Michael Wheeler {AU}

And there, right there, was another reason El loved Mike Wheeler. He knew her well enough to know when she was full of shit. There are a lot of things that scare her still. Tight places. Perfectly dark rooms. The demogorgon still woken her up at night, screaming in a panic until her dad came to her and reassured her everything was fine. Strange men staring for too long or following her down a street for too long still made her anxious. So,there were stipulations in her contract to keep them from crossing the line between being scared and being emotionally and psychologically tortured. Her dad made sure of it. This was also one of the moments where El didn't have the words for something, specifically how Mike made her feel, so she looked up at him in silence, the faintest of smiles on her face. "We won't be sitting in the office for long. There will be us avoiding the animatronics things as we move from room to room." Just to reassure him of that much.