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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.

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. 

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. 

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.

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