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

Chapters: 4/? Fandom: Stranger Things (TV 2016) Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Robin Buckley & Steve Harrington, Tommy Hagan/Carol Perkins, Robin Buckley/Vickie, Tommy Hagan/Steve Harrington, Minor or Background Relationship(s) Characters: Robin Buckley, Steve Harrington, Tommy Hagan, Jonathan Byers, Nancy Wheeler, Tommy Hagan's Mother, Tommy Hagan's Father, Lucas Sinclair, Carol Perkins' Mother, Carol Perkins' Father Additional Tags: Past Tommy Hagan/Carol Perkins, Past Character Death, Past Torture, Past Relationship(s), Past Child Abuse, Steve Harrington Has Bad Parents, Steve Harrington Has Absent Parents, Steve Harrington Has Head Trauma, Past Friendship(s), Regret, Grief/Mourning, Past Steve Harrington & Tommy Hagan & Carol Perkins, Unhealthy Coping Mechanisms, Tommy Hagan Is Having A Bad Time Of It, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Alcoholic Steve's Mother Mrs. Harrington (Stranger Things), References to Addiction, Drug Use, Robin Buckley & Steve Harrington Are Best Friends, Good Friend Robin Buckley, Neurodiversity, Period Typical Attitudes, Period Typical Bigotry, Period-Typical Homophobia, Period-Typical Racism, Sexist Language, 1980s, Cigarettes, Steve Harrington Smokes Marijuana, Robin Buckley Has Questionable Parents, Tommy Hagan Has Good Parents, Post-Stranger Things 4 Vol. 2, Minor Jonathan Byers/Nancy Wheeler, Past Steve Harrington/Nancy Wheeler, Minor Character(s), Minor Character Death, Dead Carol Perkins, Bisexual Vickie (Stranger Things), Lesbian Robin Buckley, Background Relationships, Tags May Change, Slow To Update, Complicated Relationships, Slow Build, Character Development, Bisexual Tommy Hagan, Bisexual Steve Harrington, Wakes & Funerals, Family Issues, Minor Maxine "Max" Mayfield/Lucas Sinclair, Canonical Character Death, Non-Canonical Character Death, Closeted Character, Slow Burn, Injury Recovery, Alcohol, Tommy Hagan-centric, Steve Harrington-centric, these tags are in such a bad order. big sigh. all over the place! I'll probably just redo them the next time this updates... Series: Part 3 of Steve Harrington (And Others) In: This Sure Is A Time Of It! [/genuinely angsty. sorry.] Summary:

See, the thing about Tommy is that he's really not that deep.

Except - you know - you can still drown in shallow water.

Or: Tomás Hagan's a stereotype. This is an intentional defence.

[bearsinpotatosacks]

I have a stranger things theory in the same vein as a few reset theories I’ve seen.

They've been using a weird form of time travel which isn't really time travel but also isn't not time travel if you get me? I'm just realising that I'm not exactly sure how Eleven goes back into her memories? Is it a hypnosis thing? They play the tapes and she's transported back there but can only relive, not change, a Christmas Carol style? Or was it her powers making her relive them but instead of someone else's memories, it's her own.

They used this, and combined with general ability to see into someone's mind and how she just straight up resurrected Max, I don't think it's too much of a stretch to say she could time travel.

I have a scene in my mind of Eleven realising that there isn't a way they can destroy the upside down forever, Vecna is immune to their attempts and she maybe has been having moments of deja vu throughout (think loki s2 where he keeps time jumping to the past and future) and realises that the only way to stop it once and for all is to stop it happening at all. She makes the hard decision to go back and stop herself from sending Henry to the Upside Down but it's a hard decision because there's a high likelihood that if the other kids didn't die, if she'd just killed Henry instead of sending him to the Upside Down, she never would've got out and so she's sacrificing her friends and also the lives her friends have made.

Think about how good of an ending that would be, for them all to decide to sacrifice their lives now to make a new one that they won't even know is different. 

Will never goes to the Upside Down so may be more confident and not as traumatised. Jonathan was never looking for Will in the woods, so never took those photos of Steve and Nancy before Barb died, because she never died, so Steve never destroys his camera, so Nancy never bonds with him because he has evidence of something killing Barb, so they may never get together in the first place. And because there’s no demogorgan, and no love triangle, Steve may still have been a popular jock because he probably didn’t fall out with Jonathan, so didn’t have to apologise and change. 

Robin and Steve may not be friends because the mall wouldn’t have been built as a cover up for the russian experiments. And because Steve didn’t change, and Barb is alive, there may have been no ‘you’re bullshit’ argument at Halloween so Steve doesn’t have to apologise, and he doesn’t help and bond with Dustin because there was no Dart so Dustin wasn’t trying to get to the Party. This means that Dustin’s just closer to Eddie, because Eddie just graduated in 1986 instead of dying, he maybe doesn’t even really like Steve because Steve stayed a popular jock.

Max wouldn’t be in whatever state she was in because no Vecna. But also she wouldn’t have the trauma of Billy dying to get her to be a victim because Billy was never possessed so is still alive, so maybe Susan and Neil are still together, so Max’s life is shitty in a different way. Also if there’s no upside down then Will wouldn’t be possessed and there would be no demodogs, so Max wouldn’t have sneaked out so Billy wouldn’t have beaten up Steve so Max wouldn’t have stood up to him (at that point, I like to think something like that would still happen).

Would Joyce and Hopper still be together? Would Joyce be with Bob still? 

And most importantly, what happens to Eleven? Is she still in the lab? Is she dead?

She goes back, kills Henry, Dr Brenner walks in and says ‘what have you done?’ and everything goes black.

She wakes up in her bed in the Byers’ old house. Joyce is in the kitchen, Will at the table. Hopper’s at work. It’s normal. She goes to school and things are normal, but she’s in the hellfire club, Max is fine, Lucas is in the basketball team.

Nancy’s at university, Steve’s got a job and they’re living together, she just knows. They don’t know who Robin is. Jonathan is also at university, he was never with Nancy, he and Will shared a room after El came to live with Joyce and Hopper. 

Eddie’s band’s playing Hawkins, they’ve got a cult following and are on tour. Billy’s coming to see them, because Billy’s alive, duh, Max says like it’s common knowledge, because it is. He just left town one day, keeps occasional contact with Max now that Neil’s in prison, he started on Susan and her after he left and the party noticed and after a year of pain, he got convicted. 

By the end of the day, El’s struggling to remember the original universe, the original story. It’s normal.

[natty-f]

day 6 - song lyrics / boys don't cry

[dearabby1990]

Chapter 7: Fears and Flashbacks

You lay alone in your bed thinking of how wonderful it felt to be with Eddie but like a storm cloud your insecurities start to form and hover above you. Thinking back to that night that Timothy Giberson ruined not just your senior year but your innocence. Him & his teammates had made a bet in the boys locker room that Timothy couldn’t get you to goto prom with him let alone put out. A bet of $20 & a half ounce of pot in exchange for your feelings & being embarrassed in front of the entire senior class Timothy had got what he wanted that night & as you both headed back to the gym for the announcement of king & queen is when your “perfect” night came crashing down you both won you couldn’t believe it thinking it was Tim’s social status that even got you the crown to begin with but accepting with a smile. As Timothy takes the mic is when your world fell apart “Hey Joey where’s my $20 I told you that you could slap lipstick on a pig” he turned to you & laughed going up to Sarah Watts & putting his arm around her “come on babe let’s get outta here” he faded into the crowd as everyone else laughed at you in shock frozen on stage before you ran behind the curtains to take the fire exit so nobody see you crying. You’ve never been intimate with anyone since let alone let anyone in or close to you. Your mom was your only friend you talked to her about everything she’d know just what to say to bring you off of the cloud of thinking you’re a horrid creature. You always stare at the women in all the magazines in your bedroom wishing & praying you’d one day look just as good as them. Eddie deserves someone beautiful like these women. He’s too gorgeous to be seen in public with you the Greek god & the lard ass he’s toting around. Tears fall one after the other. It’s been 2 weeks since you’ve seen or talked to Eddie the phone only rang 5 times today. Yesterday you lost count he tried coming by but you had every light off in the house hiding in your bed you made sure to park in Robin’s garage just so nobody would think you’re home. Robin has been trying to get you to talk to him but you just can’t at least not right now. You roll over in the dark of your room it’s been 4 days since you’ve eaten anything all you’ve been doing is drinking water, sleeping, smoking up your stash repeat. Little did you know Eddie & Robin we’re linking up with the gang in hopes of trying to get to you someway somehow.

[so-many-crushes]

Tomato Soup For The Soul

Hello hello! I decided to do @rhiatargoed-selfships's SafeShiptember!

Prompt: Day 25- Taking care of one another if one of you happens to catch a cold. Summary: After Robin’s girlfriend comes down with a cold, it’s up to her to take care of Alice (if she’ll let her) Word count: ~1.4k

Alice felt like she had been hit by a bus. She hadn’t left her house in two days- the most movement she had done recently was walking from her bed to the living room couch. Alice truly hated being sick and would often try to power through it, but when her dad saw the thermometer read 103°F she knew there was no way she’d make it to work that day. So Alice was spread out on the couch for another day, blanket covering her body, and tissues on the coffee table. She finally began to doze off when a sudden knock at the door made her jolt awake. Wrapping her blanket over her shoulders like a cape, the redhead trudged to the window to peek out and see who was interrupting her nap. 

“Robin?” Alice said as she opened the front door, “What are you doing here?”

“Hi babe,” Robin said, brushing past Alice and into the cabin. “I heard you’re still sick.” She frowned before adding, “You look like shit.”

“Gee thanks.” Alice sneezed, “What’re you doing here?” She asked again.

“I heard you’re still sick.” Robin repeated, “I’m here to make you feel better.” She held up the paper grocery bags she was holding before placing them on the kitchen counter and heading back over to Alice, “Because I’m the best girlfriend in the world.” She leaned in for a kiss.

“Are you kidding me?” Alice dodged out of the way.

Robin raised an eyebrow, “Uh? Yeah? I’m the best girlfriend in the world.” She leaned in for a kiss again.

This time Alice held up her blanket in front of her lips. “I’m sick, Rob. You’re not staying with me, let alone kissing me. Besides-” Alice looked at the clock “Shouldn’t you be in class? How did you even get here? Did Steve drop you off?”

Robin simply shrugged, “I think I’ll be fine missing Mr. Mundy’s class and band practice, and no- Steve did not drive me, he’s too busy working. I rode my bike.”

“You rode your bike all the way here?” Alice groaned, why did her girlfriend have to be such a sweetheart? “Robbie…”

“Not my fault you basically live in the middle of the woods, and like I said,” Robin pointed to herself, “Best girlfriend in the world.”

“Ugh, fine, you can stay since you biked all the way here, but!” Alice narrowed her eyes, “You’re not getting a kiss because I’ll be damned if I get you sick.”

Robin stuck out her bottom lip, “Even though I got you a gift?” She reached into her backpack and pulled something out.

“Robin…” Alice's narrow eyes softened as she looked at the comic book in the taller girl’s hands. “You didn’t have to-”

“Aaaand,” she slid a second book out from the first one, “This one too.”

“Baby, you really didn’t have to do that. It’s a double issue.”

“But I got the right ones, right?” Robin grinned as she handed Alice the comic books, Uncanny X-Men Volume 200 and Crisis on Infinite Earths Volume 6.

“Yes, baby, I haven’t had a chance to get these yet.”

“Thank god, I had to ask one of your coworkers for help, there are too many comics in that store.”

Alice chuckled, “I’m paying you back, you know that right?”

“Sweetheart, it was like two bucks total. I’ll take two kisses instead.”

“You’re getting your two dollars, Buckley.” Alice said as she placed the new comics next to her tissues on the table.

“Yes, ma’am.” Robin saluted. “Are you hungry?” She moved back over to the grocery bags she placed on the counter.

Robin blushed, not used to someone caring for her like this in a long time, “A little bit, I guess.”

“Good,” Robin beamed as she took ingredients from the bags, “Lay down and go back to whatever you were watching, while I take care of my girlfriend.” Her gaze wandered to the television and back to Alice, “What are you watching?”

Alice glanced at the tv and tried to remember which VHS she put in to fall asleep to. “‘Revenge of the Cybermen.’” Alice held up the empty Doctor Who VHS case.

The brunette’s eyes flickered from the sci-fi show to the Marvel and DC comic books to Alice in her faded Star Wars shirt before she began to cackle, “I always forget how big of a nerd you are! How were you not bullied in high school?”

Alice’s face flushed, “First of all, I’m not a nerd! Second, I was with Steve most of the time, so no one bothered me.” Alice lied, she was bullied- just not for being a nerd.

“Ah, popular by proxy.” Robin made her way to Alice before sweeping her up into a hug and spinning her around. “My totally cool, totally popular, totally not a geek girlfriend.”

“Robin, I’m gonna throw up if you keep spinning me!” Alice laughed despite feeling more lightheaded from spinning than the cold.

“Fine, fine.” Robin placed Alice back on the ground and kissed her forehead before the girl could protest. Robin pulled back and frowned, “I was going to make you soup but you’re burning up.” Robin rested the back of her hand on Alice’s forehead, cold metal rings against warm skin.

“Ugh, I feel like I’m freezing.” Alice said as she wrapped her blanket around her, as if on queue Robin saw a chill run through Alice’s body. “I think soup is the only thing that’ll cure me.” She batted her eyes.

“Then soup it is.” Robin turned Alice around and smacked her ass towards the couch. Alice huffed as she sat down and took a sip of her water.

The couple chatted idly as Robin made a mess in the kitchen, after about forty five minutes Robin told her partner to sit at the kitchen table and close her eyes.

“Alright,” Alice heard Robin say as she placed dishes and silverware on the table, “You can open them.” Alice opened her eyes and looked at her girlfriend, “Ta-da!” Robin grinned and did jazz hands, “Homemade tomato soup and grilled cheese!” 

“Rob, really, you didn’t have to do all this; I would’ve been fine with a can of Campbell’s-” Alice looked at the food in front of her before bursting out in laughter. “You cut the-?” Alice’s laughter quickly turned into a coughing fit, as if her cold wanted to remind her she was still sick.

Robin patted Alice on the back as her coughing finally died down, “You don’t like it?” Robin looked at the bowl of soup and the grilled cheese that she did in fact cut into the shape of a heart.

Alice took a gasp of air and regained her composure, “No, no, baby, I love it so much.” She stood up and pulled the other girl in for a hug, “I love you so much.”

Robin blushed, “You haven’t even had any of it yet.”

“Doesn’t matter,” Alice looked up into Robin’s eyes, “You made it, so I love it and it must taste good.” She pulled her girlfriend down and kissed her on the lips.

“I thought you weren’t kissing me?” Robin blushed even more once the pair pulled apart.

“I guess I’ll just have to take care of you.”

The couple sat at the table and Robin watched carefully as Alice took her first bite of soup. The redhead sighed as she felt the warm soup flow through her aching body.

“It’s good?” Robin asked, “It’s my mom’s new recipe, this is my first time making it.”

“It’s delicious, baby.” Alice smiled as Robin took a bite from her own bowl.

The two continued their conversation from earlier, Robin complaining that Gabby in the flute section in the band couldn’t handle a four count. Alice listened to Robin’s ramblings, a lovesick expression on her face as she dipped her heart-shaped sandwich into her soup and took a bite.

Eventually, Alice and Robin finished their meals and made their way to the couch, Robin stretched her legs out onto the coffee table. Alice laid down and rested her head in her girlfriend’s lap, slowly falling asleep to the sound of the television and the feeling of Robin running her fingers through her hair. It was the best Alice had felt in a while.

[belovedharringrove]

robin: what are your plans 5 years from now? i need some ideas for what i wanna study

eddie: i wanna be touring the world with my band by then

nancy: i’ll probably be a journalist by then

steve: i’m not sure… maybe i’ll be a teacher.

billy: i will be an eldritch horror and i’ll be haunting the woods and whenever someone gets too close i will shatter their kneecaps and feed them to the great void as the souls of the damned scream and wail around me.

steve: you- what?

billy: i said i’m gonna be a lifeguard.

everyone:

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