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.