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steve’s the caged leopard he saw at the zoo, but he knows the second he leaves hawkins he’d crumble into salt and fly into the wind, because there’s no way he wouldn’t look back to wonder if nancy had noticed he was gone.
or: a study of nancy wheeler in the apocalypse, and other ways to live with the choices you’ve made
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23 Dec 2025
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just enough to tell the forest from the fire by crackers4jenn
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
20 Dec 2025
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He doesn’t say it so directly, but he doesn’t see much of Nancy anymore without Jonathan by her side.
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20 Dec 2025
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'The huge oak at the end of the street is gone when she finally turns onto the cul de sac where she grew up. She knew it would be. It came down in a storm about a month ago and it had been the major topic of discussion when her mother had called.
It had been reassuring, in a way. She could relax in the knowledge that the most exciting thing happening in Hawkins was the tree at the end of the street managing to fall in the exact right direction so that it didn’t take down any houses with it and how long it was taking to pick up the pieces. That was until her mother had somehow managed to segue from ‘they’re still cleaning up down at Millers' into ‘your father isn’t doing well and I think you should come home.’
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Five years later, Nancy comes back.
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17 Dec 2025
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The Shire was not saved for everyone. Vignettes chronicling life in Hawkins in the aftermath (June 1986 - January 1987).
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11 Dec 2025
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“Steve? Do you copy?”
In any other timeline—and OK, maybe this one, too—it would be embarrassing for Nancy to be radioing her ex at 10:30 PM. But she’s tried his phone three times—a phone that was, as one among the lucky half of Hawkins—still working earlier today.
No answer, now. Not on the phone, not on the radio.
It’s the day after the end of the world, and Nancy can’t sleep.
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05 Dec 2025