The Good, the Bad, and the Upside Down

by aquamarinesun

1984. New friends, new dangers, new adventures, and a new evil. Hawkins Laboratory is up and running again, and nothing good is coming from it. And, of course, someone goes missing, and the cycle starts up again. Can the kids stop things before they get started? Or will they lose someone again?

1. Prologue

October 15th, 1984

Hawkins, Indiana.

It's been a little under a year since they last saw Eleven.

It's been hard, but the days eventually moved faster and faster. Christmas and the Snow Ball passed, 7th grade passed, the summer of 1983 passed, and 8th grade begun. It felt like just yesterday, they had last seen Eleven transfer herself to some other dimension, or kill herself to save them, or some other theory that Mike had come up with to cope with losing her. They had only known each other for a few days, but formed a bond that could not be broken. But where could she have gone? The upside down? The afterlife? Another part of the world? The lab? Nobody knew. Lucas and Dustin stopped wondering as much by now, but Mike became obsessed.

Where could she have gone?

What she possibly never left?