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  1. Public Bookmark 8

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    It’s a picture frame.

    The only one in his apartment actually.

    Mike feels his throat closing up before he even flips it over. It was a gift from Will, shortly after graduation. Mrs. Byers had snapped the photograph of the two of them laughing, arms slung around each other’s shoulders. Neither of them are looking at the camera, neither of them even knew she was snapping the picture.

    It’s maybe the only unadulterated moment of joy Mike can remember having in years. It was just after they’d thrown their caps in the air, the moment of realization that they had done it, they’d graduated high school with escape from Hawkins was on the horizon.
    A crack runs through the glass of the frame now, damage from its fall onto Mike’s hard floors. The fracture divides the two of them, splitting them up on opposite sides of a seemingly impassable abyss.

    Fitting, Mike thinks.

     

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    Or;

    Mike falls apart when he moves to college. Will tries to pick up the pieces.

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    09 Jan 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 10

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    Robin tilted her head, her hair framing her face, "You got a lot of thoughts bouncing in there, huh? I mean, I don't blame you."

            "Uh, yeah. I guess I do."

            Mike really didn't want to talk to her, but she continued, "I'm assuming you know what he meant, yeah?"

            "...What?"

            "Sorry, I'm not making any sense, am I? I do this a lot, just ask Steve. Or my parents. Well, you don't know my parents, but that's not the point-" she closed her eyes, shaking her hands and head to ground herself. "You... You know who his crush is."

            Robin looked at him. He nodded slowly.

            "But you don't know who Tammy is."

            Mike nodded again, slower than before. His confusion was apparent on his face.

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    09 Jan 2026

  3. Public Bookmark *

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    Steve hasn’t been sleeping. The panic attacks are getting worse, the ringing in his ears won’t stop, and he can’t look in the mirror without seeing what the Russians did to him. So he does something he never thought he’d do—he shows up at Jonathan Byers’ door asking for weed.

    What starts as a desperate attempt to quiet his mind for a few hours turns into something else entirely: an honest conversation, a vulnerability he didn’t know he was capable of, and maybe, finally, the understanding that he doesn’t have to carry his trauma alone.

     

    tl;dr: Steve Harrington shows up at Jonathan Byers’ house with a lie about wanting to try weed “for fun.” Jonathan sees right through it.

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    04 Jan 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 26

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    Steve falls. Jonathan catches him.

    And, in the aftermath, Steve falls for Jonathan.

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    03 Jan 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 6

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    Jonathan rubbed the back of his neck. “And after I got back from California, I kept thinking—God, this is gonna sound stupid—but I thought you and her would’ve been really good together. And maybe I messed that up. i thought that she wouldn’t choose me anymore because i did not want Emerson like she did, i told her it won't work, she was so supportive but god i couldn’t stop thinking about you-"

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    03 Jan 2026