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Caught in a storm of various too big feelings with no direct access to his preferred targets, he accuses Jonathan of not caring anymore. Jonathan looks down at the glass he’s holding, water swishing and swirling inside, and says quietly, “You’re the reason I’m still here.”
“Like, you feel stuck in Hawkins because of me? If that’s the case, then you—”
“No, Will.” His eyes dart up. “You’re the reason I’m still here.”
In which Will and Jonathan find that some things never change.
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The second time, she rifles methodically through his stuff to extract her stuff, everything he snatched from her over the years. This includes certain objects he might have had a genuine interest in (her old comic books, her new Walkman) but consists much more overwhelmingly of things he took just because he was tall enough to dangle them over her head (her multicolored hair ties, her favorite pen).
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In the aftermath of the Battle of Starcourt, Max deals with moving houses, losing friends, and the Billy of it all.
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It’s disorienting in a way, like being startled awake in the middle of an ill-advised nap at the kitchen table. For days, the house has been its own contained ecosystem, pristine laboratory conditions. A protective bubble encasing the three of them, preserving the sanctuary built up inside. Figures that of all the people to lift that curtain, Nancy Wheeler would be the first.
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Jonathan and Nancy become each other's soft place to land.
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Here, she is ordinary, her only marks of distinction an overzealous attitude and an oft-chastised inability to listen all the way through. Standard desk set-up, sturdy and functional. Potted plant in the corner, spilling out over the sides, which she either dotes on or neglects depending on her whims. Pen in hand, the same one everyone uses, twirling twirling twirling. Guess inspiration isn’t going to be striking today.
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Nancy reflects on who she is, who she used to be, and the particular fires that forged one into the other.
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This part, at least, he knows. Regroup and reassess. Force the kids to put on bandages and bundle them off to bed. Then bundle Nancy and Robin off to bed, but probably don’t call it that, for the sake of your own safety. Take up the first shift as lookout, and have it stretch and stretch till it’s the next morning. Nod your head when Mrs. Byers asks you if you even got any sleep last night. Do what’s asked, do more than that, escape with everyone still in one piece. Steve has it all down to a science.
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Smack-dab in the middle of yet another Upside Down-related crisis, Steve has an unexpected encounter with a fellow Hawkins Monster Fighting Club member.
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Perceptive isn’t a word Jonathan Byers would use to describe himself. Watchful could work, but only to a certain degree. A careless, languid watchful. Too relaxed to be considered sharp, but he notices enough not to lose the title altogether.
Will and Mike, from Jonathan’s perspective.
OR: Jonathan Byers tries to convince you he’s unobservant for 40k words
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- Part 1 of Omnispective
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07 Dec 2025
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jonathan supervised her as she ate, halfheartedly reminding her to chew slowly. all the while, his hand smoothed down the wrecked french braid she’d now had her hair in for 51 hours.
having a baby is hell.
or; jonathan, nancy, marriage, adulthood, pregnancy, adoption, wins, losses, and daughters
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25 Aug 2025
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Steve made his choice, hiding behind his too-big Letterman jacket and later that overpriced Members Only while his friends went out of their way to make Jonathan’s life hell; or what he thought, in the ninth grade, was hell.
Hell actually came two years later, when they dragged Will’s body out of the quarry. When Lonnie came home. When his mother sat him down like he was three years old again and said, smiling tightly, I’m going to have a baby.
Benjamin, the magnificent life-fixing-grief-resolving-replacement-baby, was born nine months later.
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13 Jun 2025
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i was a lonely soul (but that's the old me) by scoutshonour
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
06 Oct 2019
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Jonathan, Joyce, Will, and El pack their things and move to Illinois. It’s the start of a lot of new things: new schools, new relationships, and new feelings. And maybe some healing.
These are the baby steps that Jonathan takes with his family to get through the school year and to graduation.
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- Part 1 of feel again
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13 Jun 2025
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i'd be the voice that urged orpheus by Sapphic_terror
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
25 Dec 2023
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Nancy is sixteen the first time she nearly dies. By the time she hits eighteen, the number has grown to nine. Nine times where death was a touch away, and nine times where she snarled and refused to go -
Not like this.
Nancy Wheeler is sixteen and she has blood on her hands, smeared across her teeth and she may be in love with two boys who won’t live to hit eighteen.
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The three of them were inevitable, it was always going to be them, together, burning. Not much changes.
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13 Jun 2025