He likes teasing her. It's the kind of stuff he used to do with Sara, then Eleven, and he can't help himself. For a long time, he knows no one would have described him as happy and he thinks he still carries that certain level of grumpiness into most of his life, but he's always better around kids.

Within a few minutes, they've got their tickets to play the boardwalk games and Hopper hands Beverly half of them before he surveys their options.

"Okay, you've got first pick," he says. "Tell me where to go."