#stobin angst

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get ready… hitting you with a huge ultra vague spoiler for the future:

“I SEE FIRE” • Book Four 18+ // Steve Harrington x fem!OC!reader {This unpublished WIP chapter takes place in Book Four of my “I See Fire” series.}

Steve’s eyes flicked over to one of the long branches extending out towards the sky. And when he made eye contact with the red-crested robin perched at the end, staring right at him, his wrist twitched.

The veins beneath his tattoo tingled. 

Hauntingly.

Urgently.

Eerily.

He swallowed, unable to look away. It was as if they were suspended in some sort of staredown, he and this little bird that symbolized both rebellion and loss. Determination and doubt. Perseverance… and the lack thereof that came with giving up.

But he wouldn’t.

Not on you. Not on Nancy.

Chirp, chirp.

“You always show up when it’s quiet.”

Steve’s words were more murmured than spoken. But despite all the bone deep huskiness behind them from pure exhaustion, they landed all the same.

The robin tilted its head, faintly chirping once more. And Steve stared right into its eyes, even from a distance, unwilling to back down.

“Guess that means I’m not supposed to stop.”

He means to ask it rather than tell it. As if maybe, just fucking maybe, Robin’s ghost will confirm whether or not you’re still out there. If he’s already lost you, along with Nancy. If Robin’s already helped the two of you cross over to the other side.

Just like Dustin…

“I’m still here,” Steve added, curt and low. “I’m not done.”

Unlike you, he thinks bitterly.

The robin just stared, unflinching.

He narrowed his eyes. “Don’t start with me,” he warned, his voice so deep and low that it carried no further than to the bird staring back at him. Quiet but cutting. “Not if you aren’t gonna see this through.”

The silence was charged now, met only with a breeze that caught the windswept, oily waves of Steve’s hair, along with the feathers of the robin’s wings before it finally fluttered off its branch.

He watched it go, seeing it soar off into the sky before slowly gliding down, below the endless canopy…

Finally, restlessly, Steve began to inch his way down the enormous tree. Boots braced against notched bark, his palms pressed to the trunk, body sliding carefully toward the earth. The branches groaned but all held. His shoulders ached from hours of clinging. He told himself he wasn’t frustrated… but he was. Frustrated and angry at the nothingness.

…but then he froze.

Movement.

Steve’s big brown eyes snapped to the sliver of a path — wait no, not even a path, just a thinning in the underbrush, a line of crushed grass and dirt. Something flickered through it. He shifted on the branch, careful as hell, body plastered to the trunk so he didn’t pitch off. His stomach twisted at how far down the ground was, how tiny the world looked below.

But he saw it. Swore he saw it. 

A body moving. 

Not an animal. Not the loping gait of a deer, not the dart of a fox. 

Human. Small as an ant from this distance, but human.

Steve’s heart slammed once, twice, too loud in his skull. He blinked hard. Hallucination? Wouldn’t be the first time. But no. No, this was real. He knew it. A human, definitely. And that meant—

Determination surged through him like wildfire. 

Not hope. Determination.

feeling like no one really likes her,

or pays attention to her, and now that steve has eddie... she was going to be left in the dust.

she'd been quiet.

"rob?"

and he's been bugging her all day.

"oh my GOD, steve. im fine. why do you care? im just your little side kick anyways."

she immediately feels bad because right after she says it steve's eyes go all glassy, and that stupid little frown is spread across his face.

"did. did i make you feel like that? rob. i am so sorry. i- i have never seen you as a side kick. you're. you're my best friend... even if i'm not yours... i'm sorry."

and robin sighs, tears pricking her eyes. "you are my best friend, steve. sometimes i just feel like i can't compare."

"robin."

she looks at him, his face is serious in a way she's only seen a few times.

"you played a major part in the person i am today. you are my best friend. you ARE my person. i always want to be your person."

his arms are stretched out, reaching for a hug. "you are so much more than just my friend, robin. i can't even begin to tell you how you've changed the lives of everyone around you." and robin shuffles her way towards him, head thumping against his chest, curling into the touch as steve's arms wrap around her.

~~~

Robin huffed exhaustedly as she flopped onto Nancy's bed, ignoring the other woman's huff of annoyance as the sudden movement jostled the papers that had been spread out on the cover.

"Rough day?" Nancy asked, gathering the papers she had been using to study for her upcoming calculus test in her arms and setting them on the nightstand. She then shifted her gaze to Robin, who had flung an arm across her face while Nancy adjusted herself so she was lying on her back, turning her head to stare at Robin.

"The roughest," Robin agreed.

"Want to talk about it?" Nancy offered.

Robin merely shook her head, removing her arm so she could meet Nancy's gaze.

Nancy's entire demeanor softened when she noticed the red-rimmed and teary eyes. "Come here," she murmured, holding her arms out as an invitation.

Robin accepted the invitation, diving into Nancy's arms just as a fresh round of sobs escaped her. Her entire chest was heaving as tears streamed down her face, creating a wet spot on one of Nancy's favorite shirts.

The journalist would worry about that later. For now, her sole focus was on her beautiful yet devastated girlfriend who was an inconsolable mess in her arms.

"It's ok Robs, I'm here," Nancy whispered, pressing a kiss to the top of Robin's head as her arms tightened around the younger woman. "I'm here, I've got you."

Robin let out a choked whimper, nails digging into Nancy's arms. She wanted to tell Nancy, she did, but she couldn't get the words out. The memory had been replaying in her mind on a loop since she had left Family Video in a rush.

~~~

Robin arched an eyebrow as Steve sighed in boredom for what had to be the millionth time since their shift started less than an hour ago. "Knock it off, dingus," she said.

"But Robbie, I'm sooooo bored," he said, looking at her with sad puppy dog eyes.

She merely rolled her eyes at the childish man. "Really? I couldn't tell."

"You're so mean," Steve said, sticking his tongue out as Robin flicked him off.

"But you love me anyways," Robin said through a grin, ignoring the flicker of guilt that passed through her at the fact that Steve still didn't know that she and Nancy had become a thing.

After everything that happened at Starcourt, Steve had been the one to drive Robin to the Byers home, where everything about the Upside Down had been explained to her, starting from Will's disappearance all the way up to what she had just witnessed at the mall.

Of course, it wasn't an easy explanation to get through as everyone wanted to contribute and pitch in their own versions of what they had experienced, but they managed to get through it with a question here and there from Robin.

Much to everyone's surprise, she had taken everything in stride. Though they supposed it was much easier to take in after you had witnessed the Mind Flayer and been drugged and tortured by evil Russians.

Everyone spent that night at the Byers, dispersed throughout the living room. The older teens took the couches while the younger ones piled onto the floor in a mountain of blankets and pillows and intertwined limbs.

Steve and Robin fell asleep a few inches apart on the couch, but when they woke up, Steve's arm was around Robin's waist and his head was resting on her shoulder, puffs of breath hitting the freckled woman's neck. They sprang apart rather quickly, but after a few nights, it became their thing.

And a few days after that, Robin unofficially moved with Steve. With both of their parents never home, she was practically at his house every day. She got her own bedroom, but one of them always ended up in the other's bed. Steve started driving her to and from work, even on nights they weren't scheduled together (which was a rare occasion).

A few weeks later, Nancy had called out of the blue to check up on Robin and see how she was handling everything. The younger woman confessed that she was still having nightmares and sought out Nancy's advice on how to make them disappear. Nancy offered to come pick her up and take them somewhere to go eat, and Robin readily agreed.

Their friendship was tentative, but after everything that had happened with Vecna/Henry/One, it blossomed. Nancy had never met anyone like Robin, who so easily went along with her ideas, never doubting her for even a second. Someone who was sarcastic and intelligent and quite the rambler. She had also never met a woman as beautiful as Robin, and it made her question everything she thought she knew about herself, especially when Robin finally worked up the courage to tell her that she was into girls.

After Robin's nervous confession, it was like everything clicked into place for Nancy. Without hesitation, she cupped Robin's cheeks in her hands and leaned in, pressing her lips against Robin's as she had been dreaming about for days. She had thought she had made a horrible mistake and was on the verge of pulling away when Robin finally reciprocated the kiss. Electricity crackled between them, running through their veins and leaving them absolutely breathless and dazed when they finally pulled apart.

Shortly after, the two began dating, though not without a thorough conversation about everything that had happened between Nancy and Steve. Nancy confessed that yes, she had hurt Steve, but he had also hurt her by trying to pretend as though nothing ever happened, as if her best friend in the entire world, Barb, hadn't been murdered by some vicious creature in a haunted world that mirrored their town.

Robin told Nancy that Steve was her best friend, her platonic partner, and that yes, she really, really liked Nancy and absolutely wanted to date her and be her girlfriend, but she didn't want to do anything that would hurt him or make him feel as though Robin had betrayed him.

Nancy reassured Robin that Steve wanted nothing more than for the both of them to be happy, and that he wouldn't have a problem with the two of them being together. She understood that if Robin really believed they shouldn't be together because of him, she would step away from the younger woman, as heartbreaking as it would be to do so.

Robin was certain she fell even harder for Nancy in that moment, and pressed a firm, loving kiss to the journalist's lips. "Wish me luck," she said.

"Good luck," Nancy said, chastely kissing Robin before she escorted her downstairs and to the front door, where Steve was waiting to pick her up so they could head to work together.

That had been earlier in the day, and now, Robin's heart was beating ferociously in her chest. Her hands felt sweaty, her eyes were zeroing in on everything except for Steve, and her mouth felt extremely dry. She couldn't help but to fiddle with her rings, inhaling and exhaling deeply to try and calm her nerves.

Of course with Steve being an expert on everything Robin, he instantly sensed the shift in the air, a concerned frown adorning his face when he noticed Robin was playing with her rings. She only did that when she was extremely bored or when she was utterly nervous about something. "You alright Robbie?" he asked, brow pinching in concern as she looked at him with wide, frightened eyes.

"Y-yeah, yeah, of course. Everything is completely and totally fine. Why wouldn't it be? I'm working with my absolute best friend in the entire world who happens to be none other than Steve "the Hair" Harrington. Hey, don't you think it's funny that your nickname also matches your last name? Because I do. I think it's absolutely hilarious, actually. Even though it's not spelled the same as the type of hair that's on your head, it still makes for a really funny thing. God, it's really hot in here. It's making my head spin. Is your head spinning, Stevie? Because mine is."

"Robin," Steve interrupted, placing his hands on his friend's shoulders. "Breathe with me. In, and out. In, and out," he instructed, exaggerating his own breathing until Robin's breaths were slowing down and matching his. "There ya go. Nice and easy."

"Thanks," she whispered, pressing her forehead against his shoulder, wrapping her arms around him tight.

"You're welcome," he replied, hugging her just as tight. "Want to tell me what that was all about?" Steve questioned as they pulled apart, looking at her expectantly.

"Not particularly, no," she said, slender fingers instantly going to twist her rings around and around and around.

"You know you can tell me anything," Steve insisted, staring directly into Robin's eyes to prove he was serious, his frown returning when Robin tore her eyes away from his own.

"Promise you won't get mad? That you'll let me explain?" she asked, and Steve absolutely hated how her voice trembled.

"I promise Robbie, I swear it."

Robin inhaled sharply, steeling herself before meeting his concerned gaze. "I'm dating Nancy."

She flinched away from Steve as though she was expecting him to hit her. What she didn't expect was for Steve to brace himself on the counter, in absolute tears due to how hard he was laughing.

"You! A-and Nancy!" he spluttered, gasping for air as he continued to chuckle. "That's a good one. Really, that was fantastic. Oh, you just made my day."

Robin scowled, hands on her hips as she sent a death glare his way. "I'm being serious, you asshole."

Steve looked up at Robin, his amusement fading into confusion. "You're serious?"

"Yes, dingus. I'm serious. Nancy and I have been together for a few weeks now. I've been dying to tell you but I didn't know how to. I know you guys hurt one another and you're slowly becoming friends again and I didn't want to do anything to jeopardize that but God, Steve, Nancy is absolutely amazing. She's passionate and brilliant and kind and a badass and cares so deeply even though she's been so badly hurt in the past and she doesn't even—"

"You and Nancy?!" Steve exclaimed, his voice rising in pitch. "You and Nancy Wheeler?! The very same Nancy Wheeler you declared was a priss in the bathroom at Starcourt?! The Nancy Wheeler you know tore my heart up before stomping on it?! Nancy Wheeler, Mike's older sister Nancy Wheeler?!"

"Yes Steve, that Nancy Wheeler!" Robin shouted back in exasperation. "Do you know another badass woman named Nancy Wheeler?!"

Steve's mouth flailed open and shut as he tried to come up with a response.

Robin softened as she took notice of how confused and hurt Steve was. "I never meant to hurt you, Stevie. That's why I'm telling you. I'm just a girl whose in love with another girl who happens to be your ex. That's all."

"That's all?" Steve repeated sarcastically, venom dripping off every word. "Robin, you know what she did to me. You know how much she hurt me and how devastated I was. Hell, you were the one to comfort me when I would get down on myself about our relationship and talked me out of calling her like the drunken idiot we both know I can be! Was that all just some ploy to keep me from her so you could have her all to yourself?!"

Robin narrowed her eyes at her friend, ignoring the tears that were beginning to gather due to Steve's accusation. "No, Steve, it's nothing like that. I fell for Nancy because of who she is, not because it would hurt you. That's the whole reason I wanted to talk to you. I didn't want to keep this from you any longer because I knew you would react like this!"

"Like what?!"

"Like this! Accusing me of shit you know I would never do! You're my best friend, Steve James Harrington, and I would never do anything that would jeopardize our friendship!"

"Well you did, Robin! Out of all the girls in Hawkins to date, you chose Nancy!"

"You know that I have to be careful and that I actually don't have many options in this small, homophobic, bumfuck of a town," Robin growled, practically nose to nose with Steve.

"Well it's not my fault that it's unnatural, now is it?"

Both of them froze in place as soon as the question dropped from his lips, Robin heartbroken and in disbelief while Steve was horrified and shocked.

"Rob, I—"

"Fuck you, Steve," she spat, ripping her Family Video vest off her person and slamming it onto the counter, enjoying how it made Steve flinch.

Steve faltered as he reached out for Robin, the devastation and resignation in her eyes breaking his heart more than Nancy ever did.

"You are the one person I trusted," Robin said, swallowing past the lump in her throat. "I never thought in a million years that you of all people would be the one I trusted with that part of myself, because you were an absolute douchebag in high school. But you managed to get me to open up to you and despite all of my instincts telling me not to, I did. I trusted you because you weren't King Steve anymore, but clearly I was wrong. You haven't changed, and you never will."

With that, Robin rushed past Steve and out the door. She ran straight to Steve's car, grabbed her bike out of the trunk, and pedaled as hard and as fast as she could, ignoring Steve's desperate calls for her to come back. She paid no attention to the tears streaming down her face. There was only one thing on her mind.

She needed to get to Nancy.

~~~

Nancy wasn't sure how much time had passed since Robin had broken down in her arms. All she knew was that something had to have gone terribly wrong between Robin and Steve for her girlfriend to be so inconsolable and so obviously crushed.

"I've got you Robin, I promise. I'm here for you, whatever you need," Nancy vowed quietly so as not to further overwhelm her girlfriend.

"Thank you," Robin replied, her voice even raspier than normal.

"There's no need to thank me," the journalist said, smiling down at the the younger teen.

"I got snot all over your favorite shirt," Robin mumbled, a small grin appearing as Nancy chuckled.

"You're more important than a shirt, Robin."

"Mmhmm," she agreed through a yawn, snuggling closer to Nancy.

Nancy simply held her girlfriend tighter, running a hand through Robin's hair to help soothe her to sleep. "I love you, Robin."

"Love you too, Nance," she said, looking at the curly-haired brunette with half-lidded eyes.

"I'll be here when you wake," Nancy assured her, absolutely melting when Robin promptly closed her eyes and dozed off within minutes.

While she wasn't sure about the specifics of what went down between the two friends, she was sure about one thing.

Stobin Month post! Alternate Ending if neither of them had thrown up the lsd to get it out of their systems 🫠

now dont imagine steve cradling robin in his arms on the ground as shes slowly bleeding out, just as dustin did with eddie. hes panicking cuz of how much blood shes losing and utterly terrified that his best friend might die in his arms right now he asks

"are you okay?"

with his voice shaking. and robin, basically running on adrenaline at this point, lets out a strained laugh amd barely manages to let out

"ask me tomorrow?"

and steve just BREAKS, violently sobbing, holding onto her cuz he doesn't know if she'll even make it to tomorrow. he leans into her holding her tight as he can feel her heartbeat slowly start to fade. now hes hanging onto her body for dear life and noone can pry him away cuz he doesn't want to leave her all alone in this place.

'is this what dustin felt at ths time?'

What if Steve gets with the reader but Robin gets jealous because Steve isn't hanging out with her as much as he use to anymore

So in my mind, Steve and Robin became friends at school as well as Scoops in this ??? Sorry that this A) took so long and B) is so short! Have never written for STOBIN before…

KOFI | Masterlist

Steve had fancied you for a long while, Robin knew about it. She encouraged it, enjoying the idea of gaining another friend through Steve. Thinking that this would strengthen all of your friendships as one.

However, the day Steve asked you out. Robin sensed something was different between them, he hadn’t mentioned you for a while. He didn’t hide himself from you as you walked towards him in the hallway.

As the day progressed on, Steve began to pay less and less attention to Robin. At lunchtime Steve’s voice carried across the hall but Robin sat alone, stiring her food around her plastic tray. Deciding to not spend anymore time in the hall, she wondered outside away from the noise.

Placing her headphones over her ears and pressed play, she didn’t feel good. Her and Steve spent every lunch time together but something wasn’t adding up.

As she collected hers belongings and turned down the volume of her music, she wandered back into the building. Looking down at her feet as she waded through the lunch crowds until she felt herself fly into someone’s body.

It was Steve.

Glaring at him in annoyance, she noticed that his arm was flung around you. Smiling at you before hurrying to get on her way, she didn’t realise that Steve had called after her.

The day ended quickly, Robin couldn’t wait to get home. She work later that day and knew that she could avoid Steve until then.

She did.

All the days since that first day had been the same, Robin spent less and less time with Steve and watched from afar how quickly your relationship blossomed.

She tried to tell herself that she wasn’t jealous of how much time you took of Steve. How you weaselled your way in and practically stole him from her.

Her Scoops Ahoy outfit was crinkled as she attempted to straighten it put, ditching her bike outside the mall court. She sighed and headed inside, there he was. Tidying up the display that advertised the new ice cream flavour, his eyes lit up with a smile as he saw Robin walk closer to him.

Shrugging she disappeared into the back for a few seconds before returning to the front, unable to avoid him any longer.

“Yo, Rob are you okay?” His voice was filled with concern and worry.

Her blood boiled as she rotated the ice cream in the plastic boxes, your voice echoed across the register as Steve leant over to talk to you.

Mumbling under her breath as she aggressively prepared your order, Steve shot a look between Robin and you. Laughing awkwardly before kissing your cheek, he watched you seductively walked away.

“Come on let’s talk” He spoke sternly after she placed your order on top of the counter in their appropriate slots.

Pulling Robin away from the seating area, his hands firmly either side of her shoulders as he scanned her face.

She tried to hide herself from him but he shook her softly with a sad sigh.

“So, it’s pretty embarrassing actually. But Im jealous that your time isn’t always with me. That you’re now with her. ” she sighed, looking deflated as she avoided his eyes.

“Oh Rob” Steve tried to stiffull his laugh. Pulling her in for a hug, his hands slid up to her hair where he stroked her hair.

“No one will replace you, you’re my best friend” his words were mumbled as she began laugh against him.