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After the death of her mother, Jessica Munson and her brother move to Hawkins to live with their uncle. She slowly adapts to her new life with the help of her new best friend, but still feels like an outcast in town. Then Will Byers goes missing, and she finds people who make her feel accepted.
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Midnight, November 1983: Head cheerleader Rhiannon Liu’s perfect life shatters when an occult-obsessed rock band drags her best friend and her into a deadly ritual. After it goes horribly wrong, making her the sole survivor, she’s left with an altered appearance and an insatiable hunger she can’t explain. None of it matters when she just wants to be normal again; not the mourner who lost her other half, and definitely not Hawkins’s famous final girl.
But her grip on the student body is slipping right out of her perfectly manicured hands. Just as she considers calling it quits on the popularity game, Steve Harrington approaches her with a bizarre plan: "I wanna get back at Nancy and you wanna be at the top again. So… what if we joined forces and pretended to be together?"
How very.
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It's 1985 and in the quiet months before Hawkins starts to burn again, Mary-Elizabeth MacKinley is already unraveling. She's graduating this year. Vinyl Frontier is relocating. Eddie’s leaving for Indianapolis. Her mom is seeing someone new. Babysitting Dustin is about to be a thing of the past. And the future—whatever that even means for a girl like her—is coming fast. To make things more confusing, somewhere in the middle of it all, Steve Harrington keeps showing up with dumb jokes, soft eyes, and a patience she doesn’t know what to do with.
Then Starcourt Mall opens. Neon lights, minimum wage, and new friendships start pulling everyone back together. But beneath the food court and escalators, something ugly is waking up. Something that makes all the other battles they've fought look harmless. Something that makes the change of growing up feel like the least of Mac's problems.
***Please read my Season 1 & 2 rewrites 'Distorted Paths' and 'Residual Shadows' first to get the full story!***
THIS IS SET DURING SEASON THREE! EACH SEASON WILL HAVE A SEPERATE FIC IN THIS SERIES! <3
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Lori Hargrove never expected to die from being mauled by alien dogs - in Hawkins, Indiana of all places.
Yet here she was, bleeding out.
*Stranger Things Omegaverse AU*
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Thalia Munson was adopted when she was twelve years old. Her memories before that are non-existent and the memories she's made since have been of someone else. This new person she created in order to exist. She couldn't remember her name. Nor a single face or place, but she knew one word. One that she repeated for weeks. Two. A number.
Fitting in is easy. It's being yourself while trying to fit in that is hard. Thalia has never tried to be a popular girl nor to fall for the popular guys or girls, but when her best friend, Nancy Wheeler, starts dating the King of Hawkins High, things are bound to, and will, change.
Evil is rising in Hawkins and Thalia is unknowingly one of the largest parts of it. Not knowing anything about who you used to be is safe. Because if you don't know, then how can anyone else? Secrets can't stay hidden forever and soon 'yourself' will find it's way to the surface. What happens then?
Steve Harrington x OC
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Annabeth Kline is... weird.
And Steve Harrington really only hung out with her because she helped him in English class senior year. He wouldn't be caught dead otherwise being around a girl who only wore black and leather jackets and ripped tights and long beaded jewelry. In every sense of the phrase, Annabeth was so far from Steve's type of girl, and yet, he can't help but feel intrigued by her. And he can't help but feel like he can't get away from her, either.
Enter her best friend Robin Buckley. A girl who Steve could find beautiful. A girl that was like Annie, but at least... normal. And maybe Steve would have a chance with her. And he'd never have to bother longing after Annabeth Kline, who was anything but the normal girl Steve hoped for. At least, the normal he thought he had hoped for.
// in other words, this is an oc-insert fic in which Steve end-games with a dorky goth girl 'cause lowkey that's what they should have done with him //
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Lisa Henderson didn't like Steve Harrington. Not at all.
They were best friends as kids and now they didn't talk, and Lisa was content in forgetting about his existence. That was until he started dating her best friend, Nancy Wheeler. Trying to adapt to his unwelcome return into her life, as well as trying to stay out of whatever her brother Dustin and his friends were secretly up to was no easy feat, especially when literal monsters were thrown into the mix.
Lisa Henderson didn't like Steve Harrington, but she also couldn't seem to get rid of him.
She'd soon come to realise that maybe, just maybe, he wasn't actually the worst thing in the world.
**Originally posted in 2023 but reposting with edits in August 2025!!**
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She left without a trace. She came back with scars. And Hawkins will never be the same.
When Noelle Henderson returns to Hawkins after eight long years, she’s not the same girl she used to be - and she has no intention of becoming her again. Hardened by trauma and fiercely protective of her younger brother, she keeps to herself, avoids attachments, and tries to ignore the boy with the big hair and bigger attitude who acts like he’s seen a ghost every time he looks at her.
Eddie Munson isn’t exactly known for keeping quiet - but when it comes to Noelle, he says nothing. Because he remembers. And she doesn’t.
As Hawkins begins to unravel again and secrets claw their way to the surface, Noelle is dragged into a war she doesn’t understand - a war with monsters, with guilt, and with her own heart. And somehow, Eddie is always there, pulling her in closer just when she swears she’ll run.
Love is dangerous in Hawkins. But some people - and some memories - are impossible to outrun. -
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As a decidedly not-popular junior at Hawkins High, Dustin's big sister is very protective of her little brother and his friends. When Will goes missing, she is not going to just sit around and hope for the best. Nothing may ever happen in Hawkins, but things are certainly happening now. And the kids are involved, so she is involved.
A Stranger Things story where Dustin Henderson has an older sister who does her best to protect the kids from day one instead of them being left on their own all the time. Yes, Steve Harrington will eventually be the de facto parent figure for this little found family, but this time he won't be a single parent...
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Benjamin Hargrove never gave much thought to the family that had abandoned him or the twin brother he'd never known. He lived a quiet life, working on the pier, spending his days out on the water, and keeping himself busy. That is, until the day a startled, doe-eyed brunette called him "Billy" before passing out at his feet.
Disclaimer: Unsure how dark this is going to get but will be editing tags as I go!
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"Max had spotted the bruises Mallory hid. She’d watched Billy grab her too hard in the kitchen and mutter something that made her go stiff. She’d heard sniffles in the bathroom, seen her sister’s red-rimmed eyes when she’d smile thinly and say she’s fine.
She didn’t understand it—not fully. But she knew one thing: this wasn’t a choice. Not anymore…maybe not ever."
Mallory and Max continue surviving in the hell that Billy built. Picks up where Part I left off.
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!!DEAD DOVE!! This is a DARK, non-con heavy emotional horror story. Don't like, don't read!
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- Part 2 of The Mayfield Roses
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Seventeen-year-old Josefina Navarro has a secret; one she tries to hide from the world. After moving to the small town of Hawkins, Indiana with her estranged father in the Fall of 1984, a shrouded mystery from her past is revealed. As the strange and unusual creep into her life, a revelation of alternate dimensions and monsters materialize. It's only then she can find the key to her secret...if only she can endure it.
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Another Version Of Me, I Was In It by yvoneslittlepalace
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
28 Sep 2025
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Jeanette McElarney, una joven originaria de Minnesota. Quien ahora vive en una pequeña y, a veces pareciera, olvidada ciudad: Smalltown, Indiana. Donde parecen repudiarla. Puede que sea por acento, tal vez es su ropa. Pero está claro porque es: su color de piel, su pelo afro.
Steve Harrington, el rey indiscutible de la preparatoria Smalltown High, parece tenerlo todo: popularidad, amigos, una vida perfectamente planeada. Está por graduarse y comenzar la universidad... o eso creía. Porque como dicen: espera lo inesperado.
Durante una fiesta de fin de curso, algo sucede. Cientos de adolescentes bailando al ritmo de una música que parece no cesar, al igual que las sirenas de la patrulla. La policía llega. Huyen. Un coche los ciega. Y al despertar… ya no están en Smalltown, ni en 1986.
Ahora, sabiendo el futuro, lo que tiene que suceder y lo que pueden evitar.
¿Podrán estos jóvenes no repetir la historia?
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The overwhelming scent of rotting filled my nostrils.
I sat upright, using my hands to prop myself up.
Getting to my feet, I surveyed my surroundings. The frigid air made the darkness all the more unwelcoming.
I wasn't afraid of the dark. I was afraid of hypothermia, starvation, and dehydration.-
All Cam wanted was to live a quiet life, trying to push her traumatic memories behind her. One night at a dreary house party, her life turns upside down. Literally.
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"i don't think i ever hated you, mads"
"im pretty sure you said that to me once"As in...Madeleine Brookes was the most perfect girl ever...besides a few problems that she faced at home but to the average eye she really was perfect. she was insanely beautiful, she was the captain of the Hawkins Track Team, she was smart, she had her entire life planned out by 13; but that all changed once a boy she babysat went missing and accidentally rekindles a friendship with a boy she once hated
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“Okay,” Eddie shrugged.
“Okay?”
“Okay, I’ll go out with you.”
“Really?” It was Steve’s turn to stare at Eddie with wide eyes.
“Sure. But pro tip, Harrington. Flowers? Really? What about me screams ‘give me flowers’?”
Steve chuckled awkwardly and made a mental note to tone down on the flowers as Eddie took them and tossed them onto the kitchen counter.
Or: Steve and Eddie have a tumultuous relationship and maybe Steve meets someone new.
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How to kiss your way through the first semester of senior year – Eliza’s version by hearth_of_hestia
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
27 Sep 2025
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The beginning of senior year brings more changes with it than Eliza could have ever expected. Outside the move of the Byers family to California, the deaths during the mall fire haunting the town and lingering trauma, high school still continues to be just as challenging and nothing is as it was before. Somehow developing a genuine friendship with Robin while ignoring her feelings, trying to keep the Party from falling apart and figuring out the perfect college to go to are just the tip of the iceberg.
Or an interlude between S3 and S4 in which Eliza and Steve need to deal with the impending future and what that means for their friendship while trying to get over their crushes (with varying success).
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- Part 6 of media in vita in morte sumus
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Kat Byers only wanted one night to breathe. One night without responsibilities, without babysitting, without pretending everything was fine.
Then Will disappeared, and everything cracked.
Now the world's upside down, her head's still pounding from cheap beer, and no one seems to have any answers.
Set during Stranger Things Season 1, this is a retelling through the eyes of the oldest Byers sibling. Kat has a sharp tongue, a soft heart, and is one step from burning Hawkins to the ground. This story is about grief, guilt, found family, and the girl standing at the center in combat boots, clove cigarette in hand, and no idea how to stop holding it all together. To make matters worse, she keeps getting dragged into Steve Harrington's orbit, igniting the slowest possible burn between two people pretending they don't care.
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Stranger Things Have Happened in a Spirit Halloween by R_D_Golds
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
26 Sep 2025
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Modern Day AU
Steve Harrington has a new job at a local Spirit Halloween. While navigating his own life, relationships and friendships, Vecna has continued to grow in strength and power. But can Steve Harrington survive this clash with the Upside Down?
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"You're still in love with her and I know it. You think I don't see how you look at her?" she exclaimed at him and he shook his head, grabbing hold of her wrist and stopping her from running away. He was done with running. "I don't love her. I haven't loved her for a long time. I haven't loved her since my pain-in-the-ass neighbour fell into my pool that day." (Steve/OC)