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gryfflepuffinthetardis · 1 year ago
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Cassandra Delphia “Cassie Dare” Henderson 1983 Bio - Killer Queen
Full Name: Cassandra Delphia "Cassie Dare" Henderson
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Age: Fifteen/Sixteen Years Old
Birthday: November 10, 1967
Zodiac Sign: Scorpio
Current place of residence: 2886 Piney Wood Drive, Hawkins, Indiana
Relations: Dustin Henderson (Younger Brother), Claudia Henderson (Mother), Pan Henderson (Father)
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Appearance: Long light auburn-brown hair, Hazel eyes, Five foot four
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Personality: Cassie Dare uses sarcasm as a defense mechanism, she covers her pain with jokes and fake smiles and pushes people away when she needs them the most. She's incredibly smart but tends to act dumber than she was to get people to underestimate her. She was fiercely protective of those she loves, especially her little brother and becomes violent when they're threatened. She already regularly threatens violence but usually, she's all bark and no bite until she's provoked or someone she cares about--especially her little brother, Dustin Henderson and to a slightly less extent, Steve Harrington--are threatened, then she becomes relentlessly violent. She has a problem with authority as she gets bored easily and hates sitting still yet is innately curious. She is hyperactive and impulsive, this being the reason why she hasn't fully shut down emotionally due to repressed trauma. She also hints that she may have picked up her rebellious behavior from her father.
She is an ambivert and seems like an introvert unless she trusts who she's with and she shows extroverted characteristics.
She shares many traits with her little brother, Dustin such as nerdiness, geekiness, a love for Dungeons and Dragons, bluntness, dramaticism, loudness, empathy, intellect, rudeness, language, acceptance, loyalty, snarkiness, sarcasm, and bravery.
Cassie Dare can be a bit overzealous in what she's interested in.
Unlike Nancy, she chooses to remain moral even if the consequences are negative towards her and it gets her in trouble. When she's about to get in trouble with someone else she always sacrifices herself and denies anyone else had anything to do with it.
While she is fine with her current popularity status which is not considered either popular or unpopular and won't miss a chance to snap at Nancy over hers, Cassie Dare shows shades of a "mean girl" such as how she points out Nancy's insecurities and fears and makes passive-aggressive comments towards Carol. When she feels that people aren't seeing their obvious faults and it continues or they cross a line she won't hesitate to call them out without mercy.
Hogwarts House: Hufflepuff
Personality Type: INFP (The Dreamer; Mediator)
Relationship with Steve Harrington - She views Steve Harrington as a hero as despite them having been friends since they were babies when she and her father moved back to Hawkins when she was six, she views Steve as her hero as he saved her from bullying when they were younger and have been inseparable since, however when she knows he goes over the line, she calls him out on it. Steve doesn't really realize just how much Cassie Dare cares for him until it's too late.
She is oblivious to Steve's feelings for her due to her insecurities and honestly believes that she is too broken for him and Steve believes that she is too good for him as she is empathetic and genuinely kind even when she has nothing to gain and though it baffles him she is at most reluctant to engage into the cruelty of the teen social behavior that is brought upon her by those like Tommy H. and Carol.
He views her just as highly as she views him, even after her memory loss and trauma, as she is his Manic Pixie Dream Girl.
Disorders: ADHD (But in the eighties it wasn't known as ADHD until 1987. It was known as Hyperkinetic reaction of childhood. And I hate that. It sounds like they're blaming your childhood which is an infuriating common misconception of ADHD), PTSD
Tropes:
Manic Pixie Dream Girl - Cassie Dare is this to Steve Harrington, where his life is full of selfishness, neglect, sex, intoxication, cruelty, infidelity, and loneliness, Cassie Dare is empathetic, loyal, kind, and compassionate while still rebellious and adventurous.
Birds of a Feather - She and Steve are very alike while they are also very different. Both of them have somewhat neglectful parents, Steve's are never around and Cassie Dare's mother is at most emotionally distant and she has a stronger bond with her father who lives in Indianapolis. Both Steve and Cassie Dare had defense mechanisms that pushes others away.
Opposite Attract - Cassie Dare is also very different to Steve as she is nowhere near as wealthy as he is. She is not popular and she is a geek while he is a jock. She chooses to be kind to others while Steve has the King Steve façade.
Friends: Dustin Henderson (Little brother), Pan Henderson (Father), Jonathan Byers, Will Byers, Joyce Byers (Honorary mother), Lucas Sinclair (on-and-off), Nancy Wheeler (on-and-off), Mike Wheeler, Barbra Holland, Steve Harrington (Best Friend/Crush); Eddie Munson (Good Close friend/Club member)
Enemies: Carol, Tommy H., Nicole, Anyone who dares mess with her little brother.
Skills: Sherlock Scan, Hyperfixation, Intellect, Basic Sword fighting, Basic gymnastics, D&D knowledge, Martial arts, Combatant, Staff Proficiency, Empathy, Apathy; Skilled Detective, Skilled Marksman, Intuition, Basic Swordsmanship, Archery, Gun Proficiency
DnD Class: (Multi-Classed; her personality is layered and unpredictable and the Party have different opinions on her class)
Bard (The Party generally agree she mostly matches the Bard in which her general personality as she often outwits and/or messes with people by talking/charming/tricking them and there's her obvious love of music and has always been highly skilled at reading a room, there's her famous mischeivoiusness and she has a philosophical way of thinking and like Dustin she can be consider diplomatic in terms of a relationship as her personality type is called the "mediator" though she's often too brutal to be truly considered to be either "diplomatic" or "a mediator")
Or Fighter (This is how she becomes at first sight of anyone she cares about is threatened; she is increadbly brave and well-adverse in using weapons as Pan felt it was crucial for her to know how to defend herself and others. She isn't afriid to fight, she's intellignet in multiple ways, adaptable, and fearless. She does have the ability to be stragetic, however her emotion does impair her judgement in the moment and when she's protecting someone she cares about, her emotion overrule and she acts out but when protecting someone from a situation, she does possess a levelhead and thinks strategically.)
Or Rogue (She is considered this more than a fighter class in general, because this is how she got her reputation and it's another the Party agrees fits her well. Her acts of rebellion are generally done with stealth and she always hides her accomplices with deception, she is very sneaky and stealthy, able to move like a ninja. She has a tendency to isolate herself as she feels no one in Hawkins truly understands her like she does, she is known for being unashamed and unafraid of how society views her, and has always seen the rules of others' as "guidelines" rather than something to actually take seriously.)
Or Cleric (The Party also feel she fits for a "Cleric" due to her level of protectiveness and selflessness, as she unwaveringly does what she feels is the best call for everybody in the party which is what she always does to keep her friends from getting into trouble, her protectiveness and loyalty are a few of her most prominent traits.)
Guardian. (While not the same kind of class as the others, this is the class the Party best feels fits Cassie and she has preferred to herself as this herself. As she doesn't just make decisions best for the Party but she actively fights to protect them.)
Abilities:
Precognition - Cassie Dare can see the future to some extent, mostly she can only see possibilities but she knows one will absolutely be true. Her techniques of this vary between old-fashioned visions or visual hallucinations, whether seeing something that foreshadows the future or straight-up hallucinations of bizarre things that actively speak to her, giving her the feeling of losing her mind.
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Limits - If she actively uses her powers too much it can make her nosebleed, make her cry blood, give her headaches, make her dizzy, blur her vision, or render her unconscious.
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Equipment: Camera, Guitar, Bentley car
Inspiration: Max Caulfield from Life is Strange (Not so much anymore),Phoebe Halliwell from Charmed, Samantha Kingston from Before I Fall; Kent McFuller from Before I Fall; Harper from Set It Up; Lucy Pevensie from Narnia
Theme Song(s): Mad World (Tears for Fears), Cherry Bomb (Joan Jett and the Blackhearts), Killer Queen (Queen)
Favorite Songs: Killer Queen (Queen); Carry On, Wayward Son (Kansas); Mad World (Tears for Fears), Sweet Jane (Originally written the Velvet Underground but her preferred one is the cover by Cowboy Junkies); Cherry Bomb (The Runaways); 9 to 5 (Dolly Parton), Don’t Fear the Reaper (Blue Oyster Cult)
Favorite Bands and Singers: The Police; the Velvet Underground; Cowboy Junkies; ABBA; The Smiths; Queen (Shared with her father's favorite band); Kansas; The Runaways; Dolly Parton; Blue Oyster Cult; Tears for Fears; Foreigner; Yes; Joan Jett
Etymology:
Cassandra - Seer who could see the future but was never believed in Greek Mythology
Delphia - One who can predict future
Cassie - Shining over man; Purity; Unheeded prophetess; Who fills men with love; Shine upon mankind
Dare - A rebellious name; (Also the name of a moral with the sight in the Percy Jackson series)
Nicknames/Aliases: Angel (By Pan Henderson), Cass (By friends), Cassie Dare, Cassie, C.D.
Face Claim: 
As a child: Georgie Henley
As a teen/adult: Zoey Deutch
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*Hyperkinetic reaction of childhood is what they called ADHD before they first started calling it ADHD. And I don't like that. It wasn't called ADHD until 1987 and wasn't recognized as a mental disorder until sometime in the sixties despite being known since 1798.*
*Also, never say that ADHD is just an excuse because it's not. If you don't have ADHD, you can't possibly understand what it's like. People without ADJD act like it's just a minor inconvenience in life but it's not just a learning disorder, it's connected to everything in life and if you let it, it can run your life.*
*Seriously, this is one of the most common disorders in the world and it's still mostly known for its stereotypes.*
*An active power means you can see the results like in Charmed. Telekinesis and freezing time is active but precognition is passive.*
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annathemcuandstlover · 25 days ago
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My Headmates:
🏹 - Me (Anna/Aurora)
🏳️‍🌈 - William 'Will' Byers-Barton
🍫 - Cassandra 'Cass' Byers-Rogers-Barton
🧇- Eleven 'El' Hopper-Byers-Barton
🪓 - Joyce Byers
☀️ - Apollo
📸 - Jonathan Byers
🪩 - Lily Byers
🎀 - Olivia Byers
👮‍♂️ - Jim Hopper
💘 - Tessa Barton
🎯 - Tatum 'Tate' Barton
🐻 - Frank Zhang-Barton
🔮 - Erica Maximoff-Barton
👟 - Peter Maximoff-Barton
👿- Jude Verus-Barton
👹 - Edward 'Eddie' Munson-Barton
💚- Sophia Beck-Barton
♐️- Linden Beck-Barton
🐦 - Lila Barton
💙 - Abigail 'Abby' Barnes-Rogers
🧸- Zoey Barnes-Rogers
🍷- Karla Barnes-Rogers
🗡- Erica Barnes-Rogers
💦 - Mabel Flores-Barnes-Rogers
💋- Lillian 'Lily' Barnes-Rogers
🇺🇲 - Charlotte 'Charlie' Rogers
🌑 -Edward 'Ed' Carter-Rogers
🌚 - Mara Carter-Rogers
📼 - Mindy Meeks-Martin
🐜 - Scott Lang
🐝 - Hope Van Dyne
❤️- Isabella 'Izzy' Lang
💜- Cassie Lang
🦋- Katniss Lang-Van Dyne
🔥 - Leo Valdez-Lang
🩷- Piper McLean-Lang
☠️ - Nico Di Angelo-Lang
🐦‍🔥 - Jean Grey-Lang
🦢 - Addison 'Addie' Grey-Lang
🚲- Dustin Henderson-Lang
💎- Hazel Levesque-Lang
🐞- Cordellia Flores-Lang
🎉- Sprite Lang
🍦- Erica Sinclair-Lang
🤱-Janet Van Dyne
🧪- Henry 'Hank' Pym
🐦‍⬛- Cecily Wilson
🔫- Nancy Wheeler
🛡️- Michael 'Mike' Wheeler-Rogers
🍨- Steve Harrington
🔱- Perseus Jackson-Sweeney
🤡 - Benjamin 'Ben' Glenroy
🗒- Rowan Glenroy
🕵‍♀️- Mabel Mora
🎬- Oliver Putman
🇮🇪- Glen Stubbins
🚀 - Katarina 'Kat' Quill
💫 - Noah Quill
🧲 - Artemis Xavier-Lehnsherr
📎- Juliet Xavier-Lehnsherr
📘- Taylor Xavier
🧠 - Charles Xavier
📕- Evelyn Xavier
⛓️- Lexianna Lehnsherr
📚- Charlotte Xavier-Lehnsherr
🏃- William Maximoff-Lehnsherr
🧿 - Scott Summers
🕶 - Avery Summers
⛸️- Betty Drake
⚡️- Ororo Munroe
🕷- Phoebe Parker
🖌 - Rachel Elizabeth Dare
🌩- Thalia Grace
☄️ - Kingo
🏖- Vera
❤️‍🔥- Augustine
🌞- Vivian
🌌 - Adriana
🌬- Ophelia
🖤- Druig
⚔️- Lucius Verus
🪞 - Bianca Verus
🪭 - Cecilia Flores
🤴- Nikolai Lantsov
👨‍🏫 - Gary Grooberson
👻- Trevor Spengler
🌊- Poseidon
💄- Aphrodite
🩶- Bellona
🧨- Josephine 'Josie' Allerdyce
👑 - Emerpor Geta
🐒 - Emperor Caracalla
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gryfflepuffinthetardis · 1 year ago
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Killer Queen Masterlist (Steve Harrington/Cassie Henderson)
Formerly “Life is Strange”.
Cassandra Delphia “Cassie Dare” “Cassie” Henderson is wild, dangerous… insubordinate… Right here, folks. right here.
Steve Harrington and Cassie Dare Henderson–best friends since diapers until the dare of 1979. It turns out that breaking and entering into the Hawkins Lab wasn’t a good idea when Dustin’s older sister, Cassie Dare did so because she when went in and didn’t come back out until being found near-dead in the woods three weeks later with no memory whatsoever from entering the lab but she hasn’t been the same since. She was distant and aloof despite the attempts of her little brother, Dustin and her best friend, Steve Harrington,  but the day that Will Byers goes missing she starts remembering things when she mysteriously gains strange abilities the same moment the gate opened and she meets a strange little girl who looks so familiar to her.
Warning(s): Cursing, PG-13 Sexual Content, 80’s Homophobia (Not explicit, just a comment here and there from Tommy and them.)
Pre-Season One:
Prologue (September 8 to September 29 of 1979)
Season One/November 6, 1983 to December 12, 1983:
Season One Cast
Cassandra "Cassie Dare" Henderson 1983 Bio
The Vanishing of Will Byers (November 6 to November 7 of 1983)
The Weirdo On Maple Street (November 7 to November 8 of 1983)
Pan Henderson 1983 Bio
Holly Jolly (November 8 to November 9 of 1983)
The Body (November 10 of 1983)
The Flea and the Acrobat (November 10 to November 11 of 1983)
The Monster (November 11 to November 12 of 1983)
The Bathtub (November 12 of 1983)
The Upside Down (November 12 to November 13 of 1983 + Epilogue taking place on December 12 of 1983)
Post Season One/Pre-Season Two
Season Two Prolouge: Summer of 1984
Season Two/October 29 to December 15 of 1984)
Season Two Cast
Cassandra "Cassie Dare" Henderson 1984 Bio
Pan Henderson 1984 Bio
MADMAX (October 29 to October 30 of 1984)
Trick or Treat, Freak (October 31 of 1984)
The Pollywog (October 31 to November 1 of 1984)
Will the Wise (November 1 to November 2 of 1984)
Dig Dug (November 2 to November 3 of 1984)
The Spy (November 3 to November 4 of 1984)
The Lost Sister (November 3 to November 4 of 1984) ???
The Mind Flayer (November 4 to November 5 of 1984)
The Gate (November 5 of 1984 + Eplilogue taking place on December 25 of 1984)
Season Three/June 28 to Unspecified Time Between September or October of 1985)
Season Three Cast
Cassandra "Cassie Dare" Henderson 1985 Bio
Pan Henderson 1985 Bio
Suzie, Do You Copy? (June 28 to June 29 of 1985)
The Mall Rats (June 30 of 1985)
The Case of the Missing Lifeguard (July 1 of 1985)
The Sauna Test (July 2 of 1985)
The Flayed (July 3 of 1985)
E Pluribus Unum (July 3 to July 4 of 1985)
The Bite (July 4 of 1985)
The Battle of Starcourt (July 4 to July 5 + Epilogue Taking Place on Unspecified Time in September or October of 1985)
Season Four/March 21 to March 29 of 1986)
Season Four Cast
Cassandra "Cassie Dare" Henderson 1986 Bio
Pan Henderson 1986 Bio
The Hellfire Club (March 21 of 1986)
Vecna’s Curse (March 21 to March 22 of 1985)
The Monster and the Superhero (March 22 to March 23 of 1986)
Dear Billy (March 23 to March 24 of 1986)
The Nina Project (March 24 to March 25 of 1986)
The Dive (March 25 to 26 of 1986)
The Massacure at Hawkins Lab (March 26 to March 27 of 1986)
Papa (March 27 of 1986)
The Piggyback (March 27 of 1986 + Epilogue Taking Place on March 29 of 1986)
Season Five (Rumored to Air in Late 2025 or early 2026; Time Jump Length Currently Unknown)
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gryfflepuffinthetardis · 1 year ago
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Gryfflepuff in the Tardis' Masterlist
All my Works, characters are colored by which Hogwarts House I think they're in. I am a Primary Hufflepuff, Secondary Gryffindor and I genuinely think Hufflepuff is the best and most underrated house. (Since Tumble removed the yellow color, Orange will represent Hufflepuff, except in the condition of Good Omens' Crowley who I am stuck between Gryffindor and Hufflepuff. If you disagree, please give me your best argument and I'll offer my insight of David Tennant's Crowley... Since I have nothing written for Crowley and I'm still conflicted about the news on the new "season" (THERE SHOULD BE SIX EPISODES, NOT ONE!) I've added him and other characters I haven't written for YET to my "Who I'm Willing to Write For" post.
I don't do reblogs, just because I feel that when you're searching through the posts, the reblogs clutter up the blog and get mixed with original posts but I am willing to do fan fic recommendations if requested.
You can call me either Gryfflepuff or the Eccedentiast (Not to sound by Lemony Snicket but "a word that means 'someone who hides their pain and tears and sadness behind a smile'.").
Ninth Doctor - Brooding Time Lord Who Tries To Hide His Light with Darkness
Supernova Series/Season One Masterlist (Ninth Doctor/Tenth Doctor) (Delilah "Lillie" Tyler/Princess Supernova played by Katherine Langford)
Campbell Bain - Bipolar Nineteen-Year-Old Walking Ray of Sunshine That Somehow Doesn't Do Well With Girls
Sweet Jane Masterlist (19-year-old Campbell Bain x 18-year-old Traumatized Reader)
Steve Harrington (Stranger Things) - The Hair; Nomenee for Mother of the Year
Killer Queen (Cassandra "Cassie Dare" Henderson played by Zoey Deutch; Pan Henderson played by David Tennant)
Trauma (Emilie Henderson played by Hailee Steinfeld)
Devil Town (Imogen Henderson played by Katherine Langford)
Isaac Lahey (Teen Wolf) - The Abused Puppy With a Heart of Gold Who Only Wanted the Power to Defend Himself and To Not Be Scared
Embers in the Sky Season One (Milo Stilinski played by Katherine Langford)
Spencer Reid (Criminal Minds) - The Genius Pretty Boy
(I have created so many ideas for the initial character, Zoe that I may have to split them up among Spencer Reid main character love interests and because of more complicated reasons I will explain in Valentía)
Valentía (Zoe Noble-Valdez played by Selena Gomez)
Valentía Season Masterlist
Valentía Season One
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I have created an OC to be the Henderson!OC and Dustin's father and I always choose David Tennant, he just really gives off protective I-will-kill-anyone-who-hurts-you dad vibe and I have a soft spot for an overprotective dad for his daughter (I never had that. My dad wanted a boy--granted the disapproval that's implied is possibly because my mom told me this--and he is ADHD and was always sleeping and then he moved two towns over which was an hour's drive but seemed longer in my ADHD mind but so he could sleep and I could play video games on the Xbox that's memory wouldn't save the game so I continuously had to start over. Oh, and also, there's the fact that a TV fell on me when I was five/six because I didn't understand gravity and I locked myself in the dryer when I was seven/eight. What, is that not normal? 🙄) I'm not a big crier but a father that's willing to do anything for his daughter is your best bet. Sorry for this rant.
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gryfflepuffinthetardis · 3 months ago
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Works In Progress
Crossed out means I may not ever write them.
Steve Harrington
Embers In the Sky (Dominique "Nico" Henderson played Georgie Henley; Alex Henderson played by David Tennant)
Killer Queen (Cassandra "Cassie Dare" Henderson played by Zoey Deutch; Pan Henderson played by David Tennant)
Trauma (Emilie Henderson played by Hailee Steinfeld)
Devil Town (Imogen Henderson played by Katherine Langford)
Isaac Lahey (Teen Wolf)
Embers in the Sky Season One (Milo Stilinski played by Katherine Langford)
Spencer Reid (Criminal Minds)
Braveheart (Isobel Noble played by Karen Gillan) (*This is a different character completely from Isobel Noble the aunt of Zoe Noble-Valdez in Valentía.*)
Born Profiler (OFC Played by Katherine Langford)
Chip Taylor (68 Kill)
The Black Sheep (Work in Progress; Coming Soon) (Chip Taylor x Reader; Liza and Dwayne's sister)
Kyle Orfman
Brother's Best Friend (Work in Progress; Coming Soon) (Kyle Orfan x Reader; Zach Orfman's Best Friend)
Joe Harper (The Band of Robbers)
True Companions
Fred Weasley
(All of these are Potter!sister!OCs, most of them are of Harry Potter's twin sister)
The Girl Who Lived (Sadie Sink as OC) (Need of a rewrite. Her name was Violet but since then my cousin had a baby daughter who he named Violet so I'm changing this character's name. I just can't write original characters with names of people I know. It's a rule of mine.)
North Star/Falling Star (Metamorphmagus!Cassiopea Potter played by Katherine Langford)
The Twins Who Lived (Georgie Henley as Currently Unnamed OC)
Embers in the Sky (Emberly "Ember" Potter Played by Caitlin Blackwood/Karen Gillan) She is also the face claim I maintain of Lily Evans/Potter. (Caitlin Blackwood played young Amelia Pond in Doctor Who and is Karen Gillan's real life cousin.)
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gryfflepuffinthetardis · 1 year ago
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Prologue — 1979
Warnings: Implication of discrimination and discrimination by association
"Be a rebel. Be wild, child. Never settle. That's not your style."
Steve Harrington and Cassandra Henderson—best friends since diapers. Their fathers were friends in high school when Pan and Claudia Henderson still lived in Hawkins but not anymore because Steve's dad is an asshole. But they moved a few towns over when she was two until Dustin Henderson was born when she was four and then her parents got divorced... one would say because of differences but one could also say because they shared one specific similarity in which case they would then get a punch to the face if that said that to Cassandra's face. Cassandra moved back to Hawkins with her dad where she was reunited with Steve Harrington who was now five, but they acted as if there was no two-year time span of not seeing each other. When she was about eight, she started to get into a rebellious phase and when she was eleven, she gained the nickname "Cassie Dare" from how daring she was, as a play on "Cassandra", known by the school, most of the teenagers, the police, and pretty much anyone who happened to meet her because she usually left an impression. Despite this, most just called her Cassie as when people properly met her, they found that it was a bit awkward to say every time.
Her father knew she meant no trouble, in fact, he implored it as long as she kept her morals and the ones he taught her.
1) Never sell or betray out a friend or family
2) Never steal from small, independent businesses but from big chains (they can afford it, small chains cannot.)
3) Always show a man that you can be as sweet as candy and deadly as ice.
4) Be a rebel, not a criminal.
5) Do as much good as you can with your rebellion. Be like Robin Hood, angel.
6) Have fun and be happy.
And she did, she toed the line between "rebel and "criminal" despite many of the judgemental residents of Hawkins, decalring her to be a "criminal", a "born deviant" (to which she would point out meant she just deviated from social norms so she absolutely was that sometimes that wasn't what they were going for and Cassie was fully aware of this), a "miscreant", a "delinquent", a "hoodlum" or whatever word judgmental people for in or before the fifties threw around at those who acted out of what was considered normal, including Steve's parents after they "cut ties" with Pan Henderson, however this was only one reason she was heavily scuritnied by the older close-minded residents of Hawkins.
Some however, knew she was good at heart. She was always unwaveringly kind if you actually thought about her actions, she was selfless and always gave people a good story to tell after. She never tried to manipulate others into her rebellious acts, she looked out for what was best for other in their own self-interest.
Then she turned twelve and Steve Harrington had dared her to go into the mysterious Hawkins Lab on April thirteenth of 1979.
She just smirked at her thirteen-year-old best friend, "Is that really a challenge, Harrington?" She smirked, the mid-April wind blowing her auburn hair.
"Then impress me, Henderson." He smirked back.
Cassie scaled the fence, her feet just being small enough to fit into the holes in the fence before propping herself on top of the fence and looked back at Steve on that hill, giving him a thumbs up before dropping and landing on her feet, the force making her crouch down and touch her fingertips to the ground before swiftly standing up to her feet, her auburn locks bouncing before she pulled her black hoodie over her head and walking towards the wall to press herself against it and she disappeared from Steve's sight.
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Steve Harrington didn't see her again for three weeks, no one saw her for three weeks. Three weeks of blaming himself.
Benny, an old school friend of Pan Henderson, took the trash out on May fourth when he heard a twig snap and he looked into the woods to see a shivering twelve-year-old girl with auburn hair and hazel eyes he recognized as his old school friend, Pan Henderson's daughter despite how pale and sweaty she was.
"Cassandra?" He asked as she stared at him as if she were doped up, her skin was pale and she was layered in sweat, she was swaying as if she were unable to see straight, disorientated and lost her coordination, her sclerae were bright red and glazed over, her breathing was deep yet shallow as blood-tinted tears fell down her face; then she collapsed.
When she awoke a few minutes later, she was deeply hungry, digging into a hamburger despite her being a vegetarian. Though she abandoned it halfway through after realizing it and switched to French fries after running to the bathroom to vomit it up out of guilt.
"ANGEL!" Pan shouted when he burst through the door albeit more dramatically than what was needed, ignoring the deputies behind him, protesting that they go first, having given them the middle finger while screaming curses at them.
"Daddy!" Cassie sobbed out, speaking for the first, she got up and ran to her father, sobbing into his chest as they hugged.
"Shh, shh, shh..." Pan shushed his daughter, soothingly, caressing the back of her head as she sobbed, "it's okay. You're safe now."
"Ma'am, I am sorry but we need to ask you some questions." The chief said, prompting Pan to turn abruptly to him and shout dramatically at him.
"WE ARE HAVING A MOMENT HERE!"
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The official story was that Hawkins Lab had been oblivious to Cassie's breaking and entering until she had been “violently and recklessly” exposed to a chemical that had endangered her life and they couldn't risk anyone breaking in to get her without it contaminating them or worsening her condition so they lied when they asked if she had been seen.
The recently transferred and depressed Hopper had thought was just a bunch of bullshit as he gave them a deadpan look but the chief bought it so Hopper couldn't make a big stink about it even with the sympathy he was given even though they had lied to federal officers and if she had been exposed to a chemical why was she still in the same clothes. And why was there blood on her clothes?
Pan Henderson also called bullshit as he narrowed his eyes as the representative of Hawkins Lab, Mister Brenner with his arms crossed, glaring daggers at him like nothing could give him greater pleasure than for his snake rings to come to life and squeeze the life out of him, right here in the hospital where she had been sent due to starvation and exhaustion.
"I hope we can put this matter to rest." Brenner told Pan.
"To rest? You kidnapped my child and kept her in your lab for three weeks!" He shouted with cold fury in his brown eyes. Pan Henderson may have looked silly with his silly walk, red hair, and constant sunglasses but messing with his kids was a sure-fire way to get an oncoming storm coming your way.
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"She broke in, we could sue." Brenner said, flatly.
"I don't think you know who I am." Pan growled.
"I know exactly who you are, Pan Henderson. And you do not want me as your enemy." Brenner said.
"And you don't want me as yours." Pan challenged.
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Pan showed a much softer side when Cassie woke up, her hazel eyes looking exhausted but relieved.
“Hey, angel,” He smiled, having nothing but fatherly love in his brown eyes.
“Daddy.” She sniffled, “Where… where am I?”
“Hospital. You fainted from exhaustion.”
“What happened?”
“I don’t know.” He said, stroking her hair, gently, “But I’m going to find out even if it kills me.”
Steve Harrington burst into the hospital brought by his asshole father who was clearly not happy with how much his son cared for his female best friend.
When she thought back to the lab, she could just barely remember, she saw flashes of tiled walls and then flashes of a young girl around eight years old with a shaved head, and blood... lots and lots of blood, and then... pain. If she tried to remember too hard it hurt her head so badly that her vision would blur and would disorientate her.
Even though she had forgotten, she wasn't the same as she once was. Her smiles were no longer genuine, always hiding pain with jokes and smiles.
A few weeks later, her dad’s ambition to find out what happened got really serious to the point that she had gotten accustomed to waking him up because he had stayed up so late, trying to figure out what happened.
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Then she had woken up in the middle of the night when the door slammed shut.
She ran out to see her father, sinking against the door, sobbing with his hands in his hair.
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“Dad? Daddy?” She asked, running to him.
He looked up at her with illuminated brown eyes and he pulled her into a hug, tightly as if he were scared she’d disappear again.
“Daddy, what’s wrong?” She asked.
“I won’t let anyone hurt you or Dusty,” He cried, “Never ever.”
“Daddy…”
He shook his head, holding her tightly as his body near racked with tears.
When her brother and mother moved back to Hawkins and her father moved to Indianapolis, she stayed with her brother. She felt she needed to be in Hawkins for him. And she was right, four years later.
*Get ready for many David Tennant gifs. I know he's usually a love interest on this show but he has a really good dad energy to me. Like a fun but protective dad type.*
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The Disappearance of Will Byers
"She was daring, she was dreamy. She was that cute little rebel that one never asked for but always wished for."
"Something is coming. Something hungry for blood." Twelve-year-old Mike Wheeler told his friends during the D&D campaign. "A shadow grows on the wall behind you, swallowing you in darkness. It is almost here."
"What is it?" Will Byers asked.
"What if it's the Demogorgon?" Dustin Henderson asked, anxiously and Will fell back in his chair, "Oh, Jesus, we're so screwed if it's the Demogorgon."
"It's not the Demogorgon." Lucas Sinclair insisted.
"An army of troglodytes charge into the chamber!" Mike exclaimed.
"Troglodytes?" Dustin smiled.
"Told you." Lucas chuckled and they all chuckled.
"Wait a minute," Mike said, softly. "Did you hear that? That... that sound? Boom... boom... BOOM!" He slammed his hand on the table for dramatic effect, something he picked up from Dustin's older sister. "That didn't come from the troglodytes. No, that... that came from something else." He slammed a figurine down, "The Demogorgon!" And the rest of the boys groaned.
"We're in deep shit!" Dustin exclaimed.
"Will, your action!" Mike shouted.
"I don't know!" Will cried.
"Fireball him!" Lucas advised.
"I'd have to roll a thirteen or higher!" Will pointed out.
"Too risky. Cast a protection spell." Dustin recommended.
"Don't be a pussy. Fireball him!" Lucas argued.
"Cast protection."
Mike slammed his hands on the table, "the Demogorgon is tired of your silly human bickering! It stomps towards you. BOOM!" Mike shouted.
"Fireball him!" Lucas cried.
"Another stomp, boom!"
"Cast protection."
"He roars in anger."
Their voices overlapped until Will rolled the dice, "Fireball!" The dice rolled off the table.
"Oh shit!"
"Where'd it go? Where is it?" Lucas asked.
"I don't know!" Will said.
"Is it a thirteen?" Dustin asked.
"I don't know."
"Where is it?"
"Oh my god."
Mike's mother, Karen started to shout for him, "Mike! Mike!"
"Can you find it?"
"No, I can't find it!"
Karen opened the door to the basement, "Mike!"
Mike looked up at her, "Mom, we're in the middle of a campaign!"
"You mean the end? Fifteen after." She left and Mike ran after her to plead for more time.
"Freaking idiot!" Lucas groaned.
"Oh, I got it!" Will exclaimed, finally finding the dice. "Does a seven count?"
"It was a seven? Did Mike see it?" Will shook his head. "Then it doesn't count."
Dustin gathered his stuff to head home when he picked up the pizza box, "Yo, hey guys. Does anyone want this?"
"No." They said.
Dustin headed up the stairs to Mike's sister, Nancy's room where she was on the phone with her best friend, Barb about a boy from school. Steve Harrington to be exact.
"Yeah. No, I don't think... yeah, he's cute. Steve. Steve's cute." Nancy said and Dustin bit his lip and narrowed his eyes. He wasn't a big fan of Steve and didn't see why his sister liked him so much. "Barb, no, I don't think he like-likes me. Barb, you're not..."
"Hey, Nancy." He called when she didn't notice him. She was a teenaged girl thinking about the most popular boy in school it'd probably be hours before she would notice him even with his large curly hair and adorkable smile. She looked over at one of her best friend's younger brother. "There's a slice left if you want it." He opened the box, "Sausage and pepperoni!"
Annoyed that he would dare interrupt her ultra-important phone call that she could easily have at school the next day, she told Barb through the phone, "Hold on." She walked to him with a sickly-sweet bratty in a teenage girl way smile and closed the door in his face.
They both knew if Nancy's other best friend and Dustin's sister were there, she'd smack Nancy upside the head so hard that her head would hit the wall for being so catty to her brother. Cassie Dare had a love for her brother that Nancy couldn't understand despite her having two younger siblings which was one more than Cassie had. Dustin was more than just a little brother to Cassie, he was her best friend. Nancy guessed that his rare genetic disorder did that as both her siblings were relatively normal health-wise, other than she was bewildered when she was told her mom was pregnant with Holly due to the fact that she had never seen anything resembling a spark between her parents.
He joined his best friends outside and told Mike, "There's something wrong with your sister."
"What are you talking about?" Mike asked.
Dustin headed to his bike, "She's got a stick up her butt."
"Yeah." Lucas agreed, "It's because she's been dating that douchebag, Steve Harrington."
"Yep, she's turning into a real jerk." Dustin nodded.
"She's always been a real jerk." Mike said like this was common knowledge.
"Nuh-uh, she used to be cool like my sister." Dustin said, "Like that time she dressed up as an elf and Cass dressed like a guardian dhampir for our Elder tree campaign."
"Four years ago!" Mike shouted as Dustin rode off on his bike.
"Just sayin'."
"At least, Cassie can balance time with us and the douchebag." Mike called, hoping his sister could hear him.
The party knew of Steve Harrington due to Dustin's sister, Cassie's friendship with Steve, but they didn't know him personally—how Cassie did. The real Steve. The one he tried to hide under a façade of douchebaggery.
Dustin was proud to say he had the coolest sibling in the party. She was badass, geeky, intelligent, and caring. She was sarcastic, mouthy, and loud like he was.
When they reached Lucas' house, he turned to his friend, "Good night, ladies."
"Kiss your mom 'night for me." Dustin teased and he turned to Will, "Race you back to my place? Winner gets a comic."
"Any comic?" Will asked.
"Yeah." Will took off, "Hey! Hey! I didn't say go!" Dustin shouted after him as he tried to catch up. "Get back here! I'm gonna kill you!"
"I'll take your X-Men 134!"
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Cassandra Delphia "Cassie Dare" "Cassie" Henderson is wild, dangerous... insubordinate... Right here, folks. right here.
Cassie was in her room, dancing to Killer Queen by Queen from her boombox.
She had a love for the band that she shared with her father along with The Velvet Underground and Doctor Who and Bentleys and music. Her auburn hair bounced as she spun, dressed only in underwear and a long Queen shirt, and then... she gasped in pain as a headache formed as if she were trying to remember but worse, it was like something had happened elsewhere yet it still affected her, she stumbled back into her drawer, holding herself up with her elbows.
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Her memory flashed images of children in hospital gowns dead with blood around them, blood ran out of her nose heavily which made her hand fly up to it, "Shit!" The images stopped as her knees buckled inwards and she fell down, grasping a hand to her head as she could hear a ringing sound in her ears until she heard a voice that grounded her.
A scream somewhat resembling a pterodactyl scream that told her that her little brother was home. "I'M GONNA KILL YOU!"
"I'LL TAKE YOUR X-MEN 134!" She heard Will Byer shout.
Dustin often forgot his key and as she had predicted there was a loud, furious, and rapid knocking at the front door screaming at the top of his lungs as if Dustin had been locked out for five hours, rather than five seconds, "CASSIE! OPEN THE GODDAMN DOOR BEFORE I FREEZE MY ASS OUT HERE! IT'S FUCKING FREEZING OUT HERE!" She unlocked the door before the neighbors started yelling at them for Dustin to shut up... again and threaten to call the police... again and actually call the police... again. Even without her brother's antics, her family was not the most loved in Hawkins due to her father. The auburn traumatized girl let her curly-haired brother in. "I lost my X-Men 134!" He complained.
"Yes, I think the whole neighborhood heard. Actually, I think all of Indiana and maybe some of Russia heard." She deadpanned as she shut and locked the door. "You hungry?"
"Nah, we ate pizza. I tried to offer Nancy some but she's a jerk now. Night, Cassie!" Dustin went into his room.
Cassie loved her brother more than anything, she had been four when he was born, and he immediately became the most important thing in her life for the rest of her life. She went to go to bed with the usual nightmares of the bloody corpses of those children.
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In the morning, the phone rang and she got up from the table to answer. "Hello? You've reached the Henderson Household. This is Cassie Dare speaking." She said.
"Hi, Cassie. It's Joyce." Came Joyce's hoarse and worried voice.
"Hi, Joyce. Um, did you need something?" She asked into the phone.
"Will didn't happen to spend the night at your house, did he?" Joyce's voice asked nervously.
"Will? N-no. I heard him go by our house last night." Cassie said, getting a bad feeling in her chest. "Is-is he not home? Do you need me to come over?"
"No, I think maybe he just left early for-for school." Joyce stammered, "Thank you so much. Bye."
"Bye..." Then Joyce hung up and Cassie started to bite her lip as anxiety started in her. Will had been like a brother to her when she and Jonathan became best friends and more so when Dustin and he became friends. Will had actually been the one to bring Dustin into the party.
The boys biked their way to school as Mike informed them that Joyce, Will's mother called. Will wasn't there.
"His mom's probably right." Lucas reasoned, "he probably just went to class early."
"Yeah, he's always paranoid Gursky's gonna give him another pop quiz." Dustin said.
"How's Cassie?" Mike asked.
"Tried to pretend she didn't spend the night having nightmares." Dustin sighed, he had left earlier than her since she had a car and her driving honestly terrified him.
"Again?" Lucas asked.
"Give her a break, she was hospitalized by mysterious lab for three weeks." Dustin snapped at Lucas, "cooler than anything your sister's done, all she does is sass. Cassie is legitimately traumatized."
"How?" Lucas scoffed.
"DON'T YOU DARE BELITTLE HER TRAUMA!" Dustin suddenly scream, pointing his finger at a bewildered Lucas who was looking at him like, idiot!
"She tell you what it was about?" Mike asked, moving past this.
"No. I don't think she remembered but when I got to her room at two in the monring, she was nearly doubled over in pain from a migraine." Dustin said but before the boys could ask about it they were interrupted.
"Step right up, ladies and gentlemen." Troy, a fourteen-year-old bully exclaimed. "Step right up and get your tickets for the freak show. Who do you think would make more money in a freak show? Midnight, Frogface, or Toothless."
James pretended to think about it but let's be honest he had like two brain cells. If he actually did try to think, it'd probably cause him great exertion.
"I'd go with Toothless." He said, mimicking Dustin's lisp.
"Added bonus for his freak of a sister and your flamboyant father," Troy laughed.
"She is not a freak! She has genuine shock and trauma!" Dustin defended his sister, being as protective of her as she was of him, he also ignored the jab at his father, "And I've told you a million times, my teeth are coming in. It's called cleidocranial dysplasia."
"I told you a million times." James mocked.
"Do the arm thing," Troy demanded
"Do it, freak!" James demanded when Dustin hesitated, exasperatedly.
Dustin did the arm thing, pushing his shoulders moving forwards, being unusually close and his bones cracking, and the bullies groaned in delighted disgust.
"Gets me every time," Troy said and they pushed past the boys.
"You know maybe I should tell Cassie about them," Dustin said. "She'd kick their asses for that.”
"I think it's kind of cool." Mike tried to cheer Dustin up, "it's like you have superpowers or something. Like Mister Fantastic."
"Yeah, except I can't fight evil with it," Dustin said as the boy headed inside. "The best I got is a traumatized sister who thinks she's modern female Robin Hood."
"Wouldn't that still just be Robin Hood?" Mike asked.
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Ignoring the anxiety that Joyce had given her, Cassie drove her father's Bentley, blaring Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody. She was trying to drown out noises she kept hearing panicked breathing, screaming, whimpering, electricity sparking, thudding, and then bones cracking.
"Get the intruder!"
"No..." A young girl's voice said with the clear intent to protect.
She suddenly pulled herself back to reality when a horn honked and Cassie remembered, oh my god, I'm driving! She shook her head to find that miraculously she hadn't crashed but nearly did because she was at the turn, she turned into the high school parking lot. She could’ve changed so many lives, she shouldn’t even be driving, she was fifteen, granted her birthday was in a few days but still.
She had been sitting in her car in the High School parking for a full ten minutes, just staring at her left hand that clutched her steering wheel, tightly as she stared at her spinner rings her dad had given to her when her hyperactive symptoms started to appear. She had a mental disorder that was passed down from her father that made her naturally hyperactive and absent-minded, spinning her spin rings helped her focus somewhat. She had a large collection of spinner rings that changed along with her clothes everyday. Today, she had a ring with engravings of flowers and leaves and over it was a snake with a sodalite gem attached to it, a shooting star spinner ring, another snake spinner ring, a crown spinner ring, and yet another snake spinner ring.
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Behind her eyes, she saw those children and then blood.
"Do not... worry..." A girl's voice said, softly.
Then she saw her father sobbing again, she remembered the days that followed, his ambition to find out what happened had been replaced by deep depression as he drank himself to oblivion and became very clingy of his daughter as if he were afraid someone was going to take her away from her.
Slam! Cassie jumped when Steve Harrington slammed his hand, cheerfully on the hood of her car. "Hey, Henderson!" She looked at him and the panic faded from her brown eyes. His brown eyes furrowed with worry, "You okay?"
She put on a fake smile, her mask, but Steve had always been able to see through it. He gave her a look, "Cassie."
She got out of her car and closed it and looked at him, "I'm fine, Steve."
He wasn't buying it, so he cupped her face, making her breath hitch in her throat, "Cassandra, you can tell me anything, you know that, right?" His King Steve façade cracked and her Steve shined through. The Steve she loved.
"Yeah, of course." She cleared her throat and stepped back , "Don't you have a note to put in Nancy's locker." She moved past him and he watched her leave.
"Right, Nancy." He whispered to himself.
She turned as she walked backwards, "And don't call me Cassandra, Harrington."
"Whatever you say, Henderson."
She stopped half-way across the parking lot and looked at the middle school. She could see Dustin, Lucas, and Mike talking to two older boys. She could spot her brother from a mile away, only one person in Hawkins had hair like that... but no Will. Something didn't feel right. She tilted her head, what was Dustin doing? The boys walked away and then Dustin was shouting at Lucas.
She was brought back to reality when a car honked and she looked to see Tommy H. and Carol in Tommy's car or as Cassie called it: The Douche-Mobile.
"MOVE, BITCH!" Carol shouted at her as Tommy H. gave her the middle finger as if she were the constant annoyance just for existing (none the less every time she opened her mouth).
She gave him a false smile and flipped them off with both her hands before walking to the school as Steve's gaze lingered on her.
She caught up with Barb and Nancy as Barb asked the dreamy teen, "So, did he call?"
"Keep your voice down," Nancy said as if she thought people were trying to overhear. Like they weren't totally invested in their lives up until the next scandal broke to distract themselves from said lives.
"Did he?" Barb asked.
"I told you. It's not like that. Okay, I mean yes, he likes me, but not like that." She said, clearly just wanting to overcomplicate things for drama sakes as Cassie rolled her eyes and pointed into her mouth, miming retching but neither girl noticed it.
"Or you could just be his next notch under his belt." Cassie said, bluntly, making Nancy's dreamy smile falter.
She stopped when they reached her locker and she started to unlock it, "we just... made out a couple times."
"'We just... made out a couple times.'" Barb mocked as Cassie rolled her eyes once out of Nancy's sight, "Nance, seriously, you're gonna be so cool now, it's ridiculous."
"No, I'm not." Nancy said, modestly but she fully agreed with her and it was already starting to go to her head, making Cassie want to bang her head against the locket door.
"You better still hang out with me, that's all I'm saying. If you become friends with Tommy H. or Carol—"
"Oh gross." Nancy scoffed.
"Back me up here, Cass," Barb said, nudging the brunette back to reality.
"Oh yeah, Carol and Tommy are total jackasses." She nodded and then pointed at Nancy, nearly hitting her in the nose as the blue-eyed girl crossed her eyes to look at it. "You become like them, and I will hurt you. Slowly and painfully. And then I bury your body and nobody will find it." She gave Nancy a sweet but psychopathic smile.
This was considered normal for Cassie Dare Henderson.
"Speak of the devil," Barb hummed, nodding past them.
Cassie then turned to see Steve leaning against his locker looking at her—no, looking at Nancy, surely, he had been looking at Nancy. Steve blushed when he saw that she was looking at him and then walked away.
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Steve hadn't been looking at Nancy, he had meant to but got distracted by his beautiful best friend. Cassie had light brown hair that was just one the cusp between brunette and auburn, today it was in a half-fishtail braid, she was wearing a gold and black shirt with a clock on it and an Alice in Wonderland quote on it: "The hurrier I go, the behinder I get", a gold and black plaid skirt, black tights, and black boots with gold buckles.
Steve hadn't been looking at Nancy, he had meant to but got distracted by his beautiful best friend. Cassie had light brown hair that was just one the cusp between brunette and auburn, today it was in a half-fishtail braid, she was wearing a black hooded leather jacket over a bronze and black shirt that said: "Something wicked this way comes" with a skull with a knife in it under the writing, a bronze and black plaid skirt, black ripped tights, and black boots with bronze buckles. She wore colorful mixtape ear cuffs that didn't quite match her outfit but she considered another shout-out to her father other than the crown and snake spinner rings.
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Then Cassie turned and saw him, he flinched, standing up straight and blushing, embarrassed to be caught staring at his best friend who then waved at him in a friendly manner.
WAVE! SMILE! DO SOMETHING, YOU IDIOT! He mentally screamed at himself, instead of doing either of those things, he stiffly turned and headed for the bathroom before Cassie started to brood, depressedly.
Real smooth, Harrington. His dad's overly critical voice sassed in his head.
--
Cassie was not popular despite her best friend being Steve Harrington, the most popular boy in school. In fact, she was the opposite, she was in Hellfire club with Eddie "the freak" Munson, and she dressed like and had the personality of a boy in the early eighties. She swore some people ran away from her.
Cassie was also painfully aware that her and Steve's relationship had been becoming increasingly strained with every year since he entered high school when he first became popular when he started to get tall and confident which coincided around when he adopted his douchebag attitude.
He started hanging out with the likes of Tommy H. and Carol who were the most toxic people she had ever had the displeasure of meeting in her entire almost-sixteen years of life. Literally thirty seconds after Steve introduced them, Cassie wanted nothing more than to punch them in the face until she heard something break.
She couldn't help but think that his popularity was more important than her. She honestly didn't see why he didn't break it off with her already, considering that Tommy H., Carol, Nicole, and the other sheep whose names Cassie had absolutely no interest in even attempting on learning, have straight up outright told her that if it wasn't for her, Steve would be even more popular.
She couldn't help but think that his popularity was more important than her but she couldn't bring herself to break it off. He was too important to her. Part of her was convinced the only reason he wasn't breaking up their friendship was because he felt sorry for her.
"Are you okay?" Nancy asked, noticing that Cassie seemed a bit distracted. Well, more so than usual.
"Did Joyce call your place?" She asked her.
"What do you mean?" Nancy asked, frowning at this seemingly random question and how they weren't talking about her love life anymore, because heaven forbid, her nonexistent love life and social status not be the only subject of importance.
"She called asking about Will. I guess he didn't come home last night." She confessed.
"She did call but I'm sure he's fine." Nancy shrugged. "Nothing ever really happens here..." She caught herself and looked at Cassie who just stared at her blankly for a long, long time. This went on for a while. With Cassie living Nancy a scathing, scrutinizing glare as Nancy awkwardly avoided eye contact, uncomfortable.
"So when are you going out with Steve again?" Barb asked, bringing them back to the original subject.
"I'm telling you guys, it was a one-time..." Barb gave her a look as Nancy opened her locker, "two-time thing." Nancy picked up a note in her locker with messy scribbling that Cassie recognized as her best friend's. There was deep jealousy brewing in her but she kept it quiet, which was rare for a Henderson. Her friendship with Steve and Nancy was too important to her.
"You were saying?" Barb asked.
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Steve pushed Nancy against the bathroom wall as they made out before trailing his kisses to her jaw.
"Steve..." Nancy breathed.
"Hmm?" He hummed, distractedly.
"I need to go."
"In a minute." He mumbled against her skin.
The bell rang and Nancy glanced at her watch when Steve went back to her lips. "Steve... I really, like... Seriously, I have to go." Nancy said in between kisses before finally pulling away.
"Wait, wait, wait." Steve said, picking up her bookbag before she could and stepping to the other side of the bathroom. "Let's... let's do something tonight, yeah?"
"Uh... I can't. I have to study for Kaminsky's test."
"Right. Cassie told me." He nodded, the beautiful smile of his best friend flashing behind his eyes before directing his attention back to the genius brunette in front of him, mentally scolding himself. "Come on, what's your GPA again? Three-point-nine-nine-nine."
"Kaminsky's tests are impossible." Nancy said, reaching for her bookbag.
"Well, then just let me help." Steve tried, continuing to keep the bookbag away from her, teasingly.
"You failed chem." Nancy remembered as Cassie had told her.
"Damn it, Cassie." Steve cursed before during his charisma back on, "I got a C-minus."
"Well, in that case..." Nancy teased.
"So I'll be over around, say, like eight?" Steve suggested.
"Are you crazy? My mom would not—" Nancy protested.
"I'll climb through your window. She won't even know I'm there. I'm stealthy, like a ninja." Steve said, knowing if Cassie was there, she'd laugh loudly at this. While they had always been "partners in crime", Cassie was the stealthier one while he was always the clumsy one who she always took the fall for so he would not get in trouble with his much more strict yet more neglectful parents and as per her rebel morals passed down to her from her father.
"You are crazy." Nancy said.
"Come on, Cassie and I sneak into places all the time."
"You nearly get arrested every time." Nancy reminded him and tried to walk past him.
"Damn it, Cassie." He cursed and turned to her, "Wait, wait, wait. Just... okay, forget about that. We can just... we can just, like, chill in my car."
"Oh, yeah, who was the last girl you did that with?" Nancy asked, teasing but Steve answered seriously.
"Cassie." Steve said with genuine honesty and innocence, before changing the subject before Nancy asked him about his relationship with Cassie as he could tell she was about to do. Most girls were put off from his more than close relationship with Cassie, in fact he spent more time than necessary convincing girls that they weren't dating, no matter how much he wanted to. "We can find a nice quiet place to park, and..."
"Steve... I have to study. I'm not kidding." Nancy said, seriously.
"Well, why do you think I want it to be nice and quiet?" He said, allowing his true self to shine through just a little bit but it was still closed off as he was playing it off as charismatic.
Nancy smiled, "you're an idiot, Steve Harrington." She turned to leave but turned around at the last moment, "meet me at Dearborn and Maple at eight. To study." Then she left.
Steve smiled as the bell rang and he picked up his bookbag and sighed, "I gotta talk to Cassie about keeping my reputation in tact." He mumbled to himself and walked off, ignoring how just saying her name made him smile.
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Cassie had homeroom with Jonathan but when she got there, he wasn't there. No Will. No Jonathan. A worried Joyce. Not a good mix. It was like when she had first come back from being missing and there were still hints of the anxiety it had caused Pan.
"Cassie?" Barb asked as Nancy came in. "You okay?
Cassie shook her head, faked a smile, and said, "Yeah. I'm fine."
--
Throughout the entire school day, she had this constant nagging feeling that something was wrong.
"HENDERSON!" Coach Johnson screamed in her face, practically showering her in spit and bad breath as she just gave him a bored and annoyed look like, how dare you interrupt my bored musing during your class. "Am I boring you?"
"Yeah actually." She deadpanned, making the class laugh, the only one she really registered was Steve's. "Do you mind?"
"You're doing free throws for the rest of the class!" He growled.
"Oh no. Free throws. This must be hell." She muttered, sarcastically and got up and walk at a drolly pace towards the basketballs as Steve hid his smile with his hand, watching her with loving eyes.
She spent the rest of the class, throwing basketballs into the hoop with better accuracy than Coach Johnson, Tommy H., and Carol had wanted.
"Looking good, Henderson!" Steve shouted, teasingly.
"You wish, Harrington!" She shouted back, turning to him, her braid flying as she turned to look at him. She turned but as she turned her vision flashed to seeing the basketball hit the backboard, flying back, and hitting her in the face, and then to another vision of it hitting the backboard, flying back and missing her.
Then she was back and the ball left her hands, hitting the backboard as both Steve and the vision had distracted her, it hit the backboard, bounced back, and too startled to move it smacked her in the head and knocked her down flat on her back.
Tommy H. and Carol laughed loudly as Steve cursed and ran to her side as she laid flat on the floor, sprawled out, her vision out of focus.
"Shit, Henderson!" He breathed, concernedly.
Cassie tried to lift her head, but it caused such throbbing that she dropped it, hissing in pain. She heard the girl's voice again along with her twelve-year-old voice.
"Name?"
"C-Cassie Dare."
"Come from outside?" The girl didn't seem to have a basic education given how she spoke.
"Yeah, yeah, my friend, he dared me to break in."
"Friend? What is friend?"
"And then there was this-this light and, oh shit, my head, my head hurts."
"Do not worry..."
"Cass, Cass, can you hear me?" Steve asked, frantically, pleadingly.
"Oh, my head." She groaned, sitting up and then her eyes landed on something bizarre. A ginormous snake morphing into the appearance of her father with black wings. "The fuck?"
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"Shit, your nose." Steve said as Cassie felt blood rush out and when she looked back the oddity was gone.
"Gross." Tommy H. said and Steve glared at him like, I will hurt you.
"Shit, let me take you to the nurse." Steve said.
"No, you can't miss class." She groaned, her hazel eyes meeting his brown ones as she lowered her voice, "you can't afford it and you need to graduate to your senior year."
"I'll take her." Eddie Munson said, "Give me the excuse of leaving." Steve helped her up while giving Eddie a side-glare and letting him take her away as Steve continued to glare after him.
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Somehow she was deemed as fine and was returned back to class. After school, she walked through the halls of the school to leave in a sort of daze but in a hurry to get to Dustin until she felt a hand land on her shoulder and she looked up, her eyes connecting with a familiar brown pair.
"Cassie?" Steve asked, concerningly. His true interior cracking through the popular douchebag exterior. "Are you okay?"
She blinked hard and shook her head and faked a smile, "Yeah, I'm fine."
Steve gave her a look like, that doesn't work on me. "Cassie, is this about... your missing time."
"Steve, I'm fine." She said, shortly at his oversensitive tone and pushed past him, somewhat coldly and ran to the middle school and she stopped when she saw a cop car there and saw Hopper and Callahan getting out.
"Shit." She muttered and ran to them. "Hopper!" She shouted, she literally hopped to a stop in front of them and said, "what's going on?"
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Cassie sat with the boys as they all started talking at once, trying to explain how Will takes Mirkwood.
"Okay. Okay." Hopper tried to quiet them down.
"Boys!" Cassie shouted, and they quieted down, knowing better than to argue with her.
"Okay. One at a time, all right? You." Hopper gestured at Mike. "You said he takes what?"
"Mirkwood," Mike repeated.
"Mirkwood?" Hopper asked.
"Mirkwood." Cassie confirmed with a head nod and a casual one-shoulder shrug.
"Have you ever heard of Mirkwood?" Hopper asked Callahan.
"I have not. That sounds made up to me." Callahan told him.
"All words are made up." Cassie pointed out in a deadpan tone—the kind she usually had when dealing with Callahan as she gave him a smug smile.
"No, it's from Lord of the Rings," Lucas explained.
"Well, The Hobbit." The Henderson siblings said in unison.
"It doesn't matter." Lucas snapped.
"He asked!" Dustin argued.
"'He asked'!" Lucas mocked.
"Shut the hell up, Lucas!" Cassie argued as their voices started to overlap again.
"Hey, hey, hey!" Hopper spoke above them, "What'd I just say? One at a damn time." They quieted down as the Henderson siblings crossed their arms in an identical pouty manner. He then pointed at Cassie as she was the oldest. "You. What is Mirkwood?"
Cassie un-pouted and explained, "Mirkwood, it's a real road. It's just the name that's made up. It's where Cornwallis and Kerley meet."
"Yeah, all right, I think I know that—" Hopper mumbled to Callahan.
"We can show you if you want." Cassie offered, "My car's just across the street."
"I said that I know it!" Hopper said with an exasperated tone.
"But we can help look." Cassie said and she and the boys started to agree all at once, eager to find their friend.
"No, after school, you are all to go home. Immediately." Hopper demanded, "That means no biking around, looking for your friend, no investigating, no nonsense. This isn't some Lord of the Rings book."
"The Hobbit." Dustin corrected.
"Shut up!" Lucas said went to smack him, but Cassie grabbed his arm in a tight grip and glared at him with a death glare he was all but too familiar with, like, if you want to keep that hand, you better rethink that move, Ranger Lucas with the mere weapon of a slingshot?
"Hey, let him go." Hopper said, and Cassie let go as Lucas pulled his arm back. "Do I make myself clear?" Hopper stood up and then repeated, "Do I make myself... clear?"
The boys mumbled in confirmation while Cassie gave him a sarcastic thumbs up and smile before flipping her hand and giving him the finger with a very fake, sarcastic smile.
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Cassie went back to the school to inform the principal why Jonathan won't be coming to his classes the next few days, she informed Dustin to wait in the car and if he wasn't when she got back she would hunt him down and drag him home by tying him to the top of her Bentley to which he gave her the middle finger. One could only imagine what it would be like when he entered high school with her.
That was often a thought that Steve had and hoped he wouldn't be held back to be around that all the time.
She walked out of the office when she heard footsteps approaching at a fast pace.
She spun around, an instinct of fear shooting through her, only to see that it was Steve approaching her, "Steve, what are you still doing here?"
"Basketball practice. Where were you?" He asked, frowning in concern hoping their little spat hadn’t made her mad at him.
She looked around, slightly overwhelmed at the moment as she stammered, simultaneously trying to answer Steve, "I, uh... um... I..."
"Oh, hey, Cass." He said, gently, walking to her and grasping her shoulder and cheek gently. “You can tell me anything; I’ll always be here for you.” His touch made her feel like all her anxieties just melted away as her eyes met his.
"Will's missing." She said, Steve looked at her, trying to remember who Will was, "Will Byers? Jonathan Byers' brother."
Only then it seemed to click. "Oh, well, I'm sure he's fine. Is Dustin okay? Are you okay?" Her heart warmed at his genuine concern.
"We're dealing." She managed a smile, but he saw right through that. He always had that talent; he knew when she was lying.
"You know if you need to talk..."
"Why would I?" She interrupted, defensively, giving him an icy look.
"Well, you know... It's just... the last time someone went missing..." He stammered.
"Yeah, well I'm fine now, aren't I?" She said, sharply, "I gotta go drive Dustin home, he's in the car and you know how impatient he is."
"Yeah." Steve didn't spend much time with Dustin but knew he could be very impatient.
They walked out and he said, "Hey, maybe we could do a movie night, say tomorrow? Maybe a double-feature. Maybe, Halloween and Psycho? And uh, that new horror movie will be coming out the eighteenth? Sleepaway Camp."
"I-I heard that it's problematic." Cassie noted, shifting her eyes away from Steve uncomfortably.
"From who?"
"My dad." She said, she didn't discuss her dad too much due to... situations. "So, Psycho for the psycho." She teased.
"No. Of course not. I don't think you're..." Steve became both flustered and blushed.
"Cool it, Steve." She pushed him, playfully, "I was just teasing."
"CASSIE! STOP FLIRTING WITH THAT HARRINGTON DOUCHEBAG AND GET YOUR ASS BACK IN THE CAR BEFORE I DRIVE MYSELF HOME!" A pterodactyl-sounding voice screamed that could only be her little brother as her car horn honked longer than necessary.
Cassie closed her eyes in embarrassment as her cheeks burned and reddened as Steve rubbed the back of his neck and muttered a goodbye to Steve and ran to the car, "I'm going to kill you!" She shouted at him and she saw Dustin in the driver's seat, "MOVE YOUR ASS!" She pushed him to the passenger's seat with her cheeks burning with embarrassment.
"The only way I could drive worse than you is if I made the car explode." He shouted back at her.
"You be quiet before I tie you to the roof! We're going straight home!" She shouted, pointing at him as Steve watched from the distance, still embarrassed.
"Why because I embarrassed you in front of Steve!" Dustin said, loudly—no, scratched that—screamed very loudly.
"Shut up!" Cassie hissed and got into the car and slammed the door and drove off, speeding past Steve with her cheeks flaring; she blinked her eyes and took some deep breaths, mentally cursing her younger brother as he loudly and verbally cursed her driving.
Steve watched her Bentley speed off and he sighed, smiling slightly before heading to his own car.
--
At the Wheeler house, Nancy had little to no sympathy to what was going on with Will's disappearance.
"We should be out there right now. We should be helping look for him." Mike begged.
"We've been over this, Mike. The chief says—" Karen Wheeler started.
"I don't care what the chief said!" Mike snapped.
"Michael!" Karen scolded.
"We have to do something. Will could be in danger."
"Cassie wasn't." Ted said, distractedly and Nancy finally looked up. Apparently being emotionally checked out was a family trait.
"She was exposed to dangerous chemicals and was hospital-bound for three weeks, dad!" Mike shouted at his father. "I'd call that 'in danger'!"
Karen didn't scold her son that time as she agreed with him but she turned to her son and said, "more reason to stay put."
"Mom!" Mike whined.
"End of discussion." Karen said, sternly. She looked at her husband who was about as useful in parenting as the drink he was drinking now.
Nancy decided that now was the best time to ask, trying to lie her way out of the house, for the very first time, "So... me and Barb are gonna study at her house tonight. That's cool, right?" Though she wasn't really looking for a "no".
"No, not cool."
"What? Why not?" Nancy demanded as if she couldn't possibly fathom why because it wasn't like a boy she had known for more than half her life was missing or anything.
"Why do you think?" Karen asked, "Am I speaking Chinese in this house? Until we know Will is okay, no one leaves."
The look on Nancy's face would make you think that it was the end of the world. "This is such bullshit!" Nancy cursed.
"Language." Ted scolded.
"So we're under house arrest?" Nancy scoffed, ignoring her father. "Just because Mike's friend got lose on the way home from..."
"Wait, this is Will's fault?" Mike scoffed at his sister.
"Nancy, take that back." Karen demanded.
"No!" Nancy said like she didn't think she was out of line. If Cassie were here, Nancy would have a broken nose.
"You're just pissed off 'cause you wanna hang out with Steve." Mike correctly accused.
Nancy glared at her brother, knowing that Cassie or Dustin most likely told Mike.
"Steve?" Her father asked.
"Steve who?" Karen asked.
"Steve Harrington, her new boyfriend!" Mike answered.
"You are such a douchebag, Mike!" Nancy whined like this was honestly the worst thing that had ever happened to her.
"Language!" Ted scolded.
"More of a douchebag than dating your best friend's boy?" Mike spat back. Anyone with eyes could tell that Steve and Cassie were in love with each other, guess Nancy was just stupid.
Nancy just scoffed and stormed off. "Nancy, come back." Karen called but Nancy ignored her, "come back!" She turned to her youngest, Holly, "it's okay. It's okay, Holly. Here, have some juice."
"You see, Michael? You see what happens?" Ted asked though no one knew to what he was referring to as it felt like he trailed off mid-sentence.
"WHAT HAPPENS WHEN WHAT!?" Mike shouted, "I'm the only one acting normal here! I'm the only one that cares about Will!"
Karen looked at her husband as he vaguely responded, "that is really unfair, son. We care." He couldn't even care enough to stop eating.
Mike slammed his hands down and stormed off.
"Mike!" Karen called.
"Let him go." Ted said.
Karen turned, glaring at her husband, "I hope you're enjoying your chicken, Ted." She snapped.
"What did I do?" Ted asked as Karen picked up Holly and stormed off. "What did I do!?" Grade-A parenting, Ted.
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Cassie was on her bed, talking to her father on her Tardis table phone and for some reason she wanted to break Nancy Wheeler's nose for being a bitch.
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"No, daddy, no one's seen him." She shook her head.
"Do you need me to drive down?" He asked, concernedly, fearing that Will’s disappearance may have had something to do with what he had found out and feared for his children’s lives.
"No, I don't think mom would appreciate that." He said.
"Right, because I cheated on her." He said, not loving what he had done.
"That and she doesn't exactly approve of your... life choices." Cassie rolled her eyes and then her walkie-talkie crackled to life with static. "One sec, dad." She rested the phone against her shoulder.
"Dustin, do you copy? Over." Mike's voice said.
"Yeah, I copy. Over." Her little brother's voice said.
"We're heading over to Mirkwood to look for Will. Over."
"Are you crazy? What if we get vanished too? Over."
"Don't be a baby!" Lucas said.
Out of all of her brother's friends, Lucas got on her nerves the most which how critical and skeptical he was.
"We are looking for Will. Period. He'd do the same for us. Over."
"Fine." Dustin groaned.
"Uh, daddy, I gotta make sure Dustin doesn't get vanished."
"Ri-right, be safe. I love you." Pan said, knowing that Cassie could defend herself given that he taught her to the best of his abilities.
"Love you too. Bye." She said and hung up the phone and picked up the walkie-talkie and said, "Did you boys actually think you could get away with this?"
"We've been caught!" Mike panicked, "Retreat! Retreat!"
"I'm coming with you all." She said. "Over."
"Why?"
"Because I'm not letting my little brother get vanished." She said, sternly. "I don't remember much of what it was like to be vanished but I know it wasn't fun." There was silence she knew they were cursing at her, she could hear Dustin's curses through the wall, "Yeah. I played the 'went missing' card. Now get over it, you little shits."
She pulled her blue raincoat and blue beanie and grabbed two of her pocketknives and two of her guns that her father had gotten her as he had taught her how to defend herself from a young age. She went to Dustin's room to find him halfway out the window.
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"Uh..." He said, looking at her.
"Need some help there, buddy?" She teased and went to help him.
"Shouldn't you be telling to stay home, like a responsible older sister?" Dustin asked, not sure if he should be upset about this or not.
Cassie stared at him for a full ten seconds before breaking into laughter at this, "I am not a responsible older sister. I have a record. I have more pocketknives, guns, and other weapons than you could imagine." Then she gestured with her hand, "let's go." She walked out his room.
"Are you a secret psychopath?" Dustin asked before following but she didn't answer.
--
In Indianapolis, Pan stared at his phone (identical to his daughter's) for a long, long time as he bounced his leg with his hand tugging at his auburn hair but falling over his face. He hit the back of his head against the chair.
“Pan?” His bedmate for the night called, a woman named Sally or Sandy or something.
“Uh, rain check, darling. Don’t think I’m in the mood for tonight.” He called back to her and looked back at the phone. He murmured out, “Jesus, Cassie. What are you getting yourself into?"
The things he learned that night still haunted him but what haunted him even more was that he just left his children there, unaware. He and Dustin weren’t as close as he was to Cassie, but he still loved them. The most terrifying thing to him was something happening to either of them.
“Please.” He murmured, praying to whatever could be listening, “please, just let them be safe. Keep them safe. At least, give me that.”
--
She picked the boys up despite their protests only agreeing after she said threatened the run them over which they knew was a real possibility because she was not a good driver.
"You don't even have a driver's license!" Dustin shouted when she drove off from picking up Lucas.
"I turn sixteen in four days!" She shouted back at him as Lucas rolled his eyes.
When she picked up Mike, she heard a small noise and turned to see Steve trying to climb up the house to get to Nancy's window. He looked at them innocently, trying to play cool, like this was a totally normal thing to do and Mike rolled his eyes. Cassie stared at him for a long, long time before pushing Mike into the car, which triggered Dustin to complain loudly which entailed a long string of loud curse words.
She walked backwards to the front of her car, still looking at Steve who gave her an awkward wave. Anger stewed in her and she felt ashamed for feeling that way. She just gave him the middle finger and slid into the driver's seat and drove off as Steve blinked in confusion at her harshness.
Steve watched her until her car was gone before continuing to noisily climb up the house to Nancy's room. He tapped on her window, still thinking about Cassie. Nancy looked at him and he gestured for her to let him in.
"What are you doing here?" She whispered, "I told you on the phone I'm under house arrest now." Apparently, she still felt no guilt over blaming Will for disrupting her social life.
"I figured we'd just study here." Steve shrugged.
"No. No way." Nancy hissed.
"Oh, come on. I can't have you failing this test." Steve said and clumsily and nosily climbed in as he continued to speak, "so just... bear with me." The window rattled, "oh shit, shit, shit." He turned to Nancy, "what'd I tell you? Ninja."
"I thought you and Cass were 'partners-in-crime'." Nancy narrowed her eyes at him.
"If I'm being perfectly honest, she does most of the breaking and entering." Steve said and he flashed back to that dare and how terrible he had felt. How bad he still felt. She had almost died because of him.
"Steve?" Nancy asked, noticing the distant look in his eyes.
"I'm fine. She's fine now." He muttered and then gestured to her notecards, "so... studying?"
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The party plus Cassie finally got to Mirkwood with the boys complaining about Cassie's driving. "I think my entire life just flashed before my eyes." Dustin groaned as he got out of the car. He hated his sister's driving.
Cassie rolled her eyes as she got out, she took her brother's hat, put it on her head and ruffled his hair. "Drama Queen." She said.
"You guys, you feel that?" Dustin said, looking up at the sky and a raindrop fell in his face, making him blink and Cassie smiled at how adorable her brother was. "I think maybe we should go back."
"No. We're not going back. Just stay close." Mike said, "come on. Just stay on channel six. Don't do anything stupid."
"Yeah, Lucas!" Cassie said and they headed into the woods, making Lucas scoff.
"Give me that back!" Dustin whined about his hat. "Hey guys, wait up!"
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"Which polymers occur naturally?" Steve read.
Nancy looked up to remember, "starch and cellulous."
Steve turned to the next card, "In a molecule of CH4, the hydrogen atoms are spatially oriented towards the centers of—" Steve read these, not having any clue to what he was reading.
"Tetrahedrons." Nancy said.
"Wow. Jesus, how many of these did you make?" He asked, flipping through them.
"You said you wanted to help." Nancy told him.
"Not even Cass is this thorough." Steve said.
"Yeah, well, Cass kind of lives in her own world." Nancy shrugged and Steve's eyes darted up and he just looked at her, trying to decide whether or not she was being mean. Everyone in Hawkins High knew how protective Steve Harrington was of Cassie Dare Henderson. Jason Carver once called her "Patient Zero" and Steve threw a basketball in his face which made Cassie burst into laughter. "You know what I mean."
"Yeah," Steve moved on from the subject of his best friend before, "how about this? How about... how about every time that you get something right, I have to take off an item of clothing. But every time that you get something wrong..."
"Uh, pass." Nancy scoffed.
"Oh, come on." Steve teased, "come on."
"No."
"Come on, it'll be fun."
"No."
"During fractional distillation, hydrocarbons are separated according to their..."
"Melting point." Nancy said, matter-of-factly.
Steve flipped the card, "ooh, it's boiling points."
"That's what I meant."
"Yeah, that's not what you said." Steve teased and played with his collar.
"No." Nancy said.
"No?" Steve asked, playfully and sat up, leaning towards her, "oh, do you need... you do you need help?"
"No." Nancy said before Steve kissed her as Africa by Toto played in the background. Nancy laid back and Steve leaned over her, the kiss got more heated when Nancy broke the kiss, "Steve. Steve, come on."
"What?"
"Are you crazy? My parents are here." Nancy said, because that's where she drew the line, not blaming the disappearance of a twelve-year-old on the pause of her nonexistent social life.
Steve playfully looked around the room, "that's weird. I... don't see them." He said, sarcastically and he kissed her again as Nancy sat up, breaking it.
"Was this your plan all along?" She accused, "to-to get in my room and then..." She thought back to Cassie’s words, "get another notch under your belt."
"No. Nancy, no." He sighed, understanding why she would think this. He had a reputation for sleeping with girls, though the only girl he had ever slept with was Cassie and that was in a platonic way, though not so platonic in his head but neither Cassie nor Nancy needed to know that.
"I'm not Laurie, or Amy, or Becky."
"You mean, you're not a slut." Steve said.
"That's not what I'm saying." Nancy lied, shaking her head.
"You know you're so cute when you're lying." Steve smiled. "But you're no Cassie Dare Henderson when it comes to lying."
"Shut up."
Steve picked up a teddy bear and spoke in a toy voice, "Bad Steve. Bad. Don't do that to Miss Nancy..."
"You're an idiot, Steve Harrington."
"And you are beautiful, Nancy Wheeler." Steve said and went back to reading cards before she interrupted.
"Did you ever do this with Cassie?" Nancy asked suddenly and Steve faltered, he knew that this had to be coming. Ever since Cassie entered high school and everyone could see that they were closer than the average pair of best friends, he spent most of his time trying to convince people that they weren’t dating, no matter how much he wanted to be.
"Nance, Cass and I are just friends. Best friends." He said, not looking up.
"Not every guy's best friend is a girl." Nancy pointed out.
"She's not like other girls." Steve replied, almost wistfully but in a way that told Nancy he was done talking about his relationship with Cassie for the night.
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About ten minutes later, it was pouring and Cassie suddenly heard a ringing sound. She stopped and stared around in complete bewilderment.
"Hello?" She heard Joyce's voice say. That's odd. She could hear kind of static. "Lonnie? Hopper? Who is this?" She heard the static fade to a breathing sound. "Will?" A sign of a true mother. "Will?" She heard an odd chittering and she froze. She could hear Joyce sobbing, "Who is this? What have you done to my boy? Give me back my son!" Then she screamed and it stopped.
"CASSIE!" Dustin screamed, shaking his sister. She inhaled sharply, looking at her worried brother. "Did you have an episode?"
"Yeah, I definitely had an episode of something." She said, nodding slightly before continuing without another word.
"Cass! You can't just have an episode and then walk off!" Dustin shouted, marching after her.
A little bit later, "WILL! WILL!"
"BYERS!"
"I GOT YOUR X-MEN 134!" Dustin shouted then he turned to the group, "Guys, I really think we should turn back."
"Seriously, Dustin. You wanna be a baby, then go home already!" Lucas snapped.
Cassie yelled, "BOO!" in Lucas' ear making him yelp and jump away. "Who's the baby now, huh?"
"Not funny!" He snapped, embarrassed.
"I'm just being realistic, Lucas!" Dustin said.
"No, you're just being a big sissy!" Lucas snapped.
This was why Cassie couldn't babysit both Dustin and Lucas anymore because Lucas kept on insulting Dustin which was a very good way to get yourself hurt.
She took a deep breath and reminded herself that Lucas was just the logical one and in a somewhat emotional state which was likely making him irritable and fussy.
"Did you ever think Will went missing because he ran into something bad?" Dustin asked, "and we're going to the exact same spot where he was last seen? And we have no weapons or anything?"
"Um, hello. Gun." Cassie said and waved her gun around.
"Whoa. Lucas shouted in alarm.
"Cassie! You can't just wave around a gun like that!" Dustin screamed.
Cassie was going to retort when she and Mike heard something.
"Dustin, shut up!" Mike said.
"I'm just saying, does that seem smart to you?" He asked.
"Dustin, shush." Cassie shushed, initally waving the gun haphhazardly at them, making them all squack and duck before holding it much more carefully as she slowly moved closer to the noise.
"Do you guys hear that?" Mike asked.
The boys their lights in the direction of the rustling, revealing a girl around the boys' age with a shaved head, wearing a Benny's t-shirt that was sopping wet. She was terrified and looked like she was going to start crying.
Cassie's mind flashed back to her missing time to a girl with a shaved head.
"Do not worry. I will help."
Cassie didn't miss a beat, she took her raincoat off and gave it to the girl.
"Here, come with us. We'll get you some dry clothes." She said, softly. The girl was hesitant so Cassie crouched in front of her, giving her a kind smile with kindness in her hazel eyes that was near foreign to the girl, "Hey, you're safe now."
But it wasn't her own safety the girl was worried about.
*Anyone catch the John Mulaney reference?*
*This story may veer away from Life is Strange because I keep wanting to have a story with precognition through hallucinations like another Steve Harrington x Henderson!OC story I read, "Alice the Amazing" but I don't want to copy.*
*Does anyone want me to add a gif of Thor using the quote that Cassie uses: "All words are made up."?*
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gryfflepuffinthetardis · 1 year ago
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Killer Queen (Steve Harrington) Season One Cast
Twelve-Year-Old Cassandra Delphia "Cassie Dare" Henderson — Georgie Henley (As Lucy Pevensie)
The Girl Who Forgot
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Sixteen-year-old Cassandra Delphia "Cassie Dare" Henderson — Zoey Deutch
The Girl Who Was Distant/The Guardian
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Pan Henderson — David Tennant (Crowley)
The Cool Father in Indianapolis 
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Steve Harrington - Joe Keery
King of Hawkins High
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Dustin Henderson - Gaten Matarazzo
The Compass Genius Little Brother
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Eleven - Millie Bobby Brown
The Number Who Broke the Dam
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Mike Wheeler - Finn Wolfhard
The Paladin Who Fell For the Mage
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Lucas Sinclair - Caleb McLaughlin
The Overlycrtical and Unsympathetic Boy Who Didn't Understand How Compasses Worked
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Nancy Wheeler - Natalia Dyer
The Princess Who Screwed Up and Got Revenge
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Jonathan Byers - Charlie Heaton
The Antisocial, Loner Photographer
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Joyce Byers - Winona Ryder
The Mother Who Never Stopped Believing
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Chief Jim Hopper - David Harbour
The Man Who They Underestimated and Regretted
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Will Byers - Noah Schnapp
The Boy Who the Demogorgon Caught
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gryfflepuffinthetardis · 1 year ago
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Stranger Things Masterlists
Steve Harrington: (Sorted Oldest to Newest)
Devil Town (Imogen V. Henderson played by Katherine Langford)
Imogen Henderson was as normal as a tomboy could be in the eighties. Rather than shop and gossip, she’d rather play D&D with her brother and his friends and learn how to fight with swords. Imogen was incredibly intelligent, in fact, her brother described her as an empathetic Sherlock Holmes. She was intelligent yet scatterbrained and eccentric.
People often wondered why the most popular kid in school bothered being friends with her as she was only known for her tendency for violence as demonstrated by that time she punched Tommy H. in the face.
But one day, her world turns into one of the stories she loved to read when Will Byers goes missing and she finds out that the world isn’t as logical as she once thought. Now she has to do whatever she can to keep her friends and family safe.
Trauma Masterlist (Emilie H. Henderson played by Hailee Steinfeld)
Emilie Henderson was damaged. Everyone knew what happened to her. Or at least, they knew enough. When she was thirteen she went camping with her father and they both went missing for nearly two weeks until Emilie was found barely alive with deep wounds from an unknown origin and her father was found with his eyes caved in and his bones cracked.
She was in a coma for thirteen weeks when she came back she had no memory of what happened. Doctors said the trauma was so great that the young girl blocked it out. But ever since then, she kept having nightmares of a place. Like this world but cold and dark. She lived with the Byers as she became friends with Jonathan and was like a daughter to Joyce until her brother and mother were able to move to Hawkins with her due to complications.
She's now known at the traumatized girl of Hawkins High with the freak brother, yet somehow she is Steve "The Hair" Harrington's best friend albeit their relationship has gotten rocky. She deals with normal things along with her nightmares and trauma-school, bullies, insecurities, and being in love with her best friend.
But when Will Byers goes missing and odd occurrences start happening, Emilie's memories start coming back.
Broken Bird (Rue Hopper Played by Kathyrn Newton)
"Rue" - Regret. That summed up the past four years of Rue Persephone Hopper's life. Ever since her sister--her beautiful baby sister got sick. Cancer.
When she got sick, they had to go to New York to get her treatment, when the previously bright-eyed troublemaker. Rue Hopper returned now an only child, she had none of the light left in her eyes. She came back a broken soul of a broken home. Broken. That summed up everything inside Rue.
After Sara died, she had felt so much pain that she thought she was losing her mind-until she shut down. Now she walks around Hawkins, dead inside, plastering a smile on her face and hiding it with jokes, snark, and sarcasm. But when one of her best friend's brothers go missing, the spark in her is reignited.
Killer Queen Masterlist (Cassandra "Cassie Dare" Henderson played by Zoey Deutch; Pan Henderson played by David Tennant)
Formerly "Life is Strange".
Cassandra Delphia “Cassie Dare” “Cassie” Henderson is wild, dangerous… insubordinate… Right here, folks. right here.
Steve Harrington and Cassie Dare Henderson--best friends since diapers until the dare of 1979. It turns out that breaking and entering into the Hawkins Lab wasn't a good idea when Dustin's older sister, Cassie Dare did so because she when went in and didn't come back out until being found near-dead in the woods three weeks later with no memory whatsoever from entering the lab but she hasn't been the same since. She was distant and aloof despite the attempts of her little brother, Dustin and her best friend, Steve Harrington,  but the day that Will Byers goes missing she starts remembering things when she mysteriously gains strange abilities the same moment the gate opened and she meets a strange little girl who looks so familiar to her.
Warning(s): Cursing, PG-13 Sexual Content, 80’s Homophobia (Not explicit, just a comment here and there from Tommy and them.)
Embers In the Sky (Dominique "Nico" Henderson played Georgie Henley; Alex Henderson played by David Tennant)
Dominique “Nico” Henderson. Older sister of Dustin Henderson and daughter of Claudia and Alex Henderson. Loyal, brave, intelligent, sarcastic, and violent. She is ignored and/or feared by bullies, loved by those who are bullied, and most of all loved by Steve Harrington.
But in another part of Hawkins, she is known by another name. One she plans on never hearing again. Her first name. Dominique. She got more than the other kids got at Hawkins Lab but she was never an official test subject. She was the daughter of a test subject. And until 1979, she was an active yet unofficial test subject with powers of fire—the Upside-Down’s biggest weakness. She was the only test subject who was subjected to being continuously sent into the Upside-Down to test the human’s capacity to survive there, until the Massacre, nearly killed her and Brenner’s favorite test subject changed, letting Alex and Nico free but they still had the memories. And then in 1983, their past comes back.
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