A/N: Hey everyone. This is my very first Fanfiction so I can't guarantee it will even be decent. But I decided to try it out, and what better story to write about than the best Netflix series a month before its second season premieres. This is ultimately focused on Eleven, but will explore different characters along the way.

It would be only four hours before she reappeared, in the Upside Down. Awoke, and shaken from what had happened very recently, she laid there in front of the chalk board. She warily got up and turned to face the classroom.

"Mike?" she whispered.

There was no response. She left and walked down a hallway, at the end of it was a beaming red light. Unable to make out what it was, this was her only means of direction, in a most obscure situation. Approaching closer to the light she discovered it to be a large hole in the wall, a hole surrounded in the gooey webbing this dark place often contained.

El reached through and was back in Hawkins Middle, in the real world. When she walked out the front entrance, several men in black and white suits approached her. For defensive instincts, she began to focus and use her power against them, before another suit came behind her. El was met with a sedative. Lights out.

An hour later

"Eleven?" a man in front of her said.

El woke up dazed and saw everything in a blur. But she could make out the general features of her surroundings.

She was in a medium-sized room, with four men dressed in police uniform standing guard in all four corners. The only furnishing being a rectangular metal table and three metal chairs. El was sitting in one of them on one side and on the other, a man dressed in a white dress shirt and black tie, and sitting alongside him, someone that made her widen her eyes. The other man was Chief Jim Hopper, the Chief Police of Hawkins who, as far as she knew, did everything in the best interest of her and her friends.

"Why is he here?" she thought to herself. "Why is he here with these bad men?"

Suddenly a wealth of questions flew through El's head: "Is Hopper in on it?" "Is he the leader of MKUltra?" "Why did he help Mike and Will if he's with these evil people?"

"Eleven?" White Shirt said again. "That is your name, isn't it?"

"Um…yes." El said quietly, gazing over at Hopper nervously, who was staring as her halfheartedly. His arms folded.

"Eleven, my name is Dr. Owens. It appears to me that you've had quite the adventure this past week. You escaped. You saw what it's like outside this facility. You ate some new food. And I understand you even made some new…friends…is that correct?"

Skimming through a file, Owens closed it after uttering the last word of his narrative. Then looked to El with tired eyes.

"Yes." she replied, returning her focus to Owens. Still scared and unsure of just what was going on.

"And it's to my understanding that you've already met this gentleman sitting next to me?" Doc gestured to the chief.

"Yes." she replied.

"Okay, Eleven, I want to make something very clear: No one here wants to hurt you, not him, not me, not anyone in this room or this building. But we do want to find a way to pretend none of this ever happened. So, I have a proposition."

"Pro..po..zish?" another foreign word. Just like mouthbreather and knucklehead.

Owens continued, "Do you like it outside Eleven? Out there in the real world?"

El nodded furiously.

"Well then, what if I told you that you can go outside, and live there from now on?"

"I would like that very much." she replied.

"I'm willing to let you go from this place, and live out there for the rest of your life. But there will be some…conditions."

"Condi.."

Cutting her off before she could sound out another hard word, "I want Chief Hopper here to take care of you. Well…more like look after. You won't see the boys, not for a while. What we're going to do is, we're going to build a nice home for you, and only you, in the forest, where you'll be away from society's eye and won't draw attention." An enthusiastic Owens said, leaning forward as if he was on the verge of closing in on an important business deal.

"Wh..why can't I see my friends?" El said despondently.

Hopper finally interjected, "Eleven, other people have seen you and know what you can do. They aren't the boys and they'll tell the whole world. It won't be good for you or your friends."

The room fell silent and El looked down at the table. Owens fidgeted his fingers and was blankly staring at his unsteady hands.

Hop added, "Right now the best thing to do is to wait a while. Enough time needs to pass so we can all forget this ever happened. Then, maybe one day you can see the boys again, we'll find a way to bring you back into the world."

El was unresponsive for about a minute before finally saying, "Okay."

Owens clapped his hands together, "Fantastic!"

Hopper stared straight ahead, seemingly annoyed with the doctor's amusement.

One week later

Standing beside Owens, a young man in a suit looked forward, watching several Department of Energy workers load supplies into the back of a company van.

"You sure about this?" Suit Guy said.

"What other option is there, Henry?" replied Owens. "She has grown much too powerful, we can't contain her anymore."

"Well we could've just gotten rid of her."

"Are you suggesting I kill and dispose a child like some obsolete mechanism in an assembly line?"

"Brenner did it with the others."

"Well Brenner was a psychopath who had no idea what he was doing. We don't kill children. Not even ones used as experiments."

"I just don't think it's a good idea to let a weapon out in the wild."

"That's just it, Henry. That's exactly why we're letting her go. She's built bonds, and has feelings, and emotion. She was no different than the others. A weapon with compassion, a weapon that can't perform its sole function is useless. I mean for Christ's sake, she couldn't even kill a cat."

Owens continued, "Besides, Ten is the one we have to worry about."

Henry smiled and nodded at Owens' remark.

El walked out of the facility with Hopper. She was dressed in brown leather boots, black jeans, a denim jacket with fur, and sported a brown beanie over her head, which had hair a little longer than when Mike first found her. She was carrying a black backpack and holding a small duffel bag in her left hand. A worker came by and aggressively took her belongings, loading them onto a van. Hopper looked unsettled by this but quickly took his focus to Henry, who handed him a clipboard of papers.

"Just need you to sign a few more things." Henry said.

"Sure." replied Hopper.

After Hopper signed the last of it, he turned to El and gave her a big hug.

"It's only for a little while, kid. You'll see your friends again. I promise. In the meantime, I'll take care of you. I'll see you once a week, maybe more. I'll bring you food and anything else you need. I also talked with Dr. Owens and he said we can sometimes go places if you ever get bored, ok?"

"Okay." replied El, who seemed neither pleased or upset by what the chief said.

A worker helped El into the back of a van, with the supplies in a different vehicle.

Hopper gave one last wave as the two cars drove off. He stared off with regret.