A whole year has passed.
A whole year without Eleven.
And everyone seemed to have forgotten her.
Everyone except for Michael Wheeler and...
Jessica Hernandez.
Jessica has matured within the year.
Still battling the return of her depression, she lear...
It was the morning of Halloween, and Hopper was making breakfast for him and El in the cabin.
He turned and jumped in surprise.
"Oh, Jesus!"
It was El, with a white sheet over her with two eyeholes cut in.
She was dressed as a ghost.
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"Ghost." She states, smiling under the sheet.
"Yeah, I see that," Hopper says, taking the pan to the table.
"Halloween." She says, proud that she remembered.
Jessie and Mike had been talking about their Ghostbusters costumes for months.
Jessie was going as the marshmallow monster from the movie, according to Mike when he talked about it.
So, naturally, she wanted to be a ghost.
Because if Mike was going as someone who catches ghosts, she wanted him to catch her.
"Sure is. But right now, it's breakfast, okay? Come on, let's eat."
"They won't see me." She says, looking at him.
"Who wouldn't see you?" Hopper asked as he brought their plates to the table.
"The bad men."
"What are you talking about?"
"Trick or Treat." She says, remembering what it meant.
Jessie explained to her last month that Trick-or-Treating was when you go up to a house and knock on the door and when someone answers, you call out, "Trick or Treat!" and they usually give a prize, normally candy.
Hopper looked at her.
"You want to go trick-or-treating?" he asks.
El nodded.
She really did want to go.
Not only for the candy, but, for the chance she might bump into Mike and Jessie, or at least see them.
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