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With Lonnie chronically absent, bills piling up, and her boys to feed, Joyce takes a desperate, last-minute waitressing job at a seedy bar on the outskirts of Indianapolis. When she calls Hopper to babysit for the night, she doesn’t expect it to stir up everything they’ve been pretending not to feel.
Pre-canon. Part I of the Edge of Night series. Set in 1980... before the fallout between them, before all the fights, before the world turned upside down.
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25 Mar 2026
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Joyce comes home late. Hopper is terrified. The argument stops being about a missed phone call, when a raised voice makes Joyce flinch like he’s someone else.
One night. One trigger. And a promise to never become the storm.
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10 Mar 2026
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Bob survives the Demodog attack at the lab. Hawkins calls him a hero.
Joyce clings to him because she almost lost him - but his survival doesn’t undo what’s been quietly growing between her and Hopper.
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04 Mar 2026
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On November 6th, 1983, Will Hopper vanishes on the way home from his best friend's house. In the search to find him, his police chief father and store clerk mother must work through the issues that have been plaguing their marriage to keep their family together and bring their youngest son home safe.
or, the 'Joyce and Hopper are married the whole time' AU: season one rewrite.
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04 Mar 2026
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It hurts a little that he avoids her eyes, but he lights each cigarette for her, puffing on it like old times before handing it over. She inhales each lungful deeply and observes him in melancholic sadness.
A look into the lives of Jim Hopper and Joyce Byers, 1979-1983.
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21 Feb 2026
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Weeks after the dust had settled in Hawkins, newlywed couple Joyce and Hopper discover a new threat: one that had formed inside Joyce’s body, a result from their careless passionate love making. After confessing her pregnancy to him, he confessed some things too, more specifically about Agent Orange. He ultimately convinced her that they had to terminate the pregnancy, although she obviously didn’t want to.
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Jopper gets an abortion
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20 Feb 2026
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When Joyce and Hopper return to Hawkins from Russia, Hopper can’t get back to his old self. Not wanting to drag Joyce down with him, he breaks up with her. She leans on Karen for comfort but that comfort turns into something more. Something secretive. Something beautiful.
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Joyce is dumped and jumps right into a relationship with Karen.
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16 Feb 2026
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Painting you in red (Color me impressed) by cherishedcalla
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
09 Feb 2026
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When Joyce is suffering really bad from her period cramps, can Hopper help provide some much needed relief for her?
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15 Feb 2026
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Nothing ever happened in sleepy Hawkins, Indiana until one of the neighborhood busybodies noticed that a certain police chief was spending an awful lot of time at the Byers house. If the town gossips are going spread rumors, why not make it true?
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12 Feb 2026
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consumed (with what's just transpired) by cricketsatnight
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
25 Feb 2022
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Memorial Day Weekend is around the corner and Joyce invites Hopper and El along for the Byers' family camping trip. A few drinks, a deck of cards, and a game of footsie lead Joyce and Hopper into new (but seemingly inevitable) territory.
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12 Feb 2026
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A series of mysterious murders brings Police Chief Jim Hopper back to Hawkins, where his old friend Joyce might hold the key to unlocking the story of the women in the woods, and possibly his wounded heart.
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10 Feb 2026
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It's Bob's birthday and Joyce has no idea how to celebrate it until a talk with her best friend Hopper leads her to an unexpected revelation and a night she'll never forget. **This is a Jopper fic with very mild Bob involvement**
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08 Feb 2026
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'It hadn't been planned, obviously, but she supposes that's how it's always been between the two of them. Their friendship wasn't planned, instead forged through witty banter and disagreeable grunts over shared cigarettes.'
Or, Jonathan doesn't look like Lonnie and there's a reason for that.
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07 Feb 2026
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After Bob's death Joyce finds out she's pregnant. Hopper promises he'll be by her side.
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01 Feb 2026
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After Bob's death, Joyce just wants to forget. Her mission to do so, comes with one hell of a problem.
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31 Jan 2026
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Neither one of them was willing to mar his memory with petty life affirmations. But Joyce needed Hopper’s comfort, his strength, his easy way with her boys. Bob had patched over the holes Lonnie punched in their lives, but Jim Hopper? Jim Hopper completed their matched set, holes and scars and all. He fit into their lives so seamlessly that no one questioned it.
But he still wouldn’t touch her.
Or, that time when El called bullshit on everybody.
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- Part 2 of All My Friends Are Heathens
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30 Jan 2026
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A post season 2 series of connected one-shots that fill in the gap between season 2 and season 3. It's essentially a slow burn fic showing how Joyce and Hopper eventually end up together and end up as a family. Each chapter is one night that they spent together.
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28 Jan 2026
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I Will Be Your King (And You, You Will Be My Queen) by Nevermore_red
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
22 Jul 2019
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Eight months after the events of Starcourt, and everything changes. Again.
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27 Jan 2026
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easy when it's you by sapphicjopper for celinecooperjones
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
14 Dec 2022
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It's cold and flu season, there's a winter storm brewing, and Joyce Byers is stubbornly refusing to admit she's sick as a dog. Hopper steps in and intervenes, and for the first time in years, she lets herself be taken care of.
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22 Jan 2026
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It was a cool grey day in March when Karen showed up on Joyce’s doorstep, Holly standing morosely at her side. “I’ve left Ted,” she said shortly. Joyce stared. “Can we stay with you tonight?”
Joyce didn’t say anything as she took a step back from the door and waved them inside.
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17 Jan 2026