Nightingales_Fall
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it's no better to be safe than sorry by stillateenageabomination
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
16 Dec 2025
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"Yeah, Harrington," he heard Hopper say. "Anytime. It's not easy to be a bruiser in this fight."
I'm not a bruiser, Steve thought to himself. I'm a goddamn kamikaze.
He rattled out some mindless reply, one that not even he was able to repeat. Then he slowly loaded the rest of the boxes into his Beamer and drove down to the high school, tailing behind Hopper. When they lulled to a pause at a stop sign, Steve pressed his forehead to the steering wheel, took a breath, and fought back the urge to drive his car off the quarry cliff.
He didn't know when the switch had happened. When I'd be willing to die for them turned into I'm going to die for them turned into I need to die for them. Once it had happened, however it had come to be, he hadn't been able to shake the pledge. It'd been cemented into his mind. He supposed that was why they called suicide a commitment.
or, unable to lose anyone else, Steve writes a list, ranking his friends by how quickly he'd sacrifice himself for them. 5 times someone finds the list but doesn't realize what it is + 1 time they understand it perfectly.
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30 Dec 2025
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when you're in the mirror, you're just looking at me by iubilaeum
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
23 Nov 2025
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“Why do you think she thought that?”
“Huh?” Robin furrows her brow and sticks another tape on the shelf. “Who, what, and when?”
“The lady who just came in, not even five minutes ago?” Dustin waves his hand vaguely toward the counter. Robin thinks he’s a little too high and mighty for someone who just scaled a shelving unit, but tries to humor him nonetheless.
“Uh, Mrs. Wilson? You’re going to have to remind me what she said.”
Dustin groans.
“What she said, about- y’know, Steve."
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we're four days out from stranger things five and I need the trailer hug so bad, but this is what have to offer instead
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30 Dec 2025
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I used to say I didn’t have a brother by PrincessAmericaChavez
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
28 Nov 2025
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“You’re being too hard on him.”
Steve pretends not to hear it. He’s exhausted from staying up all night driving around fruitlessly trying to track Hopper. His head is pounding, his legs feel like they are filled with concrete and his stomach has been knotted for hours. They’ve only got a few hours before Erica shows up to the with her sleepy pie. All be wants to do is have a nap on the SQWK couch, not get berated yet again.
Jonathan Byers, whoever, has never given him a single break. Today is no exception.
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30 Dec 2025
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Steve is dying.
Steve is dying, and his blood is dripping onto Dustin’s arms, and Dustin doesn’t even know where it’s coming from.
“You can’t,” Dustin mutters frantically, pressing at Steve’s head and arms and chest, trying to cover up a wound he can’t find. “You can’t. You have to be okay, Steve, you’re okay.”
Steve smiles, and there’s blood on his teeth, and Dustin can’t do this, he can’t do this, not again.
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Dustin gets Vecna'd.
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30 Dec 2025
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Dustin lingers on Steve’s doorstep for a good ten minutes before he knocks. He knows Steve’s parents are gone—locked out by the quarantine—but he’s worried somehow anyway. Or maybe he doesn’t want to ruin Steve’s night. He might’ve cared about that, in the beginning.
When he does knock, and Steve does open the door, Dustin has this whole plan of what to say. Everyone’s fine, he’ll say, because Steve will think the monsters are back. I’m fine, he’ll say next, because Steve will think he’s dying. Sorry about your doormat, he’ll joke, because there’s blood in the center of the O in WELCOME.
Instead, he bursts into tears.
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How we got to S5 Volume 1 (a Steve & Dustin fix-it fic)
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30 Dec 2025