bylerlaws
Hawkins, march 1986.
After the devastating aftermath of the "earthquake". The small town is placed under a quarantine, with a destroyed house in California, & no home. The Byers are welcomed into the wheelers house. Cramming both families into one damaged house while the tow struggles to rebuild-
Privacy disappears fast. - 3 months after the accident A burst pipe floods the bathroom from the basement, leaving everyone on that single family house to share the upstairs bathroom. Mike and Will-Who haven't talked since the Upside down became one with their town-the forced closeness is awkward, tense, and impossible to avoid.
As Hawkins government continues to hide the actual truth from this so called earthquake, Mike and will are left to confront their emotional wreckage between them.
And just as the town forces its wounds shut with iron... their own start reopening, dragging something long-buried back into the light.