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Steve Harrington is normal, everyone thinks so. Captain of the swim team, starter on the varsity basketball team, most popular boy in school, absolute heartthrob, handsome, and rich. He's King Steve, Steve “the Hair” Harrington. He's an all-American boy growing up in the heartland. And he's spent years working very hard to keep it that way, because the truth is the last thing he is, is normal.
No, Steve Harrington has a dark past he's desperate to escape, however that gets much harder when Will Byers goes missing and Steve just can’t shake the feeling that something is very wrong in Hawkins, something that's pointing straight to his past. But everything will be fine, right? All he has to do is pretend everything is normal.
Or, another lab experiment Steve story because I can’t get it out of my head, so I’m sharing it with everyone.
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- Part 1 of Pretend Everything is Normal
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13 Feb 2026
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Doom comes to Hawkins, Indiana. Population est. 30,000.
It’s cold, that’s all, and the breeze is kicking up. That’s why Steve feels the chill go up his spine like someone dropped an ice-cube down his back.
“Why wouldn’t I be real, El?”
“The Aboleth got you.”
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13 Feb 2026
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Slowly his senses came back to him. He felt himself breathing fast, too fast, and tried to force it to return to a normal pattern. His hearing returned slowly, enough to hear Robin’s panicked voice.
“…Steve! Steve, talk to me! Steve! Steve, are you ok? For god’s sake, Steve!”
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Dustin is faced with a difficult choice. When he makes it, he can't help but feel like he's sentenced Steve to death.
The reality is much worse.
Stranded far from home with no way back, Steve must work with everything he has to survive and stop an ever-growing threat to a home made unrecognisable by the aftermath of tragedy.
Starts midway through season 3, major spoilers for the whole show up to then. Written prior to Season 4. Trigger warnings in individual chapters. NOW COMPLETE!
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11 Feb 2026
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Jonathan Byers has always known what he is — a freak. Hawkins High made sure he never forgot it. Between a missing brother, a mother unraveling, and the weight of keeping his family from collapsing, Jonathan doesn’t have time to think about himself, much less the way his eyes linger on Steve Harrington.
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11 Feb 2026
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After Steve and Robin are taken by the Russians, they’re never saved. Despite Dustin and Erica’s best efforts, the two are nowhere to be found, causing chaos and loss to burn bright in Hawkins.
Meanwhile, Dr. Brenner begins two new experiments: Nineteen and Twenty.
In a new life full of uncertainty, loss of identity and pain, it takes two to survive.
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25 Jan 2026