cealesti
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It's just — every time he walks in, a skip to his step like he's still surprised he's allowed to be here — all she can see is his new key-chain jiggling against his keys, a gift he'd shown to anyone willing to look; Tanner made it himself, Abby let him give it to me for my sobriety anniversary. No, he doesn't know that's why, he's five. Isn't it great?
And it is, she'd thought — said — absently. He fought so hard to keep his relationship to his children, to his now ex-wife, even as he went through the motions of rehab and recovery and constant HR meetings and random piss tests everyone conspicuously pretended weren't happening. He'd fought so hard, of course it's great.
Or it would be, Mel thinks, ducking away with lukewarm coffee in hand, if she didn't know the image of that key-chain like the palm of her hand.
Or, rather, like the soulmark on the back of her knee.
[or: soulmateism made literal]
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steve’s the caged leopard he saw at the zoo, but he knows the second he leaves hawkins he’d crumble into salt and fly into the wind, because there’s no way he wouldn’t look back to wonder if nancy had noticed he was gone.
or: a study of nancy wheeler in the apocalypse, and other ways to live with the choices you’ve made
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24 Dec 2025
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It doesn’t surprise her that Steve would think to check up on her and Mike. It doesn’t surprise her that Jonathan would want to stick with the plan. It should perhaps concern her that she never once wished Jonathan was there with her last night, only Steve. But that’s nothing new, and it hasn’t been for a while.
Missing scene from The Turbow Trap where Steve finally gets to ask how Nancy's doing.
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21 Dec 2025
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for the hope of it all by the_aftermath_of_the_epiphany
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
07 Dec 2025
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“... you selfish, chauvinistic meathead!” Jonathan bursts out, eyes flaring with a look Steve is familiar enough with to label as rage.
Sometimes, Steve feels like the brunt of a cosmic joke. Like someone has put into everyone’s heads that everything is Steve’s fault, like yelling at him is going to solve things.
“Call me a meathead, call me an asshole, call me… whatever the hell you like. But I’m going, Byers. You can come,” Steve pulls at the handbrake, throwing open the car door and jumping out.
His shoes crunch against the loose gravel as he turns to glance at Jonathan, one hand tight around the door. “Or you can tell yourself we’re gonna find Hopper sitting here all night in this piece of junk. Because newsflash, Byers—” Steve braces his forearm against the doorframe, “We aren’t.”
___5x02 AU where Dustin's just a few minutes late and Steve does in fact swing by the hospital.
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21 Dec 2025
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Nancy stood frozen in place, blood pounding in her ears. Mike. Robin. El. Will. But where was—
He was supposed to be with them today. He'd mentioned it in passing this morning.
And then the back doors of the ambulance flew open, and EMTs were climbing out of it as quickly yet carefully as they could. And then the doors of the ER were sliding open, and they were pushing the gurney inside, and on top of the gurney—
Steve, drenched in blood, his face deathly pale.
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21 Dec 2025
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and she’s in another bathroom, drenched in something dark, steve watching her like it hurts, but this time the surprise isn’t that the world’s terrible, it’s what happens when you forget that.
or: the hospital scene AS IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN
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21 Dec 2025