If you're lost, you can look and you will find me
Time after time
Steve Harrington x fem OC
Season 2 - Season 5
Completed until season 5
All rights to the original story and characters go to the creators of Stranger Things. Only my oc's and their st...
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(Ep. 7 & 8: The Massacre at Hawkins Lab & Papa)
If there was one thing Gwen despised most, it was herself.
This past year had been the worst one of her life and that was without counting the years where she had to push her grief aside for her mom's sake. She used to be carefree, she used to be livid, she used to be hopeful, and she used to be happy. Sure, her life had plenty of ups and downs, but ever since Fourth of July, her life started going into a downward spiral.
Her relationships were destroyed and she had been at fault. She didn't see a point in keeping her friends close. She could see the way they looked at her – so concerned, so scared, and so disappointed at who she was becoming.
The girl they knew had disappeared and Gwen didn't know how to bring her back, so she did what she knew best.
She ran.
It was pointless to continue. It was pointless to continue with a life that was rendered to be useless when it was only bound to worsen. She would spend all night thinking on how it'd be better if she just disappeared. If everything just stopped and for once, she could acquire that breath of fresh air.
Nothing made sense, so what was the point?
Steve didn't love her, her friends didn't care for her, her brother was distancing himself, her mother looked at her like she was a glass about to break, and worst of all, the person she considered her second dad had died. Her life was terrible and even if she was acquiring her dream of studying film in NYU, her heart was still aching and her mind kept telling her she wasn't worthy of anything.
Gwen had become the shell of the person she used to be. As much as she tried getting her old self back, she had to settle that she was dead. She had become a walking corpse and her home was just a cemetery. Her bed was her grave and her thoughts were the nails on the coffin.
Happiness was something she settled on never feeling again. It was meant for people that deserved it. For people that were worthy and good. Something she wasn't. Darkness had become her shadow. It was her friend, her companion, her partner, and a part of her soul... and she accepted it.
When she chose to return to Hawkins, she didn't expect her life to change. She didn't expect to reconnect with her friends and most of all, she didn't expect Steve to still love her.
Even if this week had been terrible, Gwen couldn't deny that being around the people she loved had brought the light back.
But it was at risk to fade at the hands of Vecna.
Gwen was uncertain of where she was. The last she remembered, she had been climbing the rope into the other side, but the second she let go, she started falling into the darkness. The cold slammed against her back, casting painful jolts as if syringes had been placed.
