17 Bookmarks by Purfectmessedup
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What if Nancy was part of the Scoops Troop?
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08 Feb 2026
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Deep down, she knew Steve would take her back if she asked. If she was single. If he was single. Maybe even if they weren’t. She should have felt guilty for thinking it, but there it was. The thought.
It would be unfair to take advantage. And she was a different person now than the girl who had fallen into someone’s arms because she was uncertain and lonely.
“Bye, Steve.”
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03 Feb 2026
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Nancy wakes up to face her doom in a melting room in the upsidedown with Steve Harrington by her side. Important confessions are finally laid bare and what they do with what they believe to be their final moments all hinge on those words.
Or: Making a point to all the delicious Steve/Nancy buildup from Season 4
This has turned into a S5/epilogue Fix-It!
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- Part 1 of Melting Point
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30 Jan 2026
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Nancy Wheeler has always shot first and asked questions later, knowing it was better to ask for forgiveness than ask for permission.
But when a rash decision leads to dire consequences for Steve, will she ever forgive herself?With Hawkins destroyed, and new beginnings looming on the horizon, it seems her growing feelings will only complicate the inevitable.
But then again, when has Nancy Wheeler ever done what was easy?
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- Part 2 of The Winnebago diaries
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29 Jan 2026
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Hawkins: Below The Surface by peanutbutterbopper
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016), Stranger - Fandom, Stancy - Fandom
01 Jan 2026
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Following the destruction of Vecna (and the effects of the Gate merging with Hawkins), the town is left not only scarred by fissures but by a creeping illness.
Nancy, now an intern at the Indianapolis Star, doesn't believe the official story of "contaminated water" or "earthquake fallout." She realizes the symptoms are a slow, biological side-effect of living too close to the Upside Down's newly exposed ecosystem. Nancy must expose the truth and those who choose to hide it with the help of her friends to save Hawkins once again.
As the danger persists, old relationships fracture under the pressure of survival, and the complicated, long-buried connection between Nancy and Steve ignites amidst the chaos. Choose your weapon wisely.
//stancy AU fanfic//
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28 Jan 2026
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Hawkins was slowly rebuilding after the “earthquake” and life was returning to a new normal. Cyclical events were being planned, including prom. When Robin needs a date, Steve is there to step in, even if it means having to see Nancy after his failed confession in the Upside Down.
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28 Jan 2026
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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
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28 Jan 2026
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“Still… there was a part of it that I kind of liked, you know? The adventure. The… family, the belonging. And that part, that I felt—it just grew larger when he said… he said that I’ve always been right there in that dream, for him. That I was the most important part of it. And I felt…” Nancy chuckles raggedly. “It was crazy, and he should’ve known that I never would have… I wasn't ready to hear it. It was unexpected, it wasn’t me, at least not all of it, and yet, somehow, despite all of that, I felt…
“God, I felt something. I know that now. I felt something for Steve.”
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Nancy doesn't run from her feelings this time. Observing from the outside, Jonathan—the person least likely to—ends up making sure of it.
Written for Stancy Week 2026 Day 4's word prompt "trust".
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28 Jan 2026
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In the suffocating ash of the Upside Down, Steve Harrington made a choice: he became the wall between a falling nightmare and the kids he swore to protect. He took the blow no one saw, carrying a lethal secret back to the light of Hawkins.
The victory is hollow. As the group stands in the cool night air, the silence is shattered by the sound of the "King" collapsing, his life pouring out onto the forest floor. Now, the strongest man they know is a ghost in a hospital bed, trapped in a brutal struggle for air that he is losing.
While Dustin clings to the blood-stained remains of a hero’s promise and the group falls apart in the sterile shadows, Nancy Wheeler refuses to say goodbye. Armed only with a love she waited too long to admit, she must anchor Steve to this world before the darkness finally pulls him under.
The mission is over, but the real fight for survival has just begun.Bookmarked by Purfectmessedup
27 Jan 2026
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Every Breath You Take (I’ll Be Watching You) by solarismoons
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
27 Jan 2026
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Nancy can’t help but feel weird when Jonathan arrives at their monthly meetup with a gorgeous girl on his arm. It also doesn’t help that a certain someone can’t seem to keep his eyes off of her.
Stancy Week 2026 // Word Prompt: Stare
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27 Jan 2026
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Nancy Wheeler is not someone who cuddles.
And Steve Harrington is not going to change that.
or: Steve and Nancy's unspoken.... thing gets out of hand.
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27 Jan 2026
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For months Nancy has been turning down Robin's offer to join her and Steve for weekly movie nights at the Squawk. But when she finds herself pushed to the breaking point, she takes a chance that maybe what she really needs most is the friends she made along the way.
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26 Jan 2026
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“Uh, Nance?”
His anxious voice brings her back to reality. This isn’t a proposal to do… anything. Just a trip. With some of the kids.
“That’s… very sweet, Steve,” she starts, and winces because it already sounds like a negative to her own ears. “Won’t, uh, Jennifer mind?”
“Jessica,” he corrects quickly. “And, hum, I don’t think so. We broke it off like three months ago, actually.”
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Or: the one where Steve invites Nancy on a summer trip with three nuggets and they try (and fail) to pretend they don’t still have feelings for each other.
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22 Jan 2026
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While out together at night, Steve and Nancy encounter the first sign that Vecna may be making a move again. Together, the whole group must work together to defeat him once and for all.
Season Five rewrite. Stancy-centric. Byler background slowburn. Alternating POVs (Mostly Steve/Nancy, with some Mike, Will, Robin, El, and Lucas)
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22 Jan 2026
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With Vecna gone, the gang moves on. Except Nancy. It feels like she’s still stuck back where she was years ago, plagued with guilt so suffocating it threatens to pull her under. But there's a light at the end of the tunnel. Steve Harrington, the boy she let go all those years ago. But all her feelings are gone. At least that's what she tells herself. Slowly, over time, at each monthly hangout, she finds it harder and harder to run from her feelings.
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22 Jan 2026
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What Was, Still Is, Will Always Be by ClockworkPurple
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
02 Feb 2026
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A lot of things change, some things don't. Vecna is gone, Hawkins is destroyed. People have died. But at least it's over now, right?
Trying to create a new "normal" comes with undeniable realizations of what has truly never changed through it all.
Or, season 5 at least the finale- can take a hike. This is a Stancy fic, fight me on it. If you love Jancy at least take small comfort that I don't make Jonathan a total piece of shit.
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22 Jan 2026
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“What is the deal with you right now?” Steve asks after a long moment of looking at her like she’s an alien creature (and they know a thing or two about those).
She widens her eyes, shrugs sweetly, chews on her stirrer and sucks up the rest of her watered-down vodka.
“There’s no deal. You packed up your entire life and moved to Massachusetts without telling me- what’s your ‘deal’?”His mouth parts in shock and something so close to hurt that it makes Nancy’s stomach clench. With a contemplative tilt of his head he replies, “Last time I checked, we’re not friends, Nancy. That was something you decided, remember?”
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Months and years and miles in between, Steve and Nancy meet in the middle. Eventually.Bookmarked by Purfectmessedup
22 Jan 2026