"We didn't even get it that bad," he admits. "Most excitement I'd had before this place was a woman who got a bird caught in her hair. Mostly it was check stops on the highway to make sure no one was driving drunk and that was about it."

Hawkins had been a good place until that lab rolled in. Until they started messing around with things they shouldn't. Until Will went missing and Eleven was shoved out into their world.

He doesn't regret it, though. It brought him El.