under pressure
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love's such an old-fashioned word by the_passionate_sun
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
06 Mar 2026
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He scratches his eyebrow. “I mean— okay—“ he starts. “Okay, okay, there’s— there’s a plan here. Right, so what if, what if we do fewer weekends, but we do, like, longer trips? Like maybe we do every other month. But then we do one big trip in the summer or something?”
“International,” she proposes. “Maybe an international trip?” Different enough from The Dream, she hopes.
His eyebrows rise at this. “You know Robin doesn’t have the cash for that,” he tells her. “And, really, Byers?”
“He probably doesn’t either,” she allows, “so maybe we go without them.”
Steve’s eyes lock onto hers. “We go without them?” he repeats calmly.
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It's sort of like people we meet on vacation. if mike third-wheeled the whole time. Nancy worries about Steve, and Steve worries about Nancy, and maybe visiting places that have at least three waterfalls will bring some light back to Mike's eyes.Series
- Part 1 of under pressure
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it's getting better all the time by the_passionate_sun
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
27 Jan 2026
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“Do you wanna talk about it?” Max asks him. She curls up on the couch next to him and leans over to grab her mug before tucking her feet under her legs and resting her head on his shoulder. He’s too emotionally exhausted to tell her not to wreck a couch with her shoes, but it’s not his couch. They’re not his shoes.
Steve knows she’s not looking at him on purpose. “Nothing to say.”
“She looks like someone died,” Max says. “And you look like you died.”
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- Part 2 of under pressure