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On Friday, November 26th, 1976, Steve's brother died.
He doesn't remember much about the day itself. It was cold and foggy, he thinks, but so is every day in November in Hawkins. He was in school, and then he wasn't. He was in the car, and then he wasn't. He was at home, and then he was in the car again, and then he was at Grandma's house watching TV on her soft pink carpet.
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05 Mar 2026
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He watched Mrs. Byers meet the young girl's eyes over her son's shoulders and he was suddenly hit with a crystal clear image in his mind.
Hopper. Standing with his back to the gate. Smiling softly, resigned. But filled with so much love.
Joyce. Watching, stretched impossibly thin. Understanding with a sense of grief, too terrible to name.
She turns the keys.
"Steve?" Jonathan is half out of the ambulance, using all of his weakened strength to keep Steve upright. "What's wrong?"
"Hopper. It's Hopper. He's gone." Steve doesn't know how he knows it, but he does.
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After the Battle of Starcourt, Steve struggles with the damages that the Russians left behind. In dealing with the aftermath, with the help of Robin and the Party, he uncovers a larger conspiracy at hand than just re-opening the Gate.
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03 Mar 2026
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“I told him I’m done.”
A pause.
“Did you mean it?”
Steve sighs. “No.”
This is a fic about Steve through the eyes of the people who love him most, and through his own. A love letter to Steve's character, basically.
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28 Feb 2026
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(something happens and I'm) head over heels by GibbousLunation
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
16 Jan 2023
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Eddie made a strangled disbelieving noise, expression flickering. “You are not apologizing to me right now, for like, feeling a normal way about stuff. I can’t believe you.”
Steve pushed a shaking hand through his hair. His heart rate no longer in his ears meant he felt he could at least think a little more clearly. “Maybe it was the heat. Doesn’t always have to be something messed up, right?”
Eddie gave him a placating nod. “Sure, heat exhaustion is a helluva thing.”
It had been happening a lot recently. The… forgetting. Zonking out. Whatever. He was pretty sure he was just extra exhausted, it had been a few weeks since everything but it might have just been the adrenaline or something finally wearing off. Sometimes it was like he just forgot someone was speaking, or couldn’t remember for a moment what they’d been talking about. Like blinking out of a fog maybe.
It does not get better, in fact, it actually continues to get worse.
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27 Feb 2026
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Steve Harrington wakes up in his childhood bedroom with the memory of dying still burning in his veins.
Hawkins is quiet. Too quiet.
It’s November 6, 1983, a date that should have changed everything, and somehow… didn’t.Everyone is here. Everyone is safe.
The monsters are gone. The scars never happened.And Steve is the only one who remembers a future that no longer exists.
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25 Feb 2026