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1. You Said You'd Grow Old With Me by Pitkin

   Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

   • Mature
   • Major Character Death
   • F/F
   • Complete Work

   25 Feb 2026

   Tags

   • Major Character Death
   • Robin Buckley/Nancy Wheeler
   • Robin Buckley
   • Nancy Wheeler
   • Steve Harrington
   • Karen Wheeler
   • Melissa Buckley
   • Richard Buckley
   • Married Robin Buckley/Nancy Wheeler
   • Established Relationship
   • Lesbian Robin Buckley
   • Lesbian Nancy Wheeler
   • Widow Robin Buckley
   • Investigative Journalist Nancy Wheeler
   • Hurt No Comfort
   • Grief/Mourning
   • Widowed
   • Non-Linear Narrative
   • Flashbacks
   • Love Story
   • Funeral
   • Angst
   • Emotional devestation
   • Character Study
   • love after trauma
   • Surviving The Apocalypse (Emotional)
   • Post-Hawkins S5
   • loss of a spouse
   • Massachussetts Marriage Equality Era
   • Tragic Love Story
   • This is not a fix-it
   • this is tumblr's fault
   • No beta we die like...Nancy in this story

   Summary

   “No one tells you what to wear for your best friend’s funeral.”
   “The suit I married her in.”

   They were supposed to grow old together. Today is the day they bury Nancy.

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   31,115

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