PLOT BUNNIES - Something Wicked

PLOT BUNNIES - Something Wicked

Original Character - Ashley Keegan 

Fandom - Stranger Things, Steve Harrington/OC

To the town of Hawkins, Indiana, Ashley Keegan was wallpaper—omnipresent, quiet, and rarely acknowledged.  Hell, nobody even looked her in the eye.  After a car accident claimed her father and golden boy older brother, they didn’t quite know how to.  But that was okay.  Between school and her part-time jobs, she didn’t have the time for them.  Their mortgage needed two incomes, and her mom could only manage 1.3 of those.  Her paper route, the arcade, that part-time library gig, and some seasonal work made up about 0.5…..yeah, things could be better.  Their one regular visitor was the vulture of a realtor itching to plant a ‘for sale’ sign in their front lawn.

The thing about being wallpaper—being part of the background nobody ever notices—the thing is you get to notice things.  For years Ash Keegan knew next to everything about Hawkins, Indiana.  Whose marriages were unhappy, who wasn’t paying their bills (other than her mother), who was being bullied, who really drove old man Kapowski’s tractor into the lake…the gossip she had would make the local housewives drool more than a tiramisu.  Until Will Byers disappeared.  Government vans, a fake body, an abruptly un-dead kid…she didn’t know anything about that.  Thank God.  She already had about four full plates and was trying to balance a fifth in the crook of her elbow.

But that was 1983.  This was 1984, a George Orwell of a different story.  Creditors and college applications loomed.  Her brother’s room still looked the same.  A war between pumpkin patch dynasties cost her the fall job she counted on.  Also, the trash cans cans next door were haunted, neighbor kid Dustin got a bizarre new pet, and suddenly elementary school-playmate/current prom king Steve Harrington was babysitting him?  Dustin’s mom hadn’t asked her to babysit him in months.  Not quite a government conspiracy, but the subtleness rang just as sinister.  

Halloween brought out the weirdest shit.

Here I am, jumping aboard the Stranger Things train!  This fic would theoretically start with season 2.  Face claim is Saoirse Ronan.  All gifs from gif huts.

                                                          However long it takes.

                                                                 Yours, Klaus

Favorite points of view [4/15]:

She is a part of the sun, but the sun sometimes disappears.

stranger things oc || Samantha Newby

Things were getting weird.

First, Will Byers turned out not to be dead, which was a relief.

But that didn't explain the second thing: a woman like Joyce Byers dating a RadioShack manager like my dad, although I was happy for him, and the Byers weren't so bad to hang out with.

And thirdly, what had to be the strangest thing of all, was Steve Harrington sitting down in the school's library three days a week for my tutoring lessons.

Nothing crazy ever happened in a town like Hawkins, Indiana, but I guess I was to be proven wrong.

Things Have Changed (coming: I don’t know when)

I had too.

• ANAMNESIS • chapter one •

“Jeez, Rita. Who taught you how to use a knife and fork? A gorilla?” Tommy says, turning to look to Carol for reaffirmation that what he just said was insulting and humiliating enough. Her smarmy giggle confirms that sure enough, I’m humiliated.

I frown, reaching for a napkin to wipe away the rogue mashed potato from my lap.