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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
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Steve stays in Hawkins and builds a house. Nancy chases her career in Boston and feels empty.
Monthly meetups. Three years of almosts.
"It was about you, Nance. It was always about you. The six kids, the house—that was just window dressing. You were the point."
Post-canon slow burn. 1990-1998. Steve builds the family he never had. Nancy figures out what she's been running from.Series
- Part 1 of STRANGER THINGS
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13 Jan 2026
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faith (say please, please, please don't go away) by bettertoflee for the_passionate_sun
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
01 Jan 2026
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Five times Steve is caught watching Nancy and one time she's caught looking back.
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13 Jan 2026
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Nancy’s emotionally constipated, and Steve’s at the end of his rope.
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She lets out a deep breath. “Well what about being stuck with me and Jonathan every day?” she asks, “that doesn’t piss you off?”
Steve stares at her. “No.”
“You’re lying.”
“I’m not lying,” he says, “you just think I am because you don’t know how to feel an emotion anymore.”
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13 Jan 2026
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The year is 1993. Nancy finds herself back in the hometown she swore never to return to after layoffs at her paper in Boston. Steve never left.
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13 Jan 2026
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╭───────────•••••••••─────────────╮
iMessage Between: Nancy Wheeler and Steve Harrington
╰───────────•••••••••─────────────╯「 5:55 pm 」
Nancy: What do you know about ducks?
Steve: Why would u ask us a business major this ?
Nancy: Haha - very funny
Nancy: I’m seriousSteve: Aren’t they like water birds ?
Nancy: You’re an idiot, Steve Harrington
Nancy: Forget I askedOr, the long-distance best friends to lovers college AU text fic that no one asked for
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- Part 1 of quack quack fall in love
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10 Dec 2025
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Nancy’s never been the praying type; after everything she’s been through, it was hard to believe that there was someone up in the clouds listening for what she wanted most.
But now, she wishes that it was real, so that someone could hear her plea and bring him back to her, because there is no future if he’s not there.
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Or, my brain is interpreting the dream prompt as nightmare and i'm going to make it everyone's problem- Language:
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09 Dec 2025
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the week james potter learned a couple of things by desgarrador
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
20 Oct 2022
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“I’m not making fun of you! For Merlin’s sake, Moons!” Sirius chuckles, disbelieving. “Does everyone need to drop down on one knee for you to know they’re into you?”
“You’re being an arse.”
They hold each other’s gaze for a moment longer, before Remus scoffs and looks away.
“That’s not the point, in any case. We’re here to help James.”
or, alternatively: Sirius and Remus make a list to help James with the person he fancies. Sirius discovers a few things along the way.
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20 Nov 2023
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‘No.' Is all Sirius manages to think when the bottle stops. 'No. No. No.'
This isn't fair. This is so, so, far from fair.
“Right." Remus mutters, and Sirius can feel his distain as though it's shards across his skin.
There was a time when they would've laughed; gleeful at the prospect of kissing each other in front of the others. Or when they would've blushed; shy but eager as Remus' scarred hands cupped Sirius' cheeks, smoothing the worry away before leaning in and pressing his lips against Sirius; sweet and naive but so, so sure.
But this time, it's nothing like that.
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Just a slightly devastating fic with a happy ending (heartbreaking but healing sobbing in each others arms) about how a game of spin the bottle post-prank leads to panic attacks and, quite surprisingly, healing. And how the entire situation 100% gave James his first gray hair.
This is part 2 of a series of angsty marauders spin the bottle fics!
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- Part 2 of Spin the bottle
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29 Oct 2023
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Regulus Black roams around the halls of Hogwarts as his animagus: a black cat.
He mostly goes by unnoticed, and he definitely doesn't expect to be held and spoiled by James potter.
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“Hey, little guy.”
Meow.
James smiles, removes the rest of his cloak, and reaches down to pet his new friend. The cat seems careful, it took a few seconds for it to fully lean into the touch, but when he did he was met with a soft sound from James. A reward.
“You’re not McGonagall, are you? Meow once if I’m wrong.”
Meow.
“Yeah, I didn't think that one through,”
Based on a Twitter thread by @emmaa_garciiaa11 THANK YOU
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23 Oct 2023
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When Regulus gets a panic attack, James is there to help him.
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23 Oct 2023
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With a gentle touch, he took James' hand, intertwining their fingers, and sat on his lap. "And your love is the most beautiful music I've ever known, James."
Their bodies melted together, their figures merging like brushstrokes on a canvas. The boundaries between them dissolved, and they became one, their shirts pressed against each other, mingling and overlapping, as if fusing their individual identities into a single, shared existence.
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or the one where Regulus had been kicked out from home, and nights spent bonding under the stars lead to something different, something more delicate. First times, long conversations, and a butt ton of fluff. Not a slowburn, Jegulus centric with a sprinkle of Wolfstar, dumb teenagers trying to navigate a healthy relationship and succeding. Very very fluffy fic with considerable amount of smut. I actually don't think there is any angst in it, so when I say fluffy I mean it.
OBVIOUSLY FUCK JKR
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22 Oct 2023
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I hate you,” Remus whispered, his voice so low it almost wasn’t there.
Sirius stared at him, trying to blink the tears away, but he couldn’t. He was breaking right there in front of Remus, the person he’d loved for so long, the person he’d just hurt.
“I hate you,” he repeated. He was talking to Sirius, but his eyes were trained on the floor. “I want you to go away. I want you to leave. I want to never have to see you again.”
(The aftereffects of The Prank.)
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20 Oct 2023
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Back when Walburga would get really mad at him, mad enough to ditch her wand and reach for the nearest object to throw at him or even worse, she would take it our on Regulus in front of him, afterwards Sirius would go quiet, he would not speak a word, too afraid that his voice will land him with bleeding bruises or an unconscious brother again.
He had lost the habit once he went to the Potters, he was never in a situation where his words would get him hurt or others again, but they did, his words broke Remus’ heart.
So ever since Remus told him he was dead to him, Sirius hasn’t spoken a single word.
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20 Oct 2023
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All Regulus planned to do was kiss James Potter to annoy his brother. He didn’t expect to catch feelings along the way.
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- Part 1 of A little kissing can go a long way
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11 Oct 2023
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whipped cream on noses and antlers on patronuses by fallinginautumn for locomotiveodyssey
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
06 May 2023
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People who say you need to breathe oxygen to live have never kissed James Potter.
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Based on a prompt for a 100 follower special i did over on my tumblr! from @canyouhearmyfear "regulus casting his patronus and it matches james’ <3" Regulus is trying to cast a patronus charm and having some trouble. James helps him out.
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11 Oct 2023