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Chapters: 1/9 Fandom: Stranger Things (TV 2016) Rating: Mature Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death Relationships: Henry Creel | One | Vecna/Reader Characters: Patty Newby, Henry Creel | One | Vecna, Reader, Original Female Character(s), Will Byers, Nancy Wheeler, Steve Harrington, Eddie Munson, Jason Carver, Robin Buckley, Mike Wheeler, Jonathan Byers, Joyce Byers, Jim "Chief" Hopper, Eleven | Jane Hopper, Kali Prasad, Martin Brenner, Billy Hargrove, Maxine "Max" Mayfield Additional Tags: Enemies to Friends to Lovers, Slow Burn, Major Character Injury, Character Death, Alternate Universe - Dark, Modern AU, Implied/Referenced Child Abuse, Manipulation, Henry is not the bad guy, dark themes, Child Abduction, Kidnapping, Child Trafficking, Organ Trafficking, Theft, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is a theme on its own, Not really enemies at first, Reader is wary of Henry, Patty is a good friend until she isn't, Henry Creel | One | Vecna Redemption, Shadow Monster / Mind Flayer is not what you think, Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Literary References & Allusions, Photography, Not Beta Read, My First Work in This Fandom Summary:
”People say Hawkins is cursed? They’re not way off.”
It's been three years since Will Byers disappeared. And while everyone in town seems to have moved on, one person seems hellbent on not letting it all vanish into oblivion: you.
Fueled by guilt and an undying resolve to find out what happened that fateful night you were supposed to be watching the boy, your search for answers subsequently made your parents question your sanity. High school was already a battlefield on its own but add in to the mix your dwindling number of allies and bi-weekly therapy visits, and the situation becomes a mess you struggle to navigate.
So you've done what was necessary to keep everyone happy. But things take a strange and somewhat dangerous turn after you meet with your newly assigned therapist, Dr Martin Brenner. He's peculiar and at times, and unnerving in his observations. What's stranger is that the always elusive Henry Creel took an interest in you after a chance encounter at the peculiar doctor's office.
Why is Henry trying so hard to get inside your head? And what does Patty Newby, your only reliable confidant in all this, see in him? The answers, you fear, are worse than you could have possibly imagined...