California is my Dmitri Antonov romance/drama longfic â set after season 4 volume 2.
As April 1986 begins, the Byers boys and an exhausted El return to Joyce's home in Lenora Hills, having defeated Vecna. Meanwhile, Joyce comes back from Kamchatka â joined by Hopper and a certain Soviet traitor and former prison guard... The two men went through hell and back together, and they know too much. As a deserter at risk of being found and killed by the KGB, and as a father and almost-divorced husband whose number one priority is safely getting his family into the United States, Dmitri Antonov isn't exactly in a great position to be meeting someone new. Even so, he and the Byers' neighbor and good friend, an aspiring journalist who knows nothing about the Upside Down yet, are drawn to each other from day one.
Chapters 1-29 of the fic's translation into English are uploaded on AO3.Â
And the playlist is here on Spotify. :)
Additional AO3 tags:
Romance | Drama | Vecna is Defeated (Stranger Things) | Post-Stranger Things 4 Vol. 2 | Eventual Smut | Period Typical Attitudes | Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD | POV Original Female Character | Light Dom/sub | POV First Person | Romance with explicit sex | Sexual Tension | Family Dynamics | Lenora Hills (Stranger Things) | Falling In Love | Age Difference











