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1. and i'll run to you when the waters rise by rowenamacleod

   Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

   • Explicit
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • F/M
   • Work in Progress

   16 Feb 2026

   Tags

   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Joyce Byers/Jim "Chief" Hopper
   • Joyce Byers
   • Jim "Chief" Hopper
   • Lonnie Byers
   • Karen Wheeler
   • Ted Wheeler (Stranger Things)
   • Nancy Wheeler
   • Benny Hammond
   • Inspired by Love Rosie (2014)
   • Slow Burn
   • Friends to Lovers
   • Lonnie Byers Being an Asshole
   • Abusive Lonnie Byers
   • Past Joyce Byers/Lonnie Byers - Freeform
   • Unplanned Pregnancy
   • Joyce Byers Needs a Hug
   • Eventual Joyce Byers/Jim "Chief" Hopper
   • Protective Jim "Chief" Hopper
   • Other Additional Tags to Be Added

   Summary

   "Hello?"

   There's silence, then a sniffle, and Hopper frowns. Before he can say anything else, though, a female voice speaks.

   "Hop?"

   The whole world narrows and then stops at the sound of Joyce Maldonado's teary voice in his ear, the sound of The Hideout muffled in the background. His frown deepens.

   or: a call for help on a random April evening changes the course of both James Hopper and Joyce Maldonado's lives forever.

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   1,603

   Chapters:

   1/?

   Comments:

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   Kudos:

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