Pretty Soon, I Will Run

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• Pretty Soon, I Will Run by BeansAndBugs

  Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016), Doctor Who (2005), Doctor Who & Related Fandoms  

  • Mature
  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
  • Multi
  • Work in Progress

  25 Feb 2026

  Tags

  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
  • Steve Harrington & The Doctor
  • Steve Harrington & The Party
  • Tommy Hagan & Steve Harrington & Carol Perkins
  • Eleven | Jane Hopper & Steve Harrington & Jim "Chief" Hopper
  • Minor or Background Relationship(s)
  • Steve Harrington/Eddie Munson
  • (eventually)
  • Steve Harrington
  • Steve Harrington's Parents
  • The Party (Stranger Things)
  • Mike Wheeler
  • Eleven | Jane Hopper
  • Dustin Henderson
  • Will Byers
  • Lucas Sinclair
  • Erica Sinclair
  • Nancy Wheeler
  • Jonathan Byers
  • Joyce Byers
  • Jim "Chief" Hopper
  • Eddie Munson
  • Robin Buckley
  • Maxine "Max" Mayfield
  • Billy Hargrove
  • Stranger Things Ensemble
  • Henry Creel | One | Vecna
  • The Doctor (Doctor Who)
  • The Doctor's TARDIS
  • Ninth Doctor (Doctor Who)
  • Tenth Doctor (Doctor Who)
  • Rose Tyler
  • Martha Jones
  • Donna Noble
  • Jack Harkness
  • River Song
  • Bad Wolf (Doctor Who)
  • Mickey Smith (Doctor Who)
  • Misc Aliens and OCs for Plot and Stuff
  • Canon-Typical Violence
  • Steve Harrington-centric
  • Steve Harrington Has Powers
  • Steve Harrington Has Bad Parents
  • The Doctor collects companions like DnD Dice and Steve is one of them
  • Bad Wolf Steve
  • Doctor Who-Typical Shenanigans
  • Billy Hargrove is His Own Warning
  • Steve Harrington is Not Stupid
  • Steve Harrington Is a Mess
  • The Doctor Is Bad At Communicating (Doctor Who)
  • And Steve Inherited it by Bluetooth
  • if canon writers can break and reshape canon for funsies so can I
  • Eddie Munson Has a Crush on Steve Harrington
  • Billy Hargrove Has a Crush on Steve Harrington
  • Period-Typical Homophobia
  • Period Typical Attitudes
  • Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
  • Implied/Referenced Child Abuse
  • Bisexual Steve Harrington
  • Hurt/Comfort
  • Identity Crisis
  • Doctor Who-Typical Continuity Headaches
  • Found Family
  • Friends to Lovers
  • Martin Brenner is His Own Warning
  • Billy Hargrove Tries to Be a Better Person
  • Other Canon-Typical Warnings
  • Bad Wolf Rose Tyler
  • Do not feed to AI
  • no beta we die like jack harkness
  • Unreliable Narrator
  • Other Additional Tags to Be Added

  Summary

  “Hey, kid, what are you doing here?” the kind blonde woman asked. Steve stared up at her with a frown, crouched down next to a dumpster in New York, 1974.
  “You can’t make me go back to the doctor’s. I don’t like it there.”
  “Not a fan of Doctors, are you?” the man in a leather jacket said, crouching down to the little kid’s eye level. His smile bounded playfully with amusement.
  “No. They don’t let me run!”
  “Well, kid-“ “- I’m Steve, and I’m not a kid - ” “- Steve the Kid, then - I’m The Doctor, and this is Rose Tyler. Do you want to come run with us?”

   

  — In which Steve Harrington ran through space and time, stared into the Heart of the TARDIS, and claimed his name.
  Now, it’s 1983 in Hawkins, and he’s still running.

  Series

  • Part 1 of Pretty Soon, I Will Run

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