"Between shadows" An stranger things fanfic

This isn't the typical Hawkins story.

It doesn't start with flickering lights or monsters hiding under the bed.
It starts with a wound that never fully healed.
With a girl lighting a cigarette beneath a "NO SMOKING" sign.
With a boy who walks like the ground itself hurts.

Talia and Caleb were never meant to be heroes.
They didn't carry walkie-talkies or know how to fight Demogorgons. But in their own way, they were battling something just as invisible.

While the world around them filled with secrets and portals, they were learning how to trust, how to feel, how to love...
And even if the monsters came from another dimension, the scars they carried were real.

This is their story.
A story found between the chaos. In the margins.
Where sometimes, even in Hawkins, the greatest mystery... is surviving yourself.