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“You need to stay calm, buddy.”
Don’t be so dramatic, buddy. Comb your hair, buddy. You can’t wear that, buddy. Speak up, buddy. You’re always crying, buddy. Don’t be a pussy, buddy. Grow some damn balls, buddy. You’re a fucking idiot, buddy.
“I am calm.”
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In which Hopper always knew Steve was his son, but he never did anything about it.
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- Part 3 of that's me and you.
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The Chief of Police is tall, with broad shoulders and a thick moustache. He’s got a gun on his belt and a hat on his head with such a wide brim he could be mistaken for a cowboy.
Steve knows his face from the pictures. Knows his eyes from the mirror.
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In which Steve always knew Hop was his dad.
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- Part 2 of that's me and you.
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turn your back on mother nature by stillateenageabomination
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
04 Jun 2025
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Steve nods toward El, drawing the kid’s attention there. “That’s El, my sister. If you take a look at her wrist, you’ll see a number there. Eleven.” The kid’s eyes widen at that. “Mine too. I have one, just like you.”
He pushes his sleeve up, unlatches the watch. There’s a special product he’s supposed to use to take the concealer off, but after so many days, it’s flaking anyway. It’s not hard to drag his nails over the fake coloring until the ugly black markings underneath pop up. He angles his wrist, giving the kid a clear shot. He hears his breath catch. Steve’s had too, when he’d read the kid’s number and put two and two together.
“I have one just like you,” he repeats. Dustin lets the kid raise his own wrist, pressing it close to Steve’s. The two three-digit figures sit there, next to each other, mirroring their twin. Steve sucks in a breath. “You feel things that you shouldn’t, that aren’t yours. None of the scientists know it, but you can change them too. You’re stronger than anyone else can tell. Do you know how I know that?”
Little Number Seven nods and whispers, “‘Cause you’re me.”
or, Steve is from the lab. His child self shows up in his living room. This is a problem.
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they say we've got the same hair by millcrs (remoose)
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
21 Aug 2025
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Fate has a funny way of flipping everything on its head. It has a way of calling back to moments that felt so… nothing at the time, so utterly insignificant, yet brought a whole entire person into being.
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Steve gets a mandatory blood test following exposure to the demobats. It changes everything and nothing at all.
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- Part 1 of that's me and you.
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all of me: a wound to close by millcrs (remoose)
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016), The Walking Dead (TV)
07 Nov 2024
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Glenn starts, “Why didn’t they…”
“Eat me?”
“You got no chunks taken outta you,” Abraham says, like an accusation.
“Nice observation there, man. Guess I was just too pretty or somethin’.”
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Steve Harrington escapes Terminus and finds a baby in the woods.
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This is a series of one-shots based on my other work Pretend Everything is Normal where the perspectives of other characters will be explored. I would recommend probably reading that one first, if you want to read this.
Steve Harrington seems like the epitome of normal. He's an athlete, a slightly below average student, well-liked by most people. However, as the Upside Down encroaches on Hawkins, the people closest to him start to realize that nothing is really normal. They just haven't figured out that applies to Steve too.
Or Steve is from the lab and is an empath, but nobody realizes that.
Rated Teen for now, but may change later, I'm not sure. I don't have a plan.
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- Part 2 of Pretend Everything is Normal
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Solved game: a game whose outcome can be correctly predicted from any position, assuming that the game is played perfectly.
A season 12 canon divergence in which Mr. Scratch dies a little too early, Reid accepts the plea deal, and Cat Adams plays a very long game. Years later, the two finally get their rematch.
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So when Hop asks, when Murray asks, when Owens asks, when the doctors ask, when the specialist asks, he says: fall of ‘84, Billy Hargrove, in the Byers’ living room, with the dinner plate. He says: that’s when the static started in both ears, worse in the left than the right, but both weren’t great. He says: some mornings I woke up and it was like I heard everything like I was under water, but it would get better as the day wore on. He says: yeah, sometimes I got headaches too, and that made the static more. He says: after Starcourt, but just before, it did get worse, yeah. He says: I’d been practicing lip reading for a while, because I think some part of me always knew. He says: it was just gone, after that: no static, nothing blurry, just silence with the occasional whine when Hop got that whistle right.
Steve Harrington, and life after death.
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- Part 8 of eating in the underworld
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tried and true blue by millcrs (remoose)
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016), Succession (TV 2018)
19 Mar 2024
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"But Steve’s mom has brown hair,” says Nancy. “Could be a housekeeper?”
“In a pantsuit?” Max frowns.
“Secretary, maybe.” Nancy is met with incredulous looks. She sighs. “Look, I know how that sounds, but this is Steve’s family we’re talking about.”
“So?” asks Dustin.
“Yeah,” says Lucas. “Can he not have, like, an aunt?”
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- Part 3 of no real person involved
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Before they risk sending their own men through the gate they just opened up, the Russians want to make sure it won't harm the bond between human and daemon.
Fortunately, they have a captured spy and his daemon handy.
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- Part 1 of wingedquill whumptober 2023
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zen, and the art of three point throws by greatunironic
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
16 Sep 2023
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Steve was never someone they used to pay much attention to before. Mike bitched about him endlessly when he was dating Nancy (though he’d been the one to breathlessly relate the tale of Steve and the Nail Bat and the Demogorgon to them, so). They’d viewed him with the benign disinterest Lucas thinks most kids would view their friend’s big sister’s jock boyfriend, mostly, but then Lucas had been in that junkyard with him and Dustin and Max and the demodogs and then he’d been with them at the Byers, with Billy, and Steve had put himself between Lucas and Billy without a second’s hesitation. Then he’d protected them again in the tunnels, and Lucas had maybe thought, Wow.
Lucas, at the basketball court on two Saturday afternoons, four months apart.
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- Part 7 of eating in the underworld
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He had dropped like a sack of potatoes, the sudden shock of the loud noise and the red hot pain taking him out at the fucking knees. Carver had stood over him, leveled and cocked his gun, and Eddie wasn’t going to give this holier than thou fuckhead the satisfaction of closing his eyes or flinching or doing anything but looking him dead in the eye as he murdered him when Max clocked him with a tire iron from parts unknown and a whole lot of teenage girl rage.
A few days after the world doesn't end (just yet), Eddie wakes up.
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- Part 6 of eating in the underworld
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Bookmarked by s0ftshr3k
02 Sep 2023
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chomping at the bit are you kidding me
read thru chapter 2
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“I was ten,” Steve starts, because that’s how it always starts. That’s how the story of his life is told.
I was ten, begin a dozen unfinished, unsent college essays. I was ten, I was ten, I was ten.
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When Steve is ten, he's kidnapped by a serial killer alongside another boy, a stranger named Ed. When Steve is nineteen, he finds himself walking through the Upside Down with a man named Eddie. These events are more linked than he thinks.
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so this is what the volume knob's for by greatunironic
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
13 Aug 2023
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So he phones his shit in too if they’re not going to care. He spends a lot of time tracing the words carved into his desk absently, or staring out the windows now. He tries to get a seat closer to them, the windows, when he can, which is most classes except his English one. Mrs Woodcliff assigns seats alphabetically, and probably always has, far as Dustin can tell — there’s an SH WAS HERE!! carved into his desk in that class. He puts his notebook over that one, sits on his hands to stop reaching.
One afternoon, in December, Dustin and Erica work on their character sheets.
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- Part 5 of eating in the underworld
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It's been months since the Gate under Starcourt closed, and now the only thing the Party has to deal with is growing pains. High school isn't easy, and Steve wants to help them through it.
But the Upside Down isn't done with them. And this time, the enemy might be a little closer to the former subjects of Hawkins Lab than anyone suspected.Series
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summer's end is around the bend by millcrs (remoose)
Fandoms: Succession (TV 2018), Stranger Things (TV 2016)
17 Jun 2023
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Here’s the deal: Steve got, like, stuck under the mall fire for an indeterminate amount of time. Nobody’s really saying much about it, at least not that Roman can get a read on.
Steve’s no longer a mushy kid running around in nothing but a diaper and one of Shiv’s training bras; he’s perfected the classic Roy veneer: a thick shell that’s made impenetrable by the cold looks, the biting, vicious words, the tearing people down and down and down until they can’t get back up again.
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- Part 2 of no real person involved
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04 Jul 2023
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oh I am absolutely feral over this jfc
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He’s upright, at least. Leaned up against something, head tipped back and sort of sitting, with his hands bound, and he almost wants to laugh, on account of how much it reminds him of that first November, handcuffed in the bowels of Hawkins National Lab and that white haired son of a bitch framed in the doorway. Jim squeezes his eyes shut, shakes his head a bit, and opens them again, looking straight ahead then, and would you look at that, he thinks. This is the worst day.
Across from him, Steve Harrington sits flanked by two Soviet soldiers, beefy mother fuckers too, and he looks exactly as terrible as when they went beneath Starcourt and Jim only had time to think, Kid, what the fuck, I’m putting your ass in a bubble after this, so not that much time has passed, he thinks, he hopes. He’s handcuffed too, hands in his lap, and he smirks at Jim, all teenaged boy bravado that he can see through in a heartbeat.
“Hey, Chief,” says Harrington.
Hopper, Steve, and the art of survival.
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- Part 4 of eating in the underworld
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Bookmarked by s0ftshr3k
27 Jun 2023
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screaming at the top of my lungs btw
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It’s outlandish. It’s implausible. It’s beyond the scope of man, beyond the imagination of children. He wants to shake his head, wants to dismiss it the same way they would laugh at the end of each campfire story, the same way folks would turn their noses up at the talk from the old miners who see things in the coal dust and dark and heat, because everyone sees something in the mine. That’s just the nature of the shadow.
Deciding to find his own answers, Wayne picks the wrong (or perhaps very right) moment to return to his trailer.
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- Part 3 of eating in the underworld
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like coarse-cut salt on the tongue — by greatunironic
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
30 Mar 2023
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He instructs her on how to take the car out of park, get it in first, then second as they build up speed, and takes her down the main drag in town. She goes a solid fifteen under the speed limit but he doesn’t say anything. He doesn’t say a lot, as they go, just makes a correction here or there, a word or hum of encouragement too. He tells her to relax, once, and she breathes in deep and pretends to be someone else for a minute. It’s easy; she’s wearing a boy’s polo and Byers clocks that too, she thinks, the way his eyes flickered to the collar of it when he saw her on her stoop. She knows he knows. But he doesn’t mention it, so neither does she.
In the aftermath of Starcourt, Robin goes on.
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- Part 2 of eating in the underworld
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She catches sight of Hop first, of course. He’s who she’s looking for after all; or, perhaps more accurately, she will think later, he’s the only one she thinks she’s supposed to be looking for in this moment. The way Robin Buckley had talked about what had happened beneath Starcourt that night — well, it had all just seemed so final, she’d thought, and truly she’s never been so happy to be wrong in her life.
Meanwhile, in the Soviet Union, Joyce finds not one ghost but two.
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- Part 1 of eating in the underworld