read at your own risk, cross posted on ao3.
current stories:
*Do returns always diminish?
-fandom: Stranger things
-tags: El and Max were mentioned like, twice maybe?, Also Dustin's technically mentioned, Hurt/Comfort, Angst with a Happy Ending, Hospitals, Bodily Gore as Emotinal Metaphores, I was not having a good day when I wrote this, beta'd technically, By not one, but two teachers, one of whom almost forced me to read this out loud in class, so that's fun, Hurt Steve Harrington, Steve Harrington Needs a Hug, and therapy, Jim will give him both goddamn it, I want that man to father Steve, and I'll make him do it myself if I must, Daddy issues gang wya, Oh, Post S4, Max and Eddie live, fuck the duffer brothers, with a capital F, Hopper will be like, Will anyone parent this child?, and then not wait for an answer
-summary: Steve's in a coma, alone. Jim Hopper Refuses to let that happen.
She didn't know any better. Years of being raised by the evil entity that was once Henry Creel skewed her view of the world she once lived in. When Y/N is sent by him from the Upside Down to infiltrate those that so tediously continue to thwart his plans, she ends up finding something with someone that she never could have expected. Will she betray the one who raised her, who helped her escape that horrific lab? Or will she help him burn it all to the ground?
One thing was for sure. There was only one thing that might change her mind... She just doesn't doesn't even know he exists... Yet.
( Set from the beginning of S4 once flashbacks cease but reader has been part of prior Vecna plans. Reader is over 18/older than El to fit with Steve without it being weird and has powers; is 002 in this story so assume the bullies in the show were 003 upwards. Long-ish intro with flashbacks to try and make it make sense lmfao but only a few chapters. Please read TW's before reading and let me know if there's anything I missed.
TW: Violence, brainwashing, death, both mental and physical abuse, manipulation, smut in later chapters, fem!Reader, angst )