May 5th, 1987, Tuesday at midnight

"So, you have superpowers?"

Dustin and Hannah walked towards her house hand in hand. They wanted some alone time, officially a couple.

She stopped to get to know his friends better. Eleven was impressed to learn that she had another sister. She got a little jealous. What if Mike was interested in Hannah? But one, that he only had eyes for her and two, that Dustin wouldn't accept it. Hannah was his now. Only his.

"Is that okay?" she asked worriedly. She didn't expect him to accept it so easily, only that he already had a friend like that.

"Are you kidding? My girlfriend is a fucking superhero!" She laughed and gave him a peck. "Hey, this could be a movie. Can't you see it? 'My girlfriend is a superhero' by Dustin Henderson.

She laughed even harder and kissed him again only this time with a little more passion. She had been hiding for so long and ended up with exactly the person who would accept her like this.

"I just don't understand one thing," He took her arm to look at her wrist. "Why don't you have a tattoo?"

And so, the number was forming right in front of him. Where it was clean, it now had a '010' written in black. Dustin blinked a few times, but it had really happened.

"How you do it?!"

She laughed at Dustin's surprise. He hung out with someone just like her, but still could be impressed? Cute.

"They trained me more to cause illusions in people. After a few years that my father found me, I went back there and tried to enter through my mind. We can all do everything, we are only trained more for something than for others stuff. Your friend finds people very easily, doesn't she?" Dustin nodded. "I was more trained to make people see what I wanted."

Then Dustin remembered when Eleven commented about Eight. She was a master of illusionism, just like Hannah.

"So, the tattoo was there all the time?"

She nodded.

"But I didn't just hide it from you. I hid it from everyone. Especially when I was little, because it's kind of weird for a child to have a tattoo."

They laughed. Hannah took advantage of the moment and the fact that the street was deserted to lift her shirt. It was no longer possible to see the eagle tattoo. The one that Dustin loved when they spent the night together.

"You don't have to hide the eagle from me. I adore it!" Hannah laughed and put her shirt down.

"Dustin, I don't have an eagle tattoo. This time I did the opposite."

"You don't have a tattoo over there?!" He was a little disappointed, he had to admit, it was very sexy. She shook her head and he frowned, "Why did you want me to think you had it?"

"Every time I have to do something without my shirt, like going to the pool, I put it there. I wanted to have it, but my dad wouldn't let me do it. I don't regret deceiving you! You had to see your face when you took off my bra!"

The mention of that intimate moment made them both blush and for a moment, the fun died. It had been something so intense that they did in a moment of lust and desire, but most of all, love. Something different for both.

Something went through Dustin's mind suddenly.

"How am I supposed to know if you're deceiving me?"

Hannah's eyes widened. Didn't he trust her?

"I promise that if I need to use this, I will tell you!" She took a deep breath and rested her arms on his shoulders, wanting to look him in the eye. "I swear that besides the eagle, it was all real! All of it!"

Dustin couldn't stand it. He kissed her ravenously. He believed too much in that woman. He would give her his entire life. If she wanted to, she could take him towards death that he wouldn't care. He liked her too much.

"Do you want to come to my house?" Hannah asked breathlessly when they leaned back to get so air.

"I do!" Dustin spoke so sure that she laughed at his seriousness.

Soon they were together in her bed again feeling complete. And Hannah left the tattoo on display to Dustin's delight. He looked at her like she was the best thing in the world and Hannah thought it was funny, because she never thought she would be all that for a man. In fact, she thought she could, once, but she was wrong and so she always denied it until that moment. She was definitely everything to him.

For the second time in her life Hannah lay on Dustin's chest, stroking him there, while he did the same, but with her hair. She felt happy, at ease with life as if things were finally going to work out. She hoped that everyone feared her enough not to tell her secret. And if they did, she would know. And if she didn't find out, she would ask Eleven for help, who knew how to locate people with only one photo. It was then that she felt that Dustin was uncomfortable.

"Everything okay, babe?" She looked at his face lying down, and realized that a smile almost formed, probably due to the fact that she used the word 'babe', only he tried to disguise it and ignore it. "Dustin?" She raised her head a little trying to understand what was happening and maybe pressure him to say something.

"I just..." He rubbed his face. "I was thinking about stupid stuff!"

"Like what?"

"Never mind, Hannah!" He moved uncomfortably. Dustin didn't know if he should be thinking about it. "It's bullshit."

"Dusty, you know you can talk about anything with me, right?" She leaned on her elbow to face him lying down. "Is it about the illusions yet?"

"No!" He raised his voice. He didn't want her to imagine things. He didn't want to spoil their moment. "I just..." He took a deep breath. He would say only what was necessary, but they didn't have to stress about it, right? "I remembered that you said that everyone is afraid to talk to the chief's daughter, but you weren't a virgin. So, I was just wondering who had the courage..., but that's stupid, I..."

"Just because I didn't show any pain that time doesn't mean I wasn't a virgin!" Hannah raised her voice a little, thinking there were already accusations of being a whore for apparently sleeping with other men.

"I'm not saying that! I was just curious! So, were you a virgin? I didn't think I was going to be that good the first time to the point where you didn't feel any discomfort!"

"You were good," she assured him. "Very good!" And she even smiled for remembering that. "But it was my second time."

Dustin nodded. It hurt a little to have confirmed that she had already been with another guy, but at least she was saying that it was only once. And it really didn't matter. What mattered was that she was in his arms at that moment.

"And was it good?" He forced a laugh trying to break the tension. He couldn't ask who it was. Dustin didn't want to make Hannah uncomfortable.

"No," The coldness and tension with which she said that worried him.

"Han," He hugged her wanting to make her comfortable to open up to him, "did something happen that you didn't want?"

"No..."

"Han, can you..."

"It was Troy!"

"What?!"

"I slept with Troy!"

Dustin froze for a moment trying to digest the information. It was just too difficult to understand and accept. Troy had just tried to kidnap her. Did they have a connection beyond that?

"He dressed like a darker. I excluded myself from society for a while after everyone left me. During the day, I saw a guy at school attacking a helpless boy, because he wasn't enough of a darker. I told my dad and that's why everyone started to hate me. They were no longer close because they were afraid of my father and then they were angry with me, because I turned in one of ours, but it was day and it was violent! They were breaking the rules. So, I isolated myself and didn't realize that Troy came out of nowhere. I thought he was out there, that he had moved, I don't know, and he gave me so much attention that I liked him. I never said no, but I seemed to be enjoying it, because I really wanted to like it, but I don't know! We didn't have the chemistry I have with you. Then he started asking me about my father, but to protect me, he doesn't let me know about his work. As I didn't know how to answer, he left me."

Clearly, Troy tried to use her first to get Vikram off the throne, but it didn't work. Then he tried another way, which was to kidnap her.

Dustin had to admit that it was difficult to know that Troy had already been in the same place as him: inside Hannah. But it was the past. He used her when she was going through a fragile moment, so she accepted it.

"When I'm with you I feel loved, safe..." She started to cry and Dustin felt that he was going with her.

"Safe? I couldn't even protect you from Troy! From Troy! And you scared the shit out of him! He must be far away now!"

"But I wouldn't have had the courage, if I didn't know you were out there! There were times when I didn't use my powers for that! I used what I had trained the most, which was the illusion. If you weren't there, I wouldn't have made it!"

"You are very strong, Han!"

"You too, Dusty! And together we're more!"

He hugged her even tighter. Hannah was everything. Hannah was his world. It was a shame it took them a long time to find each other, but they were together and maybe they could bring both sides together, so everyone would be the same. There would be justice and they would walk around hand in hand, without judgment.

AN: I hope you enjoyed it! :)