merrellmatilda
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Cindy and Alice had been many things over the years: friends, enemies and in their last day, Lovers.
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Sarah and Hannah's relationship was as taboo as it could be. But that didn't stop the two girls falling in love, but they suffered the consequences of being different in 1666.
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Deena and Sam have had a rocky relationship, with falling in love and not quite falling out of love.
Based on: She by Dodie
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In the suffocating ash of the Upside Down, Steve Harrington made a choice: he became the wall between a falling nightmare and the kids he swore to protect. He took the blow no one saw, carrying a lethal secret back to the light of Hawkins.
The victory is hollow. As the group stands in the cool night air, the silence is shattered by the sound of the "King" collapsing, his life pouring out onto the forest floor. Now, the strongest man they know is a ghost in a hospital bed, trapped in a brutal struggle for air that he is losing.
While Dustin clings to the blood-stained remains of a hero’s promise and the group falls apart in the sterile shadows, Nancy Wheeler refuses to say goodbye. Armed only with a love she waited too long to admit, she must anchor Steve to this world before the darkness finally pulls him under.
The mission is over, but the real fight for survival has just begun.Bookmarked by merrellmatilda
18 Jan 2026
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Restless, wanting, defiant.
Body, heart and mind at odds with each other,
it's a dance Nancy Wheeler has gotten very good at over the years.
But one sleepless night, she just can't take it anymore.
And so she ends up
freezing, yearning, exhausted
in front of Steve Harrington's door.Bookmarked by merrellmatilda
13 Jan 2026
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Nancy and Steve are both suffering with unhealthy coping mechanisms. When they realize they have the same problem, they seek solace in each other. But will this change how things work out between them?
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Chapter 1: Whumptober 2023 - Day 27 - “You drew stars around my scars; But now I’m bleeding.” - ScarsChapter 2: Whumptober 2024 - Day 12 - Starvation
Chapter 3: Whumptober 2025 - Day 16 - Permanent Marker & Whumptober 2024 - Day 28 - Denial, Exposure
Chapter 4: Whumptober 2025 - Day 28 - “I could always see straight through you.” | Constellation & Whumptober 2024 - Day 25 - “It’s for your own good.”
WARNING: THIS STORY CONTAINS SELF-HARM! PLEASE BE CAREFUL IF THIS MAY TRIGGER YOU!!
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- Part 25 of Whumptober - 2023
- Part 12 of Whumptober 2024
- Part 10 of Whumptober 2025
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13 Jan 2026
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A proposal breaks the silence. Nothing stays buried that night.
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13 Jan 2026
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Steve laughs. “Is this your way of asking if I’ve got a girlfriend right now?”
“Steve,” Nancy admonishes primly, the corners of her mouth pulling up into a small smile despite herself, “my father is dying. Of course not.”
“I don’t,” Steve answers anyway, and she can see his shit-eating grin in her mind.
OR; ten years later, Ted is in the hospital again, and Nancy is headed back to Hawkins.
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13 Jan 2026