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.

Imagines for The best babysitter in Hawkins -Slow Updates- Started: October 2019 #1 strange (!!!) #1 funny (!!!) 12/18/25

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 favourite book finding its way back into your hands.

"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~

After an unexpected ceiling collapse sends her apartment into chaos, Madelaine Grayson ends up living with her brother - and dangerously close to his tattooed, way-too-charming roommate. He's off-limits... but resisting him might be impossible. *** When Madelaine Grayson's bathroom ceiling caves in, it's not just drywall that crumbles. It's her entire world. Forced to move in with her brother, she finds herself swept up in the chaos of his new protective attitude - especially when it comes to his tattooed roommate, Noah Laurier. Noah is the epitome of perfection: sweet, hot, and embedded into every thought Madelaine has. But he's forbidden, and the closer she gets, the harder he is to resist. Well... what her brother doesn't know can't hurt him, right? *** "Matt's sister, I presume?" He walks towards the couch and my eyes widen. He's tall. I thought I was tall but this man could tower me, and when he reaches a hand towards me, there's an intricate clock tattooed on the back of his hand and his fingers have bones tattooed over them. This man is not human. He's tall and angular and dripping with sex appeal. This man is hot. Capital H, capital O, capital T. I don't think I've ever seen a human being so attractive. All I can think about as I force myself to keep my eyes on the screen is the feel of his jaw beneath my hand, and it takes everything in me not to look