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Season 5 Episode 6: Steve and Dustin's trauma by Bobble123456
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
27 Dec 2025
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This is essentially my take on what Steve was thinking at the end of the fight with Dustin and the ladder scene. The ladder scene hit me so hard so I wrote what might have been going on in Steve's head as well as expanded on it, because we were absolutely DEPRIVED of more Steve and Dustin angst.
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"I also came to ask how you liked your surprise." Dustin furrowed his brow.
"Surprise?"
Nancy's grin grew and she nodded back to the gym. Eyes narrowed, Dustin ducked back in, weaving around tables to get back to their booth. He saw Lucas first, grinning like Christmas came early.
"Did you know he was coming?" he asked. Dustin frowned.
"Who?"
"Henderson!"
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Dustin didn't have his mom with him for his last middle school science fair, and he couldn't ever remember having a dad. He didn't have an older brother or sister like Jonathan or Nancy, but he did have a Steve.
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"I thought that was it," he mumbled, voice low, trying his hardest to focus on the steady thumping of his best friend's heart. "On the tower."
The arms holding him tightened slightly, cheek resting on his head. Familiar. Safe."Yeah, me too. And then in the Abyss-"
He shuddered at the memory of the claw coming down on him, of the cold certainty that he was about to die. He snuggled more into his brother and Steve responded in kind.
"I know," he whispered, but even that came out shaky and almost pathetic.
"We're still here. We're here. I've got you now."
Dustin nodded in acknowledgement, unable to say anything more. But they didn't really need to. They never had.
Title from: "What's Left of You" by Chord Overstreet (LITERALLY THEIR SONG GO LISTEN TO IT BEFORE OR WHILE READING PLS)
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- Part 1 of Are we Out of the Woods Yet?
Bookmarked by areth_lovejoy
26 Apr 2026
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T. G. S. This is top tier!!! I so so hope there's more to come
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God, Dustin really missed Steve. Between Eddie’s campaigns, attending Lucas’s games and diving into a whole new journey of learning, Dustin hardly had time to hang out with him. He tried to visit Family Video as much as he could, but as time passed, he started noticing that Steve was acting weirder and weirder. The worst thing? He wasn’t always weird. It was just in his interactions with Dustin that something seemed to have been shifting slightly, and it drove him up the wall. It was very hard to not grit his teeth at the observation that Steve was still completely the same with Robin.
OR: the story of Dustin's jealousy problem. Steve isn't faring much better.
Bookmarked by areth_lovejoy
17 Apr 2026
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Really good Steve and Dustin are insecure about their friendship fic
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Steve doesn't have plans for his birthday. Dustin isn't about to let that slide.
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Bookmarked by areth_lovejoy
11 Apr 2026
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The Party, spearheaded by Dustin, throws Steve a birthday party