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Christina is a character featured in Stranger Things: Hawkins Horrors as the protagonist of Nancy Wheeler's story "A Little Voice". She was a nurse at Pennhurst Asylum in 1969 before leaving her job after learning the truth of a supposed escaped prisoner.
According to Nancy, her story was a real incident that had been reported in the news.[1]
History[]
Christina was born around 1946-1947 in Virginia, USA, she eventually got a job at the age of twenty-two at the Pennhurst Asylum in 1969 where she was given the night-shift to work. Prior to becoming a full fledged nurse, she was required to make sure all prisoners were okay and safe before calling lights-out.
1969[]
One night during her shift, Christina did her nightly routine check-up on the prisoners to make sure they were safe before returning to her post and waiting two hours to do it again. On her shift, she passed by the room of one prisoner named Ricky Dobbs whom she believed to be saner than the other inmates who was nineteen at the time.
Upon not seeing Ricky in his room, she grew worried before hearing him talking to someone causing her to open the door where she saw Ricky on the floor backed up against the wall, she briefly talked with him before Dr. Spears entered the room and demanded Ricky be restrained causing the orderlies to come in. After leaving the room with Christina, the latter questioned Spears on why he made the order before being told that all prisoners were to be restrained by night on the anniversary of Jimmy Ray Cutts' murder spree.
The following night, Christina went to work only to be greeted the empty reception room causing her to believe she had forgotten a staff meeting before going to Ricky's cell. Outside the cell, she watched as an orderly rushed out of the room covered in blood. Inside the room, she saw more blood as well as the deceased body of another orderly who had been crushed under the weight of Ricky's bed though Christina believed the former to be innocent under the belief that he would not harm a fly though kept her opinion of the subject to herself. During the interaction, she learned that Ricky had heard a voice but still chose to believe he was innocent and that there was another reason.
Later into her shift, Christina was one of many staff members to be called into a meeting by Spears who declared that the Hawkins Police Department were only allowing Ricky to remain in their custody until they did more research into the murder of Michael "Mick" Hogan. After the meeting, she went to Ricky's room which had its door covered with police tape with an officer standing guard, Christina asked where Ricky was being kept and made her way to the room before being found by Sophia, an older nurse.
Christina then heard about the escape of a man named Harland Buck who had escaped during a day shift prior to Christina's employment. When Christina questioned how she had not heard about it, Sophia told her it was not a story the staff wanted to tell. Eventually, Sophia told her that her ankles were hurting and asked Christina to administer the knock-out drug to Ricky, Christina obliged and made her way out of the room.
Upon entering Ricky's room, she questioned him on what was happening though Ricky confessed he would speak to a guy named Buck before he fell asleep due to the drugs in his system. When a storm hit a few nights later, Christina was forced to remain at the asylum due to the weather. Finding Sophia, she requested for another dosage to give to Ricky though Sophia admitted Spears had also been kept behind and therefore wanted to give the inmates their shots himself.
Christina's attention was then pulled away when she and Sophia heard screaming and rushed towards the noise where they discovered Ricky in his room trying to strangle Spears to death though, Christina then watched as Spears managed to overpower Ricky and beat him to the ground before kicking him, an incident Christina hated to see as she knew it was violating an the Hippocratic Oath doctors and nurses had made when dealing with patients.
When Christina got her next chance to be with Ricky, she made her way into his room to gather more answers though when she has asked him if he was hurting, Ricky told her that he was not before dying in front of her. Christina then began to hear a voice where she thought it was coming from Ricky before discovering it was coming from a hole in the wall after investigating.
Once the man revealed himself, Christina realized she was dealing with Harland Buck who she had believed had escaped and was hiding out somewhere. Eventually, she fainted. After that night, Christina quit her job and went back to living in Virginia. One day after reading the newspaper, she discovered that Buck had died within Pennhurst.