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Police Chief Jim Hopper was not a man who believed in impossible things.
Or at least he hadn’t been, not until last November when he’d cut into a body that bore the face of one previously missing Will Byers and had found only stuffing, packing foam where ribs should be. The muddy ragged corpse before him had puckered skin so real that before he’d used the knife perched in his shaking hand he’d sworn up and down that he’d go straight to hell for defiling the dead boy, this poor kid who had already been through enough. That was until his fingers had hit downy cotton instead of sallow sternum.
Or even after that, when he’d chased the threads of that same stuffing all the way to the imposing, ominous Hawkins Lab and had punched a guard or two to make his way through winding nefarious halls only to discover something that his stunned, overwhelmed, racing mind had refused to accept; a rift to another dimension hewn in gray, matted viscera and heaving, breathing alien life.
In the pale stark light of the horrifying, awe striking things he’d seen last year, truly the stuff of goddamned nightmares, was it really so impossible that a small, graceful, fucking gorgeous woman half his age could want him?