#might write it

He doesn't take too long to think about it, just applies and awaits an answer.

He gets the most pleasantly worded acceptance letter and maybe even a phone call with the nicest lady. She’s calling to make sure he really did mean to send the application, and that he really wants the job. He still says yes, and they get the details in order.

Yada-yada.. Theres's packing, saying goodbye and all that.

Robby gets to Broken Bow. Theres an old house ready for him, not in the best shape but good enough. The clinic is on the same property. It's in the town but there's still some privacy in the main house.

Too much detail.. XD I guess I might try and write this myself.. Maybe. But I’ll try to summaries the good stuff.

So Robby needs to get to know the people, they are friendly but don’t really seem to need a doctor all that much.

Sometimes he’s informed of an accident a day or two after it happened, but when he gets to the patient, they have already had their injury seen to. And by someone who knows what they’re doing.

At some point, their paths cross. Dennis has been acting as the town's doctor for a couple of years, using his knowledge as a vet to do what he could, and also studying human medicine on the side. He's basically carried himself halfway through medical school or something.

So much fun to be had with this. Maybe they meet before Robby figured out Dennis was the one doing his job. Maybe they had a moment or something. There could be rival vibes, or just sweetness.

Oh! And the lady Robby talked to. That’s Dennis's mother. She’s lovely, his whole family is super nice and accepting… or maybe not fully, could be a little drama.

The Upside Down virus, this is spread by life that sprouts from the cracks over the course of a week. There are plants, mushrooms, and soon creatures start to squeeze through (demobats, cause they're itty bitty). Animals from our world eat the plants, and get infected, and the mushrooms release pores that start to infect the people and other wildlife. Now, some animals know to stay away, but some feel almost drawn to the plants and mushrooms, but it's quite random and varies from individual to individual.

Throughout this week, everything goes to shit very quickly. It's not like they defeat the mindflayers and have a little bit of peace; they have maybe a minute of peace while people recover (ambulances and paramedics show up), but the party notices the cracks, and things slowly go downhill.

Soon enough, sightings of "monsters" and "mutated animals" start to become frequent, and the animals that have become infected turn into a fucked Upside Down version, their faces splitting into the flower-like face the demodogs and demogorgans have. More teeth sprout out from the broken skin, the bones twist and break, only to form new limbs or make it easier to move for the animal.

Then, people start becoming infected. You can tell when tendrils start to grow from the holes of the body, the mouth, nose, eyes, ears, etc. It starts off as them being aware while the virus slowly consumes them and turns them into a vessel. Then, their faces break into flower-like faces, similar to the Upside Down creatures. Like The Last of Us, there are different stages, but once someone is infected, they're gone. There's no cure other than death to save them from being in the backseat of their own body.

Being bitten causes someone to be infected, but only by infected people and animals. If bitten by a demobat, demodog, or demogorgan wouldn't infect the victim. This is because they don't share the same saliva and infected bodily fluids that the infected people and animals do.

As for breathing in, the pores have to be inhaled right by the mushrooms, as they're strongest there. Still, wearing masks and such is suggested.

Slowly, Hawkins becomes more and more like the Upside Down version, falling apart, becoming darker, and the air is full of the weird particles from the Upside Down as well, that somehow don't infect people.

The military is sent in to try to handle everything, but it only makes things worse.

This infection, this horrible occurance then spreads to the neighboring states and slowly infects the rest of the country; hard to contain infected flying animals, right? The immediate area around where Starcourt Mall was is where you must wear a mask, and the farther you get, the better the air is (except for the Upside Down particles, of course).

The Party learn to live in this hellscape, doing everything they can to figure out if they can undo everything. Yes, Eddie is added because, of course, he is. I love him and need him to be added. Yes, Karen is alive, and with them, yes, Holly is a part of this too.

If I were to write this, I don't exactly know what the plot or story would be, but this would happen after season 3, and essentially be a rewrite of the end of s3, and replace s4 and s5.

I already know the ships I'd write in it, the relationships I would like to expand on and add to. Of course, Steddie, Ronance, HenderHop, Byler, Lumax, Jopper, etc. would be my faves. Platonic Stobin, my beloved, Hopper being Steve's dad, my bebehs, and Max and Dustin being Steve's little siblings, my faves <3 El has a bigger role with every character, diving into her overall relationship with characters that weren't shown in the show (her and Steve being siblings, her and Dustin growing close, etc etc.)