been thinking about nancy figuring out her sexuality a few months post s4/during or after OWOA and just. ripping herself apart mentally, dealing with a fuck ton of internalized homophobia.
itâs like 4am on a random weekday, she snuck out and basically locked herself at the station, the nighttime hosts arenât there because the station isnt running for a few days due to tech issues, so sheâs completely alone. she told herself sheâd do work and crawl planning but nooo. her brain decides its the perfect time to continue her sexuality crisis and worsing crush on robin.
itâs slowly making her so crazy and sheâs starting to think she should talk to someone. but she broke up with jonathan a bit over a month ago, so its still kinda awkward, the only other possible queer person she can think of is will and she is not confiding in her exâs little brother, shes definitely not telling the other younger party members, and telling robin or steve is out of the question, because telling robin means confessing and while steve has changed, nancys not sure if that included his homophobic attitude.
sheâs just laying on the floor, staring at the ceiling, because what else do you do in a crisis? she hasnât slept and her brain feels like mush so she doesnât hear the door open or the footsteps slowly walking towards her.
she only realizes when something blocked her view, only to see steve fucking harrington standing over her with a confused and concerned look on his face.
heâs like ânance what are you doing??? why are you here so early??? are you okay???â. sheâs so overtired, probably only gotten a few hours of sleep in the last 3 days, and stressed, so when her brain processes what he says she just starts sobbing.
steve, being steve, immediately goes â!!!!â and tries to gently comfort her, wrapping her up and asking her whats wrong while sheâs crying and feeling so gross about everything.
she inevitably tells him, almost purely by accident, she has no idea if shes making any sense. he pulls back and she thinks this is where he goes back to being an asshole. but he just goes âcongratugaytionsâ and starts laughing at his own joke
this very much knocks nancy out of her own head and she stares at him blankly as he pulls her back into a hug, telling her its okay all while hes still fucking giggling at himself.
he calms down, encourages her to talk a bit more, listening calmly and nancys feels like a weights been lifted off her shoulders. but again, its steve. so he immediately clocks her crush on robin and now makes it his lifes mission to tease her whenever he can, with love of course, and she has to keep herself from smacking him whenever he does it.
*i am actually thinking of writing this as a fic, if anyone is interested :) i rlly like the dymanic platonic!stancy could have and want to explore it in more detail
