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It's always the bullies.
That's what he says when he shows up at school littered in unexplained bruises, and why it's just a little too easy to fake a smile. But what nobody knows is that this thing is a different kind of monster, it doesn't lurk in the shadows of the upside-down. No, It lives in his house, wearing his loving, caring mother's face.
What if all those bruises he was sporting weren't all from Jason and his goons?
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Or, Claudia Henderson is abusive (sorry if that's too OOC for ya), Dustin is in denial, but one day it gets REALLY out of hand, and he's forced to go to the person he trusts most, Steve.