Another side to the story.
And before you ask, no. You're not in the Upside Down... yet.
Ebony and Ivory AU
*In between seasons*
*Disclaimers: I don't own anything except my O/Cs. Even if you read E&I, read this anyway. Details have been changed.*
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ONE | WELCOME TO HAWKINS
Olivia pulls her 1980 G Wagon into the parking lot of Hawkins High School and sighs behind the wheel.
'Another grueling day at school.' She thinks to herself.
She gets out of the car, grabs her bag and goes inside. Olivia passes through the masses of high school students on her way to her locker, trying to keep to herself as she usually does.
The combination goes into the lock and she opens the door. As she pulls out her books, she looks down the hall to see Nancy Wheeler. The two make eye contact and Nancy smiles and waves and Olivia returns the gestures.
Seeing her brings back all the memories from last year come flooding back: Will Byers' disappearance, Barb's disappearance, fighting against Hawkins Lab... all of it. It was one crazy ass time.
She did play a small role in what happened. While Hopper, Joyce, Jonathan and Nancy ran off and did their thing, Olivia stayed behind at the school with the kids.
She thought it was the right thing to do. And she thought it was odd that they thought the kids could handle themselves. They're kids that needed some sort of "adult" supervision so she volunteered herself.
She saw the Demogorgan crawl out of the wall of the middle school, she watched El kill the people who worked for the lab and she carried El when her powers made her too weak to stand.
And she also saw El disappear in the classroom.
Olivia had never seen such heartbreak on a child's face like the one she saw on Mike Wheeler when El disappeared. She thought that kid was going to drop dead on the floor. He couldn't move, he didn't blink... he just stood there. Staring at that one spot for what seemed like hours.
Being around them showed her that these kids are actually a lot braver than she thought they were.
The only reason she was even involved was because Barb went missing. Olivia was friendly with Barb and she was to her. And by being around Barb, she met Nancy and her boyfriend Steve. So when she disappeared from the get together at Steve's house, she was really worried.
And part of her feels kind of guilty. She should have been out there at the pool with her instead of passed out on the couch. Maybe she wouldn't have been taken. Or maybe whatever took Barb might have taken her too.
And since then, Olivia has gotten pretty handy with knives and she has the cuts to prove it. She needs to protect herself when something like this happens again, because she has a strong feeling that it's not over...
Her first class is history and she immediately goes to the back of the room and sits down. She always sits in the back of class in every class she possibly can. Except Mrs. Brown. She likes to sit everyone in alphabetical order. Bitch.
