Unlike Jonathan, who can pretty much only find himself in the security that college can provide. He needs that shelter to ease the parentification that has defined his life. The pressure that shaped his life to that point has lifted, somewhat. College will be a safe space to a young man who’s had few of them. The passions that he has developed have been in his spare time, hidden, sometimes even from himself as the world took and took from him, can blossom openly. You can’t use your mother and brother as a shield to hide behind. Now what? Who are you, Jonathan Byers and what do you want?

Poor kid’s so parentified even the damn fandom thinks he’s a grown man who needs to start acting like it

Chapters: 20/? Relationships: Jonathan Byers & Nancy Wheeler Additional Tags: Eventual Jancy, Slow Burn, Angst and Romance and Some Fluff, This is going to be a long one, but i promise to get to the point…eventually, Post Epilogue, Canon Compliant, Jonathan Byers-centric, i’m still in the goo room

Fandom: Stranger Things (TV 2016) Rating: Explicit Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Jonathan Byers/Nancy Wheeler Characters: Jonathan Byers, Nancy Wheeler Additional Tags: Jancy Effect, Phone Sex, Post-Season/Series 03, Pre-Season/Series 04, Bad Dirty Talk, horny little weirdos trying to make do with a town that taps phones and a mother who picks locks and nosy little brothers Summary:

It takes him a moment to rifle through his memories and find the one that offers an explanation—the one that reassures him that it’s not them that’s not worth trying, but something less all-encompassing, more specific. So much was happening, catching them all up in a blur of motion and rapidly unfolding change—the sad mirror of seasons turning while they pulled up the roots that had just found nourishment for the first time—only to deposit them all here at the end of nowhere with nothing to do. But there it is: Nancy with her head on his shoulder and her toes in the lake at the close of a sweltering, earth-shattering summer of upheaval, asking if he would be open to phone sex; Jonathan reminding her with equal parts regret and squirming embarrassment that the Wheelers have an inconsistent track record where privacy is concerned and he would never be able to look Mrs. Wheeler in the eye again if she picked up the line and heard Jonathan jerking off over her daughter. Nancy’s face had gone a funny shade of puce as she agreed.

“Do you have a better idea?” he asks.