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and nancy always wants to scream, especially on those mornings, scream but the suburbs will swallow their sound just like it does everything else—failing marriages and broken bicycles and poorly kept secrets and government conspiracies—and why bother anyway, it’s not like anyone would understand her, would know this pain, would know what it was like to be only feet away when—
or: nancy struggles quietly. steve misses none of it.
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jonathan supervised her as she ate, halfheartedly reminding her to chew slowly. all the while, his hand smoothed down the wrecked french braid she’d now had her hair in for 51 hours.
having a baby is hell.
or; jonathan, nancy, marriage, adulthood, pregnancy, adoption, wins, losses, and daughters
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In the time after Hawkins finally goes quiet, Nancy Wheeler starts writing. At first, it’s nothing more than a way to keep her hands busy and quiet the nights when sleep won’t come and the silence feels like it’s pressing in. She tells herself it’s just for her; a way to make sense of the bodies, the lies, and the years no one talks about.
But the more she writes, the more the pages start to fill with things no one else will say out loud, and the harder it becomes to keep it hidden. It's not long before the buried faces, the secrets, and the cost of surviving slowly begin to trickle to the surface. And now, the closer she gets to the truth, the more she begins to wonder if putting it down on paper will save her… or ruin her, for some truths don't just change the story. They change everything.
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Nancy had fallen in love with a girl who loved having sex with Nancy, not Nancy herself. Which was the last thing she had wanted to happen.
It was a girl who she had met, Robin, during freshman year of college. They had a class together and Nancy was immediately drawn to her.
One kiss and a summer break later, they had agreed to be friends with benefits their sophomore year. Three months in, Nancy is questioning how long she can keep going after realizing she loves Robin.
While Nancy thought it would be simple to just push down her feelings and forget about them, each interaction with Robin brings her closer and closer to being honest. And Nancy won’t do that.
Because she can’t lose Robin.
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Nancy loves Robin, but unfortunately for her, people like her don't get to love.
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- Part 2 of Ronance oneshots
- Part 1 of so true twin
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When did he grow to be so tall? (seedlings turn overnight to sunflowers) by toforgivelifetoforgettime
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
21 Jul 2025
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Sometimes Nancy wonders if all she'll ever be to her core is an older sister, if she'll be forty and still worried sick over her brother, if the need to cut herself open just to keep him warm inside her ribs will disappear.
Or: It's 1986 and Nancy Wheeler dwells on being the sister of a teenage boy.
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She's having trouble sleeping.
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15 years after graduation, Nancy and Jonathan are married, with children, living together in New York. Despite everything seeming peachy on the outside, Nancy is miserable in her marriage. She runs into an old flame at her high-school reunion, and old feelings come back.
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Nancy and Jonathan are in a sexless marriage, so Nancy finds fulfillment elsewhere
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One weekend. Three days. Nancy can do three days around Robin. That’s what she thinks when Jonathan calls and invites her to come in from Boston for Steve’s birthday. All she has to do is behave. Truly, how hard could it be to spend three days around a girl she’s hopelessly in love with, even years after anything happened between them?
Apparently really, really hard.
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A baby is not what she wants to think about during her time between saving the world and going to college. Here she is, though.
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Febuwhump 2025 by Doctor_Gay
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016), The X-Files, Severance (TV)
20 Apr 2025
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You know, you love it, i’ve failed to complete it for 2 straight years and this is probably going to be a third, it’s febuwhump!
expect nancy wheeler, xfiles, and (maybe) severance!Series
- Part 2 of Your Daily Dose of Febuwhump
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Death is cruel, and living is much, much crueler. But having to live with yourself forever? That’s the cruelest fate of all.
Nancy Wheeler mourns for who she was and despises who she has become. Or rather what she has become, and the curse of destruction that came with it. Her very existence has morphed into something she sees as a blight against humanity, and she has vowed to make sure that no one should suffer the same fate as her. That no one should ever have to even come across monsters like her.
In the short year after becoming one herself, hunting vampires has become second nature to Nancy. She has never once had any pause in her crusade, driven purely by unbridled rage and blind hatred of all who cursed her to this life and shared her curse.
So then why, why was Robin Buckley different?
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Nancy sat on the bleachers, her gaze fixed on the court below as gym class played out before her. Chrissy was beside her, the two of them chatting easily– nothing too deep, just passing time while the basketball game unfolded.
"You know," Chrissy began, turning slightly towards Nancy, "I don't think I ever really liked Jason. Not the way everyone wanted me to."
Nancy blinked, surprised. She hadn't expected that. "Really?"
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Nancy realizes there might be a reason she never felt in love.
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Post S4V2 : Prequel/Sequel to "Irresponsible". Jonathan's lies about Emerson are exposed... The argument with Nancy takes a tragic turn, their scars pushing them to tear each other apart.
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- Part 1 of Irresponsible... and other problems
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Les mensonges de Jonathan sont éventés, ses tentatives de justification face à Nancy n’arrangent rien. La discussion dégénère jusqu’à prendre un tour tragique…Parfois, l’amour ne suffit pas : certaines cicatrices déchirent durablement ceux qui en sont porteurs.
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i will not ask, neither should you by iceboxotterpops
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
23 Feb 2025
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Ecologist Nancy Wheeler discovers a strange woman in the marshlands she's studying.
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"I've been crawling all over the bombsites with a nun, looking for these"
Set during s11 ep3: Nancy and Sister Frances look for buttercups to comfort a dying man
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An idea begins to dawn upon her. She could wear the lipstick. She could wear the lipstick, and then she’d be Nancy wearing cool black lipstick, and she can be effortlessly cool and confident, and all the ladies will want to kiss her.
She feels dizzy, imagining leaving black lip prints all over faces, necks, chests, thighs. Lightheaded, even. She needs air.
… Or black lipstick.
Nancy can't stop thinking about Eden's lipstick.
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- Part 5 of Rarepairs of Stranger Things
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In my dreams (you know I'm not cynical) by nighttime_wanderer
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
01 Feb 2025
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“The Marriage Pact is an annual matchmaking activity that takes place on American college campuses, by which students fill out compatibility surveys in order to find a partner among fellow participants, who they agree will be their backup "safety" spouse in the future in case they are then unmarried.”
- Wikipedia
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And I'll Never See You Again If I Can Help It by gloriousviktacos
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
01 Feb 2025
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Nancy stared at her appearance in the mirror right in front of her. Her reflection stared right back at her. She could feel the burning in her eyes.
As usual, the bathroom was messy, which was the result of sharing a bathroom with two other people. Her parents had their restroom, but it didn’t mean it was nicer.
Nancy ran her hair through her greasy curls and poked at her smudged makeup as she thought of what had just happened—how her entire life had turned around over one singular event.
She thought the Upside Down was the worst thing to have ever happened but somehow it was topped off with the disappearance of two people she needed.
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Ted and Karen Wheeler die in the summer of '85 and now Nancy has to navigate taking care of her siblings (and their complex feelings).