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When Lyra Wheeler returned home to Hawkins, she wasn't the same little girl who'd vanished six years earlier. Taken by the Hawkins Lab at just three years old. At 8 years old, she escaped with a shaved head, a haunted stare, and powers she never asked for. Now sixteen, Lyra wants nothing more than to blend in-to pretend she's normal, that the voices in her head are just echoes of a nightmare long past. But Hawkins doesn't let anyone stay ordinary for long.
When Will Byers goes missing, Lyra feels it-the shift, the darkness creeping in from somewhere she can't quite name. Drawn to help, she teams up with Jonathan Byers, a quiet soul who understands what it means to feel broken. Together, they search for Will, uncovering secrets that pull them closer than either expected. But as the two grow nearer, so does something else-something whispering her number: 005.
Lyra doesn't know it yet, but the voice that's haunted her for years belongs to someone she once knew in the lab. Henry Creel. 001. Now Vecna. And he wants her-mind, power, and soul. To him, she isn't just another experiment; she's his mirror, his unfinished creation, the other half of what he could've been. When Lyra refuses to join him, he makes her pay-in blood, in memories, in the breaking of her bones.
Still, Lyra survives. Because she always has. And even when she pushes Jonathan away to protect him, the love between them doesn't fade. It fights back-against fate, against fear, against the monsters in her head and the ones beneath Hawkins.
Because power can destroy, but love-love can defy the darkness.
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stranger things , season 1 - 5
jonathan byers x fem oc
(#4 - #EricaSinclair - 12/02/25)