Stained Glass Skin I Stranger Things Fanfiction
Cassandra is a masterpiece of deception. To the town of Hawkins, she's a delinquent. To her mother, Veronica, she's a mess that needs to be scrubbed clean. To herself? She's just a girl trying to survive until the next morning without breaking.
Cassandra doesn't believe in heroes. In her world, you either bite or you get bitten. She's spent years perfecting the art of the scowl, using her tattered paperbacks and a sharp tongue to keep everyone in Hawkins at arm's length. It was the only way to hide the bruises her mother left behind-and the only way to keep the darkness from leaking out. But to Will, Mike, Lucas, and Dustin, she's the only thing standing between them and the dark.
Caught between a government conspiracy, a girl with terrifying psychic powers, and a faceless creature that feeds on blood, Vrixssie becomes the jagged edge of the search party. She's the girl who brings a gun to a flashlight fight. The girl who will drive a knife through her own hand just to keep a friend from getting killed.
As the lights flicker and the bodies pile up, Cassandra finds herself pulled into the orbits of those she tried to push away. From the quiet intensity of Jonathan Byers to the unexpected heat of the town's golden boy, Steve Harrington, the stakes are rising. But in a town where everything is turning upside down, Cassandra has to learn that the only thing scarier than the monster in the woods... is the possibility of someone finally seeing her for who she is.
(Stranger Things Various x reader)