Lisa Henderson didn't like Steve Harrington. Not at all. They were best friends as kids and now they didn't talk, and Lisa was content in forgetting about his existence which was easy since they didn't have the same friends. That was until he started dating her best friend, Nancy Wheeler. Trying to adapt to his unwelcome return into her life, as well as trying to stay out of whatever her brother Dustin and his friends were secretly up to was no easy feat, especially when literal monsters were thrown into the mix. Lisa Henderson didn't like Steve Harrington, but she also couldn't seem to get rid of him. And maybe, just maybe, she didn't actually mind that much. --- The characters and the general storyline/setting belong to the Duffer brothers. Lisa Henderson and any new plotlines are my creation. Title inspired by the song 'Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)' by Journey --- Originally started in January 2023, but reposting with edits in August 2025! Also posting on Ao3 under the same username :) --- For the *aesthetic* here you go https://www.pinterest.com/notsobadplantmom/worlds-apart/

ᴛʜᴇ ʙᴀʙʏꜱɪᴛᴛᴇʀꜱ || ꜱᴛᴇᴠᴇ ʜᴀʀʀɪɴɢᴛᴏɴ uoʇɓuıɹɹɐH ǝʌǝʇS || sɹǝʇʇısʎqɐᙠ ǝɥ⊥ Stranger Things Steve Harrington Steve Harrington x Reader Steve Harrington x Female Reader Steve Harrington x Y/n Steve Harrington x Y/n Hopper

Andrea "Andie" Hopper has always stood out. Moving to Hawkins and growing close to the Byers family changed everything for her, and when little Will Byers goes missing, she is determined to do anything she can to bring him home. Even if that means interacting with prim and proper Nancy Wheeler and working on her relationship with her father, the grumpy Chief of Police. With her friend Eddie not being involved in the terrors that she is soon to discover, she might have to expand her circle to include Will's friends, some weird girl with a buzzcut, and even Steve Harrington...despite him being an idiot. It might even mean she's going to have to adjust to a new normal. And just maybe getting to know Steve Harrington won't be so bad after all. (S1 to S4 of Stranger Things, with my own version of S5, written before S5 came out.) *I do not own the characters or story, I only own what I have added to it. I do not own the cover art.

[REPOSTED] "Alice, thank goodness-why the hell did you bring Mews?" "What? I didn't want the evil government agents to get her!" *** Alice Henderson has always been told she's got her mind in Wonderland. She longs for an adventure in her life like the Alice she pretends she's named after. When her brother Dustin's friend Will goes missing in November 1983, she gets what she wished for-and it's not quite as dreamy as she hoped. Dustin, Mike, and Lucas are running wild with a quiet girl with superpowers, Alice's best friend goes missing, and strange things happen left and right that have Alice questioning her sanity. Alice will do anything to protect her brother, learn about her past, and stay alive to go to the Snow Ball, even if it means fighting monsters and making allies in unexpected places. *** COVER BY: @dash-of-clarity ! Stranger Things S1-4 Steve Harrington x OC (slowburn) Started: 01/01/18 [Re-]Started: 07/17/19 Completed Up through ST3: 03/03/20 Completed Up through ST4: 11/20/22 Republished: 07/30/24-04/06/25 HIGHEST RANKS: ⇒ #5 in "Steve Harrington" ⇒ #2 in "Stranger Things" ⇒ #1 in "Steve Harrington x OC" ⇒ #1 in "Netflix Original" ⇒ #1 in "Will Byers" ⇒ #1 in "Dustin Henderson" ⇒ #1 in "The Upside Down" ⇒ #1 in "Eleven Hopper" ⇒ #1 in "Hawkins Indiana" ⇒ #1 in "Jonathan Byers" ⇒ #1 in "Steve" ⇒ #3 in "Lucas Sinclair" ⇒ #4 in "Barb Holland" ⇒ #4 in "Nancy Wheeler" ⇒ #7 in "Dustin Henderson" ⇒ #85 in "Netflix" ⇒ #470 in "Fanfiction" (out of 1.3 MILLION STORIES with the Fanfic tag. Holy shit how is that possible thank u for reading) *** DISCLAIMER: THE RIGHTS TO ST BELONG TO NETFLIX, UPSIDE DOWN PICTURES, AND THE DUFFER BROS. I JUST OWN ALICE, HER FRIENDS, AND ANY OTHER ORIGINAL PLOTLINES YOU SEE!

𝙸𝚗 𝚆𝚑𝚒𝚌𝚑 𝙰𝚖𝚘𝚛𝚊 𝚂𝚒𝚗𝚌𝚕𝚊𝚒𝚛, 𝚀𝚞𝚎𝚎𝚗 𝚘𝚏 𝙷𝚊𝚠𝚔𝚒𝚗𝚜 𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚛𝚝𝚜 𝚝𝚘 𝚐𝚛𝚘𝚠 𝚏𝚎𝚎𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚐𝚜 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚑𝚎𝚛 𝚎𝚡-𝚋𝚎𝚜𝚝 𝚏𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚗𝚍 𝚂𝚝𝚎𝚟𝚎, '𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙷𝚊𝚒𝚛' 𝙷𝚊𝚛𝚛𝚒𝚗𝚐𝚝𝚘𝚗. 𝚆𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚠𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚜𝚑𝚎 𝚍𝚘 𝚠𝚑𝚎𝚗 𝚜𝚑𝚎 𝚑𝚊𝚜 𝚝𝚘 𝚏𝚒𝚐𝚑𝚝 𝚊𝚕𝚘𝚗𝚐 𝚜𝚒𝚍𝚎 𝚑𝚒𝚖? 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝙰𝚖𝚘𝚛𝚊 𝚕𝚎𝚝 𝚑𝚎𝚛 𝚏𝚎𝚎𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚐𝚜 𝚐𝚎𝚝 𝚒𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚠𝚊𝚢? 𝙾𝚛 𝚠𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚜𝚑𝚎 𝚌𝚑𝚘𝚘𝚜𝚎 𝚝𝚘 𝚒𝚐𝚗𝚘𝚛𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚖? "𝘸𝘩𝘺 𝘥𝘰 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘩𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘮𝘦 𝘴𝘰 𝘮𝘶𝘤𝘩 𝘈𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘢?" "𝘉𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘪 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘴𝘰 𝘮𝘶𝘤𝘩 𝘪𝘵 𝘴𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘴 𝘮𝘦!" ᴺᴼᵂ ᴾᴸᴬᵞᴵᴺᴳ : 𝘖𝘶𝘵 𝘖𝘧 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘞𝘰𝘰𝘥𝘴 (𝘛𝘢𝘺𝘭𝘰𝘳'𝘴 𝘝𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯) Out of the woods 1:41 ─●──────── -2:15 ↻ ◁ II ▷ ↺ ᴠᴏʟᴜᴍᴇ : ▮▮▮▮▮▮▯▯▯ "𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘸𝘦 𝘥𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘮𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘴𝘰 𝘸𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘥𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘣𝘢𝘣𝘺, 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘸𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘰𝘥 𝘢 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦. 𝘛𝘸𝘰 𝘱𝘢𝘱𝘦𝘳 𝘢𝘪𝘳𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘦𝘴 𝘧𝘭𝘺𝘪𝘯𝘨,𝘧𝘭𝘺𝘪𝘯𝘨, 𝘧𝘭𝘺𝘪𝘯𝘨, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘪 𝘳𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘮𝘣𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨..." Started: September 21, 2025 En

「 𝟏𝟗𝟕𝟏: Sarah Hopper is pronounced dead. Or so her parents are told. She's secreted away to Hawkins Laboratory by Dr. Brenner to enhance her powers, making her the first in a long line of supernatural experiments. 」 「 𝟏𝟗𝟖𝟓: A strange girl arrives in Hawkins with no memory of her past. The only clue she has is a small tattoo on her left wrist: 001. Together, Eleven, Mike, Will, Lucas, Dustin, Max, and Steve must find a way to help her figure out who she is...and to stop the emerging danger in her wake. 」 𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐄𝐃: 𝟽 / 𝟷𝟺 / 𝟷𝟿 || 𝐂𝐎𝐌𝐏𝐋𝐄𝐓𝐄𝐃: 𝟷 / 𝟺 / 𝟸𝟷 𝙲𝙾𝚅𝙴𝚁 𝙱𝚈: @ 𝚖𝚎 © 𝙲𝙻𝙰𝚁𝙰 𝙳𝙰𝚂𝙷𝙼𝙾𝙽𝙳, 𝟸𝟶𝟷𝟿

Steve Harrington has made a lot of mistakes. He's said the wrong things at the worst times, has tried to be the one everyone wants him to be. But he's spent too long pretending to be someone he's not: the confident guy, the heartbreaker, the one who has it all together. But nothing has thrown him off balance like Lauren Henderson. She's guarded, unpredictable, and so painfully honest with him that it makes his chest ache. She calls him out when he's trying too hard, sees through every defense he puts up, and somehow manages to make him feel like he's not just the screwup with good hair. For someone who supposedly doesn't care, Lauren Henderson is the biggest people-pleaser. After her father left, she's always wanted to be better, so that maybe one day he'd actually want her. She's friendly, easy to talk to, always saying the right thing to get people to like her. That's all she can do. But deep down, she feels everything too deeply. Every emotion that teens feel on the daily is how Lauren feels, amplified by three thousand. So when she starts catching feelings for the boy who let her in, everything she built herself upon starts to crumble beneath her. They weren't supposed to care. Not like that at least, but feelings have a way of showing up uninvited. Especially in a town like Hawkins. Between parent problems, unsaid things, and the fear of being too much (or not enough), Lauren and Steve find themselves wrapped up in the supernatural chaos that hides between Hawkins' cracks. In this heart racing story, join Lauren and Steve on their adventures with alternate dimensions and monsters they never believed they'd ever have to face. Watch how even in the midst of it all, they find themselves doing exactly what they promised themselves they would never do. Falling head over heels for one another.

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 )

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 #1 in friendstolovers 1/2/2026 #2 in netflix 10/29/2025

"God, you're fucking pretty," he blurts. "Funny," she utters. "Was gonna say the exact same thing about you." ________________________________________ Steve Harrington never really gave Rosemary much thought. Why would he? She was just the girl next door. The weird one. She was just the weird girl next door. Until she wasn't. Until she grew up and aged like a fine wine. ________________________________________ I just wanted to write something cute. Oneshot type fic that follows one of my Stranger Things OCs (NOT canon to my Flipped ST fic). Idk I just always had this headcanon that Steve had this weird but cute neighbour that he grew up with and would eventually fall for. Also always liked the idea of an adorable side-character that had more to her than meets the eye, and would join the main cast in S5. Let me know what you think!