whenever i mention john adams' comments about hamilton i am aware that i am beating a dead horse. but to be fair to myself it is a masochistic dead horse that very much enjoys being beat.
THROUGHOUT THE YEARS ✨
↳ stacey adams & steve harrington
They were an unlikely pair.
Next door neighbors and nothing more, Steve Harrington and Stacey Adams started their journey the way most do—as strangers. In the year of 1983, the two were hardly considered friends. They shared nothing in common aside being a part of the same group of Hawkins High’s most established teens. Then, an unexpected twist of events changed the lives of the young teenagers forever; the vanishing of Will Byers, Barbara Holland, and Nathan Grant.
Steve and Stacey were thrust into a reality where monsters from alternate dimensions existed, a young girl with a shaved head had telekinetic super powers, and a top-secret organization of the government trying to cover it all up. In their new world of chaos, they began to rely on each other, even become friends.
The following year, Steve Harrington and Stacey Adams were inseparable. Even while the king of Hawkins High was still smitten with his girlfriend, Nancy Wheeler, one was always not too far behind from the other. They went to parties, did homework together, and even slayed a few more monsters along the way. They were a team. A dynamic duo, who, occasionally, required help from their much younger friend, Dustin Henderson.
Then, summer of 1985 rolled around, and operation “Get Steve Harrington a Girlfriend” was a go. Stacey had concocted at least a hundred different plans for her best friend to find the girl of his dreams ever since his relationship ended with Nancy. Yet, even with her expertise, Steve either got painfully rejected numerous times or they didn’t mesh well with his extremely high expectations. Neither of which did he truly understand why until the upcoming celebration of Independence Day. After both were held captive, tortured, and drugged by the Russians, Steve came to the realization that he would’ve absolutely lost his sanity if he didn’t have Stacey by his side.
The girl that was more than his best friend. The girl he had been so oblivious to his true feelings for. The girl of his dreams.
By the time the Harrington boy came to this conclusion, his best friend in the whole wide world had already abandoned him.
July 4th was a day that haunted Stacey Adams to the core. It was the final nail in the coffin to her impeding downfall over the years. Her grades slipped tremendously, isolated herself from everyone, and resorted to the comfort of cigarettes, drugs, and alcohol to numb the never-ending hollowness inside. To her surprise, it was remarkably easy to push the people she cared about away. Everyone except him. Steve’s stubborn personality, and refusal to believe that Stacey wanted nothing to do with him anymore, made it almost impossible to keep him at a distance. He would offer to drive her to school, even though her car was in perfectly good use. He would suggest different plans for them every week to hang out like the good old days, knowing she would decline every single one of them. Hell, he even made (more like begged) their mutual friend, Robin Buckley, to join him on his mission to get his best friend back.
All those efforts were in vain until a Freddy Kruger wannabe left a trail of murders in their town. Then, the unlikely pair found themselves inseparable once more. Mainly out of their own safety of course. But when the stakes of their survival became too much to bear, Stacey’s walls she worked so hard to build up came crashing down like a tidal wave. All the emotions she buried were drowning her, consuming her until she was trapped in an overwhelming storm with no chance to escape. Then, the boy she fought repeatedly to stay away from her offered her a life line. He was the light at the end of her dark and terrifying tunnel of pain and sorrow. She held onto that glimmer of hope to free her from the abyss, and Steve gladly accepted being the pillar of stability.
It took more time, a near death experience, and an angry confession for them to finally admit how they truly felt about each other.
cursed john "hamilton is like a cat. an explicitly female cat" adams + abigail "the devil is in hamilton's eyes" adams + alexander "the variety of shapes which this woman could assume was endless" hamilton threesome.
trying to think of what hamilton ship the actual alexander hamilton would hate the most. at first i thought it would be jamilton? but maybe he's read enough classic literature and women's novels (lmao) to see the value in a good old enemies to lovers, doomed narrative story. hadams (is there even a ship name for john adams x hamilton) would be even worse probably. hamilton would be repulsed by it but john adams would hate it more, and therefore hamilton would learn to be amused by it out of pure spite.
as of now i'm leaning towards whamilton. man couldn't handle that newspaper calling washington his "immaculate daddy", he would have a fit.
