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It’s a slow Monday morning in early September when Robin makes her proposal at the Family Video Store.
“I’m not marrying you, Rob,” Steve says, nonplussed. “No offense or anything.”
“No– I never said that– I said we could totally do something LIKE a lavender marriage.”
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Robin suggests a fake dating scheme that she believes will provide cover for both her and Steve as they both navigate their respective secret queer relationships. Nothing goes according to plan.
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- Part 2 of it can't happen in hawkins
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“Just stay here, okay? I’ll handle him,” Steve says to the younger teens with more confidence than he feels.
“Steve, seriously? Billy’s a firebender,” Dustin whines, looking pale. They’d talked about this, Dustin’s eyes say accusingly. Steve had reassured him that non-benders can be just as powerful as benders, if they played things smart.
This is definitely not Steve being smart, though.
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Steve Harrington isn't a bender. Neither is Dustin Henderson. In a universe where elemental bending is common, that can make the world a very dangerous place indeed.
An AU reimagining of Stranger Things s2ep9 where Billy is a firebender and Steve is too brave for his own good. Features moments of growth and learning for Max, Lucas, Dustin, and Mike. Hurt/comfort. A story about friendship.
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i wanna dance with somebody (who loves me) by pettypace
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
27 Mar 2026
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To celebrate his 21st birthday, Dustin visits Steve, Robin, and Will in NYC for a night of gay clubbing. Steve's the straight man out, or so everyone thinks.
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Steve and Dustin are private investigators who use their job as a cover to track down pieces of Mindflayer flesh that appear on the black market. Then Steve gets kidnapped by smugglers as leverage to force Dustin to return one such piece of Mindflayer flesh. One problem: they've already destroyed it.
The story takes place a decade after the events of the show. Dustin and Steve are in an established romantic relationship. Please note that the plot is a thinly veiled excuse for kidnapping, whump, and copious hurt/comfort.
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Dustin takes the leap on an unassuming Monday afternoon in early May.
“You want me to– what?” Eddie’s voice squeaks a little on the final word.
“Kiss me,” Dustin says matter-of-factly, not bothering to hide the blush that has risen to his cheeks. “Look, I know you’re gay. I… think I might be, too. But I’m not sure. I need more data.”
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Dustin asks Eddie to help him test two hypotheses:
Hypothesis 1: Dustin is gay. Hypothesis 2: Steve Harrington is gay.
Dustin thinks this may help him with his final (and most important) hypothesis: if both things are true, then maybe he has a chance after all.But Dustin may have forgotten some crucial variables. Namely, Steve’s feelings and his own. Emotional fallout ensues.
A story that takes place in a canon divergent world where Vecna never targets Hawkins after the events of Season 3. Events occur in May of Dustin's freshman year. Dustin is 15 and Steve is 19
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Note: There is no sex between minors (Dustin) and adults (Steve or Eddie) in this fic.Series
- Part 1 of it can't happen in hawkins
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Steve sighs before continuing: “It can’t happen in Hawkins, Dustin, but that doesn’t mean it can’t happen. You’re going to get out. You’re going to go to college because you are super smart and– and you’re going to find a guy who’s perfect for you.” Steve watches his own face in the mirror say these words, tracing the lines under his eyes, the bruise on his jaw, the cut on his temple. He imagines the man who will someday love Dustin and feels a sudden, intense jealousy. “You are going to find a guy who is smart, and understands you, and is brave for you. You are going to find someone who loves you. You are going to get your happy ending.” It sounds like a prayer or incantation. Dustin will be happy someday. He must.
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Love looks a certain way in Hawkins. It doesn't look like Dustin Henderson and Steve Harrington going steady, that's for sure.
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AKA: the dilf dusteve time travel drabbles from tumblr
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description from my original tumblr post: there's been some great concepts for wacky exotic matter shenanigans including time travel wackiness but ive got a really fun one:nancy shoots the exotic matter and dusteve from 25 years into the future show up. crucially, dusteve are in an established longterm committed relationship and EVERYONE is super normal and not at all weird about it.
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A shockwave sent Dustin sprawling to the ground, knocking his head hard and making it spin. When his vision clarified, he saw someone else also struggling to his knees. He was short, about Dustin's height, with close cropped curly brown hair, shot through here and there with grey. He looked oddly familiar but Dustin couldn't place where he knew him."Son of a bitch!" The man exclaimed, shaking his head. He looked up, staring Dustin right in the face with the exact same blue-grey eyes Dustin saw in the mirror every morning.
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18 May 2026
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“Yeah,” Steve sighs. “I’m gonna miss you, too, Dustin. Hey, promise you won’t forget about good old Steve Harrington when you make a bunch of new, smart friends?”
Steve brings his hand to grip the base of Dustin’s neck. He knows he sounds pathetic, but it covers what he really wants to say, which is “don’t leave me behind.”
Dustin catches Steve’s gaze and holds it. “You’re my best friend. You know that nothing could ever change that.”
Steve can’t seem to tear his eyes away from Dustin’s. The weight of everything they went through in the last five years hangs in the air. There’s too much to say and nothing to say that they don’t already know.
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Set in the year after Dustin graduates high school and heads to college, Steve and Dustin struggle to navigate their relationship as it changes in ways that neither of them anticipated, especially now that the threat of the Upside Down is no longer an excuse to keep them together.
It’s a story told through phone calls, postcards, holidays at home, road trips, and Lord of the Rings references. It’s a story of learning what to let go of, what to hold onto and how to find a path forward. Mostly, it’s a story about love.
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04 Feb 2026
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In the mall parking lot, Steve watched as everyone's families came to check that their kids were okay. Steve figured no one would be coming to check on him—but he figured wrong.
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"Dustin's fine," he said, not wanting her to worry any longer than she had to. He blinked in surprise when she waved one of her hands.
"I know." She gestured… somewhere, Steve was too busy watching her in confusion to look. "He wasn't in the mall, Lucas told me."
"Oh." Steve shifted his weight from one foot to the other. Mrs. Henderson's face screwed up in a familiar expression of concern. Dustin wore the same one when he was worried about something. "Then what—"
She reached up, hand hovering over his sore eye without touching it. Her other hand rested gently against Steve's relatively unscathed cheek and his mouth snapped shut with a click.
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Steve washes his hair in the Byers' bathroom while they wait for the others to get back.
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The bathroom is easy enough to find. It's smaller than he's used to, but it'll work. He debates keeping the light off. He doesn't want to know what he looks like yet. The skin around his eyes and nose feels hot and puffy. There's no way it can look any better than it feels. Holding his breath, Steve flips the switch. It's not any brighter than the lights in the rest of the house, but he still can't help but squint against it.
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03 Feb 2026
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Steve doesn’t know how he ended up in this position.
Well, technically, Dustin put him in this position, but—
Steve thinks he might be getting too invested in this thing they’re doing, is all.
Stranger Things Kinkmeme fill. In which Steve and Dustin end up casually hooking up as friends to blow off steam, and Steve finds himself completely unable to cope.
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