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Steve Harrington learned how to survive. He never learned how to be loved.
After everything Hawkins put him through, Steve settles into a quieter life teaching middle school, coaching baseball, and pretends the past stayed buried when the gates finally closed for good. The town knows about the earthquakes and blackouts but they don't know what it cost him.
Claire Bennett always noticed the things other people missed. The kid who never talked, the one who flinched at sudden noises, and the ones who learned how to disappear in plain sight. Which is why she noticed Steve. She remembers the boy Steve used to be. Or at least, the boy everyone thought he was. Popular. Untouchable. Safe. What she finds instead is a man who startles too easily, avoids silence, and carries a loneliness that feels familiar.
They went to school together their whole lives but they may as well have been in completely different worlds. Now they share hallways, late afternoons, and a growing awareness that some parts of him never made it out of the darkness that still haunts him.
This is a story about how sometimes healing begins with someone simply choosing to stay.
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24 Apr 2026
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Vivianne Clarke and Steve Harrington have never liked each other.
Not as kids. Not in high school. Not now.
But when Hawkins starts to come apart at the seams, dislike proves to be a fragile thing, and some misunderstandings take years, monsters, and a great deal of grief to untangle.
A Stranger Things rewrite (Seasons 1-5).
Season 1 ✓
Season 2 ✓
Season 3 ✓
Currently working on Season 4.Bookmarked by Phillyphilly
23 Apr 2026
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Did that make his father better than his mother—the fact that at least he was turning his son over to the American government? Did that mean he really did care for Steve in some twisted sort of way? Did it even matter?
A less shitty person was still a shit person.
OR: Steve has powers and shitty parents, and the government finds one of those things very interesting.
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04 Apr 2026
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The color drains completely from Robin's cheeks. “Holy,” she breathes, and her eyes find his. “Y-you’re telling the truth? You’re really a genie?”
“A Jinn,” Steve corrects, but his hands are shaking.
She flips through the contract, her brow furrowing the more she reads. She works her way slowly through the restrictions and stops on the third page. Her eyes go back to the top, disbelief growing with each word.
“Fuck,” Robin gasps, and her wide eyes find his. “A child? They chose for you to be a human child?”
He nods, throat in knots.
“So,” she fumbles. “You’ve been serving the Harringtons for eighteen years?”
“Pretty much.”
“Jesus.”
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Or, eighteen years ago, the Harringtons walked out of Yellowstone Park with a newborn and the promise of ten wishes all bundled in one. Sixteen years later, Steve picks up a bat, restrictions be damned.
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29 Mar 2026
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Nancy has had her first kiss, okay? She’s a pretty girl, she uses ribbons in her hair and she’s nice to talk to, and for some prepubescent boys that’s really all it takes.
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28 Mar 2026
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I always thought that I'd see you again by user411a61z200
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
30 Jan 2026
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It's the summer of 1986, and Nancy is tired of waiting. Waiting for Vecna to strike again. Waiting to leave Hawkins. Waiting to say things she should have said months ago. She’s ready to start planning how to find where Vecna’s hidden, but not so ready to confront the feelings that arose on her last trip to the Upside Down.
She can only hope that Steve will still be waiting for her when she finally is ready.
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27 Mar 2026
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What Was, Still Is, Will Always Be by ClockworkPurple
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
02 Feb 2026
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A lot of things change, some things don't. Vecna is gone, Hawkins is destroyed. People have died. But at least it's over now, right?
Trying to create a new "normal" comes with undeniable realizations of what has truly never changed through it all.
Or, season 5 at least the finale- can take a hike. This is a Stancy fic, fight me on it. If you love Jancy at least take small comfort that I don't make Jonathan a total piece of shit.
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27 Mar 2026
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They shouldn’t be doing this.
No really, it’s a ridiculously bad idea.
He had laid it all out, once. The RV, the vacations, his dream… He’d presented it to her, along with his beating, bloody heart on a silver platter, telling her that she was the most important part.Steve decides, then and there, that Nancy Wheeler is going to be the death of him.
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Alternate Season 5 Stancy FWBBookmarked by Phillyphilly
27 Mar 2026
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Nothing ever happens in Hawkins. And yet, here they are.
Piper Scott and Nancy Wheeler have been best friends for years. The goody two-shoes and the wild child from the wrong side of the tracks are a strange match, and when their other best friend goes missing, it leads them down a path of no return. Other-worlds, possesed kids, monster hunting, and government conspiracies keep them busy and traumatized. All while Piper is falling for her best friend's ex boyfriend, who is so off limits it hurts.
Steve Harrington does not know how he got into this mess, and how he keeps staying in this mess, but soon feelings develop in surprising places and he'll do anything he can to protect the people he loves.
Updates several times a week! Tags are updated as chapters come out!
Season 1 Finished!
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Season 4 In Progress...Bookmarked by Phillyphilly
27 Mar 2026
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After being crowned the victor of the 65th Hunger Games, Steve Harrington is pulled into the twisted world of the Capitol and learns that the games never really end.
A Hunger Games Victor AU spanning 10 years. Currently posting the 71st Games.
Updates Wednesdays and Sundays.
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16 Mar 2026
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Steve Harrington was never one for sports or fooling around. As a result, he’s not exactly the most popular guy in high school. It’s not that people hate him or anything, he has just always quietly blended into the background. Most of his fellow students don’t pay him much mind.
Though there is one notable exception: a girl who has been lovesick over Steve since the first moment she laid eyes on him — Nancy Wheeler, star athlete and undisputed queen of Hawkins High.
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- Part 1 of Stancy Roleswap AU
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08 Mar 2026
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It’s season 5, the gang is in the upside down Hawkings lab, and Dustin is unable to stop Steve climbing across the ladder on the stairs, and he falls two floors. He insists that he is fine, but the others aren’t so sure.
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08 Mar 2026
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Nancy is a very serious investigative journalist. Steve is a laid back sports writer. She's pretty sure he's her nemesis, and he's harboring an unreciprocated crush. When they're assigned to work together on a project, there's a little more underneath the surface than Nancy expects to find.
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08 Mar 2026
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This fic has the following:
Steve sacrificing himself for Max
Vecna pretending to be Steve
Steve not impressed with how Vecna is behaving as him
Vecna eventually trying to redeem himself
Steve having his little nugget life
Steve trapped in his house and perfect life (it’s a lie!)
Steve has Stockholm’s syndromeSeries
- Part 1 of A Fragile Thing
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06 Mar 2026
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Nancy was back in Hawkins for Hopper and Joyce’s wedding after a year and almost a half of not stepping foot there after the kids graduated. She almost declined the invitation, but she knew that would be an awful thing to do to the people who saved her life time and time again. So, instead, she uses her key to open her front door.
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nancy and steve see each other again, feelings bubble back up to the surface like always.
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06 Mar 2026
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Steve is dangling from the tower by one hand with blood in his eyes. Dustin and Nancy are right there, arms outstretched, but if he takes their hands they might fall with him.
OR Steve falls from the radio tower and wants to convince Dustin and Nancy he’s okay— he’s not.
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27 Feb 2026
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The thing is—
There are two Nancys. There’s Daytime Nancy and there’s Nighttime Nancy and Steve's only ever seen the first. No—
He saw Nighttime Nancy once, at Tina’s Halloween party, and he bolted out the door in tears.
Nancy fell on her sword after that.
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- Part 3 of i'm just an animal looking for a home
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18 Feb 2026
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Who's With You at the End of the World by Cogentranting
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
16 Feb 2026
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“An empty house for an empty boy. They will always leave you, always abandon you. You will always be alone because everyone knows that inside you is nothing."
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An alternate version of 5x08: As the group makes their play to kill Vecna and rescue the kids, Steve and Nancy get separated from the others in the Upside Down and find themselves in grave danger.In which I answer the question What if Steve and Nancy actually got to have a one-on-one conversation with each other this season? and continue the tradition of beating Steve up every season, which season 5 neglected.
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16 Feb 2026
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December rolls around, as it usually does every year, and Mr. and Mrs. Wheeler are still laid up in Hawkins Memorial Hospital, as they will be for a while—or so Nancy's been told. So it's up to her to look after Holly and Mike, if they'll let her, and deal with the doctors to sort out recovery plans, if they'll listen to her, and clean the house up from that total wreck of a night over a month and a half ago when the world almost ended. And also maybe kind of try to make Christmas feel like anything resembling the stretched out shape of a holiday at all.
Nancy has a lot on her plate. Probably could use something to take her mind off it all.
And Steve's been Christmas shopping anyway, so he may as well look around. Just in case.
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11 Feb 2026
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He’d actually looked the word up in a dictionary once. Idiot. Not too long ago, back when he’d been bored and killing time and— okay also maybe because people kept using big words around him that he didn’t understand, and he wanted to be a little less of an idiot. And so since he had the book on hand anyway, why not look it up?
Obviously, he knew what it meant. He’d heard it over and over. But it was different being told something and actually seeing and learning it firsthand. And so he was curious. Curious like you’re curious about the meaning of your name. This thing that defines you.What does it mean to be Steve Harrington?
What does it mean to be an idiot?
Steve has spent years being the reliable babysitter, punching bag, and emotional support ex-boyfriend. Nancy's been moving forward while looking back, telling herself she isn't about to hit a brick wall. Eventually something's gotta give.A post-non-canon-compliant season 5 story about denial having a short shelf life and that eventually you're gonna have to eat your vegetables. Pretend that made sense.
Featuring: long overdue emotional breakdowns
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07 Feb 2026