[COMPLETED UNTIL SEASON 5]
Ana Thompson always seems to wind up in the strangest predicaments...
A perpetual victim of Murphy's Law, Ana finds herself arriving in Hawkins, Indiana just prior to the events of November 6th, 1983.
And, just prior to f...
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SPLAT! Whatever monstrosity had been scurrying across the tiled floor met its timely end under Hopper's boot.
Everyone was there, just as they'd anticipated them to be, surrounding a bleeding and whimpering El. Jonathan, Nancy, Lucas, Will, Dustin, Mike, Max, and Steve were expected participants in the strange events unfolding. However, Erica Sinclair and Robin Buckley were surprising new additions to their little band of misfits. God only knew what madness drew those two girls into their realm of chaos.
The children seemed surprised by the sudden appearance of Ana, Joyce, Murray, and Hopper, but their shock quickly gave way to momentary elation. Finally, the real adults had arrived to manage the already out of control situation.
Will and Jonathan rushed to their mother, who cradled each protectively in her arms. Hopper and Ana helped an injured El off the food court floor, each placing an arm around the young girl's waist to support her weight. Her leg was still steadily trickling blood, but without the creature wriggling around inside her flesh, the pain had lessened considerably. "How're you holding up?" Ana asked her daughter gently. If she and Hopper had been here in Hawkins, and not chasing around crazy Russians, they could have avoided El being harmed all together. The guilt churned Ana's insides as she took in how weak, pale, and pained El appeared.
"I'll be alright," the girl muttered, though she winced with each limping step she took. Ana and Hopper shared a silent, concerned look over El's head, but there wasn't much they could do to alleviate her pain now.
Once their brief reunions had concluded, everyone reconvened near the fountain in the center of the food court to discuss their current predicament.
"The Mind Flayer, it built this monster in Hawkins, to stop El, to kill her and pave a way into our world," Mike informed the group.
Nancy supported her brother's assertion with, "and it almost did. That was just one tiny piece of it."
If what Hopper stomped under his boot had been only a fraction of what they were up against, then the waters they were wading in were indeed deep. "How big is this thing?" He questioned for those who hadn't been along on El's portion of the journey.
Jonathan offered the troublesome answer, stating, "it's big. Thirty feet, at least." Ana subconsciously squeezed El slightly tighter while she lay across both her and Hopper's laps. If she'd gone up against the monster roughly the size of a small house, it was no wonder she was utterly spent.
"Yeah. It sorta destroyed your cabin. Sorry," Lucas announced, and Hopper let out a distressed grunt beside her. Great, even if they made it out of this ordeal alive, they were now effectively homeless too. When the hits start coming, they just keep coming.
Steve Harrington, whose face rivaled El's leg for the most mangled award, clarified for the crowd, "okay, so, just to be clear, this big fleshy spider thing that hurt El, it's some kind of gigantic weapon? But instead of, like, screws and metal, the Mind Flayer made its weapon with melted people."
