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    It was really just his luck that a hulking monster lumbered out of the woods and directly onto his driveway. Just his luck that he threw enough parties when his parents were gone that the neighbors had long tuned out any noise that came from his yard. Just a nice cherry on top of the fucking cake that, even if anyone did hear him screaming when claws tangled in his jacket and pulled, Steve honestly wasn’t sure they’d have cared enough to bother anyway.

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    Months before El ripped open the gate at Hawkins Lab, the Demogorgon started ripping tears of its own. Months before it found Will Byers, it found Steve Harrington.

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    23 Mar 2023

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    Steve’s never understood why adults always praise him for being a “people person” as if it’s some great accomplishment.

    What, like it’s hard?

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    Or: Steve Harrington is your average American teenager, he just had to work harder than most to learn how to ignore the emotions bumping into him.

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    27 Nov 2021

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    When all is said and done, Steve is left sitting at the edge of his pool, alone.

    Or, Nancy leaves with Barb and Steve gets dragged into the Upside Down. It changes everything and nothing.

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    13 Apr 2020

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    He watched Mrs. Byers meet the young girl's eyes over her son's shoulders and he was suddenly hit with a crystal clear image in his mind.

    Hopper. Standing with his back to the gate. Smiling softly, resigned. But filled with so much love.

    Joyce. Watching, stretched impossibly thin. Understanding with a sense of grief, too terrible to name.

    She turns the keys.

    "Steve?" Jonathan is half out of the ambulance, using all of his weakened strength to keep Steve upright. "What's wrong?"

    "Hopper. It's Hopper. He's gone." Steve doesn't know how he knows it, but he does.

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    After the Battle of Starcourt, Steve struggles with the damages that the Russians left behind. In dealing with the aftermath, with the help of Robin and the Party, he uncovers a larger conspiracy at hand than just re-opening the Gate.

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    01 Mar 2020

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    "Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
    I took the one less traveled by,
    And that has made all the difference." Robert Frost

    [That AU where Stiles was bitten by Peter at the start. But here's the twist. So was Scott.

    In which Stiles and Scott are both bitten and everything changes for the worse.]

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    17 Nov 2014