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   Where It Hurts by depressedcereal

   Fandoms: The Black Phone (2022), The Black Phone (Movies - Derrickson), The Black Phone - Joe Hill  

   • Mature
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • M/M
   • Work in Progress

   18 Nov 2025

   Tags

   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Vance Hopper/Bruce Yamada
   • Robin Arellano & Finney Blake
   • Vance Hopper
   • Vance Hopper's Mother
   • Bruce Yamada
   • Bruce Yamada's Parents
   • Robin Arellano
   • Finney Blake
   • Original Male Character(s)
   • Original Female Character(s)
   • Angst
   • Slow Burn
   • Past Abuse
   • Emotional Baggage
   • Mutual Pining
   • Canon-Typical Violence
   • Strangers to Lovers
   • cigarettes and sad boys
   • Car Confessions
   • Unresolved Sexual Tension
   • one of them had a tragic backstory (its vance)
   • vance hopper had feelings and he hates it
   • 70s small town energy
   • Set in the 70s
   • Family Issues
   • Past Alcohol Abuse/Alcoholism
   • Vance Hopper Has Daddy Issues
   • And Mommy Issues
   • Slice of Life
   • No Albert | The Grabber (The Black Phone)
   • Eventual Smut
   • Aged-Up Character(s)

   Summary

   Vance Hopper thinks Bruce Yamada has it all.
   Bruce thinks Vance has nothing left to lose.

   Neither of them is right.

   (Or: two boys trying not to fall apart in a town that already has)

   (ps, Vance is 20 and Bruce is 18)

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   54,150

   Chapters:

   11/?

   Comments:

   40

   Kudos:

   104

   Bookmarks:

   14

   Hits:

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   Bookmarked by doublesweettea

   15 Oct 2025