( A Day later)
[General P.O.V]
"Do you like it? " Arlo asked the girl, now named Eleven.
It had now been a day since the demogorgon attacked Hawkins Middle School, and Will buyers had been rescued from the upside down or Dimension X, as Brenner called it.
Originally, Eleven had been reluctant to follow him, and rightfully so.
After Dr Martin Brenner and his subordinates left the school, he tried to convince her to follow him back to his home (It's creepy I know) as the only other option was waiting for the emergency services to arrive and take her into their custody.
That wasn't an option considering she would find herself back at square one, that being continuous experiments, physical abuse and manipulation.
She had been adamant about remaining with Mike and all her other friends thinking she might have a chance at staying with them.
But after seeing all the police cars and fire trucks heading the school's way, the telepath finally agreed, preferring to follow someone who seemed like he would help her instead of being found by others with nefarious intentions and inevitably falling back within the hands of the ill-intentioned Hawkins lab scientists.
The little girl nodded, appreciating the plates of eggos that were in front of her, Allowing Arlo the opportunity to ask her the important questions he had in mind.
"Do you know what your name is? " the 17 year old asked her.
"Eleven, " Eleven answered softly whilst looking up to him.
"That's not a real name." Arlo responded to her. He continued
"I see, can I call you Elaine?"
"Elaine? " She repeated, confused by the proposition from the teenager in front of her.
"Yeah, you don't like it? " the God tier inquired.
"My friends call me El," she explained in an awkward manner.
"They call you El? Well El could be short for Elaine. I just thought it would be better than being called the number Eleven, no?"
She blankly stared at him, "Okay, I guess it would be a little weird if I started calling you Elaine out of the blue?"
"..."
"It's just I had a friend called Elaine, I'll never meet her again unfortunatly." He justified.
"Fine, I'll call you El then. I just want to know something though. Apart from your three friends back at the school, who else kne-... He swatted away at an annoying fly... -ew about the upside down and the Demogorgon. " Arlo interrogated.
Once again, she hesitated, unsure of whether divulging that information was wise or not. " It's okay I won't force you to tell me, I'm just trying to help you. And if I could get into contact with others, then helping you would be much easier. I mean, just think about it; maybe you'll be able to see Mike again. And I can't do that all by myself, do you understand? Besides, we are similar since we both have powers." she nodded, and started giving me the names and/ or relationships involved in the matter whilst I quickly noted them down.
Seeing the names written down, I smiled.
"Thank you, I'll be going outside for a bit so eat up your eggos. There's also a bit of CocaCola in the fridge if you want and of course there's the TV in casqe you're bored okay? And like I said before, if you hear knocking at the door you-"
"-Don't answer." She continued in an exasperated tone. But he did tell her that a thousand times so it would make sense as to why she had had enough, but he had to make sure that she knew the risks and wouldn't act blindly.
'At least she is comfortable enough to be exasperated like that with me.' the reincarnator chuckled to himself.
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(A/N: I will no longer be using in dashes considering that repeatedly hearing – – – can be super annoying especially when we use audio which is a feature that I use a lot. So from now on I'm using three underscores to change scenery and that's it)
-The Hawkins police station-
(A few minutes later)
Arlo found himself in front of the Hawkins police station, his target being the chief of police; Jim Hopper.
But why was he after Jim Hopper? It was because he was one of the people involved with the whole Dimension X incident.
Surely he could confide in him, right?
Our main character entered through the doors of the office, greeting the secretary; an elderly woman named Florence and an officer even taller than himself; Phil Callahan.
"Hello young man, what can we do for you? " the secretary inquired .
That teen greeted her back with respect " Hi ma'am, I'm actually here to see the chief. It's about Hawkins lab-" and speaking of the devil, the man in question entered, smiling.
"Morning everybody!" he announced, content written all over his face.
Arlo, seeing the man, immediately guessed that he was the chief of police, walked up to him. " You're chief of police Jim Hopper? "
"Yeah, who's asking? "
"I'm Arlo, I work for Hawkins lab," the teen continued talking. "I came to discuss some... stuff with you. "
The man 's face quickly lost its Jovial attitude, entering a cold and emotionless demeanor. "Get in my office "
The others looked around intrigued.
"What do the space weapon manufacturers want to do with us?" Callahan joked, earning a small facepalm from his colleagues Powell.
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– Jim Hopper's office –
After both men sat down, Hopper finally spoke up.
"We already signed everything, you asked us to. What do you want now?"
The ability user responded in kind. "I'm not actually from the government, even though I do, at the moment at least, work for Hawkins national laboratory."
Hopper leaned back in his chair, his interest piqued. "Then what do you science people want from me."
"It's rather simple, I was there when Brenner and his Men tried to take Eleven away." the man narrowed his eyes but let him continue without interrupting.
" I was the one that stopped the entire thing from happening, I killed the Demogorgon as you guys like to call it, and when the emergency services arrived at the school, I was the one to take her away. I figured I could trust you with this considering you've already been through all of it and know what I'm talking about."
"And how do I know you're not lying to me?" the chief of police inquired.
The God-tier, after a while, finally answered.
"Because..." before his two azure orbs began radiating light.
"Why would I need to?"