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Nancy hesitantly picked up the rotary phone from her bedside table, her hands still trembling as she resigned herself to dialing the ever-familiar number. She bit her lip, trying not to think too hard about what she was doing.
After a few rings, a groggy voice rang through the speakers. "Robin Buckley speaking, and you better have a good reason for calling at two in the morning, because I swear to God if this is a telemarketer --"
"Robin," Nancy cut her off, trying to stabilize her own voice before she continued. "Not a telemarketer. It's -- it's me."
"Nance?" Robin's voice grew soft with worry, and Nancy felt her shoulders relax. She tried to ignore the warmth that rose to her cheeks. "What's the matter? Are you okay?"
"I'm home." she replied, her voice still quiet, a whisper underneath the screams of stop inside her own head. "Can you come over?"
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Or, Nancy can't sleep and Robin is her first call.
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Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
12 Dec 2025
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Nancy paced softly up to the doorway, her hand resting on the knob as she peered through the window at sandy hair and –
Oh.
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Or, Nancy searches for Robin after broadcasting hours wrap up at WSQK.
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The words tumbled out of her mouth before she could stop them. "Y' wanna know a secret?" Nancy giggled, her eyes aching dully. She knew she should stop talking, at this point, but it was as if she couldn't move her own mouth. "As to why I broke up with Jonathan, I mean?"
"Why is that?" Robin asked through her own giggles. Once one of them started, neither of them could stop. Despite the laughter, though, she seemed genuinely curious, laying her cheek deeper into her palm, her lips stretching upwards to meet it.
"I kinda wished he was a girl." And then Nancy burst out in full-body cackles, like it was the funniest thing she'd ever heard herself say. As if she was ridiculous. A secret she had kept bottled up for years, out in the daylight so suddenly. Almost involuntarily. She couldn't help but laugh, and so she did, until tears began to well up in her eyes.
When she finally caught her breath, she realized this time, Robin wasn't giggling back at her.
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Or, a stressed Nancy goes over to Robin's house to try edibles.
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Robin was asleep in Nancy's bed.
Just—there. Curled on her side facing the wall, knees pulled up, one hand tucked under the pillow, the other hanging off the edge of the mattress. She was wearing an oversized Smith College sweatshirt Nancy had never seen before and flannel pajama pants with what looked like cartoon dinosaurs on them.
Nancy stood in the doorway holding her textbooks.
OR: Robin fights with her girlfriend and catches a two-hour bus to Nancy instead. Nancy helps her fix it. Fall 1988.
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20 Feb 2026
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Nancy is used to being the one Robin looks at. She doesn’t take losing that lightly.
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01 Feb 2026
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Robin feels a tug in her chest, a soft and fond sort of thing, and she thinks that it would be quite dangerous to fall for Nancy, but the feeling settles over Robin all the same and it's not an all-consuming sort of thing, really.
Rather, it's gentle in nature, winds its way around her consciousness until she realizes, sitting here in the musty, cluttered little sound booth of the radio station, that she could fall in love with Nancy Wheeler.
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OR: post-canon compliant ronance slow burn friends to lovers aided by robin’s weird uncle’s basement, a trip to the guggenheim, and a radio station i did zero research on the inner workings of
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30 Jan 2026
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Robin showed up at her door on a Thursday afternoon, no warning, and said, "Want to walk?" Nancy grabbed her jacket without answering because the alternative was sitting in the living room while her mother and Joyce Byers made small talk and pretended everyone was fine, and Nancy would rather freeze to death than do that for another hour.
OR: Hawkins fall 1986. Nancy breaks up with Jonathan, Robin wears an insufficient denim jacket through a supernatural winter, and they both pretend they're just friends right up until they're not.
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20 Jan 2026
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"We're going to figure it out," Nancy says. "There has to be something, okay? Once we find out what that something is, we can stop this from happening."
"What if we don't?"
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They watch the world end once, apart.
The fourth time, Nancy takes Robin's hand.
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- Part 1 of ronance collection.
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19 Jan 2026