The Year 1985

Chapter 32: The Truth

His hands intertwined as those ocean-blue irises remained on the ground, the young-looking Hargreeves complexion was concealed by a bewildered expression as his eyebrows almost reached one another due to the intense suspicion that had been currently occurring. When he revealed the conversation he and Herb exchanged a while ago, a huge concern was sketched on their expressions, concluding this is certainly another phase of a terrible dilemma. The silence suppressed the entire house and one is only waiting to break the unfortunate atmosphere as their gazes shifted to the fifth brother.

Diego proceeded to swivel those knives in an error-free behavior tossing the lad in the uniform an intense stare. "Are you gonna talk or what?" Said the knife boy as he anticipated Five to build the conversation immediately.

"Just wait. Maybe he's processing what to say. Let's not be so intense. Remember the adjustments for Eleven." Vanya gestured to the young Hopper with bandages placed on her face with the help of Allison to cure those wounds and scrapes including the one on her feet bitten by the Mind Flayer. In this way, it created a little union between the youngster and the woman as the girl concluded she is undoubtedly in prudent hands and household. This earned a passionate smile constructed on her lips.

After the seventh Hargreeves responded to her brother, another pause filled the entire area as they traded awkward glances. The schoolboy took an intense breath, arranged his uniform in place, and ran those fingers through his shimmering slicked raven hair as which resulted in a presentable lad himself who had constantly been since he was being trained as an Umbrella Academy member before. The boy sighed and bestowed a sign to the young girl to proceed to state the truth to the five remaining siblings. Merely the sound of Klaus entirely chugging the bottle of champagne wrapped the whole residence.

Jane brought out a nervous sigh as she moved forward. "I am one of the laboratory tests supervised by Dr. Martin Brenner. He... he uses numbers for every patient and I'm the eleventh subject. That's why they call me Eleven. That man manipulated all of us to have telekinetic powers. Each one of us. We call him our papa." She pulled up the sleeve of hers as that disclosed a tattooed 011 on the teenager's left wrist. The youngster's sight quickly wandered to the siblings as she noticed how suddenly their expressions altered into doubtful ones after hearing those from the girl. They all delicately went nigher to take an unmistakable gaze at the tattoo.

"There was an incident that happened at the Starcourt Mall here in Hawkins. I was there. I fought this huge monster that I could not explain how indeed scary it was. But that's not the thing we are talking about here." She stopped for a while and struggled to process some decent terms to explain to them. Eleven began to take a deep breath before resuming.

"B-Because of the massive dilemma, I did not stand it. So, I ran away from my friends and made myself hidden from the world. Then, I was walking on the road at that time, blankly. However, I felt a strong hand that pulled me inside the car. I was screaming and desperate for help."

"Soon, when I woke up. I'm already in a familiar place. The place I never desired to go back to again. At Hawkins National Laboratory where my papa owns the entire territory. After that, I ran away from the traumatic lab because I don't want to remember the place where my pain started." Tears subsided on her cheeks as the girl's heart aches for another time and the terrible memories triggered in her psyche. Eleven draw a gaze on the surface as the girl attempted to begin again without agonizing while remembering the disastrous encounters. The Hargreeves brothers and sisters exchanged visions as the concern for the girl emerged in their hearts.

Five suddenly thought back to the offer addressed by The Handler to him the past week as the guilt instantaneously scattered in his emotions. The schoolboy's gawk persisted in the confessing youngster around his age and at first, hesitated to give her a comforting caress on the shoulder, however, the fifth brother cares about Jane at the same time as he progressed to do so. He didn't want to hurt or betray Eleven by him accepting the offer but it's the other way around only to win back the briefcase for them to jump on the timeline where they certainly fit. Of course, to help the teenage Hopper finally reunite with her family and companions once more.

Vanya passed the young lady a tissue as she assisted her by wiping those tears away. The fifth Hargreeves gulped anxiously as his mind presently was in uproar on how he suppose to declare to the girl about the offer. Before continuing, he thought twice initially. Five also concluded that Eleven has the right to know the certitude about it likewise because she is involved as the main prey of the offer and the white-haired woman that refers as The Handler.

Five gently went closer to the girl as he expressed a pleasant subtle beam and gestured to come over. "This is urgent. We will be back for a minute." He informed his other siblings as that earned them a little skepticism but they just nodded along and allowed the two teenagers to have their alone time.

"Am I missing something between these kiddos?" Said Klaus as he bumped Luther on purpose.