𝗶𝗰𝗲 𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗺 𝘀𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗮𝗲, steve harrington

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WHEN WILL BYERS DISAPPEARED, Laura helped as much she could... which wasn't exactly much. She stayed out on weeknights to join in with the search party, she handed out flyers and pasted posters for his older brother Jonathan, she went to the pep rallies and assemblies and took on Mrs Byer's shifts at Malvard's when she couldn't work.

But Laurie's involvement stopped there. However... she couldn't quite say that Will Byer's disappearance was the strangest thing to occur in her life during that week. It had begun a couple days before the news of the strangest event Hawkins had experienced - and it truly was, nothing odd like that happened in Hawkins, not even to the crowd of undesirables that filled in the corners and cracks or the town, filling out only in the trailer park in which she lived - and Laura was... confused.

They weren't hallucinations - no, she was always in her right of mind - but they were something similar. Flashes of a place alternate to where she was, of a world outside that weas dark and bleak, a corridor she looked down whilst walking to her locker that was covered in vines one minute and the next completely normal. And then Will Byers' body was found and Laurie wasn't convinced it was actually him, flashes of his face in this new strange world only proving her theory further. And then Will turned up, the explanation that he had been lost in the woods and Laurie's new question wasn't about what the hell she was seeing, but instead wondering if it was some kind of alternate universe Will had fallen into - and her oddity welcomed skepticism, which only made it easier to believe.

A year later and Laurie worked at the gas station on Oak Street at weekends and took odd jobs around the trailer park for her cash, and things with the Byers family were... better. Or at least they were supposed to be, but Laura knew that Joyce was a little more than overprotective of Will who - and she heard this through the grapevine that was Robin Buckley and her tendency to be at the wrong place at the wrong time, or the right time, depending on who was asking - took visits to a the local laboratory.

The visions had disappeared but still, her powers remained. And when it came to a Halloween party with an open guest list, too little punch to alcohol ratio and an anniversary of the incidences of the year before, Laurie would begin to be introduced to the reality of what had happened through the means of Steve Harrington.

Who would only continue to involve her in the events she had missed out on, and would help her remember how exactly she came to be, and where her oddities came from.

ICE CREAM SUNDAE
━━ every dancer gets a little hurt