Crawling inside Stranger Things to wear it like a second skin
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After a harrowing near-death experience and a romance that changed everything he knew about himself, Steve Harrington is doing just fine, thank you. But when a simple errand with Dustin Henderson turns into a trip through time to the days of Will's disappearance, he has to navigate through battles of the past, friends unaware monsters exist, and a Steve Harrington he can barely recognize.
A revisitation of Season One that grabs themes (and some characters) from later seasons, with lots of Dustin-Steve bonding, mistaken identity, DnD metaphors, El being El, Steve and Robin vibing early, and homeschool for the temporally displaced.
Now complete! We have French, Spanish, and Portugese-speakers who've read and reviewed this fic. If anyone is interested in translating, please let me know.
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- Part 2 of Back to Back, Let's Go
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When Steve applies for a summer camp per Dustin's request, he doesn’t expect to have the most interesting summer of his life.
Featuring a sulky metalhead who hates Steve for no reason, eight kids set on driving Steve to an early grave, Robin Buckley’s ability to charm any girl she wants, and Steve’s bisexual disaster/dream/nightmare.
But hey, that’s what summer camp is all about. Right?
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- Part 1 of CFCU (Camp Folktale Cinematic Universe)
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“I’m not trying to kill myself,” she snaps, sounding far more snippy than she means to, and immediately shuts her mouth.
He seems unphased, though, and she swears there’s snark in his tone when he replies, “Oh, sorry for assuming, Miss Standing-on-a-Ledge.”
Steve and Robin meet officially for the first time in December 1984 instead.
Stobin Month, Day 1: Alternate Meeting
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love is a battle i can win by palmviolet for beetlesandstars
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
25 Dec 2022
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"She’s taking a sip, dry and sharp on her tongue, when the doorbell rings a floor above, and she hears distantly Steve’s open delight, Robin, Dustin, back from the shit I won’t understand?
I’m a lesbian, Nancy thinks, taking another sip of wine. Eddie clinks his glass against hers and sneaks a slice of chorizo from Steve’s chopping board, tapping a finger against the side of his nose, shh, don’t tell, the way normal couples keep their secrets, the way honesty is earned and not borne on the back of a lie.
Love is a battle I can win. Nancy turns to face the door."
// Christmas 1994. Nancy faces her fears.
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through the years we all will be together (if the fates allow) by sapphirerays
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
19 Dec 2022
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Robin shrugs again. “We didn’t want to intrude,” she says plainly, as if either of them could ever be intruding by just being around.
“And nobody asked,” Steve says, to which Robin nods. The casual way in which he says it makes her heart sink. “Not until we’d already committed to working these hours, anyway. Look, it’s fine, really. We’re having fun hanging out together, it’s not like we’re alone.”
But you are, she wants to argue. You’re just… alone together.
Steve and Robin are working the Christmas shift alone at Family Video, so everyone brings a little bit of Christmas to them instead.
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Beyond the Waterfalls (The Storyteller finds the Mage) by DeLoreanFlight
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
04 Jan 2026
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After more than five long years, Mike Wheeler decides to follow his gut and find Eleven. After five more than five long years, the Storyteller gets to reunite with the Mage.
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Will's coming out scene except he invited even more people to watch, and he explains it in the Season 5 Volume 2 style.
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oh, I heard it through the grapevine by idontshaveforsher_yesyoudo
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
21 Jul 2022
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“It just doesn’t make sense why Mr. Harrington’s single! He’s nice, he’s funny, he’s hot for his age -“
“I overheard him threatening to smash Mr. Munson’s kneecaps in with a spiked bat the other day,” Paul says. “I’m telling you, he has a dark past.”or, not a single senior student at their high school can figure out what’s the deal with mr. harrington’s love life. maybe the answer is closer than they think.
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In all the stress of rescuing Max from Vecna, it’s no surprise no one notices when Vecna, seeing his battle lost, redirects his attention to Robin. And Robin isn’t one to steal the spotlight, not when everyone’s so worried about Max.
Or:
Steve's best friend is dying, and there's nothing he can do about it.
Or:
Robin gets Vecna'd.
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I Never Find Out 'Til I'm Head Over Heels by orphan_account
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
07 May 2017
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Wherein Mike believes he’s being obvious, Will doesn’t know what he believes, and the pair of them could use a lesson or two in effective communication. Somehow all of this has both nothing and everything to do with five years' worth of school dances.
(This piece was written for the Stranger Things Big Bang)