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   What Shouldn't Be by HitterJ

   Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

   • Mature
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • F/M
   • Work in Progress

   25 May 2026

   Tags

   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Steve Harrington/Original Female Character(s)
   • Jonathan Byers/Nancy Wheeler
   • Robin Buckley & Steve Harrington
   • Steve Harrington/Nancy Wheeler
   • Steve Harrington & Dustin Henderson
   • Nancy Wheeler & Original Female Character(s)
   • Will Byers & Original Female Character(s)
   • Steve Harrington
   • Nancy Wheeler
   • Jonathan Byers
   • Robin Buckley
   • Dustin Henderson
   • Maxine "Max" Mayfield
   • Lucas Sinclair
   • Mike Wheeler
   • Eleven | Jane Hopper
   • Joyce Byers
   • Jim "Chief" Hopper
   • Barbara "Barb" Holland
   • Shadow Monster | Mind Flayer
   • Henry Creel | One | Vecna
   • Billy Hargrove
   • Eddie Munson
   • Slow Burn
   • Eventual Smut
   • Friends to Lovers
   • Hurt/Comfort
   • Female Friendship
   • Past Abuse
   • very slow burn
   • Steve Harrington is a softy
   • Flirting
   • Flirting without knowing
   • Grief/Mourning
   • Revenge
   • Canon Compliant
   • Might Change of few things here and there
   • End battle gets reworked
   • Canon-Typical Violence
   • Protective Steve Harrington
   • Mutual Pining
   • Babysitting duo
   • Yearning
   • eventual yearning
   • Max Mayfield gets a role model
   • What happens in-between seasons
   • Season 1 sets the stage
   • Season 2 builds a friendship
   • Strong female friendships
   • It might be the true love of this story
   • But also pining and yearning and two people being idiots
   • Idiots in Love
   • They don't know it
   • Nancy has to knock some sense into her friend
   • Elongated epilogue
   • Dual POV
   • Nancy gets a POV every once in a while
   • Recreational Drug Use
   • Romantic Angst
   • Romantic Tension
   • Romantic Soulmates
   • Dirty Thoughts
   • Masturbation
   • oc has nightmares
   • Steve Harrington Has PTSD
   • Wet Dream
   • physical violence
   • Hopper actually dies
   • He fell first/He fell harder
   • Steve Harrington is a hopeless romantic

   Summary

   Nothing ever happens in Hawkins. And yet, here they are.

   Piper Scott and Nancy Wheeler have been best friends for years. The goody two-shoes and the wild child from the wrong side of the tracks are a strange match, and when their other best friend goes missing, it leads them down a path of no return. Other-worlds, possesed kids, monster hunting, and government conspiracies keep them busy and traumatized. All while Piper is falling for her best friend's ex boyfriend, who is so off limits it hurts.

   Steve Harrington does not know how he got into this mess, and how he keeps staying in this mess, but soon feelings develop in surprising places and he'll do anything he can to protect the people he loves.

   Updates several times a week! Tags are updated as chapters come out!

   Season 1 Finished!
   Season 2 Finished!
   Season 3 Finished!
   Season 4 In Progress...

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   255,881

   Chapters:

   40/?

   Comments:

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   Kudos:

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   14 Jan 2026