I DO NOT OWN STRANGER THINGS.
Hawkins, Indiana.
Chief Jim Hopper sighed as he walked into his cabin. It was hard having to drive all the way out to the woods everyday, but after the department of energy had bugged his old home, it didn't feel safe anymore. He did the secret knock and the door opened for him. As he walked inside, he saw a half eaten Eggo on the kitchen table.
"I thought we had this conversation already kid." The Chief said as he hung up his coat. "Dinner before dessert."
"Needed Eggos." A voice came from a bedroom. Hopper went inside to find Eleven lying on her bed.
"Are you OK?" He asked as he stepped inside. Eleven said nothing as Hopper took his hat off. "You tried to find Mike again, didn't you?" She nodded in dispair.
"I can't find him...in the void...I don't know why...I could do it before." She replied. Eleven had been trying reach Mike for weeks. When she had first returned from the Upside Down, she had been able to see him in the void. For the last few months though, she had not been able to find him and Eleven was getting scared for the boy who kissed her.
"I don't know either." Hopper agreed. At this point, he was beginning to fear that the Wheeler boy might actually be dead, be he wasn't even going to there with Eleven.
"Is Mike still away?" She asked as the Chief nodded. When Mike had ran away from Hawkins, Jim had no idea what to tell Eleven, so when she asked if he had seen Mike, and ask she did, he simply told her that Mike had went away and that he didn't know when the boy would be back.
"He needs me." Eleven insisted. Somehow, she knew it was her fault that Mike had went away. Before she was unable to see him in the void, he had been depressed, calling her on the walkie-talkie, begging for a sign that she was alive. Eleven had wanted to say something, anything to let Mike, her Mike, know that she was OK. Alas, Hopper had forbade such a thing. It was stupid and they weren't stupid.
"I know that you miss him and I'm sure that he misses you, but honestly, you are the last thing he needs right now." The Chief said as he rubbed her back. He had no way of knowing how wrong he was, but he could not be blamed for that.
"I have to see Mike." Eleven stated as Hopper groaned.
"I know and I want you to see him and all of the other kids, but you just can't do it right now." He explained. "I am trying to work things out with the men at the lab so that the bad men will leave you alone, but until we can come to an agreement, you need to stay hidden, so you can stay safe."
"I want Mike." Eleven replied as she turned away.
"I know kid, you just can't see him right now." Hopper sighed as he walked out of the room. All the girl ever talked about was Mike this and Mike that. It was where is Wheeler all day and all night. The chief could not understand for the life of him, why Eleven was so obsessed with the Wheeler boy. He knew that he had been keeping her at his house during the week of Will Byers's disappearance, but he did not think that they had gotten that close. From the way that the girl talked about him, it sounded as if she was in love with Mike Wheeler. He could tell that there were feelings exchanged between the children. The same feelings that Jim Hopper himself, on occasion, felt for Joyce Byers. Those feelings stabbed in the gut like you would not believe. He wanted Joyce, but she was dating Bob Newby. No matter how much Jim wanted her, you just don't go after another guys girl. You just did not do things like that. Besides, Joyce was finally happy now. Happier than she had ever been with Lonnie Byers. What right did Hopper have to get in the of Joyce's happiness? He loved her far too much to be so selfish. Yet, at the same time, he was being selfish in keeping the truth from Eleven. Did she not have a right to know where Mike was, or where he wasn't? Chief Hopper always tried to justify his actions by saying that he was only trying to keep the young girl safe and away from Dr. Martin Brenner and the department of energy. Eleven referred to them as "the bad men". He couldn't risk her being taken back, not even to help Mike.
ELEVEN IS ALIVE, BUT CAN SHE FIND HER MIKE? REVIEWS NEEDED AND APPRECIATED.