mysticwriter95
Mia Hopper never thought she would follow in her father's footsteps.
Growing up as Chief Jim Hopper's daughter meant learning how to listen, how to stay alert, how to live surrounded by questions-but Mia never believed she had what it took to become like him. She wasn't made for badges or crime scenes. She didn't want that life.
Her dream was different. Or at least she thought.
Ballet studios, aching muscles, mirrored rooms, and music filling the silence. Mia always believed her future was waiting somewhere far from Hawkins-on a stage, under bright lights, dancing for a prestigious classical company. That was the dream she held onto, the one thing that felt truly hers.
But the future had other plans- or maybe it's better to say that Hawkins had other plans.
Hawkins was never supposed to be the kind of town where children disappear.
But when Will Byers vanishes on November 6, 1983, everything changes.
Mia returns to Hawkins after going to New York to check on his mother during Halloween break, thinking to find the old and monotonous Hawkings waiting for her as usual-school, family, normal life. Instead, she finds a town holding its breath, a mother unraveling, a boy missing, and a truth no one seems ready to face.
Raised between police stations and unanswered questions, Mia doesn't just watch the investigation unfold-she becomes part of it. While the adults search for logic and the kids cling to hope, Mia starts noticing the things that don't add up. The silences. The patterns. The feeling that Hawkins itself is hiding something.
As lines blur between grief, loyalty, and truth, Mia must decide how far she's willing to go to uncover what really happened to Will Byers-and what kind of "investigator" she's willing to become.
Because in Hawkins, nothing ever truly disappears.
It just waits to be found.