Stranger Things: A Whitlocks Tale; A Dip of The Whitlock Life

Chapter 8: ꜱᴇʀɪᴏᴜꜱʟʏ ᴄᴀɴ'ᴛ ᴡɪᴛʜ ᴛʜᴇꜱᴇ ᴋɪᴅꜱ..

Months later the Twins sat in their room sketching and staring out at the tracks that was beyond their bedroom window. Robby stood up from his bed placing his Michael Jackson tape in the tape player before sitting down and going back to sketching. Rosie on the other hand stared out the window being drowned in the outside silence, blurring out Robby's music playing in the background. 

"Rosie you good?"

"Just regret going to Steve's party..."

"Why?"

"Rob, look at us. We're being uneducated, isolated in a bedroom, in this log built household, under the watch of a cop, and grounded till the damn kid is found!"

"Well when you put it like that it sounds like torture."

"It Is."

"Well come on Rosie, it's not all that bad, we're not in a school where we're different amongst others, we're not being judged for being the odd ones out. Plus humans are untrustworthy. You know this."

"I know but Rob, this isn't what us experiments should be doing. We should be out there!"

Robby hen sat up, his tone becoming serious.
"Rosie. We're risks to hawkins. You saw what papa showed us."

"Yeah?! Well did he ever mention he'll keep us in a bedroom half the time where we won't be educated?! Or learn about the world?!"

"Hopper is just trying to protect us Rosie. You heard about that Byers kid!"

"Oh so you're thinking we'll be just like him.."

"No I-"

"Robby. We're different... Everybody has a written story. Ours being we have a chance in this world compared to the life we had before Papa abducted us!"

"Rosie, life isn't like that..."

"It could! And it's our choice to take that risk or not! We don't have powerful overly done powers like the dead kids from the lab, but we have something better. Society and each other. Real humans. Not Scientists and needles. Come on Robby where is your spirit!?"

Robby sat back down rubbing his temples.

"Jesus you and your pep talks-"

Suddenly he was cut off by the sound of children's chatter from outside. Rosie walked over opening the window and tying back the curtains as the fall breeze flew in.

"Robby! Come quick!!"

Robby sat up walking over. And before their very eyes were none other than 4 kids. 3 boys and a girl with a fairly shaved head. 

"Eleven..." Robby muttered.

"What is she doing out of the lab...?" Rosie mumbled.

The twins looked at each other before quickly getting changed grabbing their coats and running out to the tracks.

"El!" Robby called as they approached the small group.

"Who are you???" Mike asked.
"How do you know El?" Dustin asked.
"Finally some answers!" Lucas said.

Rosie ran up hugging Eleven in great relief she was okay.

"Okay. Hi 3 of you, i'm Robby that's my twin sister Rosie, we are El's former friends from Hawkins lab-"

"Your not taking el!" Mike cried cutting off Robby.

Robby laughed.
"Taking El??? No we're just relieved shes okay. We're Experiments 021 and 022. We were with El in the lab. Grew up together for a few years."

"oh great there's more." Lucas sighed.

"More? Oh no. We are the last ones standing besides El." Rosie chimed in. "Besides 001 caused the others to drop so.."

The Boys sighed in relief calming down.

"Sorry about freaking out. We just found El in the woods and she says "Bad People" are after her." Lucas sighed.

"Papa..." Rosie mumbled.

"Anyways.. I'm Lucas. Sinclair."
"I'm Mike, Mike Wheeler."
"And I'm Dustin, the charmer" Dustin chimed in rolling purring.

Robby laughed his ass off at the gesture. 
"Okay toothless." he chuckled.

Dustin lost his smile sighing. The other boys couldn't help but find it a tiny bit funny. 

"So how have these humans treated you?..." Rosie whispered.

"K-Kindly..." Eleven mumbled back.

Rosie then gave Robby a look.

"Okay, Okay maybe not ALL humans are bad."  Robby Gumbled.

"So you guys are like El... Maybe you guys can tell us what happened in Hawkins lab..?" Dustin asked.

"Hell n-" 

"yes. Yes WE. CAN." Rosie interrupted Robby. 

"Cool we're sorta heading to the junkyard. El is taking us there because we're in search of something." Lucas says.

The twins nod, Robby sighs but follows behind Rosie as they follow the boys and El down the tracks.

"Rosie are you sure its a good idea...?"

"Rob..I'm positive... it could be something better than being stuck in our room all day.."

Robby sighs.

"But you left your MJ music on right?"

"SHIT- YEAH  I DID-"

"Robby relax. It could make Hopper think we're still home or whoever passes by the house."

"True.."

"Come on... Relax... This could be a good change.."

"Still. I don't trust them.... Hell and I thought I was the chaotic one.."

"Well sometimes our roles change. It happens between twins after all.."

"It is in the Genetics..."

Suddenly the two's conversation was interrupted by the boys asking questions about their backstory. How did this all go down? Where are they staying? What started their part of the story?

"Alright, alright settle down...." Robby said. "Rosie... Could you?"

Rosie sighed as they walked.

"Well.... it all started back in your birth year of 1966, Robby and I were born in the Hawkins lab, where we shouldn't have been born. It used to be a hospital before it became a lab. From there our files were put together and documented, falling into the wrong hands of Dr.Brenner. Aka Papa... Afterwards we were then raised in peace under the eyes of our mother, father, and elder step brother Jax in Lenora Hills, California. We were raised as normal humans for 12 years... September 20th, 1978... We woke up with the house in flames... our family screaming... They were trying to get to us as the flames closed in.... Then suddenly... there was a thud.... a gunshot or two... and our exit collapsed.... Soon we woke up in the hands of paramedics.... on site.... Our house burnt to ash.... Soldiers...everywhere.... All I remember is the backs of their vests reading Hawkins lab on it.. We were tears finding out our family had died in that fire.... But then... Papa came to us at the ambulance truck... We don't know how he knew us... But... All we knew was he stayed with us all the way to the hospital... He took us in when nobody did... He kept us safe in his own home... then.. in 1979... He brought us to the lab... We were... 13...-"

"So you're telling us he abducted you." Dustin asked.

"Shut it toothless. Continue Rose.." Robby snapped.

"Eventually as we settled in we were injected with this....ooze.... and then experimented on developing the same powers as El for 4-5 years... But as time went on we developed... But then 1982 hit.... El, Robby and I took a break for it... Or at least Robby dragged me with. We were then separated from Papa and his staff. But during it El was almost taken then We all were separated... Unknown of El's wearabouts. From there me and Robby fled all the way back here to Hawkins. But as we traveled Hawkins trying to make a living for ourselves at 15, eventually the cops took us to the station for being homeless junkies, and Hopper found us."

"Your saying cranky chief is your uncle?" Mike says.

"that sounds like a nightmare." Lucas chimes in.

"Shut up, both of you.... you all are a pain in the ass Jesus...." Robby Grumbles.

"Hopper then took us under his wing, showing us the ropes of Hawkins, got us clothes, fed us a REAL meal and not disgusting stuff. He raised us for a year and then here we are 1983." Rosie finished.