Hey everyone!! To kick off the Summer of Stonathan, we're going to start doing Stonathan Sundays this Sunday, 22 June!! With 8 weeks until Stonathan Week still, we're going to be doing this every second Sunday. A reminder about what exactly Stonathan Sundays are:
We want to help people get into the Stonathan mood so we will post a list of dialogue prompts and encourage you to write a short (300-500 words) ficlet based on one (or more!) of the prompts.
This is not something you should stress over or spend a lot of time on, it's just to get the creative juices flowing!
We will post the first list of prompts at 12pm EST
Jonathan tries to escape from a party. He's not used to people noticing.
NOTE: a stonathan sunday ficlet inspired by the prompt "why do you care?"
you can also read this on ao3 here
“Hey, Byers!” Jonathan turns around reluctantly. He’s just managed to disentangle himself from the masses, so close to a successful escape. But no. That would’ve been too much to ask.
This never used to be a problem. First, he never used to show up at any party full stop and tonight’s reminded him of all the reasons why. Second, when he does show, no one’s ever noticed him slipping away before.
“Wait up,” Steve Harrington says now, squeezing through the crowd to catch up with Jonathan, completely unaware that he’s breaking all the rules. He never seems to notice. That it’s not supposed to be like this.
Jonathan tries not to let it show, just watches as Steve closes the distance between them and throws an arm around his shoulder. He smells very Steve-like with an added pinch of sweat and liquor. His cheeks are flushed pink. Definitely on the drunker side of things. “Where are you going?”
“Home.”
“Why?”
Jonathan wonders if alcohol can have the magical effect of Bambi-fying a person’s features. When his father gets drunk, his face only grows more sunken. Not Steve. He’s beaming at Jonathan in that weird way that makes his stomach twist and he could swear his eyes are bigger somehow. And soft.
“Why do you care?” It comes out crabbier than Jonathan intentioned. He really wants to get out of here and the weight of Steve is distracting and threatening to change his mind.
Steve leans in closer, bringing their heads together as if they’re sharing a secret. Jonathan hasn’t drunk anything, but in his chest there’s a low fluttering. “Because,” he says, slowly, like he’s contemplating the question very seriously, “I just do.”
The breath escapes Jonathan. The hum in his chest doesn’t go away, but the tension in his shoulders does, built up in the weighty little pause Steve built into his sentence.
“Okay,” he says.
“No seriously,” Steve insists and puts a little more of himself onto Jonathan’s side. He’s not heavy, just warm and close, getting rid of the last spaces between them. “Did something happen? I saw you with Tommy and Carol. They just talk a lot of shit, you know? They’re idiots.”
Then why are you friends with them? Jonathan thinks and realizes then that he isn’t really. Not anymore. It’s just this kind of party. Everybody comes and it doesn’t mean anything. He hates it.
“They are,” he agrees. “Just isn’t my crowd, I guess.”
Steve moves to the side and Jonathan isn’t expecting it. They sway together as one and stumble over their own feet, halfway into the hedge that borders the little stone path leading to the gate.
“Mh. Okay.” He turns and looks directly at Jonathan who idiotically forgot to avert his gaze in time. Another pause. Jonathan can smell his breath. It’s not great, but he doesn’t mind so much when it’s paired with brown eyes flicking up and down, catching him in place. “Do you wanna go somewhere else, then?”
It takes a second or two for Jonathan’s brain to process. “With you?”
Steve grins. “Yeah.” He frowns briefly. Sways again. “But I don’t think I should drive.”
“No.” Jonathan looks back to the house and then into the darkness where Steve wants to take him. Only him. “Come on, I’ll drive.”
He hadn’t even made it twelve hours with things broken off with Jonathan before he’d gone out and done something batshit insane. And it’s not like he got drunk and woke up naked in his yard–something innocuous to the rest of the world, only really an embarrassment to himself–no, because that would be too simple. Instead, he’d gone and dragged the majority of Hawkins’ population into the fray.
“Okay,” he mutters, finally facing himself in the mirror. “You messed up, okay? You fucked up, and things are bad, but there has to be a way out of this.”
His reflection blinks back at him, offering neither answers nor solace for his current predicament.
Here's a free tip if you're ever looking to live in a town like Hawkins, Indiana: never pay a cheerleader to perform a love spell on your sort-of ex-boyfriend.
[aka have 6/10 chapters of an au for day 2 of the lovely @stonathanweek!!]
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Jonathan Byers/Steve Harrington
Characters: Jonathan Byers, Steve Harrington
Additional Tags: Steve Harrington's Scoops Ahoy Uniform, Sex in a Car, Experienced Jonathan Byers, Top Jonathan Byers, Bisexual Jonathan Byers, Bisexual Steve Harrington, Bottom Steve Harrington, Unsafe Sex
Summary:
The parking lot was empty except for Jonathan's car and one other. Steve Harrington sat in his BMW, turning the key, but failing to start the car. When he saw Jonathan, he jumped out and jogged toward him. “Hey! I don’t suppose you could give me a jump?”
Jonathan nodded and said, “Yeah, okay.”
As Steve led the way back to his car, Jonathan noticed the way his uniform shorts left absolutely nothing to the imagination. It was a shame such a nice ass was wasted on a straight guy.
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the
Organization for Transformative Works
A series of moments from Jonathan's life before and during Lenora, California.
Language: English | Words: 1,189 | Chapters: 1/1
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Category: M/M
Fandom: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
Relationship: Jonathan Byers/Steve Harrington
Characters: Jonathan Byers, Steve Harrington, Will Byers, Joyce Byers, Eleven | Jane Hopper
Additional Tags: POV Jonathan Byers, Jonathan Byers-centric, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, set post s3 and pre s4, steve and jonathan were childhood friends, Songfic, Mentions of alcoholism, mentions of weed
Written for @stonathanweek Day 6: Music AU / Song Lyrics
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Jonathan Byers/Steve Harrington, Argyle & Jonathan Byers, Argyle & Robin Buckley & Jonathan Byers & Steve Harrington & Eddie Munson & Nancy Wheeler
Characters: Jonathan Byers, Steve Harrington, Argyle (Stranger Things), Nancy Wheeler, Eddie Munson, Robin Buckley, Billy Hargrove
Additional Tags: Stonathan Week, Stonathan Week 2023, Music, Alternate Universe - Music, Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, reporter Jonathan Byers, Drummer Jonathan Byers, Spicy six as a band, Billy Hargrove Being an Asshole, Mild Blood, Blood and Injury, Implied/Referenced Alcohol Abuse/Alcoholism, Touring, Getting Together
Series: Part 6 of Snow's Stonathan week 2023
Summary:
The band 'Spicy Six' took a deal with Rolling Stone Magazine to get extra money and publicity on their first tour, allowing a reporter to join them for the entire time. That reporter is Jonathan Byers, who gels much better with the band than anyone had expected, especially Steve Harrington. It also turns out his past as a drummer comes in handy when their existing drummer, Billy Hargrove, becomes increasingly problematic. But is it just a temporary set-up, or could it be something more?
