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1. all my failings exposed by lithium_creep

   Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

   • Mature
   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, No Archive Warnings Apply
   • M/M
   • Complete Work

   05 May 2024

   Tags

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   • Jonathan Byers/Steve Harrington
   • Jonathan Byers & Steve Harrington
   • Jonathan Byers & Nancy Wheeler
   • Jonathan Byers
   • Steve Harrington
   • circa 1986
   • Post-Canon
   • Post-Season/Series 04
   • Pre-Relationship
   • Awkward Conversations
   • Enemies to Friends
   • Kind Of
   • it's just one long conversation guys
   • implied/referenced suicidal ideation
   • References to Depression
   • Coping
   • Steve Harrington Needs a Hug
   • Jonathan Byers Needs a Hug
   • they need therapy
   • Smoking
   • Unhealthy Coping Mechanisms

   Summary

   Two months after the earthquake, Steve is in a state of aimlessly floating through life, with no goals or future in sight, a husk of himself. Then, like a ghost from the past dressed in a paisley shirt, Jonathan Byers waltzes into his life again.

   Or: Steve and Jonathan's first real conversation after everything.

   Title from 'Love Will Tear Us Apart' by Joy Division.

   Series

   • Part 10 of The Chicago Chronicles

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   English

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