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He finds her on Friday, the 18th of November, 1983. She's a small kid, out in the woods and the freezing cold, the first time he's ever seen a girl with hair that short. His parents are leaving for some business trip in the morning. He is going to be alone.
She's alone.
Steve hates the idea of another kid growing up alone.(In which Steve finds Eleven in the winter of ‘83, before Hopper could, and the sudden changes that pull apart his life. Some are far deeper in the bones than he ever could've imagined.)
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- Part 1 of Anyway, Don't be a Stranger
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27 Aug 2024
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January 1986. In an icy small town way up north, the Byers struggle to make ends meet. The others, left in Hawkins, struggle to move on from the past. The Department of Energy has its eyes on all of them.
And the Upside Down isn't done with them yet.
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20 Jul 2024
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Dark Matter by mysterycyclone
Fandoms: The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Spider-Man (Tom Holland Movies), DCU (Comics), Batman - All Media Types, Marvel Cinematic Universe
19 Jun 2024
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The last thing Peter sees is Tony's horrified, heartbroken expression leaning over him. The guilt in his eyes is almost worse than the burning pain that's taking Peter apart piece by piece. The world starts to go dark.
There's a flash of gold and green. For one moment, he finds himself standing amongst the Guardians and others. And then darkness again. It feels like blinking; an extended period of nothingness that ends as abruptly as it begins. One moment there’s nothing, the next there’s light.
“Easy,” a woman says. Her words are gentle, and carry a slight accent that he can’t place. "I'm called Wonder Woman. What's your name?"
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- Part 1 of Dark Matter Multiverse
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01 May 2024
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He's Just Here For Comic Relief (he's a daydreamer) by brightest_abstraction95
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
21 Jan 2025
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When Steve Harrington is nine years old, his babysitter takes him to a comic book store. Shuffling through the stacks mostly to appease her (comics really weren’t his thing), he happens upon a rare, out-of-print, first edition of an old comic from the ’70s.
"Stranger Things", the title reads. Something about it calls to him. He immediately knows he has to have it. His babysitter lets him buy it, and even takes him back to the bookstore and buys him the rest of the series on her own dime when he consumes the comic and needs the rest.
He grows up with the comics. They mean everything to him. Nothing feels real to him like the comics do, and no one around him understands. He grows up feeling like there's a wall between him and the rest of the 'real world' and nothing pierces it besides the stories he found when he was a kid.
Almost exactly eleven years after the comics first found him, he’s working a dead-end job at the Flea and Acrobat movie theater in town and not knowing what the hell is going to come next. Not really caring, either. That is, until Dustin Henderson careens to a stop in front of his ticket box.
*COMPLETE*
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16 Jul 2023
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Alma's father was, in her opinion, an odd little man.
Alma runs back into her father. He's a pirate. She thinks pirates are pretty cool.
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03 Apr 2022