#leggomyayygo | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

dxncingwithastrxnger · 2 years ago

Text

we’re only lost children trying to find a friend (Mileven)

A/N: GUYS!!!! This is the story that I have been most excited for out of all the stories I plan on putting out this week, tbh. This story is actually a collaboration for the awesome and wonderful and one of the bestest of friends, @leggomyayygo!!! We planned out all the details for this AU together and then she drew for it and I wrote for it!!!! I’ll be putting her art as well as a link to the original post of it down below, so please go check it out!!!!! It was really, really fun trying something like this out and I really hope that you guys enjoy this AU as much as we do!!!!!

Pairing: Mike Wheeler x El Hopper

Summary: what does it take to change a timeline? what’s the one thing you need to change in order to completely alter a reality? how can one world become so entirely different than the other? what causes an alternate reality in the first place?

Prompt: Day 3 - AU

Tags: Some fluff, plenty of angst, a little mention of monster violence, I guess? Lmao

Song Inspiration: Two Pieces By Demi Lovato (Highkey Mileven song, highly recommend listening to while daydreaming about Mileven)

Word Count: 2,831

Not beta’d, all mistakes are my own.

[Day 1] [Day 2] [Day 3] [Day 4] [Day 5] [Day 6] [Day 7] || [Series Masterlist]

[Read on Quotev]

[Read on AO3]

[Read on Wattpad]

xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Here’s Ash’s post!!!! Please go check out her stuff and give her a follow if you haven’t already, she seriously deserves it!!!! Loved doing this and I’m so glad we can finally share it with y’all!!!! 💖💖💖

xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

November 7th, 1983

The young girl closes the door to her treehouse as her friends climb back down to the ground, on their way back home for the night. The other young boy left in the treehouse with her watches her curiously, but also warily. The girl walks over to him, kneeling down and sitting on her heels in front of the boy's place sitting cross-legged on her purple sleeping bag. "Hey, um, I never asked your name." The girl says. The boy turns to her, looking at her for a moment, before reaching down and pulling up his left shirt sleeve, holding out his arm tentatively.

The girl's eyes widen. "Is that real?" She asks curiously, reaching forward and grabbing the boy's arm without thinking. The boy gasps and flinches, pulling his arm back quickly and cradling it against his torso.

"Sorry, I've just...never seen a kid with a tattoo before." She tells him, feeling bad for clearly doing something that he didn't like. But she gives him a small smile, confident that she can smooth over that mishap. "What does it mean? Eleven?" She asks him.

The boy slowly pulls a hand up and points at himself. "That's your name?" The girl asks. The boy nods twice, confirming.

"Eleven. Okay. Well, my name's Jay, short for Jane. Maybe we can call you... Lev, short for Eleven." The girl, Jay, suggests, hoping the boy would like the idea. The boy slowly nods. Lev. Lev is good.

"Um, well, okay. Night, Lev." Jay tells him, standing up.

"Night, Jay." Lev says quietly, looking up at her.

Jay slowly walks over to the door of her treehouse, turning and looking back at Lev, who was now turning to lay down. Thunder rumbles in the distance as Jay turns back towards the door and grabs her coat from it's hook, putting it on and then slipping out the door. She climbs down her ladder and runs quickly through the rain and back into her house to dry off and settle in for the night. Back up in the treehouse, Lev has laid down on top of the sleeping bag that Jay had given him. He curls up and places his hands beside his head, staring at the far wall of the room he was in. He's trembling, uncertain what will happen tomorrow or if he's truly safe in this new place or not. Another roll of thunder passes through, louder and closer this time, a flash of lightning following it, and Lev jumps, squeezing his eyes shut and hoping more than anything for sleep to come.

November 2nd, 1984

They're all gathered together in the Byers' living room, ready to fight with everything they have. They don't know what will be on the other side of this, but they're cornered. They have no choice but to see things through as best they can. Suddenly, the commotion outside was different. The demodogs had been descending on the house, they were about to attack, but now suddenly they were... dying? They were screeching and yelling all around the house, each sound ending abruptly as if cut off by something. Or someone. But Jay perished the thought as soon as it popped into her mind. No, she couldn't entertain a thought like that right now, she needed to stay focused on what was actually going on.

Outside of the Byers' house, Lev is making his way through the demodogs, trying his best to get rid of all of them before entering the house. They just keep coming, like there's an infinite amount of them. One of them sneaks up and surprises him, causing him to accidentally fling it through one of the house's front windows, and he hopes that no one was injured because of the misdirection of his powers. A minute or two later and they're gone. A few were still left alive but they ran off into the night together and Lev feels it's safe here for now. Lev looks to the front door of the house and takes a deep breath. He was finally here, in his moment. This was the whole reason he had come back. Why he had made the choice to leave his sister behind and come back. On the other side of that door are his friends. His family. Over the past few days, Lev had heard the words family and home thrown around so much in relation to him. He'd heard them from Nancy, he'd heard them from Kali. But neither of them actually feel like home. Nowhere did. Except for with the people in that house right in front of him. They are truly his home. Jay is his home. The thought of Jay sends a jolt of warmth through him, and he can't take it any longer. He slowly walks forward and begins using his powers to unlock the door.

Suddenly, everything outside stops and falls quiet. Everyone waits with bated breath to see what will happen next. Jay clutched the trophy in her hands close to her, watching the front door anxiously. The deadbolt on the door flicks upwards all on its own and the chain on the door is pulled away from the door frame by an invisible force. Then, the door starts swinging open, and a pair of all white converse shoes step over the threshold. Jay trails her eyes upwards as the owner of those shoes enters the house, apart of her already knowing exactly who it is before she sees his face. But then she does see his face and he's here, Lev is right here. Tears immediately spring to Jay's eyes and she steps forward, out from behind Hopper as the man lowers his gun, everyone else around him following his lead and lowering their own weapons now that Lev has been recognized.

Jay stops a few feet away from Lev, facing him, and Lev looks directly at him, blood beginning to drip from his nose from the use of his powers. Jay's enter body warms from head to toe, as if she had been cold this entire time he's been gone, and she feels the biggest sense of relief rock through her. He's truly alive. I haven't been insane this whole time.

Lev sees Jay and just stops dead in his tracks. There she is. Jay. Finally. His head is starting to hurt, blood is running out of his nose, and there's still monsters on the loose, but Lev can't help but smile. He's back with Jay, exactly where he belongs, and that is what matters most. Nothing is as important as that fact. When he smiled, Jay smiled, too, tears in her eyes, just barely holding back from flowing over and down her cheeks. Seeing it made him realize that he also had tears in his own eyes, but he didn't care. At that point, it seems that neither of them can stay so far away from each other any longer. They both start walking forward at the same time until there's barely 2 inches between them.

"Eleven?" Jay asks, voice full of relief and confusion.

"Jay." Lev says, voice filled with the same relief. And then they're embracing each other, Lev's arms wrapping around Jay as she returns the same gesture.

The two kids bury their faces in each other's shoulders, clinging on tight, tears no longer being held back. As soon as they can physically feel each other, they're both grounded, and reality fully sets in. They both let out a quiet sob and cling to the other as if they would disappear if they weren't. After a few moments, they pull away to look at each other.

Jay speaks up first. "I never gave up on you. I called you every night. Every night for-"

"353 days." Lev cuts Jay off. "I heard."

June 28th, 1985

Lev sighs dejectedly, snatching the teddy bear off of the closet shelf with a huff. Despite being tall enough to grab it, he'd just wanted to give his powers a shot, just in case, but no luck, of course.

"They'll come back. I know they will." Jay says, walking into the room. She'd seen his failed attempt to grab the teddy bear with his mind and knew he'd start putting himself down about it. She couldn't have that.

"Thanks." Lev says quietly, turning to face Jay all the way as Jay stops right in front of him.

"You packed your walkie, right?" Jay asks hopefully.

"Yes." Lev gives her a small smile.

"Good. Because you know that I'm gonna steal Cerebro from Dustin and call you so much you're gonna have to turn it off, alright?" Jay tells him teasingly.

Lev nods. "Did you talk to your mom? About Thanksgiving?" He asks, remembering their conversation from about a week ago.

"Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I got the okay. I'll be there. And then I was thinking maybe you could come up here for Christmas. And Will, too. You can come before or after Christmas, or whatever Mrs. Byers wants, but I was thinking Christmas Day could be super fun, because we'd all have cool new presents to play with and, uh..." Jay suddenly trails off in the middle of her ramble and flushes. "Sorry, that made me sound like a seven-year-old." She says, embarrassed and feeling a bit childish. The awkwardness between them these last few months didn't really help much in making her feel better, either.

"I... I like presents, too." Lev tells her, smiling more, hoping to make her feel better. He didn't see anything wrong with her excitement about presents. He thought presents were really fun.

"Yeah, cool. Yeah." Jay says.

There's an awkward silence and after a moment, Lev turns and starts walking away since the conversation has clearly ended. But when he gets about 5 feet away, almost to the door, he stops. There was something that he'd been wanting to tell Jay for awhile now, these entire last few months, and he realizes that right now is probably his last chance to do so before they're gone and out of state. He turns back around and looks at Jay again, who's already looking back at him. "Jay?" He says.

"Yeah?" Jay asks him curiously.

"I-I need to... to tell you something." Lev admits.

Jay's head tilts to the head slightly and her brows are slightly furrowed. "What is it? You know you can tell me anything, Lev." She tells him sincerely.

Lev smiles at Jay, slowly walking back over to her again. He takes a deep breath, a little nervous but perfectly confident and certain in his realization. He looks directly into her eyes, and speaks. "I love you, Jay." He tells her softly, his voice filled with that love.

Jay's eyes widen and she gasps softly, standing there in silent shock. Lev's smile widens at her reaction, everything in his gut telling him that despite her silence, it wasn't the bad kind. After a moment, he slowly leans down and presses a soft kiss to her lips. Jay jolts slightly, but still seems to be frozen, so Lev pulls away. With one last smile at her, he then turns and leaves the room, leaving her to process what just happened.

March 26th, 1986

"Jay. Don't stop. You're the heart, remember? Tell him." Will urges.

Jay nods quickly and turns back to Lev, who's still gasping and choking on the table. "Lev? Lev, I don't know if you can hear me or not, but if you can, I want you to know that I'm here, okay? I'm right here." Jay tells him, hoping and praying that her words are getting through to wherever he is. Lev gasps as the vines keep tightening around his neck, but he tries his best to keep listening to Jay's voice, to hear what she has to say, to let her at least ground him the way she always does.

Jay continues. "And... I forgive you, okay? I forgive you and I love you. I'm sorry that I pushed you so much during that fight, I shouldn't have. I should've thought more about your side of things, but I didn't, and I'm really sorry for that. But I also accept your apology. I forgive you. I'm not even mad or upset about it anymore, okay? I promise you I'm not." She insists, trying her hardest not to cry. Lev's eyes flutter shut for a moment and despite his current situation, he suddenly feels so relieved. She forgives him.

"I should've trusted you more. I love you so much and I just don't wanna lose you. You started pulling away from me and growing distant and it made me absolutely terrified. I thought you didn't want to be with me anymore, I thought you were starting to hate me, and I couldn't handle it. I'm so scared of losing you, Lev. I really don't know what I'd do without you. I've loved you for so long, Lev. I feel like my life started that day we found you in the woods. Do you remember?" She asks him, and Lev does. He remembers it like it just happened. Every single detail in the forefront of his mind with perfect clarity. His lips quirked up at the memory, almost wishing they were back there right now.

"It was pouring down rain and you were in that giant, yellow Benny's Burgers shirt and you looked so scared and all I knew was that I needed to help you. And that I loved you. I knew, right then, in that moment, that I loved you. And I've loved you everyday since. Nothing has changed that, nothing ever could. And maybe we're not like most other couples, but we don't have to be. We can just be us. You and I. It doesn't matter how other people are, they don't decide how we show our love to each other. So what if people think we spend too much time together? It just means that we enjoy having each other around that much. I don't care what anyone else thinks, I only care about you." Jay means every single word. Other people's opinions don't matter to her, they never really have. But especially when it comes to her relationship with Lev. She's in love with Lev and she wants nothing more than to just be with him for the rest of her life and she isn't going to let anyone take that chance away from her. How their relationship dynamic works is up to no one but themselves.

Lev knows that she's right now. He wishes he had come to that conclusion much earlier, but there's no way to change it now. All he can do now is move forward and show Jay how much he truly loves her if he manages to make it through this.

"And right now, you need to pull through, okay? I need you to pull through for me, please. You can fly, you can move mountains, I believe that. I really do. But right now, I just need you to fight, okay? I need you to fight. Fight, Lev. Fight. Fight!" Jay yelled, pushing every ounce of meaning into the words.

Yes, fight. He needs to fight. Fight for her, fight for himself, fight for all of them. He needs to fight. He closes his eyes and gathers up his power, feeling the empowerment and confidence in Jay's words and allowing them to add fuel to the flame. He can do this. He can fight. And he actually believed it. He relaxes his body and he uses his powers to push at the vines with as much mental strength as he has, pulling them apart and away from himself. They slowly fall away from him as he regains control of himself and his surroundings.

Jay let out a breath she didn't know she'd been holding when the lights began to flicker above them and Lev's body stopped convulsing, seemingly able to breathe again. He did it. There are various noises of relief from the other people in the room with her and she feels the same way. Now, it was time for Lev to finish this fight, and no matter how it went, Jay would be waiting for him on the other side of it. She'll always be waiting for him.

xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

A/N: What do you guys think?? I hope this didn’t seem too rushed, cause in certain moments I feel like I didn’t leave off well or I was a little rushed, but I also may think differently tomorrow, lmao. All feedback is much appreciated, please tell me your thoughts on this, I would love to hear all of them!!!!! Hope you’re having an awesome day/night!!!!!! 💜💜💜

13 notes · View notes