Hopper eventually found Eleven in the woods and began taking care of her, relocating her to his grandfather's old cabin. The two developed a complicated father-daughter dynamic as they lived together for almost a year. For her safety, Hopper neither permitted her leaving the cabin, nor did he permit her to communicate with Mike or her friends.

Stealth: Eleven sneaked inside Benny's Burgers without making a noise, and ate french fries until getting caught. Later, she evaded the forces of Hawkins Lab as they scoured the woods near the Wheeler house. Under pressure — and convinced Eleven’s return to her former nightmare wouldn’t be the same without her shaved head — Hindsgaul says she felt even more resolved to get it done. She spent countless days and nights working on the wig with her team trying to figure it out.

Suspecting him of lying, El sought out Max for advice, who confirmed her suspicions and advised her to break up with Mike should he not explain his reason for lying. Max then took El to Starcourt Mall, where the pair had a fun-filled shopping spree. As they were leaving, they unexpectedly crossed paths with Mike, Lucas, and Will. El confronted Mike about his lie, and when he failed to explain himself, she broke up with him. Martin Brenner "I came here to try and understand who I was. To see if ... I was the monster. And I know the truth. It is not me. It is you. You are the monster." In 1984, El tearfully reunited with Joyce following a year in hiding. The two hug tightly while Joyce affectionately calls her “sweetheart”. Eleven doesn’t hesitate in once again rescuing Will and assisting Joyce. The ring Eleven wears in the fourth season was a gift given to her by Mike sometime in between 1985-86. [39]

In 1984, when Eleven revealed herself to be alive, she embraced Lucas and Dustin. Lucas said they've missed her, with Eleven saying she missed them too. The kids were left alone in the school while Joyce and Hopper went to the lab and Nancy and Jonathan went to the Byers house. Mike and Eleven shared another intimate moment where Mike invited Eleven to join him at the Snow Ball school dance. Eleven accepted and the two shared a kiss. Eleven, having lost her psychokinetic abilities during the battle of Starcourt Mall, instead tried to empathize with the possessed Billy Hargrove; the strategy worked, momentarily allowing Billy to remember his past, and resist the Mind Flayer's influence.

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Eleven and Mike developed a close relationship in the brief time they knew each other in 1983. Mike grew the closest to Eleven out of the three boys, partly due to her staying at his house. Although Dustin and Lucas eventually grew to trust her, Mike was the first to do so, welcoming her into his home and keeping her a secret from his parents. Eleven, in turn, was clearly most relaxed while alone with Mike. Unlike Dustin and Lucas, Mike immediately understood that, despite her powers and strange appearance, she was ultimately just another kid who didn't want to trouble him or his friends. His respect and admiration for her deepened when she aided and defended him and the others in their search for Will. Then came the moment of truth. Hindsgaul says when the day of the screen test arrived, she had nothing but faith it would work and was exceedingly proud of what it took to get there. The Duffer brothers, on the other hand, still had to be convinced. In the womb, the unborn Eleven was exposed to the effects of hallucinogenic drugs, during her mother Terry's time as an MKUltra test subject. As a result, Eleven was born with various preternatural abilities; these might have been caused by mutations brought about by her mother's drug use. [18] However, in 1984, an otherwise vegetative Terry demonstrated limited use of her own psychokinetic abilities, suggesting Eleven's abilities may have been inherited, and had a genetic component. [19] In any case, Eleven's abilities were the reason she was abducted at birth and raised at Hawkins National Laboratory, where she was experimented on. After moving to California with the Byers family, Eleven attended school at Lenora Hills High School where Angela, her boyfriend Jake, and their friends began to bully her. Though Eleven did her best to ignore Angela and her friends, she was often hurt by their cruelty. When Angela and her friends destroyed her history project that she based on Hopper, Eleven, having lost a moment of clarity, tried to use her powers against Angela, only to remember she still didn't have them as she ended embarrassing herself. When Ms. Gracey comforted her and asked if someone destroyed her project, Eleven lied and did not tell on Angela, but Ms. Gracey was able to see what really happened and escorted Angela to the principal's office as punishment for bullying Eleven and destroying her project.