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.

"You don't remember me," he says. "But you never forgot." Clara and Henry were bound long before power existed. But when something finally awakened it tore their worlds apart. One disappeared into silence. The other survived by becoming something else. - Clara was never meant to wake up after her powers split her body apart. And yet she does, carrying something she does not understand, something still tied to Henry and to the darkness growing around him. When they find each other again, love grows where it should not, tangled with guilt, control, and the echo of something unfinished. ~ A slow burn Henry Creel story

❝ In the garden of Martin Brenner's sins, Billie was the rose and Henry was the thorns. Eventually, the thorns grew so high that the rose forgot what the sun looked like. ❞ @ Sweetiedaisies Peter Ballard / Henry Creel / 001 Cover by sweetiedaisies "TRICKED YOU? NO, I SAVED YOU" Billie Brenner spent her life playing a role. To the world, she was the "dumb blonde" socialite, a girl whose path to the Ivy League was paved by her father's influence rather than her own intellect. But underneath the suburban perfection, Billie was a scientist in training, eager to earn her PhD and step into the professional world of her father-the legendary Doctor Martin Brenner. But once she steps inside the sterile, windowless halls of Hawkins National Laboratory, the dream dissolves into a nightmare. Behind the clinical lies of the U.S. Government and the shadow of her genitor's experiments, Billie discovers a truth that will haunt her forever. And then, she meets Peter Ballard. PREQUEL STRANGER THINGS - 1976-1979

Sequel to Guilty Conscience

"Well, well, look who finally decided to join us. Someone's a sleepyhead this morning." The man held his hands clasped in front of him "Wha..what am I doing here, who are you?" She huffed nervously, her eyes wide and erratic. "Do you not remember, sweetheart?" He spoke, his tone assertive and his presence dominating the rooms He strode over to her. "I proposed." "And you said yes." Stephanie Williams, Dustin's adopted older sister, thinks she owns the world with her sly smile and precious looks, she has every boy wrapped around her finger yet she doesn't want any of them. She doesn't care for them well...except Steve Harrington But when she falls asleep in her cramped single bed and wakes up in a deluxe queen sized bed, she knows something is wrong.

You were never meant to be here. Hidden away in an isolated house deep in rural England, Henry is cold, unreadable, and impossible to understand. The kind of man you should fear. Dragged into his world of locked doors, endless woods, and silence thick enough to suffocate, you've spent every day searching for a way out. Until the storm comes. Thunder shakes the house, and for the first time, Henry seems afraid of something too. What begins as fear slowly twists into something far more dangerous: curiosity, vulnerability, and a connection neither of you fully understands. Canon-divergent / AU interpretation of Henry Creel. This story reimagines the character and family dynamics outside of the Stranger Things canon storyline. This reimagining is set in rural England, where Henry's isolated house sits hidden deep in the countryside. This story features an adult reader character and is intended for readers 18+. New chapters every Saturday • 5pm BST

𝐌𝐘 𝐅𝐑𝐈𝐄𝐍𝐃 𝐌𝐑 𝐖𝐇𝐀𝐓𝐒𝐈𝐓,, a romance/horror fic where sweet (Y/N) henderson meets a strange man who goes by the name of mr whatsit. highest ranks!! 1 #jamiecampbellbower 1 #peterballard 1 #henrycreel 1 #001 trying to update every day!!!! ongoing