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Relationships: Joyce Byers & Eleven, Joyce Byers & Will Byers, Will Byers & Eleven, Joyce Byers/Jim Hopper
Tags: Gap Filler, Season Finale, Post-Battle of Starcourt, Canonical Character "Death", Adoption, Adopted Sibling Relationship, El & Will Are Supernaturally Connected, Psychic Bond, String of Fate, Family Feels, POV Multiple, Canon Compliant, References to Violence
Summary: Joyce adopts Eleven without even thinking about it - it makes such perfect sense to her and the Byers boys that they don't even discuss it, it just happens. Right there, in the parking lot of Starcourt Mall, El becomes family. And then it's getting home and sleeping and then extracting pieces of herself from the ruins of Hopper's cabin, and trying to figure out what "home" means now.