There's No Place Like Hawkins//Stranger Things. SH

1967

Dr. Brenner watched as young baby, only a few weeks old, was carried into the one of the experiment rooms. The small baby had been taken from her mother right after birth, the doctors using fake medical excuses to cover the real reason they were keeping the baby.

001 they called her. The first experiment.

She was kept in the lab for a few years, the scientists and doctors experimenting on her.

When 001 reached two and a half, Dr. Brenner realised that she wasn't giving them the results they desired. So they sent her back to her parents, where they could be reunited as a family, the baby's parents never knowing the truth about their daughter.

It wasn't until some difficult and eventful sixteen years later that 001's powers were triggered when she wandered into the Upside Down after her best friend Nancy Wheeler and was later attacked by a Demogorgon. And it wasn't until a whole year later that they started to show, 001 not knowing what was happening to her or how to control the powers she discovered.

During the summer of 1985, 011 offered to help teach 001 how to control her powers in return for 001 teaching her how to read. But 001 declined. She didn't want her powers. She didn't want to acknowledge the fact that she had them, and learning how to control them was acknowledging them.

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Edited: 08/07/2020

Edit 2: 10/9/2021