The sequel is finally here! I'm really sorry that it took so long but I wanted to really make sure that this chapter excites you guys. Just a pre-warning that this is one of my kind of mature stories, nothing too crazy though. I really hope you guys love it! -An Unknown Stranger.
Fate: The development of events beyond a person's control, regarded as determined by a supernatural power.
Whether fate be extraordinary or execrable, it is fate that brings two uncommon people together for greatness or destines them to be rivals. It can bring death or life and no matter the power one holds, it cannot be prevented.
-Hawkins, 1989-
Life in Hawkins had been relatively peaceful since the events that occurred five years prior. No sign of the lab or dimensional barriers being broken, only the everyday struggle of relationships, money, and some rainy days.
As for Mike and Eleven, their love was something out of normal expectations. It hadn't ceased and it wasn't so much as questioned. They were soul mates and that was the fact. The rest of the crew, they found they were not so lucky with love and had their fair share of heartbreaks.
Senior year of high school seemed to be a breeze compared to the party's share of traumatic events. Although Mike and Eleven had petitioned to graduate earlier with their excelled age in mind, they had quickly lost the battle. To Hawkins, they were not nineteen, they were eighteen. Hopper would remind them that if they wished to act older they could take college classes in the Upsidedown.
It didn't take long for Hopper to become the father he had hoped to become. Eleven was his second chance and he wasn't going to lose it. As an effort to make up for the time in her life she lost, he bought a house near the boys' and enrolled her in Hawkins High. He did not like the idea of her being closer to Mike but he figured if the Upsidedown couldn't separate then, nothing can.
Hopper had never imagined that he would be yelling from the bottom floor to the top for his daughter to come down for breakfast, yet here he was. "El, hurry up and come down to eat! You're going to be late to school!" He called.
"Coming!" She replied from the bathroom.
He rolled his eyes before sitting at the kitchen table. Eleven trotted downstairs and began to place some toast on a plate.
"I'm going to be home late. Can you have Mike drive you home?" Hopper asked as he read the paper.
"You know this would be solved if you bought me a car?" She pouted before taking a seat.
"Well you haven't earned one have you?" He raised a brow. "A D in math?" He shook his head and frowned.
"It's the teachers fault. He assigns too much work." She argued.
"It's always the teachers fault." Hopper rolled his eyes before standing. He grabbed his keys and grabbed her plate. "Also if I see any evidence that Micheal was in here for even a second, you'll never see a car." He said firmly.
"Okay, okay." She sighed as she pulled her bag over her shoulder.
"Okay, let's go." He added before opening the front door. He dropped her off and watched as Mike opened the passenger side for her.
"I'm capable of opening the door for my daughter you know." Hopper scowled.
"Sorry, Chief." Mike replied shyly.
Eleven turned to her father and raised a brow. "If you tease him every time he opens the door he won't do it anymore." She informed.
"That's the point." Hopper smirked.
"Bye, dad." She said before shutting the door.
Her arms looped around Mike's as they entered the school. "It's been five years, will he ever like me?" Mike laughed.
"He loves you, Mike. He just so happens to also love messing with you." She smiled.
He smiled down at her and gave her a small peck on the lips. "I love you." He said gently. "I love you too." She smiled.
"Congratulations, you guys are that high school couple." Dustin said with annoyance.
"Don't worry Dustin you'll find someone someday." Lucas replied in a teasing manner.
The bell rung signaling for them to go to class. They became comfortable with the average day of a high schooler and had almost forgot that their life was anything but average.
-Hawkins Laboratory: Unit 6, Chicago. Illinois-
"We have negotiated and planned for five years. I am not about to have one general tell me no when the president himself agreed." Twelve explained as he walked down a hall. Scientist and high ranking soldiers were in tow, keeping close to his fast pace.
"To be fair sir, the president did not agree by choice." A captain argued.
"It doesn't matter. What matters is that he has the power and image to force this country to pay attention to me and my kind." He replied firmly.
"Not many of the subject survived Brenner's tests. It was only recently that we found subject eight and gained her trust. That's only five subject now and that's including you. The only one left is subject Eleven." Another scientist explained.
"Eleven's our most powerful ally and of my blood. She is my sister. She will join me once she knows the truth." He said with positivity.
"Terry never told her she had a brother because she herself didn't know. Brenner took you while she was more unaware. She wasn't even suppose to know that Eleven survived." The scientist explained.
"I am aware of all of this...but once she sees that we are the same, she will trust me." He stated.
"Shall we retrieve her?" A soldier asked.
He came to a stop and turned to them. "No, I will get her myself. In the meantime, prepare for the day. As soon as I give the president the order, my people take what we deserve." He scowled before turning and leaving.
Before he could reach the exit, he was met by Kali's urgent pace meeting him halfway. "If you are going after Jane, I am going with you." She said firmly.
"No, you need to stay here with the others. They are counting on you for guidance while I'm away." Twelve explained.
"Jane needs me." Kali argued.
"No, she needs her brother, not some girl she grew a sisterly bond with in captivity." He shot back.
"You forget that you aren't much of a brother. You abandoned me years ago and I'm sure I'm making a mistake for joining you again." Kali explained angrily.
"It was because of weakness that you left me. You needed time to find yourself and I gave it to you. I have given Eleven the same respect." He said firmly.
Before Kali could bring any words from her mouth he held a hand out causing her to close her mouth quickly. "Do as I say." He scowled.
"Yes, sir." She gave a nod before walking past him.
Twelve continued on toward the exit where he would then make his way to Hawkins. The temporary peace in Hawkins was soon to come to an end.
Eleven hopped into the passenger side of Mike's car after waving goodbye to her friends. Before Mike hopped into the drivers side Lucas and Dustin gave him warned looks. "I'll pray that the chief doesn't kill you, man!" Dustin called.
He rolled his eyes before stepping into the car. On the way home, Mike's eyes wandered over to Eleven, who held a huge smile on her face as she looked out the window.
"What's got you so happy?" Mike smirked.
She shrugged. "I'm just...happy. I used to think that I would never be happy but here I am." She continued to smile.
He grasped her hand and gave it a kiss. "That's all I want." He smiled.
He came to a park in front of her house and then ran around the car to open her door. She stepped out of the car and followed him back around the car so that she could stop him and wrap her arms around his neck. "I'll call you later?" He raised a brow.
"Sure." She smiled. He brought his lips to her's in a gentle passion.
"I'll see you tomorrow." He added gently.
"You're not going to come in for a little bit?" She said mischievously.
His cheeks began to flush. "But Hopper-"
"-Won't find out. The worst he will do is not get me a car and then you'll have to start giving me rides home more often." She shrugged as she began to pull him in.
"I see no downside." He replied before giving up and following her in. They fell onto her bed in a heated lip-lock as they began pulling at one another clothing in a unbroken passion.
In the moment neither would believe that their world would be turned upside-down.