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He’s been looking at her a lot less than he used to, those eyes of his never staying on her any longer than they have to. Go figure that’d be something she missed after spending so much time feeling trapped and unnerved by it.
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Set post-epilogue. Just the slightest bit of angst before Steve and Nancy get together.
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In the smoldering aftermath of everything, Nancy finds herself at the radio station with Steve.
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She doesn’t know what she wants. She does know it isn’t six kids and a lifetime of crowded vacations, but whenever she’s alone with Steve and he looks at her the way he does, nervous the way he gets, and she feels flustered back? That tells her there’s something real there that’s maybe worth eventually exploring to see just how fixed this dream of his is.
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just enough to tell the forest from the fire by crackers4jenn
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
20 Dec 2025
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He doesn’t say it so directly, but he doesn’t see much of Nancy anymore without Jonathan by her side.
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Maybe Steve’s always been good at lying, or maybe this is what truth tastes like now. Maybe he does hate his old house, like he hates all his old selves, and maybe that is how he loves Hawkins: a place that tore him, like a bad tooth, out of the life he thought he knew.
Dropped him, free-falling, into a new one.
Good ache. It’s a good ache. You can see for miles if you know where to stand.
[Steve, after everything, doesn’t quite know where to start. And then there’s Nancy.]
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21 Apr 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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we got one last chance to make it real by literocracy
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
05 Jan 2026
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She tastes the same as she did a few months ago, when she’d been home for spring break. She tastes the same as she had over Christmas, beneath the hot chocolate and cinnamon that lingered sweet on her lips.
She tastes the same as she had at the end of last summer, when they’d fallen together into this confusing, temporary break from sanity. Drunk and seeking an escape from the inevitabilities beating at their front doors: her, her imminent departure for college, and him, what it meant to be the person left behind when everyone else has moved on.
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Steve stays in Hawkins and builds a house. Nancy chases her career in Boston and feels empty.
Monthly meetups. Three years of almosts.
"It was about you, Nance. It was always about you. The six kids, the house—that was just window dressing. You were the point."
Post-canon slow burn. 1990-1998. Steve builds the family he never had. Nancy figures out what she's been running from.- Language:
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04 Jan 2026
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there’s only so many directions her mind can be heading at once—saving the world, saving her sister, praying her mother and father won’t die, asking that mike’s okay wherever he is, rationalizing her own future, hoping that she won’t die before she has the chance to figure it out, carving the score over and over and over and over again, the tally marks she’s considered pressing into the sensitive skin near her elbow, one, two, three…
or: s5ep6 if it was stancy haha u know the drill
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28 Dec 2025