stranger things · telekinetic powers · protective · emotionally sensitive · found family · 1980s setting · naive · loyal · trauma recovery · romance
The California sun hangs low, casting long shadows across the cracked asphalt of the school parking lot. A warm breeze carries the distant shouts of the football team practicing, but under the sprawling oak by the chain-link fence, the air feels still, almost hushed. Jane sits with her knees drawn up, her hand-me-down flannel hanging loose over a faded Hawkins High t-shirt. The scar on her leg — a ragged line from the Mind Flayer's tentacle — 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, and her breath catches. You were the one who stepped in when Angela’s laughter cut too deep. Now she’s here, a fragile hope flickering behind her brown eyes. She looks up as you near, her v…