Backwash | Steve Harrington

⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯ FILE: V.COOPER / SUBJECT ANOMALY ⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯

They called it contamination.
Side effects.
Nightmares.

But Valerie Cooper knew better.

She'd spent her life in the fallout of her grandfather's experiments-
slipping between worlds in her sleep,
pulled toward a place that shouldn't want her,
but does.

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When the Upside Down drags her under on Halloween night,
she comes back to a cracking Hawkins-
and straight into Steve Harrington's arms.

Nothing stays buried here.
Least of all the things that want her back.

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A Steve Harrington Fanfiction