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1. Love Tears You Apart by mulderdock

   Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

   • Explicit
   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Multi
   • Work in Progress

   19 Feb 2026

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Jonathan Byers/Steve Harrington
   • Jonathan Byers
   • Steve Harrington
   • Nancy Wheeler
   • Robin Buckley
   • Mike Wheeler
   • Dustin Henderson
   • Will Byers
   • Lucas Sinclair
   • Eleven | Jane Hopper
   • Maxine "Max" Mayfield
   • Joyce Byers
   • Jim "Chief" Hopper
   • Eddie Munson
   • Minor Characters
   • Enemies to Lovers
   • Bisexual Steve Harrington
   • Bisexual Jonathan Byers
   • Canon Compliant
   • Period-Typical Homophobia
   • Steve Harrington Has Internalized Homophobia
   • Jonathan Byers Has a Crush on Steve Harrington
   • Slow Burn
   • And I mean slow

   Summary

   There was a time when Steve and Jonathan had been friends. Steve thought that they could have reconciled earlier, but Will goes missing, life as everyone in Hawkins knows it is flipped upside down, and they miss their chance. That is, until the world-ending events draw them closer together and they have no choice but to be in each other's company.

   Or.

   A canon compliant retelling of the entire show, where Steve and Jonathan were childhood friends turned enemies, only to become lovers in the end.

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   20,250

   Chapters:

   4/?

   Comments:

   13

   Kudos:

   61

   Bookmarks:

   8

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