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'The huge oak at the end of the street is gone when she finally turns onto the cul de sac where she grew up. She knew it would be. It came down in a storm about a month ago and it had been the major topic of discussion when her mother had called.
It had been reassuring, in a way. She could relax in the knowledge that the most exciting thing happening in Hawkins was the tree at the end of the street managing to fall in the exact right direction so that it didn’t take down any houses with it and how long it was taking to pick up the pieces. That was until her mother had somehow managed to segue from ‘they’re still cleaning up down at Millers' into ‘your father isn’t doing well and I think you should come home.’
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Five years later, Nancy comes back.
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30 Jan 2026
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Steve has always had trouble trusting people. When Nancy asks for his trust in the final battle against the Mind Flayer, though, he has no other choice but to give it.
Stancy Week Day 4 // Word Prompt: Trust
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29 Jan 2026
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there’s only so many directions her mind can be heading at once—saving the world, saving her sister, praying her mother and father won’t die, asking that mike’s okay wherever he is, rationalizing her own future, hoping that she won’t die before she has the chance to figure it out, carving the score over and over and over and over again, the tally marks she’s considered pressing into the sensitive skin near her elbow, one, two, three…
or: s5ep6 if it was stancy haha u know the drill
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29 Jan 2026
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it’s only when she leans down at his window, waiting a second before those mood-ring eyes are back and searching her, that she says, “thanks for the ride, steve.”
“see you at school, nance,” he says, like he knows he’s earned the right to it.
or: steve and nancy. and a car. and a song. and a dream.
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29 Jan 2026
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So there Nancy is, driving to the store in the dead of night, fifteen minutes out of the way because she’s feeling paranoid, with a pregnancy test rammed up her sleeve, hightailing it to the cashier as fast as humanly possible, when she turns the corner and there’s Steve Harrington.
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29 Jan 2026