𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐘 𝐃𝐀𝐍𝐂𝐄𝐑 » Steve Harrington
(STRANGER THINGS SEASON TWO)
SHE WAS A NORMAL GIRL UNTIL CHIEF JIM HOPPER APPEARED AT THE DOOR. A normal girl until the worst of her came pouring back, and suddenly, she couldn't be sure she was the same untarnished soul anymore.
Melanie Lee didn't have any recollection of her time at Hawkins National Laboratory—not at first. But from a single rude awakening that pulled at the very wisps of her mind came a spiraling string of the memories she must've purposefully buried deep. She was Hawkins Lab's own experiment number 009, with a supernatural ability over human memory and pain perception. If memories held the key to the psyche, Mel was the keymaster, and had been used as such for years of experimentation before she was mysteriously granted freedom. How does a teenage girl deal with that?
Short answer is: she doesn't. She suppresses, represses, compresses—the whole deal—until she's nothing but a brittle chrysalis of all that was left in the hollow of her hand. Her love for ballet. So, Mel broke her back for one perfect model. Becoming the greatest example of a ballerina, student, and eldest daughter of an Asian household, fit to make it real to herself that all was well.
She never thought she would be coerced to cross back on this model. Not until her powers became the only force she knew in order to fight against the end of the world, and against all that threatened her brother, his friends, and the bat-swinging babysitter she had never imagined would catch her in a freefall.
S T A R R I N G
ROSEANNE PARK as
― MELANIE LEE
( ᵃ ᵗⁱᵐᵉᵇᵒᵐᵇ ˡᵃᶜᵉᵈ ʷⁱᵗʰ ᵃ ˢᵃᵗⁱⁿ ᵇᵒʷ )
JOE KEERY as
― STEVE HARRINGTON
( ᵃ ˢᵃᶠᵉ ᵖᵃⁱʳ ᵒᶠ ᵇˡᵒᵒᵈⁱᵉᵈ ʰᵃⁿᵈˢ )
F E A T U R I N G
(AS DESCRIBED)
― DOMINIC LEE
( ᵃⁿ ᵒᵛᵉʳʷʳⁱᵗᵗᵉⁿ ᶜᵒᵈᵉ ᶠᵒʳ ᵉᵐᵒᵗⁱᵒⁿ )
KATHRYN NEWTON as
― JENNY CARLISLE
( ᵃ ʰᵉᵃʳᵗ ˡᵒᵈᵍᵉᵈ ʷⁱᵗʰ ᵇᵃʳᵇᵉᵈ ʷⁱʳᵉ )
𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐘 𝐃𝐀𝐍𝐂𝐄𝐑
(PART ONE)
M I X T A P E
i. the killing moon - echo & the bunnymen
ii.the movies - nightly
iii. memories fade - tears for fears
iv. library card - j maya
v. refugee - tom petty and the heartbreakers
vi. paper doll - flower face
vii. just another day - oingo boingo
viii. wicked game - chris isaak
ix. comfortably numb - pink floyd
x. another love - tom odell
xi. a strange day - the cure
xii. farewell, neverland - tomorrow x together
CONTENT WARNING:
Vulgar language
Depiction of mental illness
Period-typical racism/homophobia
Violence, gore, & death
DISCLAIMER:
I do not own any rights to Stranger Things. with this fic, I'm only following the general plot of seasons 2-4 with my own ocs and side plots! I don't claim to have created any of the characters/plotlines present in the show.
𝙈𝙀𝙈𝙊𝙍𝙄𝙀𝙎 𝙁𝘼𝘿𝙀, 𝘽𝙐𝙏 𝙏𝙃𝙀 𝙎𝘾𝘼𝙍𝙎 𝙎𝙏𝙄𝙇𝙇 𝙇𝙄𝙉𝙂𝙀𝙍 !
･ﾟﾟ･༶･ﾟﾟ･
originally published: 3/24/20
edited: 8/5/22