After years in the foster system, Ophelia Hayes finally finds a home in Hawkins. Thoughtful, witty, and careful with her trust, she's learning what it means to belong. When Steve Harrington steps into her world during a night of danger, an unexpected friendship begins to grow. As Hawkins faces the horrors of the Upside Down, their bond deepens slowly, built on trust, shared moments, and quiet understanding. In a town full of monsters, even the smallest connections can leave the strongest mark. 𝕊𝕖𝕒𝕤𝕠𝕟 𝟚 - 𝕔𝕠𝕞𝕡𝕝𝕖𝕥𝕖𝕕 𝕊𝕖𝕒𝕤𝕠𝕟 𝟛 - 𝕔𝕠𝕞𝕡𝕝𝕖𝕥𝕖𝕕 𝕊𝕖𝕒𝕤𝕠𝕟 𝟜 - 𝕚𝕟 𝕡𝕣𝕠𝕘𝕣𝕖𝕤𝕤 𝕊𝕖𝕒𝕤𝕠𝕟 𝟝 - 𝕚𝕟𝕔𝕠𝕞𝕡𝕝𝕖𝕥𝕖 Cross posted on ao3, @pr33tygirlavenue Updates are every Wednesday

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.

|Pure Chaos| Kathleen Hopper never planned on coming back to Hawkins. But getting kicked out by her mom leaves her with no choice but to move in with her dad and finish high school in the one place she hoped to avoid. Hawkins, however, isn't the same town she left. People are disappearing. Strange things are happening at night. And somehow Kat keeps getting pulled into the middle of it, thanks to old friends, nosy middle schoolers, and a town that refuses to stay normal. She wanted a quiet senior year. Instead, she's stuck in the middle of a mystery no one wants to talk about. Season 1, 2 & 3 Steve Harrington x fem!OC Started : 12/6/25 Completed :

Imogen Henderson has always seen herself as broken, a collection of jagged pieces that don't quite fit together. The weight of her past mistakes and the scars she carries-both visible and hidden-make her feel like damaged goods, unworthy of love or a fresh start. Each day is a battle between the hope for redemption and the fear that she will never be whole again. Yet, beneath the surface, there remains a spark of resilience, a quiet strength waiting for the chance to prove that even the most fractured hearts can mend. Started: July 22, 2019 Finished: July 28, 2019 (STEVE HARRINGTON X OC) (SEASON 2-3) Stranger Things and all its Franchise © Duffer Brothers OC and Creative Plot © -lalalie

Callie Henderson has always been the easiest person in Hawkins to love. She's bright, talkative, endlessly kind, and almost always found with a book tucked beneath her arm or Dustin Henderson trailing somewhere behind her like a shadow. Between babysitting her little brother and his strange collection of middle-school misfits, smiling through awkward family dinners, and trying to survive the boredom of Hawkins High, Callie has built a reputation for being sweet enough to get along with anyone. Anyone except Steve Harrington. Cocky, infuriating, and far too aware of his own charm, Steve gets under Callie's skin like no one else can. Their conversations usually end in sarcasm, eye rolls, and slammed lockers, and if Callie never has to hear his smug voice again, it'll still be too soon. Unfortunately for her, Hawkins is small. And when a boy goes missing, strange things begin crawling out of the dark, and the people Callie loves most are pulled into a nightmare no one understands, avoiding Steve Harrington becomes impossible. Because somewhere between late-night searches, bloodied knuckles, terrified kids, and secrets too dangerous to tell, the boy she thought she hated starts becoming someone else entirely. Someone protective. Someone broken. Someone impossible not to care about. But falling for Steve Harrington was never part of Callie Henderson's story. Especially when love has always made her shy.

Jules Henderson aka Dustin Hendersons older sister. She's protective, sarcastic, stubborn, and way more observant than people give her credit for. Growing up with Dustin means she's used to chaos, weird conversations about science she barely understands, and being the one who has to step in when things go wrong. She loves her brother fiercely, even when he drives her insane, and that protective instinct ends up shaping almost every decision she makes. She lives a normal life high school, hanging out with her best friends Nancy Wheeler and Barbra Holland, but one night everything changes, after going to steve harringtons party and having a fight with Nancy, Barb goes missing her and nancy start looking for her with the help of Jhonthan Byers who's also looking for his brother Will. And they discover things they know they shouldn't have and their lives change forever. But something else other than the monsters that changes her life is developing feelings for no other than Steve Harrington.

No reason is needed for loving. Steve Harrington / oc © aquamcnti 2022

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.

▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆ 𝙄𝙉 𝙒𝙃𝙄𝘾𝙃 . . . 007 escapes to a new world and befriends a strange group of teenagers who once knew someone like her. And her heart goes to someone ━━ her best friends ex... The mom of the group. She was the glue that brought them together the sun to his moon. 𝗦𝗧𝗔𝗧𝗨𝗦: ONGOING friendsish to lovers steve harrington x fem ! oc © ━ 𝗱𝗮𝗿𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘇 2022 word count: 300k+ #1 in stranger things fanfiction 3/2/2025 #1 in Dustin Henderson 12/31/2025 #1 in Max Mayfield 1/8/2026 #1 in st3 1/28/2026

"She's not coming, she's sick." "What do you mean by sick?" "I don't know. Maybe sick of your shit." [Book 2]