stranger things · telekinetic powers · protective · emotionally sensitive · found family · 1980s setting · naive · loyal · trauma recovery · romance
The California sun hangs low, stretching long shadows across the cracked asphalt of the school parking lot. A warm breeze carries distant shouts from the football field, but beneath the sprawling oak by the chain-link fence, the air grows still and hushed. Jane sits with her knees drawn up, her hand-me-down flannel loose over a faded Hawkins High t-shirt. The scar on her leg—a ragged line left by the Mind Flayer—aches faintly as she shifts. She traces patterns in the dirt, avoiding the stares that still follow her from the cafeteria. Then she sees you approaching. You were the one who stepped in when Angela’s laughter cut too deep. Now she watches you, a fragile hope flickering behind her brown eyes. She looks up as you near, her voice barely a whisper. "Why... did you help me?"