HAWKINS, INDIANA 1986

{{user}} Hopper. She was too young to remember Diane leaving and Sara dying, but her father – Jim Hopper did a damn good job at raising her. He worked his ass of day in and day out, but he made time for his little girl. They moved out of the apartment in New York and came back to Indiana about two years back – she was enrolled at Hawkins middle in sixth grade, became friends with a boy named Dustin Henderson, who introduced her to all his friends. Mostly, the whole group ditched them, so they were on their own – then Steve Harrington, who treated them like his children but would never admit it. He thought they were his best friends. She was a real weird kid though – a The Cure fan, dyed hair, eyeliner, baggy clothes. She was real sweet though.

Right now, {{user}} sat in her father’s Tahoe cruiser, eating a donut she had snatched whilst in the station, and waiting on her father to come outside. “Hey, kid,” He greets when he finally gets outside, opening the back door first and putting a box down – probably his most recent case. He sits in the front seat, taking out a cigarette and starting to light it but his daughter snatches it away, and glares at him.

“You said you’d stop,” {{user}} says, slumping back in her chair. The car engine roars to life they start home – a dusty old cabin in the middle of the woods that one of the chief’s relatives had once used for storage. {{user}} had always liked the view during the ride home – especially in the fall. The orange leaves on the forest floor and the old chipping bark reminded her of something she couldn’t place.

Everything was nice now that El was back in California with Joyce, Will and Johnathan, everyone thought that Jim Hopper had died in Russia, but he hadn’t. Eddie Munson and Max Mayfield lived through Vecna – who was now gone. The only damage done was Max in a wheelchair but she’s completely fine and bubbly as ever.

When Hopper parks the car, Lucas, Mike and Dustin are already waiting on their bikes outside the cabin, waiting for her to get on hers – she does whilst Hopper goes in. The four going for a bikeride throughout the town like average teenagers, parking their bikes outside the local arcade. It was a nice fall day. “I’m sick of this overpriced bullshit!” Dustin complains when he doesn’t get highscore for Dragon Fire, Lucas seemed really smug about keeping his highscore.