JANCY WEEK 2025

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My Jancy Week 2025

My fics for @jancyweeks 2025:

Day 1: New – This Is New

Post s2 drabble, Karen finding out about Jancy.

Day 2: Reconnection – It's Mine Now

Post s2, Nancy protecting the Byers fam from Lonnie.

Day 3: Sweather Weather – Safekeeping

Post s4, With the Byers things left in Lenora, Nancy digs out all Jonathan's sweaters she stole for herself.

Day 4: Mix Tape – Turn Towards This Time

Post s4, Argyle going back to salvage important things from the Byers house in Lenora, and making sure Jonathan is honest with Nancy saving their relationship.

Day 5: Promises – The Princess and the Knight

12 year old Nancy and Jonathan playing DnD with the Party.

Day 6: Team – Guardians

S5 canon divergence where Karen and Ted doesn't survive the Demogorgon attack. With help from Jonathan and everyone else Nancy steps up to take care of Mike and Holly.

Day 7: Future+Forever – Growing Up

Series of scenes from Jonathan's childhood, looking into the past towards the future.

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JANCYWEEK2025 | day seven — future + forever

you— soft and only you— lost and lonely you— strange as angels dancing in the deepest oceans twisting in the water you're just like a dream you're just like a dream

#jancyweek2025 #day seven: future + forever

#jancyweek2025 #day seven: future + forever

I would love to see a pre-season 1 fic based on Jonathan and his life.

Thank you so much for this, it really got me going!

For day 7 of @jancyweeks 2025 theme is Future+Forever. This looks into the past, but it leads to the future... Have this, a series of different scenes of Jonathan Byers growing up and navigating his family life, school and social life. Find hobbies and dreams and looking towards a future elsewhere.

Growing Up

Read on Ao3 or FFnet!

Preview:

The swings are all taken. Some boys in his class are running around throwing a ball around and tackling each other. He considers walking over to them and asking if he can join but he’s not sure, it doesn’t look all that fun to him when they knock each other down on the ground, even if they all laugh. Some girls in the class are jumping rope and he sees Nancy and a girl with fiery red hair who he thinks was called Barb jumping hopscotch. That looks more fun but maybe they don’t want to play with a boy. And he fears the boys will make fun of him if he plays with the girls.

He decides to go try his luck over by the jumpropers and hopscotch anyway, maybe it’ll be okay. But he’s stopped in his tracks on the way over there.

“What shoes are those?”

An older boy has suddenly appeared in front of him. He’s taller than him and has big hair. Some other older boys are with him. They all stare at him expecting an answer he’s not quite sure what the question means though. It’s his shoes, obviously?

“B-brown shoes?” He answers hesitantly, not sure what the right answer is.

All the older boys laugh at him.

Keep reading on Ao3!

#jancyweek2025 #day seven: future + forever

jancy week 2025 — Day 7: Future + Forever

i am once again pushing the blonde nancy agenda 🤭

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JANCYWEEK2025 | day six — team

" It's just a theory... ...we could test it? "

thornyrose463

For day 6 of Jancy Week 2025, I used the prompt team and made an AU moodboard of Nancy and Jonathan as Sherlock Holmes and John Watson. The pictures are not mine. I found them on Google. All credit goes to the rightful owners.

Nancy Wheeler was born in 1989. She has a genius-level IQ. When she was growing up, she loved reading books about mysteries. After graduating high school in 2006, Nancy and her boyfriend, Jonathan Byers, moved from the United States to London, England. Nancy became a private detective, and Jonathan went to medical school and became a forensic pathologist for the Metropolitan Police Service. Nancy is often hired to assist the Metropolitan Police Service with their cases. Although Jonathan’s co-workers are suspicious of Nancy at first, over time, her exceptional intellect and powers of observation persuade them of her value.

@jancyweeks I hope you like this moodboard

jancy week 2025 — Day 6: Team

Guardians chapter 2 (Jancy fic)

For day 6 of @jancyweeks theme is Team. Here's chapter 2 of my canon divergence fic where Karen and Ted doesn't survive the Demogorgon attack. This one is heavy on the comfort as Jonathan, Joyce, Will, Lucas, Max and the Sinclairs are there for Nancy, Mike and Holly.

Read on Ao3 or FFnet!

Preview:

“Fuck!” She cries out.

She didn’t think of that. She assumes that after the ambulance got there and took them away the army sent out investigators to snoop around. But no one cleaned up. The thought never crossed her mind really, but on some level she thought someone would simply take care of it. But then again she’s not familiar with the protocol for when two people are killed by an interdimensional being in a town on full military lockdown.

“Hey, it’s okay. It’s okay. We’ll take care of it,” Jonathan soothes her, putting his arm around her.

She resolves to turning into his chest, away from the horrible mess in the kitchen, into Jonathan’s safe embrace. She’d rather not look this vulnerable in front of everyone but she also can’t help it.

“Rendezvous in the hall,” she hears Mike say and everyone shuffling off. Jonathan leads her out.

“I didn’t think of it,” she informs the group as they gather in the hall instead. “I just thought someone would have cleaned it up… fuck. Fucking army is useless.”

“Okay, amended plan: Will, you pack up yours and my things in the basement, it’s not much. Lucas you help me in the kitchen, Will, join us when you’re done in the basement. Mom, after you’ve packed up your stuff upstairs can you check the master bedroom? We’ll sort all that out, Nancy and Mike pack up their things,” Jonathan lays out.

She nods in agreement, everyone else does too. He’s really good with plans too. She loves that about him.

Keep reading on Ao3!

#jancyweek2025 #day five: promises

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@jancyweeks Day 5: Promises

It’s a Wonderful Life AU❄️🎄🔔

Jonathan Byers was a young man with big dreams. He vowed that one day he was going to leave Hawkins for good, travel the world and become a great photojournalist. But tragedy strikes and the legacy of his stepfather’s Building and Loan is in danger. To protect it from Mr. Brenner, a rich old miser who’s always hated it, Jonathan sacrifices his dreams in order to make sure no one in this town leads a life of misery again. Now 38 years old, feeling like there’s nothing left for him and that he failed to keep the promises he made to his loved ones, especially the one about giving the moon to his wife Nancy, Jonathan tries to take his own life; thinking everyone would be better off without him. Before he can, his guardian angel Argyle appears and shows him what the world would be like if he never existed; and that it’s much worse without him…

#jancyweek2025 #day five: promises

The Princess and the Knight (Jancy fic)

For day 5 of @jancyweeks 2025, theme: Promises. Fluffy little thing featuring childhood Jancy playing DnD with the Party. Based off that line in s1e1 about Nancy dressing up as an elf for a campaign.

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Preview:

“Hi Nancy, cool ears! Are you playing with us?” Will asks, looking excited.

“Thanks! Yes, I’m going to be an elf princess. Mike’s in the basement setting up, Lucas and Dustin are there too.”

“Awesome! Jonathan is playing too,” Will explains and drags his older brother with him over the threshold.

“Fun!” She exclaims, looking at Jonathan who blushes.

Will hurries down to the basement as soon as he’s got his jacket off, leaving her and Jonathan alone in the hall.

“So they roped you into this too?” She smirks.

“Y-yeah,” he answers with a little crooked smile.

Keep reading on Ao3!

#jancyweek2025 #day five: promises

jancy week 2025 — Day 5: Promises

some baby jancy 🥺

#jancyweek2025 #day four: mixtape

Turn Towards This Time (Jancy fic)

For day 4 of @jancyweeks 2025, theme: Mix Tapes. This is my take on what happened to Argyle after s4 – he went back to Lenora, salvaged the important things from the Byers house and made sure Jonathan wouldn't throw away the love of his life. Jonathan and Argyle (and Nancy!) friendship. Jonathan and Nancy being honest with each other – and of course, a mix tape.

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Preview:

“When you get back to Lenora, could you check on our house? But low key. The army shot it to hell and for all I know ransacked it after we left. But on the off chance it’s not completely closed off or destroyed, if you can get in there would you get some of our stuff? Since we didn’t have time to pack, we've got nothing here.”

“For sure dude, anything specific?”

“I mean, clothes for me, Will, El and mom. My camera, Will’s paint supplies and crayons and stuff. There’s some photo albums in mom’s bedroom. Oh, and my record player and collection, if you can. And there’s a box in my desk drawer I’d really like.”

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Jonathan man, just be honest with her. She’ll understand if you explain and admit what an idiot you were. You guys belong together. It’s like real true love shit. Just from all you’ve told me about her, and just by the brief but fun time I had with you both together it’s obvious. To me and everyone else. Just get over yourself and get on with the rest of your life together with her, it’s all you want and I bet all she wants.

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#jancyweek2025 #day four: mixtape

jancy week 2025 — Day 4: Mixtape

sorry guys i chose angst for today (it’s okay she plays just like heaven for him and then they kiss dw)

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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Stranger Things (TV 2016) Rating: Mature Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Jonathan Byers/Nancy Wheeler Characters: Nancy Wheeler, Jonathan Byers, Steve Harrington, Tommy Hagan, Carol Perkins, Nicole (Stranger Things), Karen Wheeler, Ted Wheeler (Stranger Things), Mike Wheeler, Barbara “Barb” Holland Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Gender Changes, (Nancy is a boy and Jonathan is a girl), (everyone else is the same gender as in canon), Running, Photography, Abysmal Lab Safety, (in more ways than one!), Misogyny, fatphobia, Eating Disorders, (reference to bulimia plus some anxious athletic food-related issues), Guilt, Unhappy marriages, Sexual Harassment, References to Incest, Class Issues, Barb and Boy!Nancy Used to Be Friends, (but he hasn’t thought of her lately at all), (lies), false imprisonment, Grief, Sharing a Bed, Hair Brushing, Struggles with masculinity, Bullying, season 1 AU Summary:

It was good to be the guy who made things happen, who didn’t pass through life without touching or changing anything around him. That was the problem with his parents. They’d done everything that had been expected of them and gotten the big prize: marriage, a good income, a nice house, kids. And neither of them seemed happy. Nate wasn’t sure when his mother had started existing in a cloud of irritation, or when his father’s calm demeanor had turned apathetic. Maybe they’d always been that way, and he’d been too young to see it.

But Nate was going to make plans. He was going to push himself to the limit, making his body stronger and more efficient on the track, and his mind sharper and tougher everywhere else. He was going to run, although he wasn’t sure where yet.

Nate Wheeler, the brains of Steve Harrington’s clique, thinks he has everything figured out. Then Joanna Byers, the weirdest girl at Hawkins High (or possibly anywhere), comes into his life.

#jancyweek2025 #day three: sweater weather