••••• "Don't you want me? / You know I can't believe it when you say that you don't need me" ••••• "This might be the stupidest thing I've ever gotten myself involved in, but I'm in." In which Steve Harrington and Kimberly Henderson go from best friends, to enemies, to lovers. started: 9/2/2020 completed: 12/28/2026 Stranger Things Seasons 1-5 Disclaimer: I don't own Stranger Things, but I do own Kimberly Henderson and her story line.

Valerie Henderson has always known two things: Monsters aren't real, and Steve Harrington is insufferable. As Dustin's older sister and Nancy Wheeler's closest friend, Valerie has spent years watching Hawkins from the sidelines, sharp-eyed, unimpressed, and dressed in black like she's permanently attending someone else's funeral. She doesn't trust easily. She doesn't fall softly. And she definitely doesn't fall for boys with perfect hair and worse reputations. But when Will Byers disappears and Hawkins begins to crack open, monsters stop being a metaphor, and surviving them means working alongside the one person she swore she'd never stand. Across five seasons of secrets, near-death experiences, late-night arguments, and tension thick enough to rival the Upside Down, hatred slowly turns into something far more dangerous. After all, some things burn fast. And some things burn slow.

▌𝘚𝘛𝘙𝘈𝘕𝘎𝘌𝘙 𝘛𝘏𝘐𝘕𝘎𝘚 ❛ I think I was a jerk to you in high school on purpose. ❜ ❛ ...because you're an idiot? ❜ ❛ no. because it was the only way to get you to look at me ❜ . . ⋆｡˚ 🚲 𝗜𝗡 𝗪𝗛𝗜𝗖𝗛 ━━━━ 𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙫𝙚 and 𝙘𝙖𝙨𝙚𝙮 spend a summer bickering to hide the fact that they're falling in love, discovering that the boy with the savior complex is the only match for the girl who doesn't believe she deserves to be saved. steve harrington x buckley! oc (fem) szn 3 ✔︎ szn 4 ✔︎ szn 5 ✔︎ RANKINGS: #1 in harrington - 17/12/25 #1 in henderson - 20/12/25 #1 in lucassinclair - 03/01/26 #1 in maxmayfield - 31/01/26 #1 in jonathanbyers - 05/02/26 #1 in lucas - 10/02/26 #1 in vecna - 31/03/26 #1 in sinclair - 31/03/26 #1 in mike - 15/04/26 #1 in byers - 16/04/26 #1 in mayfield - 13/05/26 #1 in max - 13/05/26 #1 in steveharrington - 13/05/26 started - 20/11/25 finished- 12/05/26 cover made by me desc inspo by lvrdixon © luvsnaya

"Before Dawn, I didn't know what love felt like. Before Dawn I felt alone..." - Steve Book is currently in Season 5 Filler Stranger Things Season 1 - 5 Slow burn • Before Dawn is a Steve Harrington fanfic but it is also a rewrite of Stranger Things. Dawn Henderson is the main character, and it will be focused on her. There will be scenes Dawn will not be in. I added them in to create a detailed story lines that builds to certain parts. I will be filling in parts in between episodes, and will be going along episode for episode. This will definitely be a long story with multiple parts each season • This story contains inappropriate language, mature themes, mental health, sexual content, and violence Season 1: 01/02/26 - 01/19/26 35 parts Season 2: 01/20/26 - 02/25/26 38 parts Season 3 Filler: 02/25/26 - 03/08/26 10 parts Season 3: 03/08/26 - 04/12/26 30 parts Season 4 Filler: 04/15/26 - 04/19/26 6 parts Season 4: 04/20/25 - 06/16/26 32 parts Season 5 Filler 06/21/26 10 parts ongoing Disclaimer: I do not own stranger thing, or songs, or any of the characters besides Dawn Henderson. All photos and gifs are from Pinterest I do create all my own images that have Dawn Henderson inserted into scenes

Hawkins, Indiana isn't the kind of town you escape to. It's the kind you get trapped in. At seventeen, Lily Hargrove has already learned how to survive a broken home. When her mother vanished years ago, she and her twin brother Billy were left alone with a father whose anger only grew sharper with time. Then came Susan Mayfield - and her thirteen-year-old daughter, Maxine. They've known Max since she was small. She grew up around them. Grew up watching. Listening. Learning when to stay quiet. But knowing someone doesn't mean understanding them. When Neil Hargrove decides to move the family from California to the sleepy town of Hawkins, Billy is furious. Lily is exhausted. And Max is caught in the middle - old enough now to see the cracks in their family clearly, but still young enough to hope things might get better. They won't. Hawkins feels wrong from the start. The woods stretch too far. The air feels too still. And at night, the darkness hums. Lily is the first to sense it - something watching from the tree line. Something that doesn't belong. A creature that moves like an animal but isn't one. A mouth full of teeth that opens like a nightmare unfolding. A sound that isn't a scream - but close enough. As strange disappearances shake Hawkins and rumors spread through the halls of Hawkins High, Lily and Max are pulled into a secret far bigger than their family drama - a tear in reality that threatens to swallow the town whole. Lily laughs, she cries, she smiles all because of that one specific person, Steve Harrington. In Hawkins, monsters don't just live in another dimension. Sometimes they live in your house. Sometimes they wear your father's face. And sometimes... they're waiting for you in the dark.

Julie Byers had always felt unseen. Unseen by her dad. Unseen by her teachers. Unseen by the world. That was until her brother went missing-and nothing would ever be the same. Season one ✅ Julie byers x Steve Harrington

𝑰𝑵 𝑾𝑯𝑰𝑪𝑯 Steve Harrington and Jade Grady's jarring relationship is urged to become more as a serious threat arises in Hawkins. ♫ stranger things S1-S5 season 1: completed season 2: completed season 3: currently writing steve harrington x fem!oc enemies to lovers third person pov i only own my characters and their plot lines please do not steal or translate my work

'𝗉𝗂𝗉𝖾 𝖽𝗈𝗐𝗇 𝗁𝖺𝗂𝗋𝗌𝗉𝗋𝖺𝗒..' '𝖽𝗂𝖽 𝗒𝗈𝗎 𝗃𝗎𝗌𝗍 𝖼𝖺𝗅𝗅 𝗆𝖾...𝗁𝖺𝗂𝗋𝗌𝗉𝗋𝖺𝗒?!' [steve Harrington x fem oc] [stranger things x fem oc] [partially Billy Hargrove x fem oc] [lalawrites333] [December 14th 2025] [𝖲𝖫𝖮𝖶 𝖡𝖴𝖱𝖭] [𝖫𝖮𝖭𝖦 𝖢𝖧𝖠𝖯𝖳𝖤𝖱𝖲] [𝖲𝖫𝖮𝖶 𝖴𝖯𝖣𝖠𝖳𝖤𝖲] [SEASON 1--complete] [SEASON 2--in progress] [SEASON 3-- X] [SEASON 4-- X] [SEASON 5-- X]

in which mandi henderson somehow catches feeling for the one and only steve harrington despite loathing him since forever. © midnightsrep, 2025 stranger things ( season one - tbc ) steve harrington x female oc eddie munson x male oc enemies to lovers