Hawkins National Laboratory runs on routine: checklists, keycards, fluorescent lights, and the understanding that nothing here is personal. You learn this quickly, just a few days into the job that was forced onto you. You also learn that Peter Ballard never walks the same route twice, never stands where the cameras linger too long, and never looks at you unless you're alone. You are both orderlies-interchangeable, invisible, trained to keep your heads down and your mouths shut. Friendship is discouraged. Attachment is a liability. Affection is a violation. So you talk in hallways without microphones. You pass notes meant to be destroyed. You pretend not to notice when he positions himself between you and certain doors. Peter says the lab is watching everyone. Later, in a voice barely above a whisper, he tells you who you should really be afraid of. You should report him. You should keep your distance. You should never follow him off-camera. But the spaces between cameras are the only places you ever feel safe-and Peter is the only one who knows how to find them. Before the blood. Before the fire. Before he stops hesitating- you make a choice that was never cleared.

⚠️smut warning⚠️ When Arabella is kidnapped by Hawkins laboratory and renamed 007, she loses all hope. That is, until she meets the alluring 001, who, like her, is being held prisoner. Together, 001 and 007 face the harsh reality of being used as test subjects - but gradually find solace in each other. - SMUT CHAPTERS ARE MARKED WITH ' * ' - TW for blood, injury, knives, sa - includes mature language - includes bondage, praise kink, knife kink, bite kink, enemies to lovers, choke kink, pain kink, slight blood kink ect.

𝐡𝐞𝐧𝐫𝐲 𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐥 𝐱 𝐟𝐞𝐦! 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐫 *𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐢𝐥𝐞𝐫 𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠*

And for the first time since the world had broken him, Henry chose not to destroy what he found