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“Everything’s gonna be ok, kid.”
“You don’t know that,” Dustin whispered, fighting the heaviness in his eyelids as he lay in his bed. Steve was set up on the floor next to him, sitting up as he looked at the boy.
“No,” He started. “But, I can make sure of it, ok?”
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or, Steve is always comforting Dustin, so the one time Dustin has to comfort Steve, he just copies what Steve always does.- Language:
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Bookmarked by joanbug
16 Jan 2026
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"I need you to train me."
He's pretty sure his brain just malfunctioned.
"Me? I- I don't know how any of your..." he gestures at her wildly, "how your magic juju works."
"It's not magic."
"Same difference. I don't know shit about it."
She huffs, frustrated, bouncing on her feet with anger, a teenager again. An annoyed teenager, at that. God, no wonder she and Dustin are friends.
"It's not that. It's... Lucas said... Lucas said you helped him train. For his basketball trials last year."
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Eleven asks Steve for help training to beat the obstacle course. Enter: Coach Harrington. Turns out they have way more in common than they expected.
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15 Jan 2026
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Between the Slides by spiderbats
Fandoms: The Black Phone (Movies - Derrickson), Stranger Things (TV 2016)
28 Dec 2025
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“Okay.” Steve buries his head in his arms face down on the coffee table in his basement. “Okay. A major lab incident I can get behind. Shit, the kid going missing I can understand. But what the hell do you mean there are monsters now?!”
“He didn’t say monsters,” Paperboy rolls his eyes, which looks really funny since he is doing a headstand against the wall. “Don’t be dramatic, Finney.”
“Griffin said the words ‘slimy tentacle vines of unimaginable cosmic horrors’” Steve deadpans, still face down.
“That doesn’t immediately mean monster.”
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Steve Harrington has heard the phone ringing ever since he got out of the basement. Moving to Hawkins, Indiana didn't do much to change that.
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14 Jan 2026
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Put Me Back On The Line by Cardamon_Crow
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016), The Black Phone (2022)
05 Dec 2025
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“He remembered the day he emerged from the cocoon of Finney Blake and became Steve Harrington.
It wasn’t long after the ‘incident’.”
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Another Steve is Finney AU, because I just found it interesting and I can’t stop thinking about it.- Language:
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- 28/?
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Bookmarked by joanbug
13 Jan 2026
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The real reason Steve never really dates anymore is this: the nightmares and the secrets behind them.
In the middle of the night, reeling from bad dreams, Steve properly starts on the mixtape Eddie made for him. Master of Puppets made Eddie feel invincible once. Maybe Steve can borrow that feeling for one night.
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Bookmarked by joanbug
10 Jan 2026
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When Nancy tells Steve about Eleven, he starts searching the woods every single day to find her. He doesn’t know if she’ll recognize him- it’s been years since he escaped the lab- but the thought that his little sister could still be out there, cold and alone and starving, hurts more than he can say.
He finds the cabin by accident.
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How Hopper ends up adopting two super-powered kids who wind up saving the world at least once every year.
[WRITTEN BY A HUMAN]
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Bookmarked by joanbug
09 Jan 2026
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Steve Harrington was a name nearly everyone in Hawkins had heard—spoken with admiration in the hallways, with annoyance by teachers who’d learned to brace for trouble, and with that particular kind of envy people saved for those who looked like they had it all.
But before he'd been Steve, he'd been Seven.
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How Steve reunites with his long lost sister, fights monsters, and gains a family.
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09 Jan 2026
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“Sorry,” Steve says. “I’m sorry, I know this doesn’t make any sense to you, but can I just–”
Eddie lets him approach, this time. Lets him reach out to touch, to curl his fingers in the hem of Eddie’s shirt.
“Sorry, I know I probably sound crazy, I just––” he pulls it up, stares at Eddie’s side, and then lets out a hysterical little noise that sounds like a cross between a laugh and a sob.
“You’re ok,” Steve says.
His fingers are hot on Eddie’s skin, pressed light and shockingly reverent to the space between his hip and rib cage.
“You’re ok,” he repeats. It sounds like he’s trying to convince himself.
“Hey,” Eddie says. It comes out more breathless than he’d prefer but Steve fucking Harrington has him backed against a wall in a bathroom with his hands up Eddie’s shirt so he thinks a little lack of air is warranted. “Are you ok?”
The fingers on his abdomen flex. "No,” Steve says. His eyes are wide and fathomless and the look on his face is terrible. “No, I’m not even remotely ok.”
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- Part 1 of Steddie fics
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Bookmarked by joanbug
06 Jan 2026
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Unconnected Steve-centric Stranger Things 5+1's!
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Bookmarked by joanbug
06 Jan 2026
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Steve always seemed so unaffected, which led to some brutal honesty, Sometimes he just wished it could be a bit less brutal. Then again, he was the meanest to himself.
Or: 5 Times someone accidently lets Steve down + 1 time someone picked him up.
OR OR: A rewrite of my own fanfiction "You'll Be Dancing Once Again (And the Pain Will End)" but now it's been two years and I've grown as a writer.
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- Part 2 of Another Version Of Me, I Was In It.
Bookmarked by joanbug
05 Jan 2026
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Well, My Heart Went Boom, When I Crossed that Room by missing_archive_401
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
05 Jan 2026
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Steve snaps his fingers, an idea arose past the fog in his head, and his lips pull in a smile of victory. "Sunday is Mother's Day, so you guys have to be home, to celebrate with your moms."
The kids are exchanging looks at each other, silent for once in their damn lives, and Steve cocks his head to the side in confusion.
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The Party surprises Steve for Mother's Day
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05 Jan 2026
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music saves lives (you saved mine) by Chaoswiththeorangespine
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
04 Nov 2025
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Steve Harrington loves music. Regrettably after all his fights during world ending situations, his hearing is slowly getting worse and worse.
Even more unfortunate, that the new big bad villain can only be side stepped by listening to music.or
What if Steve's habit of getting into fights actually had consequences, and those consequences somehow get Eddie involved a year early.
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Bookmarked by joanbug
04 Jan 2026
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Steve and Robin escape the Russians with a few scars, enough trauma to last a lifetime, and a friendship so close they can’t convince anyone around them they’re NOT dating.
It’s only two weeks later when they start to figure out the Russians gave them something else.
Bookmarked by joanbug
03 Jan 2026
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Oh, so we're friends? by eternalsunflowers (sunwrite)
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
31 Oct 2025
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Steve blinks back the tears, wipes his eyes, lets out a sad chuckle. “I dunno, man. You ever think about how we all have a last kiss with someone eventually?”
“Can’t say I have, Harrington.”
“Yeah, well, me either.” Steve fidgets with the buttons on his coat, looks down at his lap. “Not until it happened tonight.”
“Oh.”
“Yeah. Oh.”
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Steve and Nancy break up at Tina's Halloween party. As he leaves, Steve runs into Eddie, steps in to protect him, and ends up spending the night with him.
Would suck if canon came knocking at the door...- Language:
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Bookmarked by joanbug
03 Jan 2026
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Steve picks Dustin up from the Snow Ball and Dustin tells him about the whole thing in the car ride home.
this is my first fic :) any tips/advice welcomeBookmarked by joanbug
03 Jan 2026
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The school calls Steve because Dustin listed him as an emergency contact. Turns out, being someone's emergency contact means more than just answering the phone-
It means showing up, staying present, and proving that nobody has to face their nightmares alone.
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03 Jan 2026
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Steve thinks he has it under control. It’s just an unstable staircase and a bit of a climb— a calculated risk to get the job done.
But when the concrete begins to melt and Dustin screams, Steve realises they aren't looking at the same thing. Steve sees a mission; Dustin sees another person leaving him behind.
In the wreckage of a collapsed ladder, Steve has to face the one thing he didn't factor into his plan: the boy who refuses to watch him die.
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Set during the stairwell scene in Season 5, Episode 6.
Bookmarked by joanbug
02 Jan 2026
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Him and Dustin were frozen, locked into a desperate embrace that neither wanted to end. Dustin’s head was buried in Steve’s chest, his soft sniffles echoing in the now silent stairwell. Steve felt the vice grip on the back of his jacket, as though Dustin thought he would disappear if he dared loosen it. Steve returned the gesture, a firm arm wrapped around Dustin’s back, and a hand holding his head close.
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or: A continued scene of Steve and Dustin after the ladder fell.
Bookmarked by joanbug
01 Jan 2026
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Under the fluorescent lights of Starcourt Mall, Robin Buckley expects a summer of sugar burns, screaming kids, and quiet misery, not an unexpected partnership with Steve Harrington. Armed with sarcasm and zero patience, she’s certain she can outlast him… until she realizes he can take every punch she throws and still smile. What starts as survival behind the Scoops Ahoy counter becomes something stranger, sharper, and far more dangerous than either of them planned.
Bookmarked by joanbug
01 Jan 2026
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blissfully unaware, i never used to care by LittleSpoonSebastian for NerdyCookie01
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
30 Dec 2025
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Steve shook his head again, this time in denial. This wasn't happening. He couldn't be crying. This couldn't be happening, not now. His friends were in danger. Everyone was in danger.
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fixing whatever the fuck that "he saved no-one" shit was with steve and dustin. steve finally gets to cry. dustin and steve make up. good shit.Bookmarked by joanbug
01 Jan 2026