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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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03 Feb 2026
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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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01 Feb 2026
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All's Well That Ends Well (To End Up With You) ‘verse by aktura
Fandom Stranger Things (TV 2016)
02 Jul 2023
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A coming of age story, kind of.
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27 Jan 2026
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"I overheard you. You were talking in your sleep.”
Steve's heart fluttered nervously.
“It was a little funny at first,” Nancy admitted, her tone a mix of teasing and apologetic, “you were moaning my name and I thought it’d be kinda funny if Mike accidentally overheard you having a sex dream about his sister—”
Steve couldn’t control the guffaw that escaped him.
“But then you said Jonathan’s name. Right after mine. All in the same breath.”
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19 Jan 2026
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Robin asks Steve to pass on a little of his knowledge. Because if someone's going to teach her how to eat a girl out, it's going to be her best friend.
“Well I don’t know!” Steve throws his hands up. “What do you want me to do, show you for real?!”
Robin considers...
“Wait would you?” she asks.
“Would I what?” Steve looks confused
“Show me for real?"
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- Part 1 of To the Moon and to Saturn
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17 Jan 2026
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This is good land, or at least it was by PrincessAmericaChavez
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
07 Mar 2026
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“Fighter, this is Bard. Do you copy? Over.”
“Fighter here. I copy. Over.”
No names or locations or specifics here.
“Alright, Fighter, what’s this about? Over.”
Steve sighs. This is stupid.
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Or: the one where strange things start happening in Hawkins three years after the Upside Down was destroyed and Steve and the teens just need to make sure it isn’t all happening again.
Spoiler alert: nothing is as it seems.
I just couldn’t get the idea of Steve staying in Hawkins as a watcher in case shit goes down again out of my head. So here we are. Because when you get used to shit coming back again and again and again, what else are you supposed to expect?
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09 Jan 2026
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When Steve pulls to a stop five minutes later, the teen realizes they’re parked in front of Dustin’s house. He whips his head around to look at Steve. He can’t walk into his own house right now and leave Steve behind him in the truck, cannot let him drive away out of his sight. Steve is already looking at him, some kind of internal battle warring on his features. Dustin’s throat closes up. He can’t speak, can only shake his head and look imploringly at Steve. Relief floods Steve’s face, and it unlocks Dustin’s tongue.
“Take me home,” Dustin says.
Steve breathes out a shaky, “yeah, okay,” as he puts the truck in drive and takes the familiar route to Steve’s house.
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Or, in the aftermath of the battle with Vecna, Dustin and Steve refuse to part from each other, choosing to recover from the wounds of battle together. Unspoken communication, adrenaline, the rapid changes in their relationship over the last few days, and final apologies pull down the last barrier between them.Bookmarked by pettypace
08 Jan 2026
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Dustin didn't need Steve to worry about him, couldn't cope with the idea of someone else doing something stupid and drastic and life-ending to protect him.
He wouldn’t allow it.
Even after he has the shit kicked out of him. Even as Steve promises Dustin won't lose him. Because Dustin knows it’s a promise he might not be able to keep, though he knows he'll keep the one of his own. Words spoken so long ago yet truer now than ever.
'If you die, I die.'
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05 Jan 2026
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Steve pauses, and Dustin looks back at him before he says, “because I really missed you.”
Dustin is pinned by the searing intensity of his gaze, feels so sure that Steve can see every part of his heart open and on display. It’s all too much to bear but he’s unable to tear his own eyes away. He stares back too afraid to even blink, in case the moment slips away while his eyes are closed. The tangle of anger and grief fade for just a moment as his heart screams out, I love you I love you I love you I love you. He feels the words heavy on his tongue, desperate to spill out. But if he tells Steve the truth, this one secret he’s held for years, he knows that it will break whatever fragile thing they’re rebuilding beyond repair.
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Or...Dustin and Steve have repaired their relationship at the Squawk, but Dustin still harbors one more secret. With the world literally collapsing around them, he doesn't know if he'll ever find a way to reveal it.
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- Part 1 of The Falling Apart Series
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28 Dec 2025
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Stranger Teens (The bonding of the Fruity Four) by PrincessAmericaChavez
Fandom Stranger Things (TV 2016)
24 Jun 2022
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08 Dec 2025
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count to thirty. breathe twice. repeat. by WingedQuill
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
20 Jan 2026
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Billy Hargrove doesn't keep his promise to Max. He doesn't keep it in a pretty spectacular fashion, actually. Instead of staying away from her friends, he murders one of them.
Unfortunately for Billy, Hellfire meets right after basketball practice. And fortunately for Steve, Eddie knows CPR.
(Or: There is a clearly defined set of steps to keep someone's heart beating. There's no guide for the aftermath. Steve, Eddie, and everyone they love write one together.)
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- Part 1 of count to thirty
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05 Dec 2025
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What if Badminton pulled the trigger?
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08 Apr 2022
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"Are you two together?" - General Mitchell
"In all kinds of weather..." - HawkeyeA drunken confession one night in Korea sparks a chain of events that Hawkeye and Trapper never anticipated. As the impact of these unexpected events continues to rock their world, leading them into a spiral of frightening consequences, they continue to be faced with one looming decision: Do they go their separate ways, or do they face the storm together?
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18 Jul 2021