I'll be dead by morning, my dear.

I'll be dead by morning, my dear.

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Last published Mon, Feb 2, 2026

Fanfic

Stranger Things

Tags80s angst blood death eleven

This story contains mature and potentially distressing material, including depictions of violence, physical and psychological torture, abuse, medical trauma, death, and emotionally intense situations. It also includes period-typical portrayals of 1980s LGBTQ+ identity, social stigma, and internalized fear. Themes of loss, fear, survival, and moral ambiguity are explored throughout the narrative. Reader discretion is strongly advised. All canon characters belong to their respective owners, including Stranger Things and Rebel Robin. No copyright infringement is intended. Rebel Robin is also referenced within this work. This story is a Ronance-focused fanfiction. __________________________________________ It all started in the summer of 1985, when Robin Buckley, a band nerd at Hawkins High School, began working at Scoops Ahoy in the newly built Starcourt Mall. Robin always thought she wouldn't be the kind of person who stays in one town her whole life, only to die young and be stuck there for all eternity. That was her nightmare. Now, since Operation Croissant failed, she's most likely going to die in Hawkins. Monsters are everywhere, always lurking closer than Robin thinks. But what if Rebel Robin ends up becoming best friends with someone she never would have befriended in a million years? Or what if she finds her soulmate-not really her soulmate, because she thinks soulmates are for teenage girls who dream of fairy-tale lives: the girl gets the guy, and everything is perfect. Life isn't a fairy tale, though, and Robin is about to learn that the hard way. Robin might hate this summer-or it might be the strangest one of her life.

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