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1. When will I Make it Home? When I Damn well Feel like Driving. by SocialPariah

   Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

   • Mature
   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • F/M, Gen
   • Work in Progress

   16 Dec 2025

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Steve Harrington & Dustin Henderson
   • Dustin Henderson & Eddie Munson
   • Will Byers & Eleven | Jane & Dustin Henderson & Maxine Mayfield & Lucas Sinclair & Mike Wheeler
   • Steve Harrington/Nancy Wheeler
   • Steve Harrington & The Party
   • Dustin Henderson & Lucas Sinclair
   • Maxine "Max" Mayfield/Lucas Sinclair
   • Joyce Byers/Jim "Chief" Hopper
   • Dustin Henderson
   • Steve Harrington
   • Nancy Wheeler
   • Lucas Sinclair
   • Erica Sinclair
   • Robin Buckley
   • Eleven | Jane Hopper
   • Mike Wheeler
   • Will Byers
   • Jim "Chief" Hopper
   • Jonathan Byers
   • Joyce Byers
   • Eddie Munson
   • Angst
   • Hurt/Comfort
   • Grief/Mourning
   • Dustin Henderson Needs a Hug
   • Brotherly Love
   • Protective Steve Harrington
   • Grieving Dustin Henderson
   • Canon-Typical Violence
   • Self-Harm
   • Bullying
   • Hurt Dustin Henderson
   • Found Family
   • Awesome Erica Sinclair
   • Good Friend Lucas Sinclair
   • Lucas Sinclair Needs a Hug
   • they all have PTSD
   • Nightmares
   • Platonic Soulmates Robin Buckley & Steve Harrington
   • Worried Steve Harrington
   • Steve Harrington Needs a Hug
   • Nancy Wheeler is a BadAss
   • Protective Nancy Wheeler
   • Nancy Wheeler Needs a Hug
   • Dustin Henderson-centric
   • No beta we die like bob
   • Dustin Henderson & Lucas Sinclair Are Best Friends
   • Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD
   • The Party Friendship (Stranger Things)
   • Character Study
   • Protective Dustin Henderson
   • Emotional Hurt/Comfort
   • Other Additional Tags to Be Added
   • Eleven | Jane Hopper is a Sweetheart
   • eleven is a badass
   • Title from a The Killers Song
   • Song: In Another Life (The Killers)
   • implied/referenced suicidal ideation

   Summary

   It'd only been 2 weeks since the upside down came crashing, crushing, tearing through the right side up. If life was a tight rope, a tightrope walker, and a flea? Then let's say the walker fucking died, the flea can't tell upside from down, and the rope snapped, in four places. It was a shit show; And Dustin was still stuck on the fact that he was alive, and Eddie wasn't. For all the brains in his head...he just couldn't really understand it.

   This isn't a prediction for season 5! Just some brainrot I have. Focused on Dustin and his relationships with everyone, especially Steve. The Gang comes up with an idea to take down Vecna. Shifting POVs. Everyone is going through it and I want to touch on a little bit of all of it.

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   English

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