*.·∘                ∘

                                          |   ∘∙⋄                                                 ;                          I              ⋄      
                                     ✦                                         ˚∙                            *       I .·∘             
                             I           ;                          ✦
                            I                 ∘.-               I         ✦                                            I                     
                                    ;                                     I                                                        ✧         :                 
                        ✦                                   ✧                             ,.·∘                                ✧     
              I                                                            :
              '                                ,                            ;
                                                                           ✧

˚∙.·∘ S T A T I C *.·∘
NANCY WHEELER.

     —DOROTEA Gray had never been a normal child. When she was ten years old, the Gray family had adopted her and taken her to live with them in Wildwood Heights. She had no recollection of her life before: her mother told her that sometimes children chose to forget their pasts if they had experienced trauma, and Tea thought she must have experienced a lot of terrible things to remember nothing.

     —SHE didn't like to speak too much: she was scared of small, enclosed spaces; dark spaces; large, open spaces; scares and loud voices and when the television came on too abruptly, or when she couldn't get the bathroom door to unlock, or imagined things in the mirror. She was scared when she slept, and when she woke too. Something deep within her just made her frightened.

     —BUT something about her loved the woods which surrounded their town and the back of their home. Perhaps it was the soft gentleness of it: the dampness of moss and leaves, the smell of earth and rain in the air, or the creatures which skittered or pranced through the undergrowth, each more majestic as the rest. She loved to wander the woods in the silence and study plants, writing notes upon notes and illustration upon illustration about the species of mushrooms or flowers. She found it all so fascinating, so calming.

     —HER parents hated the concept. "Tea, you mustn't go in the woods," they would tell her, and when she would reply that it was quiet out there, they'd only clasp her shoulders and take her back indoors, casting worried looks at the looming forest were behind. If they were afraid that they would lose her to the woods, they should have been, because they were correct. 

     —SHE'D always been a strange girl, lost in silence and quiet contemplation, but one day a switched flipped in her mind and her head had filled with sound. Thoughts and feelings crashed through her skull. Memories that weren't quite hers, that felt like they were from a different lifetime: of bruises and hospital gowns, and running and mud and blood and slipping in riversides, trying to get away from something. Her skin felt like it had been touched by electricity, she felt like a livewire. The humming in her skin and mind became a crescendo, until she couldn't think, couldn't breathe, and could only remember the terror of who she once was.

     —SO Tea ran away from the buzzing sound of everything, away through the woods, and ran and ran and ran until her feet bled, but the sound and memories didn't stop. And soon, she found herself in a set of trees she didn't recognise, and a town she didn't know.

OR

IN WHICH
a strange girl who makes radio
channels flicker with her mind,
makes nancy wheeler's heart
flutter too fast to be healthy.

lily collins as dorotea gray
—the strange newcomer to hawkins.

❝ that's the end. ❞

natalia dyer as nancy wheeler
—the pretty saviour.

❝ you've gotta be more careful, tea. ❞

joe keery as steve harrington
—the idiot with the bat.

❝ hey, hey, don't fall asleep. ❞

charlie heaton as jonathan byers
—the kind photographer.

❝ this is an emergency, i think harrington is agreeing with me. ❞

dacre montgomery as billy hargrove
—that arrogant asshole.

❝ don't get your magical powers in a twist. ❞

the stranger things cast as their various characters

❝ time to get the party back in business! ❞

mixtape.

i. elegia, new order / ii. with every
beat of my heart, laura branigan /
iii. choices, kyle dixon & michael
stein / iv. danger danger, kyle
dixon & michael stein / v. dispatch
, kyle dixon & michael stein / vi. who
wants to live forever, queen / vii.
atmosphere, joy division / viii. every
breath you take, the police .

disclaimer !

i do not own stranger things. i only own dorotea, her family, and other pieces of plot that are my own creation. all other characters and plot belong to netflix and the duffer brothers.

the art in the cover is by sibylline_m !!!

warning !

this story contains graphic violence, strong language and cursing, horror aspects, and mature themes.

dedication !
dedicated to my loves mccIained notmakayla depurate -sarcasticpotter theeffingunicorn thomasangsters 616JEANGREY for constantly inspiring and supporting me <3

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