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.

It was just a contract. A fix for bad press. A perfectly staged relationship for the public eye. But somewhere between fake smiles and real conversations, the line blurred and feelings got involved. Now, with the world watching your every move, you're left wondering what happens when something that started as a lie becomes the most real thing you've ever had?

Hawkins was never meant to be a place where love could survive. Not with secrets. Not with danger. And definitely not with everything lurking just beneath the surface. Y/N never planned on getting involved. Especially not with Steve Harrington. She'd known him her whole life, and somewhere along the way, a crush had settled into her heart, quiet, unspoken and impossible to ignore. What starts as late nights, stolen moments, and something that feels a little too real quickly turns into something complicated. Because in Hawkins, nothing stays simple. Not friendships. Not feelings. Not the truth. Caught between love, fear and choices that could change everything. Y/N finds herself pulled deeper into a world she can't escape. And in a town full of monsters...it might not be the them she should be most afraid of.

Cross posted on ao3 under readytocomply13 It's been a year since he escaped the Upside Down, the scars marking his body a constant reminder of how close he'd come to death. The nightmares hadn't stopped. Every day was just trying to get to the next one. Sure, he'd been cleared of Chrissy's murder, but that didn't mean he had any real life here anymore. The only thing keeping him in Hawkins was his Uncle. He just couldn't leave him. Fleeing her ex Dani finds herself starting over in a quiet little town in the middle of nowhere. The perfect place to hide. Sure, the trailer park she'd found herself in wasn't the best place to live, but it was safe. That's what mattered. Both worlds get turned upside down one night when Dani has to bang on a neighbors door to get them to turn their music down. ** There will be smut. 18+ only.** *This is post S4, and Eddie of course lived. This doesn't follow ST timeline.* ***I don't own the rights to any characters other than Dani.***

On a September morning in New York City, Lydia stops by her favorite coffee shop. A place of comfort, routine, and well-loved books. What begins as an ordinary journey to work when a brief exchange with a stranger turns into something quietly unforgettable. As mornings begin to blur into something more, Lydia discovers that some connections arrive quietly and unexpected, like a favorite book finding its way back into your hands. #1 in steveharrington 20/3/26 #1 in joe 13/4/26

"The way he looks at her. Like she's the most important thing in the world to him." "I think she is." Experiment X - that's was she was known as. A dangerous weapon that belonged to a lab in the Soviet Union. An assassin. A spy. A seventeen year old girl who wanted nothing more than to live a normal life. She thinks she finally gets that opportunity when she manages to flee the lab and escape to America - Hawkins, Indiana to be exact. A town with a secret too close to home. And she managed to live under everyone's noses until one night. A night with demodogs and fighting and flames and... Steve Harrington. The only person that could get past the barriers she held up around herself. She needed Steve more than anyone. And he needed her. ~season 2-4 are written and published, season 5 chapter are being released one by one~

QUEENS OF CHOAS SERIES PREQUEL!!! Once upon a time, a girl was sent away. No trial. No second chance. Just a story everyone believed because it was easier that way. Five years later, she comes back. This is the part where, in a Disney movie, she'd forgive everyone, hug her family, and learn the power of love. Instead, Gianna De Santis learns how to break bones, keep secrets, and survive rooms that were never meant to be safe. The family expects a villain. The kingdom expects obedience. And some Princes are not always charming . There are no fairy godmothers here. Only men with power, women with knives, and lies that refuse to stay buried. And while everyone's busy wondering if Gianna is still dangerous- They forget to ask the real question: What happens when the girl they tried to erase comes back sharper... and finally decides to stop being nice? Because this isn't a Disney movie. And the girl who survived the tower doesn't believe in happily ever after- She believes in consequences.

𝐚 𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐯𝐞 𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐭𝐨𝐧 𝐟𝐢𝐜 in which steve harrington realises that the girl he's in love with feels the same way about him.

"Your dad gave you this?" I nodded, still not looking at the necklace. "Your dad did that to your neck." He stated, matter of factly. "Nod. Yes or No. Because this fucking chain is bruised into your skin." ◌ It had always been hard at home, away from her friends and walking on eggshells around her abusive father. Hogwarts was the perfect escape for Cassidy. When her brother doesn't make it through the summer at home and Cassidy is forced to return to Hogwarts without him, she grows closer with her friends, close enough that they might discover her biggest secret. Close enough that one of them might save her from it. PoA-DH Characters and storyline belong to J.K. Rowling, only original characters are my own. xoxo Best Rankings: 1st in #HarryPotter 1st in #FredWeasley 1st in #Fred 1st in #Freddie 1st in #Weasley 1st in #FredandGeorge 1st in #WeasleyTwins 1st in #Hufflepuff 1st in #Trauma 1st in #PrisonerofAzkaban 1st in #GobletofFire 1st in #Soulmates 1st in #Lupin 1st in #Moony 1st in #Padfoot 2nd in #GoldenTrio 2nd in #GeorgeWeasley

𝘛𝘞: +18 𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘶𝘢𝘨𝘦, 𝘴𝘦𝘹𝘶𝘢𝘭 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘵, 𝘭𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘉𝘋𝘚𝘔, 𝘷𝘪𝘰𝘭𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 & 𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘥𝘳𝘶𝘨𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘢𝘭𝘤𝘰𝘩𝘰𝘭. Fred Weasley hated that Slytherin girl with his entire soul; Lilith Arambella was not only Severus Snape's niece, the daughter of one of the most dangerous Death Eaters to ever exist but also, the Beater in the Slytherin team and a terribly good player (nearly as good as him!). Fred Weasley couldn't do anything but hate her, and the feeling was pretty much reciprocal. ✵ • 𝘍𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘞𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘭𝘦𝘺 𝘹 𝘖𝘊 • 𝘍𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘴𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 1994 - 1998 + 𝘌𝘱𝘪𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘶𝘦 • 𝘌𝘯𝘦𝘮𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘓𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴 • 𝘚𝘭𝘰𝘸𝘣𝘶𝘳𝘯 𝘳𝘰𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦 • 𝘔𝘰𝘴𝘵𝘭𝘺 𝘤𝘢𝘯𝘰𝘯 𝘦𝘹𝘤𝘦𝘱𝘵 𝘢𝘥𝘥𝘦𝘥 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘥 𝘴𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘴 𝗽𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗲, 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁 𝗔/𝗡 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗧𝗪𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗱𝗲𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗹 𝗯𝗲𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴/𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆. [ 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐇𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐲 𝐏𝐨𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐡𝐞-𝐰𝐡𝐨-𝐦𝐮𝐬𝐭-𝐧𝐨𝐭-𝐛𝐞-𝐧𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐤𝐚 𝐉𝐊𝐑 ] 𝓍𝒶𝓃𝒶 <3