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Vecna has won. The gate to the Upside Down have been opened, Hawkins is in ruins, and there’s nothing anyone can do to fix it. Except for a group of D&D-playing idiots and their super powered friend.
aka I didn’t want to wait for Stranger Things Season 5 so I’m writing it myself
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27 Dec 2025
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This is not how it’s supposed to fucking go.
Like, they’ve been working so hard. They’ve been making so much progress. Sure: the natural, necessary consequence here is that the more progress they make, the less insight they get into the coming fight. But it’s been over a year. Well over a year. Waiting that long is just…
They hadn’t thought it was all over, but they were so close, it wasn’t wholly just wishful thinking that they’d be done, and back, and home, together, before everything exploded for real.
Not wholly wishful thinking.
But enough that it was now back to bite them in the ass.
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Come November 1987, Steve's priorities have shifted. Drastically. Definitively.
And it's not his fucking problem if no one else
can know whyunderstands it.SPOILERS FOR STRANGER THINGS SEASON 5, VOLUME 1.
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27 Dec 2025
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It's 18 Months Past (and we're lost without you) by 9_of_Clubs
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
03 Jan 2026
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Inexplicably, Steve's hand reaches out to touch the carved letters that don’t even spell out Eddie’s real name. “Fuck. Shitty first date. I mean, if you want it to be. Otherwise, it’s just a talk. Guess you’ll have to tell me sometime.” For a heartbeat, he breathes there, pretends, between inhales and exhales, that the scent of Eddie’s cheap cologne, something spicy and soothing, always mixed with earthy weed, twines into the crests of the wind.
Murmurs after a fashion, “I think he just misses you. And I miss you, and I miss him. And if you were here, you could roll your eyes with me and say something dumb, and I’d huff, and he’d groan, and we’d laugh. It’s all just... It’s all just broken now."
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Or, a series of Steve and Dustin moments that bring us from Eddie's death to Stranger Things 5. Or, Dustin is struggling with Steve being alive and Eddie being dead, and Steve is struggling with missing them both.
Or: 2) Steve sews Dustin’s shirt up when the bullies rip it up. 3) Robin sews Steve up when Dustin rips him up. 4) Dustin can't stop worrying about Steve. 5) After their Vol. 2 fight, Steve breaks down alone. 6) Finally, they hug. 7) Catharsis and naps.
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27 Dec 2025
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“Steve?” Nancy prompted.
“Hey, guys, maybe give him a second, alright?” Eddie said gently, his voice felt like a cool cloth on a feverish forehead, Steve could have easily sighed in relief and relaxed into it.
“A second?” Jonathan said, his voice louder and rougher than Eddie’s, Steve could imagine him gesturing wildly around them just from the way he was speaking. “I don't know if you noticed, Munson, but we’re currently embedded in some freaky flesh-wall-thing.”
“You’re totally right, Byers, I hadn’t noticed that,” Eddie said, slightly sharper but still quiet enough not to cause Steve any pain. “Guess I missed the entire crash, lucky me.”
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What if Steve is actually really hurt following the crash?Bookmarked by madsb
27 Dec 2025
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My own version of s5 bc i said so
Eddie didn't fully die, Vecna didn't want him to, so he's stuck with Max in Vecna's memory.
Steve can't get over Eddie's death, and he won't any time soon
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27 Dec 2025