Fic Masterlist
Finally putting all my fics in one place lol
I will update this when/if I write anything new
Anyway, I write almost exclusively Dustin angst so if that's your vibe check some of these out
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My point is, I get it, okay?
Summary: Dustin visits Max in the hospital after she wakes up. He talks about his father to help her come to terms with her own guilt.
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I give Dustinās family a backstory
Words: 2332
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All that was left were the memories
Summary: Mike learns about Eddie's death and he and Dustin reminisce about their friend
Words: 2465
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show me how to unfreeze time
Summary: The only things Dustin felt were Eddie's unnaturally cold body, his unblinking eyes staring up at him, and his blood covering Dustin's shaking hands.
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Steve, Robin, and Nancy finding Dustin after the battle
Words: 1098
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Clumsy
Summary: Dustin Henderson was clumsy. Everyone knew this. His friends had grown used to steadying him whenever he tripped over his own feet. Despite this, he was always sporting some kind of injury.
Dustin Henderson was clumsy. At least from the perspective of those around him. He knew that most of his injuries could have been avoided if only he had been a little more careful. He didn't want to be careful.
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Dustin has unhealthy coping mechanisms
Words: 3150 (2 chapters)
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I want to give up but not if doing so kills you
Summary: Dustin is tired.
He is tired of feeling guilty, tired of nightmares, and tired of failing. When Vecna comes to end his suffering, Dustin might have let him if only he hadnāt said he was coming for his friends too. So he would fight for his life only to save his friends. - My take on Dustin getting Vecna'd
Words: 2248
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Let me help you heal
Summary: Joyce Byers knows a thing or two about losing someone you love. She knows the ache that comes with grieving them, and she knows the guilt that comes from not being able to save them
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Joyce helps Lucas and Dustin heal
Words: 1417
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Hospital Visits
Summary: Lucas never left Max's side. From the moment they entered the Creel house, he was constantly beside her. He was there in the ambulance on the way to the hospital, and now he was sitting in the chair by her hospital bed.
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But he wasn't always alone
aka the 'everyone visits Max and/or Lucas in the hospital' fic you didn't know you needed
Words: 13917 (10 chapters)
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Anger
Summary: Dustin doesnāt know what to do with all this anger. Why is he the only one who cares about Eddie? The anger keeps growing, filling him up until thatās all he feels. Anger.
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A look into why Dustin is behaving the way he is in ST5
Words: 1075
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Isn't this what we do for each other?
Summary: Something goes wrong on the way to Vecna's lair.
Dustin decides they don't need him anymore.
He just doesn't understand why Mike of all people is making such a big deal about it.
Words: 1610
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Addicted to Pain
Summary: Dustin discovers that pain is very useful when he needs a distraction from every emotion threatening to break him down. He doesn't want his friends to stop him from hurting himself, and brushing away their concern is easy when every injury is because of accidents or assholes beating him up. They don't need to know that the accidents were preventable and the assholes provoked.
Words: 2019
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I deserve to feel miserable and you deserve to live (so please let me go)
Summary: Steve doesnāt know what he did to make Dustin push him away. He desperately wants to be there for him.
Dustin isnāt interested in any feelings of comfort, and heās trying to make sure Steve doesn't meet the same end as Eddie. He has no choice but to push Steve away.
Words: 1261
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You're not alone anymore
Summary: āI canāt stop thinking about that moment. In that moment I felt - I felt so -ā
Lucas struggled to find the right word before it suddenly came to him. But not from his mind. No, it came from Dustinās mouth.
āUseless"
If it wasnāt for the sadness - and recognition? - In his voice, Lucas might have thought Dustin just confirmed all his fears. That he really was useless and should have done more to help Max.
But when he looked over at Dustin, the boy was fiddling with his rings, fixated on the floor with a vacant look in his eyes.
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Dustin never told anyone about Eddie dying in his arms. Lucas is the first one to find out and it strikes him how similar their situation was. Max dying in his arms. Eddie dying in Dustinās.
Words: 4837 (2 chapters)
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You would tell me if you heard the clock, right?
Summary: Max wakes up early from her coma, and she recognizes the way Dustin is acting a little too well. She doesnāt want him to go down the same path as her, and sheās afraid Vecna will target him like he did her. So she promises herself to keep Dustin close and make sure heās okay.
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This fic follows Max and Dustin during the 18 month time jump all the way up to the start of season 5.
Words: 9408 (5 chapters)
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empty graves and scattered minds
Summary: Dustin doesnāt know how to grieve properly. But heās pretty sure he isnāt supposed to feel empty.
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What happened during and after that cemetery fight? Kinda a missing scene but more about Dustinās thoughts and feelings at that time.
Words: 1512
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Keep that curiosity door locked
Summary: Dustin takes one look at Mr. Clarke in the Upside Down and desperately wants him to walk away from all danger. He doesnāt want to have to worry about losing another person to the horrors lurking beneath Hawkins.
Mr. Clarke hears the words 'Dustin' and 'danger' and knows he has to save his favorite student.
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The missing Dustin and Mr. Clarke reunion we should have gotten.
Words: 2827 (2 chapters)
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It gets easier with friends around
Summary: What do you do when the friend who usually never shuts up is suddenly quiet? Well, you get him to talk again, of course.
Dustin and Max catch up. Dustin reveals something he shouldnāt have. Max learns about Eddieās death. They talk about grief, guilt, and smacking people over their heads? Oh well, hop along for the ride.
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The Dustin and Max reunion we should have gotten.
Words: 2845
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Drowning
Summary: Mike hadnāt known how much Dustin was struggling until he found himself hurting in the same way as him. They meet up at the quarry to keep each other company through complicated feelings and maybe eventually they heal.
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Dustin talks and Mike listens, but somewhere along the way he starts to understand.
Words: 3855
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Just a mile
Summary: Then, when sobs turned to sniffs, and hammering hearts turned to steady beats, Steve tried to lighten the mood and put on his best teasing voice.
āYou know, maybe you should practice your running? Get a little faster so you can outrun the monsters instead of tripping. You should join me on my next run.ā
And it was nothing but a joke, yet for some reason, Dustin agreed to it, and he looked so eager to do so that Steve couldnāt find it in himself to admit that he wasnāt serious.
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Steve and Dustin have a heart to heart and then they go for a run? Fun times.
Words: 1036
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Feeling Stuck
Summary: They saved the world on a Friday, and Max knew that the day after was a Saturday, but every day blurred together, and time didnāt feel real. It could have been hours, days, or even weeks; she wouldnāt know. She was still stuck there, that Friday, watching the Upside Down disappear, taking El with it.
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āWant me to go in with you?ā Steve asked, while helping her out of the car and into the wheelchair. Max nodded, because, yeah, she didnāt want to do this alone.
And she wanted to get better, she really did. She wanted nothing more than to wake up knowing what day it was - that it wasnāt still Friday.
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Max has a long road to recovery, but luckily Steve is there to drive her to and from physical therapy and cheer her up on the way.
Words: 3772
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Written Goodbyes
Summary: For a second, she was confused as to why Dustin had the letter she wrote to Steve, but then she looked at it, really looked at it, and that definitely wasnāt her handwriting. Thatās when she noticed that the letter was just the first one in a whole stack. She picked them up and flipped through them.
Steve. Mom. Lucas. Mike. Will. El. Suzie. Robin. Nancy. Erica.
Some part of her had a pretty good idea of what those letters were. Though another part was refusing that thought steadfastly, desperately searching for some other logical explanation.
Until she got to the last letter.
Max.
And she knew. She knew without a doubt what those letters were going to say. But her mind couldnāt wrap itself around it - didnāt want to.
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Max finds out Dustin has written some letters of his own.
Words: 4883
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Dustin's guide to grieving (Series)
Dustin copes with Eddie's death by hiding behind masks
Works in series:
All the ways to hide yourself
Summary: Dustin was only there in fragments. Pieces of himself that he played up in an attempt to shove aside his real feelings. They called those fragments his masks, and they never knew which mask he would hide behind on any given day.
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Dustin refuses to talk about how utterly broken he feels, and hides behind six different masks. The Party is worried about him and wishes he would just talk to them.
Words: 1807
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I see my reflection in your eyes
Summary: Dustin hadnāt known how his grief looked to the people around him until he wasnāt the only one grieving. Until he saw that same grief mirrored in his friends.
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Dustin realizes that he has been hiding behind masks when the rest of the party starts doing the same thing.
Words: 8358 (7 chapters)
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Hearts Beating in Sync
Summary: Dustin has a flashback of Eddieās death and Steve helps him calm down.
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Dustin listens to Steveās heartbeat.
Words: 1036
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friends have a way of finding you, even in the darkest of places
Summary: During preparations for the final battle against Vecna, Mike, Lucas, Dustin, and Hopper fall into a trance. Vecna traps them in his mind, in a world where he has changed their lives in drastic ways. It's up to Will, Max, Steve, and El to rescue them from this world so they can finally defeat Vecna. But first they have to convince their friends that the life they're living is fake, which is easier said than done. Especially since Vecna has meddled quite a lot in at least one of their friends' lives.
(very loosely based on Agents of Shield's Framework arc)
Words: 47703 (15 chapters)
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Birthday Celebrations
Summary: Dustin had always loved his birthday. It was more than just the gifts, it was the celebration and spending time with his loved ones. It was impossible to be sad on such a day.
Thatās what he used to think anyway.
Then Eddie died.
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A look into how grief affected Dustinās desire to celebrate his birthday through the years.
(a lil fic I wrote in honor of Dustin's birthday)
Words: 4007
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Reckless
Summary: Steve never jumped into something he thought he wouldnāt survive.Ā He wasnāt ever trying to get himself killed as Dustin had implied.
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Dustin calls Steve reckless and Steve can't stop thinking about how it's actually Dustin who is the reckless one.
Words: 1342
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