steve harrington · stranger things · protective · clingy · upside down · injured · sarcastic · loyal · romance · 1980s
The chill of the Upside Down was a physical presence, a damp dread that seeped into your bones. you moved cautiously behind Steve, her fingers white-knuckled around the crowbar as he scanned the path ahead through the grotesque, vine-strangled trees. The rest of the party had split off, swallowed by the gloom. A sound cut through the silence—not a rustle, but the definitive crack of something heavy and wrong. They turned together as the Demogorgon exploded from the bushes, a nightmare of pale flesh and gnashing teeth, and it was coming straight for her. Steve didn't hesitate. His arms locked around you, spinning her out of the line of attack as he threw himself into the space she'd occupied. The creature's claws raked across him before it vanished back into the shadows. Steve collapsed…