She had been believed dead for twenty years. The Hydra files described her as a perfect weapon. The world, however, never knew that she had existed. Belle Harper-Stark, lost daughter of Tony Stark, was kidnapped at six years old before being shaped by the Red Room, then reshaped by HYDRA within the mysterious THEMIS Program. Spy, infiltrated, survival machine... and prisoner of her own head. Until the day when the Avengers get their hands on a forgotten cryogenic capsule. Inside: a woman whose identity should have remained erased. The awakening is brutal. The freedom even more. Belle doesn't remember her life before. Tony doesn't know how to be a father. The world is no longer the one she left. And her body, her mind, her heart still respond to commands she didn't choose. What she hadn't planned? Him. Bucky Barnes, former Winter Soldier, bears the same scars as her. The same chains. The same guilt. He is the only one she is not afraid to face. The only one who understands her silences. The only one she would trust... if only she still knew how to do it. Between Hydra secrets, Stark revelations and demons of the past, Belle will have to learn to become a person again - not a weapon. And maybe at the end of the road, in the arms of a man who has also been broken, she will finally find something that no program could take away from her: the right to love and to be loved.

"Don't you know? Boys and girls can be friends. That's all Steve and I are. Friends." ☽𓏲𖥧𓂃⎯⎯⎯⎯𓂃𖥧𓏲☾ Y/n Henderson has always hated Steve Harrington. From his relationship with her best friend to his cocky attitude to his annoyingly perfect hair, there's hardly any redeeming qualities about him. Then, Will Byers go missing. It's not enough to completely mend their relationship, but it's a start. ☽𓏲𖥧𓂃⎯⎯⎯⎯𓂃𖥧𓏲☾ Season 1 Word Count: 47,376 Season 2 Word Count: 53,798 Season 3 Word Count: 54,606 Season 4 Word Count: 68,602 Season 5 Word Count: 48,023 Total Word Count: 272,405 Obviously, I don't own Stranger Things, Joe Keery's amazing hair, or you, so all that credit goes to Netflix, the Duffer Brothers, Joe Keery's hair stylist, and yourself. I do own any different plot points than the original Stranger Things has. Started: August 2nd, 2022 Ended: not yet :)