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More than six months have passed since the fall of the facility - since the walls crumbled, the experiments ended, and Y/N Carter was pulled from the wreckage of her own past.
To the outside world, she's healing. She's home.
Repeating senior year with Eddie Munson at her side, living in the trailer with Wayne, eating pancakes and pretending the horrors of Hawkins Lab are behind her. She has friends who care. A boy who would burn the world for her. A freedom she never thought she'd taste.
But freedom, she's learning, can be a beautiful lie.
Because in the quiet, the memories creep in. The Rainbow Room. The children. Peter - the smiling attendant who never raised his voice but never looked away when they strapped her down. She sees flashes of the room no one returned from. She hears her own screaming.
And lately... something else. A shape. A presence. A monster that watches her in dreams and calls to something buried in her bones. She doesn't know who he is. Not yet. Only that he's waiting.
She mourns her parents in silence - not just for who they were, but for what they chose to be. Scientists. Witnesses. The ones who drugged her into forgetting who she was. That grief cuts deep... but not as deep as what's growing inside her now.
Eddie is her anchor. His love, steady and grounding. But even he senses the shift - the edge creeping into her voice, her eyes, her touch. She loves him. She's sure of that.
But if the truth gets buried again, if anyone tries to stop her...
Not even love will be enough.
Because Y/N is done being the good girl.
She's done being scared of herself.
She wants the truth - and if Hawkins stands in her way, she'll burn it to the ground.
How long can she pretend she's fine?
How long can she act like she's free...
when the past is still holding her prisoner?
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TW - Smut, smoking, drinking, swearing, weed, blood, violence, spoilers.
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