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• We Can Be Heroes (Just For One Day) by JosephineForch

  Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016), Rebel Robin: Surviving Hawkins (Podcast)  

  • Teen And Up Audiences
  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
  • F/F
  • Work in Progress

  22 Feb 2026

  Tags

  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
  • Robin Buckley/You
  • Robin Buckley/Reader
  • Robin Buckley
  • Steve Harrington
  • Reader
  • Dustin Henderson
  • Original Characters
  • Mr. Hauser (Stranger Things)
  • Stranger Things 3
  • Reader works at Starcourt
  • references to the podcast
  • Lesbian Romance
  • Lesbian slowburn?
  • Lesbian Robin Buckley
  • Robin Buckley & Steve Harrington Friendship
  • References to David Bowie
  • References to 1984 - George Orwell
  • Internalized Homophobia
  • I'm Bad At Pacing
  • Steve is an ally
  • Steve and reader are friends
  • when i say slowburn i do mean we are taking the long road

  Summary

  You have been working at the Starcourt Mall for the summer of 1985. Although acquainted with Steve Harrington, you struggle to comprehend his coworker's attitude towards you, especially when you pursue becoming her friend. Maybe a intercepting a "secret Russian communication" is not exactly the best way to begin understanding, but you'll take it.

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  English

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