Let The World Go By || Steve Harrington
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Last published Sat, Oct 11, 2025
Picks up in early season 2, after Tina's party.
Steve POV:
Just be stupid teens for a night. That was the only plan. Be stupid teens, get stupid wasted, and have stupid fun with my girlfriend. That was it. The whole plan. Yet somehow I managed to not only fuck that up, but leave my girlfriend behind. Things had been different. I knew that. I was doing everything I could for Nancy. I was going to dinners with Barb's parents, I was being supportive, I was trying. She needed stability, I was being that for her. And still...
Bullshit.
That was what she called us, everything, all the dinners, the effort, the work I'd been doing. For her. And it was all bullshit to her. She didn't even love me. She'd been lying. About fucking everything. So I drove. I drove and drove. Through Hawkins. Home wasn't where I wanted to be. Nowhere was where I wanted to be. So I just kept going. To the only place left I could think of to go. Only thing left was to hope that Lucy would open that door for me.
I DO NOT OWN STRANGER THINGS. JUST THE WALSH FAMILY AS THEY'RE OCS I'M INSERTING IN THE WORLD.
Rated Mature because I like to say fuck, so does Lucy. Trust me, it's for Mature language.
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