"𝑰'𝒍𝒍 𝒃𝒆 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆, 𝒐𝒌𝒂𝒚? 𝑻𝒂𝒌𝒆 𝒐𝒏 𝒎𝒆." ♪ 𝐈𝐧 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐘/𝐧 𝐬𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐛𝐛𝐥𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐧 𝐚 𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐤 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐝𝐚𝐲...𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐬 𝐬𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐛𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤

She didn't know any better. Years of being raised by the evil entity that was once Henry Creel skewed her view of the world she once lived in. When Y/N is sent by him from the Upside Down to infiltrate those that so tediously continue to thwart his plans, she ends up finding something with someone that she never could have expected. Will she betray the one who raised her, who helped her escape that horrific lab? Or will she help him burn it all to the ground? One thing was for sure. There was only one thing that might change her mind... She just doesn't doesn't even know he exists... Yet. ( Set from the beginning of S4 once flashbacks cease but reader has been part of prior Vecna plans. Reader is over 18/older than El to fit with Steve without it being weird and has powers; is 002 in this story so assume the bullies in the show were 003 upwards. Long-ish intro with flashbacks to try and make it make sense lmfao but only a few chapters. Please read TW's before reading and let me know if there's anything I missed. TW: Violence, brainwashing, death, both mental and physical abuse, manipulation, smut in later chapters, fem!Reader, angst )

"Don't you know? Boys and girls can be friends. That's all Steve and I are. Friends." ☽𓏲𖥧𓂃⎯⎯⎯⎯𓂃𖥧𓏲☾ Y/n Henderson has always hated Steve Harrington. From his relationship with her best friend to his cocky attitude to his annoyingly perfect hair, there's hardly any redeeming qualities about him. Then, Will Byers go missing. It's not enough to completely mend their relationship, but it's a start. ☽𓏲𖥧𓂃⎯⎯⎯⎯𓂃𖥧𓏲☾ Season 1 Word Count: 45,336 Season 2 Word Count: 54,256 Season 3 Word Count: 52,476 Season 4 Word Count: 69,260 Total Word Count: 221,328 Obviously, I don't own Stranger Things, Joe Keery's amazing hair, or you, so all that credit goes to Netflix, the Duffer Brothers, Joe Keery's hair stylist, and yourself. I do own any different plot points than the original Stranger Things has. Started: August 2nd, 2022 Ended: August 2nd, 2025

𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒗𝒆 𝒉. 𝒙 𝒇!𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒅𝒆𝒓 "𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒚𝒐𝒖 - 𝒔𝒖𝒅𝒅𝒆𝒏𝒍𝒚 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒖𝒏𝒆𝒙𝒑𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒆𝒅𝒍𝒚, 𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆." -𝒎.𝒎 𝒎𝒄𝒏𝒆𝒆𝒍𝒚 ˏˋ°•*⁀➷ 𝙞𝙣 𝙬𝙝𝙞𝙘𝙝 𝘢 𝘨𝘪𝘳𝘭 𝘴𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘬𝘴 𝘶𝘱 𝘢𝘯 𝘶𝘯𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘧𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘱 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘩𝘢𝘸𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘴 𝘩𝘪𝘨𝘩'𝘴 𝘱𝘰𝘱𝘶𝘭𝘢𝘳 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘺 𝘣𝘰𝘺 𝘢𝘧𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘩𝘦 𝘨𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘴 𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘢 𝘳𝘪𝘥𝘦 𝘩𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘢 𝘩𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘺 𝘴𝘩𝘦 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘥𝘪𝘥𝘯'𝘵 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘵 𝘩𝘪𝘮 𝘵𝘰 𝘢𝘭𝘴𝘰 𝘣𝘦 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘧𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘥𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘴 . . . reminders! ➤ stranger things and it's characters belong to the duffer brothers & netflix, excluding [y/n] and all additional characters written originally by me in the story ➤ this xreader insert will be using she/her pronouns, but all are welcome! ➤ story will begin at s2 ✎ season two - ✓ ✎ season three - ✓ ✎ season four - ✓ ✎ season five - in progress ━━━ highest rankings #1 in steveharrington 9/23/2025 #1 in xreader 11/28/2025 #1 in strangerthings3 12/27/2025 #2 in netflix 10/29/2025

Paranormal occurrences start happening in the sleepy town of Hawkins, Indiana, on the night of November 6th, 1983. Y/n gets dragged into the mess of it all and finds herself in over her head after she stumbles upon a monster in the woods. Disclaimer // I do not own Stranger Things in any way. The whole franchise belongs to the Duffer Brothers and Netflix. I only own y/n and my changes I've made. Do not copy or steal this story in any way. The photo used for the cover is from Pinterest, but I wrote it. That is my writing and my own design. There is cursing. Any trigger warnings will be in the chapters before it happens. I don't write smut. Steve Harrington x Fem!Reader (eventually) #1 in 1980s 4/29/24 #1 in readerxcharacter 11/6/22 #1 in steveharringtonxreader 12/21/22 #1 in stevethehairharrington 11/8/22 #1 in enemiestofriends 1/5/23 #1 in ahoy 1/22/23 #1 in kingsteve 11/8/22 #1 in strangerthingsxreader 2/4/23 #3 in paranormal 12/23/22 #4 in steve 1/17/23 #10 in fanfiction 11/6/22 Started: Late June, 2022. Finished: February 4th, 2023. Started writing S5: November 27th, 2025. Finished: TBD :)

.•° ✿ °•. "𝑫𝒊𝒅𝒏'𝒕 𝑰 𝒔𝒂𝒚 𝑰 𝒘𝒂𝒔𝒏'𝒕 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒅𝒚 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒂 𝒓𝒐𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆? 𝑫𝒊𝒅𝒏'𝒕 𝒘𝒆 𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒎𝒊𝒔𝒆 𝒘𝒆 𝒘𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒐𝒏𝒍𝒚 𝒃𝒆 𝒇𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒔?" °•. ✿ .•° 𝘞𝘩𝘦𝘯 '𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨' 𝘚𝘵𝘦𝘷𝘦 𝘏𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘵𝘰𝘯'𝘴 𝘧𝘪𝘳𝘴𝘵 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘣𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘬 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘴 𝘩𝘪𝘮 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘳 𝘧𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘱𝘴, 𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘩𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘥𝘦𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘺 𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘪𝘯 𝘢𝘯 𝘶𝘯𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦𝘭𝘺 𝘏𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘰𝘯 𝘨𝘪𝘳𝘭. ❁ ≖≖✿❁ ≖≖✿❁ ≖≖✿❁ ≖≖ ❁ 𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐯𝐞 𝐇𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐭𝐨𝐧 𝐱 𝐅𝐞𝐦𝐚𝐥𝐞!𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐫 {𝘴𝘭𝘰𝘸𝘣𝘶𝘳𝘯 𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘭 𝘴3/ 𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘮𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘧𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘦} Once again, all characters and plot rights belong to the duffer brothers but anything pertaining to Y/n or her dialogue belongs to me and cannot be infringed in any way! Thank you x x .•° ✿ °•. "𝑰 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒃𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒎𝒚 𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒎𝒊𝒔𝒆𝒔 𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆" °•. ✿ .•°