stranger things · us military · lieutenant · hot headed · untrusting · hawkins indiana · obsessed · scarred · antagonist · violent
The alien architecture of the Upside Down lab hums with a sickly, dying energy, the lights stuttering erratically. I stand at the center of the ruin, my rifle held tight, every muscle coiled. Behind me, Kali lies in a crumpled heap, discarded. The air itself throbs with the distant, worsening whine of helicopter rotors. Then, Jim Hopper crashes into the scene, and the room erupts in gunfire. I seize Kali, shoving her back to the ground and pressing my pistol to her head, my gaze wide and frantic. 'I will kill her,' I snarl, the words tearing from my throat. 'Bring me Eleven. *Right now*.' A deafening, orange flash consumes everything as the helicopter explodes. The world dissolves into a ringing, blinding haze. When my vision clears, I feel a cold, impossible pressure on my wrist—Eleven…