Unauthorized Attachment

Eliza Hargrove doesn't get attached.
Nearly twenty years of hard lessons have taught her the painful truth: people hurt you. She learned it first from her father, and again when her mother walked away-leaving Eliza to watch her younger brother grow into the same abuser she's been trying to escape. Detachment became her armor. Sarcasm and forced optimism, her weapons.

Then Max Mayfield waltzes into her life, bright green eyes full of naivety. Eliza decides that it's her life's purpose to protect the redhead from the same fate.

Hawkins, Indiana only strengthens Eliza's desire to keep her secrets buried. With a father who blames her for everything, a brother whose anger lacks self control, and a stepsister she's determined to keep safe, Eliza's armor hardens into a fortress. No one gets in.

Until she watches a guy wielding a nail bat, with perfect hair and kind, hazel eyes save her sister from certain death, without hesitation.

Suddenly, her father is no longer the person she fears the most.

Steve Harrington is challenging every rule Eliza has ever put in place to survive. And she's letting him. What could be more dangerous than that?

TRIGGER WARNINGS:
ABUSE/VIOLENCE (AGAINST CHILDREN, WOMEN)
SELF HARM
SEXUAL CONTENT/ SMUT

{Begins Season 2, Episode 6 "The Spy}
{I don't not own Stranger Things, or it's affiliated characters. There are scenes through this work of fiction that will be rewritten to place the original character of Eliza Hargrove into the story. In these instances, some use of dialogue written by The Duffer Brothers will be used.}

*In some cases, scenes will be completely rewritten or removed for the sake of the plot in this particular story, "Unauthorized Attachment". In most instances, the already written conversations will have happened off the page as they don't involve our main characters.*