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Nancy stirs her cappuccino. “I just thought—well, it’s been a year since…everything. And since we’re all in New York anyway, I just thought it might be nice to…I don’t know, do something normal together. For once.”
She has the look on her face she always gets when she’s dead-set on something, but beneath that is something imploring—like she truly wants the rest of them to be dead-set on this, too. It's the very expression that has made it impossible for Steve to say no to her all these years, and without meaning to, Steve glances at Jonathan.
He isn’t surprised to find the same recognition he feels reflected on Jonathan’s face, too. But alongside that expression is something resembling what Steve’s pretty sure is...acceptance. As though, just like Steve, Jonathan already knows he’s going to cave.
Or: Nancy, Jonathan, Steve, Robin, and Argyle’s Secret Santa in December 1988.
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“That’s—” Nancy starts, faltering a little. “I’m not leading him on.”
Robin looks pointedly at the hickey on Nancy’s shoulder.
Nancy flushes, tugging her shirt to hide the mark. “I’m not,” she says again, and Robin wonders how on Earth Nancy can still be this tightly wound after getting laid. She can only assume this is a byproduct of sleeping with men. “That’s—that’s not what this is.”
“Then please, Nance, enlighten me on what this is, exactly.”
“We’re just—we’re just blowing off some steam! Alright?”
“Nancy,” Robin says in disbelief. “If you just wanted to blow off some steam, you wouldn’t do it with your ex.”
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Their trek to Hawkins Lab starts alright. But after about ten minutes of a—frankly suspicious—lack of Demogorgon sightings, Steve starts not-so-subtly suggesting they pick up the pace, which Jonathan, evidently, takes as a personal attack, so the next thing Nancy knows, the two of them are trying so hard to outpace each other that they end up yards ahead of her and Dustin.
"How do you even put up with them?" Dustin asks, watching Steve and Jonathan from afar with a wrinkled nose.
"Practice," Nancy mutters.
Or: two conversations between Nancy and Dustin and Jonathan and Steve in the Upside Down.
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someday i'm gonna be somebody people want by dharmainitiative
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
23 Nov 2025
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Nancy untwists her hands and smooths them down the front of her skirt. "Look. What if we just…say it at the same time?"
"Oh." Jonathan clears his throat. "Yeah. Okay. Uh, on three?"
He doesn't realize how childish the idea sounds until after he's said it, but if anything, Nancy looks relieved. "Sure. On three."
"Okay," Jonathan nods. "One…two..."
“Three," Nancy finishes.
And then he blurts, “I don’t think I like having sex,” at the same time as Nancy says, “I think I like Steve.”
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august slipped away (into a moment in time) by dharmainitiative
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
11 Oct 2025
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Erica raises her eyebrows behind her sunglasses. “You're hanging out with Nancy and Jonathan now? Didn’t Nancy dump you and stomp all over your heart last year?”
“Whoa, that is not what happened.”
Erica turns to Robin, as if seeking confirmation, and Robin says, “Well…”
“Robin!”
“What I can’t understand,” Dustin starts. “Is why? You don’t even like Jonathan.”
“I like Jonathan just fine!” Steve shouts, loudly enough that the couple in the car next to them shoots them a look that makes the back of Steve’s neck heat.
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flufftober 2024 by dharmainitiative
Fandom Guardians of the Galaxy (Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe, Stranger Things (TV 2016)
04 Nov 2024
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take my hand, wreck my plans by dharmainitiative
Fandom Shadow and Bone (TV), The Grisha Trilogy - Leigh Bardugo
19 Apr 2023
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Jonathan listens to Steve's voice and hears home in each syllable, listening too hard for the hint of anything else without hearing what he wants, and doesn't catch any of the content. He supposes it doesn't matter, anyways. Nothing is resolving into the pictures he takes the way he wants them to, nothing matching up to the words he sees dancing around in his head. It’s just sharp feelings and unfinished sentences, moments he can see that need to be arranged carefully, but can’t quite be captured by his camera yet.
Steve should have never kissed him.
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It wasn't supposed to happen. They had been so careful. But it was happening. Nancy was expecting. They were keeping it. There was only so much Jonathan could do. Then Steve Harrington showed up, solving every last one of their problems
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Stoncy Week - Day 2 - Getting a Good Night’s Sleep (for the first time in a long time)Series
- Part 1 of NomadicWolf's Stoncy Week 2023
- Part 1 of Growing Pains
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stars shined on my back as I slept and knew you by clownrosary
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
21 Feb 2025
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“So you mean to tell me: this chick has rescued you from real-life demons, and you’ve all worked together on saving the world more than once, and you just… don’t talk?”
Jo shrugs. “Pretty much, yeah.”
“That’s kinda fucked, man.”
“It’s…” she pauses. Argyle just doesn’t get it. He can’t. “Whatever. It’s whatever—it’s nobody’s business.”
“If you say so,” he sing-songs.
She glares at him. “I do.”
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At the end of the world, Jo is finding it harder and harder to keep avoiding Stevie. -
When we first met, I was out of my head (and so were you) by clownrosary
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
15 Jul 2024
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Steve was once the epitome of separation anxiety, always keeping tabs on people. The fact that this version of him exists, self-alienating from everybody he loves other than Robin, Dustin, and-
Wait.
“Why face me, then?”
With a tone much too light-hearted for the subject at hand, Steve replies, “The same reason you stayed for coffee.” His grin is so sincere, it’s almost unnerving. “We’re both scared of being alone.”
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It’s 2009, and Jonathan Byers has found his way back to Indiana. Steve Harrington never left.Series
- Part 1 of It is enough for me, anyway.
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During their first reunion weekend in Philly, Steve accidently spoons Jonathan Byers and by doing so, unlocks a new set of feelings he's never had to aknowledge before.
The whole ordeal gets even worse when Nancy and Jonathan start making eyes at each other again.