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it's no better to be safe than sorry by stillateenageabomination
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
16 Dec 2025
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"Yeah, Harrington," he heard Hopper say. "Anytime. It's not easy to be a bruiser in this fight."
I'm not a bruiser, Steve thought to himself. I'm a goddamn kamikaze.
He rattled out some mindless reply, one that not even he was able to repeat. Then he slowly loaded the rest of the boxes into his Beamer and drove down to the high school, tailing behind Hopper. When they lulled to a pause at a stop sign, Steve pressed his forehead to the steering wheel, took a breath, and fought back the urge to drive his car off the quarry cliff.
He didn't know when the switch had happened. When I'd be willing to die for them turned into I'm going to die for them turned into I need to die for them. Once it had happened, however it had come to be, he hadn't been able to shake the pledge. It'd been cemented into his mind. He supposed that was why they called suicide a commitment.
or, unable to lose anyone else, Steve writes a list, ranking his friends by how quickly he'd sacrifice himself for them. 5 times someone finds the list but doesn't realize what it is + 1 time they understand it perfectly.
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20 Feb 2026
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Jonathan is finally back home and seeing familiar faces once again.
Most notably, Steve, whose house he will be staying at. It's pragmatic, since Nancy and him aren't on great terms.
The boys catch up, like old friends do, only Jonathan has been withholding something from Steve. And it's about to be revealed in a grisly manner.
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- Part 3 of Close to me
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15 Feb 2026
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don't let it burn (don't let it fade) by fivecenturiesverse
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
26 Jan 2023
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Steve's determined to give Robin more than a few wrinkles.
When she meets Steve, she meets someone who won’t be saved by wrinkle cream. He’s scarred and battered and he’s already got semi-permanent worry lines around his eyebrows. Not that that’s really a concern for men, especially men like Steve with his battle-hardy looks and enthusiastic emotion.
He doesn’t seem to care about the state of her wrinkles because he likes to make her laugh, mucking about with his scooper and pulling faces through the window when it’s his turn to come out front. Every time he manages to make her laugh — loud and expressive and wrinkly — he gets this big stupid grin.
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your shadow's red (like a film i've seen) by fivecenturiesverse
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
27 Jul 2022
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Three days after Vecna, Robin tries to kiss Steve. Tries to be something he deserves. Someone who can fuck him, be with him. Something better, a good person like she isn't. She tries to not be fucked up. Steve doesn't let her.
If only for a moment they are wild and cold, faces up to the unreflective sky, just a boy and a girl holding hands watching the stars as the wind tugs and pulls them, kindly cruel in a way that mends.
Maybe they don’t need anyone else, she thinks, maybe they can stay there until the wind strips them to their bones. She wouldn’t mind dying if it was with Steve.
He turns to her and she thinks he might kiss her but then he’s just holding her against his chest and it feels like such an impossibly mean thought to have about Steve, to even think that he might do that to her, that she starts crying. Sometimes she thinks she doesn’t deserve him and he doesn’t deserve how she thinks about him. He’s just so much good sometimes Robin thinks something must turn for the worst, surely King Steve isn’t all gone, surely at some point he’s going to reveal himself: he was making fun of her the whole time, trying to make her normal.
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03 Feb 2026
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Wake up. Vomit. Try and hide a massive hangover. Avoid Nancy. Put on a suit. Drink water. Drink more water. Give the best damn speech of all time, one that puts Mike's pedantic bullshit one to shame. Clink glasses with Steve, because yeah—his was definitely better. Hug Mrs. Wheeler, offering her his congratulations. Do the same with the groom. Ask how Ted is doing. Share a dance with Robin. Eat cake. Retire to his hotel room. Fall asleep and—
Wake up.
It's Tuesday again. The sort of day where the sun only rises to humiliate you.
Jonathan blinks. Okay. Let's try this again. They've only got eternity, and one of these days something has got to work, right?
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27 Jan 2026