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His previously almost blank-looking expression shifts. Confusion, recognition, then a smile spreads over his lips. "Joyce? Wow, is that you? I can't believe you're still here."
Right where you left me, she thinks. Their last actual conversation before he left Hawkins—and her behind—it too had been at Melvald's. She raises her hands. A gesture of surrender, she supposes. He made it out. He kept their promise of leaving and never looking back. And she's still right here. "Yeah, well..." Her voice trails off.
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Joyce and Hopper run into each other while he's in town for his father's funeral.
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- Part 9 of Jopper one-shots
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In the summer of 1965, 23 year old Jim Hopper and 21 year old Diane Redding had a brief, but passionate fling. Jim was planning on asking the blonde to go steady, but she disappeared. Her family claimed she decided to stay with family for a while in Indianapolis.
In 1967, she came back. She was still as beautiful as he remembered. Jim didn't think anything of her disappearance, and the two decided to give dating a try. They married a year later, bringing a little girl named Sara into the world in 1971, moving to New York the next year to start their new lives.
Sara was taken from them a six short years later from cancer, and Jim and Diane never recovered. They divorced and went their separate ways. Jim went back to Hawkins colder and broken.
Years later, a little girl with curly brown hair, telekinetic abilities, and a love for eggos helped heal something in him. Something he thought dead to him forever. In is heart, though, he felt like something was missing, a part of him that he didn't even know was gone.
Who knew that missing piece was closer than Jim Hopper ever thought possible. Stephanie "Stevie" Harrington.
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Stranger Things (various) X Reader by TheCookieMonstahhh
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
14 Jun 2025
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Follow (Y/N) as she navigates through life fighting monsters that are from another world along side her friends and love interests! <3
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In 1970s New York, Detective Jim Hopper is chasing a string of brutal murders tied to a cryptic symbol and whispers of government experiments. As the case unravels, Hopper’s life spirals—haunted by Vietnam, torn apart by tragedy, and drawn into a conspiracy far beyond his understanding.
Fleeing to Hawkins for a fresh start, Hopper finds that the darkness he left behind isn’t finished with him. Before he became Hawkins’ sheriff, he was a broken man—and this is the story of how it all began.
____📆 Updates every Wednesday
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When you leave all you take is your memories by Jeanette_Persefone
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
02 Feb 2025
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Jim Hopper is no longer alone, he has a family now… a wife and three kids. He is a complete man. And Diane witnesses it when their paths cross by chance.
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One by one, the gang finds out.
A companion piece to Don't Need No Misery.
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- Part 2 of Ace!Steve x Hopper
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A series of firsts, from meeting the parents to arguments to temper tantrums to marriage proposals.
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- Part 4 of Ace!Steve x Hopper
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He remembers the uncomfortable atmosphere, the fighting, the drunken comments his dad would make. But then there was always Joyce, his best friend. (Hell knows what she's up to today.) He would sneak out, pick her up from her own terrible family gathering, and just spend the night driving, talking about anything.
She really was the only good thing about that place
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Joyce, Hopper, and two of the Christmases they spent apart
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- Part 4 of Jopper one-shots
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Even though they were apart, they always thought about the other. Even in Christmas
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some version of you (that I might not have but I did not lose) by CatherineA, manushroom
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
30 Sep 2024
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Jonathan likes New York, mostly because it couldn’t be less like Hawkins. But living across the country does mean that when he finds himself alone and injured, he’ll finally have to learn to accept help—from the most unexpected source.
“Jonathan?” the woman asks, stepping towards him like he’s a frightened animal. “Jonathan Byers?”
He nods, wary, and she must believe him because she quickly closes the distance between them and kneels close, holding out a rag and examining his cut.
“I’m Diane. Your dad—Hopper called me.”
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You're No Demon, Don't Be Frightened Now by orphan_account
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
30 Jul 2024
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“I’m gonna,” Billy starts speaking frantically. “I’m gonna fix this, okay? I’m going to make sure that you're all right, that you’re taken care of. I’m gonna protect you, Jackie.”
“Billy?” Jackson asks, a moment before a sudden and eerie sound of a thunderclap caused him to jump. He tries to turn, to find the source of the storm, but Billy only wretches him closer, holding his head down and away from the storm. If he turns his eyes to the far right, Jackson can catch the edge of the water, and he watches as something red and menacing reflects off the water.
“Don’t worry about it, Jackie. I’m gonna fix this.” Billy affirms, mostly to himself. Jackson doesn’t fight it, letting Billy calm himself down. “I wonder if this place is one of yours or mine.”
____Hawkins was somewhere to loiter until he could move onto college. He couldn’t stay in New York and the UCLA dorms won't open until late August, so why not spend the summer with his estranged father and new sister? It’s not like he had any other option.
___I made a snarky OC with mommy issues so Billy would have a friend but they started making out
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- Part 3 of Some Stranger Things Things
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Y/n Hopper had once had a good life, but that all changed when her little sister, Sarah, had passed away from Cancer. Eventually, Y/n and her father end up in the small town of Hawkins, Indiana, where her father had grown up. Everything feels like another problem until their lives get turned upside down…
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Fcked My Way Up To The Top (This is my Show) by joycesjournals
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
10 Jun 2024
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Joyce Byers is a rising porn star and finally lands the job of her dreams. The company owner, Jim Hopper, sees great potential in her and hires her. He is instantly attracted to her and decides she is his after their first tape. The issue is that he also hired Karen Wheeler, another talented rising star who is competitive, jealous and struggling with her sexuality. With both Jim and Karen attracted to Joyce, and Jim’s demons interfering with his relationship with her, things become complicated. Joyce never expected her dream job would come with so much fulfillment, love and heartache.
Don't let the tags fool you, this is much more than a porn story.
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Jim Hopper's been called a lot of names in his life. Some of them have even been nice.
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the thing about survival (who the hell likes livin' just to die?) by CatherineA
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
22 Jan 2024
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Sara Hopper survives, but that doesn't mean the Upside Down disappears.
Sometimes, Sara wishes she still had cancer.
Well, not for real. But if she was sick, maybe her parents would still love each other.
When Sara was living in the hospital, her parents always held hands and sat close together and smiled sweetly. They took turns doing the funny voices in the books they read her. They said "I love you" a lot to each other.
Now, they only say it to her.
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Sara. That's her name, the thing she carved into her skin in the lab, desperate to remember. She doesn't know anything else about her past, but she knows that.
She's a person, not a thing. Not 014. Sara.
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Or, the one where Sara Hopper lives, has superpowers, gets stuck in the future, comes back to the past, and tries her best not to fuck everything up.
She succeeds. (Mostly.)
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He was a hero. A dick. A good dad. Loud and obnoxious. He was complicated.
Five characters think about Hopper after he dies in the mall fire.
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Joyce and Hopper have been floating around each other for the best part of 30 years. They both know there’s something there, but just when they seem to be getting on track to begin their lives again for real, trauma from both their pasts comes back to bite them.
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"I think we’ve always come back to this.”
“To what?” She croaks, entranced. Reaching forward, she curls one of her hands around his, stroking the healing cuts on his knuckles. “To what, Jim?”
“This,” Hopper says, pointing at them, then the cigarettes.April 1986: Hopper and Joyce smoke and take a trip down memory lane.
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With time, people move on apart from Joyce who really did like to hold onto the past...
Sequel to 'run from the law'
(Cops/Criminals AU)Series
- Part 2 of Cops/Criminals AU