1: The File

She was on her way to her aunt's house. After she found out her mother has been in an endless cycle of pain, Elle has been visiting very recently after she closed the portal. She was driving in her police officer's car with Will's Mom driving it. When they entered the dirt road, they waved goodbye to each other and Elle went inside.

She knocked on the door and there was her aunt. "Hello Jane, do come in." Elle made her way in and found her mother in her rocking chair, watching the television.

"Sunflower, rainbow, 460," She repeated over and over again. Elle went up to her mother, as she touched her hand, she found herself in the living room, but with a younger aunt, and a younger mom.

"Mama?" Elle asked. Terry Ives was searching through her folders of young kids. "I know that this one is definitely one." She threw it in a pile and Elle cam see that it was a young picture of her sister, Connie. She pulled out another folder and stared at it for a long moment. "If this isn't one of them, I'm gonna shoot the whole Hawkins Lab." She tossed it in with the pile of young Connie. There was a girl, on the cover of a newspaper, taken from her family in Colorado.

Elle found herself in the same room, but her mother was still repeating. "What did you see?"

Elle went straight to the filing cabinets and went through all of it until she found the matching girl. "Her," she muttered.

Her aunt looked confused. "What about her?" Elle rolled up her sleeve to reveal her number 011. "Is she one of you?" Elle nodded.

She grabbed a piece of cloth and wrapped it around her head. She gripped her hand to the paper and found her surroundings go dark.

She walked toward an ominous figure in the distance climbing a tree, but fell down. A fat lady walked up to her, and the girl's eyes changed from a hazel to a dark blue just by looking at the lady. "Oh my dear, do you need help?"

The girl looked around her and nodded. As she reached for the hand, her purple sweatshirt rolled down a bit to reveal a number, 010. Elle looked at it closely, it was exactly like her, but with a different number. As the girl got up, the lady stared curiously at it. The girl quickly covered it up and her dark blue eyes changed to a faded green. She quickly jerked her arm away and walked off and entered a highway that said, Welcome to Hawkins, Il. Her eyes changed back to a hazel, but a trickle of blood came from her nose. The girl put a hoodie over her long blond hair and ran towards Hawkins.

Elle pulled the cloth off of her and stared at her mother a bit. She quickly scurried out of the house to where Will's Mom was waiting for her. "Woah, girl, what's the rush?"

Her aunt came running after her, panting. "She found another one of her."

"What do you mean?"

Elle rolled up her sleeve quickly to reveal her number and muttered, "Another." Then, she ran into the car and closed the door. Mrs. Byers ran in as well and went towards Elle's house, where she was living with the chief.

When she was at the front of the house, the girl slammed the door open with the motion of her hand went straight to her walkie talkie. "Mike?" She whispered.

"I'm here," he answered.

"Come to my house. Bring the rest."

"Gotcha, over and out."

"Over and out." She put the walkie talkie down and waited on the front porch for everyone to arrive.

Once they were all here, Mike, Will, Dustin, Lucas, and Max all crowded around her. "What did you want to show us?" asked Max. Her long orange hair was in her face from looking down at her.

She put out the newspaper title and they all crowded around it. "What does that have to do with anything?" announced Dustin.

"It means," Mrs. Byers butted in, "That Elle found a person like her." She rolled up Elle's sleeve for her. "A person who has powers."

"What kind of powers? And where is she now?" Will stole the newspaper from Mike.

"Eyes, feelings," she muttered, "Hawkins."

They all stared at her, she was in Hawkins, and they didn't know about it. Like everything, she must've been escaping something, or maybe she was hiding this entire time. Lucas pricked the paper from Wills hand. "Well, shouldn't we go get her then? I mean, she might know more stuff than we do about the gate if she's coming to Hawkins. Maybe she's our last hope." They all looked at each other in concern, and Will let out a shiver.

"No," Elle muttered, "She'll come to us." She grabbed a piece of cloth and wrapped it around her eyes and grabbed the newspaper from Lucas.

She was in the darkness. The same girl in the distance. Long blond hair, long bangs, and almond shaped hazel eyes. She walked along a dirt road, but stopped as she saw a house on her right. That was Terry Ives house. She looked at it for a moment, then her eyes turned a bright red. She shook her head violently and continued to walk along the dirt road. She closed her eyes as she walked, and reached out a hand. She opened then and her eyes turned to a deep purple. "Don't worry, sister. We are all afraid."

She smiled straight at me, blood trickling from her nose. She walked right up to me and put a hand on my cheek. "I'm coming soon." She walked off and toward Chief Hopper's house. How did she do that? She saw her as if she was actually there. How did she know?

She pulled off the rag around her eyes, everyone crowding around her. "Well," Dustin asked, "What did you see?"

She leaned back on the couch, tired as a trickle of blood came from her nose. "She coming."

Mike looked around, worried. "We should stay with you tonight, in case she is dangerous. I don't want you to get hurt." He put his hand on her hand. She wiped to blood running down her nose and looked at her friends.

"Okay."

"Woo, we're having a sleepover!" Dustin yelled happily. Max rolled her eyes, but smiled.

Just then, Chief Hopper came into the house. "What the hell is going on?" He took off his police hat and set it on the clothes rack. He took off his coat and walked over. "Elle, tell me, what the hell is going on." He didn't even sound all that scared, but she could see that fear was also in him somewhere hidden away.

Just then, there was a knock on the door. She looked outside and didn't realize how dark it was. Hopper rolled his eyes, sighed, and pointed his finger at her. "Well discuss this later." He went up to the door and opened it. Neither of her friends could see who it was, but it must be important if it was in the nighttime.

"I'm here for my sister," said a voice.

"Sorry kid, but she's not here. Go back to your parents." He slammed the door on its face. As he walked away, the door exploded and everyone was sent backwards with the door. A girl was at the door, fists clenched, teeth grinded, and blood trickling down her nose. She wore a purple sweatshirt hoodie with ripped leggings and worn out tennis shoes.

"I'm here for my sister," she repeated, a little bit more firm.