’t focus on it. About mid-way through you noticed Steve was staring at you.  You hadn’t been paying attention to the movie, in fact you had been staring at the wall past the tv.

“You okay…?”  Steve asks quietly as to not disturb the peace.

You look down to contemplate how you want to answer his question. Truth was, you couldn’t stop thinking about Dustin. He just seemed so off earlier like he was hiding something, you couldn’t help but worry.

“I’m just worried about Dustin…” You look back up at Steve

“I thought you said he apologized? Did he say something else?” Steve asks gently. He always worries so much for you and your brother. It was endearing.

“Well no… but he was acting strange. Like why the sudden apology? Why wouldn’t he stay and hangout with us? Why did it seem like he was lying about where he was going after he left? I just-... “You cut yourself off trying to think of the right words. “I just don’t feel like he’s actually okay. He might’ve apologized but Dustin’s the type to just do it for my sake so he’s not hurting me. Steve I couldn’t live with myself if he did something stupid, because I wasn’t able to recognize he was still hurting…” your brows are furrowed, and your studying his face for his reaction to see if you could gauge his opinion

Steve was quiet, he was thinking about what you had said, but you mistook his silence. “You think I'm crazy? Am I overthinking this-?”

His hands go up to hold your face, cutting you off. “No… of course not, I don’t think you're crazy. I trust your gut baby. If you think Dustin might do something stupid, then I think we should go check on him. So I’m going to go call the Wheelers to see if Dustin showed up over there, in fact i’ll call around to see where he is if he’s not there. You go upstairs and change.” Steve presses a kiss to your forehead then gets up going over to the phone. You sit there for a moment then get up and head for the stairs so you could change.

You threw on some jeans and a sweater and you were pulling on your shoes when Steve ran up the stairs. “No one's seen him.”

Your heart drops. No one had seen Dustin? “Like at all…? Like what do you mean Steve?” You stand up looking at him. Worry filled your expression, fear that something had happened to your brother.

“Like nobody has seen him since this morning. Lucas said he might be at Eddie’s grave. Let’s check there before we freak-”

You grab up your other shoe and run past him down the stairs.

“-out…” Steve sighs and turns to follow you. You had already grabbed the keys and were heading for his car… your car was still totaled. You were also slipping your shoe on as you went, not letting anything slow you down.

“Hey- no! Let me drive.” Steve said, speeding up his running to catch up with you.

“No can do Stevie get your ass in the passenger seat” You open the driver side door and get in cranking the beamer up. He huffed getting into the passenger seat knowing there was no arguing with you.

The car ride was silent, and you were probably going to fast for it to be safe, but you couldn’t think about that right now.

Steve looked over at you. Your jaw was tight, your hands were white gripping the steering wheel. Steve could see the thoughts behind your eyes, you were thinking of all the things that could’ve happened to Dustin.You nervously tapped your thumb on the steering wheel. The cemetery was coming into view. You pull into the long drive of the cemetery and when you see Dustin you stop the car and throw it into park before jumping out and running over to Dustin.

“What the hell were you thinking!?” You said walking up to Dustin. Steve got out, he didn’t know you were gonna go off like this.

Dustin turned to look at you. “What the hell are you doing here!? Did you follow me!?” Dustin stood from where he was sitting in front of Eddie’s grave.

“Call it intuition! I knew you were lying to me! Was that apology even real or were you lying about that too!?” Dustin looked almost offended by that.

“Of course it was real…” Dustin looked at you, his shoulders fall, losing the tension that was in them. “You thought it was fake?”

“No… Dustin, that's not what I meant… Why did you lie about where you were going…?

You ask softly, the tension leaving your body as well.

Steve notices the street light start to flicker “uhm guys…”

“I didn’t lie- well I guess I did. But! I originally planned to hangout with Mike, Will, and Lucas but then I ended up here.” Dustin’s eyes fall

“You had us worried sick Dustin, we called everyone, and when no one had heard from you I thought… I thought something happened to you, I sped all the way here Dustin. You can’t do that, you can’t just go somewhere without someone knowing about it.”

“Guys seriously! I get that you’re having a moment and all but look!” Steve says, grabbing your shoulders to turn you to face towards the street lights that were flickering.

You and Dustin both look. Flickering lights were never a good sign. Then you heard it, the sound of something running towards y’all. You all look to your right and there it was, two demodogs coming for y’all.

“Oh shit!” You grab Dustin and the three of you take off back to the Beamer,  having the keys you get back into the driver's seat. Once Dustin and Steve were in you put it in reverse and hit the gas. The Demodogs are closing in on y’all, luckily you were a pretty good driver that is if you look past the accident–which wasn’t your fault by the way. You started driving down the road, you were going really fast.

“Shit! Go faster they’re gaining on us! You have to speed up!” Dustin screamed, he was turned around in the backseat, watching the Demodogs out the back glass, his walkie was in his hand, he was about to call for help.

“Dustin I can only go so fast without endangering us even more! Let me see if I can shake them!” You saw a turn coming up, you were gonna take it. You could hear Dustin in the background calling a red alert. Steve saw what you were planning.

“Be careful! Don’t do it! Don’t Do it! Slow Down babe!” Steve panicked because while, yes he knew that the three of you needed to get away from these Demodogs, he didn’t want anything to happen to his precious BMW.

You of course didn’t listen to a word he said, and took the turn anyway. Did you slow down? Absolutely not, but you made it. “Steve, calm the hell down! I know how to drive!”

Up ahead there was a road work sign, which meant there was no telling what would be on the other side, a huge pothole? Tools that could pop tires? Wet cement? You look at Steve wondering what you should do

“What do I do?! Steve What do I do!?” You ask looking at him then back at the road.

“I- I don’t know!” Steve looked at you then in the side mirror to see the Demodogs closing in

“You have to go through!!!!” Dustin yelled, turning around to look at the two of you in the front.

That's all you needed, you hit the gas harder blowing through the signs. Unfortunately your theory was correct. There was a huge pothole along with some tools on the other side, which were unavoidable. The front right tire hit the pothole and popped making steering near impossible, you almost ended up in a ditch for a second time that month but you were able to keep y’all on the road.

“Shit! Shit! Shit! What do we do!?” Dustin questioned looking around for some type of weapon.

You scanned the car and the tools outside. You knew there was a lighter in here from where you used to smoke and you also knew Steve had some hairspray in here.

You reach over Steve, opening the dash and pulling everything out until you find the little lighter.

“Steve, where's your hairspray!?” You  frantically ask looking at him

“What are you talking about-?” He tries to deny he has it but you’ve seen his hair routine.

“Where’s the damn hairspray!?” You ask again

“Backseat.” He responds

You turn to Dustin and he starts looking for it. He finds it and hands it to you.

“I can hold them off, but you two need to find weapons.” You look at the two boys in front of you. Your brother and your boyfriend. You would die for them.

You turn to get out of the car, you can see the Demodogs. They’re almost close enough to attack.

“Hey! What the hell-!” You close the door before he can continue trying to argue.

You start walking towards the dogs holding up the hairspray and lighter, and as soon as you get close enough you light the lighter and spray the hairspray, the Demodogs start whimpering and try to fight it.

 You can hear Steve and Dustin scrambling in the background, you assume Steve is getting his bat out of his trunk and you aren’t sure what Dustin would pick up. All you knew is that you had to give them time.

 You could feel the heat of the fire against your hand, it was starting to hurt. Unfortunately one of the Demodogs was able to push through and hit you. You fall to the ground, the lighter and hairspray rolling under the car out of reach. 

The Demodog roared in your face, and just as you were about to accept fate Steve knocked it away from you and Dustin helped pull you away. 

“What are we gonna do!? We can’t fight these things off!” You say as the three of you are slowly backing away from the Demodogs. Steve was in front of you and Dustin, holding the bat. The Demodogs were trying to recuperate and get back up so y’all hide behind the Beamer, in hopes they wouldn’t find the three of you… You and Steve had Dustin between the two of you, both of you sort of squishing him as if y’all could protect him from what’s to come. 

It felt like you were sitting there for ages, hearing the sound of their claws on the concrete slowly getting closer. You close your eyes preparing yourself for the worst.

The sound of tires screeching to a stop then the sound of gunfire floods your ears. The sound of the Demodogs screeching in pain sounds. 

Dustin tries to get up and look but you hold him down, you didn’t want him in the crosshairs of this. 

After several minutes the gunfire stops. The three of you slowly turn and look over the hood of the car. The Demos had run off, back to where they came from. You see Nancy first, she was holding a large gun, some type of automatic from what you could tell, then there was Mike, Jonathan, Lucas, and Robin. Dustin was up first running over to Lucas and Mike.

“Shit dude I thought we were goners! If you guys hadn't shown up we would’ve been!” Dustin said as he ran over.

“As soon as we heard the code red we got here as fast as we could. We weren’t just gonna leave you guys hanging.” Mike said, patting Dustin on the back. The three of them keep talking, Dustin telling them what happened.

Nancy, Jonathan, and Robin walked over to you and Steve, just as Steve was helping you up.

“What is that? The third car you’ve messed up?” Nancy smirks a little bit teasing you.

“Look! In my defense neither time was my fault. And it’s only two cars. Plus the Beamer will be fine, it just needs a new tire and probably a scratch or two buffed out.” You defend yourself. Steve puts his arms around your shoulders pulling you closer to him.

“Seriously though, are you guys alright?” Robin asks, looking between you two.

“We’re fine, little miss race car driver over here got us this far, before we hit that pot hole there.” Steve points to the massive pothole in the road, which was probably the reason it was blocked off.

“I just can’t figure out why now Vecna sent them after us-  well I actually think they were probably after Dustin, but that still poses the question as to why?” you ask and that stumps the group. None of you had an answer.

WHAT?! They were the first monsters shown in the series?! The start of it all?!! I was so excited to see the demogorgans in episode 4 of season 5 and holy shit the attack on the military was insane! And the demo dogs being sent to max?!