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It's been months since the Gate under Starcourt closed, and now the only thing the Party has to deal with is growing pains. High school isn't easy, and Steve wants to help them through it.
But the Upside Down isn't done with them. And this time, the enemy might be a little closer to the former subjects of Hawkins Lab than anyone suspected.Series
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He watched Mrs. Byers meet the young girl's eyes over her son's shoulders and he was suddenly hit with a crystal clear image in his mind.
Hopper. Standing with his back to the gate. Smiling softly, resigned. But filled with so much love.
Joyce. Watching, stretched impossibly thin. Understanding with a sense of grief, too terrible to name.
She turns the keys.
"Steve?" Jonathan is half out of the ambulance, using all of his weakened strength to keep Steve upright. "What's wrong?"
"Hopper. It's Hopper. He's gone." Steve doesn't know how he knows it, but he does.
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After the Battle of Starcourt, Steve struggles with the damages that the Russians left behind. In dealing with the aftermath, with the help of Robin and the Party, he uncovers a larger conspiracy at hand than just re-opening the Gate.
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10 Dec 2025
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Eleven never escaped. Strange things start happening in Hawkins a year later, when Steve Harrington starts having inexplicably vivid dreams.
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04 Dec 2025
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This is not how it’s supposed to fucking go.
Like, they’ve been working so hard. They’ve been making so much progress. Sure: the natural, necessary consequence here is that the more progress they make, the less insight they get into the coming fight. But it’s been over a year. Well over a year. Waiting that long is just…
They hadn’t thought it was all over, but they were so close, it wasn’t wholly just wishful thinking that they’d be done, and back, and home, together, before everything exploded for real.
Not wholly wishful thinking.
But enough that it was now back to bite them in the ass.
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Come November 1987, Steve's priorities have shifted. Drastically. Definitively.
And it's not his fucking problem if no one else
can know whyunderstands it.SPOILERS FOR STRANGER THINGS SEASON 5, VOLUME 1.
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“Wait,” Steve frowns, “woah- hang on. What are you asking here?”
Eddie swallows. “I’m asking… I’m asking for your words, man.”
“You want my-”
“Your help. Your lyrics. Your lines- I mean fuck, Harrington- you’re wasting this shit here. It’s a goldmine. This notebook alone- and again,” Eddie grimaces, “I’m like, really sorry for snooping- but-”
“You want to turn that into songs?”
Eddie nods.
Steve’s mouth hangs agape. Eddie can see a little of his tongue like that, pink and wet, and he looks away quickly.
“What? No. No fuckin’ way.”
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linchpin
/ˈlɪn(t)ʃpɪn/
(noun)
1. a person or thing vital to an enterprise or system, often overlookededdie needs a lyricist. steve needs an outlet. everything goes well when the need is reciprocated, right?
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29 Nov 2025