the hayloft was burnt to the ground, taking the memories and horrors with it.
- in which Malia Garcia doesn't go down without a fight.
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𝒄𝒖𝒓𝒓𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒍𝒚 𝒘𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒔𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒘𝒐
stranger things season one - four
steve harrington x fem...
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❛ We fucking kill the bastard ❜
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Malia has been to so many funerals, she's lost count. It's actually quiet saddening. She's seventeen and has attended more death celebrations than she has weddings, or any other happy event.
So, as she jogs up the steps towards where Will Byer's coffin was being created for his funeral the next day, she remembers all the horrific moments that caused her to constantly be so angry.
When she was ten, her father passed away due to an illness, completely unknown to tiny Malia Garcia, and even though it's about time she learns why her dad died, she doesn't want to. His funeral consisted of Malia, her mother and Thomas. That was it. Not even his parents could conjure up the courage to be there and, truth be told, Malia and her brother didn't want to go either.
Sasha Garcia, their mother, was the only person who truly cared for Norman Garcia. They were high-school sweethearts, and the only thing keeping him by her side, was her cooking. He rambled about it constantly, and very rarely left the dinner table, while claiming he was only there for the food, which Malia never doubted to be a lie.
Expectantly, several grandparents died over the years; none of which Malia was close to or had even seen before, but she was still dragged along to their funeral to show 'respect'. It may seem cold hearted, but she had no reason at all to be sad over their deaths.
Slightly further on in life, around the age of thirteen, Thomas' childhood best friend died due to heart failure, and caused the poor boy to distance himself from reality all together. He didn't speak a single word to anyone for at least a year and barely ever left his room. Malia completely understood, and left him too it. Obviously, she did try to brighten his mood but never forced him into doing something.
Unlike their Mum, who got so fed up with her son's depression that she actually paid for a therapist but Tom had no interest in sobbing it a complete stranger about how devastated he was. It was impractical, and just not needed.
But when Thomas and Malia moved up into high school, he started to brand out more: create more friends and speak a lot even more than before his best friend's passing. Malia was beyond happy to have her town brother back, and spent a year just hanging around with him to catch him up on everything he missed during his episode.
It was Nancy's clever idea to speak to Jonathan at the time when he's mourning his brother the most. Malia had complained the whole way in the car, knowing he'll either get angry and cause a scene, or cry and finally decide to help the pestering girls.
