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It wasn’t all bad. Some of the best moments of Steve’s life were caught up in the monster hunting and the dimension hopping. Maybe all the best moments. It’s impossible to really regret something that brought you together with everyone you really love.
But maybe he was alone in that.
----December 1990. Nancy asks Steve to help her investigate the case of teenage girl who has gone missing.
Steve and Nancy solving a mystery together, some mutual pining and lack of communication, some danger, realizing what we all already know (that they're still in love), and Lucas and Max getting involved eventually.
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"Even when the ground is cracking open and the world may be ending, Steve Harrington, former king of Hawkins High, disappearing for the better part of a week and then showing up at his job with a ring of cuts and bruising around his neck does not go unnoticed. The earth is shaking, the military descending, ash pouring from the sky–take some comfort from gossiping about the rich kid you all once wanted to be."
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A few months after the destruction of the Upside Down, Steve learns about the rumors spread around town about the bat scar on his neck and questions his relationships with his friends. -
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"And after all of it, with his head splitting and the room spinning, what he wanted so badly his chest ached was to not be the adult in the room anymore."
After the climax of the season 2 finale, the characters regroup at the Byers' house. Hopper finds out about Steve's fight with Billy and takes him home.
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Who's With You at the End of the World by Cogentranting
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
16 Feb 2026
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“An empty house for an empty boy. They will always leave you, always abandon you. You will always be alone because everyone knows that inside you is nothing."
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An alternate version of 5x08: As the group makes their play to kill Vecna and rescue the kids, Steve and Nancy get separated from the others in the Upside Down and find themselves in grave danger.In which I answer the question What if Steve and Nancy actually got to have a one-on-one conversation with each other this season? and continue the tradition of beating Steve up every season, which season 5 neglected.
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"There are some repeated nightmares. Reruns of her favorite traumas and worst imaginings, worn familiar in their horrors. This one was new. It’s vivid. It clings to her like a damp mist. It doesn’t fade as she wakes up–the afterimages hang in her mind. The bruises. The blood. The screams. Sitting in the dark cold little motel, they grow more real, not less, taking on the feel of a premonition. "
A nightmare makes Nancy reconsider her relationship with Steve.