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SEASON 5 AU. 4 days before the final battle, vecna begins to taunt joyce with the past. starting with a nightmare that scares her to the bone, but she carries on like normal, thinking it’s just stress.
or tries to…. until he comes for everyone else.
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Did Kathy attack Cindy? Only she knows where she was christmas day, but can’t tell anyone the big secret yet either. Because she was with Angie — her best mate who isn’t actually dead…. and who she has feelings for. Will Kathy ever tell Angie?
⬆️ ch8: there’s an interesting development between kathy and angie after sharon leaves for australia
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set in the finale. as the group waits for the merging in the upside down, joyce picks up on the tension between el and hopper. and vows to find out why after not believing his original reasoning for it.
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Kathy gets a birthday card from an anonymous sender who asks to meet her — and is shocked to find out it’s Angie Watts.… who’s meant to be dead. And upon her return to Albert Square, Angie is immediately thrown into the brewing christmas storm.
How different could it all have been with her there?
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1986 AU. Instead of giving Angie divorce papers on christmas day, Den suggests a vow renewal after the second honeymoon. Except it’s all a sham. He also gets Jan to help him; but her guilt builds towards the big day where it explodes. Add in a guilty kathy and michelle who know everything…... and chaos ensues.
OR, the six (but the 80’s version)
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It's not even until she's sliding it off his broad shoulders that he pulls back from her like she'd just static-shocked him, and before she gets a chance to ask what's wrong, she sees what’s wrong. Her heart sinks in her chest.
Or, Joyce finds out about Hopper's fail safe.
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29 Jan 2026
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Joyce and Hopper can't seem to keep their hands off of each other.
Will is utterly grossed out. El doesn't understand him - her parents are in love!
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- Part 3 of jopper ficlets
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29 Jan 2026
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After Will’s rescue from the Upside Down, Joyce and Hopper’s relationship grows. But the secrets he keeps of Eleven’s return makes Joyce question if he really feels the same way, or if she’s scared him off.
Based on a question on Twitter “Why were they so awkward at the start of season two”
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28 Jan 2026
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On the morning of her wedding, Joyce Byers disappears down the shoreline, carrying a grief she can’t quite name. Jim Hopper finds her where the ocean keeps its secrets, and they share a cigarette and a truth that has lingered too long in the space between them. When the ceremony finally begins, love and loss stand side by side. And just before the vows are spoken, the impossible returns—turning a moment of mourning into something resembling grace.
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28 Jan 2026
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i'll wash my mouth but still taste you by rowenamacleod
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
26 Jan 2026
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It isn't three kids that Joyce leaves Hawkins with, escaping to the West Coast in the wake of Jim Hopper's death, Hawkins nothing but a town full of ghosts to them now.
It's four.
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26 Jan 2026