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Steve Harrington can talk to ghosts. Sometimes. More accurately, ghosts can talk to Steve Harrington, and this fact has already saved his life once. He's really hoping they feel up to helping him a second time around, because it seems like the Upside Down isn't done with Hawkins yet.
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19 Apr 2026
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Pre-canon/canon-divergent AU. How Hopper and Steve’s personal tragedies lead to them crossing paths, and the relationship that is forged as a result.
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07 Apr 2026
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Steve's feet stumbled more than walked, but Hopper didn't care. He half-carried, half-dragged the kid toward the emergency room doors, his jaw clenched so tight it ached. Every step felt like it took too long.
As the two of them started to slowly stumble to the front of the ER, Hopper took a brief moment to think about it. Took a moment to think how despite everything—despite barely knowing the kid, despite all his preconceptions and assumptions, despite the amount of times Steve had purposefully acted like a smart-ass punk just to piss him off—Hopper had realized something tonight:
Steve Harrington was a good kid.
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- Part 1 of Under Pressure
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- English
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- 13/13
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01 Apr 2026
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“Alright Dustin–” Steve rasps, and some distant part of his brain registers it, the change from Henderson to Dustin, but Dustin’s not done. He looks at Steve, and all he can see is Eddie.
He rears his arm back and punches Steve right on the jaw.
Or, a character study of Dustin throughout Vol. 2
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23 Mar 2026
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Steve's hidden this power his entire life, but the beast within him has priorities and it won't let what it cares for get hurt just because of something so little as a secret.
A series of connected one shots involving super powered protective Steve and focused on him being the mom everyone deserves.
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09 Mar 2026
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His doctors had been very clear about the dangers of repeated head trauma. But really, what did they know? There wasn’t a single doctor who told him to expect time travel as a symptom and that was pretty clearly his biggest one.
[Or, Steve time travels when he gets concussions. It's a recurring problem.]
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- English
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- 1/1
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07 Mar 2026
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All Steve knows is that he was in an accident when he was ten that resulted in total amnesia--at least, that's what he's been told. In reality, Steve was one of the numbers, abandoned when Brenner deemed his powers too unstable to work with. With the help of the kids, El is able to unlock Steve's hidden abilities.
Things are hard for Steve as he adapts to his new, constant powers. He struggles to overcome the phycological toll that all lies he's been told over the past nine years. He and the kids also struggle to figure out his powers, as they have a different, more destructive flavor than El's.
Steve's parents make matters worse when they bring a figure from his past life back into his world. Will Steve play into their hands and become the weapon he was always meant to be? What friends will he make along the way? Will the buzzing ever stop?
Read to find out :p**marked as complete because the story is done, but I might add a unimportant prequel one-shot later
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06 Mar 2026
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Floundering in post-high school limbo, Steve is still trying to figure it all out. Dustin encourages him to take some chances, including getting to know his odd new friend Eddie Munson. When strange things start to happen around him, Steve begins to question Eddie’s intentions - and his own safety.
As it usually goes in Hawkins, things aren’t always what they seem.
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- Part 1 of Perplexity
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02 Mar 2026
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But everyone else is functioning. Steve is turning in empty tests and he’s taking walks to places he’s never been. He’s carrying a baseball bat imbedded with nails everywhere. He’s doing perimeter checks in his own home.
Maybe what he needs is exposure therapy. Like, maybe if he goes into the tunnel now, he’ll see that it’s just an empty old dirt hole. No bleeding kids, no interdimensional monsters, no flashing lights. And he’ll be normal again.
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28 Feb 2026
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He’s upright, at least. Leaned up against something, head tipped back and sort of sitting, with his hands bound, and he almost wants to laugh, on account of how much it reminds him of that first November, handcuffed in the bowels of Hawkins National Lab and that white haired son of a bitch framed in the doorway. Jim squeezes his eyes shut, shakes his head a bit, and opens them again, looking straight ahead then, and would you look at that, he thinks. This is the worst day.
Across from him, Steve Harrington sits flanked by two Soviet soldiers, beefy mother fuckers too, and he looks exactly as terrible as when they went beneath Starcourt and Jim only had time to think, Kid, what the fuck, I’m putting your ass in a bubble after this, so not that much time has passed, he thinks, he hopes. He’s handcuffed too, hands in his lap, and he smirks at Jim, all teenaged boy bravado that he can see through in a heartbeat.
“Hey, Chief,” says Harrington.
Hopper, Steve, and the art of survival.
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- Part 4 of eating in the underworld
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Bookmarked by Carlas
27 Feb 2026
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Steve gets taken to USSR with Hopper. Loses his hearing.
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While down in the tunnels, the tunnels close, leaving Steve and the kids trapped. Now, they have to wait for the others to find them. Steve promised he’d keep these kids safe, so that’s what he’s going to do. After all, he’s a damn good babysitter. Even in creepy Upside Down tunnels that are collapsing more by the minute.
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15 Feb 2026
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the night so black (that the darkness hummed) by meliebee
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
01 May 2020
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Two weeks after a girl called Eleven closed the gate and retreated back to her cabin in the forest, Steve Harrington picked up a bat and walked into the woods because he couldn’t sleep.
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14 Feb 2026
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The kids always seem to forget he dated Nancy Wheeler for an entire year of his life before they fell apart and it broke his heart so bad he hasn’t been able to love anyone since. There was no overlap, just Nancy one day and a growing collection of middle schoolers that emotionally imprinted on him the next.
And then Robin, of course.
Love is a lot of things, he’s realized in the past two years. Though he's still figuring out how to put it all together.
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- 5/5
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07 Feb 2026
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Arthur Harrington would do anything to make his wife happy. Even if it leads to other people suffering.
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Steve is really Joyce's son.- Language:
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06 Feb 2026
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06 Feb 2026
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Steve Harrington thinks he might be dead. He stares at the complexion of the boy in the mirror and thinks that maybe he didn't make it out of the upside down after all. The For list is certainly longer than the Against list. The idea doesn't seem so unlikely after everything he's seen these last few years. Adds himself to the pile of bodies that has been steadily growing in his periphery. A fly lands on the mirror and he thinks of the moniker that got thrown around the middle school before it was tossed around the high school. Little Will Byers. Zombie boy. Says it aloud to the fly.
"Zombie Boy."
The words sit too comfortably on his tongue to be anything but true. Steve Harrington is dead and he is so incredibly fucked.
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- Part 1 of Tapes from the Glovebox
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- English
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05 Feb 2026
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"They say I'm the spit of you, and they're not wrong - I bury my head too."
A series of standalone stories in which Hopper is Steve's biological father.
i. they say we've got the same hair. - both Hopper & Steve find out they are father & son.
ii. he's gonna notice me. - Steve has always known that Hopper is his father.
iii. your daddy lives with himself. - Hopper has always known that Steve is his son.
iv. my father's house- Words:
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Bookmarked by Carlas
01 Feb 2026
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The Chief of Police is tall, with broad shoulders and a thick moustache. He’s got a gun on his belt and a hat on his head with such a wide brim he could be mistaken for a cowboy.
Steve knows his face from the pictures. Knows his eyes from the mirror.
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In which Steve always knew Hop was his dad.
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- Part 2 of that's me and you.
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01 Feb 2026
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they say we've got the same hair by millcrs (remoose)
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
21 Aug 2025
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Fate has a funny way of flipping everything on its head. It has a way of calling back to moments that felt so… nothing at the time, so utterly insignificant, yet brought a whole entire person into being.
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Steve gets a mandatory blood test following exposure to the demobats. It changes everything and nothing at all.
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- Part 1 of that's me and you.
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- English
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- 4/4
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01 Feb 2026
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and it looks like i'm caught red-handed by millcrs (remoose)
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
05 Mar 2024
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There’s someone close by who smells of cigarettes. Steve can’t have one because he left his jacket on the kitchen floor. Bunched up, crimson, like a giant carnation.
Hopper’s hand is warm on his cheek.
“Kid,” he says, as if in a tunnel. “Let’s get you home.”
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- Part 2 of kid in lonely town
Bookmarked by Carlas
01 Feb 2026