Happy mother’s day to all the stranger things’ moms!

(and to mom Steve)

Uptown Girl.

Summary:After moving from New York to Hawkins, your life is changed by a handsome police chief, a mysterious girl and a realm that is beyond the boundaries of normality.

Warnings:like one swear

A/N:Sorry this part has taken me a little while to post and is a little short but I’d like to thank you all for your responses and lovely comments! ❤️The blocks of italic font are flashbacks! Enjoy!

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Chapter 10

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The soft sound of pencils against paper filled your classroom while you were at the chalkboard writing down pages and questions that corresponded with those pages for your students to do. A knock at the door distracted you and captured the attention of your students. You put down the piece of chalk and went to the door “Principal Coleman,” you greeted him and noticed a girl with hair redder than a raging fire by his side “Hello there!”

“Miss Harrington, this is Maxine Mayfield, a new student here at Hawkins Elementary.” Coleman introduced you to her.

“Hi Maxine, we’re happy to have you here!”

“Just Max- I prefer Max.” She spoke up.

You smiled “Okay, thank you Principal Coleman.” He curtly nodded and walked off “Alright Max, let me introduce you to the class.” You motioned her to go in and you followed behind her “Class,” they all looked up, brows crinkling slightly at the sight of someone new “This is Maxine Mayfield, however, she prefers to be called Max. I’m sure you’ll all make her very welcome here at Hawkins Elementary and help her out should she need any.” You smiled down at her “Here’s a textbook,” you reached across and grabbed one from your desk “The pages are up on the board but if you have any questions- just ask! Take a seat anywhere you’d like.”

She uttered a quiet ‘thanks’ before grabbing a seat at the back of your class. You noticed Mike, Dustin, Lucas and Will all look back to her before their heads snapped back around when she caught them looking.

The day flew in and when the bell rang, students were leaping out of their seats to get out the classroom to get home. You watched them leave and shut the door behind you. It was the day before Halloween and you had brought in decorations to decorate the classroom with. You pulled out one of your bags that was under your desk, the other one contained pyjamas, a change of clothes and all your essentials. You were going to stay the night at the cabin with Jim and El, something you did a few nights a week.

•••

“She came back the night she disappeared?” You quietly confirmed with Jim from where you were standing in the kitchenette, El was watching the tv. It had been an hour since you arrived at the cabin.

“That’s what she told me,” he said glancing over to her “She said there was an opening at the school and came back. I found her the night after the Christmas party at the station. I brought her here, I knew she’d be safe here. We established some ground rules and made it like a fortress.”

“She’s been here all this time…” you whispered.

Jim let out a guilty sigh, there was plenty of times he wanted to tell you but just couldn’t. He knew the more people that knew El was back, the more danger she would be in. “I’m sorry I didn’t tell you, I just wanted to keep her safe.”

Jim felt your arms wrap around him “I understand,” you mumbled into his uniform. He smiled and hugged you back, placing a soft kiss to your forehead before releasing you.

“Are you staying?” A soft voice appeared from behind you and you turned around.

“Yeah, I can stay a little while before Jim takes me home,” you smiled at El and looked behind your shoulder to Jim “Maybe tomorrow I could bring my pyjamas and stay the night?”

Jim nodded and sent you a wink before El dragged you to her bedroom, almost begging you to read one of the books Jim had stored in the cabin. “Alright,” you tucked her in and pulled over a chair to the bedside “Chapter one- Down the rabbit hole.”

•••

After decorating tables with fake cobwebs and spiders and sticking up decorations on the walls, you grabbed a chair from one of the desks and pulled it to the window to hang a garland from it that had witches and bats dangling down. You stood in the middle and stretched to either side of the frame, just about reaching the left hand side before attempting the right. You completely ignored the fact that your foot was on the very edge of the chair until you came tumbling off it with a shriek.

You braced yourself to land face first on the floor. But you never. You came into contact with something soft. You looked up and saw Jim smirking down at you, his arms holding you up by your armpits while one foot was on the floor and the other was on the chair. “Hoo boy, I knew you fell for me but you don’t have to do it every time I walk into the room!”

“Ha ha, very funny,” you grumbled and stabled yourself on solid ground “Well at least I managed to hang it up,” you pointed to the garland. Jim breathed out a low whistle.

“You’ve went all out decorating the place,” he said admiring your decorative skills.

“Yeah, and I have candy for the kids too. We’re gonna have a fun day tomorrow, do some ghoulish geography and menacing maths,” you playfully wiggled your fingers “before having a little Halloween party. They’ve worked hard and deserve a treat.”

“You’re such a good teacher,” he placed his hands on your waist “The kids are lucky to have you teaching them.” You bashfully smiled and waved off his comment, Jim always said you were too modest. “You got your stuff?” He asked and you nodded. He pecked the side of your head and grabbed your overnight bag while you finished off adding bits and bobs to your desk and quickly drew a ghost on the chalkboard.

You dusted off your hands “Okay, that’s me,” you and Jim walked out together and he opened the car door for you before placing your bag in the back. “I forgot to tell you yesterday, when Steve and I were in the car park heading to his car, this asshole came from out of no where! I think the driver thought they were in a race car.”

Jim’s brows crinkled “Seriously?! Did you get a look at the person or what car it was? Registration number? Anything?”

“No,” you sighed out “I only noticed that it was a blue car before it sped off. I know it’s not much to go on.”

Jim shook his head “It’s alright, I’ll make sure to let the guys know so they can keep an eye out. As long as you’re alright…and Steve.” The corner of your lip tugged upwards. You adored how much he cared. Your hand found his and you tightly held on to it, quickly bringing the back of his hand to your lips before resting it on your lap and placing your other hand over the top of his. “What was that for?” Jim asked, pleasantly surprised by your affectionate actions.

“Does there have to be a reason? Can’t I just adore you and kiss and hold your hand?” You teased ever so slightly. It made Jim blush.

He pulled up near the cabin and grabbed your things for you. You took the lead and knocked on the door. Jim told El that there would only be two people who knew the secret knock- himself and you. After knocking on the door and being let in by El, you engulfed her in a hug. You could hear Jim loudly sigh from behind you “How many times have I got to tell you? No Eggos before dinner.” He spotted one half eaten on the dining table.

You rolled your eyes “Oh Jim! She’s allowed a little afternoon pick me up!”

Jim sent you a deadpanned glare “One- you’re too soft and two-” He went to the freezer and pulled out the box “It’s more than an 'afternoon pick me up’! She’s ate half the box!”

“Well, I will make a start on dinner and while I do that, she’ll build up an appetite,” you smiled and tapped his chest “You can be my sous chef.” Jim followed you to the kitchen and grabbed a beer for both you and himself, he also grabbed El a can of soda while he was in there. You made mac and cheese- a favourite of El’s. Since you saw her a few months ago you had been cooking new things for her to try. She never had much choice when she was in the lab and you wanted to let her try new things. That also included putting a bunch of candy, ice cream and whipped cream on a stack of eggos and almost making the both of you sick. You were pretty sure Jim said 'I told you that would happen’ at least fifty times.

You were halfway through grating the cheese when Jim came up behind you and placed his hands on your waist and placed his chin on your shoulder. You sighed with a smile and relaxed into him a little while still grating, he began humming the tune of 'Uptown Girl’ in your ear while letting his lips dance over your neck. You loved moments like this. You almost felt as if you were a family.

“Jim?” You glanced to the stovetop.

“Hmmm?” He lazily hummed.

“Pot’s boiling over…”

“Oh shit!” He quickly let you go and pulled the pot off the stovetop. “Ah damnit!” He turned down the heat and put it back on the stove “You’re too distracting,” he muttered and you let out a snort of laughter, playfully nudging his arm.

“Do you need any help?” You both looked over and saw ask standing there.

“Why don’t you set the table?” Jim suggested and El happily went to work. “Why are you so smiley?” He asked, you had barely noticed how much you had been smiling.

You shrugged a shoulder “I’m happy.”

Jim leaned forward and pressed a long kiss to your temple “Me too.”

•••

“'Will they reach the nursery in time? If so, how delightful for them, and we shall all breathe a sigh of relief, but there will be no story. On the other hand, if they are not in time, I solemnly promise that it will all come right in the end.’” You glanced down to El and noticed her eyes growing heavy. “'They would have reached the nursery in time had it not been that the little stars were watching them.’” Her eyes shut and then opened again, she was fighting to stay awake to hear the end of the chapter. “'Once again the stars blew the window open, and that smallest star of all called out: 'Cave, Peter!”“ Your voice grew quieter with each word as you gently lulled her into a sleep as you reached the end of chapter three of Peter Pan. ”'Then Peter knew that there was not a moment to lose. 'Come,’ he cried imperiously, and soared out at once into the night, followed by John and Michael and Wendy. Mr. and Mrs. Darling and Nana rushed into the nursery too late. The birds were flown.’“ You looked up to a sleeping El and gently shut over the book, placing a piece of card between the pages to mark your spot.

You looked to the door and noticed Jim leaning against the doorframe of El’s room. You smiled and gently pressed a kiss to her forehead "Sweet dreams,” you whispered, turned off the light and left the room.

Jim softly shut the door behind you “You’re really good with her…” you picked up your pyjamas off the bed and went into the bathroom, Jim followed you in.

You both grabbed your toothbrushes and went to work on brushing your teeth “You’re good with her too,” you looked at him via the mirror “We’re both in this together. We make a great team.”

“I can’t help but feel like we’re good cop/ bad cop- me being the bad cop.” He lowly chuckled “I think it’s because you’d let her have as many eggos as she wants at any time of the day.”

You shrugged a shoulder “Hey, life is short! Now shoo!” You practically kicked him out the bathroom so you could change “I gotta get ready for bed.”

“I could always…” he bit his lower lip and suggestively wiggled his brows “Help you?”

You smirked and shook your head, pushing him back by the chest “No! We both agreed!” You couldn’t help but giggle “Not here! Anyway you have to get ready for bed too.”

He quickly pecked your lips with a boyish grin before shutting the door, trying his luck by leaving a gap- which you clearly noticed and then shut it over completely. When you were changed you emerged from the bathroom with your clothes in your arm. Jim was already in bed, you placed your pile of clothes on top of the bag you had brought with you before climbing in beside Jim and huddling together with him under the duvet. You shut your eyes and felt him run his fingers over your hairline, eventually soothing you to sleep.

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Uptown Girl.

Summary:After moving from New York to Hawkins, your life is changed by a handsome police chief, a mysterious girl and a realm that is beyond the boundaries of normality.

Warnings:none!

A/N:So we are now onto where season two would be in the story! The blocks of italic font are flashbacks! I hope you enjoy! ❤️

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Chapter 9

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“And that’s it for today class! Remember homework is due tomorrow and I will burn every paper I receive that has the ending ‘And then I woke up’ or'It was all a dream’. All of you keep ending your fictitious work like that. Those endings are banned!” You laughed and so did your class “Alright, class dismissed.”

You watched students rush out the door while you sat at your desk. “Have a good night, Miss Harrington,” Dustin and Lucas chimed. You looked up and smiled, Mike was with them staying silent, Will had left an hour before everyone else to go to the lab for an appointment.

“Thanks boys, you too.” You waved them off but called back Mike just before he stepped out the door. “You alright?”

He shrugged a shoulder “Just thinking…”

“About El?”

Mike sighed “Yeah…I miss her.” You knew Mike would feel the impact of not having El by his side. He wasn’t dealing with it as well as the others.

An idea popped into your head “Hey, why don’t you write a letter to her?”

He looked at you with confusion masking his face “Where would I sent it to?”

You softly smiled “You don’t have to send it anywhere. You could leave in your desk, leave it under your pillow. You could write a whole bunch of letters about…oh I don’t know…your day? What you’ve been doing, what you’ve been feeling, if you’ve played any new games recently or got a new toy. Something you’d tell, or would like to tell, El. Write anything.”

He remained silent for a moment “Will she ever read them?” His voice was quiet, almost a whisper.

“I don’t know,” you walked over to him and kneeled to his level, placing a hand on his shoulder “But you should always have hope.”

“Thanks, Miss Harrington. See you tomorrow!” You waved him off with a thin smile. When he shut the door you let out a loud sigh, guilt forking through your veins. You wish you could tell him that she was alright, that she was still in Hawkins but you couldn’t. Not until it was safe.

•••

“I gotta go…” Jim hummed against your skin and pulled back, adjusting himself slightly and running a hand through his tousled hair.

You whined and pulled him back by his open belt “Stay,” you kissed him again “Stu and Deb are out of town, Steve is at a party and then staying at a friends house. We can have some time to ourselves!” You were on the verge of begging. It was late July, the sun was still lighting the sky at ten thirty at night and it was constantly hot. Since you and Jim kissed at Christmas, the two of you had been going steady but he would never stay. At a certain time he’d leave.

“I wish I could, Y/N, but-”

You cut him off with a sigh “-But you need to get home. I know, Jim.” You gently pushed him off you and sat up on the bed and watched him buckle up his belt and put on his shoes. “Do you want me Jim?”

“What?” He was taken aback by what you had said.

“Do you like me? Am I doing something wrong? Do you like someone else?” You rambled.

Jim put his hands up “Hey, hey, hey! Where is all this coming from?” He sat down beside you on the bed and gently clasped your hands “Of course I like you!” He smiled and brushed his thumbs over the tops of your hands “You’re not doing anything wrong and there is certainly isn’t anyone else that I have feelings for.”

You looked up to him with glossy eyes “Then why don’t you stay?”

Jim sighed and pulled you up off the bed as he stood “I’ll show you.” You furrowed your brows and grabbed your shoes as well as you jacket, fingering through your disheveled hair to tame it a bit before following him downstairs to his car, locking the front door before leaving.

“Where are we going?” You asked, stepping into the car. He didn’t say a thing, he just kept driving and driving until he pulled into the wood and stopped the car. “Uh…are you going to kill me?” You joked, making Jim smirk.

“No,” he grabbed a flashlight “Follow me.” You walked over to Jim’s side and he held your hand, helping you through the thick foliage under your feet. “Watch your step,” he shone the light at a tripwire, he kept hold of your hand as you stepped over it. You narrowed your eyes at the cabin in front of you, a soft yellowish glow pouring through the gaps of the curtains.

“What is this place? What happened to your trailer?” You asked following him up the steps.

“Still got the trailer,” he knocked twice, then once, then three times. “This used to be my grandads place,” locks on the other side of the door began to open. “I used to use it for storage but now…” he opened the door and placed his hand on the bottom of your back to lead you in.

You gasped and brought your hands to your mouth “Oh my god…”

El glanced up from where she was lying watching tv on the couch, her face instantly lighting up upon seeing you. “Y/N!” She jumped up off the couch and ran over to you, you kneeled down and engulfed her in a hug.

You glanced up to Jim with watery eyes and whispered; “How did this happen?”

•••

“Hey,” you snapped out your trance and glanced over to the classroom door, Steve was standing there “You ready to go?”

“Yeah,” you grabbed your things. It was a regular occurrence that Steve would walk over from the high school and drive you both home. Especially since you still hadn’t got your licence yet. “How was school today?”

“Shi-” he cut himself off when you sent him a glare “Shi-mazing! Shi-mazing…all the kids are saying it these days.”

You smirked and rolled your eyes “Sure they are…” you placed books in your bag and put on your coat “Okay! I’m ready.” You followed Steve out and bumped into principal Coleman on the way out.

“Harrington,” He lightly glared at Steve “Your nephew gave me some amount of grief.”

“He can be an angel sometimes!” You grinned and embarrassed him “Literally! One Christmas when he was five he dressed up as an angel and sang Christmas songs. He was so adorable!”

Steve laughed with out a hint of emotion “Ha ha…yeah…we should be going,” he grabbed your upper arms and practically pushed you out the door. The two of you walked through the car park, chatting away like you usually did. That was until a blue car came zooming passed you both and you pushed Steve back a little so he didn’t get hit by it. “Jesus! Who was that asshole?!” He snapped.

You both watched the car speed off into the distance “I don’t know, doesn’t matter now. Let’s go home.”

“I’m guessing Chief Hopper will be over for dinner tonight?” Steve made conversation while driving.

“Yup, he’ll be over after work. Why? You haven’t been involved in any illegal activity I don’t know about have you?” You joked and Steve let out a snort of laughter “But yeah, Jim will be over.”

“Do you love him?” He asked out the blue and if you were driving the car you would have probably crashed it.

“Do you love Nancy?” You asked.

“Yeah, I think I do…I answered your question but you didn’t answer mine,” he turned and pursed his lips at you almost chidingly.

You smirked “Love at my age and love at your age are two very different concepts. I think you and everyone else that’s in love at your age have this idealism that love is like the stories you’ve had read to you or the movies you’ve watched.”

A moment of silence passed before Steve spoke up “That is such an old person answer!” You turned to face him with a deadly glare “Uhhh…you probably heard that from grandma though. Thanks for that insightful speech.”

You pursed your lips and proudly nodded “Good save.” A beat passed “To kinda answer your question- We’ve been together for a few months but I really like Jim. Really, really, really like him. Neither of us want to rush what we have, we’ll know when the time is right for us.”

Steve nodded “I understand that. I’ll postpone my suit dry-cleaning.” You both let out a laugh before playfully nudging his arm.

•••

You could hear Deb from the kitchen gush over Jim arriving with some wine before she told him that you were in the kitchen. You wiped your hands off your apron and spun around to greet him.

“Hey!” You gave him a small peck “Thanks for coming.”

“Smells good,” he placed his hands on your waist and you placed yours on his shoulders “What’s for dinner anyway?”

“Deb made meatloaf and I’ve done some sides,” You moved your mouth towards his ear and whispered into it “I’ll pack up some leftovers…” you kissed the space between his cheek and ear before you pulled back.

“Thank you,” he gave your waist a light squeeze before leaning in and kissing you. After a few seconds his lips were still on yours, he wasn’t pulling back and you were both encouraging each other to keep kissing for as long as you possibly could. You couldn’t help but let out a small grunt when he picked you back and the bottom of your back hit against the kitchen counter. He smirked and nipped at your lips, you brushed your tongue over his and he let out a breathy groan.

“Jeez can’t I get some soda without the gross PDA?!”

You felt Jim’s lips slowly leave yours, you rolled your lips into a thin line and let out an irritated huff “Jeez I don’t know? Maybe when I stop walking in on you and Nancy practically eating each other’s faces off in the living room then I’ll stop.”

Jim stifled a laugh and Steve let out an embarrassed groan, muttering profanities and curses under his breath. “He’s gonna steal your car keys and drive off with that beaut outside since you don’t drive it.”

You rolled your eyes “Yanno I can drive it! I just don’t have a licence yet.” You spun around and got the stuff out the oven.

“Why don’t you take a seat at the table, Jim?” Deb walked in with a smile on her face “We’ll bring the stuff through.”

“You sure?” He asked “I don’t mind helping.”

Deb waved her hand “You’re our guest! Plus we Harrington women can handle just about anything! Isn’t that right Y/N?”

“Sure is!” You turned and faced Jim again with a small smirk on your face “But he already knew that, didn’t you Jim?”

A large grin formed on his face “I sure did, hon.” He surprised you and himself by giving you a nickname. It was the first time he did something like that since the two of you got together. It was a pleasant surprise and from what Jim saw, he knew he could call you that more often.

After dinner and coffee, you walked Jim outside and stood with him on the porch for a few minutes, tightly wrapping your cardigan around you. “Oh,” you felt something hard against your side “Before I forget.” You placed your copy of 'Peter Pan’ on top of the Tupperware that contained leftovers for him and El. “We’ve now finished Alice in Wonderland so, if you wanna make a start on it tonight you can.”

“I think we can wait until you’re over tomorrow, she prefers it when you read to her, you can teach her a lot better than I can,” he softly smiled “Thank you for this. Everything.”

“You don’t have to thank me, Jim.” You brushed a hand over his cheek and let your lips linger on his for a minute or two. You pulled back and nuzzled your nose against his “You better get going…hon.”

Jim smirked and licked his lips “You say it cuter than I do,” he kissed you again “I’ll see you tomorrow. I can pick you up after school is finished.”

“Sure, see you then,” with one final kiss you watched him get into his car and drive off before going back into the comforting warmth of the house.

Steve was standing there facing you before turning around and roaming his hands up and down his back and waist while making kissing noises- as if he was making out with someone. “Oh Jim!” He put on a dramatic, high-pitched voice to mock you “Oh Jim! Oh hon! Oh I love you, Jim! Kiss me Jim!”

You narrowed your eyes and gritted your teeth together, your jaw squaring slightly. “You have three seconds to get up those stairs before I kick your ass!”

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princess-honeybun:

Wheelercest is so amazing and valid ❣️

People who ship it have great taste ❣️️✨

stranger things really had billy almost fuck karen wheeler and DIDNT find a way to use abbas ‘does your mother know?’

a crime

Mike Wheeler was raised by fucking Karen, he’s a gossipy little bitch deep down inside.