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Steve Harrington dies in the Upside Down, but then he isn't dead and he isn't in the Upside Down. Now he's got to figure out how to save his kids from the future because he is a good babysitter.
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in season 4 when Vecna is after Max, she writes 7 letters to her friends and family. we know what one of them said, but what about the other 6?
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“A creature of despair,
not that that should be a cause for concern.”Maxine Mayfield has always been strange. She liked to play video games, she liked to skateboard, she liked to run off at night and eat squirrels while howling at the moon. Average things, in her opinion.
But she has a secret. A secret that is totally unrelated to the latter activity.
Maxine Mayfield is a werewolf.
It wasn’t as hard to hide as the movies make it out to be. But it wasn’t easy mentally. She would always be an outcast, doomed to never feel the presence of a pack.
That is, until she moves to Hawkins, Indiana after biting a kid in her old school. They’re not wolves like her, but they’ll do.“There’s no more community gardens,
so I guess I’ll have to settle for you.” -
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A in-between Season 2 and Season 3 Fic that follows Steve Harrington just navigating his new life along with facing new issues and experiencing life as a babysitter.
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Steve Harrington just wanted to go for a drive the night of November 6, 1983.
Just a drive.
He didn't expect to stumble across Will Byers running alone in the woods, let alone an inter-dimensional flower faced monster out for blood.
He definitely didn't expect to be dragged into something so much bigger than him that would flip his life upside down forever.
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Rewind, Relive, and Rebound by LittleGreenGremlin
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016), The Black Phone (2022), The Black Phone - Joe Hill
07 Jan 2026
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In the wake of the intense battle, Hopper’s post-Russian resurrection, the Byers' move back to Hawkins, and the group’s gradual recovery, the party decided to have bi-weekly movie nights at either the Byers or the Harrington residence. After the first month of the kids and Eddie arguing over what movie to watch, Steve had decided he had enough, and they started to rotate whose choice of movie they would watch.
On May 31st 1986, it just so happens to be one Dustin Henderson's turn to pick. The day of, Dusin spends his morning looking through his own tapes and in the process, discovers a banged up and unlabeled black tape. His natural curiosity moves him to pick this as his movie selection as neither he nor his mother can remember what exactly is on this tape.Little does he know, this decision will lead to hidden truths being revealed and a complete destruction of how he views one of the most important people in his life.
⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯
Or in other words, the party watches The Black Phone and Steve Harrington must confront his true self and his past. Also includes integration of how and why this tape exists into the overall world of Stranger Things. -
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Steve shook his head, irritated. If Max didn’t want to do something, it wasn’t going to happen. He had seen her do that before. She was good at shutting people out. Him. Lucas. Everyone.
‘I’m not a Max-whisperer.’, Steve confessed in a low voice.
‘You kind of are.’, Nancy smiled sadly at him. ‘She trusts you, Steve.’
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Five times people noticed just how close Steve and Max were and the one time no one could.
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- Part 2 of MADMAX
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“Everything okay, Max?”
“Yes, no, well,” Max sighed, still not looking up, “No.”
“You’ve come to the right place then,” Robin said, leaning against the island across from Max.
“Would you mind just talking?” Max asked, looking up, “I’ll find a way to make it about me, but I just don’t know where to start.”
Or: What could have been keeps creeping up on Max, and Robin is able to offer her own perspective.
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- Part 1 of We're Going to Be Friends
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Not your typical ‘Little.’ by maxmayfieldisalittleshit
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
07 Jan 2026
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Max Mayfield was a lot of things, a smart mouth with a skateboard. The girl who’d jammed a syringe into her own brother’s neck and didn’t even look away.
Tough, stubborn, impossible to move or get rid of once she’d dug her heels in.
No one told Max “No.” Not the boys. Not adults. Not monsters. Nobody.
Until.
August had crept up on her like a bruise. Two weeks since the mall. Two weeks since Billy. Her birthday, which she forgot about… and her classification appointment, the one she’d been pretending didn’t exist. She didn’t need to know what she was. She’d get neutral, it was the obvious answer.
MAXINE MAYFIELD, FEMALE, FOURTEEN YEARS OLD, CLASSIFICATION: LITTLE. (AGES: 0-3). HIGHLY SENSITIVE.
“No hun, nothing went wrong with the test. You are a little.”
“You’ve gotta be shitting me!”
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When Hopper and Joyce go out of town, Max gets really sick at a D&D sleepover, and the kids call Steve for help. He, of course, immediately shows up, but he has some serious doubts about his own caretaking abilities.
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- Part 1 of Steve "The Mom" Harrington
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He finds her on Friday, the 18th of November, 1983. She's a small kid, out in the woods and the freezing cold, the first time he's ever seen a girl with hair that short. His parents are leaving for some business trip in the morning. He is going to be alone.
She's alone.
Steve hates the idea of another kid growing up alone.(In which Steve finds Eleven in the winter of ‘83, before Hopper could, and the sudden changes that pull apart his life. Some are far deeper in the bones than he ever could've imagined.)
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- Part 1 of Anyway, Don't be a Stranger
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The Babysitter by KatrinaCastillo
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016), Stranger Things: The First Shadow - Trefry
06 Jan 2026
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Before that night in the Creel House, Steve wrote a series of letters for the Party. “Just in case,” he said when giving the stack to Nancy, hoping they wouldn’t be needed.
More than a year later, Steve is still in his Vecna-induced coma and the Party has read their letters so many times they can probably recite them from memory.
Or: a Steve Harrington-centric Stranger Things 5 rewrite.
(ST5 spoilers inside)
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Steve Harrington had a dream, a silent yet big one: having a huge family of his own. Four, five, even six little Harringtons... and his dream girl on his side to raise them with all the love he has to give to the world. And here, this dream comes true <3 Stranger Things Steve Harrington au where we explore his life with his girl and their six children (headcanons, one shots, drabbles... you name it!).
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"What happened?" Jonathan asked after I ended the call
"it's Steve, he was beaten up standing at our door" I explained to Joyce and Jonathan, we were sitting in the living room, "what, he got into another fight and came crying to you?" Jonathan chuckled, it didn't sat right with me, "she said he looked terrified almost""He seems i little out of it since the gate closed" Joyce said, "I also saw that his parents came back"
"His parents?"
Jonathan and me both say, "he never talked about them" He said
What ever this was, I didn't felt at peace the whole night.I started my own fic about Steve having issues since the first gate closed, he can’t cooperate with whatever happened and his parents came home. Do I need to say more?
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“Uh, Nance?”
His anxious voice brings her back to reality. This isn’t a proposal to do… anything. Just a trip. With some of the kids.
“That’s… very sweet, Steve,” she starts, and winces because it already sounds like a negative to her own ears. “Won’t, uh, Jennifer mind?”
“Jessica,” he corrects quickly. “And, hum, I don’t think so. We broke it off like three months ago, actually.”
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Or: the one where Steve invites Nancy on a summer trip with three nuggets and they try (and fail) to pretend they don’t still have feelings for each other.
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“When did you become a softie, Steve?" He shrugged, standing up.
“Probably around the time my younger sibling stand-ins started doing things like falling into 18-month long comas. I'd say that’s about when.”
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OR I wrote a Max reunion scene with the folks who were in the Upside Down because the Duffers didn't want to.
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PUSHING IT DOWN AND PRAYING - max mayfield x fem oc by skylarrrrisgayyy
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
06 Jan 2026
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Max Mayfield x fem oc
ELIZABETH HARRINGTON, was committed to her life being “perfect” but that was all thrown upside down when a certain redhead came into the picture.
Story gets in depth around 3rd season but there is background info for everything. This is my first time publishing my work and feedback is very encouraged!
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But then Eddie saw a whole pile of kids get in Harrington’s car, and he overheard Nancy Wheeler say that “Steve was babysitting,” and that image didn’t even remotely align with anything Eddie knew about King Steve “The Hair” Harrington, but he figured he didn’t know much, anyway, and it wasn’t any of his business, when it came down to it.
Eddie thought so little of it, in fact, that he had almost forgotten that Max had apparently been babysat by one Steve Harrington. That is, until Steve Harrington started showing up at the trailer park, picking up Max and driving away, and then Eddie wouldn’t see Max at home again for days on end.
Eddie didn’t know much about babysitting, but he was pretty sure the gigs were more of an hourly thing.
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Or: Steve takes care of everyone, but Eddie takes care of him.
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When Steve opens his eyes, Eddie is already looking at him. It’s hard to see in the evening light. Everything is dusk and smoke. All of Eddie has been softened by it. His smile lines, the faint bags under his eyes, his hair. It’s all… quiet.
“Hold out for another year,” Eddie says.
“Hmm?” Steve feels like he’s sliding out of clarity. The world is so smooth now. God, he’s high. He laughs. “What’re you talking about?”
“Don’t go to college. Hold out for one more year, Harrington. Then we’re hitting the goddamn road. Me and you.”
Steve waits for Eddie to laugh, to take it back. “You’re serious.”
“Deadly. So?” Eddie offers him the joint.
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Suddenly, his vision returned to normal, and he heard someone talking. Nancy kneeled in front of him from where he sat on the church steps, trying to get his attention.
“-eve, Steve! Are you okay?” Nancy worried.
Jonathon stood to his side, seeming a bit jealous of the attention Steve was getting from her; he couldn't care less, though. He wiped under his nose only for his hand to come back smeared with some blood.
(Stranger Things, but Steve has powers or something, I have a plan for this, I swear. I have it all planned)