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    Michaela, whilst grieving and overwhelmed with the feelings blossoming in her chest for her cousin's widow, does the only thing she can think to do when asked so sweetly to stay, she flees.

    But now, after two years of running, she has returned to London, determined to make amends with the woman she has managed to convince herself she cannot fall in love with, under any circumstances.

    Yet her chosen path is not an easy one, for Francesca Stirling, now seething with rage, grief, and a furious current of feelings she neither understands nor can explain, is just as determined to discover the very reason for Michaela's flight in the first place, a reason Michaela is intent on keeping to herself.

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    27 Mar 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 8

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    It's still there, sometimes. Which shouldn't surprise her, really - she's seen how Max's eyes glaze over when she lets herself sit still, how Steve jerks awake at the slightest sound, how Nancy scans every new room for its exits. But Robin also knows she got off pretty easily, in comparison to the others. Feels like maybe she hasn't earned it.

    The Upside Down, clearly, doesn't fucking care.

     

    In which Robin makes it to Paris, Steve stays in Hawkins, and the answer to "is this shit safe to breathe?" turns out to be a definitive no.

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    25 Mar 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 34

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    Choosing her words carefully, Karen asked, “Aren’t you at least a little bit interested?”

    Nancy—her brow furrowed in confusion—answered, “In what?”

    “It’s just…you’re still single.”

    “Thank you for pointing out the abysmally sad state of my love life, Mother, but I’m busy and don’t need—”

    “You’re a fierce, independent young woman who’s in charge of her own life. Honey, I know,” Karen told her. “But…I also think that part of the reason you haven’t found a nice girl in Boston is because your interest has been about a hundred miles west all year.”

    Nancy’s cheeks flushed pink instantly. “Wha–I don’t–I’m going to bed,” she fumbled out and stood up to leave.

    “Nancy Elizabeth, don’t you dare try to tell me that you haven’t been head over heels for that girl for years.”

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    Karen spends years watching Nancy fall in love with Robin Buckley but never act on it.

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    22 Mar 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 25

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    Robin gets injured.
    Nancy tries to help.
    Robin panics and asks for Steve.
    Nancy takes that about as well as you’d expect.
    Things spiral from there.
    Or: Robin Buckley has survived a lot of things, but surviving something and knowing how to let someone new take care of you are two very different things.

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    18 Mar 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 92

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    “Are you flirting with me, Nancy Wheeler?”

    Nancy turned the color of the berries she and Robin had spent the whole morning picking.

    “N-No,” she gasped. “No, I was just—I wasn’t—”

    “It’s okay, Nance,” said Robin, flashing a toothy grin that bloomed into a soft laugh. “It’s not like I mind.”

    Nancy looked at her incredulously. “You…You don’t?”

    Robin shook her head. “I’m flattered. Everyone knows you’re the most beautiful woman in Hawkins. It’s kind of nice to pretend that you might want somebody like me as frightfully as we all want you.”

    OR: the one in which Nancy Wheeler is the God-fearing daughter of a close-knit community’s corrupt pastor, and the things she longs for Robin Buckley to do to her would make even the Devil blush.

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    17 Mar 2026