[ His eyes are watery when he reads Hopper's next message, tears threatening to fall, but he holds them back for the moment. ]
She isn't stupid, she wouldn't have just showed up on my doorstep?? And I hid her in my basement without my parents knowing! I wouldn't have told them about her if it meant losing her!
[ But she couldn't have lived in his basement forever. Mike gets that. He gets that the government or the lab probably would have found her in the end if she'd stayed with him. It's just the fact that Hopper didn't give him some kind of sign that he didn't have to worry about Eleven for all that time. ]
Stay away from me.
[ And on that note, Mike storms off, shedding his tears on the way to... well, he has no idea where he's going, but far away from Hopper, that's for sure. ]
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She isn't stupid, she wouldn't have just showed up on my doorstep?? And I hid her in my basement without my parents knowing! I wouldn't have told them about her if it meant losing her!
[ But she couldn't have lived in his basement forever. Mike gets that. He gets that the government or the lab probably would have found her in the end if she'd stayed with him. It's just the fact that Hopper didn't give him some kind of sign that he didn't have to worry about Eleven for all that time. ]
Stay away from me.
[ And on that note, Mike storms off, shedding his tears on the way to... well, he has no idea where he's going, but far away from Hopper, that's for sure. ]