Connor Clayton vanishes under mysterious circumstances in the fall of '81, leaving behind a reeling mother and a town shaken to its core. When Will Byers goes missing two years later, a still grieving Carla sets out to unravel the mystery of her son's disappearance, in turn reconnecting with old friends that grief had forced her to cut from her life. OC x Karen Wheeler All rights go to the creators of Stranger Things TW: elements of abuse, violence, coarse language

Set in Hawkins, Indiana, during the uneasy calm after the town's many near-disasters, Between the Wallpaper and the Quiet follows Karen Wheeler, a woman who has spent years holding her family together while quietly losing pieces of herself. With Ted emotionally absent and her children growing beyond her reach, Karen finds herself confronting a deep loneliness she has never allowed herself to name. When she meets Eleanor Harper, a new arrival in Hawkins with her own reasons for keeping her head down, Karen's carefully maintained domestic life begins to shift. What starts as tentative friendship, shared coffee, late-night conversations, and unspoken understanding, slowly becomes something far more dangerous and far more honest. As Hawkins remains a town that hides its secrets behind lace curtains and polite smiles, Karen must decide whether safety is worth the cost of silence. Trigger Warnings: This book will include the themes of emotional neglect with marriage, internalised homophobia, identity crisis/late in life self discovery, anxiety and loneliness and their would be references to the canon Stranger Things events. Disclaimer: This work is a fanfiction inspired by Stranger Things. All canon characters and settings belong to their respective creators and rights holders. Karen Wheeler and all other Stranger Things characters are not mine. The original character Eleanor Harper is my own creation. This story is written for creative, non-commercial purposes only. Highest Rankings: #1 in emotionalburn #4 in karenwheeler

"some summers are never meant to be temporary" kaia hopper x karen wheeler stranger things season 3-... All rights go to the duffer brothers. I only own the character kaia hopper

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