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A few months after eloping and moving to Montauk, Hopper takes Joyce, Will, and Jonathan to honor Sara on her birthday, where Hopper unexpectedly reconnects with his ex-wife Diane and finds peace rather than pain.
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“Thanks for this. It means a lot to her.“
“Anytime.”
“It means a lot to me too.”
As she looks up at him, the vibrant colors of the firework reflect in the blues of his eyes. There is sincerity in his gaze that she knows isn’t a lie, and it makes her feel drunk. She nudges him playfully, and he still doesn’t move away.
“The Hideaway’s loss is my gain, I guess.”
Hopper unexpectedly spends the New Year’s celebrations at the Byer’s residence as Joyce battles with her true feelings for Hopper, and her guilt over Bob’s death.
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08 Jan 2026
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He doesn’t share many classes with Joyce, and they weren’t friends, not really, but he likes her company. She’s different from the crowds he usually hung around with— less popular, a little rougher around the edges. And unlike them, she didn’t seem to care much about high school, not the classes or the big football games, and least of all, him.
5 times Hopper tried (and sometimes failed) to save Joyce, and one time she saved him.
Hopper and Joyce through the times from high school to post Season 4. Tags to be updated. TW for domestic violence. -
"Eighty Cents a Minute" by mrdeetz for ryderwitz
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016), Stranger Things: The First Shadow
05 Jan 2026
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From a stifling phone booth on a Fort McClellan army base, Hopper makes a long-promised, late-night call to Joyce in Hawkins. Haunted by a shared traumatic past, their awkward conversation quickly dissolves the distance between them.
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07 Jan 2026
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"Reassurance and Recognition" by mrdeetz for ryderwitz
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
03 Jan 2026
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After everything. Hopper finally asks the most important question. And tonight, in the quiet of the cabin, there is only the answer, and each other.
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05 Jan 2026