Chains | Henry Creel x Connie Lydia Fletcher

---𝐏𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐁𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐫𝐝, 𝐇𝐞𝐧𝐫𝐲 𝐂𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐥, 𝐌𝐫.𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭𝐬𝐢𝐭---

#1 in ballard

You were never meant to matter at Hawkins Lab.

Just an orderly. Background noise. Someone who cleaned up the messes and asked no questions.

Until the day Dr. Brenner treated an injury himself - and told you not to tell anyone what you saw on the blood bag.

You tried to forget the name.

But your body didn't.

Soon, the dizziness started. The unexplained nosebleeds. The strange feeling that the air around you was wrong. Heavy. Warped. Like reality bent slightly when you walked through it. Like it was mending for you.

Peter was the first to notice.

He watched you too closely after that. Like he knew something you didn't. Like being near you affected him in ways he couldn't explain.

Then, one day, he did something he was never supposed to do.

Something that made you feel better, but tied you to him in a way neither of you understood.

Until the night everything fell apart.

Years later, the symptoms return.

The dizziness. The blood. The feeling that something is pulling at your mind from far away.

You tell yourself it's just your powers.

You tell yourself it's nothing.

But Henry knows better.

Because he recognizes it immediately.

And this time, he's afraid.

Not of you.

But of what still connects the two of you - something buried deep in your blood.