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Nancy stirs her cappuccino. “I just thought—well, it’s been a year since…everything. And since we’re all in New York anyway, I just thought it might be nice to…I don’t know, do something normal together. For once.”
She has the look on her face she always gets when she’s dead-set on something, but beneath that is something imploring—like she truly wants the rest of them to be dead-set on this, too. It's the very expression that has made it impossible for Steve to say no to her all these years, and without meaning to, Steve glances at Jonathan.
He isn’t surprised to find the same recognition he feels reflected on Jonathan’s face, too. But alongside that expression is something resembling what Steve’s pretty sure is...acceptance. As though, just like Steve, Jonathan already knows he’s going to cave.
Or: Nancy, Jonathan, Steve, Robin, and Argyle’s Secret Santa in December 1988.
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“That’s—” Nancy starts, faltering a little. “I’m not leading him on.”
Robin looks pointedly at the hickey on Nancy’s shoulder.
Nancy flushes, tugging her shirt to hide the mark. “I’m not,” she says again, and Robin wonders how on Earth Nancy can still be this tightly wound after getting laid. She can only assume this is a byproduct of sleeping with men. “That’s—that’s not what this is.”
“Then please, Nance, enlighten me on what this is, exactly.”
“We’re just—we’re just blowing off some steam! Alright?”
“Nancy,” Robin says in disbelief. “If you just wanted to blow off some steam, you wouldn’t do it with your ex.”
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Their trek to Hawkins Lab starts alright. But after about ten minutes of a—frankly suspicious—lack of Demogorgon sightings, Steve starts not-so-subtly suggesting they pick up the pace, which Jonathan, evidently, takes as a personal attack, so the next thing Nancy knows, the two of them are trying so hard to outpace each other that they end up yards ahead of her and Dustin.
"How do you even put up with them?" Dustin asks, watching Steve and Jonathan from afar with a wrinkled nose.
"Practice," Nancy mutters.
Or: two conversations between Nancy and Dustin and Jonathan and Steve in the Upside Down.
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someday i'm gonna be somebody people want by dharmainitiative
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
23 Nov 2025
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Nancy untwists her hands and smooths them down the front of her skirt. "Look. What if we just…say it at the same time?"
"Oh." Jonathan clears his throat. "Yeah. Okay. Uh, on three?"
He doesn't realize how childish the idea sounds until after he's said it, but if anything, Nancy looks relieved. "Sure. On three."
"Okay," Jonathan nods. "One…two..."
“Three," Nancy finishes.
And then he blurts, “I don’t think I like having sex,” at the same time as Nancy says, “I think I like Steve.”
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august slipped away (into a moment in time) by dharmainitiative
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
11 Oct 2025
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Erica raises her eyebrows behind her sunglasses. “You're hanging out with Nancy and Jonathan now? Didn’t Nancy dump you and stomp all over your heart last year?”
“Whoa, that is not what happened.”
Erica turns to Robin, as if seeking confirmation, and Robin says, “Well…”
“Robin!”
“What I can’t understand,” Dustin starts. “Is why? You don’t even like Jonathan.”
“I like Jonathan just fine!” Steve shouts, loudly enough that the couple in the car next to them shoots them a look that makes the back of Steve’s neck heat.
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flufftober 2024 by dharmainitiative
Fandom Guardians of the Galaxy (Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe, Stranger Things (TV 2016)
04 Nov 2024
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take my hand, wreck my plans by dharmainitiative
Fandom Shadow and Bone (TV), The Grisha Trilogy - Leigh Bardugo
19 Apr 2023
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Tsukishima buys a body pillow, and calls it Tadashi. Kuroo has an absolute field day with this information.
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11 Jun 2026
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They have their habits that make their relationship the way it is, and how they sleep just happens to be one of them.
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12 Jun 2026
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In the midst of revising for a class test over at Yamaguchi’s place one night, Tsukki suddenly spoke up and said, “I'd like to bottom the next time we have sex."
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11 Jun 2026
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“I just… didn’t expect it would make its way here. And that you of all people are gonna watch it.”
“It’s just a horror movie. I think I can handle it.”
“I don’t know, Steve. I don’t think you’ve ever seen anything like this.”OR
Steve accidentally stumbles on Rocky Horror but on the inside of the beautiful VHS case something else waits for him.
This is a part of a series but it can be read on its own.
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- Part 1 of Touch-A Touch-A Touch Me
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10 Jun 2026
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there is freedom in the dark (once someone has illuminated it) by swissarmymanenjoyer
Fandoms: Knives Out (Movies)
10 Jan 2026
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The one miracle to come out of all this was Benoit Blanc. Jud had assumed the detective would solve this case and move onto the next one, vanish out of Jud’s life with the same abruptness as his arrival. And he did disappear, often and swiftly, with few niceties or goodbyes.
But then a few days later he’d suddenly reappear: be it at hearings where Jud would have otherwise had to battle the tedium of bureaucracy alone, or online, posting statements to cushion some particularly devastating blows against Jud in the media, Benoit Blanc kept cropping up when he was needed the most.
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An exploration of the "one year later" gap, from the moment the diamond falls from Martha's hand to the moment Jud pulls Blanc in for a hug.
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- Part 1 of freedom in the dark trilogy
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01 Jun 2026