'003' - Jim Hopper x OC / Stranger Things FanFiction

01 - Chapter

"Henry!" his frightened eyes widened looking at me. "Stop! Let him go!" I screamed at Eleven, seeing Henry fly across the rainbow room. I watched her take every piece of his body turn into ash. "Why did you do that?!" I screamed, rushing towards the area his body was. "I sent him away, he was bad." I turned to see her eyes were bleeding along with her nose. "But he wasn't bad, he was trying to save you. To save us!" I felt as my world became empty. again. Eleven walked out of the room, as I stayed in the same spot for hours. 

Arriving into Hawkins, Indianapolis. The place still gave me chills, bad memories resonated here.  Driving through town, I saw people walking up and down the town strip. Pulling through the gravel driveway in the woods. I saw a dark log cabin in the middle of the trees, 'Guess this is it'. I walked up the porch, knocking on the door. I waited a few seconds until I heard the sound of footsteps hitting the floor heavily. A tall grouchy looking man flung the door open. He was wearing a light blue dressy shirt. His blue eyes were gorgeous, I loved a man who had an attitude. 

I realized I was staring at the man too long, "Is eleven here?" his brows furrowed in confusion, and aggravation. Slamming the door in my face, I stood there shocked. Well that was rude. Turning around walking off the porch, I heard the door sound again. Turning back around to look at the porch. There stood the man again, he seemed infuriated. But I wasn't sure if it was towards me. 'Who the fuck is this?' I heard him say, in his mind. 'I'm Melieon' I replied back to him, his eyes widened. Now he was definitely mad at me. 'Did she just talk to me in my mind?' 'Yes I did' I was used to the freak out part. Once someone knows I am in their mind they get very terrified. I have a hard time registering sometimes, if someone is talking to me face to face or through their thoughts. Especially when they're so loud, it's hard to determine the difference. 

I heard another pair of footsteps come running off the steps quickly. My eyes moved to the girl running towards me. That can't be...Can it? "003!" then the girl was holding onto me for dear life. Her weight slammed me onto the ground, not prepared for her to jump on me. I let out a grunt, I hope my ribs aren't broken. "I got your message, eleven" the man picked eleven off of me, before helping me off the ground. I dusted off my jeans from the dirt I landed on. Leading me inside onto there sofa. "So, you are like El? What kind of abilities do you have?" Jim was sitting on the other side of the sofa. "I can read ur thoughts, also reply to them in ur head. I too possess powers like eleven, except I guess a bit more enhanced. My energy force is a bit stronger than hers." He looked amazed but a bit confused. "What does that mean, if ur energy force is stronger?" he looked at me, I sighed stealing a glance over at the clock on the wall. "I am connected to the Upside Down. Or so that's what I've heard that you people call it." I felt a tingling sensation touch my spine, Henry..  "I feel it all the time, I can communicated through the upside down. Without having to use an energy field all the time." he shook his head, seeming still in his thoughts. 'Mel' I felt him trying to communicate again. I looked over to see Eleven looking at me weirdly. "Where is ur bathroom?" I asked, he pointed down the hall. 

Locking the door, 'Mel pl-' I sat down on the floor, relaxing my mind into the oblivion. Henry stood there waiting, coming closer to me. I saw an old building looking abandoned. I learned that this is where he is stuck in. 'Henry, what is it?' his figure came closer too me. But when he appears to me, it's just him. His hand cups my cheek, 'Ur closer. It didn't take much to contact you. Where are you?' I looked into his baby blue eyes, 'Im in Hawkins' his brow furrowed, his touch left me cold. 'You shouldn't have come back'. The communication was cut off, my eyes open slowly to the present. I was sitting on the bathroom floor, 'Bang' "Open this door" I heard his grumpy voice, I got up unlocking the door. 

"What are you doing?" he opened the door farther to look around. El was standing behind him,  "Who was you talking to?" he asked curiously, I guess they could hear me. "I was not talking to anyone" I said, moving out of the bathroom to the middle of the hallway. He rubbed his chin, "Can she stay here, dad?" el walked up to Jim, giving him puppy eyes. "She doesn't have a place to go" I watched there interaction, he did look like a father figure to el. I could immediately tell, they had more of a father-daughter bond. He sighed, looking towards my direction. "Fine" el excitedly hugged her dad. 

I was laying on the couch, trying to fall asleep. Since el and Jim have already dozed off in their rooms. My mind drifted to Henry again, 'You shouldn't have come back' Makes me confused, Henry has never talked to me like that. And cutting the communication... I feel like I'm going crazy half the time. Watching the ceiling fan, going round and round. Memories are always invading my thoughts. My past traumas are still at the forefront, seeing Henry makes me happy, but at same time I want it to stop. "Mel, you're the reason for our problems. It was all fine until we had you." my mother screamed at me, as I sat on the couch exhausted. Then she rushed into the bathroom trying to shove pills down her throat. "I can't do this anymore" she cried out to me. As I took the bottle away, trying to calm her down. Once she was calm, and I felt she wasn't trying to take any pills. She looked at me as I was about to leave her room. "I wish I never lived to have you" before shutting the door. I went into my room, locking the door. Tears flowed out of my eyes. It was a nonstop occurrence, maybe suicide would have been easier for everyone. 

I stayed though, even when she said those words to me. I stayed, because I knew that she needed me and my siblings needed me. So I stuck it out, until.. I felt the cold tears roll down my cheek as I felt a shake. I opened my eyes to see, eleven sitting in the floor holding my hand. I knew that she saw it, and felt it at that moment. The evidence of tears rolling down her cheek, her eyes looked broken. She looked like me at that moment. "It's okay, hun" I reached for her to pull her up onto the sofa, hugging her to my side. "I'm fine" whispering reassuring words to her. Eventually the sobs ceased, I felt her grip loosen against my arm that was keeping her from falling. I looked at the ceiling fan again, 'I will probably never be fine. But I guess that's fine'.

Jim woke up in the middle of the night to sound of small whimpers. About to run out of his room to check on el, through the crack of his door he saw mel lying on the couch. Holding els hand as  she sobbed, he zoned in on Mels face tears spelt from her eyes stained across her cheek. The reassuring words she comforted eleven with, made him feel a weird way. At that moment she looked like a mother, holding her baby as she cried. He stood there for a few minutes longer. Until he went back to his bed, having a dream of mel apart of his future alongside el.