So this is my first fanfiction! Very excited to work on this project of mine that I've been slowly working on for the past two weeks. This is an AU (alternate universe) where the events of the show won't go the same way. Here, the phone call that the Byers get in episode 8 of season 2 never happens, which means the Mind Flayer never knows where everybody was. Just a heads up about this story: " will mean somebody's talking, ' will mean somebody's thinking. oOoOo will mean a different location or a time jump. Without further ado, enjoy!
"Close gate…" Joyce and Hopper said as they came back to the house after putting Will back to sleep.
"What the hell does that mean?" Steve asked.
No one said anything until Nancy figured out what it meant, "It means the entrance to the upside down! The one in the lab!"
Dustin gasps. "The one El made when she-" Dustin shuts his mouth when he looks at Mike's face at the mention of her name.
Hoopers eyes widened in realization. 'If Eleven opened the gate, than there's a chance she could close it,' he thought. If he could just get back to the cabin and have her close it, that could end all of this. He looked at the crowd of people in front of him. None of them knew he was hiding her for the past year. He would have to get out off the Byers house and get her. "Alright then here's the plan," he said to everyone.
oOoOo
Hopper got into his truck, starting the engine. He watched as Joyce's car went out of the driveway.
After a few minutes of explaining, they came up with the plan of Joyce, Jonathan, and Nancy going to Hopper's cabin to burn the Mind Flayer out of Will, while Hopper will go to Hawkins Lab to try to find Dr. Owens and see if he had a way to close the gate.
Of course, Hopper knew he wasn't going to do that. He had purposely given Jonathan a longer route to his cabin so that he could get there first, pick up El, and than go to the lab.
He just hoped El still wasn't mad with him. He knew he made a lot of mistakes while taking care of her, and he honestly wouldn't blame her if she was still angry at him, especially since he was gone for so long without giving her a clear reason why.
He got out of his truck when he reached the forest where he would have to walk to get to the cabin.
He was about to enter the forest when suddenly, he spotted a demo-dog a few meters away from him. It didn't see him. Yet.
He slowly walked forward, raising his rifle so that he could get a surprise attack on him when….
Snap!
He stepped on a branch! The demo-dog turned around and saw him. In a blink of an eye it started to run. And right when Hopper was about to fire, the demo-dogs suddenly flew away, hitting a tree. It's limb was shaking when it suddenly stopped.
Hopper slowly walked to the defenseless demo-dog. He applied some pressure on its face, turning its face around.
'It's dead,' he thought.
When suddenly, he heard some grass rustling. He turned around and aimed his rifle at the direction of the sound and was ready to shoot when a person came into his view.
It was El. In some sort of punk outfit. Hopper gave a sigh of relief.
"Where have you been?" He asked while moving closer to her.
"Where have you been?" She answered back, hugging the man she considered as a second chance of a father.
And that's the first chapter! I know that the summary suggests that this is a book around Mike and it would be, it just needs a few chapters to set it up. I'm predicting that the book will be about 15 chapters long. Please RnR!
